I just received confirmation that the Naval Medical Center of San Diego (formerly Balboa naval hospital) is accepting a donation of speed bag equipment and teaching materials to use with the soldiers, sailors and marines that are recovering from injuries.
This started back in Aug 2007 when I visited the center with John Baca, congressional medal of honor receipient from Vietnam. John is every bit the speed bag master himself, and loves to teach others. He visits the naval medical center weekly, for he spent close to a year in the facility after his own injuries in the 1970's. While touring the gym fitness center it was noted that there speed bag equipment was non-adjustable and pretty much dysfunctional. Certainly not useable by the many vets in wheelchairs. Working with the Naval moral, welfare, fitness staff, we secured permission to donate equipment to the facility, ( which takes a lot more time than orginally planned...) and I'm proud to say that our own Primefighter Sports has just sent a SKU model 400, modified for more height adjustment, to the medical center. The original request was to donate TWO units but there is currently only room for one, until renovations are made.
We are planning on doing a kick off training seminar in probably Feb or March 08.
Hats off and a great salute to Primefighter staff for joining our efforts to help our wounded warriors with equipment. That's another reason to support those that support this board.
This started back in Aug 2007 when I visited the center with John Baca, congressional medal of honor receipient from Vietnam. John is every bit the speed bag master himself, and loves to teach others. He visits the naval medical center weekly, for he spent close to a year in the facility after his own injuries in the 1970's. While touring the gym fitness center it was noted that there speed bag equipment was non-adjustable and pretty much dysfunctional. Certainly not useable by the many vets in wheelchairs. Working with the Naval moral, welfare, fitness staff, we secured permission to donate equipment to the facility, ( which takes a lot more time than orginally planned...) and I'm proud to say that our own Primefighter Sports has just sent a SKU model 400, modified for more height adjustment, to the medical center. The original request was to donate TWO units but there is currently only room for one, until renovations are made.
We are planning on doing a kick off training seminar in probably Feb or March 08.
Hats off and a great salute to Primefighter staff for joining our efforts to help our wounded warriors with equipment. That's another reason to support those that support this board.
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