THE POWERCHUTE:
What to Do? Well, There are just a few more of these left prior to making a big decision about them.
The options:
1) Sell the entire concept, design, and stock to a swimming manufacturer (there are 3 interested).
2) Go full force into the line and set up a new order to get to market.
3) Let it go.
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| PowerChute beginning to open post breakout. |
Feedback on them by those who have purchased them AND have them in use has been outstanding. There are quite a few of them in the hands of Coach Dave Dennison with his Team in Colorado Springs as well as scattered around various Southern California Club Teams. I have heard they get some use by teams sharing his pool on training trips. I had the pleasure of seeing how he uses them during a training trip to his pool last summer. They are used as a part of the power circuit. The swimmers work in pairs with one of them attached and one managing the chute. The Powerchute athlete exits the wall with a full speed breakout and then as the Chute begins to open to its full 48 inch diameter the athlete is forced into a position of complete spinal alignment as they nearly come to a full stop. Their goal is to increase tempo as the shoot opens while maintaining full stroke length for the amount of stroke cycles they would typically take in a 50 meter free. It is a challenge and most athletes get about 1/3 of the way down the pool when they hit their target cycle count.
Probably the greatest feature outside of the work level required to use them successfully is that I have solved THE major problem in using resistive devices in the water: you can kick at full speed without getting tangled up in the chords you are attached to!!
When the athletes see them come out on deck (they store in small 10x10 inch mesh bags rather than take up deck space) they react by either being excited to use them or dread the work ahead. That, to me is an endorsement!!
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| PowerChute in its storage Mesh bag. |
If you are interested in one of these PowerChutes, I have 10 of them left. I will reserve 3 for the manufacturers that are interested so that leaves me with 7 to sell. I have been retailing them for $500 each, but will go as low as $400 on these last 7. If you want more than one (some have one, some have as many as eight!) I can discount them a little further.
The bottom line is that there is not only nothing out there like them, they serve as a mobile, easy to store device that does even more than that huge iron or aluminum monstrosity you store on your pool deck that costs 4 times as much.
I can be reached via email at jdswim67@gmail.com or feel free to call me at 949 Six3Six 3337
