Hal Hallstein writes:
Out of a sense of responsibility to slackline history and the development of the practice, I feel it is important that a important subplot in slackline development be revealed. In 1999, Renan Ozturk, Tyler Knower, Rick Harbison, Mike Wiley, Eric Crabtree, Jake Beren and Mike Lee began to develop a new style of slackline practice. Unknown on the west coast, its roots took hold at Colby College,