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Andy Lewis performs on a slackline during Madonna's halftime performance at Super Bowl on Sunday. Charlie Riedel, Associated Press

If you've seen slacklining in and around Colorado Springs, it was probably at Colorado College or on the sidelines of a soccer or Ultimate Frisbee match at Bear Creek Regional Park. You may even have seen a photo in The Gazette of locals practicing.

But slacklining got major exposure Sunday during halftime at the Super Bowl - during a performance by Madonna, no less!

And the slackline pro on center stage is from Colorado - and the company providing the slackline, Gibbon, is based in Boulder.

Here's some insight from Amy Bounds in the Daily Camera:

Gibbon Slacklines provided the line and the athlete, Andy Lewis. Lewis, who's sponsored by Gibbon, performed acrobatic tricks and danced on line during Madonna's show. The line was strung low between two posts in front of the stage.

“It's very exciting,” said Ricardo Bottome, president of Canaima Outdoors, Gibbon's distributor for North and South America. “It's a big day for slacklining.”

In a prepared statement, Lewis said slacklining was the easy part.

"Learning how to dance with Madonna and her dancers is the hardest thing I have ever had to do,” he said. “Using a Gibbon slackline is simple by comparison.”

Slacklining is the act of balancing along a narrow, flexible piece of webbing that's low to the ground and usually anchored between two trees.

Read more about slacklining and tricklining.