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r10 Design and Testing
When we started making competition pool suits in 2008, we didn’t set out to make another race suit. We wanted to apply our expertise in technical product design to build a race suit that was uniquely different and performed exceptionally well. Just like the nero comp rocked the world by introducing completely new fabrics to the pool, the all-new r10 competition suits follow in that tradition. It is built with some of the most advanced and compressive fabrics available, and introduces the double layering of fabrics that has not previously been legal for competition swimming. Data collecting at UCCS The...
r10 Double-Layered Compression
In 2013 our product development team laid down goals for a new tech suit: it needed to be built with exclusive fabrics, it should have a distinctive look, feature an improved fit and of course, be fast. Faster then anything we’ve made before. Over the next couple years, we tested dozens of fabrics and different fits, but the project didn’t really come to life until 2015 when we came up with the unique copper infused fabric and clarified with FINA that we could increase the amount of the suit that could be double layered. Back in 2009 swimmers wore two...
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