A long day at REI with the sun blazing hot, Slackline Visions was invited to REI to give another slackline presentation in order to increase awareness of the sport of slacklining. At the REI demo, Michael Bross was with me. An up and coming slackliner who has come a long way since he started three years ago, Michael has a style all his own and is quite talented on both the traditional one inch and two inch Gibbons slacklines. At the demo we had a one inch line set up, with one side attached to a brick pillar and the other side off an A-frame which definitely did the job.The line that we used was called slackstar, which is a flat one inch piece of webbing with a low stretch that is made in Europe. The webbing was designed for tricklining, jumping, spinning and flips. Since we had an A-frame on one side with the anchor being the tire of the car we had to turn the notch down a bit when it came to the big surfs, airs and flips. It did nothing to take away from the demo though because there are so many different aspects and styles to slacklining that people like to see, so we stuck to the static and yoga tricks. It is always important to evaluate your slackline set up and know the limits of your system and slackline safe. Switching back and forth between myself and and Michael definitely caught the eyes of the customers going in and out of REI. We had information flyers to hand out to the people curious about the sport of slackline and a megaphone in order to
get the peoples’ attention off in the distant parking lot. It was a great day to be out promoting this great sport of balance and by the end of the session I think we influenced a handful more people to the slacklining community.
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Written by Josh Beaudoin