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Win Pre-wrap at the Fastpitch Festival Online
Enjoy the “company” of others in the fastpitch community in this fabulous event as they get together for ONE week and discuss the FUN aspects of the game. Take a break from the serious, competitive side of the softball as you learn about what others are doing to make their fastpitch life easier. Enter to win cool fastpitch softball prizes simply by contributing your own thoughts, ideas, tips, and opinions in this years categories.
Visit the Fastpitch Festival during the week of August 25-31, 2008 for YOUR chance to WIN one of the great prize packs! There is NO COST to enter. Participation is simple. Just click on one of the categories right and leave a response. That’s it! Every* response you leave will gain you an entry into a prize drawing. CLICK HERE to check it out.
Pre-Wrap Makes A Great School Store Item
Does your school have a school store? Why not suggest that they carry pre-wrap? It makes a great spirit item for the season, it’s cheap, and your school can earn some money, too.
Need a fundraiser for your sports team? Take orders for pre-wrap and buy it by the case. We keep it at our concession stand at home games and visiting teams love it!
Is Pre-wrap Good for African American Hair?
We’ve been asked this question several times and got some feedback from our customers - the answer is yes! These beauties use it to wrap their hair before bed instead of using a scarf. If they are using the pre-wrap as a head wrap to hold the hair in place they let it cling naturally, however if they are actually going to bed they tuck it, which makes it more secure.
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Critters Who Care
If you are reading this, chances are you are an athletic teen or the parent of one. Our days are full - running from practices, games, camps, and school. It’s easy to forget how lucky we are! A friend of mine also has a home business with her kids and runs a great site called Critters Who Care.
Critters Who Care is an amazing organization whose mission is to lessen the pain of children who have suffered traumatic events in their young lives. Some of these children have been removed from their homes because of abuse, some children have a parent in hospice care or are in hospice care themselves and some have lost a young sibling to a tragic event.
Children are innocent and inexperienced in the harsh realities of life, so knowing someone in the world cares for them can make a huge difference in the way they view their lives. A simple stuffed animal may not seem like a big deal to adults but often it becomes the child’s prized possession in his or her world of fear or grief.
Many of us had regular childhoods where we were oblivious to all the bad things in the world. Unfortunately,
many of the children we help live in a constant state of fear: fear of being abandoned when a parent dies, fear of dying themselves, or fear that their abuser will come back to hurt them.
Their actions are simple. They deliver soft and cuddly unstuffed animal skins to children who need a friend the most. Everything they need to stuff their animal with love is included, even a rainbow star that they can wish upon before putting it inside their animal. In the case of hospice situations, grief counselors are often involved helping the children process their grief as they work with the animals.
Please us help support this amazing cause! Today a percentage of our sales are going to Critters Who Care! Join us or get your own critter to donate here: Donate Now!
How did sports pre-wrap become a fashion statement?
by Karen Snyder
Post-Bulletin, Rochester MN reprinted with permission
“Pre-wrap is cool for sure!” said 17-year-old soccer player and Century High School senior Amanda Joy Smith, sporting a pre-wrap headband.
So how did prosaic pre-wrap, created for sports medicine to serve as a soft, filmy barrier between skin and sticky athletic tape, attain cool-for-sure, fashion-statement status among teen and preteen female athletes?
Details are as gossamer as the product, but Teresa Smolinski of Glastonbury, Conn., and Raymond Rehbein of Rochester have a theory.
“I think it started when somebody dug into a sports medicine bag and found a substitute for a forgotten headband,” said Smolinski, the mother of 16-year-old entrepreneur Tessa Smolinski, who, four years ago, launched a pre-wrap e-business — pre-wrap.com.
“One girl one time probably tied her hair back with pre-wrap. Then more tried it and the trend grew,” said Rehbein, a salesman at Play It Again Sports.
