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KATCHET 2020

29/12/2019

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​As another year comes to an end here at Katchet we like to look back and thank our Customers, Retailers, Distributors and users for continuing to support what we are doing.

​After all without that support we would not be here. The virtuous circle of you supporting our ideas encourages us to bring you more products cannot be underestimated and I like to think the coaching and training of our players is better for it!!
 
We would say that though, wouldn't we…..

So what has happened this year and what are we bringing you in 2020.


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​2019 saw a number of additions to the Katchet stable. We re-launched the Skyer on a larger/wider blade with our new Hyper-face pad, which offers exceptional performance and durability. The wider blade gives a much larger sweet spot which has obvious ease of use benefits. We are tweaking the density of the Hyper-Face in 2020 reducing it by approximately 8% which during tests provides even more power. With benefits to the coach far beyond higher and longer catches such as reducing fatigue and strain.
 
The Skyer 2.0, Max and Mini are and will be the benchmark for coaches fielding bats for years to come.

MORE ABOUT SKYER

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 ​The KollectaBall K-strike launched mid-season and is a great fit to our Katchet K range. We have been looking at solutions for picking up bowling machine balls, or other situations were the need to collect large volumes of balls presents stresses to users. It is largely an activity we have all put up with doing and many people will not see as a large problem. Personally, having picked up thousands of bowling machine balls the benefit of quickly collecting a bucket of balls, not having to repeatedly bend or reach under bushes and trees is all too obvious.
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The KollectaBall platform is tried and tested in the commercial agricultural business where it was developed to collect olives and nuts, it is therefore a solid, sturdy and resilient performer.
​The K-strike was adapted for the larger and heavier cricket, hockey and baseballs and wow is it effective.

 
We fully expect that anyone with a bowling machine will be using the K-strike once they know about it.

MORE ABOUT KOLLECTABALL

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Katchet is very much Training orientated and to that end we teamed up with our Indian distributor Omtex to provide a range of training balls, fielding gloves and Merino wool socks to the Katchet range.
The socks are a bit of a step away from our Mantra but we were so impressed with them we thought it a no brainer to make them available.
Omtex is a new name to most in the UK but they are a well established and highly respected brand within the Cricket and sports market in India which can be seen by the number of First Class and International teams wearing their clothing and  equipment.
MORE ABOUT OMTEX

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​Lastly we have teamed up with Zwingo to add their balance aid and the fantastic SpinTechs to our range. SpinTechs was developed to improve batting against spin bowling. The one metre square mat should be viewed as an area of rough which spins and bounces differently to the unaffected areas of the wicket. It is challenging whether facing throw downs or especially against spin bowlers but will improve technique.
Added value is provided with its use as a Wicketkeeping training aid.  
It differs from the Katchet in a couple of ways. Firstly it is specific for practising keeping against spin bowling, the trajectories of which differ from seam bowling and cannot be match specifically practised with the Katchet.
SpinTechs is able to do this because it can be bowled onto using live bowlers, throw downs or bowling machine. It is therefore very realistic and challenging. It is a must have for any   keeper, at any level, alongside the Katchet and KatchMax.

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MORE ABOUT ZWINGO

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​Our new stock of KoachSak products is arriving in the early New Year.

We have added larger, heavier duty wheels and a couple of different trim colours in Green and Orange to the flagship KoachSak Pro.

We are keen that there is either a colour you like or that matches your Country, Club or School.  

We still have a small number of the 2019 edition in Yellow and White trim.

We will also have a limited number of special edition Black KoachSak Pro bags with a Pink Trim!

I think these will go quickly.

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MORE ABOUT SPINTECHS

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Our dubiously named BallSak has proved very popular and not just with Stag Parties!



​We originally made it in two colours so coaches could separate colours, type or batches of ball and easily identify them etc.

Listening to coaches feedback we have improved this slightly.
The 2020 BallSak’s will be available in Red, White and our standard Orange.
​The reasons are fairly obvious, signifying the predominant colours of cricket balls.
​We have also added a name window to each BallSak so they can be further identified.

I will send out further information and images when they are available.

