HUUB’S FELLOWSHIP OF SPEED
The leading wetsuit brand explains more about their new Fellowship of Speed manifesto, and why they’re dedicated to helping you get faster
Huub saw an opportunity (and need) in the marketplace: to carefully develop triathlon and cycling gear that’s proven to help athletes go faster. No guessing. No baseless marketing hyperbole. Just a drive to utilise some of the best minds and technology in the world to develop, test and craft gear that’s 100 per cent proven to shave watts, increase speed, perform beyond existing expectations and give their athletes a verifiable competitive advantage. The Fellowship of Speed was born.
THE MINDS BEHIND THE GAINS
By creating a collaboration of experts and world-class athletes, Huub has taken product development and testing to another level; a level that has already resulted in multiple World Cup wins and world records. But that’s just the beginning.
Formed in late 2018, the Fellowship of Speed is comprised of CFD engineers, experts in sports engineering and physiology, aerodynamicists, kinesologists, nutrition scientists, Olympians and world champions. It’s this team that’s driving advancements in performance for Huub’s triathlon and cycling divisions.
Dean Jackson, founder of Huub, put it this way: “Your kit needs to perform impeccably in any given condition and do one thing that virtually no one is addressing in a verified, proven manner: Get you from point A to point B faster. And while there’s no harm in looking good, if you’re more concerned about fashion than fast, you have other choices.
If you’re truly concerned about going as fast as possible, then our Fellowship of Speed tri and cycling gear will certainly be of interest.”
HUUB WATTBIKE & THE FUTURE IMPACT
The Huub Wattbike Track Team is perhaps the most compelling sports story of the past year, and it’s been fuelled by the Fellowship of Speed’s work. With a fraction of the funding of state-sponsored track teams, Huub Wattbike is demolishing expectations and has the track world rethinking what it takes to win.
Wearing a skinsuit developed by Huub’s Fellowship of Speed, the team has won a string of World Cup medals and secured two world records in a matter of months. It’s clear that the Fellowship is providing some serious advancements, but
that’s just one example. The Fellowship’s ingenuity is currently being applied to wetsuits, tri-suits, time-trial and road cycling kit as well. And, while the Fellowship of Speed mark will be applied only to a very special subset of Huub’s product line, Huub fully expects that super special technology to trickle down to many Huub products over time.
SPEED UNITES US
The Fellowship has one objective: Speed. Whether it’s the complete understanding of water, air, human physiology, nutrition or the challenge of endurance sport, each Fellow brings something extraordinary and unique to the table. However, it’s the collaboration that amplifies the capabilities of the individuals and transforms that energy and knowledge into category-defining products; products that every serious triathlete or cyclist will benefit from.
“The Fellowship’s ingenuity is being applied to wetsuits, tri-suits and bike kit”