With their low center of gravity and natural ability to live fearlessly in the present, most kids are quick studies on the slackline. Just look at 14-year-old Alex Mason, who won the inaugural ...

Slacklining is basically walking or balancing along a suspended length of flat webbing tensioned between two anchors. This can be done easily at public parks by tying the webbing around two trees or ...

Especially on nice weekends, you’re likely to see them at local parks such as Green Lake, Gas Works or Golden Gardens — barefoot people with flapping arms who seem to be tightrope walking a few feet ...

It wasn’t so long ago that Andy Lewis appeared in the Super Bowl halftime show, wearing a gleaming-white toga, silver-spangled boots and his brown Afro, balancing and bouncing on a 2-inch-wide line of ...

You may have seen someone walking on one at a park, campsite or gym. Or maybe you wondered what to call the guy bouncing and doing flips off what looked like a tightrope during Madonna’s halftime show ...

Check out 2012 Fairview High grad Justin Wagers, a professional slackliner for Gibbin Slacklines, making it all look easy at http://youtube.com/user/jwage23. As ...

Alex Mason started professionally slacklining in 2011, and has since racked up dozens of achievements competing everywhere from Salt Lake City to Austria. His biggest win this summer: First place at ...

If you’re walking on campus near the corner of University Boulevard and Park Avenue, you’ll likely find a few shirtless men balancing on a slack rope strung between two trees. These men are students ...

Phillipe Petit is well-known for his death defying high wire walking between the Twin Towers, across Niagara Falls, the Eiffel Tower and many other buildings. Aside from the euphora from a successful ...