Additionally, as the sport has grown it has really diversified into a few disciplines. There is now longlining, tricklining, and highlining, as well as combinations thereof (e.g. longest highline). Within each of these disciplines there are different achievements that really should be allowed to stand on their own. For instance, walking a 150 meter piece of single tubular webbing is an achievement, as is walking a 150 meter piece of polyester flat webbing — these are not, however, the same thing, and should be counted as individual records.
Lastly as each new record is put up, it’s hard to remember who had the old record, when it was set, what it was, and so forth. For all of these reasons a central repository of notable slackline achievements makes sense. This page is not meant to be a list of “who is the best”, but rather a historical record that we can use to reflect on the many slackliners who work so hard to advance this sport that we love.
Record are listed in general format: YEAR/MONTH/DAY
TRICKLINE RECORDS
First frontflip:
- 2007/3/13 – Damian Cooksey [video]
First blackflip:
- 2006/8/?? – Andy Lewis
LONGLINE RECORDS
Longest single tubular (military or climb-spec) nylon 1″ line:
- 2012/8/6 – 139M | 458ft – Single tubular (BC SlackSpec) – Adam Burtle [FB gallery]
- 2005/8/?? – 100M | 328ft – Single tubular (?) – Heinz Zak
Longest single tubular nylon 1/2″ line:
Someone, somewhere has probably walked a rodeo-line spool of 1/2″ … if you know who, drop me a line. I have walked a 300′ piece, but I suspect this is not the record length. If I don’t hear from someone soon, I will rig a 400-500′ piece and attempt to walk it 🙂
Longest flat nylon 1″ line (Type18, etc):
- 2012/3/28 – 168M | 551ft – Type 18 – Basti Aldehoff in Cologne, Germany
Longest polyester line (White Magic, Distance, Mantra, etc):
- 2012/5/6 – 300M | 984ft – Elephant Blue Wing (polyester) – Alexander Schulz [video]
- 2012/4/31 (maybe 2012/06/01?) – 310M | 1000ft – Strong II (polyester) – Lukas Irmler [blog post]
- 2010/8/11 – 254M | 833ft – Strong II (polyester) – Lukas Irmler and Michi Aschaber
- 2010/6/5 – 231M | 757ft – SlackPro! (polyester) – Lukas Irmler [video]
- 2007/7/10 – 158M | 506 feet – “Type B” (European flat poly) – Damian Cooksey
- 2007/3/4 – 123.5M | 405ft – “Type B” (European flat poly) – Damian Cooksey [video]
Longest “high tech” line (Vectran/SpiderSilk, Dyneema, Aramid, etc):
- 2012/5/17 – 494M | 1620ft – Spider Silk MkII – Jerry Miszewski
- 2010/6/8 – 307M | 1000ft – Aeon – Damian Jörren, Stefan Junghannß [blog post]
The 100M Club (Any type of slackline, 100M | 328ft or more in length)
(COMING SOON)
The 150M Club (Any type of slackline, 150M | 492ft or more in length)
(COMING SOON)
The 200M Club (Any type of slackline, 200M | 656ft or more in length)
Andy Lewis | 230m | 2010/8 | USA | Spider Silk MkII
Michael “Alpha Mike” Payton | 230m | 2010/8 | USA | Spider Silk MkII
Reinhart Fassold | 231m
Matthias Held | 203m | 2010/7/8 | Germany | White magic
Grisha Simon | 202m 2010 | Germany | slackPro
Jan Galek | 202m 2010 | Germany | slackPro
The 250M Club (Any type of slackline, 250M | 820ft or more in length)
Sebastian Flügge | 280m | 2010/6/8 | Germany | Aeon
Michi Ashaber | 254m | Austria
Mich Kemeter | 250m | Spider Silk MkII
Petr Kučera | 271m | 2012/4/1 | CZE | Zion
The 300M Club (Any type of slackline, 300M | 984ft or more in length)
Damian Jörren | 307m 2010/6/8 | Germany | Aeon
Stefan Junghannß | 307m 2010/6/8 | Germany | Aeon
Danny Menšík | 327m 2012/7/22 | CZE | Zion
Jerry Miszewski | 494M | 2012/5/17 | Spider Silk MkII
Jakub Hanuš | 327m | 2012/7/22 | CZE | Zion
Alexander Schulz | 300M | 2012/5/6 | Elephant Blue Wing
Lukas Irmler | 310M | 2012/4/31 (maybe 2012/06/01?) | Strong II
HIGHLINE RECORDS
Longest Highline
- 2012/10/14 – ?unnamed? : 137.5m long | 60m high – Cosumnes River Gorge, CA – Jerry Miszewski
- 2011/12/21 – Bigger Than Youros : 118m long | 60m high – Cosumnes River Gorge, CA – Jerry Miszewski and Alex Schulz
- 2011/6/21 – : 115m long | ?m high – Millau, France – Jerry Miszewski and Alex Schulz
- 2012/9/10 – NAME UNKNOWN : 110m long | 100m high – Hochkönig, Austria – Alex Shulz [FB photo]
- 2010/9/10 – Afrodisiac : 103.5m long | 110m high – Moab, UT – Andy Lewis [blog post]
- 2010/9/7 – Levitation : 95m long | 50m high – Ostrov, Czech Republic – Mich Kemeter [video]
- 2010/9/3 – Levitation : 95m long | 50m high – Ostrov, Czech Republic – Jerry Miszewski [forum post]
- 200?/?/?? – – 86m long | ??m high – ?? – Mich Kemeter
Lots of work needed here still — there are probably dozens of notable walks I am missing!
Notably high highlines:
- 1000M | 3281ft – Kjerag – Norway (FA: Christian Schou on 2006/8/3)
- 438M* | 1400ft* – Lost Arrow Spire – Yosemite, CA (FA: Scott Balcom on 1985/7/13!) [video]
- 244M | 800ft – (Between) Echo & Cottontail Towers – Moab, CA (FA: Andy Lewis in April, 2012)
“Heinous Slacktisfaction” 225ft long & “Leviathan” 280ft long, record for “most exposed” highlines [video]
First highline backflip:
- 2007/9/29 – Andy Lewis [forum post]
*I have had difficulty finding a source for the exact height of the LAS at Yosemite. Several different Internet resources and quotes from newspaper articles put it at 3000+ feet or “double the height of the Empire State Building” or something along these lines. Sayar Kuchenski wrote to me in August of 2012 to say, “I wanted to comment on the [LAS height]. I have climbed the entire Lost Arrow Spire route which leads to the top of the LA spire tip on the landmass side. I added up the pitch lengths noted in the guidebook and got 1690′. So the actual climbing route is 1690′. However, the route does not follow a straight line, it traverses around the rock a bit. So I am confident with my orginal assertion, the distance from the ground to the tip is around 1400′. In fact, the anchor used for the far end of the LAS highline is the same anchor used for the last pitch of the climbing route. So the highline is the exact same height as the end of the climbing route and when the climbing route is 1690′ from the ground to the summit, there is no possible way the highline could be 3000′. From the tip of the spire to the ground it is 1400′. That is no where near the claimed 3000′ … For reference, the Nose of El Cap is about 2900′ from the ground to the summit. If you compare the LA Spire to El Cap, it is clear that the spire is not even remotely as tall.” I trust his assertion, and although Google Maps terrain feature doesn’t have enough resolution to show the spire, it does show the other side of the line and the terrain listing is consistent (6900ft, with valley floor at 5400). If anyone disagrees or has more details, please contact me.