when soloing is there ways to self belay or do u just go kamikaze

There are several ways to self-belay. Make sure you learn them from a good instructor, and make sure you know exactly what you are doing. Doing a self-belay incorrectly is a good way to get crippled or killed.

As John mentioned there r many ways to solo while on belay, or self belaying, (either on a top rope or when lead climbing). Learning these technics from a trained guide or experienced climbing partner r paramount to keeping yourself alive & climbing.

''Solo'' just refers to climbing by yourself. ''Free Solo'' refers to climbing with out protection of any kind. And a fall typically means death or worse!

Wayner is right, free climbing is with out the use of aid to ascend a given route but not without protection. ''Free solo'' means no aid, & no protection, i.e not placing. pro & not being on a belay.

''There r Old climbers! And there r bold climbers! But!? There r no old bold climbers!''

l am going to expand on Joanie is last statement a little.

Free climbing is climbing without aid - not climbing without protection. As long as you are not pulling yourself up on the rope or by aid, it is free climbing. Thus, trad climbing is free climbing.

Take the following courses & get some experience with each of the following:

- lead climbing
- advanced lead climbing
- anchor building
- advanced anchor building
- rock rescue
- advanced rock rescue
- wilderness first aid
- advanced wilderness first aid

..after you've done the above, buy one of these SOLO BELAY DEVICES

http://mec.ca/Products/product_listing.jsp?FOLDER%3C%3Efolder_id=2534374302690409¤tPage=3&bmUID=1222839675972

Good luck & safe climbing!

Correction:
1. Please note that GriGri is r NOT to be used for self-belyaing. If u fall it may not lock/hold u as the mechanism needs to be in a ''normal'' position to work. This also goes for other belay devices like the Trango.

2. Shunts, tiblocs, etc. r really hard on the rope & have even been know to cut the rope resulting a catastrophic failure.

The only really good self-belay device is the Wren - Silent partner or Soloist. You must be a confident & skilled climber, with training in advanced anchoring systems.

l am afraid I've not done it myself so l can not give an incredibly detailed answer, but u can self belay.
What u need to do is set up a top rope first, so can only do it at crags where there is access to the top. Then u go back down to the base of the crag, & u use something called a Shunt, made by Petzl. This is some sort of auto-locking device, & l guess u put both ropes through it, & adjust it as u climb, or it may do it automatically. Must be similar to a gri-gri, but different.
Anyway check out the shunt, see if u can find more info on that.

At my climbing club l did see the instructor belay himself to tighten a hold. It involved a penguin belay thing!! So yeah there is a way but definitely get training from an experienced climber or you might kill your self!!!