Atop a thousand-meter peak forest, between a flat belt, a real-life version of "Avatar" is staged. On December 23, the Huangshizhai Scenic Area of Wulingyuan Scenic Area in Zhangjiajie, Hunan Province successfully held a high-altitude flat belt competition. Eight top domestic flat belt experts performed a wonderful "suspended mountain" aerial walk for the audience on the top of the Huangshizhai Mountain at an altitude of 1,092 meters.
Flat belt walking, also known as rope walking, the English name is slackline, is a new movement of walking on a flat belt fixed between two points to maintain body balance and even complete various technical movements. The rope used in the webbing is usually a 2.5 cm wide and 3 cm thick nylon webbing. The contestants in the Zhangjiajie Huangshizhai high-altitude webbing competition competed on this finger-wide webbing at an altitude of 1,092 meters above sea level and on the top of two peaks with a span of 140 meters.
The location of the competition is located at Liuqi Pavilion, the top of Huangshizhai Mountain in Wulingyuan, Zhangjiajie. Huangshizhai is the largest aerial viewing platform in the quartz sandstone peak forest landform of Wulingyuan, Zhangjiajie, and Liuqi Pavilion is the best viewing place. Climb up the Liuqi Pavilion and have a panoramic view of the hundreds of miles of peaks and forests from east to west, north and south of Zhangjiajie! The exciting battles between flat belt players can also be seen at a glance.
Thousands of meters above the ground, the contestants kept swinging their arms, as if they were instruments to detect balance, searching for the most suitable place to stay on the finger-width webbing swaying in the wind, heading towards the top of the peak forest opposite. During the competition, many athletes who had participated in climbing and hiking events watched the flat belt competition at the top of Huangshizhai Mountain. Everyone's heartstrings fluctuate with every step of the flat belt player. The players are shocked every step of the way, and the audience is worried.
This Zhangjiajie Huangshizhai high-altitude flat belt competition is one of the competition events of the 2018 China International Outdoor Fitness and Leisure Conference and the 2019 National New Year Climbing Fitness Conference. It is also the first high-altitude flat belt competition in Wulingyuan Scenic Area in Zhangjiajie. It is not only a comprehensive It is an opportunity to showcase the scenery of Wulingyuan in Zhangjiajie. Through this event, the public can deeply feel the significance of this extreme sport that combines competitiveness, fashion and artistry. It is a sports spirit of not admitting defeat, having the courage to challenge and surpassing oneself. In recent years, Zhangjiajie Wulingyuan Scenic Area has actively promoted the integrated development of "tourism + sports" and actively created high-altitude flat belt races, bicycle challenges, mountain marathons, cliff diving, hiking and other sports events. It has introduced the health concepts of national fitness and mass sports into the tourism and leisure industry, allowing tourists to enjoy the unique style of sports + tourism, and injecting new vitality into the development of regional tourism.