Owner

Inventor

Practitioner

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). I am currently studying for a Bachelors degree in Physics at San Jose State University and I have remained a life-time student of all the arts that are martial in nature.

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
With the same spirit of ingenuity that transformed garages into successful Silicon Valley companies, I transformed a section of the kitchen into a laboratory and a machine shop. Sacrifices are necessary in order to see dreams become realities. Within the “MadLab”, I personally create every part of the KruShin except the screws and ball bearings. When fabricating the plastic and rubber parts, I use a modified handheld injection system. This method of casting parts is efficient, yet it has limitation which restricts the amount of material that can be casted. This became evident when trying to cast the gorilla grip. The gorilla grip uses 3 times more material than the monkey grip which means that it is 3 times more likely to have imperfections. I will not sacrifice the quality of any product, so I have discontinued the gorilla grip. The attention, time, and energy that was spent producing one part would be better served in the design and fabrication of new, more inventive products, products that I feel will have a greater effect on an individual’s conditioning than a new grip for the KruShin. So even though I am dissatisfied that I could not produce a new grip, I am excited to create and manufacture new core conditioning equipment that shall have the potential to change the environment in which we all train. 

-William Giles