NeuroPak for Tactical & Firearms Training
The Pak from 1109 Bravo was designed with the intent of increasing Warfighter lethality on the battlefield and sustaining resiliency in the garrison-training environment. The system accelerates neural adaptations by introducing a full kinetic linkage of sustained resistance to all motion, which conditions the brain and synapses to optimize movement and fine motor skills.
Just as the Marine Corps Infantry Immersion Training complexes bring the sights, sounds, and smells of the battle space into the consciousness of the individual Marine, the 1109 Bravo Pak trains the muscles, nerves, and synapses to thrive in the combative environment by optimizing the neural networks in authentic environmental stimuluses’.
Tested and validated by premier warfighters and professional shooters, the Pak is capable of integrating into the infantryman’s fighting load for sustained live fire and maneuver training. The system provides resistance and tension throughout the full kinetic chain to build endurance and streamline efficiency in repeated motions found in the modern combative manual of arms.
As US Ground Combat forces have worked to improve accuracy and lethality in marksmanship and weapon employment, the Pak improves the ability of the warfighter to skillfully manipulate weapons and communication suites with peak efficiency.
Common weapons manipulation skills trainable in concert with the Pak include but not limited to:
- Handgun Draw stroke
- Speed reloads
- Ready Up live fire drills
- Primary & Secondary weapon system flow
- Weapon malfunction clearance
- Weapons system transitions
- Armed movement flow
PRODUCT SUMMARY:
1109 Bravo manufactures the world’s only wearable neuromuscular training device. The Neuropak, created to solve the disconnect between skill development and traditional strength and conditioning, is a wearable training system that accelerates the human body’s natural ability to adapt, learn and grow in while you train.
1109 Bravo’s mission is to Optimize the “Human Weapon System” with our innovative Neuropak technology to improve warfighter biomechanics, accelerate skills proficiency, reduce musculoskeletal injury, and ultimately improve lethality, resiliency, and readiness.
Problem:
Musculoskeletal injuries cost the DoD over one billion dollars annually, and are a leading threat to warfighter readiness—with 40% of men, 60% of women experiencing a musculoskeletal injury in basic combat training alone, specifically experiencing preventable joint pain, back pain, sprains and strains, where injured trainees are 3 x more likely to be discharged 1,2,3
Likewise, optimizing critical skills training without overtraining or increasing injury risk is critical to warfighter lethality, resiliency, and overall troop readiness, but has been impractical with traditional training methods.
Solution:
The Neuropak is the only user-defined, corrective, wearable resistance training system that accelerates critical skills-based proficiencies, improves performance and conditioning, and reduces injury risk—specifically improving mobility, stability, and performance, and reducing vulnerability to injury all by 30.25% on average after just one use, as measured in a DoD validated motion analysis system4.
Injury Prevention, Simplified
Self-corrects harmful movement patterns with continuous, calibrated resistance that accelerates skills-based training with improved quality of movement. Rather than isolating and training individual muscles, the Neuropak activates multiple muscle groups, which increases stability in joints and improves proprioception, decreasing the likelihood of injury and increasing the longevity of the operator.
Focus Physical Therapy Case Studies Synopsis
In this regard the Neuropak serves as a bridge in physical therapy to aid the physical therapist in clinician decision making and to maximize the outcome for all patients.”
– Dr. Brad Conder, DPT
Proven Improvements in Movement Quality
Validation in the DARI Motion Analysis system—using DARI’s validated vulnerability and biomechanical metrics which are used extensively in the USAF and Battle Airman Prep Classes at JBSA Lackland—yielded an immediate reduction in injury risk and improvement in movement quality by 30.25% on average after just one use, overall body systems4. Users feel the difference instantly, and this improvement in DARI metrics directly correlates with a reduction in injury risk in warfighter populations.
Improve Performance, Train Efficiently
The Neuropak helps connect the brain and the body to accelerate muscle memory and neural adaptation critical to improving skills proficiency in any environment, all while developing strength and endurance in one optimized training tool.
Easy-to-Use
Just wear the user-defined Neuropak during any training or skills-based activity and immediately the operator will move better—making this technology scalable to any number of warfighters, any training environments, and multiple equipment scenarios.
BENEFITS OF NEUROPAK DEVICE:
Neuro-Cognitive Learning – Accelerated Performance-Based Learning, Decision-making process, shoot/no shoot scenarios
Neuromuscular Conditioning – Quicker reaction and sustainability of critical skills
Neuromuscular Re-education – Neuropak increases power, provides lasting endurance, better coordination, ability to repeat maximum force in the desired direction with less effort and concentration
Training Efficiency – Neuropak transitions users away from ineffective training methods and bad habits, develops strength and endurance, develops new ranges of motion, enhances posture, refines and conditions critical skills
Injury Prevention – Neuropak self-corrects movement patterns which create injury and reduce performance, directs skill performance toward the correct methodology which reduces injury and allows for effective and efficient performance
Aerobic/Anaerobic Conditioning of the cardiovascular system – Due to intense co-contraction which the device places on the kinetic chain throughout the body simultaneously, there is an increased demand and conditioning of the cardiovascular system to drive blood and oxygen throughout the body to all the contracting muscles
Force Coupling of the muscles – By activating “muscle groups” rather than an isolation exercise. Ultimately this increases stability in the joint or region that is engaged, increase proprioception, and decreases the likelihood of injury.
Core Competencies – Shot fatigue, accuracy under an increased fatigue protocol, time on target, reaction time on shoot no shoot drills, speed reloads, transition drills
COMPANY PROFILE:
- Mr. Chris Tedesco, CEO (USMC, ret.)
- 1109 Bravo – Owned & Operated by Veterans
- D-U-N-S # 081037737
SIZE: 16’x21″
WEIGHT: 2.5 LBS
MATERIALS: CARBON FIBER / TITANIUM
USES: AIR, LAND & SEA NEUROMUSCULAR DEVELOPMENT
CONTACT INFORMATION:
- ctedesco@1109bravo.com
- www.1109bravo.com
- 502.836.6709
HEADQUARTERS:
- 8406 Mary Court Crestwood, Kentucky 40014
Download Study:
Validated 3-D Motion Analysis Study
References:
1. Zhu L, Sulsky SI, Bulzacchelli MT, Hill OT, Kardouni JR. “Risk factors for training-related injuries during U.S. Army basic combat training.” Oral presentation, Military Health System Research Symposium. August 15-18, 2016. Orlando/Kissimmee, FL.
2. Sulsky SI, Bulzacchelli MT, Zhu L Kardouni JR, Hill OT. “For want of a nail: Incomplete data and missing documentation in administrative data hamper medical research.” Poster presented at the Military Health System Research Symposium. August 15-18, 2016. Orlando/Kissimmee, FL.
3. Knapik, JJ, Canham-Chervak M, et al. Discharges during U.S. Army basic training: injury rates and risk factors. Mil Med, 2001;166(7):641-7.
4. Hungate, Joel, Using 3-Dimensional Motion Analysis to Evaluate the immediate effects of a novel, wearable corrective training device on Biomechanical mobility, stability, asymmetry, and vulnerability to Musculoskeletal injury, DARI Motion Internal Validation, 2018