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- Right this is it, the video you've all been waiting for,
time for the Kona Tech Tour,
but there's so much this year, this is just Part One.
Stay tuned for Part Two,
but time to come with me, woohoo!
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A smaller product for you here,
this is a gel from GU Energy.
This is their Cold Brew Coffee
which I've heard quite a lot about here,
it's got 70mg of caffeine.
This gel was released just about six weeks ago,
now it's actually in the race pack
of every athlete competing here
at the Ironman World Championships,
but I like these gels from GU.
We've also got this one that came out not to long ago,
This is their Hoppy Trails, but just in case you're worried,
it does say 0% alcohol content on there,
still worth giving a go.
So here at the WYN Republic stand,
which is a Luke McKenzie's brand,
but he's got a new one for us cause this is MALO.
Now the cool thing about this
is WYN and MALO are Luke McKenzie's kids names.
So, MALO is his new brand on the market,
got some T-Shirts, got vests, we've got some shorts.
The cool thing about this
is they actually going to be donating products
at the end of the year to kids within Australia and America
to try and get them and encourage them into sport.
Right so these are the form goggles
which we have actually featured on the channel before
and a very exciting product
because they have an augmented reality display
within one of the lenses.
So this'll display things like your stroke rate,
your distance, your time, your split times and so on.
But they've just released this new update,
so they've collaborated with Polar,
with a Polar 0H1 Plus heart rate monitor
which will sit on your temple there
and it will now display your heart rate within the lens.
This is actually going to be released fully in November
but currently in beta version.
So very excited to see that because this will really change
the way that we swim.
Right so here I have the Omius headband.
This is actually Josh Amberger's in his custom Kona
color wear which matches his racing.
Now if we were just to pour a little bit of water
on to the back of these pads, this special compound here,
which you can see, raises out of the headband
increases the skin's surface area by five times.
So when we wack this on our head,
it's already really quite cold,
if we were to run along,
and the wind passing through this compound,
which really feels quite cold,
which is obviously really important for somewhere
like here in Kona with the heat and humidity
the athletes are going to experience on race day.
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Right I've come by the Zoot stand,
which is actually an old partner of mine
so it's exciting to see what they're up to.
They've got the new Ultra Swimskin.
Now it's like an update on their previous ones
so rather than just spraying a hydrophobic coat on
after it's been produced and constructed,
they actually now coat the yarn 360 degrees
prior to construction.
So that means, not only is it going to be more hydrophobic,
meaning faster, it also lasts longer.
They've also done it in a Kona edition,
so they've got this really cool design and print on it,
with the contours, Man Oki on there, really cool.
Now it's also been four years since Zoot
actually produced a new running shoe
and this is the new Ultra TT, which again I used to race in
way back when.
Now this is obviously their Kona edition.
But they've teamed up with Danny Abshire, from Newton,
to produce this.
Now here is the sole for that,
obviously a split construction.
So this is their tri-layer,
so we've got a high-rebound layer at the bottom here,
this big white area.
You've got a protective layer on the ball of the foot,
in the heel here, and then on the top, an extra bit
of expanded foam for cushioning.
Now if we look at the bottom here,
you going to see a few holes along the bottom.
And this is obviously for a triathlon specific shoe,
so has to be pouring water on itself, has to be sweat,
water can drain out of there as we can see just down here
as it's doing, dripping out of those holes.
So that's going to reduce blisters, or any chafing.
So also a seamless construction to add to that,
to reduce the blisters.
You got flat-lace design on here
to help with the transitions as well as
these little tongues and pulls to help.
So right here behind me I have, possibly my favorite product
here in the expo because this container is full
of nice cold water which, trust me, I'm dying to jump into
because it is boiling here.
But in all seriousness, this is a swimming propulsion unit
from Master Spas.
This is their 15 foot version.
They also have an 18 foot version,
and also a 20 foot version.
And it's powered by three pumps,
two of them are variable pumps
and then on the front it's got six jets.
So you got three along the top, two beneath,
and then a triangular one underneath.
Now those go as low as 120 per 100 pace,
so fairly good pace for a lot of people out there.
But it is designed more for endurance swimming
so getting those long swims in,
and also obviously goes down to a really nice, slow pace.
But the really cool bit is it's also a jacuzzi,
so it's got loads of jets around the side,
nice seating areas so you can just sit down in there
and chill if you don't fancy your training.
But now, I just want to do what that guys doing, see ya.
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All right so we swung by the rotor stand,
and this is a new product I was totally unaware of.
This is the new Rotor INspider power meter,
spider-based power meter as the name suggests.
So here is the power meter, the chain rings, the spider.
Here is the axil, you can slot it in, as so,
and then you can swap out the crank.
So you can go for whatever side you like
which is quite convenient for triathletes,
maybe trying out different sized crack lengths.
And this just slot on like that
so it is actually a single-sided power meter
but obviously you can replicate that power
onto the other side so you get overall power for both legs.
The nice thing with this
is also it's compatible with 1x and 2x.
And in addition with that, also behind,
we have a slight update to the rotor 2INpower.
So this is a new MAS spider on there,
so it's a nice aero finish,
and I've actually completely forgotten to talk about
the finish on this.
So this is the Aero Crown, both in my opinion,
really nice finishes.
Guys this is Amp Human Performance PR Lotion,
this is causing a bit of a stir at the moment,
seeing Cam Wurth, Lucy Charles using it.
Now essentially this is bicarbonate soda.
Okay sounds pretty odd, baking soda.
A lot of athletes have actually used this to help
buffer lactic acid, to reduce the effects of lactic acid
when you're training.
I used to use this actually with British triathlon
but it does have side effects.
It can affect your gut and also,
it just tastes disgusting to digest.
So they have cleverly managed to put this into a formula
that tricks the skin into absorbing it.
So in here we've actually got a fatty substance
that the skin accepts that fatty substance
and within that's encapsulated the bicarb.
That soaks into the skin, it's absorbed into the body,
into the muscles, into the bloodstream,
and has the same effect.
Clever stuff, hey?
Well that has been a big day
and I'm not even half way around the expo.
So hope you enjoyed some of those new tech releases there.
There's still more to come.
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