Posts Tagged ‘highline’
When highliners decide to get creative with a little extra rigging, time and ropes: The “Swingline” is thus created. While on their tour, the somewhereelseland team established and walked some new highlines in Moab, Utah. They adapted the rigs from Dean Potter’s BASEline and a new line, ‘god loves americans’ to accommodate huge rope swings. Brian Mosbaugh was there to film and make some jumps.
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Dean Is Featured In The September 2010 Issue of Playboy Magazine (article people, article)
So some incredible shots of Dean Potter’s latest project just happened to “mysteriously” show up… WHOA!
So we reached out to Dean and here is what he had to say…
We noticed our most recent post on Dean’s freesolo at Taft Point <LINK> had a lot of readers concerned and a few skeptical. We asked Dean to share with us a little about his training on the line, and dug up a prior video clip from a video feature on Dean in the New York Times earlier last year. In his own words, here’s what Dean had to share:
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I rarely read blogs and am kind of an old fashioned guy who likes writing letters or talking to people face to face. Most of the time I do literally live in a cave or under trees and forget that the public sees or cares about what I do. It’s come to my attention that a few of the prAna blog readers are a bit concerned about me falling off of highlines while I’m solo walking. Even though this last freesolo crossing at Taft Point was a distance record of 100 feet I assure you I was in total control. In fact I soloed it five times in a row. Here are a few ideas that might calm things down. Usually I don’t divulge my secrets but maybe it’s helpful in this case.
For a long time now I’ve been interested in the martial arts. I’m fascinated with the Aikido and strategy expert Miyamoto Musashi and have learned from his book, ‘Go Rin No Sho’ (A Book of Five Rings) and teachings over the years. Though he lived in the 13th century his values and openness to new ideas drove him to the forefront of swordsmanship simply by disregarding others’ rules. In his most famous dual he struck down a stronger opponent with a wooden oar that he spontaneously carved into a sword, simply because he wielded a longer blade. Read the rest of this entry »
Photographer Jeff Cunningham <LINK> sent us these shots on Dean’s most recent solo walk at Taft Point in Yosemite.
In Jeff’s, words, “it was a beautiful day in Yosemite. Dean had a high line set up there that he measured as somewhere between 99 to 100 feet. He had walked the line leashed a few times when I saw him untying from the tether. I figured he was just taking a break. Instead, he stepped up to the line and started walking it with confidence and determination. It’s hard to imagine what it must feel like walking across a rope with over a thousand feet of air below, but it was obvious to me that Dean was exactly where he was supposed to be…”
***PERFORMED BY A TRAINED PROFESSIONAL, DO NOT ATTEMPT***
***ALWAYS EXERCISE CAUTION, CLIMB WITHIN YOUR LIMITS***
Breath, life, vitality of the spirit.
If you’ve picked up a recent copy of Men’s Fitness lately, check out pages 35-37! Slacklining is a “bona-fide sport”. prAna athlete Dean Potter also takes us through a few basic thoughts on the line.
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On a calm summer night at Outdoor Retailer… our friends… Team Yogaslackers, doing what they love to do…
