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29-606: Westpark may refer to: Westpark (Aachen) , a park in Aachen, Germany Westpark (Munich) , a public park in Munich, Germany Westpark (Munich U-Bahn) , a railway station Westpark Cemetery , Johannesburg, South Africa Westpark Tollway , Houston, Texas, US Westpark Music , a German record label See also [ edit ] West Park (disambiguation) Westpark Elementary School (disambiguation) Topics referred to by

58-787: A 220m-long, 350m-high slackline between Oko Tower and Neva Tower 2 in Moscow, on September 7, 2019. The longest slackline walked by a woman, with a length of 305 metres (1,001 ft), was walked by Annalisa Casiraghi across a field in Schüpberg near Bern, Switzerland . The previous record had been set in September 2014 by Laetitia Gonnon, who walked 230 m (754 ft 7.1 in) in Lausanne, Switzerland . On 28 April 2019 in Kislovodsk, Russia, Friedi Kühne and Lukas Irmler from Germany walked

87-461: A basketball court, as well as numerous playing facilities for children. Some park visitors also practice niche sports such as Slackline , Footbag und Ultimate Frisbee. In the summer, the park is used by citizens until late in the evening for barbeques. After complaints from local residents grilling in the park is only permitted in the meadow on the Weststraße. This is now also enforced by

116-501: A group of students from Colby College in Waterville, Maine . It was first written about on a website called the "Vultures Peak Center for Freestyle and Rodeo Slackline Research" in 2004. The article "Old Revolution—New Recognition - 3-10-04" describes these early developments in detail. While rope walking has been around in one manner or another for thousands of years, the origins of modern-day slacklining are generally attributed to

145-705: A length of 110m and a height of 200m, the longest free solo highline was walked at the Verdon Gorge in Southern France by German Slackliner Friedi Kühne. The longest free solo highline by a female is held by Lucia Bryn, who walked a 33-meter-long highline in Yosemite, California, USA, on 7 July 2022. The line was 80 meters high. The highest slackline on record was walked by Christian Schou on August 3, 2006, at Kjerag in Rogaland , Norway . The slackline

174-517: A long and narrow trampoline . Tension can be adjusted to suit the user, and different webbing may be used in various circumstances. Urbanlining or urban slacklining combines all the different styles of slacklining. It is practiced in urban areas, for example in city parks and on the streets. Most urban slackliners prefer wide 2-inch (5 cm) lines for tricklining on the streets, but some may use narrow ( 5 ⁄ 8 or 1 inch, 1.6 or 2.5 cm) lines for longline purposes or for waterlining. Also see

203-482: A rock climber named Adam Grosowsky from southern Illinois in 1976 when he was sixteen. In 2012 a slackline performance by Andy Lewis was featured as part of the half time show by Madonna. It got attention during the 2016 Rio Olympics when slackliner Giovanna Petrucci performed on the beach at Ipanema , attracting the attention of the New York Times . A professional slackliner was credited with climbing

232-710: A ski lift tower in Colorado and shimmying across a cable to save a man caught by a ski lift in January 2017. Highlining was inspired by highwire artists. The first successful highline walk is credited to 20-year-old Scott Balcom and 17-year-old Chris Carpenter who performed the first documented walk on a nylon webbing highline. This highline, now referred to as 'The Arches' was approximately 30 feet (9 m) long and 120 feet (35 m) high located in Pasadena, California . On July 13, 1985, Scott Balcom successfully crossed

261-523: A skilled slackline yogi is able to create a flowing yoga practice without ever falling from the line. Slackline yoga has been covered in The Wall Street Journal , Yoga Journal and Climbing Magazine . Rodeo slacklining is the art and practice of cultivating balance on a piece of rope or webbing draped in slack between two anchor points, typically about 15 to 30 feet (455 to 915 cm) apart and 2 to 3 feet (60 to 90 cm) off

290-530: A slackline are being pushed constantly. It is not uncommon to see expert slackliners incorporating flips and twists into slackline trick combinations. Highlining is slacklining at an elevation above the ground or water. Many slackliners consider highlining to be the pinnacle of the sport. Highlines are commonly set up in locations that have been used or are still used for Tyrolean traverse . When rigging highlines, experienced slackers take measures to ensure that solid, redundant and equalized anchors are used to secure

319-418: A suspended length of flat webbing that is tensioned between two anchors . Slacklining is similar to slack rope walking and tightrope walking . Slacklines differ from tightwires and tightropes in the type of material used and the amount of tension applied during use. Slacklines are tensioned significantly less than tightropes or tightwires in order to create a dynamic line which will stretch and bounce like

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348-532: Is also common to pad all areas of the rigging which might come into contact with abrasive surfaces. To ensure safety, most highliners wear a climbing harness or swami belt with a leash attached to the slackline itself. Leash-less, or "free-solo" slacklining – a term loosely taken from rockclimbing ("free" refers to free of aid equipment vs free from the slackline) – is not unheard of, however, with proponents such as Dean Potter and Andy Lewis . Slackline yoga takes traditional yoga poses and moves them to

377-604: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Westpark (Aachen) A committee led by Emil Lochner, an Aachen textile factory owner, bought the green spaces in front of the Junkerstor in 1882. In the year 1885 the Lochnergarten was formed And formed the substitute for the splendid English garden at the Lochnervilla between Lochnerstrasse and Karlsgraben. In

406-627: The Lost Arrow Spire highline. In 1995, Darrin Carter performed unprotected crossings of the Lost Arrow Spire in Yosemite and The Fins, in Tucson, Arizona, on Mt. Lemmon highway. On July 16, 2007, Libby Sauter became the first woman to successfully cross the Lost Arrow Spire. In 2008, Dean Potter became the first person to BASE jump from a Highline at Hell Roaring Canyon in Utah . The record

