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-: We seen a story about a 13-year-old football player
becoming paralyzed in a game.
He came in to make the tackle with the crown of his helmet,
ended up breaking his neck.
We're former athletes, so this is something
that really touches home with us and seeing the kid
become seriously injured through the game of football
that we played, that we loved made us
wanna make a difference.
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We are looking to enhance an athlete's situational awareness
for safety concerns and also performance concerns.
One of the most critical parts of a tackle in football
is having your head up and command of the game situation
and seeing what you're hitting.
Our product is an accessory.
In football, it wraps around a tackling dummy
and what it does is it forces the player
to have their head up at the point of contact.
It only started as a football product.
We knew that we had something that could make
the game of football safer, but through customer discovery
quickly we realized that our product could be used
in other sports such as basketball, soccer, rugby, lacrosse
as a tool to help enhance the athlete's ability.
If you ever seen a little kid's basketball game
you see kids dribbling with their head down,
not seeing the court.
This is the difference between wins and losses.
Being able to have your head up,
commanding the game situation, should I pass it?
Should I go in for the layup?
And all of this is situational awareness.
Our product wraps around a person wearing it
and then you have a person doing the drill,
and as they're doing the drill,
they have to call out the numbers,
and the only way you can do that is if your head is up
and you have command of the game situation.
We got accepted into the Aspire program.
Being a first time entrepreneur, VentureWell
really gave us a safe space to ask questions.
Being able to talk to the mentor, to be able to talk to
the other cohorts and get feedback and advice from them,
it really truly helped us.
Sometimes you were uncomfortable.
Sometimes you were very uncomfortable in there,
but I could look back and realize that VentureWell
helped us to get to where we are right now.
Our goal, I know it's a big goal, but we want this
to be implemented for everybody under the age of 17.
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