How to slackline for beginners
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- Äas pĆidĂĄn 8. 04. 2018
- We teach highline rigging but in case you are new, here are the basics of slacklining.
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A great tip that helped me greatly when starting, was that when you have one foot on the line and your other foot on the ground, press your inner thigh of your grounded foot into the line gently. This helps reduce the line wobbles and makes it easier to stand up on your front foot. It's also easier to start out by standing up on the first third, or last third of the line and not the middle.
From my personal experience and from teaching others I have a couple pointers.
1. Standing straight up is a good cue but its not super true because If I stand straight on my right leg my C.O.M is actually a bit to the left of my right leg.
2. When first starting to learn to stand on the line its a lot harder if you put both feet on. Put one foot on and use the other as a counterbalance. Most of your time on a slackline will be spent on one foot
3. There are many ways to use your arms to balance but my favorite is straight up and noodley like those car dealership noodle guys
4. And finally, be patient. You will likely spend hours trying to just stand on the line for a couple of seconds. Some people get it in an hour some get it in 5. Take everything at your own pace.
Thanks, this helped! My sister got a slack line for her birthday and we are setting it up right now and I wanted to know some tips and this was really helpful.
It's important to know how to fall, cause you're gunna fall
Agreed!
Very true
God bless
Hail satan
*AGREED*
I'm really learning to love the, "because if you do this... YOU"RE GOING TO FALL!" lines.
Super helpful tips! Thanks so much đ
I'm new to this, and this video was super helpful.
why did i search this up? i dont plan on doing this but i watched the whole video anyways.
I did the same thing
You should put a link to this in all your big spectacle videos. It's amazing how entertaining those vids are but this is what will actually give people a tool to deal with life. Thanks for the vids!
You actually like this video? I feel like my target audience is people who are already slackliners and I don't want to bore them with super basics but I want to reach out to a larger audience. This has very little entertainment value and I try to have 50/50 funny to education in every video. I consider this a throw away video haha.
I think there is a ton of knowledge of complex elements of lining on your channel. It's somewhat intimidating for me and I am a slackline veteran. If you could create an organizing video that links to other video groups and post that on your channel homepage, folks stumbling in would have a chance to start taking steps towards these awesome things. This video, or one like it, would be a great entrance on how to perform on a line.
eD's MeDs meditations i could make an organizing video the intro. Good idea
@@HowNOT2 for what it's worth, I tried walking a line for 20min or so having never touched one, and never took a step or really even got up. Watched this video overnight, realized I was doing many things wrong, and walked ~15ft the next day after a couple hours. Super helpful video
@@HowNOT2 I found your channel because the climbing content, so the n00b slackline stuff is actually new and interesting to me
Thanks. Imma order one right away, and tomorrow I shall be doing it on the tallest building in my town. Wish me luck! đ€€
As a kid I did this and thought it would be a cool sport and woweee to my surprise life is funny in this way.
Man, you're awesome!
Good video. I barely can keep my balance on a one foot high kitchen stool, much less on a stretched out binding strap! But its fun to watch. Thanks again!
First time I seen a slack line was In Hawaii, tried it and fell and knocked the wind out of me. Just bought my own slackline 8 years later and I'm loving the exercise.
Really cool that you guys are doing stuff for beginners too. Would love to see more stuff on some skills for walking a long and highline. Also, any word on when you would do any videos on establishing and bolting a new line?
You guys are the best.
Cheers
Bolting videos coming soon. Really soon. Glad you like them. I will be filming lots in Europe when i go in a month. Maybe I can get a big name to teach the longer stuff or just get a compilation of techniques into one video
HowNOTtoHIGHLINE when you guys come to Oz, let me know, I got some good hookups for ya.
HowNOTtoHIGHLINE and WAY looking forward to your Europe videos.
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This is very exciting. I had no interest in doing any of the things on your channel but really enjoyed the content. While telling a roommate about it I learned they've got a slackline for the backyard. Will be trying it for the first time this week, and your videos have given me more confidence than I already had (in the equipment, at least!)
how did it go?
@@vinuzo9548 Thanks so much for asking!
Found the line but haven't tried it yet as it's a reward for completing a task I keep avoiding.
With this reminder I'm going to put the box in plain sight and DO IT already. Cheers!
Nice Video, the first time I tried it a few months ago I was alone in my local park.
I had a family walk by, watch me and laught at me.
A few minutes later other randoms came up laughing at me and one asked why I am doing this because I look like a fool.
An hour later two older people came and told me to go back home because I suck, they were 30 years older than I am and I am like 32.
After another two hours a couple walked by, watched and starting laughing telling me to try a new sport and that my body looks bad while doing that.
Eventually left to go to the toilet and came back and my rope was cut into pieces and a group of teens walked by saying: "I hope this helped now go home"
So over the 3 hours of trying this I had 10 strangers come up and tell me how bad I was and I should go home and never come back again.
I don't take it personal though because the city I live in is very toxic to everyone, barely anyone has groups of friends and everyone calls the cops on each other so I am fine with it but I wish I had two trees somewhere else I don't have a yard to practise this in a non toxic environment.
OMG!!! The perspective!!! She looks like a giant!!! LOL
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The unintentional forced perspective when she was first holding his hand was hilarious.
You good at that.
