Flexforce

Submitted 4 years ago

I have played lacrosse since I was about 4 years old and continued to play it throughout college. I graduated college in 2018 and am now a Sales Engineer at a family manufacturing company located in Auburn, NY. I have always had an entrepreneurial mindset (my favorite show being Shark Tank) while I am always looking for innovative ways to take a problem and come up with a solution.
While I was coaching my Junior Varsity lacrosse team, I was working with the face off guys and kept running into a problem; something that I have ran into many times before... The ball kept getting stuck in one of my players sticks... Players have always had to come up with their own way to overcome this problem, usually with a softball. If they could not solve this problem, they were more than likely going to get called for a violation or even stop using the head completely.
The next day at work, the idea popped in my head and I ran with it. I began to design a lacrosse head on a Computer Aided Design (CAD) software called Solidworks. Once the lacrosse head was finished, I now had to design a product that could simply solve this problem; that is when Flexforce became the solution to the problem. Through various prototypes that I 3D printed and feedback from various players testing these initial prototypes, I have finally come out with the first production model which is injection molded out of an extremely durable plastic alloy. Additionally, Flexforce is both utility and design patented!
Please find the two documents attached for more information on Flexforce.
(First production run will be complete in about 2 weeks... Therefore, we are currently taking preorders)

Thank you and I look forward to hearing back from you,

Tom "TJ" Herbert