I did what I do best at and fell off my highline! But I put the dynomometer between me and the leash to find out how much force the only NON-redundant part of our highline sees.
CHART IS FOUND ON https://www.slackademics.com/hnth/slacksnap
THANK YOU FOR YOUR SUPPORT!
Find slackliner friends from this list of 1300 facebook groups at: 2018-09-19 13:04:46 +0000 UTC View Post
I know this isn't your standard slackline video, but thank you for supporting this channel overall. We have invested over $500 more into slacksnap machine so we really appreciate you guys! I spent months prepping for burning man so it was nice to put all those pieces together for a video I wish I watched before I went. Cheers!
2018-09-12 19:29:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Let's alleviate traffic away from the most popular lines in Yosemite. We have lines here that are easy, hard, seasonal, open year around and more. This is to help make your trip to Yosemite just a little bit smoother. Please consider doing this for your local highline area, message me and we can work together to make it an episode on HowNOTtoHighline. Thank you for helping to get "Your Mom" up Catrina Sisco, Aurélio Rosa, and Kimberly Weglin! And thank you Mitch Jacobs f...
2018-09-06 00:03:09 +0000 UTC View Post
Fiber reinforced tape is great to tape your main line and backup together on a highline because it won't tear when it is windy or during whippers, but is it so strong that it can break your webbing? We tested fiber tape, duct tape, and climbing tape up to 16 layers thick on our break test machine and filmed it in slow motion.
Check out my other video on how to tape highlines https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4M...
2018-08-29 13:05:01 +0000 UTC View Post
How do highlining bolts affect other people? We discuss the things we should consider before bolting. You can find the Bolting Bible at www.slackademics.com/boltingbible and you can find it is also as a PDF on the site as well.
Anthony Chandler translated subtitles to Portuguese!
Thank you to my wife Kimberly Weglin with Slackademics and Zac Timmons for editing, David Kingston, Martin Roberts from Titan Climbing, Travis Warner (for re-writing the Book of Rocks), Greg Fi...
2018-08-22 14:14:01 +0000 UTC View Post
(Thank you Anthony Chandler for the PORTUGUESE subtitles!)
The Slackline WoodGrip by Kyriakos Kyriakakis goes up against the time tested beloved G2 Linegrip. The WoodGrip is 2.5x lighter and 4x cheaper but is it just as strong? This is also an open source project so Kyriakos shows how he makes it (thank you George Economou for filming it) and the beta can be found at https://www.slackademics.com/hnth/sl...
2018-08-15 14:08:58 +0000 UTC View Post
Want to see an easy way to derig a highline in under 2 minutes... well sort of under 2 minutes. Watch us derig a new line we just established in Yosemite that is near Taft Point and is 84 meters and we named it "Your Mom". Having the soft release on the static side makes it much easier, quicker and safer to derig. Thank you Aurélio Rosa for filming me taking "Your Mom" down while Catrina Sisco and Kimberly Weglin both worked her over. :)
Here is our How to Rig a Midline video translated into Russian, if you would like to help translate episodes please contact me! :) Thank you Aharon Khachatryan and team for your hard work on this.
NO CHARGE FOR A TRANSLATION VIDEO TO PATRONS BTW.
Я установил стационарный мидлайн недолеко от моего дома, уже полтара года и я вам покажу как самому установить и делать это безопасно....
2018-08-05 01:30:05 +0000 UTC View Post
Here are 32 break tests to compare how sewn loops hold up on webbing. We compare the strength of the loops that I had done by a local source at the jump center near where I live with the strength of webbing in weblocks. We film each break in slow motion and organized a chart that can be found at Slackademics. https://www.slackademics.com/hnth/slacksnap
Let me know what you want to see tested o...
2018-08-01 13:41:08 +0000 UTC View Post
Visiting Yosemite??? Here is almost everything you will need to know when you are there. I hope this helps your trip be the best experience it can be, but I hope this doesn’t drive too much traffic towards our classic lines. We discuss how to get around and how to follow the rules because that is most important in trying to preserve our fragile access there. We show you the classic areas of Taft, Rostrum and Lost Arrow Spire in this episode, but be sure to watch our nex...
