Safer Building Materials, Inc., Debuts "PROLOGS" at the Canadian Eventing Olympic Team Mandatory Outing at The Florida Horse Park, Ocala, Florida
Safer Building Materials, Inc., a new company founded by Canadian Equestrian Three-Day Eventing riders Mike Winter and Kyle Carter, both of whom are headed to Hong Kong for the 2008 Olympic Games, is pleased to introduce "PROLOGS". Designed to increase safety when jumping horses over fixed obstacles, PROLOGS are frangible cross-country jump logs made of Expanded Polystyrene (EPS). The highly engineered EPS logs absorb energy in the event of horse impact and are frangible, (designed to be easily broken), when hit with enough force and/or velocity. Safer Building Materials feels the use of this exciting line of products will result in fewer serious injuries in a variety of types of falls, as well as significantly reduce the likelihood of rotational falls.
PROLOGS jumps debuted at the Canadian Eventing Team mandatory Olympic short-list outing at the Ocala Horse Park this past weekend (July 12-13, 2008). According to Kyle Carter, "They were jumped at the advanced level height of 3'11'' by nine Olympic-bound horses and alternates, and we received rave reviews from the riders and from Team Technical Advisor David O'Connor, who was also the course designer."
Mike Winter added, "With the successes of the weekend and the importance of implementing alternative safety products for cross-country jumps, we are excited to have presented this great product to the equestrian community. We look forward to continuing the testing of our products including releasing laboratory-collected technical data".
At this time Safer Building Materials, Inc. is offering for sale several sizes, colors and finish designs for PROLOGS. The jumps are available to the public and to people associated with jump design, construction, competition organization and event promotion. After further engineering and design testing, we hope to soon offer a full line of jumps including walls, "mushrooms", and other custom designed frangible cross country jump obstacles. For more information see www.saferbuildingmaterials.com
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