ATHLETES — basketball

Dirk Nowitzki using BLACKROLL® to prepare for the game.

A stadium soaked in pink rolls. At the Telekom Baskets in Bonn, Megastar Eugene Lawrence and his team mates are delighted with their new BLACKROLL® training tools.

<div class="grid"> <div class="grid__item medium--one-half large--one-half"> <img src="https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/files.blackroll.com/images/_615xAUTO_fit_center-center/phoenix_hagen3.jpg?mtime=20160222174537" alt="" /> </div> <div class="grid__item medium--one-half large--one-half"> <p>The players of Basketball League Team Phoenix Hagen, winner of the Krombacher Challenge 2015, roll and get fit with the <a href="/collections/foam-rollers/products/blackroll-2" target="_blank">BLACKROLL® products</a>. Basketball is a tough and fast sport - no wonder that fascia training plays a crucial role to optimise game time.</p><p>Through self myofascial release and prepping exercises with BLACKROLL®, the susceptibility to injuries reduces and recovery accelerates, according to headcoach Ingo Freyer. Less injury issues come down to more chances to perform their best and winning games - and this is...

After his Achilles tendon rupture and several operations in 2014, the Israelic Basketball star Guy Pnini is full on rolling, to speed up recovery. The team captain of club Maccabi Tel Aviv achieves great success with a little help from the products. The pro basketballer uses, next to the BLACKROLL® PRO, also the BLACKROLL® BLOCK and the BLACKROLL® MINI for mobilisation exercises and recovery before and after the training sessions.

"BLACKROLL® tools became a steady part of our athletes' 'tissue' training, to prepare for the basketball games. When it comes to their muscles and fascia, they are definitely taken care of - of course with the support of BLACKROLL®." With the use of the ROLLs and BLACKROLL® BALLS, we aim at the following goals: Improving the sliding capacity of the muscles-fascia layers Regulating muscle tone (tonus) BLACKROLL® is a great support to our athletes, as it gets our best athletes ready to rumble on 'Game Days'. Read more about Lindner and his work with BLACKROLL® in Basketball teams here: "Do it like Nowitzki!"  ...