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Slacklining: Complementing Sports, Increasing Self-Awareness Globally
Do you enjoy combining different sports? If so, slackline may be the perfect activity for you, and a great complement to your other workouts.
What is slackline?
Slackline is a sport actually accessible to everyone. You just need to want it and have a little more patience to see development even after an hour of first training. The origins of slackline are linked to mountain climbing. In the 1970s and 1980s in Yosemite Valley, climbers often walked on a simple rope stretched between trees when weather conditions did not allow climbing.
Climbers immediately noticed that this allowed them to work hard on their balance and coordination, something that is helpful for wall climbing. At that time, two climbers, Adam Grosowsky and Jeff Ellington, swapped ropes for tape. Then the “fathers of slackline” strung up the first-ever highline (the equivalent of sklackline, but which is very high above the ground). Less than 17 meters long, the tape led to Lost Arrow Spire (Yosemite), which is still one of the most famous highlines in the world.
