Here's the recipe:

1. Rub in RockSauce where you're going to tape.
2. Wipe skin with a cloth or paper towel.
3. Apply kinesiology tape.
4. Apply dime-sized dollops of RockSauce every 3" along the tape.
5. Rub into the tape and surrounding skin.
6. Experience that icy-hot Rock Sauce relief … ahhhh!

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SpiderTech X-Strips from Theratape.com are awesome little pain zappers. Apply the X directly over the painful area and, voila, instant pain relief! I used this configuration last week for a bad case of tennis elbow (lateral epicondylitis). I started by cutting a longer length of SpiderTech Tape into a Y and applying it along the borders of my forearm extensors extending up past the elbow. Then, I applied the Spider Tech X PowerStrip with the center of the X directly over my lateral epicondyle (outer bump on the elbow). The tape stayed on for 5 days, and I was able to pain almost pain-free.

Spider Tech is the world leader in precut kinesiology tape applications for a wide variety of body parts. With step-by-step instructions included with every application, anyone can learn to tape themselves for relief of pain and inflammation or to support fatigued or injured muscles. Because the tape is thin and stretchy, it is an ideal sports tape for injured athletes, allowing them to continue competing with full range of motion as they recover from strains and sprains.

Jordan credits SpiderTech with allowing him to return to both training and competition, “not at 90%, but at 100%.”

See the full line of SpiderTech Precut kinesiology taping applications.

Rocktape, the leader in high performance athletic tape for active people everywhere, today announced that Rocktape has been used extensively by Peanut Butter & Co. TWENTY12 riders in their 2010 campaign.

The team has been consistently on the podium over the last 3 months. Starting with the Tour of New Zealand, Shelley Evans took 4 stage wins and clinched the overall victory.

Soon after, the team assembled at Sea Otter where Katherine Carroll took home a strong 2nd place finish in the Circuit race and rising star Coryn Rivera took 5th. Olivia Dillon, Irish National Champion, grabbed 1st place in the Santa Cruz criterium later that week.

Seven team members then raced in the SRAM Tour of Gila where Shelley Evans took 1st in the Crit and Mara Abbott took the overall win in the GC in this prestigious and highly contested race.

Continuing their blitzkrieg, the gals split up to conquer the world: Evans went to Mexico where she brought home a Gold and Silver in the Pan Am Games, while Rivera won the Tour of California crit in Sacramento on junior gears.

“We are so proud to support this team,” said Greg van den Dries, Rocktape’s CEO. “Nicola Cranmer, Kristin Armstrong and entire team are on top of the world right now. In my opinion they are simply executing incredibly well and we couldn’t be happier for them.”

Rocktape works closely with the the team to help improve its products. “Olivia Dillon was suffering from shin splints at Sea Otter,” said Dr. Steve Capobianco, Rocktape’s Medical Director. “We developed a very effective method of treatment that was tailored specifically to her needs. These riders are like a rolling performance lab that allows us to test and re-test various aspects of our products. We love working with them and the team’s medical staff to continually develop new products and techniques that can help all athletes.”

More than twenty sponsors help power the team. “Our sponsors are critical to what we do,” said Nicola Cranmer, General Manager and founder of the team. “Our friends at Rocktape help keep our riders fresh and healthy, and when your team competes in over 50 races per year across the globe, it’s critical to us to have the best products and companies supporting us. Rocktape is one of the products that we don’t leave home without it.”

RockTape, the leader in high performance athletic tape and accessories for active people everywhere, today announced a multi-year partnership with 2008 Olympic hurdler and 2012 Olympic hopeful Damu Cherry.

“All of us at RockTape are very excited to add Damu Cherry to our list of Rockstars, and are especially pleased to support Damu as she makes her run for the 2012 Olympics,” said Greg van den Dries, president of RockTape. “We have a special passion to support American women aspiring to make their Olympic teams. In addition to Damu, we are also a proud sponsor of Shelley Evans as she strives to make the US Olympic cycling team.”

Cherry competes in the 100 meter hurdles and is currently ranked #2 in the United States and #7 in the world by Track and Field News.

“Running is a tough sport, and I sometimes suffer from achilles tendonitis. I’ve tried other types of kinesiology tape, but find that RockTape wears longer and actually seems to help more with my pain,” said Cherry. “I have lots of competitions this year, and with Olympic tryouts in my future, I want to do everything I can to stay strong and healthy. RockTape is helping me with that goal.”

In 2009, Cherry racked up a series of impressive results: 3rd in semifinal at World Outdoors (12.76); 3rd at USA Outdoor Champs (12.58); 2nd at Nike Prefontaine Classic (12.74); 2nd at Doha (12.72); 1st at Berlin (12.71); 1st at Oslo (12.68); 2nd at Rethymno (12.53). On the road to qualifying for the 2008 Olympic team, she took second at the Olympic Trials in Eugene, and posted two of the four fastest 100m hurdles times in the world with her 12.47 second win in Fort-de-France on May 8 of that year, and her 12.48 second time to win her semifinal at the Olympic Trials on July 7. Cherry’s 12.65 time at the 2008 Olympics in Beijing netted her a fourth place finish.

Damu Cherry currently resides and trains in Winter Garden, Florida, and is coached by Dennis Mitchell.

Competing in the three disciplines of triathlon (swimming, riding and running) the body is tested to its maximum capability but with Spider Tech’s range of products, I have been able to see and feel immediate positive results in total body efficiency. Over a long endurance event, this equates to the difference between winning and losing.

Towards the end of a 2-8 hour triathlon, the stabilizers of the body begin to fatigue. Spider tape keeps these firing, propelling me on to greater performances.

Spider Tech has become an essential part of my training regime as it improves my economy of movement, thereby increasing efficiency and my ability to train hard the next day.

I would recommend Spider Tech to anyone who wants to improve performance, treat or prevent injury or just make their sport more enjoyable.

Joe Gambles
SpiderTech Believer
Two – time Ironman 70.3 Champion (course record holder)
5th Ironman 70.3 World Championships, 2009

SpiderTech applications help decrease pain and combines well with their other daily treatments including myo-fascial and osteopathic manual therapy techniques, stretching, exercise rehab and cryotherapy. I am impressed with the dancers’ ability to continue performing at high levels with lessened discomfort and strain while wearing the product.

SpiderTech products have become our cutting edge modality for dancers’ pain/edema reduction and functional restoration. It’s good to finally see a tape product that actually adheres to the body while undergoing the stress and range that is expected in a professional ballet dancer’s movements.

Paul Papoutsakis, CAT(C), D.Ac

Company Athletic Therapist & Acupuncturist