G4G project: May 2012

AIM

G4G Project is a collaboration between 3 slacklining and highlining females from 3 countries, who all share similar passions and hope to encourage and promote more women to participate in the sport of slackline and the lifestyle it entails. Our project is not meant so much as a separation between men and women, but more as a focus on females and their limitless possibilities, even in male dominated extreme sports such as slacklining and climbing. We hope this project will become a global movement connecting women everywhere in the knowledge that they can do whatever they set out to achieve.

Faith Dickey

Age 23

From Austin, Texas, USA

Years Slacklining 3

Faith began slacklining in a local park of Austin, Texas without dreams to ever walk a line in the sky or long distances over the ground. She started slackline like anyone would have, as a hobby. After traveling to Europe a year later and trying her first highlines and longlines, her hobby quickly turned into a passionate affair with balance. It became clear that slacklining was more than a sport, it was a lifestyle, and Faith found herself devoting her time to traveling in search of higher, longer and more exposed highlines. She unintentionally began leading females in the sport, quickly surpassing previous records and setting new ones frequently. Currently she ranks as the female world record holder in the longest highline at 81 meters (Bloody Red, Peilstein, Austria,) as well as highest female highline send of 1200 meters (Monchsbuffel, Switzerland) and the longest and most free solos and first ascents. In addition to highlining she holds the longest female send of a slackline at 222 meters. Her love of slackline stemmed from the deep connection to the earth one must have in order to spend so much time in nature, and the extreme affinity to ones body, fear and adrenaline needed in order to free solo highlines. Faith slacklines because she loves it and is addicted to it, simple as that is. Her current plans revolve around traveling to as many beautiful places as possible to walk more highlines, establish new lines and spread the love of slackline while also focusing on promoting women in the male-dominant lifestyle.

When not slacklining or traveling, Faith spends her free time doing art, editing videos, keeping up blogs and journals, playing ukulele and sewing.

Anča Kuchařová

Age 23

From Czech Republic

Years Slacklining 2

Anča Kuchařová is a girl coming from Czech Republic, the heaven of sandstones. She always spent a lot of time in nature thanks her parents. In highschool she started with climbing, and in summer 2010 with slacklining and highlining. Now, she is one of the best female-highliners in the world. Actually she started in the sport because she fell in love with one highliner, than she fell in love with highlines..... She has walked more than 50 highlines. The longest one was 40m long, which is the European Female record. She has walked a 100 meter longline over the ground. Anča is also experienced in rigging because she participated in putting up a lot of new highlines.

What is a magic of highline? She said that she has never seen the world and herself so clearly as on a highline. For walking the lines she had to use everything that she learned in yoga and meditation. Highlining gets her deeper to pure living. Besides the sport of slackline, she has a bachelor of architecture and continues on with master studies. She is working for a company for almost two years now. She is focusing on eco houses made from clay, wood and straw. Anča also enjoys traveling, climbing, drawing, writing and working with photos. The mosaic of her life seems to her entertaining and fulfilling as it contains slackline, architecture, friends and nature.

Anča Kuchařová, je třiadvacetiletá Češka z Prahy. Díky své rodině trávila odmala spoustu času v přírodě. Na gymlu začala lézt a v létě 2010 se pustila do sackline a nedlouho na to do highline. Nyní je to třetí nejlepších hajlajnerka na světě. Původně začala s lajnama, protože se zamilovala do jednoho hajlajnera a nakonec se zamilovala i do hajlajn. Už jich přešla víc jak 50. Její nejdelší hajlajna měří 40m a je to současný evropský ženský rekord. Nad zemí ujde 100m.

Anča je také zkušená v natahování lajn, během posledního roku napnula s dalšími hajlajnery mnoho nových směrů. V čem ji hajlajny tak učarovaly? Prý nikdy neviděla svět ani sebe tak jasně, jak na hajlajně. Proto aby mohla chodit po lajnách, musela použít vše, co se naučila v józe a při meditaci. Chození hajlajn jí posouvá hlouběji k čistému prožitku. Krom toho studuje úspěšně Architekturu a stavitelství na ČVUT a téměř dva roky pracuje ve svém oboru. Nyní se soustředí na ekologickou architekturu používající hlínu, dřevo a slámu. A jinak tahle holka ráda cestuje, leze, maluje, píše a pracuje s fotkami. Mozajka jejího života jí připadá zábavná a naplňující, neodmyslitelně k ní patří lajny, architektura, přátelé a příroda.

G4G project

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