Underwear that draws out the possibilities of baseball players to the utmost! What is Mizuno "Bio Gear".
Mizuno (Mizuno Corporation: Representative Director Akito Mizuno) wears the underwear "BioGear" to reduce the load and stress on the body when playing sports and effectively bring out the maximum performance Recommended. For this time, Mr. Matsui, who is in charge of planning, explained the features of the baseball "BioGear" which was evolved and renewed on sale.
Hidemi Sakuma
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2017/12/20
バイオギアとは。
It is underwear developed to pursue movement ease and comfort during sports, reduce the stress and burden on the body, improve performance and enjoy more sports.
Mizuno Corporation
Global apparel product division Planning & Design Department Diamond apparel planning section
Assistant Manager
Mr. Katsunori Matsui
- How was BioGear born?
Matsui：1990Age, baseball underwear silhouette was thick and loose. In 2003, compression wear appeared, and now it has become mainstream among students, and about one third of baseball / underwear sales in Mizuno is occupied by biogear. This time I will talk about the renewed biogea.
元々は、身体を締め付けてパフォーマンスをアップしようということでコンプレッションウエアが登場しましたが、近年の流れとしては、ルーズとコンプレッションの中間に位置するミドルフィットと呼ばれるもので、コンプレッションほどではないけれど身体のラインに沿っているアンダーシャツが流行ってきています。
Tightening your body will put a load on your body. Those who are playing baseball are also muscular but with adequate fat。I think that if it is tightened for a long time, load may be applied to the body so it has changed to middle fit.
Regarding the popularity of compression wear, I am showing calmness, but there are still more popularity around high school students. Since the majority of players participating in Koshien are wearing compression, they are still products that become shafts.
- Could you tell us the features of the new product?
Matsui: Recently, because stretchability and ease of movement not requiring loads on the body are required, it is reasonable to say that lateral elongation is about20％アップさせることで、選手の身体へのストレスを軽減してパフォーマンスアップに繋げられるものが完成したと思っています。
Since the product up to now has been growing well in the vertical direction, it was difficult to take off. It is difficult to feel the burden on the movement of baseball because it is balanced in length and breadth.
- Did you request from the players?
Matsui:I agree. When hearing a number of times from the players, many voices were gathered that good tightening and easy to move are good, so we observed various movements playing baseball based on that and studied.
- Will BioGear be a unique item of baseball?
Matsui: Bio Gear is not limited to baseball, but it can respond with all sports, but baseball thinks that it is a sport with various movements in various directions such as throwing, hitting, running, twisting.
And, because the game time and the practice time are longer than other sports, we adopted a knitted fabric that will suck sweat immediately on the surface, leaving a comfortable fit in the past. The athletes changed their clothes a couple of times by playing and practicing, and worked to improve stickiness due to perspiration feeling when playing, of course.
- What color do you develop?
Matsui: Currently there are 11 colors. We are making it possible to correspond to the color of any team.
- Do we need to make the underwear the same color as the uniform?
Matsui: In the case of baseball, the color of the team has priority. For example, if it was Hiroshima Carp, it is red.
When practicing student baseball, black and navy blue are overwhelmingly sold because there are many teams that use black and dark blue.
- How many patterns are there in Biogear?
Matsui: There are long sleeves, short sleeves, three-quarter sleeves and sleeveless shapes, but even in winter games there are some players wearing three-quarter sleeves. Baseball has few degrees of freedom compared with soccer, and few points are stuck. It is a point of selection as a place of invisibility or sleeve length, or a neck shape in detail.
Up to now, the high-neck was the mainstream, but as recent trends, not only the season but also the low-neck became popular. The point is whether or not it looks subtle from the collar of the uniform or not. Therefore, in the new product, we designed the neckline a few centimeters wider.
- Do you have any difficulties this time?
Matsui: I understand if you can wear it, I had a lot of hard work to build a subtle stretching feeling and pattern. It is a truly subtle place, but I must evolve.
- Finally, could you tell us about the future prospects?
Matsui：Biogear becomes an underwear for bringing out power without causing useless movements and losses by fitting to the body.
Currently, we are preparing various types of underwear. I think that there are few people who are adamant about grabs and spikes, but since I planned to believe that wearing biogear will lead to better performance, I'd like you to wear it by all means. Completion)
Mizuno · Bio Gear
http://www.mizuno.jp/biogear/
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Interview photograph / Hidemi Sakuma
