Football Reaction Trainer FRT

New Danish idea to help football players to react quickly and improve ball taming. The man behind the idea to the FRT, is coach René Pedersen, who during a training session of an skilled technical football player, hit a cone and the ball smoked upwards and took a completely different turn than expected, which came behind the player who did not succeed to tam the ball.

The experience in 2016 inspired René to develop a tool intended for improved training of the "unexpected" balls. That FRT at the same time can contribute to a fun and different reaction training in the football clubs or to self-training on the lawn at home is an extra plus.

With a prototype in hand, René contacted us, after trying other plastic companies in both Denmark and abroad. Fortunately, we were able to help him through the process from idea to finished product (made from recycled plastic).

FRT is manufactured in Unika's largest injection molding machine, a 1300T machine. At the machine, two robots are set up to handle the lifting and stacking, after which the employees take over. It is in the spirit of Unika Danmark that FRT is manufactured in Denmark and in recycled plastic.

René says about the process and the collaboration: Getting something produced in plastic is a jungle. There are different techniques and plastic types. So it has in our start up not been  easy to find the right partner and choose the right way to go.

For us, it was important that our product should be produced in Denmark.

Fortunately, we got in touch with Unika. Which from day one received us extremely well. We were taken seriously even though I came up with a half crooked and bad prototype, which was plastic molded over a concrete mold.

Our ideas was discussed and Unika was a good sparring partner.  Our product was developed to have two handles and a stacking function.

Throughout the process, there has been a close and constructive dialogue between Unika on the one hand and FRT's founders, John Sivebæk and René Pedersen on the other.

“We know something about football training and about the requirements for football players, but our knowledge of the production of injection molded items was, until we threw ourselves into this project, almost non-existent. The people at Unika have been good at initiating us into the challenges that exist when such a large subject needs to be produced, and we have been confident in the process throughout the process. Now we look forward to seriously introducing FRT to football clubs and academies in Denmark and abroad. ”

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