About this site
What this site is for, and the things it deliberately will not do.
Why it exists
If you search for slackline equipment, most of what comes back is a scored list of products written by somebody who has not used any of them. The scores are invented, the "testing" is a rewrite of the manufacturer's own copy, and the ranking frequently follows the commission rate.
That is not useful, and it is not hard to do better. The equipment is simple enough that understanding it properly takes one afternoon — and once you understand it, you can walk into any shop and judge anything on the shelf yourself, including brands nobody has written about.
So this site explains the equipment rather than ranking it.
What we claim
That the explanations here are accurate, drawn from manufacturer specifications and the generally accepted practice of the slacklining community, and written to be understood by someone who has never done it.
What we do not claim
That we have tested anything. We have not. There is no test rig and no sample pool behind these pages, and you should treat any site claiming otherwise with some suspicion unless it shows you the testing.
We also do not claim to be instructors. Nothing here substitutes for in-person coaching, and nothing here prepares you for highlining or any line at height. Our safety notice is blunt about this.
How it is paid for
Affiliate commission, disclosed at the top of any page that carries a link, and set out in full on our affiliate disclosure page. No manufacturer reviews these pages before publication, and nobody can pay to be described more favourably.
About the illustrations
Every image on this site is generated rather than photographed. That is a deliberate choice: we would rather show a clear illustration of a concept than a stock photograph pretending to be a product shot of equipment we do not own. Captions say so on every image.
Corrections
If something here is wrong, we would genuinely like to know, and we will fix it and say that we have. Slacklining is a small community with a lot of hard-won practical knowledge, and we would rather be corrected than be confidently inaccurate. Get in touch.
To add before launch: who writes this site, and what their connection to slacklining is. Readers weigh guidance differently depending on who is giving it, and a site that is this explicit about not having tested things should be equally explicit about who is behind it.