MORE ABOUT KOACHSAK

Hope you had a great year and look forward to sharing an even better 2020 with you all

Regards

​Colin, Neil and the Katchet team
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Katchet 2019

17/11/2018

 
I feel it is time to update you all on our plans for 2019. Katchet has been at the forefront of providing quality innovative training products for almost 15 years and we have no intention of resting on our laurels yet, if ever!
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We are hugely excited and pleased to be re-launching the Skyer range of coaching bats.
The Skyer was the original and the best of the often copied, but never equaled innovative breed of coaching bats which revolutionised the ease in which coaches could provide quality fielding practice.
Due to manufacturing problems and inconsistencies with the pad material we decided to go back to the drawing board and redesign the concept.
The pad has been replaced with our NEW HyperFace™ which has durability, performance and rebound qualities beyond anything even the best Skyers produced.

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 Back in 2006 KP was famously quoted as saying he could hit a ball out of every stadium in the world with a Skyer, such was its performance.
The Hyper Face™ range is better. A highly technical material it is about 40 times the cost of the foam used by the competitors.
We have widened the hitting area by 1cm to make consistent hitting even easier but also managed the weight due to clever weight savings and the Hyper Face™ improvements.
The Hyper Face™ range discards the traditional grip on the handle and uses a tennis/hockey style grip, which will not ride.
There will be three models available in different lengths and weights to suit every coach and their needs.
We think you'll love it!           
AVAILABLE IN JANUARY 2019 - MORE WILL FOLLOW


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DUE TO LAUNCH IN JANUARY 2019 THE Hyper Face™ RANGE WILL ONLY BE AVAILABLE WITHIN THE UK AT www.katchet.com
They will be available outside the UK from your Katchet distributor
Due to the increased costs. To sell it through retailers would have made it cost prohibitive to many of our valued customers


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2019 will see us team up with World leading baseball firm Rawlings to provide a range of catching mitts specially selected by us for the cricket coach and player. It is an important bit of kit for coaches and we wanted to make things easier when choosing a glove by doing the testing ourselves and then providing a reasonably priced range. UK ONLY.

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Launched during the summer of 2018 our K-bowl is an invaluable coaching tool for any bowler at all levels. Inexpensive, easy to use it provides instant visual feedback for player and coach simultaneously.
Here at Katchet we are always striving to improve our range and the current products we already sell. We value your feedback and welcome responses either to this blog or by emailing us directly at colin@katchet.com.
Have a great winter if you are in the Northern part of the world or an equally great Summer if in the South.
All the best and Just Katchet.

K-bowl Launches June 2018

23/6/2018

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This great product is very useful tool for Players and coaches providing them with a means to identify faults in the grip and release of the cricket ball. On release the K-bowl gives immediate visual feedback allowing corrective measures to be taken.
K-bowl fits well in the Katchet philosophy of providing coaching aids relevant for the Youth level up to Full Internationals.
We have provided it in leather and plastic versions.
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Katchet 2018

4/2/2018

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Hello and welcome to Katchet 2018. We are in February already, the Southern Hemisphere summer is sort of coming to a conclusion, thought the competitions just keep coming and to us in the Northern Hemisphere, warmth I feel optimistically, is just round the corner, albeit a long sweeping corner being negotiated in snow affected, slow moving traffic!
 
It is about now we think about preparing for the season and since it is the start of the year a good time to review and more importantly look forward to what we at Katchet are bringing new to 2018.

New for 2018 is the KoachSak Pro (pictured right) this design was successfully trialled last year by a number of first class counties and Associate International Teams and was rolled out during the current Southern Hemisphere summer and is now available in the UK & Europe.
The Pro edition comprises one large compartment but we have included an extra moveable divider to allow you to tailor make the interior layout depending on your needs and requirements. This makes the Pro a relevant Coaching/training bag for any number of sports, including Rugby, Football, Netball to name a few who in many cases use many of the same training aids.
We have enlarged the colour options of the Pro so that most Coaches Clubs & Schools will have a KoachSak suited to their team colours or taste.
The very popular BallSak also get a NEW colour option.

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We have also just launched a limited edition Pink Multi-Stump and Shorty, just for something different.

