Kevlar Fabric
Looking for Kevlar Fabric with which to make body suits for speed skaters. My nephew is training with the US Olympic team for a spot on the 2010 Winter games and these suits (worn under the team suit) cost $300.00 new and he needs 2, one for competition and one for practice. He is also 16 and still growing so this is a huge additional cost on top of everything else. Does anyone know of a source?
Daniel is currently ranked 15th in the nation and the next games are in Vancouver so we will probably go watch if we can get tickets(we participate in a lottery for tickets, no preferential treatment for anyone, not even his parents!). Of course I am putting the cart before the horse here....
Shelli
Daniel is currently ranked 15th in the nation and the next games are in Vancouver so we will probably go watch if we can get tickets(we participate in a lottery for tickets, no preferential treatment for anyone, not even his parents!). Of course I am putting the cart before the horse here....
Shelli
posted by Shelli Fiorenza @ 10:45 AM
2 Comments:
At July 17, 2007 at 2:47 PM ,
Judy in Ohio said...
Shelli, I googled Kevlar fabric and it looks like the bullet-proof stuff costs around $40.00 a yard plus you have to buy special shears to cut it. You might have better luck with a search .... look under Kevlar yardage on Google.
Judy
At July 17, 2007 at 5:15 PM ,
blocke Oregon said...
I think the kevlar is used for the kneepad area of the suit --don't know what the rest of the suit is made from, but I heard that Nike has just announced that there's a new high tech suit made from 6 different fabrics. From the way the police complain about the kevlar vests, I can't imagine an entire suit made from kevlar.
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