435-634: The Ordnungsamt (office of administration). At the Westpark are buildings of the Arbeiterwohlfahrt (Workers' Welfare Federal Association) and a depot of the city of Aachen. At the beginning of 2010, on the side of Park, 19 large trees were felled due to fungus attack, as they posed a threat to the AWO building. Slacklining Slacklining is walking, running or balancing along

464-500: The animals died in a bomb attack in 1944. The rest of the animal stock was sold to Ulm. After the end of the Second World War all existing buildings in the Westpark were demolished. From the time of the zoo, only a pond at the exit to Lochnerstraße has been preserved. Today, the Westpark serves the majority of the people from Aachen's west for recreation. For sporting activities, there is a football field, table tennis and

493-537: The animals of the Zoological Garden had been underestimated. In Hugo Junkers's notebooks from 1909, a "permanent circus" in today's Westpark is mentioned. During the First World War, a hospital and a recovery home for soldiers were set up in the glass palace of the park, but it was completely destroyed by a major fire in 1917. The park was revived by the reopening on 23 May 1920. From then on he

522-415: The ground in the center. This type of very "slack" slackline provides a wide array of opportunities for both swinging and static maneuvers. A rodeo line has no tension in it, while both traditional slacklines and tightropes are tensioned. This slackness in the rope or webbing allows it to swing at large amplitudes and adds a different dynamic. This form of slacklining first came into popularity in 1999, through

551-422: The line into position. Modern highline rigging typically entails a mainline of webbing, backup webbing, and either climbing rope or ultra-high-molecular-weight polyethylene rope for redundancy. However, many highlines are rigged with a mainline and backup only, especially if the highline is low tension (less than 4,000 N (900 lbf)), or rigged with high quality webbing like Type 18 or MKII Spider Silk. It

580-424: The most common form of slacklining because of the easy setup of 2-inch (5 cm) slackline kits. Tricklining is often done low to the ground but can be done on highlines as well. A great number of tricks can be done on the line, and because the sport is fairly new, there is plenty of room for new tricks. Some of the basic tricks done today are walking, walking backwards, turns, dropping knee, running and jumping onto

609-658: The other sections of slackline styles below. One type of urbanlining is timelining, where one tries to stay on a slackline for as long as possible without falling down. This takes tremendous concentration and focus of will, and is great endurance training for postural muscles. Another type of urbanlining is streetlining, which combines street workout power moves with the slackline's dynamic, shaky, bouncy feeling. The main aspects include static handstands, super splits—hands and feet together, planche, front lever, back lever, one arm handstand and other unusual extreme moves that are evolving in street workout culture. Tricklining has become

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638-413: The same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Westpark . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Westpark&oldid=1062461455 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description

667-447: The same year, the zoological garden Aachen was opened under the leadership of the textile manufacturer Lochner, which housed about 50 giant snakes, bears and tigers as well as numerous domestic animal species. The park was financed partly by shares. In 1882 a glass palace was built next to the park with a large, round hall with many annexed rooms, the walls of which were made of glass. This palace accommodated up to 3,000 visitors. Around

696-430: The slackline to start walking, and bounce walking. Some intermediate tricks include: Buddha sit, sitting down, lying down, cross-legged knee drop, surfing forward, surfing sideways, and jumping turns, or "180s". Some of the advanced tricks are: jumps, tree plants, jumping from line-to-line, 360s, butt bounces, and chest bounces. With advancements in webbing technology and tensioning systems, the limits of what can be done on

725-475: The slackline. It has been described as "distilling the art of yogic concentration". To balance on a 1-inch (2.5 cm) piece of webbing lightly tensioned between two trees is not easy , and doing yoga poses on it is even more challenging. The practice simultaneously develops focus, dynamic balance, power, breath, core integration, flexibility, and confidence. Using standing postures, sitting postures, arm balances, kneeling postures, inversions and unique vinyasa ,

754-406: The year 1901 there was a cycle track in the then Lochnerpark, where five students and six school kids from the football club Alemannia (today Alemannia Aachen) held their training with the ball. In the year of the closure of the race track in 1908 the Aachen cycling club Zugvogel 09 also held its first training sessions. In 1905 the park was temporarily closed because the feed and transport costs for

783-425: Was 1,000 metres (3,281 ft) high. The project was repeated by Aleksander Mork in September 2007. Rafael Zugno Bridi currently holds the world record who walked a slackline between two hot air balloons. The current world record for the highest urban highline is held by Friedi Kühne, Mia Noblet, Gennady Skripko, Vladimir Murzaev, Maksim Kagin, Alexander Gribanov, and Nathan Paulin. All seven athletes managed to walk

812-400: Was named Westpark. Two years later, in 1922, a new but considerably smaller glass palace was opened on the grounds. Already in the year 1935 one could row again go on the pond in the park. In the same year, a zoo was added. In the years before and during the Second World War between 1935 and 1944 it was called "Tier- und Pflanzengarten Aachen" (animal and plant garden Aachen). A large part of

841-535: Was set by four athletes between July 4 and July 6, 2021. Friedi Kühne , Lukas Irmler, Quirin Herterich and Ruben Langer (all from Germany) crossed a 2.1-kilometre (1.3 mi) slackline suspended more than 500 metres (1,600 ft) high between the Lapporten mountains near Abisko , Sweden . All of them walked this line from beginning to end without falling, taking times from approximately 70–180 minutes. At

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