The innovative Slackline grip with serious grip!
The brand new SHARK is introducing a new technology of a ultra efficient, toothed gripping system: strong, light but heavy duty.
The toothed technology makes it impossible to slip, even in difficult environmental conditions and suited for basically all webbing models.
While a standard rubber webbinggrip can fail easily due to high or low temperature, strong humidity or slippery material... you can rely on the SHARK GRIP.
This piece of gear will change your tensioning experience, especially for those who deal often with dyneema or slippery webbings.
The perfect device for experienced slackliners and advanced highlining demands.
The SHARK for its great bite
A very important feature to achieve in our development process was, the exact constellation, shape and amount of the SHARK GRIPS' teeth, in order to find the perfect grip, but without damaging fibers.
With this greatly developed webbing grip, your webbing will stay intact, just like your rope when properly used with a thooted device (micro trax i.e.).
In order to help gain confidence into this new device and rules breaking technology, Slack Inov' is engaging itself to replace any webbing that has been potentially damaged by using the SHARK.**
Our powerful SHARK can pull not only smaller, 17mm webbings, but especially super soft or slippery webbings made from UHMPE (dyneema) materials.
It can perfectly be used to tension up to 7 kN, which overtakes what can appear on very long highline installations.
DIMENSIONS: L 7 cm - H 1,9 cm - W 4,4 cm
! WARNING ! To avoid any damage on your webbing, it is absolutely mandatory to read the SHARK GRIP manual properly and watch the tutorial video and follow correct pre-tensioning gestures to apply before activating the pulling and gripping process.
Tensioning with pure simplicity
There are a few different ways to use the SHARK in a tensioning system. We recommend using one of these two most known techniques:
A) Without a real Pulley System:
The most commonly used and fastest method to add tension to your set-up, is by so called "soft-pointing" the webbing with a grip device, like our SHARK GRIP, and to pull tension with the help of some hands, or even alone, by creating a 3:1 ratio of your natural strength.
3:1 BUCKINGHAM system, in combination with a ROLLEX
After connecting your webbing into your weblock, pull through a maximum of slack to create already a min. of tension:
- Place the SHARK min. 1m away from your weblock by pressing the two plates gently but firm together, so the teeths can properly enter your webbing, then clipp a ROLLEX into the sling of the device.
- Take the loose tail of the webbing, which is exiting the weblock, and clip it into the ROLLEX.
- The tail coming now out from your ROLLEX is the tail to pull on and to create tension (try always pulling in the same axis as the webbing you are setting up, to not create friction with your 3:1 pulley system)
- WARNING! Before starting to pull at your webbing tail, if using the SHARK, you should create proper pre-tension by pressing with your hand the grip plates together and pull gently on it's sling, you'll then insert efficiently the teeths into the fibers and create the proper and needed pre-tension to avoid damages.
- Now re-start your tensioning process as usual.
By tensioning with this technique, the slackline is ravelling itself into the weblock during the active pulling.
Don't forget your weblock Anti-Slip knot, once your are done with tensioning!
B) With a Rope Pulley System:
Instead of attaching your webbing immediately into the weblock/linelock at the tensioning side:
- Attach your Pulley System safely at an/the chosen anchor;
- Grip the SHARK at the end of your webbing and attach it directly to your pulley system, using a safe connector;
- Before starting to pull-in your pulley systems length, create a slight pre-tension on your SHARK by pressing with your hand the grip plates together and pull gently on it's sling, you'll create the proper and needed pre-tension to avoid damages.
- Engage your pulley system several times, by pushing out carefully the SHARK further away from your anchor;
- Once you reach the desired tension, block the tale coming out behind the SHARK into the prepared weblock at your actual slackline anchor;
- Pull in as much slack as possible, then remove the tensioning system and the SHARK and let the weblock take all the tension created.
Don't forget your weblock Anti-Slip knot !
Check some examples of our Pulley Systems to work with the SHARK GRIP properly.
Which is the best SHARK connector?
You can choose this recommended options to connect the SHARK with a pulley system:
CARABINER TWISTED LOCK: light and resistant.
Warning
The SHARK is not a PPE device. This is a device developped for advanced and special tensioning situations. It is absolutely mandatory to read carefully and understand its INSTRUCTION MANUAL and watch the tutorial video before use.
**We don't replace any webbing that may have received damage due to misuse or by installing or handling this device incorrectly. Replacement webbings are Slack IT (Slack Inov' or Spider Slacklines webbings).
