Hello to all dear Co-Creators,
Little message to give you some news on this project :)
Following the various questionnaires/tests that we have launched for several months, we have identified 3 main areas of work to improve the lifespan of our knee pads:
- resistance to thermal abrasion / holes
- the durability of the support (the fact that the knee pads do not start to come down after x uses)
- the durability of the protection (the fact that you still feel the protection / foam after x uses)
We are currently developing artificial aging methods in the laboratory for these 3 themes which are supposed to represent “real” years of use in real life.
We will thus be able to compare in the same way, and quite quickly, the lifespan of our current products, our future prototypes and even our competitors' products, which will allow us to make better choices and improve.
To be sure that our artificial aging methods in the laboratory correspond to real life, we have collected a significant number of knee pads worn in real life by players like you. We are in the process of comparing their mechanical characteristics to the mechanical characteristics of new products aged with our laboratory methods to be sure that we find equivalent results.
If you have additional questions, do not hesitate to send an email to [email protected]
Very nice day,
Nicholas,
Field Test Engineer at Decathlon
