The SpeedZone
Soccer
Parachute used by pro’s for speed, agility, and quickness.
The SpeedZone Soccer Parachute can improve sport-speed,
acceleration, straight-ahead speed and speed endurance by
providing resistance as an athlete runs. An athlete can
deploy the chute at varying times in their run. Speed, agility
and quickness training requires an athlete to move fast
and react swiftly in various directions at near 100% effort.
With that in mind, the SpeedZone Soccer Parachute provides
two major training advantages for athletes that participate
in sports, like soccer, that require quick changes of direction,
speed and explosiveness.
The first advantage of the SpeedZone Soccer Parachute is
the light and variable training resistances that can be
applied during Speed, agility, quickness training. Research
suggests that to achieve gains in maximum velocity (speed)
athletes should not be slowed by more than 10%. The goal
of this type of resistance training is to activate the motor
units of the muscles more quickly in order to cause an enhanced
neurological response, in other words, you’re training
the brain, nerves and muscles to fire faster and respond
more explosively without sacrificing proper running form
caused by using a heavy resistance. Sports like soccer,
basketball, football and others that require quick and explosive
changes of direction, bursts of acceleration and braking
over short distances, require athletes to train at, or above,
their game speed. Heavy resistance is great if the goal
is metabolic (strength gains), but for pure speed, you need
to train fast to be fast! The SpeedZone Soccer Parachute
provides adjustable resistance without altering proper run
mechanics.
The second advantage of training with the
SpeedZone Soccer Parachute is the varying degrees of disruptive
stimulus that can be applied during use. Multi-directional
sport athletes are not straight-ahead, sustained runners.
Their runs are subjected to disruptive forces from opponents,
the condition of the athletic surface, atmospheric conditions
and more. So they need to develop “Sport-speed”,
the ability to accelerate in bursts and in a variety of
directions. The SpeedZone Soccer Chute Parachute simulates
these factors when it deploys with air from multiple directions.
Crosswinds can disrupt a runner's stride and alter their
running path, much like making contact with opposing players
in a game situation. These sudden shifts are also appropriate
for sports like hockey, lacrosse and football. The SpeedZone
Parachute also allows for 360 degrees of linear and lateral
movement. This feature is great for soccer players since
they often transition “on the fly” from forward
to lateral to backward running all in a single run.
Other features of the SpeedZone Soccer Parachute
include a comfortable fitting, adjustable waist harness
with quick release cord. The harness easily adjusts in size
and the quick release cord allows the runner to instantly
separate from the chute resistance creating an explosive
surge of speed as they continue their sprint. The Soccer
Parachute is made of light-weight, low-porosity ripstop
nylon which means it’s very durable and strong. The
patent-pending, “net-free”, triple-parabolic
cup design makes the chute deploy quicker providing maximum
resistance and stability during the run. The chute lines
have an adjustable clasp allowing you to fine tune the amount
of wind resistance being pulled. Other chutes on the market
use a mesh net in-between the shroud lines which adds weight,
reduces actual resistance and deploys the chute slower.
Remember, whether your goal is to improve straight-ahead
speed or sport-speed, you need to train fast to be fast!
