Taping In Style...

Can ah? ekeke

If you watch sports event, not only running; you would've noticed that some athletes sports some kind of tape on their body? Badminton, cycling, swimming too.

Ignore these colourful characters. See the yellow & black thing on the Andrew's knee?  The one I showed with the yellow arrow? That's taping. With Rocktape.

I've used a different brand before and while the jury is still out on the "real" effectiveness of taping, me using KT Tape (the brand I used before); it had helped with me recovery. Helped me to finish a half marathon at Penang Bridge International Marathon last year too!

Yesterday, there was a free Rocktape Kinesio Taping workshop at Athlete Circle. I saw Athlete Circle putting up an annoucement over at their FB page, so I immediately told hubby I wanted to attend it.

Kinesio taping is taping over and around muscles in order to assist and give support or to prevent over-contraction and was developed 25 years ago by Dr Kenzo Kase. 

The participants that morning. The session started at 11.00am (a bit late than scheduled because the organiser waited for participants who arrived late. There was a bit of jam getting to Jaya One that morning, due to a cycling event or something, it seems).

After a few minutes of introduction of Rocktape and its benefit and use; participants were encouraged to volunteer for the application of Rocktape by the product specialist.

Nifty Rocktape design. There are more to select. Rehabilitate in style...

Those who had issue (knee issues, calf pain, arm, etc) stepped up to get Rocktape applied on their problem areas. Almost made me wish I am injured too, just to get Rocktaped! Miahaha!!! *touch wood* *touch wood*

 

 

Everyone was in rapt attention watching the Rocktape specialist putting on tapes on each of the problem spot of the participants.

It was a very informative event for me to learn more about performance/sport taping. I also had the chance to meet regular faces at running events that I haven't had the chance to talk or say hi before. Hi Leen! Hi Man! *wave wave* hihi

Almost forgot pulak... for those who want to know more about the product, go ahead and visit their website.

And before anyone ask... No, I'm not paid to do this post yeah... ;)