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Slack Science, powered by Balance Community: Slackline Outfitters, is a blog run by Jerry Miszewski about slacklining. He offers tips and tricks to various parts of setting-up, taking down, in-depth looks at various aspects of a setup, and hints at walking slacklines.

Jerry's long history with the sport of slackline has given him a wealth of knowledge that he loves to share with his fellow slackliners. Slack Science is a place anyone and everyone to come and learn about our wonderful sport of slacklining.

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Safety Reminder

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on Tuesday, 10 April 2012
in Rigging Practices

Highline Safety A reminder to everyone that slacklining, specifically highlining, is a very dangerous activity that requires a very specific set of knowledge and gear. Please read on for the reminder.

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Highline Leash - Part 2 - Connection Point

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on Tuesday, 10 April 2012
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Connection Points Part two of our series on Highline Leashes - All about the connection points.

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Wind Dampeners

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on Wednesday, 28 March 2012
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Wind Dampeners Have you ever gone slacklining in extremely high winds just to find that your line oscillates to the point where you can no longer walk it? This technique will help mitigate that issue with a few very simple items.

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All About Webbing Anchor's

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on Monday, 19 March 2012
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Webbing Anchors

An in-depth article on the various types of slackline webbing anchors and how they are used.

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Line Sleeves

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on Monday, 20 February 2012
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Line Sleeves Line Sleeves - What are they, how to use them, and what to use when you need them.

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Slider Tapes

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on Monday, 13 February 2012
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Slider Tapes Highline taping technique to allow for the backup and main line in a highline to move independently of eachother.

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Gear Test - Leash Fall Simulations

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on Friday, 02 December 2011
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A highline leash fall simulation test using two strands of a prototype Vectran webbing. We tested the total force on the whole system as well as just the backup line using both standard anchors as well as dynamic anchors.

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The Sliding-X Anchor

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on Thursday, 03 November 2011
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An article all about equilizing bolts. This mostly deals with the sliding-x anchor that is most commonly used for highline setups with bolts. This technique works for any number of bolts beyond two.

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Slack Science said, I have seen line-lockers destroy low stretch webbing at tensions as low as 1/5 the breaking strength
Commented in post All About Webbing Anchor's on Wednesday, 16 May 2012
Slack Science said, The reason we use double rings is mainly for redundancy. Also, the rings that come with a line-locke
Commented in post All About Webbing Anchor's on Wednesday, 16 May 2012
Drew Sanford said, Exactly how important is it to use weblock-style devices on low stretch webbing? I know quite a few
Commented in post All About Webbing Anchor's on Wednesday, 16 May 2012
Slack Science said, Those are definitely not safe! Better would be to use stakes in the grassy area. Definitely do not u
Commented in post Safety Reminder on Tuesday, 08 May 2012
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Commented in post Safety Reminder on Tuesday, 08 May 2012

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