Once again our beautiful ambasador Josephine Skriver is on the frontpage, this time it’s on the danish ELLE magazin with her Friend Caroline.. Wonderful girls..

Last Friday the Danish Fashion Brand Ganni hosted a Football tournament for SOS and of course playing with Sensational 1.. It was great to see a lot of Sensational Players at the tournament and one of the wonderful girls were Bettina Falk, who was on the winning team.. Go girls, you rock..

Radio Host and Fashion Icon Huxi Bach gave away a lot of the fantastic Ganni Presents – always nice with some cool funky dudes around when girls are playing football..

We will be posting more pictures on facebook over the next couple of days – so remember to go check them out..;)

Sensational Moments November 24th 2011: There is only one month until Christmas Eve and this weekend the US celebrates Thanksgiving.. It’s almost freezing outside, the Christmas decorations is up all over Copenhagen and winter is just days away.. So todays Sensational Picture is dedicated to Autumn.. We love this merry, cold Season and this beautiful picture by Robert Piontek..

Happy Thanksgiving…

Sensational Moments November 17th 2011: This is a very great moment for Sensational Football… It was our first street tournament ever in the heart of Copenhagen at Isreals Plads.. That year we also  won UEFA’s Grassroot award which we are very proud of..!

Sensational Moments November 11th 2011: Today we want to celebrate the wonderful people that support us and want to help us spread the word about changing women’s football. One of our wonderful Ambassadors is one of the most popular danish models and also a passionate football player, Josephine Skriver..

Now we are looking for more ambassador – who would you like to see as Sensational 1′s ambassador?

Sensational Moments November 3th 2011: The most wonderful Charity of the week.. We LOVE Ikea’s big charity – Buy a support Rabbit and some of the money goes to the help children get an education and when you leave the Ikea store you can donate the teddy/rabbit and it will be given to a child for Christmas… We bought a bunch and donated them for the children and kept one for the office as our mascot..!! Gotta love that little fellow with his mouse friend in his back pocket..;)

Sensational Moments October 27th 2011: It is fascination to see the diversity amongst the female Soccer players.. Here on the cover of Playboy in June featuring five of the Germany’s soccer players, promoting the Women’s World Cup in Germany this year… Go girls..

Sensational Moments October 20th 2011: Yesterday Women’s Sports Foundations hosted the 32nd annual  Women In Sports Awards. In this photo we have some of the wonderful women of the U.S. women’s soccer team, from left, Carli Lloyd, Christie Rampone, Lori Lindsey, Heather Mitts, Abby Wambach, Alex Morgan, and Heather O’Reilly. We love that the Women’s Sports Foundation helps girls “be unstoppable” in everything they do, every day of their lives and we love this picture with the soccer girls all Glamed up..

(Jason DeCrow/AP Images for Playtex Sport)

Sensational Moments October 13th 2011: We found this wonderful picture from our Sensational Street Soccer tournament at Roskilde Festival 2011, with Mia from the “Gold Ladies” and Sensational Black – She might be the next big Super Hero…. Imagine: “The Sensational Soccer women” – can you she her fly??.. Have a wonderful Thursday..

Sensational Moments October 6th 2011: Sensational Football have been so lucky to work with Sarah Becker who has made a couple of designs for us for our Crowdfunding campaign.. It is still work in progress but we want to give you a sneak peak of what is coming and we want to hear you opinion:

Sensational Moments October 6th 2011: On Sunday October 2nd we at Sensational Football had invited 2000 people to come with us to PARKEN to see a soccer match between FCK and AFG, as a Thank you for a great year with Sensational Street Soccer at Roskilde Music Festival, Soap Box Rally, CPH MIX tournament and all the other things that has happen this past year.. So we got a film up on the Big Screen at PARKEN amazing.. Thanks to PARKEN and to all of you wonderful people who support us.

Sensational Moments September 29th 2011:  Today we love the story and picture of our favorite young elite Goalkeeper, Esther Dam Simonsen, 19 years old, who just started college Soccer in the US, at Lindsey Wilson College, Columbia, Kentucky – we wish her a brilliant stay.. She is a previous Sønderjyske, OB and U17 & U19 National Team player..

Here she is, in her galla dress and with Sensational 1… Picture of the day.. Wonderful..

Sensational Moment September 22nd 2011: Natasha Kai is one of the best player in the USWNT, She’s an amazing player with a lot of energy and she has amazing skills.. We love this Picture from OL 2008… Sensational Moment 15th September 2011: An Amazing lineup from England in 1933 – at a time where Women’s football could attract 25.000 people to a stadium..

