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10% of what you buy at ExtremeGear.org supports our channel. Cave Exploration Society fully owns and operates the store. John Fioroni has given me exceptional customer service and helped me get the custom gear I needed to accomplish the Dano Osman Leaning Tower rope jump. If there is something you want and don't see on the site, email him and he can get it for you, and they SHIP WORLDWIDE. 100% of the net proceeds funds their 501(c)3 Non Profit supporting cave exploration projects around the world.
LineScale3
We got to heavily influence the design of what is now the best all in one load cell on the market with 1280hz (fast) and memory (smart) and the only PPE (safe) dyno available. HowNOT2 designed the crowdfunding that made this possible and I invested in it myself. Clicking this link before purchasing supports this channel.
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Using my link gets you 10% off! I needed walkie talkies that were reliable and light with great battery life. These were essential on the highline world record in Sweden, the California record in Yosemite and the Dano Osman rope swing off leaning tower would have been impossible without them.
Palikoa Pivot is an amazing descender that allows so many features including a rigging plate and added friction modes on the fly.
USA Slackline Gear
Jerry Miszewkski is a mathematician and innovator in slackline and highline gear. Based in the United States (ships internationally), Balance Community has been a huge contributor to the knowledge we have today. His youtube channel is how I learned slacklining and why I wanted to make my own youtube channel about highlining. He has answered many many questions that helped HowNOTtoHighline create the resources we have today. Jerry has been a main sponsor of GGBY festival as well. Buying stuff helps him create better gear and this link helps out our channel.
Euro Slackline Gear
Spider Slacklines and Slack Inov shared with me how to do segmented highlines and I was able to heavily promote it to become the standard way of rigging today. They also revolutionized removable rings more than once and make longline rigging significantly easier with their Infinity tension system. They are one of the most creative and innovative slackline companies out there.
The Perfect Descent is what I use on the drop tower to go up and down while staying clipped in at all times. The speed drive retracts fast so i can speed climb up to my samples without a bunch of slack. My climbing gym has a ton of these and it makes it easy to just go do a quick sesh when I can't get a partner. Purchasing them after clicking the link above supports this channel.
V7 is a canyon course we highly recommend. We cover in our course rigging different rope systems to go down a canyon but this is a proper wholistic canyon course. The first one is completely free and their 2nd one only is the cost of a rope. The more you know before going down a canyon can keep you safer and be able to help someone if they need a rescue. Sign up for the first course today.
Highline Beta
We helped create the first published highline topos or beta and they will be in Erik Sloan's newest Yosemite BigWall GuideBook. Pages 450-457 have the information on the classic Yosemite highlines plus extras. We also went through great lengths to rebolt the 4 main highline areas with glue ins before this book got published to make a better experience for highliners visiting Yosemite. Everything we do is free so there is a link below to our yosemite page with all of our topos and information about Yosemite to make your trip great. No affiliate links and we were not paid for the topos. Just stoked about such a high quality book and that highlines got to be included.
SLC - Mowgli's Adventures
If you are in Salt Lake City - get the best pedicab ride of your life. A friend and long time supporter of this channel spent a year making the nicest pedicab I've ever seen loaded with so many features. Mowgli is a great tour guide and knows everything about downtown. Below is not an affiliate link but tell him you heard about him on How NOT to Highline to get him stoked. The video is the tour I did with him on my latest visit.
