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Good news to those tired of me; I'm running out of pictures.
Toproping is a type of climbing in which you don't clip in to quickdraws as you climb up - the rope is already anchored at the top of the route. It is what most beginners start with, as you don't have to worry about anything but climbing. It's also safer, and if you fall, you will only fall a few feet, versus lead climbing, in which you could fall quite a ways (as an example, if you are 6 feet above your last clip, and pull up 2 feet of slack to clip, and then fall before you clip, you will fall 6 feet to your last clip, plus 6 more feet (because you had to have that much slack out to be that far above the last clip... if that makes sense), plus 2 more feet for the slack you pulled out to clip, plus any stretch in the rope. That's 14 feet, not counting stretch, and that's also assuming you have a perfect belayer. In real life, that fall would probably be 16 feet at least.) This guy is demonstrating some sort of route setting technique. I dunno what he's doing, but when I set routes, it's normally from just messing around while bouldering and stumbling upon a cool sequence of moves.
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