Training Tool Creator Looks At Fundamentals
Danario Edgar is out for redemption.
His invention, the XrossOver Vest, is more than just a tool to teach the fundamentals of basketball.
It is also a symbol of a man trying to cross over his entire life. He wants to give children the opportunities to learn the game of basketball that he never had.
He wants to bring back fundamentals to the sport. But most of all, he wants his business to allow him to atone for the mistakes of his past.
Edgar’s desire to help kids learn a skill is not what separates him from most microentrepreneurs. It’s that all of his research and development was done from a prison cell.
Edgar, a former electrical engineering student at Prairie View A&M University, designed the vest while in a federal lockup on a 2001 drug distribution charge.
Made in Asia of a breathable polymer fabric and a series of straps, cords and rings, the vest restricts or allows specific amounts of movement of each arm so that young players can best learn the fundamentals of dribbling a basketball.
The idea is that by restricting the use of a player’s dominant arm, the player will better develop the weaker arm.
“It’s a wearable coach,” said Edgar, who handles the sale and distribution of the vest himself.
Photo by Karen Warren.
cassy on September 27th, 2008 10:35 pm
With this kind of vest, im sure lots of kids can surely learn the basic of basketball…
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