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Condom Coated Hockey Sticks!
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Some weird innovative news in India .RK Sports, which makes the popular ‘Rakshak’ brand of hockey sticks, has evolved the new technique of using condoms to make the sticks smoother and stronger.Anjay Kohli, the managing director of RK Sports claimed that the idea of using condoms to make the lower part, the hook, came to him a few years back after a large number of hockey sticks began getting damaged.
The manufacturer used a plastic net which was pasted to the front surface of the hook to prevent it from splitting after a few games. But once the net came out, the stick could not be repaired. Kolhi then began experimenting with various products to make the hook tough. When they tried a condom and found that it gripped the wood better than the conventional net.
Read about it on Rediff News
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¬ danny
#402 December 10th, 2007 at 3:03 pm
WOW, never would have thought of that in a million. So now hockey players have double to protection ha…