◆　What is Kinetic Forum?

Kinetic Forum is an academic group promoting improvement in quality of living as well as supporting athletes in their training and recovery from their injuries.

◆   About Joint Development of Products

● Our Testimony

How do we get strength without injuries? – This is an everlasting problem for athletes or coaches.

People have been making continuous efforts and studies to solve this problem, and as a result many theories or various training methods have been developed.  And in modern living various media such as internet have enabled us to get information from all over the world.

However, have Japanese athletes got competitive in the world?  In some sports athletes have shown dramatic progress but in other sports where Japanese athletes used be good at, they are struggling even to be qualified to enter Olympic games or world championships.

It cannot be denied, for one of the reasons, people are losing their physical and mental balance and having disharmony in material civilization where convenience is gained by omnipotent science.  And people are losing their sight in the information oriented society as to what is the essence being bound by superficial phenomenon.

Considering such situation we keenly realize that athletes, in order for them to get strength in a true meaning, need to achieve ability to distinguish essence without being bound by phenomenon and have the mind and the body harmonized.

We have, with our twenty-five years of experience in clinical and sports scene, extensive knowledge, and careful study, pursued treatments of pain and injuries to achieve fundamental improvements, not symptomatic therapies.  By recognizing that humans are a part of the nature we have established theories of “pain in extremities coming from invisible imbalance of body core” or “correlation of movements and muscular tension” on the premise of “harmony with the nature” and “harmony of mind and body”.  And we have endeavored to improve condition of members through our workshops.

At the request from ZETT Create Co. of this time we became involved in development of a new shirt and shocks.  A lot of wears with various functions advertised are being distributed in the same trade today, however, many of them do not solve fundamental problems which those functional wears are meant for because they are manufactured only based on data in the study rooms or on symptomatic therapies such as taping without regarding athletes condition.

Power Unit was developed on the concept that users could get the same sensation as they are treated by our BC Total Balance System.  ZETT Creative Co. materialized our design to vary elasticity of the fabric at different parts with non-stitch method.  And an undershirt which inevitably enables the user to make efficient movements just by wearing it.  Extreme Support Socks are also developed in the same concept.  Wearing is believing – please feel yourself by wearing them.

● Story of Development of Power Unit – Extreme Support Socks

When there was a trend towards undershirts advertised for their style and function in the baseball industry, we were enthusiastically requested by the sales department and the development department of ZETT Creative Co., to assist them with a new product.  At that time the majority of similar products were undershirts made of stretchy fabric to fit on body, but ZETT Creative Co.’s desire was to develop a “physical control wear” to functionally contribute to athletes’ improvement in their performance and their prevention of injuries.

In reward to their passion we provided our accumulated data and knowledge of many years, and worked together on the development of a totally new, dream undershirt.  What we pursued was not like “ fitting sensation” or “cutaneous sensation” alone, but something to make movements easy just by wearing, with both fitting sensation and functions.

Extreme Support Socks were developed after the successful development of the undershirt.  We worked on well-balanced combination of taping function and pressuring function, and dedicated ourselves for ideal socks that achieve both “feet stability” and “durability of power” just by wearing. 

● Concept

“Muscles awake” – this is the concept of the development.

Top athletes’ movement looks totally relaxed.  On the other hand many others tend to strain themselves even when they try to relax.  The reason for that is, due to voluntary muscle becoming involuntary, people cannot move their body as they wish. 

In this development we have achieved to maintain the same pressure to the skin in order to eliminate unnecessary strain by varying elasticity of the fabric using non-stitch method.  Consequently it made the inner muscle work, stabilized the body core, and made it easy for the upper arms to raise and extend - smooth conveyance of the power from the body core to the extremities is realized.

● Verification

After we had many athletes trying on our Power Unit, we have received common comments such as “easy to move” “body feels light” “a bat feels light and easy to swing it”.  Many athletes have commented that they could feel the merit of this wear just by wearing it and there was no need of explanation even though they seemed to be unsure until after they wore it.

For socks we are receiving same comments like “hardly get tired even after long time exercise” or “legs feel light”.

Kinetic Forum supports many athletes in various sports.  Not only in baseball, top athletes in tracks and fields, triathlon, hockey or bicycle race are using these products regularly.

● Our Future

We proudly announce that we already have launched development of new items.  It is our goal to contribute to all the people’s wellness by providing the information that we have as well as having partnership with industrial, administrative and academic sectors.