How do you rig mid lines let me show you in this episode of how not to highlight Hi, I'm Ryan Jenks and welcome to my mid line. This mid line is just a few minutes away from my house and is permanently set up And I want to show you how to rig one as I've been asked many times how to do it first of all let me define what a mid line is some people say that it's just a slack line That's too high to fall from but the definition. I use today is a high line That's low to the ground, but high enough that it's safe to take a whipper and If the main line fails you still won't hit the ground If you land on the backup so you can see here that I'm about thirty feet high And this slack line is a hundred feet long so roughly three to one and I find that to be a good safe ratio for height so if I have Find fifty or sixty feet up I could rig something that's about a hundred and fifty two maybe 180 feet long So fifty or sixty meters divided by three folks I'm gonna use feet here So if I am thirty feet high on this hundred foot high line These backup loops are still safe enough for me to take a main line failure and still not hit the ground now Let me emphasize something real quick you have to be high enough that is the number one thing I want you to walk away with from this video Otherwise you basically break it like a slack line in the park and throw it another line underneath it That's the quick version, but it's very important to be high enough I was zealous when I started and I just wanted to get up high and rigging a high line Yosemite can be complicated if you're new so I thought I have a balcony I Have a tree 30 feet away from the balcony So I gurth hitched my post with a climbing sling and tightened a single piece of webbing not that a backup would have helped and makeshift a leash out of a carabiner And I whipped Now I was only 10 15 feet off the ground as you know we're at a height of a balcony in My head I did a flipper whipper because I've been out of it came that close to the ground According to my friends who are watching? so Make sure you're high enough in case you were wondering why I call the channel how not the High Line, okay? If you're not sure if your main line were to fail if you would hit the ground or not a great way for you to test that would be for you to get on the backup line before you tape it and By doing that you you'll end up sliding down quite a bit so hang on or use a rope to hang on Slide out to the middle and see if you're high enough above the ground Lower yourself onto a leash and make sure you allow enough clearance for the rope to stretch or the anchors to cinch down now that you know your maximum length for your backup line you go back up to the anchor and mark it and Make sure that it doesn't ever exceed that mark you could always make it tighter to lead even more of a safety ratio But at least you know and you're not guessing whether or not you'll be safe if the main line were to fail So check out our other video where we set up a line just right above this one Slid out a whole bag on this full of rocks and then cut the main line We got to see how close we got to the ground now keep in mind that was Excessively large loops that we tested the loops I have here are only half as loopy so that was I would consider worst case scenario and that gives us the Three times as long as you are high rule that I completely pulled out of my ass So I'd like to just plug real quick my patreon account I'm asking for one stoked dollar per episode if you enjoy watching this channel I try to make every episode a little bit better either in quality or content Than the last one and that's why they progressively get better But it does cost a little bit of money to do that and if I have some help with that It will make it easier for me to make these better Please get involved and donate $1 to my patreon account so Location was very important on where to put it on this tree this tree does not have branches down low anymore and I didn't want it to be hard to get on and off because if you're just hanging here It could be it can be a bitch so there are two branches. You can see that. I'm standing on here and Here and that gives me a nice stable platform to kind of stand while I'm tying in Now the other side doesn't really have a good Spot to get on and off But I'm never trying to do that over there so this Tree just happened to have a really great place for me to rig the line You can see here that I wrap my span set around the fork in this tree And that's a nice place for it to sit now. You don't have to have a fork It just happened to be a nice spot, which is about four feet up from where I can stand comfortably Do I really have to use a disclaimer that says? Use a tree that's big enough Please don't use a tree like these ones over here Those are too skinny if it's something you're willing to slack line on double it and that's probably big enough Remember my number one advice for safety is to make sure your high line is high enough But my number one advice for ease of use is to make sure that your rope Goes above the master point the rope that I jug up your with is 10 to 15 higher than my master point right here, otherwise if you're juggling a rope You can't come obviously to the very very top of it. It's tied It's got a knot and it's attached to your harness You would end up being about 4 feet lower than your master point and then you got to do some Possibly