Behind the scenes at Slackline Express

Archive for March, 2008

Recycling Efforts

Monday, March 31st, 2008 Posted in random rant | No Comments »

Lately we've been thinking a lot about how to make sure we're as ecologically responsible as possible in our business practices. Generally, we like to consider ourselves very minimalist, so things like extra packaging and tags are not ...

Expansion & Downtime

Monday, March 17th, 2008 Posted in Announcement | No Comments »

Natural High Club from Missouri State University is driving in so I get to play guide for a week while they are on their spring break. I'll be rigging ropes courses, teaching climbing anchors, field and map navigation and other ...

Gear Awards & other stuff

Monday, March 17th, 2008 Posted in Announcement | No Comments »

A while back we submitted our Primo and Intro slackline kits in to the Shape You Gear Awards which is a Sport, Health and Fitness related reviewer. Our Primo Kit took their highest honors (Top Gear of the Year - ...

Green Screen Fun

Wednesday, March 5th, 2008 Posted in media projects | No Comments »

I got a couple customer emails regarding our Re-Usable Shock Absorber for highline and climbing use today. Try as I might I couldn't come up with a good explanation of how to use it so I took a photo. Since ...

Slack Rope Walking

Wednesday, March 5th, 2008 Posted in Slack Rope | No Comments »

Yesterday Teale, Sean and I set up a short 3/4" rope between the trees in my front yard that are only 15 feet apart. This was my first serious attempt at slack rope walking and I knew that the line ...