The primary ever Highline Slackline World Championships befell at Laax in Switzerland final weekend.
Highlining is a slackline self-discipline that's practiced at nice heights, often between rock formations, canyons and buildings.
However the sport shouldn't be as harmful because it appears - cautious measures are taken to make sure most security, together with a harness connected to the primary slackline, which athletes put on round their waist.
At an altitude of 2252 meters on the Crap Sogn Gion, 31 athletes from all around the world competed in numerous insane gravity-defying occasions, together with Speedline and Freestyle classes.
The Speedline occasion on the Swiss World Championships concerned athletes racing in opposition to one another throughout a 100-metre line.
The 27-year-old Frenchman Benoit Brume received the velocity contest in a fast 40.61 seconds.
"This one is the primary huge World Championship of Slackline and I actually needed win it and I skilled for it and I really feel actually pleased about that," mentioned Brume, shortly after profitable the occasion.
In Highline Freestyle, the objective is to do all types of dynamic tips and combos on the road.
France's Louise Lenoble received the ladies's Freestyle competitors in spectacular vogue after performing a "Entrance Almighty Flip", a standing flip across the highline by which she holds on to the highline along with her toes.
Within the males's competitors, america' Davis Hermes pulled off "The Holy Grail" of tips, a double ahead flip across the excessive line, to win the title.
Try the video above to witness this insane competitors
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