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Happy Birthday niemiro !!
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niemiro is a young Admin here who can usually be found in Windows Update Forum, modifying vB code (& other behind the scenes items) and. . . also is in school!
Thank you both so much :)
Just turned 18 today! Technically an adult now. I am not so sure that's entirely a good thing, but nothing's really changed overnight, and it's pretty cool I guess
For my birthday I got a slackline: Slacklining - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Can't wait to give it a try, but I suspect it will be a long while yet before I'm able to even stand up on it
Just turned 18 today! Technically an adult now. I am not so sure that's entirely a good thing, but nothing's really changed overnight, and it's pretty cool I guess
For my birthday I got a slackline: Slacklining - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Can't wait to give it a try, but I suspect it will be a long while yet before I'm able to even stand up on it
Happy Birthday, Richard! :rose:
Would slacklining be of any benefit to rock climbing?
Would slacklining be of any benefit to rock climbing?
A very happy Birthday to you Richard.
Enjoy what's left of the day!
18! Yup, the adult world looms ahead of you. Look at the the things you can do now
What age can I? - TheSite.org.
What a great present! Rather you than me though - I bet your sense of balance is far better than mine!
Anyway, enjoy the rest of the evening!
Stephen
Enjoy what's left of the day!
niemiro said:Just turned 18 today! Technically an adult now. I am not so sure that's entirely a good thing, but nothing's really changed overnight, and it's pretty cool I guess
For my birthday I got a slackline: Slacklining - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Can't wait to give it a try, but I suspect it will be a long while yet before I'm able to even stand up on it
18! Yup, the adult world looms ahead of you. Look at the the things you can do now
What age can I? - TheSite.org.What a great present! Rather you than me though - I bet your sense of balance is far better than mine!
Anyway, enjoy the rest of the evening!
Stephen
Trouble
BSOD Kernel Dump Senior Analyst, Contributor
Best wishes for a great Birthday.
Hope you enjoy today and many, many more to come.
Hope you enjoy today and many, many more to come.
Thank you all :)
Probably not much, but the opposite would be true though as I can see my climbing being beneficial to slacklining. Not in terms of balance, as climbing does not involve balancing in the same way that slacklining or gymnastics/certain acrobatics do. Climbing is all about careful positioning of centre of mass so that you can take one (or occasionally more than one) hand or foot off the rock/hold in order to move it up without losing your balance, followed by moving with exactly the right amount of speed or power to get to precisely where you want without overshooting and putting yourself out of balance.
On the other hand, slacklining is quite a different skill (and handstands are a different skill again). Described in more depth later.
Where I do see my climbing as helpful is in kit. I have been given a simple ratchet slackline tensioner and belt, but for more complicated arrangements (in the far future, I might add!) climbing gear would be required (high lines, alternative anchor points, protection from fall from highline, recovering from fall (rather than just dangling, stuck, in mid air!!), etc. etc.). Buying all of the kit would likely be prohibitively expensive, but I already have the kit (harness, chest harness if necessary, multiple ropes of different types, karabinas, slings, belay devices, prussic loops, etc. etc.) so could easily just get it out to try something, and the knowledge of how to set up a safe anchor point, how each piece of kit can be safely used (i.e. karabinas must only be pulled from two directions with gate closed otherwise they are liable to break), and how to cope with unexpected (e.g. dropped, lost, or broken kit whilst stuck in mid air), e.g. multiple ways to climb a rope with gear, how to belay/abseil without a belay device, how to haul an unconscious body, how to free jammed gear, how to lock off a belay device, etc. etc.
In all honesty, climbing outdoors safely isn't about being able to do the routine stuff safely - it's about having enough extra knowledge to cope with the unexpected, and for what it's worth, I would still never attempt a multipitch climb without someone more experienced with me simply because, even though I know the basic techniques, I do not feel confident enough to be able to know how to deal with an unexpected situation. Yes, that person might be the one to take the rock to the head, but in all honesty there's a better chance with 1 experienced and 1 moderately experienced person than there is with 2 moderately experienced people on a rock.
Linking back to what I said to Corrine about balance. Balance is an odd sense, as it's really a combination of vision, the inner ear, and sensory receptors (primarily in sensed body mass distribution via pressure on feet) in a negative feedback loop. When you get on a tightrope, the area of surface under your foot is much smaller and in a different shape. Consequently, you must train your brain to cope with balancing under a) less sensory information and b) sensory information in a different shape.
To compound this, as soon as you get on a tightrope or slackline the tendency is to look down at your feet. But since your brain primarily uses vision of horizon to maintain balance, you lose much of your visual sense too (and over water it's worse than lost). So, you must keep your head and eyes up at all times.
This is all there is to a tightrope in essence, it just takes practice.
