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Sports Medicine Australia – the head line for the winter edition of their quarterly magazine – “Kinesiology taping A ‘new’ way forward?”
The winter edition of the Sports Medicine Australia quarterly magazine titled "Sport Health" was distributed this week. The head line for their front cover is "Kinesiology taping - A 'new' was forward?" Inside is a 6 page feature spread on kinesiology tape and the...
Rocktape marketing campaign – associated with Olympics
Rocktape are launching a new marketing campaign tomorrow associated with the London Olympics on Perth radio station Mix94.5. Some people have suggested the London Olympics might be referred to as the "Rainbow Games" given the amount of coloured tape the athletes are...
Rocktape used at Australian Masters Hockey tournament
Australian Masters Hockey players - Stewart Houghton and Tung Le sported the green and gold Rocktape at a recent tournament with the Fiji High Performance Unit. Remedial Masseur - Jenny Tomkins travelled with the team and found Rocktape great for back stability and...
Rocktape welcomes a batch of Rock Stars to the team
Over the last month we have added a number of new Rock Stars to the stable of athletes who use Rocktape to help them go stronger, longer. These athletes find Rocktape a valuable tool to help them shorten their rehab time from injury, improve their endurance and / or...
Rocktape launches the Southern Cross branded Rocktape for the London Olympics
The Poms have their Union Jack branded Rocktape, the Yanks have their Stars and Bars branded Rocktape, and now the Aussies can proudly wear the Southern Cross branded Rocktape. Our first batch has be sent to our athletes fine tuning their preparation for the London...
Fiona Muxlow – International Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu Federation 2012 World Championships
Well what an amazing 3 weeks. On the 20th of May I left Australia for a training camp at Drysdale Jiu Jitsu in Las Vegas followed by competing at the IBJJF World Jiu Jitsu Championships. Only 5 weeks after getting out of a hip to ankle brace, because of tearing my...
Win an AFL match day football
Rocktape are very proud of our association with the Fremantle Dockers for the 2012 AFL season. The Rocktape logo is appearing on the football for all of the Fremantle Docker home games. Rocktape are working with the Fremantle Dockers medical support staff to maximise...
Channel 7 covers the growth of Rocktape in Australia.
Rocktape was recently featured on the Channel 7 evening news in both Victoria and Tasmania. The segment included interviews with physiotherapist and Rocktape Development Manager Steven Stahl, and Melbourne Victory and Australian Socceroo Adrian Leijer. The segment...
Rocktape features on the football for Fremantle Dockers home game.
On Saturday night the Rocktape logo made its debut on the football in the Fremantle Dockers first home game of the 2012 season. The Rocktape logo will appear on the football throughout the 2012 AFL season for all Fremantle Dockers home games. Rocktape are very excited...
Rocktape welcomes triathletes Kate Bevilaqua and Guy Crawford
Rocktape today announced a partnership with Professional triathlete’s Kate Bevilaqua and Guy Crawford Kate and Guy compete on the international Triathlon stage with the goal of peaking at the some of the worlds toughest races, The 70.3 (Half Ironman) and Ironman World...
Seminar and workshop schedules for the first half of 2012.
With the increased frequency of kinesiology tape use in elite sport lifting the profile of kinesiology tape in the community, practitioners are looking to find out more about this innovative taping process. As a result demand for our last three seminars has been very...
Rocktape photo competition
Over the last 6 months the growth of Rocktape in Australia has been phenomenal. In part this has been due to growth of Rocktape internationally, with Rocktape regularly appearing on elite athletes in sporting events around the globe. Rocktape is now available...
Rocktape worn by Australia’s elite athletes
Rocktape has made tremendous in-roads into elite sport over the past year. Thanks to a strong relationship with our east coast distributor – Club Warehouse, Rocktape has been worn by some of the best athletes in Australia. The Geelong AFL club finished their season...
Rocktape’s Rock Stars have been really rocking
Over the last few months there have been many fantastic performances by our Rock Stars. Here are some highlights. Ash Ankudinoff – 1st place in Oceania Omnium Championships and 1st place in Australian National Omnium Championships. Melissa Hoskins – 1st place in the...
Rocktape welcomes synchronized swimmers – Eloise Amberger and Sarah Bombell
Rocktape today announced a partnership with synchronized swimmers Eloise Amberger and Sarah Bombell. Eloise and Sarah have competed at four FINA World Swimming Championships, the 2008 Beijing Olympics and the 2010 Delhi Commonwealth Games where they successfully won...
Spiral leg taping with Rocktape
There has been a significant amount of research recently that has highlighted the valgus collapse of the knee as a major risk factor for knee pain and ACL injuries. Clinically this has been reflected in the growing trend of teaching hip external rotation exercises...
Ash Ankudinoff – Australian National Omnium Championships
For those of you who don't know much about track cycling and about the omnium here is a bit of an insight- The omnium consists of 6 events run over 2 days. There is a flying lap, points race and elimination race on the first day and then an individual pursuit, scratch...
Australian Physiotherapy Association accreditation of Rocktape seminars
In December 2011 we received accreditation for our seminars from the Australian Physiotherapy Association - (APA), to add to our accreditation already obtained from CAA and ESSA. Rocktape are proud to be the first supplier of kinesiology tape to obtain accreditation...