Slack lining

I bet that's even more fun after a six-pack!
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My wife and I designed our backyard around a slackline. It's great fun and works wonders for your balance. We use slacklines in training as well. We just put up the line and have the new climbers tie in above it like a simulated limb walk. So as you walk backwards away from your tie in you learn to pay out rope through you hitch and coming back you learn to tend your slack. All of this 3 ft off the ground.
 
I started getting into it back at school. A lot of my rock climbing friends where really good at it. It is WAY harder than it looks. It's a good, easy, and cheap way to kill time outside, also REALLY fine tunes your balance. And yes, it is more fun with a 6-pack
 
Back in 1977 it was called slack CHAINING. We setup chains between trees pretty much like a slackline but not as tight... and drank sixpacks... Budweiser of course.
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It wasn't anything so sophisticated as the yoga poses and stuff they do on slacklines now, we just walked back and forth and tried to bluff each other off the chain. It was just something to do when we weren't climbing. Picked the idea up from some guys in Camp IV in the Valley.
 
I think every rock climbing hangout in America has a slackline set up. All you need are 4 biners, 2 anchors, and about 50' of webbing. Sometimes we use 2" webbing get several people on the line at once.
 
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