13Oct 2017 by DS News Team
Maker Of High-End Cycling Insoles Enters XC Ski Market

Maker Of High-End Cycling Insoles Enters XC Ski Market

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Clearly, our great sport of cross country skiing is becoming more popular. How do we tell? Well, there are obvious signs. Like more and more companies entering the competition for skiers' hard earned dollar, offering their hitherto unknown wares. Not something that they would consider on a shrinking market, right? The German brand Solestar is primarily known for their high-tech ( and uber-expensive ) insoles used by some of the world's best cyclists - such as André Greipel, Matteo Trentin, Steve Cummings and Pauline Ferrand-Prévot to name but a few. To develop a product fit for xc skiers the Germans have enlisted help of no lesser figure than Jean-Marc Gaillard, a skier from Equipe de France who's career is spanning nearly two decades ( and running) – seen on the photo…
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06Oct 2017 by DS News Team
Because It’s Friday – And You Love Your Coach

Because It’s Friday – And You Love Your Coach

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Just because 1. it's Friday 2. you've done with your training micro-cycle and feel good about life, this world & all the humanity in it. 3. that 'peaceful, easy feeling' extends to your beloved coach, source of most of your pains, those physical especially, – and you want to do something nice for her or him. Here's something NOT for you – but for the said coach in your life: Blizwheel ESkates – foldable, futuristic and outright cool electric skates https://youtu.be/zaqGZ2bpIg0 You know what your coach would particularly appreciate, if our experience is anything to go by? Check you that dude at 02'09” trying – and, obviously, failing a decent one-foot glide? It's because he never went to that famed Supreme Higher Coaching Education Academy you've heard so much about…
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06Oct 2017 by DS News Team
Science To Rescue: Our Rollerski Scraped Knees Would Heal Three Times Quicker With New Smart Bandage

Science To Rescue: Our Rollerski Scraped Knees Would Heal Three Times Quicker With New Smart Bandage

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How many times did you fall on rollerskis this year and scraped your knees real bad? And how many days did it take for those wounds, scrapes and lacerations to heal? Rollerskiers (and bikers, inline skaters and other brothers & sisters in pain in lower extremities) rejoice! Because researchers from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, working jointly with Harvard Medical School and MIT, have come up a smart bandage that is meant speed up wound healing by the factor of three! At least that's what was achieved with wounded lab mice – their skin tissue regrew three times faster. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3d6uFlRuPZY The bandage itself is very XXI century – it consists of "electrically conductive fibers coated in a gel that can be individually loaded with infection-fighting antibiotics, tissue-regenerating growth factors, painkillers or…
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02Oct 2017 by DS News Team
Racefox: All Body Movements Originate In Point In Upper Chest

Racefox: All Body Movements Originate In Point In Upper Chest

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The second decade of the XXI century gave us the Internet of Things. While smart toasters and “dumb” fridges that wouldn't allow you to raid them in the middle of the night ( because you programmed it so yourself, trying to save your waistline - real life story) are all very exciting – they are rather peripheral to the great sport of cross country skiing. Let's talk about something that is central to it – like technique and performance analyses. Here comes Racefox, your real-time online xc skiing coach. Racefox, née Wememove, came to the market last year with a promise of bettering performance through using the chest strapped device & online app that test your technique and identify your strengths and weaknesses. Since then Racefox has become quite a…
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27Sep 2017 by DS News Team
Optiwax Shows Its Ambitions By Putting Black UHF Tape On Market

Optiwax Shows Its Ambitions By Putting Black UHF Tape On Market

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If you're a skier who never tried Optiwax glide tapes thus far – you really don't have an excuse this upcoming season, as far as we're concerned. What is a glide tape? It is a highly fluorinated glide wax attached to a paper backing, which makes it extremely simple to apply. And economical too, if you remember how much high flouro waxes tend to cost. For the upcoming season the Finnish racing wax producer is expanding its " tapes line" with a new - and the most fancy - addition: Here's Black UHF tape Says Jari Joutsen, founder & CEO of MJ Optima-Sport Oy: "Last winter we wanted test out how hard wax material we can apply to the tape with our methods and we also wanted see the limits…
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