Slack Science

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.

In this article we will be discussing a few different styles of tape that are commonly used for taping highlines, their pros and cons, and when/where to use them in...

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Here is a quick video tutorial on how to use the Alpine WebLock 4.0 as a rigging plate on the tensioning end of your slackline.

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Today we will be looking at a fantastic method for anchoring the Alpine WebLock 4.0 using a spanset, a tree, and no additional hardware. This method is known as the "bGebz Knot"...

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The use of soft shackles in slackline and highline rigging has gotten a lot of attention lately. For this reason, I have been running several tests on various soft shackles...

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Alright, now that you have yourself some nice soft shackles, how the heck do you use them?? The technique is quite easy and is fairly straight forward. Follow the steps...

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Introduction Soft shackles are a very cool new item in the slackline industry. They have a ton of potential to lighten the load on our backs when we are transporting...

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Introduction With the use of Soft Shackles made from a 12-strand Dyneema Rope becoming more and more popular, there are a number of questions popping up about how they perform...

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Introduction In this article we will be discussing the results of various random tests we have done with soft shackles. There are a number of random things we were curious...

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There has been a lot of discussion recently on the topic of Dyneema and its various uses within the slackline realm. Wether it's using the fiber for the webbing you...

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Welcome to the Highline Anchor Analysis series of Slack Science articles. In this series I will be posting pictures of various highline anchors and analyzing them using the Highline Anchor...

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Welcome to the Highline Anchor Analysis series of Slack Science articles. In this series I will be posting pictures of various highline anchors and analyzing them using the Highline Anchor Criteria...

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Today I would take another look into Slider Tapes. We've seen what slider tapes are in a past article seen here: Slider Tapes. However, as time has proven, these types of...

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