Internal (faculty, staff, TA)
BME
2025-2026
Fall
Winter
Spring

ReForm

ReForm

Summary

ReForm

A science-backed wearable designed to reprogram movement

 

Knowing The Fix Does Not Mean Being Able To Fix It

The problem is not effort.
The problem is execution.

Sports are built on complex movements. Athletes learn those movements through thousands of repetitions. When the movement is trained incorrectly, the body can repeat stress patterns it was not meant to withstand.

In volleyball, poor swing mechanics can lead athletes to rely too heavily on the shoulder instead of using the full body. Over time, repeated poor mechanics can contribute to pain, frustration, performance plateaus, and overuse injuries.

The hardest part is that every rep strengthens the pattern. Once a movement becomes automatic, athletes can understand the correction and still fail to apply it during full-speed play.

Athletes Need Two Things to Improve...

 

KNOWLEDGE

They need to know and remember what they are doing wrong.

This is where coaches, video, and motion analysis help.
They explain the issue and show what needs to change.

 

EXECUTION

They need to make the execution while moving.

This is where training breaks down. Full-speed motion is fast, chaotic, and automatic.
Athletes cannot think through every body position while jumping, swinging, reading the ball, and competing.

Technical Approach/Methodology

ReForm is Built for Execution

It helps carry the correction into the rep through a physical cue the athlete can feel during motion

 

Product Explanation

Train the Movement, not just the Mistake

 

What ReForm Does:

  • Anchors attention during motion
  • Helps athletes focus on one correction at a time
  • Supports full-speed form retraining
  • Uses vibration cues instead of constant verbal reminders
  • Works with coaching, video, and practice, not against them

ReForm helps athletes break complex volleyball mechanics into focused cue points. Instead of trying to fix the entire swing at once, players train one movement focus at a time.

The band is worn on targeted body locations and delivers a vibration cue during the swing. This cue draws the athlete’s attention to the area they are trying to correct, helping them build better movement patterns through repeated, intentional reps.

 

How It Works

Select. Train. Feel. Repeat

  1. Pair Band: Connect the ReForm wearable to the app
  2. Select Cue Point: Choose the body location or movement focus being trained
  3. Start Session: Begin practice with swing detection active
  4. Feel the Cue: ReForm delivers vibration feedback during the motion
  5. Repeat Reps: Train with focused intention across full-speed repetitions
  6. Review Progress: Use the app to review session data and guide the next training focus

 

Six Cue Points

Six Locations. Six Modes of Focus. One Better Swing

Volleyball hitting is a full-body movement. Power should come from coordinated sequencing through the legs, hips, trunk, shoulder, elbow, wrist, and hand, not from forcing the shoulder to do everything.

ReForm helps athletes train this sequence piece by piece by focusing attention on specific cue points.

Suggested visual labels:

  • Non-dominant wrist
  • Dominant wrist
  • Non-dominant elbow/upper arm
  • Dominant elbow/upper arm
  • Torso / trunk focus
  • Shoulder / arm path focus

Outcomes

Why ReForm is Different

ReForm does not replace coaching, it completes the feedback loop

 

Repeated Mechanics Matter

Volleyball hitting is a repetitive overhead motion. When athletes repeat poor mechanics thousands of times, small movement errors can become stress patterns.
ReForm is not claiming to eliminate injuries. It is designed to help athletes retrain mechanics earlier, before bad reps become long-term habits.

 

Notable Issues

  • 40% recalled nontraumatic shoulder pain
  • 16%-32% of volleyball overuse injuries are shoulder-related
  • 83% of elite youth volleyball injuries in one workload study were overuse injuries

 

There is no product out there that helps with the Execution - rewriting muscle memory
 

ReForm targets the missing moment: the instant when the athlete is moving and correction usually fails.
By combining motion detection with real-time vibration cues, ReForm turns correction into a live sensory signal instead of another instruction the athlete has to remember.
 

Market Strategy

Built for athletes already investing in improvement

ReForm’s first market is competitive club volleyball. These athletes train year-round, take thousands of reps, compete for roster spots and recruiting opportunities, and already spend heavily on skill development.
Club families pay for team dues, travel tournaments, private coaching, uniforms, showcases, and performance training. ReForm fits into this existing training budget as a tool that helps athletes get more value out of every rep.

 

Why Volleyball First?

  • Large competitive youth market
  • High training volume
  • Repetitive overhead mechanics
  • Strong private coaching culture
  • Serious athlete and parent willingness to pay
  • Clear need for scalable, in-motion correction

 

Why Southern California?

Southern California is one of the strongest volleyball regions in the country. It has dense club participation, year-round training, private coaches, tournaments, facilities, and a growing boys volleyball market.
This gives ReForm a focused launch market where athletes, coaches, and families are already searching for competitive advantages.