Samuel Volery (CH) has walked the so far longest highline without falling in May 2017. Those 1210m are a new World Record! Video by / smileyvideography www.slacktivity...
insane & inspring :) Last year, I canceled slacklining due to lack of success going further than 25 metres. The videos around Slacktivity helped me to come back to this amazing sport. Now 50 metres longline is the next goal. Keeping it up :)
Great achievement, and even longer ones will be done. No doubt. Started slacklining six months ago, in winter. Rodeo is my favorite one, love to get that flowy feeling swinging sideways.
Man I just can't get a grasp on the efficacy of a backup line being SO loose! What is the disadvantage of taking at least a little more slack out of the crazy huge backup loops?
Looked like he started 10m after the starting fix point and fell 20m before the end fix point. To many beginners even just 20m are so hard and we often see people touching the trees and just count it if they touched them on both ends without falling. So how are the rules for "you did it"? How many meters from the fix point can you skip, and still say it's a success?
It is dangerous to walk close the the anchor, because the ground is very close. If you do a leechfall (complet fall into the rope that's holding you) or if the main line fail at that moment, you could eventually touch the ground. So it's widely accepted to do the last meter by crawling.
Okay that makes perfect sense to me. You may have noticed I have no experience with highlines. ;-) On the ground there's usually no big difference in risk near the fixpoint, but I see you don't want to fall on the rocks near the anchors of a highline. Thank you for the explanation. :-)
if you have long lines on the ground there is also a huge difference. I usually don't walk the ends (last 10 m or so) of lines longer than 100 m because I don't want to fall from 3 m on the ground.
Congratulations. Hard work. Can you explain how the line broke? Was it hit by a lightning, or what. Is it possible that wind broke it? Do you suspect it was due to over tensioning? Did the material got tired? It is crucial to know this precisely.
It was electrical dis-charge that broke the line. Not wind. Not over-tensioning. And yes, of course it is crucial to know that precisely. The probability that it was electrical dis-charge is 99%+.
SLACKTIVITY : I must train harder then.. No excuses haha. respect Sam!! Your a true inspiration! if your ever in Dorset England, I'll help you rig for a go :0)
It's the backup-webbing. It has wind-dampening effects - without that the line would be almost impossible to walk in slight wind. And in newer set-ups it is a functioning backup again - in case that the main-line would fail you would be caught by that second webbing.
Why that? I honestly would get bored to only walk. The single moment is not that intense. You keep walking for over an hour and you need to stay relaxed for that. Music is a good way for that :-)
