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New technology to improve speed, agility, endurance
The Villager
March 28, 2007
By Judith Stiles
Hardcore hockey players used to improve their skating with endless ice time on frozen lakes. Now, at Chelsea Piers, however, they are awaiting the plasticized artificial ice patch on a skater’s treadmill, coming to the complex in May, courtesy of BlueStreak, a high-tech sports training organization.
The treadmill features a maximum speed of 17 miles per hour and up to a 32 percent incline. Using this new training tool, a hockey player will strap himself to a safety harness, don his or her hockey skates and begin a comprehensive, six-week, performance-enhancement program, with the goal of improving speed, agility and endurance.
Professional Training, Testing, Evaluation: Hybrid Hockey key to success
USA Junior Hockey Magazine
January 2006
BlueStreak Sports Training, the nation's top hockey training facillity, has joined forces with Hybrid Hockey to offer the ultimate exposure, education and specialized strength training.
JetBlue CEO launches high-tech gym
The Advocate, Stamford CT.
November 2004
By Julie-Fishman-Lapin
"Blue Streak" is a book about his airline's phenomenal rise to success over the past five years.
And now, BlueStreak is the name of New Canaan resident and JetBlue Airlies chief executive David Neeleman's state-of-the-art Stamford gym, designed to helppeople rise to athletic success.
At a quick glanc, BlueStreak Sports Training may look like a typical workout center. but its owners say BlueStreak can help athletes run faster, jump higher and throw further.
Jamie Lundmark: the Phoenix Coyotes’ newest addition
Frappier Acceleration
Winter 2006
By Greg Mergens
When Jamie Lundmark grew up in Edmonton, Alberta, he was just like any other Canadian kid in that hockey was integral part of his life. In his teenage years, he headed out in the Fall like so many thousands of kids in Canada do, to play in a junior hockey league with hopes of making it in the National Hockey League (NHL). Now as a 25-year-old, he is entering his third year in the NHL and with the help of Frappier Acceleration, he is planning on having the biggest year of his professional hockey career.
Lundmark’s upbringing didn’t vary much from other Canadian kids. He spent his childhood in the 1980’s playing youth hockey and watching Wayne Gretzky and the Edmonton Oilers collect NHL Championships like most people collect refrigerator magnets. Some people may go as far as saying that hockey is a way of life in Canada. It’s so popular in Canada that the NHL’s web site is the number one visited Internet site in the country.
Conditioning is Key to Gopher Success
Frappier Acceleration
Winter 2005
By Greg Mergens
If you are a college hockey fan, it is difficult not to notice the success of The University of Minnesota Golden Gopher men’s team. Year in and year out, the Gopher team is one of college hockey’s top programs in the country, earning almost annual invitations to the NCAA’s sweet sixteen playoffs. Just one look at the rafters of Mariucci Arena in Minneapolis, filled with Western Collegiate Hockey Association and NCAA championship banners, is enough to leave even the most determined visiting opponents awestruck.
Many opponents wonder what magic formula the U of M’s hockey program has that consistently puts them as one of the top programs in the country. Of course, living in a cold climate that happens to be a hockey hotbed has its advantages when searching for talent. Minnesota has a tradition of recruiting home-grown talent with most of their players coming from within Minnesota. But this alone cannot detail the success of the U’s hockey program. More than a hundred kids leave Minnesota after their senior year in high school to play Division I hockey at other universities around the country, with many of these players achieving great success in the college ranks and even advancing their careers to the professional level.
A Love Match: Pam Dreyer, U.S. Women’s Hockey Team
Frappier Acceleration
Winter 2004
By Dan Dieffenbach
Pam Dreyer couldn't tell a soul. How could she? As Team USA's starting goalie in the gold medal game of the Four Nations Cup, Dreyer had enough on her mind. So there she sat, adrenaline pumping, in Sweden, in a room with only veteran keeper Sara DeCosta-Hayes. The rest of the team was in a separate dressing room due to space constraints.
"We just sat there for a while, in silence," says Dreyer. "It was a big game and I didn’t want anything to make me lose my focus."
True, it was a big game. But the news Dreyer was concealing was life news…in the form of a diamond ring. She let out a few smiles and then let the cat out of the bag: her boyfriend Ted had proposed to her moments earlier outside the team bus.
The Desire of Dupuis: Minnesota Wild’s Pascal Dupuis takes on training with Frappier Acceleration
Frappier Acceleration
Winter 2003
By Dan Dieffenbach
Since the age of three, Pascal Dupuis, the Minnesota Wild's second-year star, hasn't had any fear of skating on ice. He's always worked hard and succeeded at every level of hockey. That is, until he met the Frappier Acceleration Hockey Treadmill last summer during off- season workouts.
As Dupuis (pronounced DEW-PWEE) sized up the Hockey Treadmill—the only one of its kind to offer a rotating belt with a unique ice-like surface on which athletes can train for power and speed in a sports-specific environment—he was amazed.
"My first thought was, am I skating on that?" Dupuis recalls of his first reaction to the equipment. "It was the first time I felt like I couldn’t skate."
