 The then current Dutch speed skating top professionals Ids Postma, Bart Veldkamp and Rintje Ritsma were unimpressed by the skate.For the 1994–1995 season, 11 skaters from the South Holland 14–18 age category started using the clap skate competitively.Those 11 showed an average improvement of 6.25% on their times, compared to 2.5% of the other skaters using regular speed skates.