The Cádomotus brand was founded in 2006, but its history goes back way
further. Founder Diederik Hol, a Dutch industrial designer, already
developed his first clap skate during his studies at the Delft Technical
University in the Netherlands.

Hol, born in 1972, was an elite cyclist for three years and basically
grew up on a road bike. Even when he finished his studies, he kept a
passion for sports; not only biking but also skating, inline skating and
adventurous endurance sports.

Hol grew up with the bike and was an elite rider for three years. He
became involved with the inline and speedskating world through his
graduation assignment (TU Delft) at Raps, at the time of the
introduction of the clap skate.

Work had been started on the clap skate since the 1980s, but the skating
world was not ready for a radical change. The University of Amsterdam
therefore worked with a group of juniors to prove this innovation, which
ultimately heralded the breakthrough of the clap skate in the late
1990s. Hol was involved from the beginning in the development of these
first skates. This big change in skating triggered him in such a way
that he developed a love for ice and inline skating.

Cádomotus, pronounce “Kä-dō-Mō-tŭs", our name refers to the 'falling
motion of the body' and the name, like our company, represents our
classical, science-based approach to the speed of intelligent motion.
Cádomotus rose to design engineering eminence as the pure speed skating
company. The falling motion of the body is the essence of skating in its
purest form. To capture the essence of athletic evolution and infuse it
in everything we do is what drives us to continually innovate in the
name of progression. We’re forever falling-forward, pushing limits,
maintaining optimal balance, focusing on fashioning top of the line
performance solutions that enhance your win.

From pure speed skating roots, we are the designers of high-performance
helmets, gear bags, performance apparel and high-end endurance speed
skating technologies that have helped athletes at all levels own the
podium world-wide since 1990. The speed-minded design team at Cádomotus
has been behind radical departures from tradition that bring continuous
improvements to highly refined and precision engineered gear. Our own
experience-based concepts: skaters and designers who have turned
concepts into world record-breaking vehicles powered by the human body.
We innovate, never imitate, because it’s our mission to propel speed and
endurance sports forward, not cash-in or cash-out on elite athletes for
the sake of commerce. Our patented advancements have raised the bar for
speed and design performance, having helped athletes tame the track
they compete on, on their own terms. With Cádomotus we seize every
opportunity to do things differently, to employ and make industry of all
our 'ideals'. We are born, baptized, bathed and brought forward by the
concepts of intelligent motion design.