News and updates from the ISA
LIVESTREAM - The first Speed Highline World Cup of 2025 Follow the athletes on Sunday in the finals, organised by our member BeSlack. QUARTER FINALS : 8:00 - 13:00 FINALS: 13:00 - 18:00 BESLACK Website Speed Highline World Cups 2025
NEW World Records Database We have been collecting World Records since 2010, we now managed to publizise all the records online, including historical records. We also wrote a first framework on how we handle them. Click - World Records overview
Freestyle Highline Ranking List Winners 2024 2024 is over and we have the pleasure to meet the yearly winners in Freestyle Highline. Competitions are happening all around the world and finalists collect points depending on their ranks and the size of the competition (e.g. Masters, World Cup, World Championship..), giving them a final score at the end of the year. The yearly winners in our system are defined by the sum of the highest points ranking at the two largest events they participated in 2024. Freestyle highlining is growing all around the world and competitions are becoming more and more [...]
Speed Ranking List Winners 2024 Amidst the dynamic energy of 2023-24, the speedlining scene witnessed an electrifying surge, with festivals worldwide hosting an array of thrilling competitions. At each competition, finalists collect points depending on their ranks and the size of the competition (e.g. Masters, World Cup..), giving them a final score at the end of the year. The yearly winners in our system are defined by the sum of the highest points ranking at the two largest events they participated in 2024. To see the best athletes of the past three years combined click here. Our Speed Disciplines: [...]
Trickline Ranking List Winners Join us as we celebrate the outstanding achievements of the trickline champions of 2024, whose remarkable talents have dazzled audiences and set new standards in the sport. Freestyle Trickline competitions are happening all around the world and finalists collect points depending on their ranks and the size of the competition (e.g. Masters, World Cup..), giving them a final score at the end of the year. The yearly winners in our system are defined by the sum of the highest points ranking at the two largest events they participated in 2024. Here the top three ranking athletes [...]
Presenting the NEW ISA MEMBERS of 2024 It is our pleasure to introduce our new Active and Observer Members that recently joined the ISA. We are very excited to welcome these national and local associations on board. NEW Active Members First of our new Active members is the AFS - Association Française de Slackline, bringing together the associations in France and slacklining in all of it's modalities. The second new Active Member is the recently founded Federacion Argentina de Slackline (F.A.S). Their goal is to promote and support the growth of the [...]
CRG Highline incident and consequences on webbing lifetime recommendations On April 20th, 2024, there was a mainline and backup failure at Cosumnes River Gorge (CRG), California, United States of America. The failure occurred during a spontaneous tandem session, with the main snapping during a leash fall and the backup failing as it engaged. Both highliners fell but had only minor injuries given the circumstances. Up until now the lifetime recommendations for non-PES (Polyester) and non-PA (Polyamid/Nylon) webbings were summarized as "high-tech/low stretch" webbings in our highline gear standards. Due to the CRG incident the ISA Safety Commission decided [...]
The second Highline World Championships For the second time ever in the sport of slacklining, a World Championship in highlining takes place on July 17.-21., 2024. The event is held in Flims Laax, Switzerland on the summit of Crap Sogn Gion at 2250 m asl. Several ISA officials are active onsite, coordinating with judging, rigging and rescue. 42 athletes; 16 women and 26 men are participating. The athletes compete gender-separated in the discipline of Freestyle and Speed Highline. The event is organised by our active member Swiss Slackline. Infos and Results of the Competitions [...]
Effects of UV on breaking strength of polyamide and polyester highline webbing Members of the ISA Safety Commission have performed comparative two year degradation tests of some commonly used webbing materials used in highlining . These tests were performed at extreme weather conditions in a high alpine environment to evaluate the highline webbing safety standard ISA:41 and to provide further data for evaluating highline webbing lifetime around the globe. The high-altitude Jungfraujoch research station offers a perfect venue for installing an array of frames with different webbing samples for a long-term, combined weathering and solar radiation study. Not [...]
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