Bristol Harbourside Festival

This year Jacob HiHo invited me to perform a little

demo for Cirque Bijou,

Also managed to win the Bristol Slack Jam competition..

The Psychedelic Spacenet

After the first Spacenet I rigged and walked I wanted to create
something bigger and with the Moab Monkeys providing all 
the inspiration I could need I started planning the next one,
To start with I knew I wanted to use 2.5m roundslings for the 
outer edges so after some persuasion I manged to get 4 brand new
black slings for free from Maverick Slacklines..
Next I purchased 500ft of 550 Paracord from Wild Elk and built a 
large wooden frame to weave on, I find it easier to solo weave a net
using a frame as I can move it around and leaning over a horizontal
net quickly hurts my neck and back..

It still needs some final adjustments but it's 98% ready and as soon
as I can it's getting rigged over a coastal highline with 25m legs, 
hopefully I can get it up over water in the next few weeks too..

 

Ham Hill Midline #1

For 3 years I searched Ham Hill Country Park for a highline, 

I was always reluctant to rig the Deep Quarry area as it seemed

imposing and I didn't feel ready for the challenge but that all 

changed when Rich Pearson decided to have a look and ended up

rigging a beautiful line..

A few weeks after Rich's initial test rig we headed back to try out

the newest addition to Somersets fast growing list of lines, 

Although we didn't walk the whole line today we both managed

 to stand up and take a few steps leaving us happy in the knowledge

this line will be sent soon..

Foggintor Quarry

So Rich messages me and says he has found a new spot 

for a highline that was rigged from M.O.D abseil stakes

and roughly 15m high, it sounded like a good mission

for the weekend ahead..

When we arrived we were faced with a 20 minute hike with

all of our gear or a dirt road that was strictly for M.O.D use only,

we chose to risk the road and within minutes it had become a 

boulder ridden obstacle course more suited to an ATV than 

the trusty estate we were traveling in..

This was the first of many new lines to be established here and 

although we didn't manage to get any sends today I'm sure this

area has a lot to offer..

Click here for SlackMap 

Nine Springs Project #2

Today I spent 2 hours battling through brambles and mud trying

 to see if I could put a line across the large pond in Nine Springs,

 The obvious line there requires a tree to be cut down and that

isn't really an option so I had to try and find a way of crossing

 the gap and eventually with the help of Rich Pearson 

we managed to find a way..

This is 'Fistful Of Thorns'

35m long, 9m high..

We both managed to fullman the line and even at the

start of spring this line had a beautiful setting, I cannot 

wait to re-rig this in the summer..