The second batch of pictures from our new years cup are uploaded.. have you seen them?

Thank you so much for another wonderful day with Sensational Street Soccer.. It was a blast to play with and against you..!

We have posted the first pictures on facebook now and will be uploading more within the next couple of days..

The winners where:

Orange Feeling: Dagen Derpå

Orange Feeling Runners up: Trænerens Trunter

Best Outfit: Bruce, you look Sensational, What happend???

Karma: Asian Girls

Karma Runners Up: De Liderlige Skovhuggere

Best Team Name: Polakkerne/Idioterne/Idiomerne

The Oldies: Toppede Chicks

Good Vibes: Hancocks Helte

1. Place Group B: ØKF

2. Place Group B: Bruce you look Sensational, What happend???

1. Place Group A: Dagen Derpå

2. Place Group A: Scoretøserne

Once again a BIG THANK YOU to all our great Sponsors who made the winning teams even more happy..!!

If you didn’t get the chance to talk to us and give you opinion on what you want us to do in 2012 please take 5 minutes to answer this web survey..:)

Play Date: Saturday January 7th at 13.00 at Skelbækgade 1, 1717 København V

Play Date: Saturday January 7th
Team: 4-6 players
Day program
- 12.00: We meet at the Football Factory .. (You can change there)

- 12.45: You get the program, rules, etc.
- 13:00: CUP begins
- 16.30: Award time (of course some wonderful prizes), shower and changing etc.
- 17.30: Drinks/Coffee at Karriere Bar

Did you know.. New study finds men and women use different leg and hip muscles during soccer kick this may help explain the higher risk of ACL injury in females.. Data presented at this year’s American Orthopedic Society for Sports Medicine meeting in Keystone, Colo., explores the differences in soccer kick dynamics based on gender.

Scientist Thomas Bull have done the same motion analysis with both Sensational 1 and the Size 5 football and the results are significant. By changing the size of the football the female players hit the ball lower moving the pressure from the knee to the hip. Very identical to the men’s kicking. This means by using a smaller ball we remove the pressure on the knee.

Did you know.. That according to new research only 5% of youth coaches are women, even though girls and women’s participation in sports has increased explosively the last decade? How come that the moms ain’t coaching?? Read more about this subject here..

Did you know.. That a new article in the Wall Street Journal is showing some scary research on ALC tears on girls, which supports our agenda with Sensational 1?

In the US an estimated 90,000 varsity high-school and college athletes a year suffer an injury to the anterior cruciate ligament, or ACL, which connects the thigh bone to the shin bone. Women are between four and six times as likely as men who play the same sports to be injured, partly because girls and women rely more on their ligaments to compensate for less-developed muscles.

Help us make a change for women’s football… 

Did you know..

Merry Christmas..

Did you know.. That currently, about 69 million children worldwide do not have access to an education? It’s either because of poverty, disability, displacement, discrimination or cultural reasons. “That is a scary fact and high numbers that we will do our bit to change.” Emphasizes Tina Lindharth, the corporate public relations manager at Ikea in Denmark.

Today Ikea starts their annual recurring Teddy Bear campaign in all their stores, where they for every Teddy Bear or children’s book sold donated 1 euro to UNICEF and Save the Children’s project. The goal is to collect 12 million euro worldwide this year before December 15th.

We want to help the less fortunate children to an education and are diffidently buying us a couple of teddy’s here at the office – We hope you do the same.!

HAPPY HALLOWEEN to you all…

Did you know.. That Only 2 percent of all sports media coverage is devoted to female sport in the UK, 6% in Denmark, 8% in the USA and 6% in Australia??

The US National Team Player Hope Solo for her sponsor NIKE

Did you know… That the Secret to Being A Power Woman? Play Team Sports.. In 2002, a study by mutual fund company Oppenheimer revealed that a shocking 82% of women in executive-level jobs had played organized sports in middle, high or post-secondary school. Moreover, nearly half of women earning over $75,000 identified themselves as “athletic.” Read more about this on Forbes…

Did you know… That the best way to treat a football.. Is to take out the air each time you have practiced.. Specially in this cold and wet season we are going into..  That probably wont happen in most clubs.. But we have used a blatter in Sensational 1 that is soft  to make sure it will let out air over a few days.. To make sure that the ball does not turn into a rock during winter season. Good luck with the last games.

