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| SAME which stands for Specific Athletic Movement Emulators was founded in Los Angeles in 1989. The founder, Kenn Hundley had been designing and manufacturing weight lifting and exercise equipment since 1982 for his company Perfect Body Fitness Equipment. While working with body builders and athletes he gained valuable knowledge in the fields of bio mechanics, physics and kinesiology.
Kenn was already an experienced inventor with patents on exercise equipment as well as automotive and aerospace tools. When he started to play golf on a more regular basis he decided take some golf lessons. Kenn grew up in a baseball family. Kenn even played one season of minor league ball for the Cubs. |
All of this baseball history was not helping his golf game. It did not take long to realize that the golf instructors could play very well and explain the mechanics of golf well but they could not get Kenn to learn or feel these mechanics. He knew that there was a disconnect between what the instructors knew and what they could get Kenn's body to learn. |
This is when Kenn decided to try a different approach to learning. He decided that he would video tape several golfers who were very good at the time (Freddie Couples and Davis Love III). He then played the video tape back one frame at a time and he drew dots on all of their body joints. This allowed him to see what the pro golfers were doing and when they were doing it. From this information Kenn built the first resistance, movement and sequence specific golf training aid. |
While working with many golfers on the Golf Swing Emulator Kenn started to notice that the golfers that were using the Golf Swing Emulator were learning the fundamentals of a good golf swing 10 times faster than the golfers that were just taking golf lessons. He started to study neurology to find out why the learning was accelerated for those golfers using the Emulator. As a result of his research Kenn is able to explain how real motor memory is created and retrieved at different ages. This description is a very useful tool for golfers and instructors alike. You can find this information on the GOLF page under HOW THE BRAIN LEARNS NEW MOVEMENT. |
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