Why do we slackline? Slacklining offers a number of benefits in addition to being a fun activity for a wide variety of people to take part in. While you can slackline by yourself, you can also do it with friends and family, too.
Slacklining is a fun activity that you can do outdoors or indoors, helps you improve your balance and concentration, and is something you can take with you on the road as it’s portable.
While slacklining isn’t something that you master overnight, with the addition of a top safety line to hold onto or a spotter to help you keep your balance, it can be an activity you have fun with right away as you learn how to do it. It also requires perseverance and will benefit those who don’t give up.
Let’s take a closer look at 5 slacklining benefits you can experience.
Benefits Of Slacklining
Tests Your Skills
Slacklining is an activity that requires you to test your ability to balance, concentrate, focus in front of you and persevere. Slacklining involves inevitably falling off the line and thus learning how to fall properly, too. It requires you to pick yourself up and start again and continue to practice until you can complete the line without falling.
Progress With Experience
Once you’ve started doing that, you can try various tricks and stunts if that’s something that interests you. Alternatively you can stick to what you’re doing and progress to longer length slacklines, too.
Slacklining enables you to test yourself as much or as little as you like and if you’re into trying tricklining and highlining, it takes slacklining to a new and higher (literally) level once you’ve mastered it and want to take things further.
Full Body Workout
Slacklining is effectively a full body workout from your head (brain) down to your legs and feet and everything in between, namely your core, abs, glutes and other muscles. Not only are you working your muscles, you may improve your posture while also working on your ability to concentrate and focus.
Slacklining is also increasingly used for rehab to help people with injuries particularly to the lower body. Slacklining requires relatively low muscle exertion but the activation of certain muscles like the glutes is quite high.
You Can Slackline Alone
While it’s always good to take part in an athletic activity with help from another person to ensure you have someone there in case something goes wrong, you can also slackline by yourself. Once the slackline is set up – which you can also do yourself – you can take part in slacklining on your own if you happen to be so inclined or are by yourself.
You Can Slackline In Groups
Slacklining is also a great group activity for a few reasons. If you’re a newbie and need some help either for advice or for balance, slacklining in a group might be the way to go. You can also support (literally) each other when trying to gain your balance on the slackline as you get used to it.
Slacklining can be a great team building activity for a company or even just for you and your friends. As mentioned above, even new slackliners can have fun with the addition to a top line for support or for a spotter to help you with balancing and staying on the line.
Slacklining can also be a competitive event to see who can slackline the furthest without falling, who can complete the line in the shortest amount of time, and once you get more experienced, who can sit down or kneel on the line among other tricks.
Conclusion
One of the great things about slacklining is that if offers a wide variety of benefits both mental and physical while also enabling those with little to no experience to learn the sport and increasingly challenges experienced slackliners.
One of the mistakes new slackliners make is giving up once they fall off the line several or more times and figure they will “never get it.” That’s why top safety lines and spotters were invented: To help you learn to keep your balance just like training wheels on a bike while you get comfortable.
Slacklining offers you a head to toe workout for both your brain and body and can be done alone or in a group. The more competitive you are, the more you can compete against friends and family, too.
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