With their low center of gravity and natural ability to live fearlessly in the present, most kids are quick studies on the slackline. Just look at 14-year-old Alex Mason, who won the inaugural ...

Slacklining is basically walking or balancing along a suspended length of flat webbing tensioned between two anchors. This can be done easily at public parks by tying the webbing around two trees or ...

Especially on nice weekends, you’re likely to see them at local parks such as Green Lake, Gas Works or Golden Gardens — barefoot people with flapping arms who seem to be tightrope walking a few feet ...

ALBUQUERQUE (KRQE) – It’s an incredibly popular activity in Albuquerque, but the city says using its park trees to slackline is actually illegal. Especially on sunny, warm weekends, it’s not unusual ...

It wasn’t so long ago that Andy Lewis appeared in the Super Bowl halftime show, wearing a gleaming-white toga, silver-spangled boots and his brown Afro, balancing and bouncing on a 2-inch-wide line of ...

You may have seen someone walking on one at a park, campsite or gym. Or maybe you wondered what to call the guy bouncing and doing flips off what looked like a tightrope during Madonna’s halftime show ...

“I’m a slightly socially anxious person,” says Jesse Goldman, 22. As a freshman at UNC Asheville, Goldman initially found the physical and emotional terrain of navigating so many new experiences ...

Even if you don’t consider yourself a well-informed person, it won’t surprise you to hear that the world’s not doing so hot. Disregard the global economy and ponder this: America’s future leaders have ...

Known for possessing nerves of steel, Estonian slackliner Jaan Roose is a three-time world champion and the holder of numerous world records. There’s a fine line between ambition and foolishness, and ...