I would set the line a little lower for starters. And a shorter distance if you have to
I like how it makes it look like the background is green screen
Put up my Slackline today and tightened it too much and had the ratchet strap undo itself...it was super loud, think I saw a spark, and it was terrifying lol But the strap was fine, and I didn't get hurt, so it was all good.
Can you attach a slackline to brick walls with expansion bolts? Thanks
Never done this but Wanna try with a couple poles or something
Figured I'm metaphorically walking a slackline in my life so I might as well do it literally
"Narrow is the road and small is the gate that leads to life, and only a few find it." -Jesus
Those shoes, what brand are they again?
Slacklining looks like it would help build self confidence. Am I wrong?
How far apart should the trees be? Iâm having trouble with the shakiness
What do you recommend if trees are not available? 4x4 post set in the ground? How deep? Concrete? Thanks in advance.
I don't have trees in my backyard that I can set up a slackline on either so I will have to build a ground anchor and an A Frame. Basically, put something in the ground (stakes, bury a board, etc) and tie something to it having it come up and over a wooden A shaped frame. It magically stays in place when under tension. Lots of videos about it online, here are some recommendations.
Easiest one is czcams.com/video/B0TwLhsHJ9I/video.html
Others are...
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I literally have used 2x4's buried in the ground sideways before and saw horses so anything that won't come out and anything that will hold it up :). Cheers.
Dig a 3 foot hole. Put in a round post, around 10 foot in length x 6 inch diameter. Concrete.
Repeat once more desired distance apart.
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Plant trees that are the ideal distance and.................wait.
The size difference between him and his friend is staggering...! (3:40)
LOL... thass what I thought!
Its tye angle
My 6 year old has great balance and very strong and agile. He has been wanting one of these for over 5 months. Is there a beginner brand that you can recommend?
Gibbon or zen monkey both have great beginner lines
Thatâs action friendship
It says the kit is out of stock on Amazon and I canât find it anywhere else. Are there any other places to get it?
All slackline companies have one. You can see all the companies at the beginning of our textbook for Highlining 101. www.slackline.com/highlining101
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Nice channel
justmade a video of a pro in slakline
God bless
It's really helpful if you have a friend to assist you that happens to be a giantess. :)
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For my kid is 7 year old . Which slackline i can buy in india.
No way I'm doing this! Good tutorial tho đ
Is this the new name for tightrope?
it's a looser tightrope, so it's a slackline
Is there a weight limit for this
no, you just pull tighter or rig it higher
When you use a Highline Leash why dont you use a Figure 8 to conect to your main line?
we use figure 8s on our leash... we just don't use them on our webbing since it is a weaker knot compared to others. Is that what your asking?
@@HowNOT2
im @gravelmans1 on twitter, a picture explains my idea better....
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so i was talking about a Figure 8 descender, i only have a rescue 8, but thats my general idea.
also im learning to tig weld, and it seems like your cross braces for no tree slackline would benefit from stainless steel tubing cross or tripod with a Smooth webing guide tube...
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@@gravelman5789 I've used a figure 8 descender before. It's not bad but I don't think that is what they are designed for. You just need 2 and the holes aren't always big enough. Its fine if that is what you have.
i bet that takes a shit ton of practice
It took me about an hour on the line to make my first steps
bigPianist99 same here. Once you get the hang of it and become comfortable on it, it gets much easier
âItâs really important to know how to fall. Because youâre gonna fall.â
I low-key wanna try this out but why do I do things where falling is a big factor??đ (I currently ride horses)
This makes no sesnse
@@georgfotbalista9281 oh in horseback riding falling off is pretty common. And probably in this too
Great advice but misleading thumbnail, kept switching from a how-to to a how-not-to but there is a lot of potential here! Keep it up!
We are going to have better tutorials on slacklining in a few months.
Hey whereâs that girl?
Hi, I'm Jamie and I broke my arm slacklining
Sorry to hear that! How high up were you?
Are you really telling beginners to place a slack line at chest height?
Its not a 2" gibbon rachet. When you stand on it, it is barely above the ground. How else can u set it up?
@@HowNOT2 you can make a shorter line so you don't have to place it as high.
Who else is here from the office?
"You probably shouldn't even slackline".... excuse me?
Cheesy theme... i always say since something isnt perfect with whatever the episode is about then "therefore you shouldnt highline". So i include it in this one for continuity. What is funny is slacklining has more risk of getting hurt than highlining cus you land on ground each time you fall and up high is just a short somersalt flip.
But, wobbling would give me hips that won't lie... đ€€
I recorded a pretty cool slackline walker recently doing a 600ft walk on the California coastline in Humboldt County.
Check it out here; czcams.com/video/zYBEWuTns4I/video.html
69, yes
I'd love to see a video on "How NOT to teach a child to slackline", because I'd never put my 3 year olds on a slackline. đ
Human beings donât slack line in the wildâŠâŠ
Why did my mom send me this
You couldn't find a better spot for this? The cars are really annoying!
slacklining isnât a sport; itâs an image, a gimmick performed for the gaze of the public. As a trend, I can only hope it goes the way of the Tamagotchi.
it is only for our instagram photos. It isn't fun at all trying to overcome the challenge and staying calm haha
Yet here you are contributing to the "public gazing". If you want a trend to go away, maybe don't watch videos about it and then comment on said video; it's counterproductive to your motive.
Looser. Lol. It's more loose. Proper grammar. Where you from? I thought only Appalachians used bad grammar. Apparently not
Get over yourself!