Crystal Mountain Golf Discussion

VIDEO: Crystal Mountain Discussion

After the Michigan Junior Golf Day, we traveled to Crystal Mountain Resort up near Traverse City to do a two day workshop for Brad Dean and his staff at the Golf School. The first day was mostly lecture,the second hands on training.

I have compiled some snippets of discussion on functional training and kinetic link with some sights around the Crystal Mountain complex including an event where skiers try to ski across a pit of green jello!!

Enjoy.
VIDEO: Crystal Mountain Discussion

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Sprinting, Cycling and Running

Golf is a huge part of our zenoLINK business, however our scope goes way beyond into many exciting sports. Running and cycling are areas that we have "quietly" been having some success. We have even begun to work in sprinting and speed, with fantastic success!

If you are a runner, cyclist, triathlete, sprinter or just need more speed in what ever sport you are participating check out this press release on our efforts in those areas: Running Cycling Press Release

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zenoLINK T-Shirts hit FOOSPORT store!

We are really excited about our new zenoLINK apparel. welch-e technologies teamed up with artist and graphic designer John Pidcoe of Anything Artistic to create a line of casual and athletic apparel. The designs blend the welch-e hardcore blue collar work ethic and the cutting edge scientific approach of zenoLINK. John has done art work and design for us in the past, including the artwork on our office windows and inside our office.

Our plan is to release one new graphic every couple months... starting with casual wear, including t-shirts, hoodies, hats and then moving into athletic wear.

We are only doing small runs of each design - get one at while they are still in stock at: FOOSPORT.com




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The T's are here!

Just got word from John at Anything Artistic that the first run of zenoLINK apparel is in... a simple T-shirt that captures our upstate NY hardcore work ethic and zenoLINK's "pushing the outer limits" attitude! I will have photos soon and it will hit the FOOSPORT STORE next week!

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Michigan Junior Golf Day

Michigan Junior Golf Day video blog

It was a real privilege to participate in the Michigan Junior Golf Day. Over 100 kids attended the program. Brad Dean and Adam Schriber focused on full swing fundamentals, we focused on Biomechanics. A number of the Crystal Mountain golf academy staff helped with short game and learning how to practice break out sessions. The kids were fantastic: very focused and very behaved. All put 100% effort into the drills and exercises. I don't think it could have gone any better. I think the Michigan Junior Golf Day is a great template for others considering introducing elite youth golfers to elite level training and the Crystal Mountain Elite Junior golf camps are probably the best approach to training young aspiring golfers I have seen.

check out some excerpts from the day:
Michigan Junior Golf Day video blog

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What's on your MP3 player?

When not on the road training and teaching, I am back at home and the office, processing data and creating training programs. Up at the crack of dawn, staying up through the wee hours of the morning... even my 5 year old daughter, Gillian, says dad you need to get some sleep !

"time enough for rest in the grave" -conan the barbarian ... is my moto these days! things are just blowing up big time !!

anyway... many times what keeps me going besides the red bull, is my mp3 player. Tonight is no exception, cranking out data and programs all night and have a long way to go... thought it would be fun to list a sampling of what's on my mp3 player tonight:

rage against the machine - sleep now in the fire
missy elliot - ching a ling
smiths - please please please let me get what I want
john mayer - say
iron & wine - naked as we came
piebald - american hearts
incubus - echo
ben harper - welcome to the cruel world
ben harper - faded
nike drake - pink moon
nikka cost - like a feather
death cab for cutie - a lack of color

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Elite Golf Performance

Elite Golf Performance has been a client of ours for several years now. Matt Christian, the driving force behind Elite Golf Performance, started out on the journey of finding a better way to train golfers, by coming to a zenoLINK workshop in April 2007. He came with an open mind, but I believe the zenoLINK approach was still "shock to the system". The idea of using 3-D motion analysis as a diagnostic and looking at the golfer through the eyes of the medical model - diagnosis and prescription based on deficit in functional patterns - was a big step. Matt took that step and has never looked back. Matt and Elite Golf Perfomance are a perfect example of the impact of zenoLINK and Progressive Skills TrainingTM (PST) on the advancement of sport. Elite Golf Performance is growing and we are really excited about their most recent advancement. We are proud to have a contribution to the success and look forward to the future!

Falconhead Golf Club Announces the Elite Golf Performance Teaching Center.

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Training with Candie Kung

VIDEO BLOG OF CANDIE

We landed in Detroit on Thursday evening and our first stop in Michigan was Lansing and Michigan State University. Friday we were scheduled to work with LPGA golfer Candie Kung. We first did some testing and basic work with Candie and her coach Adam Schriber in October of 2008. Candie followed up by participating in a zenoLINK "bootcamp" (a three day intensive training) in December 2008 and took a 8 week program home from the bootcamp to Texas to train during the off season. With three tournaments under her belt, she had a break so we were able to follow up with her,zenoLINK test her and work out before she heads out on a three week run of tournaments in Mexico, Phoenix and then the first major of the year, the Kraft Nabisco Championship in Palm Springs.

Candie is not only a great golfer but a genuinely nice person with intesity and drive. She works on her game and works out in the gym hard. She has all the tools to put together an amazing 2009... we know she will succeed!

VIDEO BLOG OF CANDIE

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Another successful trip in the books!

