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Seattle-based design firm Teague and Nike have recently joined forces in order to develop a concept cabin that is meant to take athletes in supreme comfort. Not only it is a matter of improving the sportsmen flights, but it will also unlock their peak performance, which is lowered to almost 60% whenever they're traveling, according to studies.
Hundreds of millions of dollars if not even billions are spent by professional teams worldwide every year on practice facility, and that happens while most of them play just half their regular season games at home. This is why Teague, a design consultancy company born in 1926, and Nike decided they would try to find a perfect concept cabin so athletes would get the proper treatment.
According to Teague, studies prove that home-field advantage is actually a lot less about the effects of raucous crowds and a lot more about the negative effects of travel, which create a lot of disadvantage.
In fact, a 2008 study by Nikhil Swaminathan published in Scientific American showed that Major League Baseball teams traveling to game sites three time zones away lose 60% of those games. These figures would definitely make for a good reason for teams to invest more money in “away” facilities. At least that is their plan.
Through Teague's collaboration with Nike, the design team conducted interviews with team physicians, coaches, operations staff, and sleep specialists working with both collegiate and professional teams. Engineers claim they have focused on four areas of performance innovation that are not addressed by commercial charters: recovery, circulation, sleep and thinking.
The designers are obviously conducting their work as we speak, so there is no telling in how successful the new “team airplane” will be, if it ever will get in production. But as far as we can tell from the pictures and the detailed specs (you can find on Togue’s website) it definitely looks like an aircraft a stylish, millionaire would want.
Hundreds of millions of dollars if not even billions are spent by professional teams worldwide every year on practice facility, and that happens while most of them play just half their regular season games at home. This is why Teague, a design consultancy company born in 1926, and Nike decided they would try to find a perfect concept cabin so athletes would get the proper treatment.
According to Teague, studies prove that home-field advantage is actually a lot less about the effects of raucous crowds and a lot more about the negative effects of travel, which create a lot of disadvantage.
In fact, a 2008 study by Nikhil Swaminathan published in Scientific American showed that Major League Baseball teams traveling to game sites three time zones away lose 60% of those games. These figures would definitely make for a good reason for teams to invest more money in “away” facilities. At least that is their plan.
Through Teague's collaboration with Nike, the design team conducted interviews with team physicians, coaches, operations staff, and sleep specialists working with both collegiate and professional teams. Engineers claim they have focused on four areas of performance innovation that are not addressed by commercial charters: recovery, circulation, sleep and thinking.
The designers are obviously conducting their work as we speak, so there is no telling in how successful the new “team airplane” will be, if it ever will get in production. But as far as we can tell from the pictures and the detailed specs (you can find on Togue’s website) it definitely looks like an aircraft a stylish, millionaire would want.
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