Primeval pre-wrap came in two hues, tan and black. And then manufacturers began expanding their pre-wrap palettes. Lime-green debuted recently at pre-wrap.com, whose hottest seller is the Rainbow Special, one roll each of the dozen colors available.
Katie Frischmann doesn’t remember when pre-wrap didn’t come in colors. The Century High School senior works at Play It Again and takes part in hockey, soccer and lacrosse, and she and Amanda Joy are teammates on a Rochester Youth Soccer Association squad called The Chill.
Katie started using pre-wrap for fashion’s sake when she was in sixth or seventh grade. She demonstrated how she makes a pre-wrap headband. She measured a length of pre-wrap around her neck, tore the tape, knotted its ends, rolled it into a thin band and pulled it up on her head.
“I use it all the time,” she said.
More than mere chic, pre-wrap upholds rules as well as hair. Several sports forbid hard headbands that might cause injuries.
Some girls tie up their sleeves with pre-wrap, which also makes pretty necklaces and bracelets — often in team colors.
The AAU Girls 12 & Under National Championship brought miles more pre-wrap to already plenty 
pre-wrapped Rochester. Lauren Crisler, who came from Philadelphia to play in the tournament “has extensive knowledge of pre-wrap,” said her father, John Crisler. “We have quite an inventory of pre-wrap in every color available.”
“In AAU, teams have to wear the color of their uniforms,” said Lauren, whose yellow pre-wrap headband fit the requirement.
Some people twist two colors together.
“Pink and blue are the prettiest colors,” said Mayo High School senior Elizabeth Joyce, and teammate of Katie and Amanda Joy on the Chill.
“Absolutely no pink!” said Amanda Joy. Black is her pre-wrap favorite.
“I like pink and purple,” said Chill player Anna DiCecco, a senior at Lourdes High School.
Pre-wrap is daintier than duct tape but as versatile. Here are some pre-wrap applications:
• Used under skates, ski boots and other footwear, pre-wrap helps prevent blisters.
• Pre-wrap guards shins from shin guards.
• Pre-wrap holds up spaniels’ (and other breeds’) floppy ears.
• Wrapped around dogs’ paws, it helps keep dogs’ boots from slipping off.
• Fly tyers use pre-wrap to make colorful fishing lures.
• “Pre-wrap is a great wrap for tendinitis and Osgood-Schlatter disease,” said an AAU girls basketball coach. “Because of its flexibility, it’s better than many devices you can buy.”
Pre-wrap Facebook Groups
Did you know that pre-wrap fans are everywhere?!!! Check out how many groups there are on Facebook alone!
- Pre-wrap is THE Best (Girls love it even some guy haha but really it helps those w/ amazing hair =])
- A Little Pre-wrap Can Fix Anything (
It might be preventing the tape from pulling your hair out when you take it off or stopping the blood from gushing out of that open wound. Could it be preventing you from spreading an infection? Or, maybe its used for a simple task like keeping your hair out of your face; it could even be holding that perfectly rigged up contraption together. Perhaps it doesnt even serve a purpose at all, but by god it looks cool! No matter what your reason is, pre-wrap is by far one of the greatest inventions ever created…)
- I Love Pre-Wrap
- Pre-wrap is my life…can’t live without it ever! (Description: everyone in here has at least 2 rolls at home. there’s too many colors to count.
you know exactly where to get it.
if you play sports you have some.
you have some with you just in case yours breaks.) - Pre-wrap is prolly the greatest invention ever…
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Pre-wrap is the @#$%”
Pre-wrap - YAY!!
Head bands, shirt holders
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Pre-wrap (or pro wrap or sports wrap) is GLORIOUS!
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Pre-wrap will save the world someday.
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101 Uses for Pro-Wrap
- i’m addicted to pre-wrap… but it isn’t my fault!!
