Video available all weekend July 23rd-25th
This instructional workshop will show you how to safely set up a slackline. Slacklining is similar to tightrope walking but involves balancing on a thin piece of climbing webbing. It improves balance, exercises core muscles, and forces us to concentrate on our minds and bodies as they work together.
In this workshop you’ll learn:
1) how to attach a ratcheting slackline to a tree without damaging the bark;
2) how to set up an inexpensive, basic (primitive) slackline using only climbing webbing, two carabiners, and a line locker;
3) how to set up without trees or other vertical attachment points, and;
4) how to set up a slackline indoors.
About Kevin McDermott
Kevin is an instructor at Conestoga College and the University of Guelph. He has been slacklining for eight years and has been teaching slacklining at the Hillside Festival since 2014.