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2021 – A Good Highline and Longline Year

2022-02-11T20:40:45+01:00

Top Highline and Longline Achievements 2021 2021 was a really good year for highlining and longlining! In the discipline of highline freestyle, we had 5 Master size contests and the first ever worldcup! The year started and ended with both editions of the Pandemic Open Online Competition.  A great way to get the worldwide community together! But that's not all, check out the great achievements by athletes in speed highlining and the world records in distance walking on the high- and longline. Freestyle Highline - Men The ISA Sport Commission [...]

2021 – A Good Highline and Longline Year2022-02-11T20:40:45+01:00

Safe slackline backups – experiments and recommendations

2022-07-06T11:58:18+02:00

What is a safe slackline backup? Use either static or dynamic rope, connected with knots to back up metal parts. Do not use ropes with diameter smaller than 9 mm. Webbing can only be used for lines shorter than 50m and well below 5kN base tension. BEWARE: forces can go above >20kN! In light of the recent fatal accident in Russia, many in the slackline community have questioned the reliability of their tiebacks and backups - especially for longer lines with high tensions. In order to shed some light on the situation, the ISA has performed 58 tests [...]

Safe slackline backups – experiments and recommendations2022-07-06T11:58:18+02:00

Copa Mundial Chile – World Cup Chile

2019-10-23T00:52:38+02:00

ISA y la Copa Mundial de Slackline en Viña del Mar See below for English Cuando la ISA recibió una invitación para asistir a la copa mundial en Viña del Mar, Chile, estábamos intrigados. No conocíamos a las personas responsables de la organización y cuál era su motivación para organizar una copa mundial. El concepto escrito que nos enviaron fue bien pensado y describió una competición multidisciplinaria que fue más allá de tricklining, por primera vez en una copa mundial, que encaja muy bien con uno de los principios de la ISA - la difusión de la diversidad de la slackline. [...]

Copa Mundial Chile – World Cup Chile2019-10-23T00:52:38+02:00
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