Slacked with the Boston Slackers. The girl who runs the group is really into longlining so Mel and I got to try our first ever long line! The line was about 230 feet rigged with SMC pulleys and about $500 of equipment. Longlining is really hard. I got about 60ft out and couldn't really control the line anymore. You need to be completely focused because once you put energy into a line that long it's really hard to stop the vibration. Convinced Sonya (the longliner) to compete this week and loaned her a jibline to practice on.
Then went to the house in Tewksbury to practice on the competition line. It got dark fast so I didn't put much work in but I did land a standing 540 on the comp line! (Maybe I'll throw one during the comp)
Slacked with the Boston Slackers. The girl who runs the group is really into longlining so Mel and I got to try our first ever long line! The line was about 230 feet rigged with SMC pulleys and about $500 of equipment. Longlining is really hard. I got about 60ft out and couldn't really control the line anymore. You need to be completely focused because once you put energy into a line that long it's really hard to stop the vibration. Convinced Sonya (the longliner) to compete this week and loaned her a jibline to practice on.
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Sweet
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