Preven-g by Nicolò bouzin from italy

Define - Sports have always been a challenge defying the limits of the human body. If some decades ago races could even be won by amateurs taking the start for pleasure, today the level of professionalism and competitiveness push athletes to turn their bodies into perfect machines and to squeeze every ounce of energy out of their muscles. A race can be lost at the last corner just because that energy has finished, and that single muscle prevented the athlete to perform at his limit.

Discover - In certain very demanding sports, like motocross between many others, the efforts undertaken by an elite athlete are enormous and sudden and affect different muscles every moment. Pushing the envelope of competitiveness, the racers' requirements are almost close to those of fighter pilot's. Why not draw inspiration from the ways the latters are pushed to reach their limits by helping their own muscles? Why not envision an “anti-g suit” for professional athletes?

Disrupt - The same way fighter pilots have a tool to avoid fainting in their most extreme actions, athletes could draw benefits in their performance – that tenth of a second making all the difference - from having a tool helping single muscles to face the stresses of the track and to perform better in the corners taken at the highest speeds. What I envision is a smart garment fighting the track along with the racers.

Design - “Preven-g” is a compression shirt to be used in all sports raced on tracks, whose goal is to facilitate blood circulation towards muscles that are most likely to bear big efforts, specifically to every single turn, jump and acceleration of the circuit. This is made possible by the high technology employed, able to “learn” the track along practice session, record the racer's muscular efforts in relation to its turns, and help his body in prevision of the circuit's stresses. If an “anti-g suit” reacts to, “Preven-g” anticipate stresses by providing a valuable help.

Deploy: Energy to make the smart garment work is gathered by the athlete's own sweat, converted to electricity by a bio-battery sheet sewn in the fabric. An accelerometer and conductive yarns embroidered in the shirt record elongation and compression of single muscles in real-time, and this data, one lap after the other, contribute to “map” the track's stress points for the body. Datas are then processed, and the movement of those same yarns is fostered or hindered before a turn so to facilitate blood circulation to the most stressed muscles in that point of the circuit and help them perform at their best.