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Will Hunt:
I have a 6 year old who has outgrown her chest harness. She never got on especially well with it. When she falls off she can't really lean back to put her feet on the wall and walk down it (after all, chest harnesses are designed to keep you upright so this makes sense), so as she hangs there and lowers down she spins around bashing into things. To this end she normally favours bouldering.

I could get the next size up of chest harness, but I've thought a sit harness would be a good solution for this and on paper she would fit into one now, despite being small for her age (admittedly her legs are a little small to fill out the leg loops but her waist is fine). However I've heard mixed opinions about when a kid can move into a sit harness. She doesn't have any hip definition which I believe can mean they slip out of the harness in the event of inverting (unlikely but not impossible). Does this actually happen? I got my first harness at 8 and it was a sit.

I've seen some people suggest adding a sling (and there are products like the Edelrid Kermit that do the same thing) to make a sit harness behave more like a chest harness, but then I wonder if we're just going to run into the same problems we had before?

SamT:
I've potentially got one you could have. My lads grown out of it. Barely used at all.  Shall I pm you some pics?

ali k:
We got this one for when my niece and nephew came to stay

https://www.decathlon.co.uk/p/kid-s-climbing-harness-easy-junior/_/R-p-143819?mc=8618930

Niece is 4 and the leg loops are way way too big but we took it to the wall and asked if they were happy for her to use it. Instructor tightened up the waist and as long as when you pull it down by the gear loops it doesn’t slip over their hips he said it was fine. Tightness of leg loops is more or less irrelevant apparently.

SamT:
Its  Black Diamond Wiz Kid.

This one..

https://www.bfgcdn.com/1500_1500_90/303-0053/black-diamond-wiz-kid-climbing-harness-bf.jpg

Will Hunt:

--- Quote from: SamT on August 12, 2023, 10:31:04 am ---Its  Black Diamond Wiz Kid.

This one..

https://www.bfgcdn.com/1500_1500_90/303-0053/black-diamond-wiz-kid-climbing-harness-bf.jpg

--- End quote ---

Thanks Sam. Have just checked the specs and she's still a little too small for this one round the waist, but thanks very much for the offer.

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