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A group of five young people attracted the attention of locals and tourists in an area of Praia Grande, on the coast of São Paulo. From the top of two unfinished buildings, from a height of nearly 35 meters, the group defies itself by crossing a distance of 90 meters in balance on a rope. Until tomorrow Sunday (13), the town hall declared that she was not aware of the practice.
According to G1 the group is composed of the inhabitants of the capital, São Paulo, as well as the city. One of the members, 23-year-old slackline professor Carlos Eduardo, said the initiative was taken after the São Paulo group viewed an old video showing another similar sport practiced in the same place, in the neighborhood of Canto do Forte.
"They got to know the place, to gather the slack and see what it looked like, from where they set up a highline, which is probably the first of the Baixada Santista," he says. this sport for a year and a half.
According to Eduardo, before the badembly, they checked all the necessary security elements of the sport.Tached to the rope, which gives two "journeys" between the buildings, the practitioners defy fear in walking about 90 meters, 35 meters above the ground.
"A lot of The people are there and watch us go through, "he said, revealing that firefighters and military police had also stopped to see them. "They took a picture and looked, but until now, no one has said anything," he says.
Even without permission to put the rope in place, the group repeated this practice throughout the day. Leonardo Mendonça, 19, is one of those who practiced this sport. He explains that one must have basic knowledge before stepping on the rope, even trapped.
"To practice the highline, you have to have slackline notions, which are similar, it's a sport that can be learned in the experience," he says. Although many consider the practice as a "madness", Mendonca says not to call the comments. "It's a unique feeling of walking between two points, many people, almost all, call me crazy, but I do not care anymore," he says.
