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robbiehirsch
May 24, 2005, 8:58 PM
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Hey I'm just learning how to slackline and I set one up the other day and it was pretty loose. I was talking to one of my friends and he said that I should thread smaller webbing through the 1" stuff to make the line a little more stable. I know this is done on highlines but I was wondering if people do that for standard lines?
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Robbie
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fire_eyes
May 24, 2005, 9:06 PM
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Hey robbie! I set up a slackline in my backyard about a month ago to work on balance. I got lots of info from hard-core slackliners out at Josh and never heard of running thinner webbing through the 1", but maybe you could...
Do you have the line on a 3-to-1 so you can tighten it down? Mine gets wet from the sprinklers (so I'll have to replace the webbing a few times a year...but the benefit of falling on grass is worth it!!) anyway, when it's wet I crank on it a little more to tighten it up. Seems to work.
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fire_eyes
May 24, 2005, 9:55 PM
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Yeah, I only weigh 125lbs and I found that I needed to tighten my new line after each use the first few times. Like I said, it might be because it gets a little wet, but now I have stopped needing to tighten it everytime. I think it's just that the webbing will stretch a certain amount or knots get tighter, etc. then once you get it to a certain point it'll stay about that tight. Least, that's my experience. Hope someone can give you better info! Have fun!
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slacklinejoe
May 24, 2005, 11:48 PM
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In reply to: Threaded lines are a common method of adding redundancy in lines that are life critical. Your average backyard line doesn't need to be threaded. Threading a line does add a slightly different feel to it, some like it, others don't. It makes the line heavier and usually stretch less (easier to tighten).
Re-threading a line is a lot more expensive than optimizing your tightening system. It also changes the feel of the line enough to notice.
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