diff --git a/src/components/slides/slides.ts b/src/components/slides/slides.ts
index 12ec6ce699..43aea71959 100644
--- a/src/components/slides/slides.ts
+++ b/src/components/slides/slides.ts
@@ -161,6 +161,22 @@ export class Slides extends Ion {
   }
   private _autoplayMs: number;
 
+  /**
+   * @input {Slides}  Pass another Slides instance or array of Slides instances
+   * that should be controlled by this Slides instance.
+   * Default: `null`.
+   */
+  @Input()
+  get control() {
+    return this._control;
+  }
+  set control(val: Slides | Slides[]) {
+    if (val instanceof Slides || Array.isArray(val)) {
+      this._control = val;
+    }
+  }
+  private _control: Slides | Slides[] = null;
+
   /**
    * @input {string} Could be `slide`, `fade`, `cube`, `coverflow` or `flip`.
    * Default: `slide`.
@@ -551,6 +567,10 @@ export class Slides extends Ion {
   /** @private */
   runCallbacksOnInit = true;
 
+  // Controller
+  controlBy = 'slide';
+  controlInverse = false;
+
   // Keyboard
   /**
    * @private
@@ -827,6 +847,8 @@ export class Slides extends Ion {
   /** @internal */
   _slidesSizesGrid: any;
   /** @internal */
+  _spline: any;
+  /** @internal */
   _supportTouch: boolean;
   /** @internal */
   _supportGestures: boolean;
diff --git a/src/components/slides/swiper/swiper-controller.ts b/src/components/slides/swiper/swiper-controller.ts
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..4340c451ce
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/components/slides/swiper/swiper-controller.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,120 @@
+import { Slides } from '../slides';
+import { Platform } from '../../../platform/platform';
+import { fixLoop, onTransitionEnd, onTransitionStart } from './swiper';
+import { updateActiveIndex } from './swiper-index';
+import { isHorizontal, maxTranslate, minTranslate } from './swiper-utils';
+import { updateProgress } from './swiper-progress';
+import { setWrapperTransition, setWrapperTranslate } from './swiper-transition';
+
+
+/*=========================
+  Controller
+  ===========================*/
+export const SWIPER_CONTROLLER = {
+  LinearSpline: function (s: Slides, plt: Platform, x: any, y: any) {
+    this.x = x;
+    this.y = y;
+    this.lastIndex = x.length - 1;
+    // Given an x value (x2), return the expected y2 value:
+    // (x1,y1) is the known point before given value,
+    // (x3,y3) is the known point after given value.
+    var i1, i3;
+
+    this.interpolate = function (x2) {
+      if (!x2) return 0;
+
+      // Get the indexes of x1 and x3 (the array indexes before and after given x2):
+      i3 = binarySearch(this.x, x2);
+      i1 = i3 - 1;
+
+      // We have our indexes i1 & i3, so we can calculate already:
+      // y2 := ((x2−x1) × (y3−y1)) ÷ (x3−x1) + y1
+      return ((x2 - this.x[i1]) * (this.y[i3] - this.y[i1])) / (this.x[i3] - this.x[i1]) + this.y[i1];
+    };
+
+    var binarySearch = (function () {
+      var maxIndex, minIndex, guess;
+      return function (array, val) {
+        minIndex = -1;
+        maxIndex = array.length;
+        while (maxIndex - minIndex > 1)
+          if (array[guess = maxIndex + minIndex >> 1] <= val) {
+            minIndex = guess;
+          } else {
+            maxIndex = guess;
+          }
+        return maxIndex;
+      };
+    })();
+  },
