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Wednesday, April 27, 2011

Slacklining

A few months back, I heard of one of my newest favorite outdoor activities: Slacklining.

Slacklining is done by tightly stretching 1" - 2" high strength nylon webbing between two anchors (usually trees or posts).  Everyone's method for set-up differs; I use a carabiner pully system to get mechanical advantage in the system, while some people opt for an easier to use racheting come-along to crank the line tight.

After the line is sufficiently tight, the goal is to get up on the line (standing, sitting, kneeling, whatever you what!) and walk it, do tricks on it (spins, flips, poses, etc) and just have fun in general.

Slacklining has a very steep learning curve, as it is basically a form of tight rope walking, coupled with trampoline gymnastics.  This dynamic blend makes even just an hour of casual slacklining an extreme core workout!

Check out this video of the Gibbon slacklining team doing their thing!


23 comments:

  1. That's really impressive! And finally an activity which isn't that mainstream. How good are you at this stuff?

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  2. So far, I can walk the line pretty easily, bounce, and do spins (up to 360). Working on the harder tricks over the summer. My goal for this year is to learn how to flip while on the ground, and hopefully next year I'll bring flips to the line.

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  3. Mindblowing. Looks really hard!!

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  4. I've seen kids doing this around my neighborhood, always wondered what it was called... they aren't as good as this, though. Thanks for the video!

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  5. Tried a few times, just fell of haha. Awesome video :D

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  6. this sounds fun, but no doubt ball ache hard!

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  7. have never heard of this, it look like a blast! tons of coordination though, can't imagine doing it, maybe 10 years ago ;]

    awesome dude, definitely following =]

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  8. That looks like a lot of fun, but it also requires a lot of skill and practice.

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  9. wow they have contests for this? didnt know that

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  10. Oh wow, this looks like a pretty fun thing to do, even though the whole time I was watching this I was scared for people's balls haha.

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  11. That looks really cool.. unfortunately I am the kind of person who trips over nothing so I don't think I could ever balance on this kinda thing...

    Still pretty sweeet!

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  13. i want to be able to atleast walk it

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  14. I've actually heard about this. I've fooled around on something like this but not to the extent the video shows. It does look fun though.

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  15. kinda dont like being launched anywhere. I like the ground, but you make it sound appealing, so, heh, maybe...thx!

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  16. Looks insane, never heard of it before, ever.

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  17. Ive never heard of this until now, but it looks great, thanks!

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