slacklining
31 August 2005 - 3:15pm
any one out there interested in slacklining?
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31 August 2005 - 4:17pm
#2
yea i just been playing around a little with it but i try to get it so that i have at least a 3;1 system but i tryed a 6;1 system i think it was which was good,
you could try with a car as one of the anchors and just reverse REAL slow so you dont ping your webbing
were you based
31 August 2005 - 4:58pm
#3
So what is the point?,..... of slack lining?
31 August 2005 - 9:23pm
#4
slack lining is more closely related to climbing than people think its great for your core muscles and mental focus and the balancing aspect of it helps your balance on the rock as well
yeah i,ve been using 6:1 as well but it always loosens off afer a few trys what do you tie it off with im based in rotorua by the way
1 September 2005 - 9:56am
#5
i tie off with a few turns around the tree then a couple of half hitches around my anchor slings it usually stays quite tight.
slacklining was invented at camp 4 at yosemite when some climbers were bored, it works on loadsw of things that benefit climbing and its fun when you start to learn tricks, not that i have yet
1 September 2005 - 10:06am
#6
I once slack lined on a strop that is normally used for securing loads on trailers or trucks. Available from hardware stores and the Warehouse for about $10. If you get a couple of people cranking on it, you can get it really tight.
Be warned though: slack lining is as at least as addictive as many drugs.
1 September 2005 - 10:08am
#7
but so is climbing
yea i was thinking about that but then thought nah i will get hold of 15m of 25mm tubular tape for it but that is proving hard
1 September 2005 - 10:37am
#8
You could use a truck tiedown whince/crank with tube webbing and use a long bar to add leverage to the crank (just slot it through the handle). The advantage to using a crank is you can take up the slack from the line "settling". My advice is a standard car tiedown might break under the high loads of slacklines. Truck ones are 2-3 ton breaking strenght, so unless you've been at the pies all winter, they should be strong enough.
I doubt I'll ever get into slack lining. Looks like to much "falling on face" is involved.
1 September 2005 - 10:40am
#9
its brilliant the risk of face mangaling is just more fun
yea i thought about that to,
at the moment i have to use a static rope.
its not true slaclining i know but it will have to do til i can afford a line
1 September 2005 - 10:41am
#10
I saw Dean Potter slackline the lost arrow spire at Yosemite 2 years ago. He had about a 50mm webbing strip (actually had 2 one of top of the other) then a climbing rope at less tension underneath to which he had clipped a short sling which he ran to a swammi belt (not a proper harness). He was being filmed by Heinz Zak for a slackline video. Kinda odd to watch, but then so is climbing.
1 September 2005 - 10:41am
#11
which makes it 600 posts! 8) better do some work now :lol:
1 September 2005 - 10:42am
#12
yea those guys are hard out, i not done any highlining just yet but maybey when i can do a few tricks slacking
1 September 2005 - 11:01am
#13
I think it just for tricks and show and doesn't necessarily improve ones climbing
1 September 2005 - 11:12am
#14
it improves your core muscles and crap like that
it also takes some intense consentration to do
this dude here is one of the best and i reckon he would be an awsome climber
http://www.greatoutdoors.com/published/general/video/theslacklinewizard/...
1 September 2005 - 11:17am
#15
I know what it is and all that I just happen to know lots of really good climbers who couldn't slackline to save themselves (and vice versa) and there seem s to be no causal relatioship between their slacklining ability and climbing ability.
21 May 2010 - 12:02am
#16
You would probably find those people would take to slacklining quite quickly, 15mins- a few hours to walk a line.
As you get better at slacklining you dont actually do anything noticeably different, apart from just get better, by practice, what is being developed, and what is partitculary helpful when rock climbing, is (and i hate to drop big words, sort of...) your kinesthetic awareness, which is totally subconcious and just amounts to you knowing every little muscle and bone and joint of your body that bit better. It opens up connections and makes balance, poise etc. reflexive, or at least natural.
Thats the way i see it helping me, i cant imagine it doing much good on 1080, but for anticipating a balancy stance, or for knowing just how to flag just enough, i think it helps.