2018-07-25 14:06:00 +0000 UTC View Post
We flew Scott Balcom out to the Breathe Festival to share about what it was like to be the first highliner and the details of his Lost Arrow Spire project back in 1985. Enjoy some slack history and Q&A in this episode from THE source.
The Book of Slack has way more detail. Kim Weglin transcribed a 3 hour interview starting at the end of page 67 in the Book of Slack found at https...
2018-07-19 02:06:30 +0000 UTC View Post
FINALLY! I dreamed of doing this a year ago and I finally have a SlackSnap machine worthy of the task. We are going to break stuff... lots of stuff. In fact I've already done 70 samples. It is portable, it can "safely" go up to 177KN and unsafely to 222KN. Why on earth do I want something so strong??? I want to break ANYTHING we think of. Please don't try this at home and just let me do it. :) Leave your ideas in the comments below on what yo...
2018-07-11 13:10:02 +0000 UTC View Post
The most expensive thing you will do slacklining/highlining is buy gear twice. In a perfect world you would buy gear that you can use for both slacklining and highlining. I present an option for an entire setup that would cost less than $1000 and you can do everything with and be able to add to it, rather than outgrow it.
This series is aimed for those who want to slackline AND highline and currently have no gear. My gear wall is not my success, it is my failure. &...
2018-07-04 12:27:58 +0000 UTC View Post
The most expensive thing you will do slacklining/highlining is buy gear twice. In a perfect world you would buy gear that you can use for both slacklining and highlining. I present an option for an entire setup that would cost less than $1000 and you can do everything with and be able to add to it, rather than outgrow it.
This series is aimed for those who want to slackline AND highline and currently have no gear. My gear wall is not my success, it is my failure....
2018-06-27 14:09:52 +0000 UTC View Post
Pablo Signoret tells us what it was like to be one of the first to send a mile long highline. On June 9th, 2017 Pablo Signoret, Nathan Paulin and Lucas Milliard with the SDD team (Sangle Dessus-Dessous) led by Guillaume Barrande, all sent the 1662 meter or 5,453 foot long highline. This line was 340 meters or 1115 feet above the Cirque de Navacelles valley.
Antony Newton also almost got the record only falling 152 meters from the end. Friedi Kuhne also walked the ...
2018-06-20 14:16:00 +0000 UTC View Post
I should have made this video a long time ago. If you are new, and have no gear, and want to slackline so you can eventually highline... then this is the episode you must watch. The biggest expense of buying gear... is having to buy gear twice because it works for slacklining, but not for highlining (and vice-versa). Or because you out grow your gear fast. My gear wall is not my success, it is my failure. No one needs that much shit! No one sponsors me and I d...
2018-06-13 14:16:00 +0000 UTC View Post
8 hours of break testing 36 thing-a-ma-jigers. Here is a teaser. 3 episodes will come from this. Just finished spending 3 hours organizing the footage into which test it belongs to. After I was all done... i realized how I can get 5x the strength with 10x less work... but I will test that before I share it haha. #breakingshitisfun
Obviously no charge for this btw
2018-06-12 02:46:33 +0000 UTC View Post
NO CHARGE FOR THIS (IT'S JUST A NEW INTRO VIDEO FOR HOME PAGE AND UPDATE ON ALL THE THINGS WE ARE DOING)
Lots going on! This is more than just a youtube channel. We are slacklife AF.
Subscribe, follow, like, leave comments, message us, create videos with us - get involved with what we are doing.
We have playlists to make it easier for you to find the kind of videos you want to see here at HowNOTtoHighline. 2018-06-09 13:34:48 +0000 UTC View Post
This is a project that I have planned for 2 years now. 2005 i failed at climbing it. 2006 I climbed it but failed at rigging the highline. 2010 I rigged highline but failed at walking it. I have had a few successful trips since then but it was always a 3 day project with a team and now you can watch my journey as I attempt to do everything by myself in under 24 hours from Lodi which is a 3 hour drive from Yosemite. Please share in the comments below, or in a private...
