Now that “Sketchy” Andy Lewis has appeared slacklining in the Super Bowl halftime show, slacklining might go, like, super mainstream, man.
Slacklining used to be chill, hippie-ish, boho and dirtbaggy -- and it still is. But now that it's been in the halftime show, there's a broader awareness about it. Heck, even the New York Times wrote about Lewis' role in the show (as “Slackrates”).
Everyone will be doing it. Including your mom. She told me so.
Now that slacklining has hit the big time, keep an eye out for the following possible (incredibly unlikely?) places you'll see slacklining next:
McSlackline
Now that it's been in the Super Bowl halftime show, slacklining could become as ubiquitous at playgrounds as the twisty slide.
Maybe it could even end up in the McDonalds Playplace.
The Playplace mural will explain it all to the kiddos. The whole Happy Meal (which has roots in Boulder, no kidding) crew will be tricklining. Grimace will be doing butt bounces. Ronald, who already has the curly Andy ‘fro, will be sticking backflips with the aid of his enormous shoes.
And little kids will be burping french fries and flying off slacklines in the Playplace.
SlackFit (copyright)
Your local gym already loves to mix up its fitness classes to keep you interested. Like that yogalates boot camp step spinning class you took last week.
So you'll know slacklining has arrived at mega stardom when someone makes it a class at your gym and slaps a capital “S,” a trademark and the word “fit” on it.
SlackFit will be exactly like Zumba, but slackier. Or like CrossFit, but slackier.
Whoops. I mean Slackier. You'll Slack your way to a toned core and the body you always wanted. At least that's what the infomercials will say.
Yoga and...
Since everything is getting combined with yoga anymore -- yoga and surfing, yoga and underwater basket weaving -- you know slacklining will become part of the mix, too.
Wait. Um. Yeah...they're called the Yoga Slackers. They were into it pre-Super Bowl. They're slack-core.
Where in the world
Where in the world is this slackline that Matt Lauer is duct taped to?
One day you're going to wake up and turn on the Today Show and see Matt Lauer slacklining on an extra-wide Gibbon line somewhere in the world. Matt will be approximately three inches off the ground. Then the camera will pan to the wider shot, in which you will see Andy Lewis tricklining across the Grand Canyon.
Matt's at the Grand Canyon! You totally figured it out based on yesterday's clues. Smarty.
Slack Planking
You thought planking was big. Wait until you see the slack planking craze. It's going to be the extreme ironing of this decade.
It's going to be even bigger than just slacklining. We're talking viral videos and more viral videos and then some viral videos with cats slack planking -- those will be the viraliest.




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