{"id":2040,"date":"2018-01-20T09:46:00","date_gmt":"2018-01-20T17:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/invivodesigns.com\/isa\/?post_type=avada_portfolio&#038;p=2040"},"modified":"2023-12-05T09:34:11","modified_gmt":"2023-12-05T08:34:11","slug":"thomas-buckingham","status":"publish","type":"avada_portfolio","link":"https:\/\/www.slacklineinternational.org\/avada_portfolio\/thomas-buckingham\/","title":{"rendered":"Thomas Buckingham"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"fusion-fullwidth fullwidth-box fusion-builder-row-1 nonhundred-percent-fullwidth non-hundred-percent-height-scrolling\" style=\"--awb-border-radius-top-left:0px;--awb-border-radius-top-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-left:0px;--awb-flex-wrap:wrap;\" ><div class=\"fusion-builder-row fusion-row\"><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-0 fusion_builder_column_1_1 1_1 fusion-one-full fusion-column-first fusion-column-last\" style=\"--awb-bg-size:cover;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-flex-column-wrapper-legacy\"><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-1\"><p><strong>President<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">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 <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.swiss-slackline.ch\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Swiss Slackline<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Federation since 2013 and founding member of <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.slackattack.ch\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Slack Attack<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, 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 <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.slackattack.ch\/festival\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Bern City Slack Festival<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">,\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.swiss-slackline.ch\/transalp-waterline-tour.de.html\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Transalp Waterline Tour<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">,\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.slacklineinternational.org\/isa-safety-event\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">ISA Safety Event<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">,\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.swiss-slackline.ch\/highline-extreme-moleson.de.html\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Highline Extreme<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">,\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.swiss-slackline.ch\/championships\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Swiss Slackline Championships <\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.swiss-slackline.ch\/en\/laax-highline\/\">Highline World Championship in Laax<\/a>. Consequently he is one of the driving forces behind logistics and organizational development of\u00a0 the ISA. In addition to the above, Thomas consults and coordinates efforts regarding the development of safety standards. To this effect he has been involved in lots of original slackline-related research and is responsible for the publication of numerous safety recommendations, which were published by Swiss Slackline at first and now can be found on the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/data.slacklineinternational.org\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">ISA SlackED data platform<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Contact: thomas@slacklineinternational.org\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div><div class=\"fusion-clearfix\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":3122,"menu_order":-99,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"portfolio_category":[75],"portfolio_skills":[130],"portfolio_tags":[],"class_list":["post-2040","avada_portfolio","type-avada_portfolio","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","portfolio_category-executive-board","portfolio_skills-president"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.2 - 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