WOW... finally back in the office after a 9 day training - education trip that started with Duke University and ended with Michigan, training Candie Kung, participating the Michigan Junior Golf Day at MSU and then training staff at Crystal Mountain Resort up near Traverse City. It was an incredibly intensive 9 days with a ton of travel, both plane and car, but it really paid off. I updated some about Duke, but didn't have the time during the Michigan segment. I will update including some video over the next few days with details about Michigan!

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Detroit Rock City

Landed in Detroit this afternoon... only had a 30 min delay on my flight out of Philly. On the other hand George Bock, welch-e technologies Dir. Operations and Business Development, was not so lucky. George had a 2hr delay in Chicago. None the less we both arrived in Detroit got our car and drove to Lansing where we will be spending the next two days. Tomorrow training golfers including LPGA's Candie Kung, and Saturday participating in the Michigan Junior Golf Day at MSU... I guess I better get some sleep.

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Off to Michigan

Arrived home last night after the Duke trip. Slept in my own bed!!! Packaging for my trip to Michigan... flight out at 12:30pm. Let's see, I whopping 15hrs at home, LOL.

I am super pumped about the Michigan trip. A mini camp with Candie Kung on Friday, youth camp on Saturday and golf workshop/training at Crystal Mountain on Sunday and Monday. Will be jam packed but highly productive. Duke through Michigan is an awesome way to kick off a major month, close out an incredible 1st Quarter 2009 and launch full force into Spring, 2nd Quarter 2009.

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Duke is a SUCCESS!

My time at Duke was raging success! The main force behind our work with Duke is Eric Hegedus, PT, DPT, MHSc, OCS. He is the Interim Vice Chief and Associate Professor, Division of Doctor of Physical Therapy. Eric is also the driving force behind Integrated Golf at Duke and the Peak Performance Golf Program... although after this zenoLINK workshop our relationship should go well beyond golf to include lacrosse and basketball performance evaluation and training. As well as research in golf, lacrosse and basketball. It is a real honor and incredibly exciting to be working with the caliber of professional of Eric and his staff and Duke University.

This trip totally took me back to my research days at ASMI and BioMotion Foundation.

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Duke

...arrived last night at hotel in Raleigh-Durham about 1:00am. Checked in and got up to the room to make sure I had INTERNET ! looks good... up and at it Monday morning getting things prepared for the first day of the Duke workshop. Starting with golf and covering technical stuff today, then we do some testing. Tomorrow will be all about figuring out what is going on and doing something about it ! Then on to lacrosse to finish out. I am excited, should be good!

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Internet Issues

On my way to Duke University to do a 2 day workshop on golf and lacrosse. Stuck in Philadelphia on a 3 hour layover and I can NOT get my Verizon broadband to connect for more than a few minutes at time without getting kicked off ! Major frustration as I have a ton of work to do... called Verizon about it, and it seems the wireless broadband just doesn't work very well in airports. NOT GOOD. Hope I get better connection at the hotel in Raleigh-Durham or the hotel has decent broadband. In this day and age you really don't expect to be unable to connect to a reasonable network. Crazy how dependent we are on technology!

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Verve Bell

Had a great meeting last night with guys at Verve Bell, Inc. . We have been working with Rob Connelly, founder of Verve, and Verve Bell, Inc. now for 5 good years but as both our companies grow we are finding more and more synergy and possibility. The full line of verve bells is offered at the welch-e technologies retail site,FOOSPORT.com, but our future relationship with Verve looks to be much bigger... extremely exciting!

more to come on this topic for sure...

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Finalized Graphic

Finally tweaked the graphic design for the first t-shirt in the apparel line we working on with John Pidcoe,Anything Artist, and it is ready to go to print ! Pretty exciting. We asked John to apply his artistic and graphic design expertise to a series of graphics for apparel starting with t-shirts (dress and workout) that would combine his artistic vision with our business and technological vision. Something that would be "hip" and current but also embody the welch-e "old skool" work ethic and no frills approach. I think he hit it right on the button... can't wait to get them printed, on foosport.com and on the backs of hardcore athletes.

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Apparel

We are developing a line of zenoLINK t-shirts, hoodies and training apparel which will be available soon for sale at FOOSPORT.com.

As a part of this effort we have joined forces with local artist John Pidcoe, Anything Artistic. John is developing a line of custom designed apparel to add to our standard logo lines. These will be limited addition. The first design should be ready to go by the end of the month!

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March Madness

March is here and it going to be a doozy. Right off the bat we have a 2 day workshop on golf and lacrosse at Duke University. Fly out Sunday evening arrive in Raleigh-Durham at 12am Monday morning. Monday through Wednesday, crank through some intense stuff on golf swing and lacrosse shot biomechanics, evaluation and high performance functional training. Fly back to Endicott, NY (home base) Wednesday evening... then off to Michigan on Thursday. All day training at Michigan State with LPGA golfer Candie Kung and several others. Saturday we are participating in a Michigan Junior Golf Day. Then drive 4 hours to Traverse City area Saturday night. Do a 2 day golf workshop for Brad Dean and the boys at Crystal Mountain Resort. Finish up the workshop with Crystal Moutain on Monday, fly back to Endicott, NY on Tuesday. That's just our warm up for the month!

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