Longline slackline,

a never ending challenge

Longline slackline, a never ending challenge

Longline slackline is category or branch where the challenge is to walk longer and longer lines. More tensioned or saggy, with higher or lower anchors, the focus is always the same: sending the line”.

What determines if we are doing slackline or longline (as a distinct kind of slackline) is just line lenght. From 40 meters it can already be considered a longline. From then on, everything is possible, as long as there are spaces with conditions for setting up longer and longer lines.

The world record was set in September 2019, by Joshua Leupolz, with a 615 meters line . The previous registration has already lasted 4 years. In 2015, Alexander Schulz reached a mark of 610 meters. The previous year, Nathan Paulin and Theo Sanson had raised the bar to 601 meters.

The reality is that the difficulty with beating this record lies in the difficulty of finding terrain that allows longer lines due to the “sag”.

This can be seen on the highline records that keep going up.

Longline Gear and Webbing

Setting up a longlining slackline is a little more complex than to setup a ratchet slackline or a trickline.

There are a number of solutions in what concerns to longline equipment, regarding the webbing, the linelockers and, more specifically, thetensioning systems. These last vary in complexity, weight and effieciency. The most popular options are primitive systems, traditional pulley systems, and linegrip and hangover system.

  • Primitive systems consist of slings, webbing, four or five carabiners and two chain locks. They are inefficient kits but light, cheap and good for travel.
  • A Pulley System is more complex. It includes linelockers, slings, schackles, multiple pulleys, lots of rope, maillons, blockers, etc. They are very efficient, can be improved easily but are expensive. A good system can cost several hundred euros.
  • The Hangovers and Grip system can cost arout 250 euros, between 3 hangovers and a model equivalent to linegrip, but cheaper. Slings, schakles, linelockers are also required, but it is efficient, super light and not bulky.

Longlining slacklines are between 2 and 2.5 centimeters wide and can be of various types. Longline Webbing can be tubular, flat or even a combination of these two types of line.

Longline slackline materials:

  • Dyneema
  • Nilon or Polyamide
  • Polyester
  • Polyptopylene
  • Vectran

All these factors, as well as the elasticity and weight of the line, which varies between 25 and 146 grams per meter, influence its behavior and performance.

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