20 athletes from around the country have shown spectacular tricks in front of 300 spectators and made the Swiss Slackline Championship audience enthusiastic! Winners of the first Swiss Slackline Championships in Zurich were after exciting finals Samuel Volery from Uster and Alexandra Oswald from Zurich .
The First Swiss Slackline Championship
The first Swiss Championship, which were held this weekend in Zurich, shows that slacklining has reached a professional level. The athletes showed in the discipline Trickline / Jump Line on a 20 meter long slackline spectacular jumps, salto’s but also static figures, like balancing only on a hand or shoulder on the line. The difficulty and variety of the performance was evaluated.
Variation of the sport
This year’s winner of the Swiss Slackline Championship, Samuel Volery, is particularly fascinated by the many variations of the sport: “If I do not feel like to jump, I set up a slackline in excess of 100 meters in length  to balance it. This is extremely meditative. and when I search the thrill , then I go to the highline. The feeling in over 100 meters in height to balance on a narrow band is just awesome and incredible! “
Swiss Slackline Championship Ranking Table
Men
- Samuel Volery, Uster ZH, Sponsor:Slacktivity
- Antoine Jacquat, Bulle FR
- Rémy Boser, St. Maurice VS
- Robin Jacquat, Bulle FR
- Samuel Metzger, Luzern, Sponsor:Slacktivity
- Luan Gäumann, Mont-Crosin BE, Sponsor:Slacktivity
- Jonas Käppeli, Kriens LU
- Pascal Graf, Kriens LU
- Timon Heinis, Basel
- Reto Rabensteiner, Schleinikon ZH
- Diego Bettinaglio, Meilen ZH
- Alexis Gonin, Biel BE
- Elias Carl, Meilen ZH
- Dimitri Brooks, Aigle VD
- Marc Ketterlin, Allschwil BL
- Balthasar Müller, Aarau
Ladies
- Alexandra Oswald, Zürich
- Jeannine Hari, Birsfelden BL
- Silvia Mathis, Zürich
- Angelica Garcia Dupont, Lausanne VD
Written By:
Tobias Rodenkirch is SLACKTIVITY co-founder and an enthusiastic slackliner and climber. With great passion and creativity he works on the development of new slackline material. He started slacklining in 2003 and founded SLACKTIVITY in 2009 while studying movement science.