Slackline accident! 80mph-ratchet-to-knee injury

ALWAYS PUT A SAFETY ON YOUR SLACKLINE PARTS. They WILL become projectiles if something behind them breaks! This could have been easily avoided, PERIOD. A 20kN carabiner in the quick-release system behind the ratchet blows up (a piece of spinning shrapnel makes that whistling sound) just as I tilt my head back to backflip. Bar 9 Shaolin Style was actually playing, and in an unbelievably ironic coincidence, told me I was going to die right as this happened. Way to be epic, Universe! This was the injury I’v