Oh they're using the pedal. I tried to reinstall my KMC masterlink using my pedal and it wouldn't go in. I stomped the crap out of the pedals several times then stopped as I was worried about damaging something. I had the masterlink in the bottom of the chain loop, so I suppose that was my mistake. The two people I saw on youtube doing that they were doing it from the botton and it worked easily. When I take the link off again, I'll try putting the masterlink on the top.

I ended up getting the link back on using two pieces of twine with gardening gloves. Took many of my best tugs but got it eventually. I took it off also by using some string/twine, it was easier than reinstalling it but still took several very violent tugs. Do you think that method could bend the link or chain and should not be recommended?