Sharing the second place, we have Taylor!

• Name: Taylor St. Germain
• Age: 25 years  old
• Nationality: Canada

Taylor from Canada is no unkown in the Freestyle Highline Community, but she only started competing during the Pandemic Open online competitions where she scored 4th place. In 2023 she participated in only one major competition: the French Winter Fesislack World Cup which she won, giving her 1500 points sharing the second rank with Florentina. Taylor is on the Slackhouse Slacklines team and part of the Bounce Kult freestyle crew. Check out her social media, it is clear she is having lots of fun on the highline. Taylor qualified for the LAAX World Championships, lets see what happens there in Summer 2024!
Go get it Taylor!

Sharing the second place, we have Florentine!

• Name: Florentine Fink
• Age: 30 years  old
• Nationality: Germany

Florentine from Dresden, Germany came out of nowhere, she suddenly appeard on the international szene during the BYOB – Pro competition which she won! This competition was classified as a World Cup, giving her 1500 points sharing the second rank with Taylor. Florentine is on the READ Slacklines team. She is famously known for not having any social media, so following her will be difficult 🙂 She qualified for the LAAX World Championships, we can not wait to see her perform there!
Congratulation Florentine! Nice job!

Let’s start from the third place, we have Sebastian!

• Name: Sebastian Egger
• Age: 26 years old
• Nationality: German

Sebastian Egger is one of the early day Freestyle Highliners, known for his extremly clean style and sick tricks. He told us, “…I got  injured from focusing only on freestyle highlining in the past, this heavily influenced my training routines. It lead to me reading lots of literature, educating myself about sustainable training and performing lots of offline sessions, such as barbel and functional workouts, i love training! Lots of atheletes come to me to ask for personal training plans nowadays”.
Sebastian has been competing since 2021. In 2023 he took part in Winter Festislack and Cirat Highline Meeting competitions, ranking 2nd and 3rd. He also participated in Speed Highline competitions. For LAAX 2024 he mentioned that he might want to try to win the Combo (Freestyle and Speed) prize! Allez Sebastian!

And the winner, in male category, for 2023, is again Sakalomo!

• Name: David Palomo
• Age: 27 years old
• Nationality: Spanish

Also known as Sakalomo, David started slacklining 5 year ago and, he said “…each year he’s is becoming more and more serious.” He lives in the Canary Islands, “Slackline Canarias is the association which promotes highlining on the island and that helped me provide one of the best training camps ever.”
“It’s crazy how time flies and things that used to be impossible, are now the everyday routine. (…) the Highline Freestyle world has developed so much during this year that in each competition the level has been raised.”
Projects for the future?
“I hope next year the level keeps rising and we get to see this beautiful sport develop and taken to its maximum potential.
There is still a lot of work to be done and it’s up to all of us to make this sport grow, so let’s do it together! You can start by bouncing and the rest will come 🙂”
Thank you David for the effort you put into the freestyle highline world. Enjoy the next year and keep it up!