Sunday, March 21, 2010

Highline trip to Meteora 2010

In a few days Faith, Jordan and I are leaving to Meteora in Greece for 3-4 weeks of highlining and climbing. Before that we have to hitch-hike about 1800-2000km with all the heavy gear in our backpacks. It will be 'interesting' adventure. Our journey has small delay, but in 2-3 days we should be on the way. Today we'll prepare, split and pack all our gear.


Gear <3 ... (not all we have to take)

I played a bit with my slackline gear (of course). I bought some nice 6T stainles-steel shackles from Kwjet not so long time ago. Right now I have my perfect longline-system



Soon, more serious slacklife and dirtbagging with my love and friends :)

Peace & SlackOn!

Friday, March 19, 2010

Through US on the webbing

So on 14th of March 2010 Faith, Jordan and I had presentation about slacklining and highline on the travelling and climbing festival "Kolosy 2010" (eng. "Colossus 2010" - basically about our 3 months highline & climbing trip in US. I was quite surprised when finally the room was filled to the last seat. It was really nice for us that so many people was interested on our presentation.
It was long journey by trains straight from Prague in Czech Republic.


On the way - salami and bread for 3 days straight ... dirtbag life for ever


Polish trains - Securing the door, making sure our threesome wasn't disturbed ... ;)

Day before our presentation I got really sick after trickline session. Anyway it was worth it. We set up short line using Type-18 webbing and SBI pulleys. It was kind of scarry to pull some tricks above the concrete floor (like chest-bounce etc.)


The outside of the presentation hall


Yeah! Got it one time for a short period of time :)


Faith doing 'not so easy' static trick :)


Rest ...

We didn't have enough time to talk about everything, so I describe a bit some photos during slide-show and talked couple funny stories from Yosemite and J. Tree.


Presentation poster: ""Through US on the webbing", Jan Galek's lecture (about) Slackline and Highline, special guests: Jordan Tybon and Faith Dickey, 10.30 on Saturday, seminar hall". On the picture Faith Dickey walking "60ft. Cave Corridor" Highline in a swami and Jerry Miszewski sending "Big Boy" Highline

We used slide show (by Ruthie Taylor and Jordan Tybon) and movie trailer "Epic Trip" (by Damian Czermak) - you can find them down below:

"Epic Trip Trailer 1" by Damian Czermak


"Grolsch Expedition US Highline Tour" by Ruthie Taylor and Jordan Tybon


After presentation many people said to me it was great and ask me more questions about slacklining and highlining.
We came back to Wrocław during the night. We travelled by small bus with all "GÓRY" magazine crew first(it was really fun).


Jordan eating 'polish burger' on the way back ... What happened to his face ;) ?

They took us to Katowice and then after 3 hours in a train we got finally to Wrocław. Everyone of us was totally exhausted but the same time, really happy! Faith and I went to sleep and rest and Jordan hitch-hiked to Berlin the same day (RESPECT o_O!).


It's hard to live the 'SlackLife' ...

Thanks to everyone who helped us a lot! Especially to Piotrek and Marek from "GÓRY" climbing magazine, the ride to Katowice, to the company Campus which sponsored our presentation and all people which came to watch our photos and movie!

BTW Down below you can read the third part of "US Highline Trip" article in "GÓRY" climbing magazine (GÓRY Nr 3 (190) Marzec 2010, "US Highline Trip - część 3" (p. 74-75) (click to enlarge the photo):



Peace & SlackOn!

Wednesday, March 17, 2010

V

New movie by Wojtek Kozakiewicz. This time highline theme.



Movie description by Wojtek:

"25meters long "V-Shape Extended" highline was rigged 30meters above the ground in Wrocław (Poland).

slackliner: Janek Gałek (balance-is-key.blogspot.com)

thanks to Benjamin "BenGie" Sandqvist for Giddabush music (giddabush.com)

filmed by nikon d90 with following lenses:
- nikon 50mm;
- tokina 12-24mm;
- samyang 8mm fisheye;"


More details on Wojtek's blog
Full report here

Wednesday, March 3, 2010

whiteNoise

Wojtek already got permission to use all songs in a soundtrack and posted video on the internet. Enjoy!! :)


More details (lens, music etc.) about this movie on Wojtek's blog
Full report from "whiteNoise" longline session here

Peace & SlackOn!