Slackline

With my recent injury I haven't climbed in over a week. It's the first time since I've taken this kind of rest and it's been great.
Thursday I went to see Elixir, the actionsport filmfestival and saw some very inspiring movies. One of them was "I believe I can fly - Flight of the frenchies". This movie by Tancrède, Julien, Seb and Antoine combine slacklining, basejumping and parachuting.

I found that this movie truly captures the essence of extreme sports. You get a hint of what these people are after and feeling. There were points in the movie that I could feel the fear mixed with happiness and it made me burst out laughing. There's a great saying by Neale Donald Walsch "Life begins at the end of your comfort zone". I believe this fully.

So in order to survive this week of withdrawal from not climbing I went and got myself a slackline. After only an hour and a half of practising I could walk the line 7m. The balance-sense is truly one of the easiest senses to train. The attraction lies somewhere in the deep focus and the ability to actually walk a line that's suspended. Your sense of balance is working on overdrive and everything else shuts down. It's also a great way to hang out with friends and relax and I highly recommend it.

Slacklining in the afternoon sun.

This weekend I went and got myself a Metolious fingerboard. It's great to have around and I've made a training program for it but I wont be doing crimps on it, atleast not until my finger is fully healed. Tomorrow I plan to go the climbing gym and see how it goes. Im excited to say the least.