"Will wobblrs™ be the next big idea to make millions?"
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]]>Wobblrs® improves children’s gross motor skills as well as exercises the mind. While playing with Wobblrs®, players will need to identify the lay of different surfaces and understanding the amount of force needed to obtain a successful hit.
Wobblrs® adds that extra spark to my training sessions. It’s not just another drill but something fun, engaging, and competitive. It’s a simple satisfaction but, my players genuinely enjoy hitting the Wobblrs®.
The Ring of Fire:
One of my favorite drills to run with Wobblrs® is a passing game I’ve deemed, “The Ring of Fire!”
With partners, players stand and form roughly a 10-20 yard circle. Adjust according to your age group.
Wobblrs® are placed near the middle of the circle 5ft apart.
Players stand across from one another while trying to place one the Wobblrs® between them and their partner.
Players pass back and forth trying to hit one of the Wobblrs® in the middle of the circle. Each time they have a successful hit they must yell out their number of successful hits in sequential order. First team to 5 wins. Losers usually do pushups or burpees.
It’s pretty fun to watch the chaos that Wobblrs® create as they ricochet around and balls collide. It’s all part of the game, just as if you were trying to thread a ball through a goal box full of bodies.
The progression:
We have only scratched the surface with how Wobblrs can be used to improve a player's game. We hope this encourages you to try a few different things and then let us know your success stories. Don't forget to have fun.
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Like us, a lot of people become entrepreneurs by accident and when that happens there’s a lot you have to learn. One must face the unknown and overcome obstacles that they’ve never experienced. You have to be humble enough to ask for advice and crazy enough to take the risk. As mentioned in our previous post we knew we had a good idea and we needed to pursue it. We acknowledged that we had no idea how to get it done or even where to start.
We became students of entrepreneurship and took the leap to develop our idea. The leap started with spending our beer money and then some on patent searches, applications and going through the IP process. We heard both sides of the coin. “Don’t waste your money or time. Be first and hustle”, “I wouldn’t spend any money or time until you find out results from a patent search”, “Totally worth it”, “Not needed”, etc. In the end, it’s always up to you to evaluate these pros and cons. All we know is that bringing a product to market takes a heck of a lot of time and money, more than we initially thought. If you are trying to figure out how to get started, I would reach out to local entrepreneurial programs and tap into their network. Kansas City has a wealth of programs to help entrepreneurs at any stage of their journey.
Once we realized nothing like Wobblrs™ existed, we were quick to apply ourselves and were able to secure patents. We also broke our personal promise to never go back to school but, we needed help and a lot of it. We enrolled ourselves in eScholars, an entrepreneurship course through UMKC and Regnier Institute of Entrepreneurship, where we spent 9 months learning, executing and ultimately came out with a rock solid business plan.
But it hasn’t been all been champagne and caviar. With each win, we’ve also had plenty of setbacks. After some self-analyzation we realized that we need to quit doing a few things:
And instead do:
The reason people say “fail often” or “it’s ok to fail” is because something great happens when you dig yourself out of the bottom of the barrel. You learn what went wrong, you analyze what happened and process many different ways it could have been done successfully. Ultimately, you learn at 5-times the rate.
The best way to figure things out is to go out there, do your homework/research, learn from others who’ve walked a similar path and JUST. DO. IT!
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