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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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The Sliding-X Anchor

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on Thursday, 03 November 2011
in Gear Use

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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All About Spansets

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on Wednesday, 26 October 2011
in Product Sheets

An in-depth article about Spansets. From the inner workings of the slings, to how they are rated, to the various uses they have within a rig; All you could ever want to know about the extremely bomber round slings that are so commonly used for slacklining.

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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
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