Type 18 MKII

A supple nylon webbing that sports extreme durability

The overall design of Type 18 MKII combined with the usage of LineSkin resin coating, makes it very burly. However, a lot of webbings that sport a high durability have a reduction in their suppleness. This is not the case with Type 18 MKII. It's one of the softest webbings out there!

Because of the burliness, Type 18 MKII is a great webbing for any project you can throw at it. It has a nice bounce, soft feel, and is exceptionally strong, making it ideal for any type of line you can imagine.

An extremely dense weave with a single strength zone for supreme durability

A unique feature of Type 18 MKII is that it uses a single zone construction. This means all fibers at some point come up to the face of the line. This provides a few different benefits over more traditional multi-zone constructions.

First, it gives a much more balanced profile when the webbing sees tension. Given that all the fibers are woven rather than having just the face fibers woven, each fiber will start to elongate at the same time, giving a very uniform and smooth stretch profile.

Second, each fiber has a lower exposure to the outside of the weave. In a multi-zone weave, the face fibers are disproportionally exposed to usage, UV, the elements, etc... as they are on the outside of the webbing. With a single zone weave like Type 18, a fiber will be exposed to the outside of the webbing much much less compared to the outside fibers on the multi-zone weave, giving them a lower likelihood of getting damaged from that outside exposure.

Third, the single zone weave uses the same size fibers everywhere in the weave. This contributes further to the uniform stretch profile outlined above as well as giving Type 18 MKII a very uniform feeling on the hand/foot across it's width. While this can be accomplished with multi-zone weaves, it often results in effects to the stretch that may make the webbing less desireable to walk on certain lines. T18 achieves this uniform feeling while retaining the optimized stretch profile.

This webbing lasts a very long time even with extreme usage

Back in 2009, when Balance Community was born, Type 18 was the first webbing we offered in our shop. Some of the first pieces we ever sold are still in use today, 12 years later! We personally have a few of these pieces left that we continue to use at various events around the world.

These pieces of webbing have seen thousands, if not tens of thousands of walks. Even with this extreme usage, these pieces still have a great stretch profile, massive strength, and still feel like a slackline! Many other types of webbing tend to lose their dynamics and livliness with contiued usage. However, something about the way Type 18 is constructed gives it a very big lifespan.