MANTRA Kitesurfing bar

Has anyone used teh Mantra bar yet?


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HIGH AS A KITE

St. Kilda East resident Michael Chijoff has taken design to the extreme and has been selected as one of 12 finalists in Australia’s leading student design award, the Australian Design Award®-Dyson Student Award, with his revolutionary ‘MANTRA Kitesurfing Bar’.

The ‘MANTRA Kitesurfing bar’ was designed to eliminate factors inhibiting riders performing one-handed grabs with low levels of confidence and open up and entirely new range of tricks.

“Safety is often thought of as a barrier in pushing the limits within extreme sports. I’ve designed MANTRA Kitesurfing Bar to provide a safer platform so riders can push themselves even further than before,” Michael Chijoff, a Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology student, said.

The MANTRA Kitesurfing bar increases trick success rates reduces injury rates and increases speed and performance outputs.

This year’s 12 finalists were selected from 90 entrants by an international panel of experts in design and technology.

“The Australian Design Awards and Dyson partnership is about supporting young designers who share Dyson’s philosophy of complete design; developing products that provide significant solutions and don’t just focus on the aesthetics,” says Ross Cameron, Managing Director, Dyson SEA.

“The Australian Design Award®-Dyson Student Award is an incredible program that puts student talent under the spotlight, and provides a bridge from academia to industry,” says Stephanie Watson, Manager of the Australian Design Awards.

The Australian Design Award®-Dyson Student Award rewards innovative and distinctive engineering and design emanating from Australia’s education sector.

The Australian Design Award®-Dyson Student Award consists of a Gold, Silver and Bronze winner sharing in a prize of $10,000; the Gold winner being automatically entered into the prestigious International James Dyson Award.

Michael will now attend the prestigious Australian Design Award Presentation night at the Wharf 8 Complex in Sydney’s Darling Harbour on May 19. His entry will also be on display in the Australian Design Award Exhibition which runs over the whole day.

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