Did you know… That Players unaccustomed to Sensational1 ball spent more relative time over 95 % of HRmax and less relative time in 80-90% of HRmax, when playing with a standard ball 5, making it too demanding playing a full length game.

Did you know… That the increased speed using the Sensational 1 ball combined with a lower pulse rate provide the female players with the capacity to keep a higher intensity for the full length of the game.

Did you know… That female kickers tend to move both the thigh and the shank towards the ball putting too much pressure on the knee, whereas the male kickers only rotate their shank. Female kicking can be altered by using Sensational 1 and reduce the pressure on the knee close to zero.

Did you know…That Scientist Silke Sinning and former national team coach Tina Teurne from The German football Association (GFB) tested Sensational 1 with their elite youth players and 66 % of them thinks it’s more fun to play with Sensational 1..!

The increase in girls participating in sports and the increase of sports injuries, particularly tears to the anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) of the knee, now tells us that has an increased risk of osteoarthritis(slidgigt), even if it is surgically repaired. This injury is serious and it now shows that one of the more severe side effects of it and the surgeries, is that it heightens the risk of osteoarthritis. One study found that among female soccer players who had sustained ACL injuries, more than half developed x-ray signs of osteoarthritis in the following 12 years.

You Kick Like A Girl

New Study Finds Men and Women Use Different Leg and Hip Muscles During Soccer Kick; May Help Explain Higher Risk of ACL Injury in Females..

“Significant differences in knee alignment and muscle activation exist between men and women while kicking a soccer ball, according to a study published in the Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery. Data reveals that males activate certain hip and leg muscles more than females during the motion of the instep and side-foot kicks – the most common soccer kicks – which may help explain why female players are more than twice as likely as males to sustain an Anterior Cruciate Ligament (ACL) injury.

Soccer is one of the fastest-growing sports in the with approximately 30 million registered players and an annual participation increase of more than 20 percent , according to statistics from FIFA. Women also are playing this sport on more competitive levels. Prior research shows that females are more prone to non-contact ACL injuries than males and though many theories exist, a direct cause for the disparity is unknown.

“By analyzing the detailed motion of a soccer kick in progress, our goal was to home in on some of the differences between the sexes and how they may relate to injury risk.” ”

Note: Scientist Thomas Bull have done the same motion analysis with both Sensational 1 and the Size 5 football, the results are significant. By changing the size of the football the female players hit the ball lower moving the pressure from the knee to the hip. Very identical to the men’s kicking. This means by using a smaller ball we remove the pressure on the knee. This type of study will a tremendous help when Sensational 1 is going to the US.

Motion Analysis Helps Soccer Players Get Their Kicks

“As soccer continues to grow in popularity, injuries to soccer players are likely to increase as well. Certain injuries fall into gender-based patterns and new research at Hospital for Special Surgery suggests some underlying causes that could help lead to better treatment, or even prevention for present and future soccer stars.

Data presented at this year’s American Orthopedic Society for Sports Medicine meeting in Keystone, Colo., explores the differences in soccer kick dynamics based on gender. With the use of video motion analysis at the Leon Root Motion Analysis Laboratory at Hospital for Special Surgery in New York City, researchers were able to examine the dynamics of the kicking motion.

“Prior to this kick study, there had been very little motion analysis to show what was going on during the soccer kick,” said Robert Brophy, M.D., lead investigator and former resident and fellow at Hospital for Special Surgery. “We know that female soccer players face a greater risk of ACL injury and patellofemoral problems and male players are more at risk for sports hernia. We used motion analysis to determine if the two types of players have different alignment and muscle activation that might correlate to the injury patterns.””

Merry Christmas..

Summary

Today girls down to 12 years old play with a mens size ball. It makes no sense.

Today there are 6 times as many injuries in women’s football than in mens. With Sensational 1 we have proven that by adjusting the ball to women’s anatomy we cut down the injuries.

Sensational 1 is developed together with scientist from Aarhus, Landau and Copenhagen University with the ambition of making the perfect ball for girls and women. It has been tested in labs and games since 2008.

Women’s football is the fastest growing sport in the world – 30 million organized female players.

We have design and material combination patent on the ball and The Danish FA (DBU) has given us permission to play with the ball.

Right now we are looking for investors who will be part of a pretty unique mission in giving girls a fair chance to play a faster and safer game.

For more information write or call Majken Gilmartin mmg@sensationalfootball.com or +45 40 10 70 99