Slacklining
Are you ready for a new challenge
considering trend sport?
General facts
• Trendy kind of sport
• Something in common with tightrope acts
in a circus
• Slacklining= balance on slackline
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Sportler: composition of
balance
concentration
coordination
General facts
• Good training for other kinds of sport
e.g.climbing,skiing,etc.
• Only balancing> try tricks or jumps
History
Yosemite
national
park
• Relatively new kind of sport
• Before becoming a single kind of sport,climbers
just used it for practising
• USA: start: 1980s in Yosemite Nationalpark
• Main idea: climbers also train during bad
weather > another possibility: rope on a car park
• Europe: 70s and 80s climbers also balanced on
a rope ( independent actions)
Characteristics
• Line between two points
• Really moves> depends on the user‘s
weight
• Slackline: very dynamic, have to pay
attention > do not fall down
• Do not look like a tightroper> do not very
elegant
• Even out the balance with legs
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Comparison between
and
circus
• slackline
Professional slackliners = artists ,although a lot of things in common, differences, too
• Circus
• For audience
• Very elegant
• Strict rope > easier to
walk on it
• Slackliner
• On their own and for
their own
• Trying tricks > result
knowledge of the
possibibilities during
this sport
• Very dynamic >
moving > very hard to
have a good balance
Material
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Not very much > most important: slackline
Width: 25 mm
Biggest width: easiest > is not so flexible
Materials: different traits > challenge =
same tricks on ropes with different widths
Right material > put up right
• Two points > good distance, e.g. 2 trees
• Protection by using some stuff before
putting line
• Not difficult > easy for everybody > sport
for everybody
Kinds of slacklines
• Different difficulties
• Everybody: choose the right one for
themselves
lowline
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For beginners
Length: 10-12 m
Height:30-70 cm
Because of very low height
> not dangerous
• Can balance during
walking + standing > try
little tricks
• Underground: very soft >
reduce/avoid injuries
Longlines/highlines
• Length: 20 m (just for walking+
balancing)
• Length: 100 m > special challenge
• Slackliners: very calm and
concentrated
• Reason: line start moving > cannot
stop
• Highlines: breathtaking heights,
e.g.between cliffs
• Very difficult for mind and body
• Special line for your safety
Waterlines
• Special underground (over water)
• Good in summer > new tricks: do not work
out > just fall in water > before doing this:
have to check water depth
• Also over rivers: weird > reason: move,
are not at only one place
Darklines
• Without light > really big challenge
• Due to injuries, really good safety
necessary
• Just for professionals
Criticism
• Some environmentalists: not good
for trees which are needed
• Difficult topic
• Slackliners: really careful,
protection > no damage
• Since a lot of people have done it
> is forbidden in some public
parks
• Opinion most people: not true
• Trees not endangered if good
protection
Good protection
Good protection
Result: be not concerned
about the trees
The end
Julie Rausche
Sources of information
• Text: wikipedia; slacklinen.de
• Pictures:google (e.g.Köln Nachrichten;
slackfest.de; wikipedia)