Owner
With the formation of Xodoz in 2005, I acquired the opportunity to design, manufacture, and showcase no nonsense, practical training equipment. I am driven by the motivation to create conditioning equipment which enhances an individual’s training regiment.
Inventor
I invented KruShin roughly 5 years ago. The name KruShin was chosen because everyone wants to have shins as strong as their teacher or kru. The 1st KruShin consisted of 2 dough-rolls, crisscrossed and spring loaded. It was a huge monstrosity but it got the job done. There has been many generations of KruShins since the 1st but the intent that goes into making each one has not change.
Practitioner
I am a practitioner of thought. My thoughts have always gravitated towards the study of motion. That study of motion is accomplished from two points of view, Physics and Martial Arts. Ironically, I began studying Physics and Muay Thai at the same time (summer of '91). Currently, I have sucessfully completed the requirements for a Bachelor of Art in Physics at San Jose State University. I shall always remain a lifetime practitioner of the applied forces. Applied force over time is work. The knowledge, I acquired, shall be applied to the fabrication (work) of all equipment. |
I personally design, manufacture, and assemble each KruShin in batches. While machining a new batch of KruShins on Mother's Day (2008), I hand-wrestled a compound miter saw and lost.
Thanks to the skilled ER doctor, Dr. Reyes P.A, and nursing staff at the St. Francis Hospital for saving the thumb so it can make tools another day...
Fabrication
Similar to the small, sustainable mammals that survived the extinction of the dinosaurs, XODOZ survived and thrives because of it's ability to support it's own infrastructure. Limited size along with unlimited ingenuity allows XODOZ to adapt and evolve new technologies that enhances an athlete's ability to adapt to their changing environment. MadLab 2.0 provides the space for the manufacturing of new equipment while the opportunity of training in a solo-environment is driving the creation of unorthodox training equipment. We are all products of our environment and I intend to change the environment in which we all train. So even though this path is challenging, the excitement I experience when designing and manufacturing new, core conditioning equipment has not diminished with time. Currently, I am engineering the infrastructure for the production of a new product called XO RS: XODOZ Resistance Suit; weighted, upperbody flow restrictor. Regardless of the way you flow, the upperbody resistance suit shall provide the ebb. Each path requires resistance. For without resistance, there would be no need to adapt.
-William Giles |
