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I wish I had a vid to post of something i watched on the slackline behind Miguels at the Red River Gorge a couple years ago. Just as cool but at the opposite end of the spectrum A young gal, maybe 20-ish, set down her beer and stepped up onto the webbing. She was so relaxed and comfortable the line barely even moved and her arms hung loosely at her sides. She walked back and forth, doing a little toe spin to turn, and then she did the most amazing thing I have ever seen in a slackline: She stopped, leaned waaaayyy over backwards, went into a handstand on the line, and continued on out of it back onto her feet. I don't think the line twitched at all and she remained completely relaxed and comfortable the whole time.
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I think the 22' distance would be ideal to set up for the first time. As the line gets longer it has alot more play. If you look at some of the videos you will see guys "surfing" the line. thats where the line will sway back and forth. This is alot of fun to do once your able to actually able to walk to line.
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Awesome:)
You had asked about rigging for the come along. The way mine is rigged up is for more of a permanent location. mine is set up like this.

Tie a loop in one end of the line.
Wrap that end around the tree and run the rest of the line thru the loop to "choke" it off.
At the other tree take another section of line long enough to wrap it around the tree a couple of times and tie a loop in each end on that line. Call this the anchor line.
You can then hook a come along into those 2 loops on the anchor line and feed the free and of the slackline into the come along and tighten it using the come along.

Since I dont have a come along on mine I tied two loops 1' apart into the slackline about 3' from where they would meet the anchor line. I then put carabiners in the loops on the slackline and anchor line and ran the rest of the slackline thru the carabiners to have pully action.
Have a few people pull the line tight and wrap it around the tree a couple times and tied it back to one of the carabiners.

Again my method is pretty crude and there are better proper techniques to use if you know enough about rigging.

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mine will come down when i'm not using it.

i just bought 50 feet of webbing, 3 slings, 3 'biners, a ratchet (that comes with a 'biner), and some tree padding. hopefully this will be enough to set up two at a time, one shorter and lower for the offspring, and one just below nut-high for me. i don't know much about rigging, so i'll have to figure out how to tighten the setup and then remove the ratchet from the system like skybyitch does, or come off of another $17 for another ratchet.

as i mentioned, i have plenty of materials i could use for tree padding, but i like the looks of this stuff:

http://www.slacklineexpress.com/catalog/product_info.php?cPath=42&products_id=192&osCsid=554618ef5e847fadeb251548ef659309

hopefully it is as good as it looks.


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