This is a new section for the site, and as such it’s still being fine-tuned. About two years ago I proposed to some friends in the slackline community that we ought to have a record repository. For a long while the few online forums we used served as a place to track records, but as Europe began to overtake the US, suddenly non-English forums contained the only postings of new records, and it seemed like it was becoming increasingly difficult to track what the newest record was.

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 slackline records makes sense. I am still refining this concept, including the verification needed for the record. So far, within the community it seems reasonable that as long as a ‘known slackliner’ is setting the record, and some other ‘known’ individual has witnessed it, few will contest the validity of the record.

TRICKLINE RECORDS
First frontflip:
First blackflip:

LONGLINE RECORDS
Longest single tubular (military or climb-spec) nylon 1″ line:
Longest single tubular (military or climb-spec) nylon 1/2″ line:
Longest flat nylon 1″ line (Type18, etc):
Longest polyester line (White Magic, Distance, Mantra, etc):
Longest vectran line (SpiderSilk):

HIGHLINE RECORDS
Longest highline:
Highest highline:
First highline backflip:
First highline frontflip: