Beto Marin Sanchez used re-designed patterns from the Accelerator pole by Bruce Caldwell. And our Group consisting of 2 engineers and Myself and Earl Bell. Took every pattern and revamped it to be consistent using computer modeling and FEA Finite Element Analysis.
Moving to the USA was important. It was very difficult managing a pole making operations out of the country. Making deliveries on time and to maintain the consistency that Pole making has to have to produce a great pole! Earl Bell's signature poles were the ticket. Earl Bell had worked with us very closely in pole designs that worked.
All the pole equipment was refurbished and upgraded to use new ideas in pole making. As we improved equipment it was still the same old way and the equipment upgrades just made it easier, but the proof of the pudding was still performance and durability.
Alberto Caberlotto maker of the LOTTO shoe came on our Board of Directors, along with Rick Foster, Earl Bell, Dwight Stones, A Malaysian Sports Group, and over 700 shareholders with over 60 million shares issued. We raised over $500,000 in a private placement. The SHoe business was very tough as we were going up against NIKE. This beame a very hard
We had gone public and raised money to fund our operations. We acquired Pacific Mat company and previous owner Uli Gag to come on board as a director and merged his company in with ours to produce an ESSXSport landing system line Endorsed by Earl Bell and Dwight Stones.
We produced over $1.5 m in a landing system that year with the ESSX name and also private label for two other companies in the industry!
A Company called Giant Jr. associated with Miss Beverly Hills.com and Wall-Street .net bought the majority of the stock and took the company over with their own staff. I bought the pole vault manufacturing equipment and ESSX name as well as eonlinesports.com from them and went private with those companies. Moved all to Fort Worth, Texas. I still have 1 million shares. I did not sell at the right time, and they today are worth $.00001 a share. The same thing happened to many other friends and investors of the stock!
PLEASE SCROLL DOWN FOR MORE HISTORY!
I had resigned from Port-a-Pit in 1998. Port-a-Pit still sells good landing systems and track stuff today. I opened a company EssxSport Corp and took it public on the OTCBB as ESXS, As CEO we had 700 shareholders and there were 60 million shares issued. We raised money to run operations and purchase a landing systems manufacturer and build our own pole making equipment. The public entity was expensive and volatile with so many Sharks swarming in. The stock never reached our expectations and then the Stock Market went south. Sold to Giant Jr investment for enough money to pay off the bills. and bought the PV manufacturing and operations for $127,000, moved it to Fort Worth Texas Out of my own pocket, I continued to evolve the pole line in Texas with lots of success.
I had the vision to make the very best pole in the World. I found a special uni-carbon material with extremely flexible strain ratios available. However, the minimum order was $10,000 per gram size. A local golf manufacturer, UST-Mamiya Golf, used a high volume of it and was willing to sell smaller portions to ESSXSport; I would go every month and buy the necessary amount from them to produce carbon poles produced proudly with confidence. I was limited by working capital to buy the carbon directly from Japan. Finding a place to share the knowledge of making poles and the resources of volume buying seemed the answer. Moving to a space in the UST-Mamiya Golf facility in Fort Worth, TX, was the answer. After some time, they took a significant interest in the process.
Selling the manufacturing to them meant I could still sell ESSX poles, and they would make them for me. They were driven to update the machinery and had the buying power to buy carbon and glass at an excellent per sq ft. price. This new solution became affordable for ESSXSport and UST Mamiya, as they used this carbon daily on their golf shafts. UST-Mamiya Golf was driven and successful in making tough golf shafts to break, something I felt the pole industry also needed. While very successful and growing for three years, our agreement ended in 2016 without the distribution renewal. They planned to make changes in the designs of the products, the personnel, and the marketing that would yield them more profit and ease in a faster supply mechanism. I was not fired as I did not work for them. I did not fit that model, was not a fan of the changes to the pole and had other products and ideas to share and focus on. So we parted ways hoping they would maintain my legacy with my product ESSX. That did not happen, and I knew I would miss working with my pole customers, but I could still do so as they would be my customer for the other products. Over 35,000 vaulting poles I sold in the field had my cell phone on them. And today, many people call me for the kind of service they are used to getting from me over the years; dependable and with a passion for the Sport!
For over 45 years, I've played a leading role in the technology of the Fiberglass vaulting pole development by taking suggestions made by Elite Vaulters to the most promising engineers in our business. Time after time, my ideas and pole models, and brands have continued to evolve by following this simple process; listen to the vaulters and challenge the engineers to help me solve these issues.
The benefit is that we now approach a new generation of vaulters whose poles were in essence, designed by the best vaulters in the World.
With my return to FiberSport, I've created a cross between all poles I have ever made. This pole is an upgrade to all previous pole brands I personally designed or made before 2016.; SKY-POLE (CA) FiberSport (KCMO) Cat-A-Pole (DFW) ESSXSport (CA & DFW).The New FiberSport Pole is responsive yet forgiving. Easy to roll over, but it still has resistance in the return.
When the decision was made to part company with UST-ESSX, changes made in management and ideas to change the pole didn't meet my vision of the durable vaulting pole. I also felt my suggestions were no longer as welcome as they once were. Cutting corners to increase profits and redesigning something that was working well just to make it their own was the Goal. A vision of being a legacy to help them turn into a mess, And since my suggestions are coming from the best vaulters in the World, I felt I needed to move on so I could continue to reflect my customer's wishes! I spent two years developing a new design, improving on the RockBack Poles cases & testing new discus concepts to develop a complete line of quality products. www.rock-back.com & www.fibersportdiscus.com. Check them out! MY sixth Generation pole FiberSpoprt PRO is an upgrade to any of my previous designs in the past.
