How To Rig a Primitive Slackline
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- Опубліковано 6 лис 2016
- This video will teach you how to rig a primitive slackline made of webbing and carabiners!
Whether you built your own slackline out of webbing and carabiners from REI or you purchased a YogaSlackers or Balance Community primitive slackline kit, this video with subtitles, voice over, and video instructions should do the trick! Make sure to comment if you have any questions.
Also, that's a girth hitch and not a clove hitch. You can read up on the differences here: onthesharpend.com/2008/06/16/c...
Thanks,
Michelle Griffith
IG: @chelleslacks
Best video I've seen on this subject. I'm buying my webbing without loops in the ends and I couldn't for the life of me find out how to rig without loops. Thanks
This is by far the best tutorial. Thank you.
Yeah, ditto, I appreciate you. Had not seen the girth hitch before and had a sense that a bowline or figure eight for those carabiner attachments were a bit too permanent.
Just set up my first primitive with your help and had the time of my life! Really happy with the upgrade over a 2 inch ratchet based setup.
YESS!!! So psyched I could be of service and I hope it helps you right now
Great instructions, and thank you for explaining several different options. You are awesome!
thanks, you saved my day and probably my year
Great clear tutorial :)
Thorough. Great video homegirl!
Thanks buddy!
What a great video! Thanks so much you're awesome!
You are very welcome!
I'm just getting back into slack lining and this is exactly how I used to rig my line. Thank you for the great tutorial
By far, the best video that explains how to rig a primitive slackline ! Thank you very much :)
Lorik Ferati thanks!! Hope you get slacklining this year!
wow, this looks so easy! If you compare it with using a ratchet, which one do you think is better? For my 20m line I use a ratchet, but I'm not sure if it's possible even for longer lines. Thanks for the video!
Hey! I prefer the primitive set up for a couple reasons. 1) The ratchet is heavy which makes it harder to walk and it's not as easy to set looser lines when using a ratchet, and I like practicing on looser lines because it prepares me to longline/highline better than tight lines. 2) Most ratchet lines are 2-inch lines. I prefer 1-inch lines because when longlining and highlining, it's pretty much exclusively 1-inch webbing. Thanks!
Great video!
Where did u buy the slackline?
You can buy the YogaSlackers Eline kit at www.yogaslackers.com !
Excellent ! I just bought a cheap beginner 50mm ( 2" ? ) slackline kit before I knew anything about it and - only after 3 sessions - I'm totally addicted to it. When I feel balanced on the line, it's like all my being is balanced, not only my body. I think, for the intermediate level one, I'll do a traditionnal system like yours rather than a kit so I don't need to buy again everything each time I grow to an upper skill.
I have a technical question : is it possible to do a double eight knot on the line or will it damage it ?
Hey! Stoked you're stoked. If you want to buy a kit I recommend either the YogaSlackers kit from yogaslackers.com or the Balance Community primitive kit from balancecommunity.com ... Always 1 inch!!! You can put a figure 8 not in webbing (I do not, and don't necessarily recommend it), but if you weight it, it won't come out. Conversely, n overhand on a bite is actually much stronger than a figure 8 on a bite in webbing, but similarly, will never come out if you weight it. The only reason i would tie a not in my webbing would be if I were tying a knot on a bite in the end to create a permanent loop through which to girth my line around a tree, as shown in this video. Does that makes sense?
@@MichelleGriffith : yes it does. Thank you.
isnt that a clove hitch?
girth hitch
Those are clove hitches
@@faalacy9 thank you! I've been wondering for two years
That’s what I thought as well, two cloves hitches.
I believe a girth hitch is an untied loop in the length on which the rest of the rope wraps around and object and thru the loop created.
Do you use 1' line for video or 35 mm line? Does it work for 35mm line?
One inch line!
