An In-Depth Look at the Slacklife

The action sports world is certainly a community of extremes. Unlike team sports, most of our pastimes, be they in the mountains, the ocean, or the air, involve incredible personal skills and self-reliance. However, the strength of our community is unlike anything else in the world, always apparent in how we feed off one another’s energy to accomplish unthinkable things.

Red Bull and Stept Production’s film Slacker, which explores the slacklining community, a seemingly fringe group of athletes, tells the story of a group of desert-dwelling adventurers. Each Thanksgiving, dozens of highliners gather at the edge of a huge cliff outside Moab, UT to string hundreds of feet of webbing across in the name of defying gravity in their own way. G.G.B.Y. (Gobble, Gobble, B**ches, Yeah, as the festival has come to be known) allows these athletes to push their limits to previously unfathomable heights and celebrate the slacklife for all it’s worth.