The Dugout Dispatch
Founder's Run Opens: 500 Numbered Straps, Each With Its Own Record
Unit #0001 goes to the inventor. The other 499 go in the order the orders land.
The Power Punch is coming back the way it left: rebuilt by the man who invented it in the minor leagues, and this time every strap carries a number that cannot be faked, copied or reissued. The founder's run is 500 units, Youth and Adult, and each one is written to a public ledger on Base the moment it is made. Number #0001 was registered on September 17, 2026 to the inventor's own wallet. It will not be sold.
What the record is: proof the strap is genuine, its number in the run, and, once the athlete claims it, a running count of the training sessions logged with it. What the record is not: an investment, a coin, or anything with a price. It is a receipt that lasts.
The history is now on the record too
Thirty-three items, from the 2001 patent filing to the first demo footage, were hashed together and anchored on-chain the same day. The archive lives at /archive. Old anchors never change; new material gets a new anchor beside them.
Drill of the Week
Bar arm, and the ten-second fix.
- Lead arm through. Bands hang down.
- Cuff the tricep, snug, on bare skin.
- Thumb through the loop, tighten the wrist.
- Set the tension until the elbow wants to bend.
Then hit. Tee, then front toss, then live. Ten swings each. If the barrel drags, the band tells you before the coach does. When the arm holds its angle without thinking about it, that is the drill working.
Not just hitting
Pitchers wear it on the throwing arm to hold the slot. Infielders wear it on the glove arm to stay low. Catchers wear it to keep the hands in. Same strap, four jobs.
Where the original is sold
DICK'S SPORTING GOODS · Adult & Youth
AMAZON · Markwort Power Punch
MARKWORT · SKU PWRP
Links on the site. Buy one there, keep the receipt: reps for it are coming.
From the Founder
"I'm old. This one is for the next generation. It's cool to be able to do this. The strap does one thing: it makes the arm remember. Everything else on this page is just how we get it to the kid who needs it."
— K.B.
Box score
Run size ........... 500
Registered ......... 1
Open ............... 499
Patent ............. US 6,514,163 (2003, expired)
Network ............ Base
Coming up
The Reps rewards ledger. A "does it make me better" page with clips, not paragraphs. The press archive: Baseball America, Eastbay and the hometown papers. Pure 3s for basketball. And a new voice in the cage who gets bar arm wrong every single time.
One issue a month. No spam. Under 18, ask a parent to sign up.