This is a great explanation of a primitive slackline. Notes from the video:
Static End: Line Lock = 1 ring + 1 carabiner
Working End: ( Line Lock = 1 ring + 1 carabiner ) + 1 carabiner as a "pulley"
Optional Multiplier: 2 carabiners
Gear total: 2 rings and 3 carabiners, or 2 rings and 5 carabiners if using a Multiplier
Notes from me:
If using a Multiplier AND a girth hitch instead of sewn loop on the Working End, put 2 carabiners in the girth hitch from the start instead of trying to do it after you begin tensioning the pulley.
If you want to make a dirtbag setup for the sake of time or just testing whether you want to invest, you can use:
5 or 7 hardware store quick links instead of 2 + 3 or 2 + 5 [rings + carabiners] but DO NOT use hardware store carabiners
It's also common to find a 20ft (sometimes even 30ft) "Recovery Strap" in widths of 2, 3, or 4 inches.
You can pick up all of this at Harbor Freight for a "I'm bored right now" solution. If you are trying Home Depot, Lowes, Ace, etc. you may not be able to find long straps. Truck stops always have them.
Why do you need to create the linelock instead of just using a girth hitch for the first carabiner of the tension system?
You can do that, but the tension may make the girth hitch hard to get out with de-rigging, and may fuckle juckle the webbing slightly, whereas a linelock is nicer for the webbing (keeps it flat) and is easier to get out after tensioned
@@MichelleGriffith thanks, good to know
Is that Michelle Griffith?
Loading a carabiner that way with the doulle girth hitch and a slackline is not ideal. I would swap that with a ring shackle instead.
apart from on the sewn anchor you were tying clove hitches not girth hitches
I recommend you read up on the difference between a clove hitch and a girth hitch. Cheers. onthesharpend.com/2008/06/16/clove-hitch-vs-girth-hitch/
Michelle Griffith maybe brandon and I are missing something but that was my first thought as well. You created two loops, moved one behind the other and clipped. That’s a clove hitch and is commonly used by climbers. Was this some new variation on a girth hitch and we just missed it? Thanks!
cory dauses I created two loops and brought them together like a book, a girth hitch. A clove hitch would work okay too though but might not be the best for flat webbing.
are those aluminum carabiners or steel..I heard there is supposedly a difference. can you shed some light on it?
These are aluminum oval non locking carabiners.
Steel and aluminum carabiners often have similar strengths depending on how the carabiner is made. When aluminum fails, however, it typically snaps, shatters, and breaks all together. When steel carabiners fail under too high of a load, they tend to deform first, without snapping. For this reason, steel carabiners are preferred for highlining (Slacklining high over a canyon or something similar!) because it will be easy to tell if your carabiner is failing with time still to rescue the walker without breakage. With aluminum, it may break in half to catastrophic results.
For a short line in the park, aluminum is totally fine, and much lighter so it's easier to carry around. If you're rigging trick lines or very long lines with high tension, you may choose to buy steel carabiners. In general, for Slacklining, oval carabiners are preferred over triangular carabiners.
I don't know about them often having similar strengths.. every steel carabiner I've seen has a significantly higher kN rating. Also, what's with the Yogaslacker aluminum carabiners not even being rated? I've never had a problem with one but it has always been a bit disconcerting.
Aluminum biners and in general tends to literally break where steel bends before breaking. Also cyclic loading and tri loading is seriously reducing the breaking strength (BS) of aluminum while is doesn't create a huge loss in the breaking strength.
But the loss of BS in aluminum is proportionate with the cyclic loads number and power (in kn) the closer to the br, the bigger effect...
I am not studying physics or engineering but it's what i've learned through my personal research and experience....
My dog chewed the loop off my jelly pro :( , now im all ready to go :)
I enjoyed this video but do have a concern about the way you are tri-loading that carabiner at 2 min. Granted, this is a park line and if something fails it’s no big deal. But teaching beginners to do so without addressing the safety concerns regarding this is worrisome. Those biners aren’t designed to handle a tri load and while it may hold, over time the integrity of the biner would be compromised.