Maybe not, whatever, its not exactly a prerequisite for prowess on the stone,
thats the arguement that has built up in my head after a summer of slacklining with a pulley injury...
1 September 2005 - 11:20am
#17
its also a whole lot of fun
1 September 2005 - 11:44am
#18
I know what it is and all that I just happen to know lots of really good climbers who couldn't slackline to save themselves (and vice versa) and there seem s to be no causal relatioship between their slacklining ability and climbing ability.
I agree with you crag rat.
Slacklining's a game.
Climbing's a sport.
1 September 2005 - 11:54am
#19
Slacklining's a game.
Climbing's a sport.
Climbing's a sport.
The gloves are off.
It always surprised me how much traffic their is on rc.com about slacklining. It may or may not be a good way to build strenght, but thier isn't a whole section on yoga or other forms that work even better. It's a hobby, but it's not climbing, and I doubt its application to climbing.
1 September 2005 - 12:09pm
#20
It's kind alike a one trick pony, amusing to watch at first, but a bit boring in the long run. Here's Dean, who is both a great climber and slackliner.
http://www.mojozone.co.nz/albums/yosemite/slides/7%20Dean%20Potter%202.html
4 September 2005 - 12:05pm
#21
nobody sugested that it wasnt a game but its good fun bu i,ve found my balance on the rock has risen quickly there are other ways of improving balance and tension its not essential for climbing but ive found slacklining a good training game for climbing
if nothing else
20 May 2010 - 2:48pm
#22
Resurrecting a dead thread. I am very interested in slacklining and highlining. I'm also very keen to try to get a big group of people together who are interested in it to help progress the sport in NZ. Check out the following group on facebook if you are interested.
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=102636886449530&ref=ts
James
21 May 2010 - 1:29pm
#23
Slacklines move whereas crags (hopefully) don't. Not sure how slacklining would help your balance or movement in relation to climbing.
Reckon climbing would be good training for climbing.
21 May 2010 - 3:42pm
#24
Obviously there is a difference between balancing on a rock and balancing on a line. Rock is static, whereas a slackline is dynamic. That being said, balance of any sort, requires good proprioception. Whether you learn that from slacklining or balancing on rock is inconsequential. Either activity will improve your balance. When you are climbing, you are on a static object and are therefore required to move to keep your centre of gravity over your feet. When slacklining, you essentially are trying to keep a dynamic line under your centre of gravity and that goes two ways, first you can move your own body to stay on top of the line or you can move the line to stay under your body. Slacklining isn't going to do much for you (as far as helping your climbing goes) if you like to grunt it out on steep roof climbs, but if vertical, thin, balancy climbing is your cup of tea, then having good proprioception is important. When slacklining, you basically want to keep the line static which requires a lot of core tension (something that is required in climbing as well). Slacklining also requires a lot of mental preparedness and focus (especially highlining). For most people who slackline frequently, it is almost a form of meditation. Climbing is the same for me though, I feel that when I climb I really only have one focus, the next move that I'm making. A lot of the activities I do, highlining, climbing, big mountain skiing, result in "normal" people telling me I'm crazy, for me, I'd go crazy if I couldn't do those things... They allow me to clear my mind from all the other crap that is going on in my life.
As for the relationship between slacklining and climbing - cross training is cross training. It will increase your overall fitness, so why not do it if it is entertaining to you? Slacklining originated in Yosemite Camp 4 and has been associated with climbers because rigging a slackline requires much the same gear as climbing does. So what are you going to do on your rest days?
21 May 2010 - 4:02pm
#25
Pub maybe although beer does screw up my proprioception.
21 May 2010 - 4:04pm
#26
Yeah, then suddenly you find yourself somewhere you thought you'd never end up. Hungover and having to gnaw off your arm.
21 May 2010 - 8:40pm
#27
I take photos on rest days ...
but seriously I guess I knew some seriously good climbers in my day who never stepped on a slackline
yeah bro
hey do you know how to get it super tight ive been trying with a pulley system but its still quite loose