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That idea arrived the day he watched his older son pitch for the first time. One moment on the mound made the risk painfully clear. Pitchers and fielders are exposed to hard hit line drives, and even a single impact to the head can change everything. As he gained more experience coaching and watching youth games, he also noticed how many young players get hit during routine play (like long toss, when learning to catch fly balls, when playing defense, and from foul balls hit into the dugout). It was obvious. Baseball’s early learning curve is full of unintentional impacts. Over time, the risk of taking a dangerous shot to the head is real.

The idea hit him instantly. Build a protective device that is thin enough to be hidden under a regular baseball cap yet protective enough to meaningfully reduce the risk of catastrophic head injury. His sons would eventually play at the highest levels. One was drafted and played four seasons of professional baseball. Another is now competing in college. But when the idea came, he only knew one thing. He wanted to protect his boys and every other kid stepping onto the field.

What sounded simple quickly became a physics and engineering problem of the highest difficulty. Early prototypes using shells and foam proved they would create a false sense of security at higher velocities. The energy of a baseball increases exponentially with the increase in velocity. Small inserts and thin foam are quickly overwhelmed. Truly protective helmets were far too thick to be worn discreetly. The only path forward was a radical new approach.

In the early hours of the morning, he woke up with a realization. What if the instrument didn’t record because the impact was so well managed that the headform registered almost nothing? Could the cushion have absorbed the force so effectively that the data simply fell below the instrument’s detection threshold?

He woke his wife. They rushed to the shop, prayed, and prepared a new test with the most sensitive instrument setting possible. The ball launched. It struck with a quiet, almost soft thud. The reading showed the smallest collision impulse they had ever seen, well below the required standard. It worked. A breakthrough no one had achieved before.

It would still take another decade to refine that discovery into a scalable technology. Along the way were remarkable milestones: passing NOCSAE tests with exceptional results, earning patents, interest from major sporting goods brands, building a custom MAZCAP for Jackson Ryan (son of Reid Ryan, former Astros President), reengineering the system from a fluid model to what is now known as VECTORWARE, securing investment, and finally developing a gel-based solution that performs at high velocity in a profile thin enough real athletes want to wear it.

MAZCAP exists because a father refused to quit on protecting his children and every kid like them. The promise is simple. We hope no player ever needs it, but pray every player has it if they do.

MAZCAP is built from faith, perseverance, and a belief that one idea can be game changing.