Voitto

VOITTO is a hockey high performance and wellbeing brand founded by a PhD-level sports scientist and educator. We design gear, content, and coaching frameworks that are grounded in applied research and refined through athlete experience. Our mission is to elevate hockey performance while protecting the emotional and physiological health of every player.

We believe that premium gear should do more than perform — it should endure & connect; plugging you into a broad and deep network of knowledge. That’s why VOITTO integrates ergonomics, biomechanics, physiology and psycho-social practices into everything we build or publish. Whether you're preparing for Nationals or building a masters team, VOITTO equips you with products and content that are technically sound, emotionally intelligent, and unapologetically premium.

Our Edge

  • Scientifically Engineered: VOITTO products are informed by decades of research in physiology, biomechanics, and material science (Kreher & Schwartz, 2012) by sports scientists and engineers. We partner with university collaborators in the UK and NZ.

  • Emotionally Intelligent: We apply the SCARF model to foster psychological safety and trust in our working team environments including the business itself and our events(Rock, 2008).

  • Coach-Centric: Our frameworks are designed to be practical, adaptable, and evidence-based — bridging academic rigor with field usability.

  • Technology-forward: Our breakthrough mobile app Just Try It reflects our focus on dinstermediation of traditional networks and improving pre-purchase behavior and reducing buyer risk via the app and its demonstration library (try before you buy ).

  • Financially transparent - we are more than happy to share our costs; unlike the major incumbents we have nothing to hide or hide behind. We will leave shameless profit-gouging to others.

  • Ecologically aware - from working to eliminate single use plastics at partner factories and packaging minimisation to natural fibre clothing including our own original and licensed BAMCO-X (cotton-bamboo-spandex) and PASHRINO (cashmere-merino) products we actively seek to lessen our environmental impact in meaningful ways.

Meet the Founder

Daryl is a multi-year academic researcher, applied sports scientist, and the architect behind VOITTO’s innovation. With deep expertise in bio-psycho-social framework application, technical product development from software to hardware, neuroscience, and performance physiology, he translates complex science into simple, actionable systems for coaches and athletes. His current UK-based project focuses on new measurement tools and bio-psycho-social mechanisms to enhance exercise persistence in masters-aged athletes.

References

Coyle, D. (2018). The culture code: The secrets of highly successful groups. Bantam.
Kreher, J. B., & Schwartz, J. B. (2012). Overtraining syndrome: A practical guide. Sports Health, 4(2), 128–138. https://doi.org/10.1177/1941738111434406
Lieberman, M. D. (2013). Social: Why our brains are wired to connect. Crown.
Nédélec, M., Halson, S., Abaidia, A. E., Ahmaidi, S., & Dupont, G. (2015). Stress, sleep and recovery in elite soccer: A critical review of the literature. Sports Medicine, 45(10), 1387–1400. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40279-015-0358-z
Rock, D. (2008). SCARF: A brain-based model for collaborating with and influencing others. NeuroLeadership Journal, 1(1), 44–52.