sketchy things depending now you tie yourself in to get up to where you can tie your leash on So you can see here that my ascender is Higher than my master point but lower than the very top and that gives me the flexibility to go in and out To work comfortably down here and tie in easily now what I have up there is another fork that I Wrapped the rope around and just try to figure eight And you can see how I've padded everything really well because this is a long term rig technically even short term rigs should be padded, but anyways what you see right here is just an independent wrap around and A figure eight coming off of that independently and this allowed me to have two points of contact between my jug rope tail and The other branch that I tied off and this thing is The thing that I can tie off my tails to which I'll get to in a little bit So I highly recommend putting your access rope much higher than the master point which will give you so much flexibility To work around this now How you get up a tree? I have no idea I used a ladder to get half way up and then girth hitched slings Around the tree it was a little janky. Anyways that is not what I'm good at so I'm not going to show you how to do that anyways Once you're up your tree you tie off your rope And you kind of have to do it on both sides before you Basically even start and of course it helps having a second person You don't need a second person you could just attach your fixed sides repel down and come up But anyways these ropes are in the bone now. This is not my house I paint houses and this is one of my customers houses so every few months I do a little paint job forum to rent the top half of their trees Pretty fun trying to explain that to somebody who's never seen slacklining before hey Can I walk on a rope? Thirty feet in the sky in your backyard so anyways I didn't want the rope just coiled on the ground I want this to kind of be out of sight out of mind, right I do regret not cutting my rope Longer I put it at about waist level and just like that you want more than you need you technically want More rope than you need at the bottom If you repel up the end of your rope you're already on the ground But I mean you kind of fall on your ass if you do that Accidentally so this is not complicated I hope you slackline before you try doing something like this so you understand kind of what it takes to rig between two trees but anyways this is a twelve foot span set that is folded in half and Wrapped around just like you see here, and then I I have all this gear that I just never use because I don't you know use big shackles anymore So I thought what a great place put this stuff for a permanent line. Here's a big fat Shackle now you can see I duct tape carpet to it padding a tree is important But if you're going to leave something up for a long period of time Padding your equipments important to even a span set so it goes from the span set to a rigging plate that I have no use for I don't see the value of rigging plates even if I'm rigging long lines. I just embed my gris-gris or my break inside of my pulleys so These are nice for some things, but I just put it up here Which gives me flexing to do a lot of things because I come up here. I experiment. I've done videos up here in the past but anyways Another steel shackle on a web lock that I don't really use any more. I use the 4.0 So the pure shackles so this is all Gear, that's not old. It's just Stuff that I'm not gonna prefer to use out on an expedition So this is great gear for a mid line, so I've had this set up for about a year and a half You can see how its discoloring some of the equipment. How you get discolorations things like that in where the dirt sits But the webbing of course you cannot leave up here for that long especially in the Sun the rain the wind This is arrow to I change out my webbing every nine months to a year And even then that's kind of pushing it I feel I'm not too concerned about the dirt on this because it's a span set it's like super bummer, but my Jug line this is getting kind of old. I definitely want to change this out soon I like to clip off my leash or tie it off and So I just put it right there on the rigging plate, and that's pretty much all there is to it So as you can see here my backup is a frost nut now if you are gonna use a frost not Make sure that the main line, which is this line here is sandwiched in between This bottom loop and the tail and that puts it in the middle of the knot The bend radius and knots is what makes it bad a web lock has a nice bin radius and so it Retains more strength of the webbing than a knot this knot has been Favored among people for holding. I think around 60 ish percent of the strength of the webbing which Is fine for this backup line in this? Situation I like to take these tails and I like to tie them off to this carabiner up here which is Tied to two points up there so really I have Two more master points that these tails are tied off to in case something were to go wrong with my master point Which is reassuring even though it is Ballmer Before we continue. Let me share with you the church of slack life Go to slackline calm and join the church by sharing your slack life testimony the church of slack life has its own YouTube channel So make sure you go to that and subscribe to see our weekly sessions Which is everyone? Who's stoked about the slack life sharing the slack life