On different paths

You can do slacklining in the great outdoors – in the woods, over water, between rocks, or on the beach. In fact, you can do it almost anywhere - even in the jungle. Or, on the other hand, you can do it in the urban jungle. The city is a playground for Urban balancing. Everywhere around you are new opportunities in the network of streets, street canyons, walls, chains, statues and sculptures and sometimes even in  parks and gardens. You don't even need a slackline.

urban-artic1The principle is not new. Free-runners (parcour) and urban climbers already use the concrete zones of the urban area for their sport. However, the difference between those sports and urban-balancing is that urban-balancing is focussed mainly on balance, rather athletic prowess.

Slackliners are used to balancing on a moving line, so balancing on the stationary urban objects can be very challenging even to experienced slackliners. Nothing is moving, so you feel your internal restlessness directly.

The nice fact about urban-balancing is that you don't need a line, so your instalment is permanent, because the balance facilities are components of the urban landscape: handrails, narrow walls, curb stones, painted lines on the asphalt, chains, and so on. Almost everything invites you to train your body sense and to put your balance to a new test.

The lights of the city make night into day, so even the time of the day doesn’t really matter. Even without a slack-line the wait at the bus stop can become a balancing act. Balancing is always and everywhere possible, maybe just not so “slack”.

Also with the slackline the next step isn’t too far away. In future, highlines will find their way into town and span majestically above street canyons, waterlines will form new bridges, and tricklines will turn backyards into playgrounds. Make your city slackly.Relax yourself, relax your city.