Welcome to EP4 of the Access Series Podcast.

In this Episode, we have Arthur Pera as Co-Host , helping me interview the ISA President, Thomas Buckingham.

Thomas has been Vice-President of the ISA since 2015 and was elected President of the ISA in August 2018. He started slacklining in 2007 and has been highlining since 2008. As president of the national-level Swiss Slackline Federation since 2013 and founding member of Slack Attack, a local slackline association in Bern founded in 2009, he has over a decade of experience in slackline-related volunteer work and community organization. Standing out, Thomas has volunteered and helped organize numerous events such as Bern City Slack Festival, Transalp Waterline Tour, ISA Safety Event, The Highline Extreme, Swiss Slackline Championships and the Highline World Championships in Laax. Consequently he is one of the driving forces behind logistics and organizational development of ISA.

We hope you enjoy this episode.

Episode 3 we talk to Neil Monteith, Grampians Climbing Guidebook Author and contributor to SaveGrampians.org Also along is Chris Wallace from ASA What Neil shared on the call that I did not know before speaking to him: Land managers don’t like highlining at lookouts as they are really concerned that if we have jumped the fence to highline, other user groups are going to jump the fence and come and stand next to the cliff edge with us and fall off. They would rather us be out of sight Freedom of information requests found that land managers were checking social media posts and saving them What Neil calls “The western sydney nightclubbers” user group and how they concern land managers The hazards of geo tagging social media posts How to integrate into the community to make it harder to ban the slackline user groups What other user groups (and thus land managers) don’t like What Neil saw slackliners doing 10 years ago that could have had bad results, but the community has now self managed Land managers don’t care as much about safety as I thought - it’s lower on their list than many other things (listen to find out which ones) There are 7 episodes in this series - go listen to the rest now! https://savegrampiansclimbing.org Support slacklining in Australia by becoming a member of Australian Slacklining Association for $10/yr here https://www.slacklining.org.au Subscribe/follow us for updates of new podcasts Follow ASA on our socials for the latest slacklining news https://www.instagram.com/australian_slacklining/ https://www.facebook.com/australianslacklining/

Welcome to ASA's ACCESS Series Podcast.

For our second episode, we invited Lori Modde, CEO of Outdoors NSW & ACT.

Lori has supported Slacklining in Australia for quite a while now and has so much experience in the Outdoor Industry. She is the bridge between recreators and commercial operators with land managers and government official bodies.

We are so pleased to continuously learn whenever she is around and we hope you will get something out of this chat.

Please share this episode to your friends, so we can spread the knowledge.

Today’s special guest is Australian Climbing Association Queensland President Peter Martland. ACAQ led the way with an access organisation more than twenty years ago and have seen their share of wins and failures in the space of access. Slacklining has a lot of similarities with climbing in terms of the land we use and slacklining is going through the emerging sport phase now that climbing went through 20+ years ago so there are a lot of similarities to learn from. Listen to find out: The Lost Crag of Minto - lessons learned. ACAQs greatest failure & greatest learning The challenges that climbers from a gym versus a non bushwalking background bring ACAQs exciting developments in insurance and pathways to purchasing crags Why it’s important to get you ducks in a row before going in and developing/opening up a new area Why consultation with stakeholders matters and why having ethics considered for the area is key Why checking the boundaries of the land and the land ownership is important when going into new areas (or even existing ones). And how to do this Why national parks would support anything that takes the pressure off their parks Future options- buying pockets of land that's under freehold and setting it up as a recreation reserved under trusteeship The risk of injury with climbing is smaller than with mountain biking - the work to change perceptions as climbing is still seen as a risky adrenaline activity by many Why getting involved in crag care initiatives matters There are 7 episodes in this series - go listen to the rest now! Read more about the lost crags of Queensland https://zenandtheartofclimbing.com/lost-crags-south-east-queensland-part-2/ Show your support for accessing the crags in Queensland by becoming a financial member of ACAQ for $20/year here - https://www.qldclimb.org.au Support slacklining in Australia by becoming a member of Australian Slacklining Association for $10/yr here https://www.slacklining.org.au Subscribe/follow us for updates of new podcasts Follow ASA on our socials for the latest slacklining news https://www.instagram.com/australian_slacklining/ https://www.facebook.com/australianslacklining/