About Us

Our mission is to change the way athletes train and move to put an end to the largely preventable non-contact injuries in volleyball.

Oh and by changing the way athletes train and move we should also see athletes hitting the ball harder than ever before!

Just because you play volleyball doesn’t mean you have to play through the common shoulder, low back or knee pain that so many athletes fall victim to throughout their careers. Our evolution as a company began with working with athletes largely away from the court, rehabbing injuries and making their bodies more resilient so they didn’t have future breakdowns. But something interesting was happening, this process worked for many, but not all. Some athletes who came to us with shoulder pain would leave sessions without pain but a month, a few months, or the next season would come back to us with similar symptoms. Now their movement and capacity off the court was still improved from the last time we saw them, which lead to the realization that some issues were not solely off-court fixes but needed an on-court intervention.

This lead us to combine our movement science background with our on-court coaching and playing knowledge as we worked with these athletes. We started watching how they moved on the court and tried to figure out why their bodies were not distributing the stress and force well throughout their body. What we found overwhelmingly was youth volleyball players across North America had inefficient patterns as they spiked a volleyball. The majority were using patterns that clearly put higher stress on their shoulders, low backs and knees than necessary. So we started intervening on the court, working on their arm swing patterns and that’s where the magic happened.

Athletes who had shoulder, low back, and knee pain who weren’t finding the solution in their off-court rehab and training protocols almost instantly got out of pain! By changing the way athletes attacked a volleyball they were able to distribute force and stress more evenly throughout their body and it wasn’t getting “stuck” in any one part of the “chain”. What we found so commonly was athletes would put their bodies in positions where their shoulders or low backs were the engine that was used to create velocity. And when they did this, the stress and force that goes through the body as we attack stopped in these two places, wearing them down quickly. Now when we got them using their full body and rotation became the engine that was used to create velocity, they ended up evenly distributing this stress and force throughout their torso and their low backs and shoulders were almost instantly happier.

What about the knees? Well when athletes changed to using more rotation, they also started landing on two feet more often. Landing on 1-foot is inevitable in volleyball and we have to be really strong and good at it, but if we spike the volleyball in a way that puts us into a 2-foot landing position more often, I think we can all guess how the knees would feel better from that.

So we started having athletes playing full seasons pain-free sometimes for the first time in their long careers. And this may not even be the coolest part… As we worked on the arm swing on the court and paired it up with changing how they trained away from the court athletes started hitting the ball harder. We’ve had youth athletes add 30km in half a year of working with us. We’ve had high level university and National team athletes add 5-10km even later in their careers.

This is where we are at now, we work with athletes on and off the court, making them more efficient movers in both environments so they can hit harder with less pain!