Y2K | 50m – 100m

Y2K: High-tech Slackline Webbing

The Y2K is a great High-tech slackline webbing for highlines above 200m in length. It is not simply a webbing but a perfectly optimized slackline system. Every 50m/100m the Slackline gets connected with a quicklink to the next webbing. On every piece there is an intermittent connection to the backup. The backup length has been adjusted to perfectly fit the length of the Main-Line.

But that’s not all! In addition to being an amazing and revolutionary highline webbing, Y2K is also an ISA Certified Highline Webbing, belonging to Strength Class A.

And upon that the Y2K is one of the very few high-tech webbings that can be fixed in a single-wrap in a weblock.

Check below, what advantages this highline system brings along.

Characteristics

• Material: 50% polyester cover / 50% UHWMPE core (also known as Dyneema)
• Architecture: 3-layer construction with PES fibers protecting the inner UHMWPE fibers
• Width: 26mm
• Weight: 33g/m
• Stretch: 1% at 5kN | 2.3% at 15kN
• Main line length: 50m / 100m per piece
• Backup Length: 52.7m / 105.5m per piece
• MBS (Minimum Breaking Strength) Band: 35kN
• MBS intermittent connection loops: 19kN
• MBS sewn loops: 32kN
• ISA Certified Highline Webbing: Strength Class A

For more information about Y2K check the article: The history of Y2K – The worlds first segmented highline high-tech webbing

Advantages of Y2K compared to standard Slackline Webbing

• There is a functioning Backup all 50m/100m.
• Main and Backup cannot be untaped in heavy winds – all 50m/100m a connection will remain.
• It is possible to start rigging a line from both anchor points and simply connect it when meeting in the middle.
• If you own e.g. 300m of this webbing but have a 340m-project, you can simply buy another 50m-piece to complete your Set-Up. Also possible to share Set-Ups with friends of course.
• If one part of the line gets damaged, only a 50m/100m part needs to be replaced.
• Easy to distribute the webbing on several backpacks when carrying it up the mountain.
• The outer sheath protects the inner UHMWPE from UV-light an abrasion.
• As there is polyester on the outer sheath, the slackline does not feel slippery – unlike most other high-tech webbings.
• Thanks to the outer sheath, the breaking strength in knots is much higher compared to pure UHMWPE (Dyneema)-webbings.
• This webbing can be fixed as a single wrap in a weblock.
• Several Highline World Records have been walked on Y2K webbing.

Note on Webbing Grips/grabs

Y2K may be tensioned up to a force of 6kN with a single Webbing-Grab. Above 6kN, two LineGrips must be used in series to prevent damage to the core-sheath construction of the Y2K. Y2K was tested with the following three webbing-grab devices: T-Grip, LineGrip and Snatch – the results were all above 12kN which leaves a 50% safety factor when used with a maximum pulling force of 6kN. In combination with other webbing-grab devices the gripping strength can clearly lower.

In case you want to tension the Y2K-Webbing with a HangOver-Pulley System, we recommend to use the newest generation that has no gaps on the side. Make sure that the webbing is guided perfectly in the center of the HangOver and does not slip sideways. For higher tension, we recommend a rope pulley system.

This high-tech webbing can be bought as:

• Main-Line (with a sewn loop on each end plus a double-loop on one end to connect the backup-webbing)
• Backup-Line (with a sewn loop on each end)
• Bundle (Main-Line + Backup-Line together)