and don't let the r-word scare you we're not your average religion We don't manage your morality. We're just here for each other and want to cherish the Stoke There's also options for really cool shirts on the church website like this one here So go on there check out what other people have put check out the shirts and get involved okay? So now I'm on the other side now. This is an awkward side I have to use a daisy in order to not slide to the middle. It's really nowhere to stand But here, I have the span set just like the other side carpeting over the branches And then I have someone looks right here in order not to crowd out my backup point here is I put a big Delta quicklink in here then clipped a steel beam er to that so it's not so clustered up, but anyways How do you back up those tails? Now you can see here that the second loop on the balanced community webbing as they come with two loops is Clipped to my rope that I jogged up here with originally to rig now. I rarely if ever dug up this rope Because this is not the side that I tie into the leashes over there but you never know even if it's a span set or say steel connector if it's gonna fail so I Always like to back it up to something extra now. I don't feel like I should have to say this, but I'm going to Please don't do this in the park do this on your own land of friends that you know But don't just try to go up trees in the park rig this and get slackline and shut down for everyone slacklining is already a Access issue in part. I just can't imagine if people started to try to do mid lines in the park. You know You can see over there where the branches are that I can't walk the last 10 feet of this line I also technically can't walk the last few feet of this line because I have this branch there though this mid line and Most mid lines you do you won't be able to walk the last few feet of either anchor so you are limited How long you can rig these? But it's more fun to do tricks on them and just go back and forth then it is to try to get ascend, okay So I'm half way down this rappel And I want to make some few notes on what not to do with your Jug line those two points worth mentioning here one Is this branch is awesome to step on but do you see how the rope touches it I duct-taped carpet to there obviously You also want to make sure that this rope isn't going to rub your slackline Or your anchor or your rope because I mean you you don't want this to break either So you really got to be conscious of that since your rope goes higher than your slackline? You don't want any nylon sign going on while you jug this rope okay fun fact make sure your rope is long enough because my feet aren't quite on the ground yet, but Here's my tail So it's always unnerving when you come off this thing Because you could land on your ass You can see here that it only comes to my chest and it'd be really nice if it came to will Ground okay, in case you don't know how to ascend a rope there's lots of ways to skin this cat I'm just going to show you how I do it at our midline and a cinder is helpful, but I only use one I have a daisy Personal anchor that I connect myself to in case the Grigri were to slip it could happen you never know and I've got my gris-gris on there with my short ass tail So my preference is just to push the ascender up which is what? My hand here holding the gimbal is holding the ascender And then I just step up in the viateur that I have here the rope ladder and then I just stand up and pull the Grigri through the device leg and I like doing that because it's redundant if the Gregory were to slip for any reason my personal anchors on the ascender and I just have two ways that I'm connected to this rope and then when I get up there the Gregory's already on so I can't install it wrong and then slide down the rope and Possibly kill myself, so I know the Gregory's on correctly before I ever get up there or I wouldn't be able to get up there So I like having both the ascender and the Gregory I can slide the ascender up and Cinch up my personal anchor and sit in that so I can cinch up my Gregory here and sit in that So just the carabiner shifting and this way I mean Safely connected to this tree in two ways a personal anchor in my gris-gris while I? Tie into my leash here and when I first set up this mid line Kim was new to ascending She wasn't super familiar with it so I know that this Gregory is incorrectly is in correctly When she's up here once you're tight in You just unclip it and let it hang here, and then it's ready for you to go Back down, just don't forget the ascender. We've done that a couple Just because mid lines are lower to the ground Doesn't mean they're safer They actually have a higher risk because you're close enough to the ground to hit it even if your equipment doesn't fail So make sure you take a lot of precautions, and you still might get hurt Therefore you shouldn't midnight Hey, thanks for watching But don't be an idiot go rig your first mid line without doing it with someone who knows what they're doing There's way too many slackline festivals these days to try to learn this stuff on your own Kim also organized over 1300 slackline groups from all over the world Go to slackin demux calm and see if there's people in your area that you can learn from But until you get the chance to learn from someone who knows what they're doing check out our other videos and don't forget to subscribe