Trickline Ranking List Winners

2021 is over and it is time to meet the winners in the discipline trickline! Consulting our ranking list, we can calculate who gained the most points in 2021! The calculation is simple, it is an addition of the two highest point rankings of the year. And here are the results:

In the female category, young girls from Japan crushed the trickline scene! The entire podium is Japanese, and only one of them is over eighteen.

Author: Sirio Izzo

Mirai Kuwabara

Let’s meet Mirai, 3^rd place in the ranking 2021:

Name: Mirai Kuwabara
Age: 10 years old
Nationality: Japanese

She trains daily on the trickline, usually from 30 minutes to 1 hour per session.
She practices flips on the floor and she trains the techniques she wants to perform on the line.
In 2021 she took part in the Gibbon Nippon Open, getting the first place in her category and she also ranked 2nd in the 8 part combo online contest.
She was the first woman in the world to land the Rikuto Flip, a Butt Backlip 540!

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Mio Sudo

On the second place, we have Mio!

Name: Mio Sudo
Age: 22 years old
Nationality: Japanese

It’s been 12 years since Mio started slacklining. That’s a lot!
In her training, she gives value to the practice of basic tricks.
Her goal for the next year is to join a contest where she could do a lot of runs and gives her best in the tournament.

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Mao Takebe

And the winner, in female category, for 2021, is Mao!

Name: Mao Takebe
Age: 16 years old
Nationality: Japanese

Wa had the pleasure to have a little interview with her; here’s what she told us:

“I am 16 years old and I’ve been slacklining for 7 years. In practice, first, I train to raise the height with basic buttbounce and chestbounce tricks. Next, I practice technique and combos using those techniques. And at the end, I will challenge techniques which I cannot do yet! I don’t know what kind of tournament there is yet this year, but I would like to participate in more of them! Also, I would be happy if there would be more online tournament where everyone in the world could compete. Last year’s tournament was satisfying, there were many improvements seen. Based on the improvements, my goal is to become a stronger rider this year and be able to compete with boys! I like trickline because no matter how many tricks you can do, new tricks will come out and you will be able to take on challenges all the time!”

Congratulation to all of you! You are an inspiration for all trickliners in the world!

Coming to male category, a weird thing happened: we have 3 athletes that scored the exact same amount of points, so they are actually sharing the highest place on the podium! All of them won two master size competitions in 2021, scoring at 1800 points! In 2021 and 2020, unlike the years before, there was no world cup size competition in tricklining.

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Louis Boniface

Let’s start with Louis then!

Name: Louis Boniface
Age: 24 years old
Nationality: French

Louis Boniface is a well known trickliner in the European scene, known also from his Guinness world record for the very first triple butt backflip landed!

He told us that he likes to be independent, and also that he would like to see a big improvement in contest organization, because tricklining, in his opinion, deserves more than what it has got currently.

Plans for 2022? He’d like to join the Natural Games contest and the Outdoor Mix Festival.

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Marius Kitowski

Next winner is Marius!

Name: Marius Kitowski
Age: 25 years old
Nationality: German

Marius, 10 years experience in slacklining, now trains three to four times per week, plus 2-3 times weightlifting, 2 times endurance and maybe 1-2 time trampoline (Wow!)

This year he joined the Redbull Slack Warrior, a completely new format and a new experience. “..it has been absolutely insane” he said. Then, Marius got 3^rd place at the Pangea Trickline competition in Rostock: “Sick event during a big lifestyle and music festival”.

Next, he competed in the Adrex trickline Open, in the Czech Republic. Last one was the competition in Sevillia, Spain. In both of them, Marius got 1^st place.

“This year was super sick. Even tho I broke my foot at the end of the season, I am super happy about how this year turned out. Looking forward to this years events”

About tricklining, Marius told us that he likes “… the uniqueness about the sport. I come from a competitive swimming background and this was a very strict environment with many rules. Tricklining gives me the chance to feel free and express myself with a creative movement approach”

Hendle Santos

And the last 2021 winner, in male category, Hendle!

Name: Hendle Santos
Age: 27 years old
Nationality: Brasilian

Here’s what he told us:

“I’ve been practicing Slacklining for 7 years. My training is 3 times a week tricklining and once a week Highlining\Midlining. Sometimes we do physicals training to strengthen the body. This year there were important competitions, such as the Slackline South American Championship, which two took place online, and the Bop Games Championship, which is the largest multi-sport event in Latin America.
These two competitions were incredible with magnificent high level athletes. I was very pleased to participate in these competitions.

I hope 2022 will be a year of many competitions, new athletes, new projects and growth for our slackline sport. I am very grateful to have known this sport that has changed me upside down.

What I like the most about tricklining is an incredible session of executing maneuvers, the lever you are in the air, the emotion of battling with friends and evolving together with both.
Trickline gives you the feeling of being alive and having a feeling of being inspired without even having jumped from a parachute.”