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Squid Becomes Officials Medical Supplier of US Ski & Snowboard

We're incredibly excited to announce that the Squid team have become an official medical supplier of US Ski & Snowboard! 

Boasting some of the worlds greatest athletes, Squid will be at the heart of the the team's endeavours for the foreseeable future, including the run in to the 2018 Winter Olympics. 

With the Squid being as portable as it is, it will allow the company to reap the benefits of having access to cold compression at all points during their competitions. Any trauma to the joints of the athletes can be attended to immediately with -18 degree cold temperatures, and the deepest cold compression on the market! 

You can find out more information about the team here.

We wish the US Ski & Snowboard team all the absolute best of luck in the upcoming year.

The Squid Team

The Travelling Squid

Squid is great! There can be no questioning that. From the deepest and coldest compression on the market, to the durability and ease of use, nothing compares to Squid Compression.

However, it is by far and away the portability that our customers love most, and it is this that makes Squid stand head and shoulders above the competition.

Each pump weighs just 450 grams and can be held in your hand, each wrap is joint specific to both target the area of pain specifically and to make it small enough to carry around with you, and the unit gets up to 50 uses per single charge!

All 3 of these benefits add to one extremely portable device.

So what is it about portability that makes Squid so much more beneficial for recovery and rehab?

Well, let's begin with when recovery is needed the most.

Let's look at this from an athlete's perspective; post session. Post session, you need to get nutrition straight on board because that's what is needed to recover quickly. You need to do a cool down and stretch, again, because that's what is needed to prevent DOMS to enable a quicker recovery. Ice baths are a fantastic asset, but needed quickly post session. All in all, quick recovery is essential to performance.

We know that having a cold compression device that works to increase your recovery rate is essential to improving your performance. But having one that you can take to training, and use immediately after your session, when you need it the most, is nothing but a perfect asset to your recovery.

What else is there?

There's travelling. Post game or competition, you're constantly travelling. Be it flying back from a European game, or a 12 hour bus journey from the North of Britain to the South. If you can use that time more constructively by using it to recover, then it's a winning situation. Squid is so portable that using the unit on a plane, in a car, on a bus, or on a train is a breeze!

And then there is during the game. If you're a physio for a team, and a player takes a knock, sprains an ankle, or anything else really for that matter, Squid is ready to go. It's there pitch side with you, ready to target the injury immediately! It's the equivalent of using ice pitch side to reduce the swelling before it gets any worse, but having the bonus of compression driving the cold deeper!

So all in all, the benefits of having the most portable cold compression device on the market are enormous! And the final cherry on top... the price! £549 + VAT.

All the best,

The SPORTTAPE Team.

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T20 British Indoor Track 1500 Record

Some fantastic news from the weekend regarding one of Squids users!

Steve Morris (6th at the London 2012 Paraylmpics) smashed the British Indoor 1500 metre record during the Welsh Championships, in Cardiff. The focus will now be on chasing down 2 world records!

Steve is pictured racing above (blue vest & blue shorts).

Impressively, 3 weeks previous to this photo, Steve could not run at all due to a calf injury. Every session, every run, and every step would cause pain and tightness in his left calf. But thanks to perseverance in his injury recovery, and ensuring that he did everything he could to recovery, Steve has come out, on top!

Steve using Squid during his injury 3 weeks ago.

Best wishes for the upcoming races Steve!

The Squid Team.