Sanyo has been a long time sponsor of BlackHeart. Sanyo has been providing the BlackHeart teams with water proof HD video cameras to use whilst competing, rechargeable batteries to keep their equipment running while racing over days and days.

 First incorporated in 1950, SANYO has a history rich in creating and delivering technology-based products to every corner of the globe. A truly international organization, the SANYO Group of companies now comprises 245 subsidiaries and affiliates.

BodyScience are another of BlackHeart's major sponsors, they provide the BlackHeart athletes with the necessary supplements and nutrition to compete at an elite level. BodyScience also provide the BlackHeart Athletes with BSc Kompression garments to help prolong optimal levels of muscle function and aid in recovery. BodyScience have played a major role in the success of the BlackHeart Teams.

Body Science® - Integrating innovation and ethics for a healthy mind and body

Australian-owned Body Science® (BSc®) was established in 2001 to fill a market niche for innovative and effective health and nutritional supplements based on a philosophy strongly focused on both results and ethics.

Suunto have provided the BlackHeart teams with some of the most advance technology ever to sit on a  wrist. Suunto wristop computers provide the teams with real time heart rate and ventilation information for training. Bike computers measuring cadence, speed and distance. GPS wristop computers with built in compasses, barometers and altimeters. This technology gives the BlackHeart teams a competitive edge, that only Suunto can deliver.

Suunto is a leading designer and manufacturer of sports instruments for training, diving, mountaineering, hiking, skiing, sailing and golf. True to its roots, Suunto is today the world's biggest compass manufacturer. Prized for their design, accuracy and dependability, Suunto sports instruments combine the aesthetics and functionality of watches with sport-specific computers that help athletes at all levels analyse and improve performance.

 Nature is the best designer in the world. Have you ever seen anything in nature that isn’t elegant, beautiful, balanced and perfect? If it isn’t all these things, it won’t last long – it dies and is redesigned. Nature is a restless system of change. But so is being human. So we put design at the centre of the company, and we go from there.

While creativity is a personal trait, innovation is about how a company is designed, and how the parts within a company interact to create new and meaningful change. Innovation = new + better. Ideas can come from anywhere, and relate to anything – innovation isn’t just about product.

Kayaking being one of the 3 major legs in Adventure Racing BOREAL DESIGN kayaks give BlackHeart the platform and satblitiy to compete in over 50 events a year.

BOREAL DESIGN'S commitment is to offer a high-end product backed by a top quality service, from initial design to introduction on the consumer market. Safety, comfort, performance and quality are the hall marks of each product designed and developed by the BOREAL DESIGN team.

Salomon was born in 1947 in the heart of the French Alps and the birthplace of modern alpinism. Today, Salomon products are sold in over 160 countries and the brand is a global icon. Through performance driven design, Salomon delivers innovation and progression to mountain sports; converting new ideas into action and expanding the limits of possibility. Salomon's heritage, culture, and commitment are tied together by one simple concept: the world’s leading mountain people creating the world’s leading mountain product.

Salomon provide the BlackHeart Teams with the World’s best racing apparel, shoes and packs and are the very reason Team BlackHeart are the number 1 Adventure Racing Team in Australia

UltraFIT Magazine has evolved over the last 20 years to be the leading fitness magazine for both fitness professionals and people interested in improving their fitness. They have achieved this through entertaining and enjoyable editorials written by respected and credited professionals. Their reader comprise of a mixture of athletes, gym goers, trainers and active people who want the latest and best information on how to get, and stay FIT.

Team BlackHeart provide UltraFIT Magazine with regular editorials about extreme Adventure Racing and their experience first-hand of what it is like to compete in the most physical sport in the world.

RUDY PROJECT
TWENTY YEARS OF RESEARCH, INNOVATION AND ADVANCED SCIENCE
 

Rudy Project was founded in Treviso in 1985, immediately gaining a prominent position and establishing itself as one of the leading companies in Europe in the sporting and optical sector.

For more than twenty years, Rudy Project has been designing and producing technical sunglasses, goggles and accessories for sports. BlackHeart rely on the Rudy technology to get us through the day and nigh keeping sight of the goal ahead.