This will only be available on our website within the UK at the moment.


We will also be launching later in 2018 the K-Bowl. This training tool is designed for bowlers and coaches to bring instant feedback to the seam position on release.  A great little bit of kit to have in the tool bag. More to follow.

If you are reading this then you may well already be a member of our Katchet family, if not, join via our website and you will get notifications of product launches, news and exclusive promotions.
 
All the best for the year ahead, work hard and enjoy your sport.
 
Just Katchet.
 
Colin Smith


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K- Family

1/4/2017

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We pride ourselves in being groundbreaking. Bringing unique, left field and by definition, risky products to the market, has become a bit of a thing for us. Convention is mostly thrown out the window as we seek to help players and their coaches have fun and reach their potential.

We live in a conformist culture and our products, certainly initially, do not conform. We want to offer something different but at the same time needed and practical. Only with your acceptance and use, can our products hope to become mainstream and part of the fabric of coaching. We have to start somewhere.

We have achieved this with the Katchet, Skyer, Multi-Stump and Shorty and the journey has just started for the KoachSak, KlubSak, duffle and KatchMax.

Perhaps we won't always get it right but I hope and expect you to tell us if this is the case. But we won't stop trying because that was how we played Sport and how we intend to run K.

So thanks to everyone who has ever purchased our products or recommended them to a friend.

Without you there is no us.

All the best for the year ahead.

Colin Smith

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K Sports - 2016

28/12/2016

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What a year?!
Across the world we have seen some amazing and momentous things, all not wonderful, but many I'm sure will shape our lives for decades to come.



For us at K, 2016 was a watershed year. We re-branded to reflect our commitment and focus to coaches, coaching and training. We have always wanted to make life easier for coaches and players so as everyone can get on with improving their skills.
Our brand is all about making sure the player is best prepared before the game starts, with a less stressed coach to boot!!


Early 2016 also saw us launch the Multi-Stump Shorty, also developed due to popular demand, they have been very well received from the Test grounds to village green. We had been making them for the professionals for a number of years by cutting down full size Multi-Stumps but this was not an ideal or particularly clever idea.

In Summer 2016 we moved our factory due to a catastrophic failure in the machine that moulds our products. This allowed us to experiment with new materials and though the 2017 Multi-Stump and Shorty look identical to last year the material we are using is lighter and more flexible which will have a number of benefits in performance and durability.

At the time of writing we are still in the process of finding a manufacturer who can make our Skyer FOB to the high performance level we require. We are onto our 4th factory now and currently trialling. I hope to be able to update you in the near future.

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 We launched the KoachSak range in April 2016 which included it's dubiously named sister product the BallSak.

In 2017 we are expanding the venture to include a 'de-tuned' version called the KlubSak and a coaches version of the players duffle bag called the KoachSak duffle (pictured above). These will initially be available in Navy Blue with yellow (above) and Red flashing and trim.

These additions were as a response to comment, demand and a need to cater for coaches and clubs with differing needs and budgets.

Lastly, but very proudly in December 2016 we launched the KatchMax which was a 12 month project unfortunately spreading into 36 months! But nevertheless it is here and I think an excellent addition to the range and will challenge and improve all players of all abilities.
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I look forward to fabulous 2017 and wish everyone the very best in fulfilling the goals they have set for themselves.

Regards

Colin Smith
a.k.a Papa Katchet
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KoachSak gets First Class Approval

7/5/2016

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We are one month into the first Cricket season which has included the KoachSak as a buyable product.

Though this monumental event has passed a lot of people by there a quite a number who it did not.
I would definitely call them early adopters, coaches who have had the bravery to pay their hard earned money for a product which has been no more than a picture on a website.

I applaud them and I believe they have been rewarded with the best coaching bag around, albeit it may be the only one!!

Amongst these trendsetters I include the coaching teams from Glamorgan, Hampshire, Essex, Warwickshire and Yorkshire and the International teams from Scotland, Hong Kong, Denmark and Jersey.  Though with my co-founder and designer Neil MacRae coaches Jersey at the moment so I would have been disappointed had he not!!