2018-06-06 14:16:00 +0000 UTC View Post
I got sewn loops done locally and we will put soft shackles on them to connect our webbing together for big highlines. We will do break tests for these but these are my actual pieces so obviously I don't want to break them but I did put them all at 2000lbf so I know they are bomber before I have all my friends trust their life to the system. haha.
This is not an episode, I just film everything I do so here's a freeby just for you guys. :)
2018-05-31 23:00:01 +0000 UTC View Post
I've had a permanent mid-line set up near my house for over a year and a half now and I show you how to set one up and how to keep it safe...ish.
We dropped a heavy bag onto the backup at this line about a year ago in a previous episode found at https://youtu.be/nVn4BJaxMFg?t=4m16s
Share your slacklife testimony and buy a shirt at 2018-05-30 14:16:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Michael Melner and I went longlining in the park to see what forces we would get on the dynomometer.
Visit the International Church of Slacklife at https://www.churchofslacklife.com/
Find slackers near you at 2018-05-23 15:00:01 +0000 UTC View Post
We are going to the Breathe Festival, the biggest slackline festival in America, and we will have our first slack mass and Scott Balcom (the first highliner) will be joining us. HowNOTtoHighline is also holding a "hands on" highline rescue class.
Sign up to the festival at 2018-05-16 15:00:01 +0000 UTC View Post
We did more tests with the dynomometer on a longer line... a 73 meter long line this time. We also had more whipper volunteers for more data. Thank you Michael Melner, Scott Hong and Mitch Jacobs for slackraficing yourself for science.
Visit the International Church of Slacklife at https://www.churchofslacklife.com/
Find slackers near you at 2018-05-09 15:00:01 +0000 UTC View Post
I spent pretty much my whole day filming how to rig midlines and breaking sewn loops. Since a lot of these episodes don't come out for weeks, here is a sneak peak on some tests that I successfully got my camera to get slow motion shots during the break. So here is a 22 second teaser for you guys to get stoked. This is what your donations go to! No charge for this one obviously, only the normal wednesday episodes. Cheers!
2018-05-07 01:06:00 +0000 UTC View Post
I'm not going to post church of slacklife sessions here very often so head over to the church of slacklife's youtube channel at https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCEyx... and subscribe! Here is the first Session with a poem from Summer Barbone and a humorous beginning.
HEY PATRONS: This is a promo for the weekly sessions that will be on the Church's yout...
2018-05-05 20:00:01 +0000 UTC View Post
I go into detail about every piece of gear I have on... HALF... of my studio gear wall. Grab your popcorn and nerd out on the gear that I have. I can do a follow up video to answer questions or correct mistakes that you might point out. Leave comments and get engaged with this full length video.
Get involved at the International Church of Slacklife at 2018-05-02 14:15:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Watch us use my new drone to tag a highline with fishing line and then reel it in with a drill.
I forgot I have to post the video on Patreon separately so here you go... a day late but I'm sure you have already seen this from yesterday. What is funny is that I was at the CRG festival yesterday when I made this video public which was from when we rigged the 240 3 weeks ago.
BIG NEWS... We are going to Breathe Festival in July and holding a rescue class/contest as HowNOT...
2018-04-26 23:36:34 +0000 UTC View PostHi Patrons! Thanks for the stoke and supporting this channel. I'm not going to charge for Jameson's time lapse episode. He did 95% of the work to make that episode and it was more or less a glorified commercial for The Church of Slacklife. If you aren't a member yet, go to slackline.com and go sign up. Don't let the religion word scare you off... it is just the best parts of a slackline festival.... online.
What I have coming is the climbing gear-porn video from t...
2018-04-19 19:20:05 +0000 UTC View Post