The Best Slackline Review

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Review by: Damian Cooksey ⋅ Review Editor, OutdoorGearLab August 12, 2011

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Balance Community Titen Series Custom Pulley System
Balance Community Titen Series Custom Pulley System
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Slackline Brothers Slackline Kit
Slackline Brothers Slackline Kit
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Gibbon Tubeline
Gibbon Tubeline
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Primitive Rig
Primitive Rig
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Gibbon Classic
Gibbon Classic
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Pros Most versatile slackline (20-1,000' length), easy to tension, safe to detension.Versatile, durable.Versatile, durable line. Easy to setup and take down.Inexpensive, lightweight, safe to detension, often can be made from gear you have lying around (if you are a climber).Easy to set up, easy to walk, great value.
Cons Expensive and bulky.Does not detention smoothly, heavy, potential wait for delivery.Not the best for any particular style of slacklining. Bulky.Need to assemble parts and figure out how to set up, requires two people to get good tension.Ratchet tricky to release, not durable and wears down webbing.
Best Uses Walking, surfing, tricklining, longlining (know your gear, seek expert advise), highlining (know your gear, seek expert advise)Walking, surfing, tricklining, longlining.Versatile beginner and intermediate line.Walking, surfing, tricklining.Walking, static poses, beginning aerial tricks.
Date Reviewed Jul 21, 2011Jul 21, 2011Mar 05, 2013Jul 21, 2011Aug 13, 2011
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Product Specs Balance Community Titen Series Custom Pulley System Slackline Brothers Slackline Kit Gibbon Tubeline Primitive Rig Gibbon Classic
Recommended Length (feet) 20-1000 10-350 10-60 10-100 10-48
Time To Rig (minutes) 10/30/2013 7 10/15/2013 15 5
Tightening System pulleys pulleys double ratchet primitive ratchet

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Gibbon Surfline
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Slackline Brothers Slackline Kit
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Gibbon Tubeline
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Gibbon Flowline
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Gibbon Jibline
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Mammut Slackline
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Trango eLine
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Gibbon Travelline
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Freeflow Charger 40
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Slackers Classic Series Kit
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Asana Elite Kit
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Editors' Choice
The Balance Community Titen Series Custom Pulley System has the quality, durability, versatility and safety we are looking for in a line. It is the ultimate slackline as it can safely and easily set up any line from 20 to 1,000 feet in length. Its cost ranges from $300 to $700 depending on what components you choose (and which ones you already have lying around). While this is our Editors' Choice, it is WAY more expensive than some of the options below that might be better suited for your budget.

Best Buy
The Primitive Rig is still the best deals out there. It is versatile enough to rig everything from a short beginner line to a reasonably tight trickline to a bonafide longline. Its cost ranges from free (if you have all the components lying around already) to $70 if you need to buy everything at a store.

Best Trickline
The Gibbon Surfline is the best trickline we tested and the one you often see in trick contests. If you want a line with a decent amount of versatility in length and feel, the Gibbon Surfline is a great choice.

Best Slackline for a Beginner
The Gibbon Classic is our top choice for an entry-level line. Children in particular find this line much easier to balance on because it has very little movement to it. Although movement of the line is part of the fun with slacklining, we found that the fact that this line hardly moves at all is actually beneficial to beginners. No other line we reviewed was as beginner friendly.

Damian Cooksey
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