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A climbing yogi has found a unique way to improve his balance, focus, and core strength: doing yoga poses on a slackline.
Twenty years ago, rock climbers in Yosemite and Joshua Tree discovered a way to entertain themselves when they weren't scaling walls. They strung a piece of 20-foot webbing between trees to create a makeshift tightrope and practiced walking on it. The better they got at their new game, the more they upped the ante. They made the line longer and eventually raised it higher off the ground—slinging it between canyons 800 feet in the air.
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Slacklining moves off the rocks and into the mainstream |
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By Aimee Heckel
Friday, January 25, 2008
It looks easy enough. Until you step on the rope for the first time. The rope welcomes new feet with a tiny, unexpected earthquake. Most people tumble right off. If they decide to step back on -- many people do, compelled by shock and intrigue -- they might last one more millisecond before the rope bucks them off.
This is when people get creative. Some straddle the line, solicit a friend to spot or try to scoot across it starting at one of the trees or poles it's hooked to.
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Slacklining the Napes Needle |
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“The task of finding anything either new or interesting to say on the subject of the Napes Needle is one which is vastly easier for the light hearted editor to set than it is for the unhappy contributor to perform”
W.P.Haskett-Smith, FRCC journal No. 8, 1914
The biggest prize in UK slacklining was still up for grabs and I knew it. The Napes Needle on Great Gable has been something of an iconic symbol for rock climbers since its first ascent in 1886, an event that some regard as the breakaway from mountaineering and the birth of modern rock climbing as sport in its own right.
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