Elias Valtonen, Finland men’s national basketball team

Elias Valtonen plays on the Finland men’s national basketball team, known in Finland affectionately as susijengi, “the wolf pack”. He also plays for Bàsquet Manresa in the Spanish league. The jump from the German second tier to Europe’s toughest national league was a big one, but the one-time player for the Finnish Euran Veivi club has already impressed many with his performances this season. 

Elias is also an avid Cloudboots user. He needed a compression treatment device that would be easy to take with him to away games, and this made the Cloud8 ROGUE model the natural choice. Elias is 198 cm tall, but that’s no problem with the one-size-fits-all pants.  

“After training or a match, I don’t always want to go to a masseur or don’t have the time, so most often I just pull on my Cloudboots as soon as I get home.” Sometimes I also wear the Cloudboots pants to warm up my leg muscles before a match. In that case, I keep the duration of the treatment very short and choose light pressure so that I still have energy in the muscles. When you’re playing at professional level and you need to get the very most out of recovery as well, Cloudboots does the job.”

“Most of the time when I use my Cloudboots pants I don’t activate the uppermost chamber. This suits me well in terms of size, since it gives a comfortable pressure all the way from my ankles to my hips. If I want to treat the feet and calves separately, I lower the pants a bit and rotate the pressure in the four lower chambers.