New sponsor Ripxx provides USA Canoe/Kayak Olympic National Teams with leading edge technology.

Ripxx, a new sponsor of USA Canoe/Kayak provides USA National Team Coaches with cutting edge technology on speed and boat movements during an athlete's workout for both Sprint and Slalom. Ripxx constantly records data on nearly every movement an athlete makes and helps the athlete to be more efficient with each stroke. This small device contains a GPS tracking chip and a trio of gyroscopes and accelerometers that measure your path, your speed, accelerations and rotations. Recently used by the USA Bobsled and Skeleton teams in preparation for the 2010 Olympic Winter Games, Ripxx spent countless hours preparing data for coaches and athletes to make them go fast.

Recently, Slalom coaches Silvan Poberaj and Cathy Hearn spent two days learning how to maximize training with the new device during work outs prior to the Charlotte Open at the U.S. National Whitewater Center. I think that this tool could provide us with data that we can see, but have a hard time quantifying said William Irving, National Teams Director. Slalom National Team athletes will begin to use the device during their training sessions and analyze the data from the workout with their coaches.

Currently Sprint Coaches, Stein Jorgensen and Guy Wilding have been spending time with Kurt Nichol, President and CEO of Ripxx to develop key items in the data to analyze and be used by sprint athletes to train more efficiently. The Ripxx software is very easy to use and really helps analyzing the measurements to improve an athlete's performance said William Irving, National Teams Director.

Ripxx devices are for sale for just $329 at www.ripxx.com.

For more information contact William Irving, USA Canoe/Kayak National Teams Director at william@usack.org.

Tags: Canoe Slalom, Canoe Sprint