Redesign of the platform for rollart´s skate, centered on the needs of Mexican athletes

Abstract

Rollart is a discipline, based on an aspirational system that values aesthetics, ability and strength to perform the elements of competition, due to this, the design of specialized sports equipment must attend to the needs of resistance and design. The commercialization and production of specialized sports equipment is monopolized by foreign companies, focused on improving resistance, durability and the ease of exchange of parts, leaving aside the anthropometric measurements of their smaller markets, thus designing products with anthropometric measurements and needs different from those that Mexican athletes require. Skates are the main equipment of the Rollart, they are made up of boots, insoles and accessories. Therefore, the present research has the objective to redesign a skate platform, using a methodology centered on the needs of Mexican skaters, through design techniques and incremental innovation, which allows the development of local sports equipment. The research was validated by measuring the improvements in the performance of the execution of the elements of the discipline, as well as the appropriation and acceptance of the sports equipment by the skaters.