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andypro
Oct 25, 2003, 12:13 AM
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I dunno which channel it is, but if you read this prior to about 8:15 or 8:20 eastern (or luckily later if your on the west coast)
They're doing a "super human" show, and they're going to have slackliners on it. I'm sure it will replay at 11 eastern or your equivalent timezone, so if ya miss it, you can see it again :D
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pisceian
Oct 25, 2003, 12:21 AM
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Yeah, I'm watching it now.
What? He didn't make it???
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russman
Oct 25, 2003, 12:44 AM
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Yep just finished watchign it.
Looks like he failed teh 160' line 160' feet off the ground. They are sayign that is the longest/highest line every tried.
I am not an expert, adn I know we have many more experienced liners aroudn here....is this true? Just woderin. The whole thing lasted about 10 minutes or less.
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tawl
Oct 25, 2003, 4:02 AM
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seems like a really long length, but i dunno if that's the highest anyone has slacklined.
i liked when they showed him standing up on one leg in slow mo and said something like "look at the awesome strength and balance it takes to balance on one leg" and i'm thinking "Yeah! i can do that!"
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rrrADAM
Oct 25, 2003, 4:35 AM
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I watched it too... Check Ammon's (elcapbuzz) photos, as he's done highlines well over 1,000 feet high out at Yosemite, and even the Chongo Gap, also pictured in Ammon's pics, out at JTree was longer tha 160 feet, so he has beaten both of those. Ammon got the Chongo Gap highline first, and I think Dean Potter got it second last year.
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rrrADAM
Oct 25, 2003, 4:54 AM
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Also, the other guy they were interviewing is one of the owners of slacklinebros.com, and that was the rigging they sell. I even met him out at the PBC and walked one of his lines out there. I think he is even a member here at RC.com
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russman
Oct 25, 2003, 4:52 PM
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I thought that Ammon had walked much higher lines....I didn't know about longer lines.
I figured that that guy had a stake in slacklines somehow.
THanx adam
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rokshoxbkr19
Oct 25, 2003, 5:00 PM
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Potter has done much higher
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overlord
Oct 25, 2003, 5:01 PM
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:shock: :shock: :shock:
wow, that looks crazy. at least he has a safety line.
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andypro
Oct 25, 2003, 5:09 PM
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In reply to: :shock: :shock: :shock: wow, that looks crazy. at least he has a safety line.
No kidding. Sick if ya ask me.
Reminds me of Karl Welenda. And we know what happened to him :shock:
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May 7, 2004, 2:09 AM
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occlimbr
May 7, 2004, 3:23 AM
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Why are you posting this in a 6 month old thread?
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