Watch the adventure junkie performing multiple flips on a slackline
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A 22-year-old adventure junkie from Colorado, US, performs multiple flips on a slackline wearing no safety gear but only a climbing harness.
Elias Claude Ellis left his friends stunned after performing three flips and a 1080 degree rotation on a slackline hundreds of meters in the air.
Elias, who is a professional highliner, has been performing dangerous stunts since 2010. He claims he has done the most spins on a slackline in the world.
Elias said: “Highlining is a discipline of slacklining, where the system is redundant and the participant leashes into the line. In one oscillation, I have done three flips, or 1080 degree rotation.”
“I believe this is tied with the most in the world. But in a combo, I have done over four flips or spins.”
“I’ve never tried to see how many I could get into a combo, but I would guess a lot if I really tried. Single, hard tricks are the most interesting to me.”
He admits that he falls all the time while performing flips on a slackline. He doesn’t wear any safety gear and only wears a climbing harness.
He said: “I wear a climbing harness connected to the line by a sleeved rope connected to two aluminum leash rings, not carabiners. I fall all the time.”
Elias’ parents were also climbers in college. His parents gifted him his first highline leash and now he stuns everyone with his jaw-dropping stunts.
His parents are very supportive and most of his friends are highliners. He even met his girlfriend through the sport.
Elias started slacklining in 2010, and highlining in 2015 after he saw a picture of Dean Potter walking the Lost Arrow spire highline in Yosemite.
He said: “It was the most awe inspiring thing I had seen. I wanted nothing more then to do that, so I started making it happen. I started doing tricks on the highline sometime in 2016.”
When he first started highlining, he would watch Samuel Volery and decided to perform these wild tricks and stunts.
He said: “My drive has been to do tricks and combos that have never been done. It takes a lot of creativity and time with the line.”
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