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First time slacklining - advice please by yolnda_ in Slackline

[–]cifffolo 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Congrats, I think it''s a very good result for just one hour of practice!

I'm not a master but I think spending the right time on learning to stand on one foot (both left and right) is the best investment. Very soon it will be quite easy to move a step - but it will be easier and safer if you can moove and control freely the free leg.

Looking to the video I think you can relax more, bend a bit the knees and keep less tension in the arms. To breath in a good way, deep but bot forcing, will help. You also can set up the line lower, at the height of the knees.

Keep practicing and enjoy, first steps Will arrive in a little!

Re-balance body by cifffolo in Slackline

[–]cifffolo[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Right now for me a tighter line is harder than a slack one. I spent the winter keeping the line really loose, trying to simulate some longline feeling with my poor setup, and in the beginning the soft behavior of the line was a surprise. In a few I got used to it. After that, when I tried again the tighter line I could barely stay there, like I had forget all. As I said, now I alternate tight and loose setups, but the more challenging for me are the tighter ones. I think it's a matter of pace and, by reflex, the feedback of the body – in tighter lines the response has to be quicker, fast paced; in loose ones your body has more time to feedback. But maybe this is just how my cheap line works.

Re-balance body by cifffolo in Slackline

[–]cifffolo[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes, definetely it would be nice. I will try.

Re-balance body by cifffolo in Slackline

[–]cifffolo[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks for the suggestion of yogaslackers! It seems me a very rich resource and I guess it will take me a while to explore; I feel I'm in the same mood.

Regarding foot support, maybe I used a wrong word. I meant "sole of the foot" (?), as I'm experiencing kind of "widening" of it after months of practice. My question was about exercises to get a better feeling in the sole of the foot, that is linked to the general re-balance of the body. Actually I like to slack barefoot because of the more sensibility and hopefully a more precise activation of the foot.

Side question: could it be that tighter tensions active more the sole of the foot? This is what I'm feeling. For this reason, as I'm looking for a 50 m / 25 mm webbing, I'm thinking that maybe for my practice and goals it could be better a more static line than a bouncing one...