New Kooga Wallabies kit
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Ward Prentice (10)
"They include carbon fibre which is claimed to lower the heart rate by up to at least four beats a minute.
KooGa spent two years researching and developing the "state-of-the-art" technology before submitting the winning jumper design to the Australian Rugby Union,
"The state-of-the-art fabrics also help stimulate blood flow to heighten reaction time and speed up performance."
The usual Marketing Tripe.
Kooga won the contract because they offered far more money than the others.
The article is typical of today's lazy-arse journalists who merely repeat Press releases, and dont actually critique them.
Merely reducing ones Heart Rate offers NO benefit to the sportsperson. The idea of activity is to INCREASE your heart rate so you can get MORE blood & Oxygen to the muscles. The crucial performance aspect is recovery time.
Rugby is an Anaerobic sport - eg stop start, so the ability to quickly increase your heart rate & quickly recover back to a near-resting level is what matters.
Then the article contradicts itself by claiming that the fabric simultaneously reduces the Heart rate but also "heightens reaction time and speeds up performance"
Do the Wallabies really believe this crap themselves? I doubt it. They'll need more than a 3 or 4 % improvement on 2009 results to get past pool play in the RWC
KooGa spent two years researching and developing the "state-of-the-art" technology before submitting the winning jumper design to the Australian Rugby Union,
"The state-of-the-art fabrics also help stimulate blood flow to heighten reaction time and speed up performance."
The usual Marketing Tripe.
Kooga won the contract because they offered far more money than the others.
The article is typical of today's lazy-arse journalists who merely repeat Press releases, and dont actually critique them.
Merely reducing ones Heart Rate offers NO benefit to the sportsperson. The idea of activity is to INCREASE your heart rate so you can get MORE blood & Oxygen to the muscles. The crucial performance aspect is recovery time.
Rugby is an Anaerobic sport - eg stop start, so the ability to quickly increase your heart rate & quickly recover back to a near-resting level is what matters.
Then the article contradicts itself by claiming that the fabric simultaneously reduces the Heart rate but also "heightens reaction time and speeds up performance"
Do the Wallabies really believe this crap themselves? I doubt it. They'll need more than a 3 or 4 % improvement on 2009 results to get past pool play in the RWC
Scarfman
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Top blast, top bloke ...
... up to the last line. You are welcome to support the mighty All Blacks, and welcome to criticise the Wallabies. But are you suggesting that on current form, the Wallabies wouldn't beat Italy, Europe 2, or USA? We are ranked 3rd and Italy 11th.
Welcome to the board, but please note that we discourage this kind of "my team right or wrong" stuff. Cheers.
... up to the last line. You are welcome to support the mighty All Blacks, and welcome to criticise the Wallabies. But are you suggesting that on current form, the Wallabies wouldn't beat Italy, Europe 2, or USA? We are ranked 3rd and Italy 11th.
Welcome to the board, but please note that we discourage this kind of "my team right or wrong" stuff. Cheers.
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Ward Prentice (10)
Cheers Scarfman. Fair enough, I was being facetious My reference to the 3-4% was more about the meaningless claim from Kooga. Eg performance on the field has nothing to do with what a player wears.
Its about desire, heart and guts and a bit skill does help of course.
Its about desire, heart and guts and a bit skill does help of course.
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waratahjesus said:
Funniest moment of my week - over at TSF one or two were criticising the new look for being "just a shirt and not a jersey". Funny considering adidas were the ones who started it with the gay black muscle T for the ABs several years ago :lmao: The one that ripped whenever it came within 10 feet of a ruck :lmao:
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Onerugby is a sports company like online though. Where you buy your gear online, for Soccer and rugby and other sports. Just online shopping
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Nope OneRugby just supplies Kooga gear, as Kooga haven't really gone for the type of thing which Canterbury have done, which is open their own stores. Which could well happen for Kooga within the next few years.
That's it, onerugby.com.au is one of many outlets who will sell the new Wallabies gear. They're currently "selling" them, however they wont ship till mid/late Feb.
I wonder why they made such a big deal about releasing it on Australia Day, then released it on the 25th, and now you can't buy them for a month. Strange.
I wonder why they made such a big deal about releasing it on Australia Day, then released it on the 25th, and now you can't buy them for a month. Strange.
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Moses said:
Was probably pushed by Kooga, just trying to get there brand name out there, especially since there big into supplying rugby clubs they might have wanted to push it before to many clubs decide who is going to manufacture there jerseys this year.
sorry, thats a watermark from the website which i linked the photo fromBiffo said:
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