Years ago, alternative sports engagement on the University of Colorado Boulder campus implied tossing a Frisbee across a crowded field, or hacky-sacking oneself into an acrobatic frenzy by the ...

If you’re walking on campus near the corner of University Boulevard and Park Avenue, you’ll likely find a few shirtless men balancing on a slack rope strung between two trees. These men are students ...

VAIL — It’s one thing to do a double backflip in front of a huge crowd at Solaris Plaza. It’s another thing to do a backflip and land on a piece of fabric that is only 2 inches wide. Slacklining ...

Guide to Slacklining: 1. String a length of nylon webbing, like a really long seatbelt, between two uprights (trees are good). 2. Attempt to jump on and walk 3. Nurse bruises and/or broken limbs The ...

When you walk up to the International Bridge in Vail Village, you will hear the gasps and “oh my gosh” exclamations from the crowd before you see what everyone is looking at: a woman doing ...

Phillipe Petit is well-known for his death defying high wire walking between the Twin Towers, across Niagara Falls, the Eiffel Tower and many other buildings. Aside from the euphora from a successful ...

The Princeton community is experiencing an increase in slackers. Three or four days a week, they can be found in front of Foulke Hall, traversing inch-wide nylon webbing lines between two trees 20 to ...