I wanted to give you a heads-up about the ZenoLink "boot camp" - a golf swing biomechanics workshop - that's scheduled for April 23-25 at Indian Lakes Country Club in Bloomingdale. If you're looking for a golf instruction/fitness feature, ZenoLink needs to be high on your "to do" list.

Why? Because analysis of a golfer's biomechanics and functional movement is the latest trend in golf instruction. And ZenoLink, a small but growing company in Endicott, N.Y., has introduced a Web-based platform that makes highly sophisticated analysis of an athlete's biomechanics available to the general public.

Before the advent of ZenoLink, this kind of functional movement analysis was available only to elite athletes, performed in a lab setting, and costing thousands of dollars. ZenoLink technology enables it to capture the same kind of data via a simple videotape process, at a fraction of the aforementioned cost.

Chris Welch, founder of ZenoLink and a pioneer in the study of athletic functional movement, will be conducting the Chicagoland sessions. The workshop is designed to recruit ZenoLink partner clinicians - teaching pros, coaches, fitness trainers, chiropractors - to be trained in the concept and fundamentals of ZenoLink and its highly customized Progressive Skills Training program, which is prescribed according to the each individual athlete's biomechanical analysis.

This is a terrific opportunity to gain insights into the wave of the future in golf instruction (as well as innovative functional movement analysis and training in baseball, lacrosse, cycling and other sports). The participation and perspective of participating pros and trainers will provide you with a local angle. And I guarantee you'll find Chris Welch to be an engaging character, as well.

About zenoLINK™ LLC:
Founded in 2001 as welch-e technologies, zenoLINK™ (lower case z and capital LINK are correct and trademarked as such) develops and implements software applications for the measurement and analysis of human motion. Applications are designed for use with a 3-D motion capture platform and 3-D motion data. The company's clients include athletes, trainers and coaches, primarily in golf, baseball, softball, tennis, lacrosse, cycling, running and volleyball. Recent venture capitalization has enabled zenoLINK™ to pursue its goal of servicing the mass market in sports.
Contact: 607-786-9262
Web site: www.zenoLINK.com

About Chris Welch:
Chris Welch, 41, is a biomedical-biomechanical engineer. A graduate of Boston University, Chris has authored numerous scientific papers and frequently is featured as a keynote speaker at symposiums on sport biomechanics and performance analysis. Prior to creating zenoLINK™, Welch was President and CEO of Human Performance Technologies, which pioneered the concept of clinical biomechanics by bringing 3-D motion analysis out of the laboratory and into the arenas of public healthcare, training and coaching. Chris began his career as a researcher with the American Sports Medicine Institute and the Biomotion Foundation.
Contact: chris@welch-e.com

To arrange to sit in on the Chicagoland workshop at no charge, contact Dave Richards, at 248-642-6420 or dave@resortandgolf.com.