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"Highline Freestyle: A Day of Progress and Practice"

Feb 3, 2024 - 9:28amSummary: I'm heading to Go Highline in Simi Valley with hopes that all goes well. The aim is to set up a freestyle line to practice on. I'd like to manage to walk on it and have a couple of sessions today. That's the plan and we'll see how it progresses from there.

Transcript: I'm driving up to Go Highline in Simi Valley. Hopefully everything goes well. I think the plan is to rig some kind of freestyle line. Hopefully I'll be able to walk on it, get a session or two, and just get some steps in today. That would be super cool. And that's the plan, and we'll go from there.

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