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TRION Hockey - "Thrilled" With Response to Innovative
Skate Training Aid.
"The hockey world has been waiting years for something like
it," - former NHL star Al Iafrate. TORONTO - A new
product that's been causing a buzz in hockey circles is about
to hit stores.
Retailers
are now selling SK8W8
- an adjustable skate weight used by hockey players to build
speed and explosiveness. TRION Hockey has been
inundated with requests for its innovative product, and
company president Mike D'Orazio says he's "thrilled with the
response".
Each
SK8W8 has a high impact nylon shell that holds up to three steel
weights, each of which weighs 113 grams (four ounces). The weights
can be added and removed as desired.
SK8W8 is spring loaded and
is shaped like a wishbone to ensure a snug fit on the skate blade.
SK8W8 is suitable for adult hockey skates up to size 11.
Skaters
benefit from using TRION Hockey's SK8W8 the same way baseball
players benefit from swinging bats with weighted donuts before
stepping up to the plate. |
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Since TRION launched
SK8W8 at the One Goal Hockey Show
in January, the product has won rave reviews from players who
have tested it in skating drills - and from some of the most
knowledgeable men in hockey. "This is a great product and long
overdue," says former NHL defenceman Al Iafrate.
"The hockey world has been waiting years for something like
it."
"The weights are incredible for working
on explosive starts, quickness and leg strength," adds Tate
Phillips, head coach of the Toronto based Jr. Canadiens minor
midget AAA team.
Phillips, a former OHL and professional
European league player, says his players used the weights in
practice for the last two months of the 2005 -2006 season and
"loved them."
Phillips, who is also a scout with the
OHL's Mississauga Ice Dogs, saw a dramatic improvement in his
player's skating. "After using the weights for a few weeks,
their first few steps (without the weights) were faster and
they were getting farther off the ground on their crossovers,"
he explains.
D'Orazio is confident other hockey
players will like SK8W8 as much as those on Phillip's team.
"The response has been tremendous so
far," D'Orazio says. "The kids and the parents can't wait to
get SK8W8's and have been asking me where they can buy them.
Every coach I've approached plans to get them as soon as
they're in stores."
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