As for a handstand, this is as much about getting a consistent kick off the ground as it is balancing once up. You will find that once you are up in a handstand maintaining it is actually quite easy, even if you have to move your hands forward or back a little when you first start to compensate for any wobble. No, the biggest skill is learning to kick up so your legs stop dead directly about your head. A little too far back and you fall back down again, a little too far forward and you go over the top, do a neat little rotation of your legs in mid air, and land nicely on your feet - this in fact is really simple as your body will do it instinctively the first time you go over the top, an experience you will become all too familiar with whilst you practice
Richard
Probably not much, but the opposite would be true though as I can see my climbing being beneficial to slacklining. Not in terms of balance, as climbing does not involve balancing in the same way that slacklining or gymnastics/certain acrobatics do. Climbing is all about careful positioning of centre of mass so that you can take one (or occasionally more than one) hand or foot off the rock/hold in order to move it up without losing your balance, followed by moving with exactly the right amount of speed or power to get to precisely where you want without overshooting and putting yourself out of balance.
On the other hand, slacklining is quite a different skill (and handstands are a different skill again). Described in more depth later.
Where I do see my climbing as helpful is in kit. I have been given a simple ratchet slackline tensioner and belt, but for more complicated arrangements (in the far future, I might add!) climbing gear would be required (high lines, alternative anchor points, protection from fall from highline, recovering from fall (rather than just dangling, stuck, in mid air!!), etc. etc.). Buying all of the kit would likely be prohibitively expensive, but I already have the kit (harness, chest harness if necessary, multiple ropes of different types, karabinas, slings, belay devices, prussic loops, etc. etc.) so could easily just get it out to try something, and the knowledge of how to set up a safe anchor point, how each piece of kit can be safely used (i.e. karabinas must only be pulled from two directions with gate closed otherwise they are liable to break), and how to cope with unexpected (e.g. dropped, lost, or broken kit whilst stuck in mid air), e.g. multiple ways to climb a rope with gear, how to belay/abseil without a belay device, how to haul an unconscious body, how to free jammed gear, how to lock off a belay device, etc. etc.
In all honesty, climbing outdoors safely isn't about being able to do the routine stuff safely - it's about having enough extra knowledge to cope with the unexpected, and for what it's worth, I would still never attempt a multipitch climb without someone more experienced with me simply because, even though I know the basic techniques, I do not feel confident enough to be able to know how to deal with an unexpected situation. Yes, that person might be the one to take the rock to the head, but in all honesty there's a better chance with 1 experienced and 1 moderately experienced person than there is with 2 moderately experienced people on a rock.
A very happy Birthday to you Richard.
Enjoy what's left of the day!
niemiro said:Just turned 18 today! Technically an adult now. I am not so sure that's entirely a good thing, but nothing's really changed overnight, and it's pretty cool I guess
For my birthday I got a slackline: Slacklining - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Can't wait to give it a try, but I suspect it will be a long while yet before I'm able to even stand up on it
18! Yup, the adult world looms ahead of you. Look at the the things you can do now
What a great present! Rather you than me though - I bet your sense of balance is far better than mine!
Anyway, enjoy the rest of the evening!
Stephen
Linking back to what I said to Corrine about balance. Balance is an odd sense, as it's really a combination of vision, the inner ear, and sensory receptors (primarily in sensed body mass distribution via pressure on feet) in a negative feedback loop. When you get on a tightrope, the area of surface under your foot is much smaller and in a different shape. Consequently, you must train your brain to cope with balancing under a) less sensory information and b) sensory information in a different shape.
To compound this, as soon as you get on a tightrope or slackline the tendency is to look down at your feet. But since your brain primarily uses vision of horizon to maintain balance, you lose much of your visual sense too (and over water it's worse than lost). So, you must keep your head and eyes up at all times.
This is all there is to a tightrope in essence, it just takes practice.
As for a handstand, this is as much about getting a consistent kick off the ground as it is balancing once up. You will find that once you are up in a handstand maintaining it is actually quite easy, even if you have to move your hands forward or back a little when you first start to compensate for any wobble. No, the biggest skill is learning to kick up so your legs stop dead directly about your head. A little too far back and you fall back down again, a little too far forward and you go over the top, do a neat little rotation of your legs in mid air, and land nicely on your feet - this in fact is really simple as your body will do it instinctively the first time you go over the top, an experience you will become all too familiar with whilst you practice
Richard
Happy Birthday Richard 
Happy Birthday Richard! :wave:
A Guy
Righteous Dude
Happy Birthday Richard :dance:
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A Guy
Cookieman
BSOD Kernel Dump Senior Analyst
Happy belated birthday Richard. Hope you had a great day there :)
Thank you all :)
It was a great day, and the slackline continues to bring joy if pleasure can be defined as the hope that one day, with enough practice, I will stop falling off it
It was a great day, and the slackline continues to bring joy if pleasure can be defined as the hope that one day, with enough practice, I will stop falling off it
OMGoodness! I missed a very special day for a very dear friend!
Belated Happy Birthday Richard!
Belated Happy Birthday Richard!
OMGoodness! I missed a very special day for a very dear friend!
Belated Happy Birthday Richard!
Why thank you Donna :)
Anyway, I rather like belated wishes for anything as then it spreads the day out rather than having it all at once
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