Slacklining Gold Coast Australia

Are you interested in Slacklining, don't know where to begin and would love to learn the art ?

Whether your a total beginer or at a more advanced level, learning the correct postures and fundamental basics, from the start, will greatly enhance and quicken your developmont of skills, time on the line and Slacklining pleasure.

The benefits you will recieve from Slacklining are massive and complex.

By incorporating a Slacklining practice into your life, the effects it will have on your Mind, Body and Spirit are deep, transformational and truly amazing.

Bodybalance Slackline - Accredited professional training in Slacklining offering tuition and personal development with Balance & Awareness Workshops, Gold Coast, Australia.

Incorporating flexible and tailored Slacklining programs, to suit your requirements and needs.

✤ Individuals / Groups

✤ Health & Wellbeing Industries

✤ Sports & Fitness Industries

✤ Corporate / Team Building

✤ Festivals & Events

✤ Retreats

Fully Insured with

Public Liability / Professional Indemnity

Accreditation / Member

~ What is Slacklining?

Slacklining is similar to Tightrope or Highwire walking, but instead uses a specially designed, flexible woven webbing, stretched between two fixed points or anchors,above the ground.

There are many different versions of Slacklining being practiced all over the world, from sponsored, elite professionals, performing "Dynamic" Tricklining on the world circuit, to the incredible "Zen" of Highlining, Longlining, Waterlining and Yogalining performed by adventurers wanting to take it to the limit of balance.

Wire Walking - Wiki commons

Darci from D'Yoga on Slackrack with Cooper

Balancing act - Paul Lester

~ Slacklining History

You may think of Slacklining as a new sport; while balancing on webbing is a relative new invention, rope walking has been used around the world for over 2000 years. The Korean tradition of Jultagi was practised possibly as early as 57 BC on hemp ropes.

Around the 1800's when the industrial revolution made steel cable available, it was stabilised & tensioned with guy wires and used by Highwire artists and Circus performers around the world called Funambulists, like Con Colleano, an Australian tightwire wizard 1930's.

Modern day Slacklining (1960 / 70's) evolved from the rock climbing culture in Yosemite Valley campground, California (Pat Ament & others) Then Adam Grosowsky and Jeff Ellington, while attending Olympia College, in Washington State, used basic climbing gear - tubular webbing & carabiners, to create the Primitive or Ellington method.

Today there are now different pulley and ratching systems used to tension the lines and

the birth of modern day Slacklining begins.

Jultagi - Korean tradition of rope walking - wiki commons

Maria Spelterini crossing Niagara Falls on 4 July, 1876 - wiki commons

Man on Slackwire - wiki commons

~ Bodybalance

Bodybalance Slackline has been created from a personal desire & passion to share the amazing benefits of slacklining with other people, who are wanting to find internal balance, between their Mind, Body & Spirit.

Used as a subtle, but deep, therapeutic practice, slacklining can show people what is happening

inside their bodies. By learning the practice, they enhance, grow, strengthen & empower themselves and discover body awareness and balance.

Slacklining is a very powerful tool, used to mirror or reflect.

It works by challenging & developing the 3 major aspects of the human balance system -

Visual, Proprioceptive & Vestibular.

Slacklining also stimulates the Circulatory, Respiratory, Nervous & Musclo-skeletal systems.

By stepping out of our comfort zone & being challenged within the whole body,

the EFFECT is truly amazing.

By targeting and working on our - Focus, Agility, Will, Core Strength & Relaxation,

we learn to:

✤ Empty the mind of all thoughts.

✤ Find a point of focus.

✤ Feel our flexibility or lack thereof.

✤ Engage & strengthen our core.

✤ Connect to our breath.

✤ Tension & Stress release.

~ Coaching Philosophy

I like to be conscious and aware in my life, of my surroundings and my attention to detail,

so I use the best quality, accredited equipment set up with the current guidelines, combined with proper spill & spotting training techniques.

I have a genuine regard for peoples health / well being & always with consideration of the planet. I like to be pro-active & ensure the safest possible training environment for all people, wanting to learn Slacklining. I encourage any beginner wishing to learn, to get the proper training with an Accredited Slackline (Australia) Teacher.

I provide a caring & nurturing environment for people of all ages. Using a positive, enthusiastic approach to teaching, with an emphasis on patience, encouragement & positive, constructive feedback, I help people to find balance on the line & furthermore, balance in everyday life.

It’s important to find joy, fun & happiness in life, which is something I love to bring into my classes. "When you enjoy what you’re doing, then you can only succeed"

~ About Me

"COOPER" - Todd Becconsall

Has been on a personal healing journey,

for the last 30 years and still continues

on this path, with the philosophy of

~ Balance in Motion ~

I have travelled the world learning a diverse range of skills, from many different cultures,

tribal elders & teachers in different modalities. Body Balance is created from a desire to maintain, internal balance & awareness of Body, Mind & Spirit.

Bodybalance Slackline helps me to share the benefits of Slacklining and assist people to enjoy the experience, in a safe and integrative way. By combining my depth of life skills, I happily share this knowledge in a positive and enthusiastic way and provide a caring & nurturing environment for people of all ages and levels of ability.

My approach is joyful, fun and patient. I provide encouragement along with constructive feedback, which helps participants to experience the maximum benefits. This enables participants to find balance 'on the line' & furthermore, balance in their everyday lives.

" Slacklining is the best metaphor for life, I have found so far "

Along with being accredited with Slackline Australia, I'm also adept in:

Permaculture Design Consultant - (25 years)

Bodywork Therapist - Acclaimed Heath Retreats - (Australia)

~Thai Yoga massage

~Chi Nei Tsang - Taoist abdominal detox massage

~Polynesian / Ka huna Bodywork

Ceremony & Ritual Training & Teaching - (USA, Australia)

Music & Sound Therapy - (Australia)

Art Mentor / Production manger (Central Australia - APY Lands)

Artist & Art Therapy (carver, ceramics, painter, woodworker, sculptor)

By refining my own body awareness through a regular Slacklining & Longlining practise, I enjoy a greater level of awareness in my daily life. The environment, surfing, yoga, acro yoga, photography, veggie gardening, dance & movement, flow arts & being a great role model to my son, are some of my other passions & interests in life.