The wonderful athletic trainers at Linfield College achieved the highest score with 150 points - and they won the biggest, most delicious, most politically correct cookie we could find in Eugene, Oregon (move mouse over picture and say, "Enhance!").

For those who didn't get the opportunity of tossing your cookies on the Shuttle Balance - and would like to see all the things this piece of equipment is capable of - we've compiled the following video montage for you (sorry, it's long and there's no sound - but we didn't want to overstimulate you).

Finally, we couldn't help but share this....

When trainers and therapists work with their clients on the Shuttle Balance, they often use a ball, a balloon, or a band. We've never seen someone use a body.

Well, now we've seen everything! We call it "Toss Your Torso"!

Thanks for thinking Shuttle!

And one lucky attendee will receive a brand new Shuttle Balance Professional as a show prize!

All you have to do is drop by our booth (#1213), hop on the Balance Pro - and you're entered to win!

The Balance Professional is the next step in the evolution of our Balance line. It has all the features of our Balance Standard - Adjustable Arrestors, Elastic Dampeners, Adjustable Chains - to which we've added padded grips and the special Balance Steps.

These Balance Steps provide your most debilitated patients with easy ingress and egress – the comfort, confidence, and security they desire to utilize the Shuttle Balance. And here's how practitioners are using the Balance Professional:

Oh, and we'll also use the Shuttle Balance Professional to choose the CSM 2011 winner.... something like this:

So, come and see us in New Orleans, hop on the Balance, enter to win - then follow us on our blog, Facebook fan page, or Twitter to find out if you've won.

See you at the show! 

We had a wonderful trip to San Diego, great food, fun, and the ABC Show was a great success. We wanted to thank everyone for stopping by our booth to try out our products. The Shuttle Balance stole the show... AGAIN! Everyone who jumped on our products was entered into a drawing to win a iPod nano. Take a look at the video below to find out who won!

Shuttle Travels: California 

Phew, this year has been a busy one so we thought about sharing some of our adventures with you. Stay tuned to "Shuttle Travels", because we might be in your area soon. We would love to stop by your facility for a free service on your machine if we happen to be in the area. Look for us in New Orleans in February and June of 2011. Parker and Kris have been visiting some great spots while we travel and we want to share them with you.

Donatelli Sports Specific Rehabilitation Symposium

Presenters:

Dr. Robert Donatelli, PhD, PT, OCS 
Donn T. Dimond, PT, OCS 
Matt Holland, PT, CSCS, SCS 
Dr. Jacob Irwin, PT , DPT, MTC 
Chip Smith, CES 
Randa Bascharon, DO 
John Adam, ATC, LAT 

Sessions:

November 12-13, 2010
Friday and Saturday 
Las Vegas, NV
(Mandalay Bay Resort)

Summary:

Are you at the top of your clinical game in sports rehab for the athletes you serve? This niche field of medical rehab requires a unique and focused concentration on medical care, precautions and endurance to bring the injured patient back to peak performance. The Donatelli Sports Specific Rehabilitation Symposium brings together some of the nation’s finest sports rehab and conditioning personnel for a close look at practice tracks that have a proven result for returning athletes to their sports field in an effective and efficient manner. This symposium will cover the sports of football, baseball, tennis, golf and MMA, yet the concepts conveyed will be applicable to most any sports injury. Members of the symposium faculty are currently preparing 14 Olympic teams for the 2012 London Olympics through rehabilitation of their injuries, development of prevention programs, and improvement of sports performance. Dr. Bob Donatelli, along with his international team of experts, will share protocols by sports specialties and in a two-day format that will be interactive, inventive and highly informative.

