Gibbon Slack Rack For Slackline

Now while most today feel that slacklines are the original walking or balancing materials, this is not so. John Gill, the boulder, and a friend of mine, used a chain when he first started, he told me. Chain, while heavy, is easy to get and rather fun to walk on too, though, I must say, it is not like walking on rope, especially the beautiful feel of jute rope, for example. Now then, on to working the foot. In balancing on a rope or slackline, you are working on your balance, which, as I mentioned, greatly helps your surfing balance. Yet, there is more to it than this....

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I got an early Birthday present last night. It's the Gibbon Slackrack for slacklining indoors. It's a way totally  awesome  portable steel rack that holds a slackline. I do not know it's exact weight, but I'd gues maybe 70 pounds or so. You can tension the line as tightly or loosely as you would like and it can hold any type of webbing or rope, though the way it is made, it is specifically made for Gibbon slackline products, of course. To use something else, like your own webbing, or a rope, you simply tie it on rather than use the ratchet system for a Gibbon line.  The rack is 10 foot long and about a foot high. The base is gray and the end supports are a sort of magenta, it's rather pretty. I have it set up in my Surfing Room....

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