+  // xxx: for now i will just save one spline function to to
+  getInterpolateFunction: function (s: Slides, plt: Platform, c: Slides) {
+    if (!s._spline) s._spline = s.loop ?
+      new SWIPER_CONTROLLER.LinearSpline(s, plt, s._slidesGrid, c._slidesGrid) :
+      new SWIPER_CONTROLLER.LinearSpline(s, plt, s._snapGrid, c._snapGrid);
+  },
+  setTranslate: function (s: Slides, plt: Platform, translate: number, byController: Slides) {
+    var controlled = s.control;
+    var multiplier, controlledTranslate;
+    function setControlledTranslate(c: Slides) {
+      // this will create an Interpolate function based on the snapGrids
+      // x is the Grid of the scrolled scroller and y will be the controlled scroller
+      // it makes sense to create this only once and recall it for the interpolation
+      // the function does a lot of value caching for performance
+      translate = c._rtl && isHorizontal(c) ? -s._translate : s._translate;
+      if (s.controlBy === 'slide') {
+        SWIPER_CONTROLLER.getInterpolateFunction(s, plt, c);
+        // i am not sure why the values have to be multiplicated this way, tried to invert the snapGrid
+        // but it did not work out
+        controlledTranslate = -s._spline.interpolate(-translate);
+      }
+
+      if (!controlledTranslate || s.controlBy === 'container') {
+        multiplier = (maxTranslate(c) - minTranslate(c)) / (maxTranslate(s) - minTranslate(s));
+        controlledTranslate = (translate - minTranslate(s)) * multiplier + minTranslate(c);
+      }
+
+      if (s.controlInverse) {
+        controlledTranslate = maxTranslate(c) - controlledTranslate;
+      }
+      updateProgress(c, controlledTranslate);
+      setWrapperTranslate(c, plt, controlledTranslate, false, s);
+      updateActiveIndex(c);
+    }
+    if (Array.isArray(controlled)) {
+      for (var i = 0; i < controlled.length; i++) {
+        if (controlled[i] !== byController) {
+          setControlledTranslate(controlled[i]);
+        }
+      }
+    } else if (byController !== controlled) {
+      setControlledTranslate(controlled);
+    }
+  },
+  setTransition: function (s: Slides, plt: Platform, duration: number, byController: Slides) {
+    var controlled = s.control;
+    var i;
+    function setControlledTransition(c: Slides) {
+      setWrapperTransition(c, plt, duration, s);
+      if (duration !== 0) {
+        onTransitionStart(c);
+        plt.transitionEnd(c._wrapper, () => {
+          if (!controlled) return;
+          if (c.loop && s.controlBy === 'slide') {
+            fixLoop(c, plt);
+          }
+          onTransitionEnd(c, plt);
+        });
+      }
+    }
+    if (Array.isArray(controlled)) {
+      for (i = 0; i < controlled.length; i++) {
+        if (controlled[i] !== byController) {
+          setControlledTransition(controlled[i]);
+        }
+      }
+    } else if (byController !== controlled) {
+      setControlledTransition(controlled);
+    }
+  }
+};
diff --git a/src/components/slides/swiper/swiper-events.ts b/src/components/slides/swiper/swiper-events.ts
index aaa04f8ad8..66e644c71b 100644
--- a/src/components/slides/swiper/swiper-events.ts
+++ b/src/components/slides/swiper/swiper-events.ts
@@ -832,6 +832,10 @@ function onResize(s: Slides, plt: Platform, forceUpdatePagination: boolean) {
     updatePagination(s);
   }
 
