Modular TrickZone

A bomber segment for the trickzone of your freestyle rig!

A bomber, optimized length segment for the TrickZone on your Freestyle Highline rig.

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Introduction
Design
Tech Specs

Say hello to the new future of freestyle highlines, the Modular Trick Zone. With this new innovation, Freestyle Highlines can now be rigged in a modular fashion, with separate segments for the stretch zones and the trick zone. This allows for supreme customization of your freestyle kit to match your style of highlining and the characteristics of the line.

Not only can you customize your line in more ways than ever, you now will not be required to replace your full Freestyle rig when one part of it wears out. This will allow you to use higher quality and more performant gear for the stretch zones (and backups) without the fear of needed to replace them when the trick zone inevitably wears out.

All versions of the Modular Trick Zone are made from 2 layers of our Green Paradigm Webbing with a 32mm sleeve going over both lines. The trick zone provides 5m of sleeved area and the full trick zone is about 6m long.

There are 2 main options for the Trick Zone, plus the options for naked or sleeved loops. The first option is the X-stitch only. This gives you a single X-stitch in the middle of all 3 pieces of webbing. This style will leave the sleeve loose when the line is tight, requiring tape on each end of the sleeve to secure it from moving.

The second option is the Tensioned Sleeve option. This gives you a sewn sleeve at both ends of the zone, which will allow the sleeve to get tight when the line is tight. All 3 lines in the zone will be under tension when the line is rigged. This style will give you a very solid platform for doing your tricks on and no backup to deal with in the zone.

On both versions, the sewn loops are offset in length, with the main loops longer than the backup. This is to allow for separation on the connections for the main line and backup to counter any weight hot-spots that those connections would bring.

All Modular Trick Zones are hand made to order specs in our Lyons, Colorado warehouse.

All About The Construction

A deeper look at what makes the Modular TrickZone

The main idea behind the Modular TrickZone is to morph Freestyle Lines into Segmented highlines. Due to the nature of Freestyle Highlines and how they are used, they are often some of the most abused highline rigs out there. For that reason, extra precautions must be taken with the materials used for a freestyle highline, as well as how they are rigged. We have seen the benefits of segmenting highlines in other areas of our sport, such as long highlines. These benefits, which start at shortening the fall in the event of a mainline failure, can also be very beneficial in the freestyle world.

However, since Freestyle Highllines are not super long, segmenting can be a bit of a challenge. In a traditional segmented highlines, you group all the sewn loops of the mainline and backup together from one segment to the next. This creates a hotspot of weight, which can be felt quite a bit on a freestyle highline. If we treat the TrickZone as it's own segment, that means there is 2 weight hotspots: 1 on each end of the TrickZone. This creates 2 powerful nodes of weight at one of the most dynamic areas of the freestyle line. In order to solve that, we had to come up with a way to spread the weight of a segment connection out over a bigger distance while retaining the benefits of a segmented line.

To accomplish this, we decided to decouple the mainline and backup line connections for the segments. This strays away from how normal segmented lines are rigged, which means we needed to add an additional connection between the mainline and backup lines to ensure we still had the benefit of shorter backup fall in the event of a mainline failure.

Both versions of our Modular TrickZone are constructed from 2 pieces of Paradigm webbing threaded through a 32mm Nylon Tubular Sleeve. For the X-Stitch version of the TrickZone, there is a single stitch in the center of the 3 webbings that goes through all 3. For the Tensioned Sleeve version, there is a stitch at both ends of the sleeve. These stitch on both versions accomplish the feature of shortening the backup fall in the event of a mainline failure. On the tensioned sleeve version, the stitches also keep the sleeve tight when the line is rigged.

Comfortable and Burly

Nothing like a bomber pillow for bouncing on!

A huge benefit of the way the Modular TrickZone is constructed is that it becomes fairly large. The platform is about 30mm wide and 10mm thick. With this massive platform, it becomes quite easy to spot during big rotational tricks and easy to catch with your hands and feet. This makes those highly dynamic tricks quite a bit more approachable.

Piece-Wise Replacement

Replace what you need, keep what you don't

One of the worst feelings is when you have a new freestyle rig and you are having a great session, but then you take a massive leash fall that has your leash prussik'd around the line. When you climb back up to the line, you spot a big 'ol abrasion right in the middle of your TrickZone. Before modular rigs came, that meant a costly repair job, with a few weeks of time missed, or a full new rig. Now, with the modular TrickZone and modular Freestyle Kits, you just need a new TrickZone!

Maybe your stretch webbing is just starting to get good or perhaps your backup is a super pricey high tech webbing. The last thing you want to do is replace those lines just because of a small bit of damage on your TrickZone.

Or, perhaps you love Webbing X from Company A for your stretch zone and Webbing Y from Company B for your backup and Trick Zone Z from Company C. Before modular rigs came about, this type of construction would be very difficult.

The Modular TrickZone and Freestyle Kit fixes these issues!

Dimensions

TrickZone Webbing Width – 30.0 mm (1.18 inches)

Length of Sleeve – 5.0 m (16.4 ft)

TrickZone Webbing Thickness – 6.7 mm (0.26 inches)

Length of Main – 6.5 m (21.3 ft)

Length of Backup – 5.5 m (18.0 ft)

Sewn Loop Opening – 120.0 mm (4.72 inches)

Weight – 907 g (2.0 lbs)

Strength

MBS – 20 kN Per Strand (4,496 lbf)

Material

Inner Webbing – Green Paradigm

Sleeve Webbing – 32mm Tubular Sleeve

Stitch Material – Dyneema Thread