Audience: 

Physical Therapists, Physical Therapist Assistants, Athletic Trainers, Exercise Specialists

CEU Approvals:

This is a 16-hour symposium, equivalent to 1.6 CEUs for Physical Therapists, Physical Therapist Assistants and Athletic Trainers (1.5 CEUs for NV PTs/PTAs). The symposium format will include lectures, demonstrations, lab experiences and state-of-the-art equipment reviews to bring the knowledge to the forefront of sports practice clinics across the USA. You may e-mail " target="_blank"> for the Physical Therapy CEU approvals from CA, NV, AZ and WA, or with questions about other states. Motivations, Inc. is an approved CEU provider by BOC for ATCs.

Shuttle Systems will be there and we hope to see you, too!

This year we're giving away the new Apple (PRODUCT)^RED™ iPod nano:

Great little machine, great for the ABC crowd, and contributing to a great cause!

All you have to do is stop by our booth #1632 at the ABC show in San Diego and hop on one of our Shuttle machines. Experience one machine - get one ticket. Experience two machines - get two tickets. Experience three machines - well, you get the math....

Each ticket enters you to win - and we'll announce the winner on Facebook and Twitter after the show.

Team Shuttle will be there in force with the Shuttle MVP, Shuttle MiniPress, and the Shuttle Balance Pro.

And no, we won't be serving drinks on the Balance like we did at the last show....

Biiiiiiiiiiggggggg mistake!

It's King Mo.

We were in LA recently and dropped by the Reign Training Center to check up on how “King” Mo Lawal is training for his World Light Heavyweight Championship fight against Rafael “Feijao” Cavalcante on Saturday, August 21st. Mo showed us how he adds some variety to his MVP workouts by playing a little poker:

This will the undefeated King Mo's first title defense and we wish him the very best.

Success is in the cards....

Thanks Lee!

If that weren't enough to entertain the NSCA troops, there was always the Shuttle Balance. While the Balance has been shown to help a variety of different athletic populations with their proprioception and core stability through all sorts of sports specific functions, we think more and more people like the Balance simply because IT'S SO DANG FUN TO PLAY ON!

I mean, who cares about the athletes, the Balance provides trainers and coaches with hours of physical fun and challenge.

Some attendees tried playing the iphone game Superblox while balancing on one leg on the Shuttle Balance (extremely difficult). Cindy Keegan recommended we look at changing up the difficulty on the Balance by wearing different types of footwear (our guys said the high heels were much more challenging than cute little sandals). 

Imaginations almost at an end, someone suggested we try serving drinks on the Shuttle Balance during Thursday night's Reception. The unfortunate loss of wine glasses, cost of carpet cleaning, and the brief but exciting ambulance ride to the local hospital proved that idea to be a poor one.

Just kidding....

We are continually amazed at the uses trainers, coaches, and therapists are coming up with for the Shuttle Balance. We will preview some video soon where Dr. Robert Donatelli of GolfersMD.com fame is using his Balance to help a local baseball player recover from recent ACL injury while improving balance and core stability at the plate. You'll want to see that - coming soon.

Thanks to everybody who came and played at the Shuttle Systems booth! It was great fun and we all learned a lot. We leave you with the impressive and empowered moves of Johnny Gillespie on the Shuttle Balance.

Johnny Gillespie founder of Empowered Yoga demonstrates the Bow Pose on the Shuttle Balance at NSCA 2010 in Orlando Florida.

Thanks again NSCA - look forward to next year in Las Vegas!    

We gave away free t-shirts to those who scored 750 points or higher. Those went quick. In fact, we had 10 different people score 1,000 points the first day. We figured we'd have to have a toss-off to decide the Ipod winner. But then Tim Dugan stepped on the Balance....

His first throw fell to the earth, I know not where. Then, calmly, he rattled off three straight five hundreds. 1,500 points! We had ourselves a winner - and somebody who obviously knows how to toss his cookies!

I'm sure everybody's gonna want to toss their cookies in New Orleans, next year - and everybody will be gunning for Tim. You all better get some practice in. Better yet, just buy a Balance. You can rehab athletes, practice tossing your cookies, and win an Ipod next year in New Orleans....

