21Jul 2020 by DS News Team
Bjorgen, Sundby & Andresen Band Together To Launch New Project

Bjorgen, Sundby & Andresen Band Together To Launch New Project

Newsfeed, Training & Outfitting
"Workouts that Make You See Results Fastest"- that's the credo of the new project by the three Norwegian stars who need no introduction. Because SkiX is going to be headed by Marit Bjørgen, Martin Johnsrud Sundby and Ragnar Bragvin Andresen. "Ski-X is a platform and in the near future also the app where we collected all the knowledge that we gathered in our years as athletes and coaches. You might want to see it as an Encyclopedia of cross country skiing: it will contain all the data regarding endurance and speed training (both on snow and "dry land") , strength building exercises, skiing technique and even nutrition. It's aimed at the very wide cross-section of the skiing community, from youth to very ambitious pros - everyone will able to find…
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20Jul 2020 by DS News Team
Top Rollerskier Launches His Line Of Dietary Supplements

Top Rollerskier Launches His Line Of Dietary Supplements

Newsfeed, Training & Outfitting
At least two thirds of elite athletes use dietary supplements, according to one oft-quoted study. And if athelets use these products, sometimes referred to as “ergogenic aids”, themselves it would be outright weird if they didn't partake in the promotion. Not on the market worth a whopping USD 120+ billion globally. Cristiano Ronaldo promotes Herbalife and Tom Brady the whole wellness / nutrition system called in case you forgot, TB12™. And only in the xcskiing hitherto nobody was pushing her or his line of products. Well, the skiing doesn't lag behind on that trend no longer: https://www.instagram.com/p/B-9k8B-otQb/?igshid=1566ma6atmexw Dmitry Voronin might not be a household name for every ski fan on the planet , but it's a very respected name in rollerski sprint circles and those of nascent superspint. The Russian…
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17Jul 2020 by DS News Team
Gear Silje and Vilde Used On Their Multi-mile Rollerski Vacation

Gear Silje and Vilde Used On Their Multi-mile Rollerski Vacation

Gear News, Newsfeed
Well, you surely read our story about Silje and Vilde who embarked on long rollerski vacation across Denmark. And now you want to know what gear and textiles the two young Norwegians used - 240 kilometers while pulling a heavy cart and sleeping al fresco is not something you want to do wearing a T-shirt from a supermarket and a pair of skis your uncle had stored in his garage! GEAR: Note Swix newest Roadline One poles - the company from Lillehammer promises that those are more gentle on your elbows while rollerskiing while maintaining the same low weight/ high stiffness as venerable Triacs. "They are amazing , - says Silje Vasvåg, - never tried any better" IDT's Classic RM2s, used by the most leading national teams, have been working…
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15Jul 2020 by DS News Team
Silje, Vilde And Their 50k/day Rollerski Vacation Across Denmark

Silje, Vilde And Their 50k/day Rollerski Vacation Across Denmark

Newsfeed, Travel & Mass Sport, Trivia
" Just living is not enough, says the butterfly in the short Hans Christian Andersen's tale , one must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower.” Meet Silje Vasvåg and Vilde Hammernes Pedersen, two urbanite millennials from Oslo who decided to experience Denmark in a very unusual way. " Vilde and I had worked together for some time, and went skiing on our time off at the season opening at Beitostølen. We found out that we loved to work out together, and so we decided to do a training camp upcoming summer. But it had to be something with skiing. Therefore we decided on visiting a country on rollerskis. From there we started to think about how we could make it a bit more complicated...." And complicated they did: "…
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15Jul 2020 by DS News Team
How SRB Wheels Are Produced

How SRB Wheels Are Produced

Newsfeed
This is Lisa and she operates 5-axis CNC milling machine by DMG Mori Seiki. Yes, it's as fancy as it sounds and is used for manufacturing very complex pieces for aerospace and medical equipment markets. That's exactly what Lisa is doing now: programming the machine to produce an alloy piece for aircraft maker, complexity of which defies imagination. You'd be very, very pleased to learn that once the aerospace order is complete, the next batch in shall be hubs for rollerski wheels. Because we are at the SRB plant in Zella-Mehlis where two thirds of output is for customers in aerospace, automotive and medical industry, with summer skis of own construction making up the remaining third. On the same machines, with the same tolerances and life-cycle expectations. Once milled, hubs…
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