Stadium slackline world record set in Nuremberg

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SHOWS: NUREMBERG, GERMANY (RECENT - OCTOBER 8, 2020) (MEDIA@WEBER-WERKE.DE - MUST COURTESY MEDIA@WEBER-WERKE.DE)

1. JENS DECKE ON SLACKLINE ABOVE MAX-MORLOCK STADIUM IN NUREMBERG (MUTE)

2. SAFETY LINES AND ROPES ON FRAMEWORK OF FLOOD LIGHT POLE IN STADIUM (MUTE)

3. TOP SHOT STADIUM (MUTE)

4. DECKE GETTING ONTO SLACKLINE (MUTE)

5. (SOUNDBITE) (German) JENS DECKE, SLACKLINER, SAYING:

"Slackline or high line is a sport where we balance on a 25 mm wide flat rope. Here at the Max-Morlock Stadium in Nuremberg we strain a slackline over 230 metres from flood light pole to flood light pole and walk that at 73 metres height."

6. VARIOUS OF DECKE WALKING ON SLACKLINE ABOVE STADIUM (MUTE)

7. SLACKLINE FIXTURE

8. (SOUNDBITE) (German) JENS DECKE, SLACKLINER, SAYING:

"Everything is safeguarded, several times over. We can make sure that nobody comes to any harm here through a redundant system." OVERLAID WITH IMAGES OF SECURITY MEASURES AND ROPES

9. (SOUNDBITE) (German) JENS DECKE, SLACKLINER, SAYING:

"The difficulty here on this 230 metres long high line is keeping your concentration. Because the weakest link is always the concentration. You are up there and you have a queasy feeling in your tummy because you feel you are really not meant to be up there." [OVERLAID WITH IMAGES OF DECKE WALKING SLACKLINE]

10. (SOUNDBITE) (German) JENS DECKE, SLACKLINER, SAYING:

"But this feeling is why we do it. To overcome it as much as we can or to deal with it as best as we can. And not to lose concentration during walking."

11. VARIOUS OF DECKE WALKING ON SLACKLINE ABOVE STADIUM (MUTE)

12. DECKE AT SECOND FLOOD LIGHT POLE AND WRITING ON SCREEN (German) "WORLD RECORD SET" AND TICK

STORY: A new stadium slackline World Record has been set in Nuremberg in Germany with Jens Decke crossing the Max-Morlock stadium at a height of 73 metres.

Max-Morlock stadium was chosen due to its running track around the infield which made the stadium larger and floodlights more spaced out than most.

Decke walked across the slackline from flood light pole to flood light pole for a distance of 230 metres and break the world record for the longest highline in a stadium.

"The difficulty here on this 230 metres long high line is keeping your concentration," said slackliner Decke. "Because the weakest link is always the concentration. You are up there and you have a queasy feeling in your tummy because you feel you are really not meant to be up there."

But everything is safeguarded, he assures. "Several times over." Ropes and more ropes, and carabiner clasps ensure that nobody come to any harm.

For some years now, the team stretches high lines between two ends and balances across them, from the Sierra Nevada to Brazil.

The team's balancing act in Nuremberg has raised the bar once more.

(Production: Ute Swart)