Archive for March, 2011
Meet a Rock Star – Sarah Kent
Sarah Kent is a 21 year old World Champion from Western Australia. Sarah is a track cyclist, competing in the Team Pursuit, and was a part of the UCI Track World Championship winning team in Denmark in 2010. Sarah has used Rocktape extensively in training to treat injuries and also to maintain better posture on ... [READ MORE HERE]
Rock Doc Profile – Adrian Deans
Adrian Deans is based on Victoria’s magical surf coast, dividing his time between his Torquay and Ocean Grove practices. With a lunchtime drive along the beautiful 13th beach (of Sea Change fame), it is a wonder he gets any treatments done in the afternoons at all. Adrian attended the Melbourne seminar in October 2010 and ... [READ MORE HERE]
Do you want your patients to advertise for you?
Have you ever had your car serviced and driven around for the next few days with the mechanic’s sticker adorning your car’s rear window advertising his business? Have you thought to yourself: “How can we do that with our patients?” The answer is Rocktape’s exclusive clinic-branded tape. Put your logo on your athletes to tell ... [READ MORE HERE]
Seminar update
Rocktape’s taping protocol is quickly becoming the standard for kinesiology taping . Why the interest? Unlike other methods, Rocktape’s protocol is based on an “open source” philosophy. We don’t believe that there is only one correct way to tape. We welcome concepts, applications and techniques that others have developed and strongly encourage the practitioners to ... [READ MORE HERE]
RockTape and Garmin-Cervélo Team Up for 2011
Rocktape today announced a strategic supply agreement with Slipstream Sports and the 2011 Garmin-Cervélo Professional Cycling Team to develop and supply custom designed Rocktape in the team’s trademark argyle pattern. The partnership will make Rocktape the Official Kinesiology Tape Supplier of 2011 Team Garmin-Cervélo. Designed using Rocktape’s exclusive Active Recovery (AR) technology, Rocktape provides relief to sore muscles, decreases recovery ... [READ MORE HERE]
Taping for knee injuries
The patellofemoral application of Rocktape is becoming increasingly popular with many athletes, from the elite to the weekend warrior. Melbourne Victory’s Goalkeeper, Michael Petkovic, wore navy blue Rocktape for many games in this season’s A-League for his knee injury. A photo in The Herald Sun on Friday the 10th of March, showed Sydney Swans’s full ... [READ MORE HERE]
Steve Stahl – Kota Kinabalu City Run (Malaysia)
On our way from the airport to our hotel in Kota Kinabalu, the capital of Sabah in Malaysian Borneo, we noticed some street banners, advertising the “City Run” to be held the next day. With some further research, we discovered that this annual 4km run attracted 10,000 runners, registration was free and it started at ... [READ MORE HERE]
Rocktape Welcomes Natalie Cook and Tara West
Rocktape today announced a partnership with beach volleyballers Natalie Cook and Tara West. Natalie Cook, a four time Olympian, has recently teamed up with one of Australia’s best indoor volleyball players, Tara West, in an attempt to secure a spot at the London Olympics in 2012. Natalie Cook has won both an Olympic gold medal ... [READ MORE HERE]
Rach Neylan – NZ brings success in first race for Diadora
The first race of my 2011 season was set to be one of firsts. First race back in 4 months, first race for the new team, with a new director, new teammates and my first race as a professional. My team Diadora Pasta Zara won stage 4, were second in stage 3, third in stage ... [READ MORE HERE]
