Bin nach 4 Tagen “Rock im Park-Festival” aus der Sauna in Nürnberg wieder zurück!!!

Klickt unten bei Tags auf Kühlweste, Kühlkappe und Blumenspritze, ohne diese hätte ich die 35°C im Schatten nicht ausgehalten.

Es war ein grandioses Festival mit einem überragenden Sound im Getümmel.

Die Rollifahrertribühne am linken Ende des Geländes war super gebaut, aber “Mono” brauch ich ned…!!!

One is about a

Cooling Vest

(click here)

and the other one about a

Cooling Cap

(click here)

Since the summer 2013 has found us as well I have the prototype of a cooling shirt, also from the company E-cooline in permanent test mode, and I am happy.

Read the comments to the blogposts, there are some tips of other readers!!!

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38° C in the shade

Click on Tags “COOLING CAP”

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Oberstdorf im Allgäu (Bavaria).

I have been to many countries already and was able to communicate with the respective inhabitants in English or French quite well.

Apart from the language barrier, the weather has disturbed my whole training schedule.

My since months proven and tested training schedule with several rides in the rain per day was ruined totally by one week of everlasting sunshine. In London (Paralympics 2012) it rains the whole year, as everybody knows, so you have to be prepared.

My equipment had to be converted rapidly from high speed rain jacket to strongly braking cooling cap and vest.

Due to the beautiful sunsets every day the coaches got so melancholic that there was nothing to do with them any more. They were occupied with writing post cards and painting by numbers.

The signage of the race track must have been the result of

Fools at work.

signs in both directions meaning: all trails

Meanwhile I had completely lost my way, so that I ended up on the

Nebelhorn

middle sign meaning: panorama trail – wheelchair and stroller accessible

and finally on the

Way of St James

(in German: Jakobsweg)

OK, this was driven back quickly .

Back in Frankfurt at last.
Last night I was finally able to exercise reasonably again with 16°C and 20 litres of rain/m²!

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Yesterday evening I have tested a

cooling baseball cap from the company Cooline

www.e-cooline.de

Actually unbelievable, but you are sitting with a black cap in the sun at 28°C in the shade with your head being cooled.

“Only” water is put on this cap, like on the vest, about 0,3 liter. The fleece on the inside of the cap absorbs the water, and the cap virtually sweats and cools.

Ingenious!!!

Unfortunately my match was cancelled, I forgot my tennis shoes.

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My spinal cord has decided in 2007 that sweating is stupid.
Since then my skin is quite dry

This phenomenon is nothing unusual with para- or quadriplegia.

As a consequence my body temperature rises and rises when it is above 25° C and sun.

This can lead until fainting at approximately 40° C.

A water sprayer for flowers can work miracles (see older blog post), but is not the best solution either.

There are special cooling vests, with thermal packs or fans, well… I think it is too complicated, and you are depending on thermal packs and refrigerators. So I prefer hiding at home and waiting for the winter.

In May I met Sepp Jakober on a technical aids trade fair, the chief engineer of the wheelchair tractive Swisstrac who gave me tuning tips for my Minitrac.

He gave me a vest from the company E-Cooline and said that I would absolutely have to try it. He borrowed it from another booth.

The vest would cool you, you just have to put water on it, the water would not flow out, hard to believe!!!
The vest would absorb the water, virtually sweat and thus cool you.
It was invented for fire fighters.

The cooling vest was working!!!

A quantum leap for quality of live.

I underwent a two-week stress test with the cooling vest in Crete.

The E-Cooline vest is really cooling, ingenious!!!

It doesn’t get wet, the body feeling can be described as cooling-clammy, but it is not unpleasant.

Be careful with filling water in it as 4 liters fit inside, and then you would have to wait approximately 3 days until you are able to wear this “lead vest” again. There is no water dripping off. 0,5 liters are more than enough for approximately 4 hours at 30°C in the shade.

The Cooline vests are available in a simple design with velcro tape, see picture above, or two rows of snap fasteners and additional removable lower part.

From the same material there are scarfs and caps available which I would like to test as well.

I was able to stroll around at the beach promenade with my wife in the afternoons at 30° C in the shade without water sprayer or wet towel.
The cooling vest made a great holiday possible, and I have just ordered a black vest and cap.

The price of approximately 300 € is not low, but if you bear in mind what you have to pay for good winter clothing or trivial cotton jeans I consider the price justifiable for a vest out of such a high tech material.

This vest opens so many possibilities for me, I don’t have to hide any more in summer!!!

The only disadvantage is that the vest weighs around 4 kg after washing and you have to wait 3-4 days until it has dried again.

You can purchase these vests from E-Cooline
Unfortunately these vests don’t have a medical device number. With an adequate prescription and statement from the doctor some health insurances would bear the expenses.

For question as usual: rollinator@eigude.de

With all this verbiage Karl Lagerfeld would probably be proud of me!
PG-13 prohibits to show my “six-pack” stomach!

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Antitranspirantaner (Nichtschwitzer).

Die ganze Sache hat einen kleinen Haken:
Wenn es über 25° C sind und ich mich körperlich ertüchtige, oder auch nur sinnlos in der Sonne herumstehe, steigt meine Körpertemperatur stetig an.
So ab 40° C entschließt sich dann mein Körper den Rolli in Form eines Bodentransfers zu verlassen.
Um diesem entgegenzuwirken bewaffnen wir uns mit einem handelsüblichen

Blumenzerstäuber.

Ich war der festen Überzeugung, dass jeder betroffene Rollifahrer dies kenne, daher hatte ich es noch nie erwähnt, ist aber leider nicht so!
Bei den letzten WM-Spielen, hatten sich ständig Fußgänger meine

Thermospritze

ausgeliehen.
Es lag möglicherweise nur daran, da wir das Dach und die Seiten der Überdachung mit schwarzer Folie abgespannt hatten, damit das Beamerbild besser zu sehen war.
Es waren gefühlte 80°C, aber höchstens 58°C!
Wenn man einen Klettbandabsturzgurt besitzt kann man sich den Zerstäuber ankletten.

So ein Blumenzerstäuber ist Spitze, aber ich warne, der Suchtfaktor ist groß!