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Nope. And that whole business of rope climbing wearing spurs is craziness, sorry but that is my well earned opinion.

Totally a question of learning the required technique. In addition to Sean's pointers, always rotate your foot forward, never to the rear.

Yessir. The descender Petzl is so proud of, the Pirana...waaay too skinny imo. Just as another example.

The Pantin weighs 85 grams, Jerry. That's a tiny smidge under 3 ounces, iirc.

I would too.

I'm pretty much sold on the CMI over the Pantin, sure enough. But I still use both, since I have them and it allows me to have fully arranged setups for several SRT or foot assisted DRT kits instead of moving bits from here to there.

The older green Pantin certainly is somewhat stouter. But if one hasn't figured out that Petzl will generally go light over sturdy, one has not been paying attention. Exhibit #1...Piranha descender.