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L. Coyote

(51,129 posts) Wed Nov 18, 2015, 11:38 PM Nov 2015

Record-Breaking 500 Meter Slackline Walk in Utah

Can you believe this?

http://www.thisiscolossal.com/2015/11/across-the-sky-slackline-theo-sanson/

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Record-Breaking 500 Meter Slackline Walk in Utah (Original Post) L. Coyote Nov 2015 OP

Wow--that's not for me. panader0 Nov 2015 #1

Seriously what is the difference between slack line walking and tightrope walking LynneSin Nov 2015 #2

panader0

(25,816 posts)

1. Wow--that's not for me.

Reply to L. Coyote (Original post)

Thu Nov 19, 2015, 12:01 AM

Nov 2015

I have a friend who climbs, rappels, and walks slack lines, but nothing like that.
I had never rappelled and he talked me into going. I told him I wanted to start on something short.
He took me to an eighty foot plus cliff, and harnessed me and I went down, leg shaking like a sewing machine.
I loved it, and did it several more times.

LynneSin

(95,337 posts)

2. Seriously what is the difference between slack line walking and tightrope walking

Reply to L. Coyote (Original post)

Thu Nov 19, 2015, 09:03 AM

Nov 2015

I mean I guess the one line is tighter than the other but aren't they essentially doing the same thing?

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