Athletes — keeprolling

Marius Kitowski uses BLACKROLL to get slackline-ready!

Posted by Eefje van de Ven on March 16, 2016

Another professional slackline athlete goes for the one and only "ROLL with the hole" for support in his training! Marius Kitowski (19) from Rosenheim (Germany) is into slacklining since four years. His hobby grew out to be his passion and within no time it became a big part of his life. Since two years he participates in slackline contests and -shows internationally, in which he's doing quite well. Next to slacklining, Marius keeps himself occupied with other sports like climbing, skiing, swimming and windsurfing. An active person indeed for which only the best tools support him in his recovery! BLACKROLL products are used by Marius...

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Ellen Sprunger: runs and ROLLs towards RIO!

Posted by Eefje van de Ven on March 14, 2016

Ellen Sprunger (29) is a track and field athlete (heptathlon) since she's only 10 years old. She does heptathlon and is member of the 4x100m Swiss relay team. Of course, BLACKROLL is with her every step of the way towards qualifying for the Rio Games in Summer after being part of the Games in London in 2012. "It would be amazing to go to another olympics event after London, which is still my biggest memory of my track and field career yet. Training so hard makes so much sense when you live emotions like that". Ellen had to have surgery on her foot and her elbow this...

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BASKETBALL: Maccabi Tel Aviv works on recovery

Posted by Eefje van de Ven on March 09, 2016

After his Achilles tendon rupture and several operations in 2014, the Israelic Basketball star Guy Pnini is full on rolling, to speed up recovery. The team captain of club Maccabi Tel Aviv achieves great success with a little help from the products. The pro b-baller uses, next to the BLACKROLL® PRO, also the BLACKROLL® BLOCK and the BLACKROLL® MINI for mobilisation exercises and recovery before and after the training sessions.

Tags: basketball, BBALL, BLACKROLL, injury, KeepRolling, prevention, PRO, recovery, REGENERATION, ROLL

BLACKROLL Ambassador: Lisanne de Witte (athlete)

Posted by Eefje van de Ven on June 09, 2015

Lisanne de Witte - an incredibly focused 22-year old Dutch athlete with loads of potential and spirit. She participated in the most recent World Championship athletics on 400m (52.61 s). After a severe hamstring injury, knocking her out of the field for one year, she's back to compete again: taking muscle recovery and injury prevention more seriously than ever before. With the help of her physiotherapist René van Engelen (sports therapeutic expert), she found BLACKROLL:"As an athlete you're completely dependent on the state of your muscles. The power, the tension, the recovery, they all matter the most if you want to peak at the...