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The Latest in New Technology for the BEST in athletic protection!
Web Flex Technology - inspired by bugs. And the "Crumple Zone".




The latest in new technology for the BEST in athletic protection.


Web Flex Technology: What is it?
•A technology inspired from the exoskeletons of insects.
•A “Crumple-Zone” – flexible spring-like property that allows for compression, absorption, and displacement of energy to take place.
•Providing “hard shell protection” by holding a hard protective piece, strategically placed and held in position by a web of flexible rubber like material, that allows for superior protection and comfort.
Understanding this technology has enabled Supreme Athletic Wear to design a protective athletic cup that offers superior protection with greater freedom of movement, and most importantly - comfort.

The SpiderGuard cup uses patented Web Flex Technology to create an energy absorbing and displacing structure that includes a hard rigid band that follows the curve of the area it’s protecting, and an outer flexible web-shaped body made of a softer material that keeps the protective band in the proper place. At the same time, it allows for a greater range of movement, while providing the most comfortable fit ever from a protective cup.

Combined, the structure works like a spring, keeping the inner hard rigid band in proper location and away from the wearer, providing what is called a crumple zone. It is this flexible spring-like property that allows for compression, absorption, and displacement of energy to take place. Without this flexible spring-like property you have just another hard shell!

The Web Flex Technology has been tested at every phase of development to ensure the optimization of the design, and is based on the same principles being used in today’s automobile design.



You're entering the ... "Crumple Zone".



The Crumple Zone ~ Deceleration through deformation.


What is a "Crumple zone", and why do we need it? Especially in a protective cup?
Physics can explain why the crumple zone is necessary. Sir Isaac Newton's first law states that an object in motion will stay in motion with the same speed and in the same direction unless acted upon by an unbalanced force. Translated to our situation, if an object is traveling at 50 mph stops abruptly into a solid wall, the object will transfer 100% of its energy into the solid wall.

From an athletic cup standpoint, a traditional, standard cup protects what it’s supposed to protect, but it transfers the energy (the blow) into the body, which can still be painful.

Sir Isaac’s second law states that force equals mass multiplied by acceleration. Translated to our situation, if an object traveling at 50 mph does not stop abruptly, but is allowed to decelerate, then the energy decreases as the time for the object to stop increases.

With the SpiderGuard athletic cup, the energy (the blow) is stopped by the rigid band and is decelerated and absorbed by the web-flex design of the cup, not the body (or parts thereof). Better protection. Better comfort.

So What Do Crumple Zones Do?

They work exactly according to the two laws we covered above. They absorb the energy developed during an impact. This is achieved by deceleration through deformation, something unheard of in the early days of protective equipment design.

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