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Re: [majid_sabet] when your highline breaks, what happens?:
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slacklinejoe
Jul 23, 2010, 4:43 PM
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majid_sabet wrote: HOW MANY TIMES YOU HAVE BUILD A HIGHLINE ?
"you have build"? Seriously?
Anywho... before you two start dropping trowsers, it's important to understand a few things.
A) As much as we'd love to have them, standardized methods for rigging for slacklines, much less highlines, do not exist.
Slackers borrow what we can from climbers, but some of our principals are different so besides SERENE, a lot of is made up as we go. That leads towards the next point.
B) Just because X person has rigged Y way for Z many times and lived, doesn't mean that it's a good idea. Many of the earliest highlines were single strand.
To this day, soft point systems still persist, even in highline applications (so webbing on webbing occurs). While in high tension applications it can cause webbing to melt together, it's even on this forum as a recommendation to get tensioning systems out of the way.
While in my personal opinion it's more like tightrope or slackrope, Dean Potter has been using single layer Dynema rope and calling it a highline.
Some people will go so far as to argue that an overhead safety line relegates a highline to, dunno some limbo of a slackline that's up high. Classification wise, the sport is a mess with purists, nit pickers and people who don't care what you call it, but they just want to have fun.
C) It's a freestyle sport, more so than climbing. People have taken that mentality and pushed it towards gear and rigging as well. I've walked lines that were secured with nearly a thousand dollars of rescue grade climbing equipment, and then later walked a line attached to someone's bumper back at the camp site. I'm not saying it's a good thing that it's so willy-nilly, but it's a fact of life that we have to work with.
(This post was edited by slacklinejoe on Jul 23, 2010, 4:50 PM)
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