Speaking of the Balance, we had Mich Lynch, MD stop by our booth. Mick is the original creator of the Shuttle Balance. Oh, we'd like to think we helped a bit in the process, but he and his sister, Teresa Schuemann, PT, DPT, SCS, ATC, CSCS (you see, all those letters do make a difference) really were pioneers on the Balance. 

We got some good video of Mick sharing the story of the Balance. We look forward to showing it to you sometime soon....

While we'd like to think we think of everything, we have to admit that much of the creation and improvements on our products come from our Shuttle owners. They ask, "Can you do this and this?" And we respond, "Well, we can do that, but that other thing is what they call illegal...." Just kidding. We really appreciate our owners. They are a wealth of knowledge, insight, and creative genius. It keeps us on our toes and our products continually improving. Thanks again!!

Gaming on the Shuttle MVP

Not to be outdone by the Balance, athletic trainers were able to do some fun stuff on our MVP as well. Steve McGee from CDM Sport stopped by our booth to show us his little "rehab game in a box." We hooked it up to our MVP and let some of the athletic trainers play around with the video games doing controlled leg presses.

It turned out to be a fun challenge providing a nice rehab workout. One ATC said that if they had one on their MVP "they'd never get the athletes off it." Rehab would no longer be rehab. It'd be a game. Well, as everyone knows, competition improves performance. In this case, it would improve recovery. We're very much intrigued and will keep you posted on progress with this new technology.

Shuttle Travels

Of course, we didn't spend all of our time at the show. We wanted to go and visit some of our Shuttle owners in the area. For some reason, the Philadelphia Eagles, Sixers, and Phillies were just a tad busy (I know, shameless name dropping). But we did get to see the folks at Arcadia, Temple and Villanova University. It was great to visit with Varsity Fitness, St. Joseph Medical Center, Northwest Physical Therapy (Wyndmoor, PA), and PTW Institute (Quakertown PA). They gave us some interesting insights into how they are using their Shuttle products for athletic rehab and all sorts of other applications. 

Larry Kaplan of Varsity Fitness is using his Shuttle MVP to work on his tennis players explosive power and cardio endurance. We've got video of him demonstrating some of the protocols he uses to get his young players primed for their matches. Stay tuned for those videos coming soon!

And there were the requisite visits to the local historical sites: Liberty Bell, Constitution Hall, Dogfish Head Brewery (some just couldn't get enough of tossing their cookies).

Be Social

So, it was a fantastic trip all the way around. Now we're all back safe and sound in Glacier, Washington. 

With all the hustle and bustle of the show, we didn't get to spend that much time with each one of you. So, tell us what you thought of the show on Facebook or Twitter. 

Thanks for the Philadelphia memories. We look forward to New Orleans 2011!

We have a single ticket to his Spokane course and would like to offer it to fans of Shuttle Systems. See contest details below.... 

Bob's Sports Specific Rehab course is described as:

".... the most comprehensive and complete sports rehab course on the market. It includes neuromuscular, strength training and manual therapy concepts for athletic injuries of both the upper and lower extremity core. An understanding of the etiology of athletic injuries and the influence of poor mechanics and muscle imbalances will be presented. The course will include lecture, discussion, patient cases (video and slides) and lab. The etiology of overuse injuries and treatment concepts will be reviewed. Strength training concepts to include: physiology of muscle adaptation to exercise, and developing a strength training program to improve performance through periodization, plyometrics, OKC and CKC exercises will be presented. Attendees will leave the course prepared to implement their own sports rehab program."

Contest Details

To win this free Spokane registration, tell us why you deserve it on our Facebook Page. Become a fan and let us know why you deserve a free registration to the Donatelli Sports Specific Rehab course in Spokane. Be as creative as you want and may the best fan win. If you have any questions please contact us.

Seminar location:

Here's to your FREE continuing education!

Thanks from Shuttle Systems