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slackdaddy
Feb 10, 2005, 7:02 AM
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Walk the Line, The Art of Balance and Craft of Slackline by Scott Balcom is finally here!
This book has lots of good info and lots of great slackline pictures.
Walk the Line is the culmination of over twenty years of slackline experience. It starts with very basic stuff and moves to the more advanced, explaining the ellington, the slacker-hitch, A-frames, dirt anchors, the Slack-Jack and Slack-Dog and many more things that are not very widely understood. It covers many slackline skills and there is a section on highline but it is not a step by step explaination but rather a cationary tale and some guiding principles. Walk the Line clarifies alot of things about balance itself that I believe are not very well understood.
Once you understand everything in this book you will have no trouble understanding the stuff that is not in the book, as it will give you the knowledge to expand on these things. (For example, Walk the Line does not explain soft-pointing but does explain the slacker-hitch which is the key to soft-pointing and the best tension release knot for slackline.)
Walk the Line, the Art of Balance and Craft of Slackline is now availible at slackline.net and slackdaddytools.com
This is a new website with two addresses, check it out.
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coldclimb
Feb 10, 2005, 7:22 AM
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If we buy now, can we get an autographed copy? ;)
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slackdaddy
Feb 10, 2005, 7:26 AM
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No problem coldclimb.
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coldclimb
Feb 10, 2005, 7:35 AM
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Done! Nice job on the site too, been wondering when that was going to be up. :D
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slacker_chick
Feb 10, 2005, 6:22 PM
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I couldnt find it. Is it on slackline.com? (i probably just looked right past it lol). It might be helpful to put a link on this forum! :D Thanks
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phaedrus
Feb 10, 2005, 6:45 PM
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Oh great... one more thing for me to buy.... 8^)
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slackdaddy
Feb 10, 2005, 8:43 PM
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In reply to: I couldnt find it. Is it on slackline.com?
It is on slackline.net
Not slackline.com, although I think they want to carry it.
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billypilgrim
Feb 11, 2005, 1:56 AM
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Congrat's on the book
I see the slackdog is done as well,
I'll be ordering the works. Autograph mine too please
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slackdaddy
Feb 11, 2005, 3:52 AM
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In reply to: In reply to: If we buy now, can we get an autographed copy? ;) Just placed my order also Scott...can I get it signed also :lol: look forward to reading it
When you order, there is a place for a comment, just tell me who to sign it for and I would be more than happy to.
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russman
Feb 14, 2005, 11:55 PM
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Scott...thanx for teh book...just got it today....I look forward to reading it and looking thru it.
big thanx from a big n00b :shock:
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jeremy11
Mar 1, 2005, 10:33 PM
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:) just got the book in the mail today. read it all the way through. pretty interesting reading, plenty of set up methods, great how tos for beginners, although most of it I had learned on my own, and some neat tricks I hadn't really thought of.
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coldclimb
Mar 8, 2005, 7:28 AM
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Got mine today, along with the gear I ordered. Awesome stuff, thanks a lot Scott! :D
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