Jaan Roose makes slackline history in Italy

Estonian athlete Jaan Roose crossed the longest slackline ever constructed, measuring 3,646 metres

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00:00It's really windy, it's hard to predict the weather, when to walk and when to set it up.

00:13Obviously the biggest challenge is the distance over the Messina Strait.

00:18But before even walking the challenge is to set it up actually.

00:22Because the Messina Strait we know is a really busy place.

00:25A lot of boats passing by while I was walking, there were boats behind and in front of me.

00:29So we had to stay at a certain height.

00:33And it's quite distracting and I could hear all the noise from the cars and from people actually cheering, which was cool.

00:41The way the mind works is just constantly scrolling, scrolling, the thoughts, the ideas, the visual pictures in front of me.

01:03And it's hard to stay in one moment for a long time.

01:11My first feeling was finally to get a good deep breath of fresh air.

01:21It was so hard to remind myself to keep breathing while walking.

01:28I feel actually incredible.

01:31I didn't expect that I would walk it in three hours.

01:35Because I had to be really careful with the steps and I had counted actually 15,000 steps walking over the Messina Strait.