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Morgan Slacklining<\/p><\/div>\n

One of Morgan’s birthday resents from us was a Slackline set. If you don’t know what slacklining is then it’s a little like tight-rope walking, but the line isn’t tight! It’s actually a practice in balance that typically uses nylon or polyester webbing tensioned between two anchor points. The slackness of the line provides a dynamic point of contact with the webbing stretching and bouncing like a long and narrow trampoline. The line’s tension can be adjusted to suit the user and different types of webbing can be used to achieve a variety of feats. The line itself is usually flat, due to the nature of webbing, thus keeping the slackerliners footing from rolling as would be the case with an ordinary rope. The dynamic nature of the line allows for tricks and stunts.<\/p>\n

It’s good fun, a good workout too and is supposed to be good for injury rehabiliation. It has to improve your balance skills for other sports such as mountain-biking and surfing which will hopefully help Morgan with such things as well. As with all these things there is plenty of progression to be made and I’m sure we’ll improve with time. There is of course also plenty of potential for scrapes, cuts, bruises and injury and there are plenty of people out there who take it to another level – A quick look on YouTube for slacklining will bring up plenty of videos of slacklining skills that we’re very likely to ever attain. Take a look at this for example.<\/p>\n