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Grip Boost Football Gloves

Most football gloves lose their tackiness/grip quickly due to intense frictional contact...

... experienced throughout practices and games during the football season. Usually the grip on a pair of brand-new gloves wears down after just a few days of practice. Just how do you get them to keep their sticky grip?

Two years of iterative product development between football players and chemical engineers led to the creation of Grip Boost Football Gel ? the first product to restore the sticky grip to football gloves without leaving any residue on the ball. Grip Boost is a patent-pending invention and currently licensed by Grip Boost Inc. from the University of Maryland?s Office of Technology Commercialization (OTC).

The development of the Grip Boost Football Gel has been supported by seed funding from the Maryland Innovation Initiative, The University of Maryland OTC, The VOLT Fund, TEDCO's Technology Commercialization Fund and private investment. Additionally, in Spring 2014, the Grip Boost technology was chosen from over 150 inventions as a Finalist for UMD's Invention of the Year. The successful partnership between science and athletics has led to the development of new products in other sports such as baseball and golf.

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