The Power of Ice
You’ve heard it before - when you first injure yourself, the best thing to do is grab some ice. How often have you had to scramble to find an ice pack, struggle to get it cold, and then fight to keep it on your injury? While coaches usually have an ice pack somewhere in their kit, it makes sense to be proactive and keep your own pack in your bag or at least in the trunk of your car.
Dr. Peter Lowenberg has designed a line of ice packs designed to fit the ice pack to your injury AND keep it there! Total Ice Therapy products use an ice bag with a screw top combined with a neoprene wrap to provide firm, consistent pressure to maximize healing. The principle behind this is that real ice decreases pain, swelling, and inflammation best. The unique design of these ice wraps makes for easy compliance of a recovery regime because they are easy to use, they stay in place, and you can always get ice anywhere you go.
The best method to treat any sports injury is ICE. Proven to be safe and effective at relieving pain and
decreasing inflammation, ice therapy is an easy self-care technique for conditions of the joints and soft tissue (muscles, ligaments, tendons). It minimizes swelling and bleeding and is always accompanied by rest, compression and elevation. When applied, the athlete goes through the 4 phases of icing: cold, burning, aching, and numbness. These are all perfectly normal.
Cold therapy, also known as cryo-therapy, is most effective in the early or acute stage of inflammation, before range of motion exercises and rehabilitation. It works on the principle of heat exchange whereby the cooler object will absorb the heat from the warmer one, that being your body.
After an injury, surrounding blood vessels that deliver oxygen and nutrients and take away waste products are damaged. Everything slows down and now blood and other fluids seep into the space around muscles, causing swelling, bruising, and pain. Applying ice lowers temperature of the damaged area; constricts or makes blood vessels smaller, thus reducing tissue damage; and slows down nerve impulses, which also decreases pain.
Never use heat right after an injury as it will have the opposite effect of ice and increase pain and swelling of an already damaged region.
When it comes to cooling devices, real ice does a better job than chemical or gel packs because it is able to draw 4 times the amount of heat out of tissue, since it lasts longer at an even temperature, giving a more effective treatment. Most chemical or 1-time-use packs quickly lose their ability to transfer heat and thus their effectiveness to reduce swelling.
Cold therapy should always be used as soon as possible after an injury occurs and at 15-20 minute intervals with a minimum of 1 hour off in-between. In order to maintain the results of the treatment it also should be used any time there is a flare-up.
REMEMBER: IF YOU HURT YOURSELF…YOU NEED TO ICE. Be sure to visit Total Ice Therapy to order your own! If you are an athletic trainer or run an athletic facility, these are great to have on hand!
Celtic Force Volleyball Club Loves Lime Green Pre-wrap!
Celtic Force Volleyball Club is shared the joy and excitement of Lime Green prewrap with teams throughout the United States, at the history making JVDA Championships in Louisville, KY. Celtic Force used the lime green prewrap as a “handshake” gift to share with other teams. They’re proud to wear and share lime green prewrap and acknowledge that ” lime green is the new black!”
This Southern CA Blues Team is pumped for lime green pre-wrap!
The Southern California Blues team won both the Under-16 2008 California South National State Cup Championship and the 2008 Far West Regional League Championship. They’ll be competing in the U.S. Youth Soccer Western Regional Championships in Hawaii beginning later this month. This time their pre-wrap will match their uniforms!
The club’s uniforms are quite distinct with the lime green color being a staple part of the organization since its founding over twenty years ago. Needless to say, they were pretty excited to hear that we’ve added lime green pre-wrap to our line.
Lots of luck ladies! Can’t wait to see pictures from Hawaii!
Announcing Lime Green Pre-wrap!
We know you want lime green! You’ve been asking and we listened. Our new lime green is sooo awesome! We’ve custom-ordered lime green pre-wrap and you can’t get it anywhere else! Be the first on your team to have it! Comment here by telling us what you think of the new color and be entered to win a four-pack of lime green! Don’t want to wait? Order it now! P.S. - please Stumble, DIGG, or Twitter and help spread the word!
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