A12| Tuesday, September 3, 2019 THE WALL STREET JOURNAL.
HANDS ON| By Michael Paleos
Across
1 Man with a
spare rib?
5 Enjoy the pool
9 Became a
shipwreck,
perhaps
13 Feature of the
Angels’ logo
14 Hand over
15 Lightbulb,
metaphorically
16 Hamlet’s words
after “perchance
to dream”
19 Thick cut
20 Slimmest of
margins, in
baseball
22 Pup sound
25 Risky buy, so
they say
28 Harbor markers
30 Mai ___31 Piqued state
32 “Yadda yadda
yadda”
34 Weary sound
37 1984 mock
rockumentary
43 Sponsor of the
Mets’ ballpark
44 Dairy sources
45 Spotted rodent
of South America
49 “I’ll take that
as ___”
51 Braying beasts
52 Refusing to
budge
56 Arm art, for short
57 Make known
58 Geraint’s love, in
Arthurian legend
60 Concluding detail,
and a feature of
16-, 25-, 37- and
52-Across66 List-ending
abbr.
67 Baddatefor
Julius Caesar
68 Accurate, as
aim
69 Undemanding
70 Cargo liner’s
destination
71 Vanquished,
as a dragon
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2Boxona
calendar
3 Elev.
4 ___ scale
(talc-to-diamond
range)
5 Discard as
worthless
6 Smidgen
7 Superegos’
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9 Popular tourist
destination of
Tuscany
10 Mag space sellers
11 Cell with
synapses
12 Stylized
Japanese drama
17 Material in
waistbands and
wristbands
18 Darlin’
21 Keepsake for a
March Madness
champion
22 Facilitate some
wrongdoing
23 Baseball’s
“Bambino”
24 Ellipse centers
26 Betraying
surprise
27 Roman numeral
usually found
only on clock
faces
29 “You bet!”
33 Hit CBS series
with multiple
spinoffs
35 Bearded beast of
Africa
36 Fought38 Lee of comics
fame
39 Mormon initials
40 Clinical study
41 Length times
width, for a
rectangle
42 Attention-getting
utterance
45 Next-to-last
letter in the
Greek alphabet
46 Charge for
getting cash
47 Per ___ (for each
person)
48 Pineapple, in
Spanish or French
50 First game of a
doubleheader
53 In a deadpan way
54 “___ Now or
Never”
55 Stereotypical
teen emotion
59 Colorful movie
theater candy
61 Spot for a
gunslinger’s
holster
62 Wedding words
63 Online address
64 Tool for pool
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shortened words in the theme entries are U/YOU,
B/BE, R/ARE and Y/WHY. The missing letter(s) of
each begin exactly one answer in the grid: YO(CH),
E(AT), AE(RO) and WH(OM). The extra letters in
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60s60s 50s70sDUSTIN LINDBLADregularly
causes rushed New Yorkers to stop
in their tracks and watch as she
balances in tree pose on a slack-
line strung near the George Wash-
ington Bridge.
“Many cyclists and the occa-
sional inline speed skater stop to
inquire if I’m in the circus,” the 51-
year-old freelance designer says.
After more than a decade of do-
ing traditional yoga, Ms. Lindblad
took her practice up a notch by
swapping her mat for a slackline
that’s 1 inch wide. For the past
three years, she’s performed her
routine along the Hudson River,
earning a reputation among Upper
Manhattan residents as the woman
walking on air, she says.
Having mastered handstands
and tricky arm balances, Ms. Lind-
blad turned to AcroYoga in 2015
looking for a new challenge. The
partner practice combines ele-
ments of yoga, acrobatics and Thai
massage and involves one partner
lifting another into poses. In 2016,
she flubbed a pose and broke both
wrists. “I couldn’t do a handstand
for six months,” she says. “It was
very frustrating physically and
emotionally.”
Friends in the acrobatics com-
munity encouraged her to try
slacklining while she recovered. So
she strapped on wrist guards and
set about improving her balance.
