News
What we're building, what we're testing, what we get wrong and what's coming. No marketing filter, because we don't have a comms team.
We're flying out to audit our manufacturing partner on site. The moulds, the ovens, the controls, the carbon before it becomes a stick. This isn't industrial tourism: we want to be able to answer the question everyone asks us, the one about quality, ourselves.
We're bringing back content. Photos, videos, everything we're allowed to show. You'll see exactly where your stick comes from. Almost no brand agrees to do that.
A second article just came out, and this time it goes technical. The distribution of carbon across the flex zone, and above all our reinforced monobloc blade: the structure stitched into the core of the blade that absorbs vibration and stops the blade twisting on the shot.
It's the piece we're proudest of. And the hardest to explain until you're holding it.
Read the article (in French)We're working on new technologies to reinforce the stick. The goal is simple: even fewer micro-cracks, even more lifespan, without adding a single gram.
We won't say more for now, and that's deliberate. When it's ready and tested on the ice, you'll hear about it before anyone else.
Partnership under way with SHCC, the Street Hockey Club La Chaux-de-Fonds, around a stick designed specifically for street hockey. Asphalt forgives nothing, the stresses are not the same as on ice, and an ice hockey stick simply isn't the right answer.
We're developing with them, not for them. The players test, we correct.
Switzerland is the starting point, not the limit. We already have several serious leads with retailers and distributors abroad, to make the sticks available beyond our borders without shipping costs going through the roof.
You run a shop, you represent a club, you have a network in a European country? We want to talk to you.
Write to usThe tests, the prototypes, the factory shots, the stuff that never makes it onto the site. That's where we post first.
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Matisse & Pablo, La Chaux-de-Fonds