Drone Footage Of A Slackliner Over Monster Waves In Nazaré, Portugal

Spectacular drone footage of a Slackliner over Monster Waves in Nazaré, Portugal. Nazaré, December 30, 2017. A group of Slackliners called the “Western Riders” recently installed a line connecting the Cliff of Praia do Norte in Nazaré to the “Guilhim” Rock, a famous landmark known from viral photos of huge wave impacts and water explosions during the Portuguese Big Wave Season.

The Slackliner on this video was identified as Emerson Machado, 28 years from Brazil.

According to Emerson Machado, a member of the Western Riders, the line was installed days before a big swell arrived in Nazaré, and everything was cautiously planned, checked and re-checked to provide the maximum level of security possible to the slackliners performing the walk. “It’s calculated risk, we are not crazy like it may seem at first sight, in reality, everything was planned to the very minor details.

Over the years, we’ve performed walks in many locations before, including Nazaré and we take this very seriously” says the member of Western Riders, “over the course of two days, we’ve performed dozens of walks between the cliff and the rock in Nazaré, and no one was ever injured during that time, it’s relatively safe when performed by an experienced crew, working together with planning and caution” he adds.

This extreme sport is called “Slacklining”, and this version performed in Praia do Norte is called “Highlining”, it involves balancing on a rope that's suspended above the ground (or above the sea in this case) and anchored between two points. It looks like a sport made for daredevils, but well-trained slackliners believe all the gear and equipment they use is all made, tested and certificated for this activity, making it perfectly safe.

Praia do Norte beach, near the fishing village of Nazaré, has become famous for huge waves since Hawaiian surfer Garrett McNamara set a then-record in 2011 for the largest wave ever surfed when he rode a 78-foot wave. Since then, the place has attracted many daredevils from a great variety of extreme sports.

This insane drone footage of a slackliner in Portugal starts off crazy and gets even crazier as massive waves knock him off balance. Crazy, right? Slacklining refers to the act of walking or balancing along a suspended length of flat webbing that is tensioned between two anchors. Slacklining is similar to slack rope walking and tightrope walking.

The familiar specialty of slacklining along a tight length of tubular nylon webbing was developed in the mid-1980s by two Yosemite rock climbers, Adam Grosowsky and Jeff Ellington.

These slackliners perform amazing handstands between cable cars! As if slacklining wasn’t extreme enough, one man decided to take it to another level of extreme - by slacklining between two cable cars in the Swiss Alps! Samuel Volery, 33, from Switzerland and Louise Lenoble, 25, currently in France, took their love for slacklining to Moleson, a town in Samuel’s homeland in order to attend the “Highline Extreme” annual event. According to him, there hasn’t been a serious accident in years, so as long as you are secured, the sport cannot be considered as dangerous.

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Location: Praia do Norte, Nazaré - Portugal

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