Unlike a tightrope, which involves
a cable, slacklining is done on
webbing, so there is some give to
it. She started by sitting and
crawling on a 25-foot-long slack-
line strung 18 inches off the
ground. She advanced slowly to
standing and doing yoga postures.
Now she practices year-round on a
50-foot slackline about 5 feet off
the ground.
Ms. Lindblad finds the water-
front setting calming. Mid-spring
and fall can get windy, but she
says the gusts are nothing com-
pared with the trains that pass by
every 15 minutes. “At first I’d fall
every time the train passed. But
the distraction forces you to look
inward and be completely present.
It’s like a moving meditation. It
brings me to the now, relaxes my
mind and helps me to reset.”
The Workout
Ms. Lindblad split her one-bed-
room apartment into an office
space and an “acrobatic room.”
While working at her computer,
she takes a three-minute head-
stand and handstand break every
hour. “The balance required to
stand on your hands and hold your
core and legs tight above you is
very similar to the awareness you
feel on a slackline, just inverted,”
she says.
She tries to finish work by 5 p.m.
and then heads down to the Hudson
River five to six days a week. Be-
fore hopping on the slackline, she
warms up on the grass by perform-
ing squats, splits, ankle stretches,
forward folds and downward dog
pose. Her slackline workout begins
with seated, kneeling or reclined
poses. “This helps orient me to the
tension of the line,” she says.
She often starts in tabletop
pose on hands and knees and will
extend her right arm forward and
left leg back. Then she switches,
doing 15 repetitions on each side.
She moves into locust pose, a yoga
posture where you lie on your
stomach and lift your head, chest,
arms and legs off the ground. Then
she does boat pose, where she sits
and raises her arms and legs to
make a V-shape with her body.
A typical sequence might in-
clude 10 to 12 poses, including
back bends perpendicular and par-
allel to the line and star pose, a
variation of side plank with the
top leg extended.
Every second or third day she
mixes in a handstand workout. Af-
ter a series of wrist exercises, she
practices seven reps each of four
different handstands. She holds
her handstands between 10 to 20
seconds, then drops into a back
bend and rises up to stand from
her backbend pose. “Tuck-ups are
the hardest, so I save them for
last,” she says. Those require her
to enter a handstand by jumping
off both feet into a tuck position
and extend her legs up into a
handstand.
To build strength and endur-
ance, she does handstand holds of
30 seconds to three minutes. She
ends by standing and dropping
back into a back bend seven to 10
times.The Diet
Ms. Lindblad doesn’t eat red
meat. She tries to stick to raw
foods. Breakfast is oatmeal topped
with berries, almonds and a dollop
of goat’s milk yogurt. “In the sum-
mer, I live off of smoothies,” she
says. Her go-to blend includes
kale, spinach, avocado, pineapple,
mint and jalapeño. Dinner is usu-
ally a kale salad dressed in bal-
samic vinaigrette or salmon sushi.The Cost and Gear
Ms. Lindblad spent $130 on her
YogaSlackers slackline kit. She
wears Prana and Athleta apparel.
She wears Vibram Vi-S shoes ($85)
or Feiyue Fe Lo martial arts shoes
($70). In the summer, she protects
herself from the sun with Active-
Ice Spectrum sun gloves ($25), a
Carve Designs lake sunshirt with
UPF 50+ sun protection ($58) and
a Sombriolet sun hat ($42). In
winter, she layers up and wears
windproof Pearl Izumi Escape soft-
shell gloves ($45).The Playlist
She calls the birds, the sound of
the Hudson River and the passing
trains her outdoor soundtrack. In-
doors, her playlist includes Lord
Huron, the Lumineers, Emancipa-
tor and Tycho.WHAT’S YOUR WORKOUT?| JEN MURPHY
Urban Zen for a Woman Walking on Air
A New Yorker helps maintain her balance with a rigorous year-round practice on a piece of webbing just 1 inch wide
New York City freelance designer Dustin Lindblad performs yoga on a 1-inch-wide slackline near the Hudson River. She
begins her slackline yoga practice with seated positions, below right. She also works on her handstands, below left.LIFE & ARTS
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