Finding-the-right-balance-in-extreme-sports-_-Niklas-Winter-_-TEDxFHKufstein.wav Now picture this: you're inside
, and you're just about to
outside onto a two and a half centimeter wide slackline. The slackline
, but you are not attached to
. You're just wearing
. Everything is shaking. And you know that if you
, lose control and fall, and not manage to
, you will
. And now, you're supposed to
at walk to that slack line.
. If I pushed it
, is it worth
? Or am I even
? Is it maybe just a
and it's all
? How can I figuratively
?
That's what
.
. I've always been
in what we, as
, can experience, so I guess I have always been drawn to the
. And
. So, when I tried slacklining
, I was instantly
. I like the
of it, and when friends
me to go highlining, I was super interested to
.
Highlining is when you're slacklining up high, and you're wearing a
and you're attached with a leash to the slackline. I felt well-prepared, and,
, I stood up for the first time... and
and fell headfirst into the leash. The primal
kicked in and paralyzed me. So
.
And also, on my second High Line,
. You see, I'm shaking; I'm not
; I'm under
, like, I cannot control it. I try to hold on to it, but I just fall into the leash, and even
myself.
But
. So, I continue trying and it
. I
at it. I managed to catch the slackline when I lose control, and I got
with walking on highlights. And
, I felt so comfortable walking high lines that I thought
. And that was the day that I walked my first High Line
, free solo, as we call it. And that was a
because I I felt like
. I think
. And at the same time, I felt 100% under control. And
, although I'm not a big fan of the word
because it doesn't feel that extreme to me when I do it. I feel under control, I feel
. If it was super extreme,
.