+  if (s._spline) {
+    s._spline = undefined;
+  }
+
   var slideChangedBySlideTo = false;
   if (s.freeMode) {
     var newTranslate = Math.min(Math.max(s._translate, maxTranslate(s)), minTranslate(s));
diff --git a/src/components/slides/swiper/swiper-transition.ts b/src/components/slides/swiper/swiper-transition.ts
index c9d54365f9..0caf9debd9 100644
--- a/src/components/slides/swiper/swiper-transition.ts
+++ b/src/components/slides/swiper/swiper-transition.ts
@@ -4,10 +4,11 @@ import { parallaxSetTransition, parallaxSetTranslate } from './swiper-parallax';
 import { Platform } from '../../../platform/platform';
 import { updateProgress } from './swiper-progress';
 import { updateActiveIndex } from './swiper-index';
+import { SWIPER_CONTROLLER } from './swiper-controller';
 import { SWIPER_EFFECTS } from './swiper-effects';
 
 
-export function setWrapperTranslate(s: Slides, plt: Platform, translate: any, shouldUpdateActiveIndex?: boolean, byController?: any) {
+export function setWrapperTranslate(s: Slides, plt: Platform, translate: any, shouldUpdateActiveIndex?: boolean, byController?: Slides) {
   var x = 0, y = 0, z = 0;
   if (isHorizontal(s)) {
     x = s._rtl ? -translate : translate;
@@ -51,6 +52,10 @@ export function setWrapperTranslate(s: Slides, plt: Platform, translate: any, sh
   if (s.parallax) {
     parallaxSetTranslate(s);
   }
+
+  if (s.control) {
+      SWIPER_CONTROLLER.setTranslate(s, plt, s._translate, byController);
+  }
 }
 
 
@@ -127,7 +132,7 @@ export function getWrapperTranslate(s: Slides, plt: Platform, axis?: any) {
   return getTranslate(s, plt, s._wrapper, axis);
 }
 
-export function setWrapperTransition(s: Slides, plt: Platform, duration: number, byController?: any) {
+export function setWrapperTransition(s: Slides, plt: Platform, duration: number, byController?: Slides) {
   transition(s._wrapper, duration);
 
   if (s.effect !== 'slide' && SWIPER_EFFECTS[s.effect]) {
@@ -137,4 +142,8 @@ export function setWrapperTransition(s: Slides, plt: Platform, duration: number,
   if (s.parallax) {
     parallaxSetTransition(s, duration);
   }
+
+  if (s.control) {
+      SWIPER_CONTROLLER.setTransition(s, plt, duration, byController);
+  }
 }
diff --git a/src/components/slides/swiper/swiper.ts b/src/components/slides/swiper/swiper.ts
index 2bb765ab98..21fc1f1499 100644
--- a/src/components/slides/swiper/swiper.ts
+++ b/src/components/slides/swiper/swiper.ts
@@ -618,6 +618,9 @@ export function update(s: Slides, plt: Platform, updateTranslate?: boolean) {
   }
 
   if (updateTranslate) {
+    if (s._spline) {
+      s._spline = undefined;
+    }
     if (s.freeMode) {
       forceSetTranslate();
       if (s.autoHeight) {
diff --git a/src/components/slides/test/control/app-module.ts b/src/components/slides/test/control/app-module.ts
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..0b6dd4a38a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/components/slides/test/control/app-module.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,35 @@
+import { Component, ViewChild, NgModule } from '@angular/core';
+import { IonicApp, IonicModule, Slides } from '../../../..';
+
+
+@Component({
+  templateUrl: 'main.html'
+})
+export class MyPage {
+  @ViewChild('firstSlider') slider1: Slides;
+  @ViewChild('secondSlider') slider2: Slides;
+}
+
+
+@Component({
+  template: `<ion-nav [root]="root"></ion-nav>`
+})
+export class E2EApp {
+  root: any = MyPage;
+}
+
+@NgModule({
+  declarations: [
+    E2EApp,
+    MyPage
+  ],
+  imports: [
+    IonicModule.forRoot(E2EApp)
+  ],
+  bootstrap: [IonicApp],
+  entryComponents: [
+    E2EApp,
+    MyPage
+  ]
+})
+export class AppModule {}
diff --git a/src/components/slides/test/control/main.html b/src/components/slides/test/control/main.html
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..a4b5121123
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/components/slides/test/control/main.html
@@ -0,0 +1,40 @@
+
+<ion-content no-bounce>
+
+  <div style="height: 200px; background-color: #eee;">
+    <ion-slides class="my-slides" #firstSlider [control]="secondSlider">
+
+      <ion-slide padding>
+        <h1>Slide 1</h1>
+      </ion-slide>
+
+      <ion-slide padding>
+        <h1>Slide 2</h1>
+      </ion-slide>
+
+      <ion-slide padding>
+        <h1>Slide 3</h1>
+      </ion-slide>
+
+    </ion-slides>
+  </div>
+
+  <div style="height: 200px; background-color: #ddd;">
+    <ion-slides class="my-slides" #secondSlider [control]="firstSlider">
+
+      <ion-slide padding>
+        <h1>Slide 1</h1>
+      </ion-slide>
+
+      <ion-slide padding>
+        <h1>Slide 2</h1>
+      </ion-slide>
+
+      <ion-slide padding>
+        <h1>Slide 3</h1>
+      </ion-slide>
+
+    </ion-slides>
+  </div>
+
+</ion-content>