I was at a yard sale and saw a
chalk board and thought, “that
looks like a soccer field.” Being in the midst of soccer
season, I purchased the board, painted lines on it and took
it out to the field. We were so impressed with what a help
it was running practice and setting up plays.
Fast forward
a couple of years and my kids are in their first year of
ice hockey. The coach is explaining a set play to them and
nobody has a clue what he is talking about. I went out and
purchased a sheet of ‘white board’ and
made two coaching boards in our driveway with simple tools
and some plastic lids. I gave these boards to two of the
coaches and when I returned the next week for practice, more
coaches were requesting these “awesome” boards.
This
initiated our looking into design and materials and prototyping,
and soon we had our first Sport Write coaching board
for Ice Hockey in 1995. The reaction to the product was immediately
positive so, using the same design, we added soccer,
then basketball and so on until most recently we added International
Rules Basketball. |
