It is recommended to replace your CAPE garments after 6 months. This is because your body shape may change and the materials will inevitably degrade over time, altering the compression being delivered.

Yes. Please refer to our Guarantee page for details. 

Our core product is calf sleeves – these are incredibly practical and effective remedial garments for running athletes as they improve blood flow for the entire leg. We also make arm sleeves, knee sleeves, leg sleeves and leggings.

There is nothing special you need to do! Wear the same undergarments you would wear under the remedial compression garments. It is not suggested to do any strength training of the areas intended for scanning for 1 day prior, as the muscles will be swollen and give a false baseline measurement. You do not have to eat or drink differently.

We use professional structured-light hand-held scanners, which we bring to your training base. These scanners are accurate to sub-mm, and are necessary to craft a precision custom-fit compression garment for you. If you are to be issued with calf sleeves, we scan both left and right legs because they are different and require a custom sleeve for each. The same goes if you are being scanned for arm sleeves. Each scan takes about 10 seconds, and you can see your 3D scan grown on the screen in front of you.

CAPE is an acronym for Custom Athletic Performance Enhancement. Our Founder also spent 2.5 years living on Cape Cod as a postdoctoral scholar at MIT, and also worked at Cape Canaveral with NASA. We use the term bionics because we are providing devices which augment your physiology.

We have developed and patented a system called AutoTailor that imports the athlete 3D scan, material properties and desired compression regime, and outputs the pattern for cutting and assembly. It is based on the same technology, algorithms and processes used to design the spacesuits that ultimately went to the International Space Station. AutoTailor does not take major dimensions from a scan, or use commercial applications to interrogate the scan – we have developed our own process of identifying the critical body landmarks and extracting hundreds of measurements to design your garment from scratch, so that your garment is a precision fit. Our system has also been refined to improve execution speed, which makes custom sizing garments of various materials, and at various compression regimes, rapid and affordable for you.

We have developed specific and different compression regimes for these applications through our associations with some of the leading sports scientists on the planet. These proprietary regimes are the result of merging our extensive physiological expertise in compression from space, medical and sport applications into optimum remedial pressure regimes for you. The ability to impose these regimes on you, and bring you significant advantage, is what our success is built on.

It’s very important that you regularly wash your sleeves. We recommend you wash them after you wear them 3 times. This resets/restores the elastane to ensure the design compression is being applied. Your sleeves can be washed with your other clothes in a regular cycle (not hot), but do not tumble dry. You may wish to wash them in the provided wash bag for best results.

We use a pattern of small silicone dots on our cuffs to ensure your sleeves do not slip. This pattern is better than silicone stripes or wavy lines as it allows perspiration to escape around and through the dots.

In accordance with medical standards, we put a red ‘R’ label on the right sleeve, and a blue ‘L’ label on the left sleeve. These labels are on the outside so you can see them easily. We also put a label which states your name, player number and sleeve type (recovery, active, travel).