Saying that the coaching team from Victoria and the BBL team the Melbourne Renegades had one sent to them over in Australia, so impatient were they to make their life easier, which after all is what the KoachSak is all about.

We have been trialling the 'Sak' with England & GB Hockey and initial feedback is excellent. It's ability to be used for more than one sport is a great strength of the 'Sak' and a strong selling point to Schools and colleges and makes the KoachSak an all year round staple going forward.

I will have news of the much anticipated KatchMax very soon and look forward to updating you on it's progress.

Regards

Colin Smith


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WT20 2016, KoachSak & KatchMax

28/3/2016

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Happy Easter and I hope you have had a great weekend. Here at K we have been hard at work watching the World T20, which for those of a weaker disposition is not good for the health. Brilliant viewing, however I can only apologise to those Sky viewers who may have had to listen to my drivel earlier in the tournament, during the qualifying stage, I did try and sound knowledgeable!
The one personal highlight was equalling Shane Warne’s effort in the 5 ball challenge and watching Kyle McCallan’s despair at scoring the 1
 
http://www.skysports.com/cricket/ICC-World-T20/news/27117/10199155/icc-world-t20-sky-pundits-take-on-5-ball-challenge-in-the-zone
 
 
In other news, last week we launched the KoachSak and the related, but dubiously named BallSak. Unique and practical we sincerely believe coaches will love it.
 
We provided Cricket Scotland with several for the T20 World Cup and so Impressed was Simon Cook, the Hong Kong coach, that they have ordered 8. We are in the process of manufacturing these in their Red colours and should be delivering in the next couple of weeks.
 


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Cricket Scotland KoachSak & BallSak at Nagpur, India
​WT20 2016

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Initially we have made the bag in navy blue with either an Orange trim (our corporate colour) or Sky blue which will be the colour of the soon to be released KatchMax. The fourth of our NEW offerings for 2016 which Is nearing completion and I have attached a sneak peak photo (OPPOSITE) FOR MORE INFO CLICK

Not just for the cricket coach, Hockey has a significant cross over with cricket in terms of training equipment, our Katchets or the popular Crazy-catch being two examples. As such GB Hockey in the form of Grahame ‘Panda’ Mansell-Grace has taken possession of one of our KoachSak’s and we await with interest his initial critique.
 
What has become apparent is that the coach has not been suitably catered for in the bag market and their job as a result is a little bit more difficult and inconvenient. We have always sought to help coaches with our equipment and we hope the K-Sak will be no different.

LEARN MORE ABOUT KoachSak http://www.katchet.com/Koachsak
 
Take it easy and Just Katchet!
 
Colin Smith (aka Papa Katchet!)
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K product launch 2016 - No 2

2/12/2015

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Next on the list of NEW innovative products is the Multi-stump Shorty

Popular demand from almost every International and first class team has eventually forced us slow learners to realise that we needed to launch a shorter version of the highly popular, versatile and safe Multi-stump.

Our trialled versions were found to be very useful for focusing bowlers and fielders at aiming for the base of stumps.

We have imaginatively named it the Shorty, just in case there was any confusion with the size!!

It is based on the Multi-stump tapered shape, uses the same material and is interchangeable with the Multi-stump spike and All-weather base.

Check out www.katchet.com for more details and all our other unique coaching products.

Next: KatchMax
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K product launch 2016 - No 1

2/12/2015

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2016 is a big year for the re-branded K company. We have been developing a number of unique products and will be bringing 4 NEW coaching aids to the market this year almost doubling the range.

We have always been focused on improving players and the coaches who help them and insuring all our products add something unique and not already catered for in the market is no easy task.

The first product to tell you about is our very own Coaching bag.

We are very proud to announce the launch next month of the KoachSak. On the face of it this may look like any other bag but we don't do things the same. This bag was designed specifically for coaches, teams and clubs to house training equipment and coaching aids. A coach bag like no other. We believe this to be the first cricket or hockey coach bag ever made to really cater for these hugely important people. Designed to house their equipment in an organised, efficient and easy to use fashion this is a coaching bag for this century and this centuries coaching aids. Check out our website at www.Katchet.com for more information.

Next: Multi-stump Shorty.
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