FOOTBIKING IS THE WORD FOR TOM DANIELSON
When we began our quest to introduce the Footbike brand and the sport of footbiking to North America we spent many hours speaking to professional athletes about the benefits of cross training on a footbike. It is easy to comprehend that the near impact free movement of footbiking, coupled with the dynamics of engaging the entire body in the movement, was going to be a winning combination for athletes that train all year long or who are trying to overcome any training injuries.
We have many advocates and professional trainers that are utilizing the footbike to coach and train their athletes in order to gain that competitive edge. After assisting and educating these professionals we went back to them many months later to seek their testiomials so that we could enhance our marketing efforts by showing the world that we were a credible training tool and not just a ‘toy scooter’.
Much to our disbelief, the majority of these professionals wanted to keep their new training tool a ’secret’. It turned out that the Footbike was becoming a ’secret weapon’ for athletes and coaches trying to reach that next level, and nobody was all that eager to let out their little secret. For a few months we reached out to some well known semi-retired pro athletes thinking that if somebody like Andre Agassi was kicking it, then we would all want to kick it. At this point it might be a good thing that he didn’t return our calls.
Don’t get the wrong idea here, we are not whining about anything. Like all of our mile-long blogs we are going to get to a point. We are really excited about how FootbikeUSA is rolling along. We meet great new people every week that have just experienced footbiking. These are just normal folks that may never see their photo on a cereal box. But better than that is they are telling us that just getting out and kicking around their neighborhood is changing their life.
At FBUSA we have just passed another important milestone of having visitors from 41 countries coming to FootbikeUSA to ask about the sport of footbiking. In this last week we had the largest crowd of visitors coming to our website in one 5 day period. We always like to think that we have something to do with that, however, this story is yet to be told.
Last week a professional cyclist by the name of Tom Danielson sent out a Tweet that he was…… “I’m taking my offseason training to a new level. Just finished footbiking the Peak to Peak. www.footbikeusa.com”. Ummm, he said WHAT?!
In his one sentence Tweet, he nearly blew the wheels off of our website. Who is this guy? We did a quick Google search and discovered that he is mentioned in the first 40 Google pages that all focus on his nearly inhuman cycling accomplishments. At first we wondered why this guy would unveil his ’secret weapon’ for the entire world to see. Then we read through every article in those 40 pages to learn why. It may never matter if you eat like Tom eats, or train like he does, or change your name to Lance Armstrong. This guy likes to put the hammer down on anyone that will step up. So it is likely that it will never matter to him if every athlete in the country jumps on a Footbike for some crosstraining, because he will go farther, and train harder, and fight longer than any other rider in the peloton.
Thanks to Tom Danielson for spilling your Footbike secret to the world. For those that think you know, we have never met Tom and are not actually sure who he stole the Footbike from. Tom, when you get finished with your next major event give us a shout so we can say thanks. We also want to offer you a position at Team FootbikeUSA Racing, and hook you up with a Gary Schmitt signature custom Footbike for being the first pro athlete to step up and say in your own way what we say all the time.
Footbikes Rock!
