petzl climbing harness?

Question

I'm normal leasure gym climber (can climb with some pain 5.11b in the gym). I'm still on my first harness I bought when I started climbing 4 years ago ....

I'm thinking to get new harness only for gym climbing and I really don't think I need to spend $80 on Black Diamond super awesome harness simpy because I won't be sitting on the wall for 4 hours, I really want to use it in the gym only.

Maybe I don't get it, but why this harness would not do better job in the gym than any other pro harness? This is really simple comfortable easy to pack harness, what else do you need in the gym? When I look in the gym, everybody has expensive harness, almost nobody uses something simple like this.


http://en.petzl.com/petzl/SportProduits?Produit=553#


thanks
jiri

Dave, every single harness out there from good brand is "gym" secure, this question is really not about security in the gym... did you see the harness you can rent in the gym? Why would they rent it to you if it would not be secured...

Answer 1

You are right, the difference in price is due to padding, extra gear loops, and sometimes the name. If you only plan on doing gym climbing you can get a pretty inexpensive one, if you climb a variety of venues you might climb in the gym with a really expensvie harness just so you don't have to own two of them.

Answer 2

Well the pro harnesses are obviously much more safer than the one you got because the pro ones are more sturdy and etc. If this harness works for you then just keep it, if not then get the pro harness because then you will blend in and will be much safer.