Accomplishments
2. When I was 19, I talked my way into the job of rewiring all of the machinery that was used to make furniture for American Furniture Factory, Plant # 10 in Martinsville Va. I had to remove all of the old wiring, bend and install metal conduit and wire up all the machines. I had a crew of 4 working with me and I did all of this without any previous electrical background experience.
3. In the same year I founded the first Corvette Club of Martinsville with the Chevy dealer, Bob White as my sponsor. I was elected President and eventually remodeled my 64 Stingray to look like a Mako Shark.
4. When I was 21, I signed a minor league contract with the Chicago Cubs and played one season in Huron South Dakota.
5. After playing baseball I started to get serious about learning how to play the guitar. I immediately started to write my own songs and wanted to record them with harmonies. I invented a synchronizing switch box which allowed me to record 8 tracks on a two track tape recorder.
6. Was present for Guru Maraji's first Puja in Montrose Colorado July 27 1972. I allowed the young Guru's driver to use my Cadillac to get around the site in. I was there for five days and learned how to meditate.
7. I moved to Key West Fl. with three guys from my home town. Operated a backhoe and worked on a shrimp boat. Jimmy Buffet was my neighbor and we shared the same landlord. I ran into him a lot while I was there. We both liked to sail.
8. I moved to Newport Oregon worked as frame carpenter, worked in a fish packing plant and learned to make jewelry from cutting up abalone shells.
9. I then moved to San Francisco and became a licensed Street Artist selling my abalone jewelry.
10. Went to visit a friend in St. Thomas Virgin Islands in about 1976. He was living on an old yacht that used to belong to Rose Kennedy. The first day I arrived I was a crew member in a yacht race. We won the race. I stayed about 2 months and learned to sail a boat by myself.
11. Back in San Francisco, I invented a push button liquid dispenser for the shower. This idea was stolen and marketed by a company I hired to help me.
12. Put together a rock band with 7 other guys called Apollo, named after one of the member's dog.
13. Started to play small clubs like John Barleycorn, with an acoustic guitar playing a combination of cover songs and original music.
14. Moved to Los Angeles and formed my own music publishing company, Slick Lois Publishing.
15. I was on the Gong Show playing the guitar and singing one of the songs I wrote and published.
16. Eventually I got a union job hanging drywall in Los Angeles and invented a helmet used to hang drywall ceilings (lids).
17. I started my own band, Kenn Hundley and the Heavy Breathers and we played all original music that I wrote. Mariah Carey, was a backup singer for a couple of gigs. Piano player Michael Ruff also did a gig with my band. Earl Greco was my bass player.
18. I eventually wrote and recorded enough music in a studio to make an album. During those recording sessions in 1979, I used every musician in Etta James current band including bass player Kurtis Teal who also toured with Steppenwolf and Rita Coolidge, Robert Martin and Brian Ray who currently plays with Paul McCartney.
19. I was a roadie and guitar tech for John Kaye and Steppenwolf.
20. I learned to rebuild auto engines after a friend's truck broke down when he visited me in Los Angeles. I then became an auto mechanic and eventually invented a tool for the automotive and aerospace industry that replaces 12 other tools. This was my first patent. I also drew all the patent drawings for this patent.
21. I designed a tool belt for hairdressers and sold 5,000 of them to Image Hair Care Products.
22. I invented a weight lifting strap called" The Squat Strap" and sold it in Muscle and Fitness magazine.
23. I became an actor and did 5 episodes on the soap opera "Santa Barbara" and did a national Kodak commercial. I joined the acting unions AFTRA and SAG.
24. Quit acting to start to manufacture a weight lifting bench that I designed that folds up and goes under your bed.
25. I eventually designed and made full line of high end body building equipment under the name Perfect Body Fitness Equipment.
26. I was the first gym equipment manufacturer to paint weight lifting equipment white in 1985.
27. Invented the first movement specific strength training machine for athletes called the Golf Swing Emulator in 1989.
28. Continued designing Emulators and received my second patent for a full line of Emulators U.S. Patent 5,242,344
29. I manufactured and sold 250 golf and baseball Emulators to a Japanese company (Izumi Products) and I traveled to Matsumoto Japan to demonstrate these machines in 1991.
30. I took pilot lessons and eventually learned to fly a Cessna.
31. I went to Munich for a golf trade show for my Golf Swing Emulator.
32. Traveled to Taiwan for an exercise equipment trade show and also visited and Hong Kong and Kowloon on the same trip.
33. The first pro baseball team to buy my Batting Emulator was the Chicago Cubs in 1993. That year Sammy Sosa hit 33 home runs using that machine. Catcher Rick Wilkins also used the Batting Emulator and became one of a hand full of major league catchers to hit 30 home runs and bat over .300 in the same season. Sammy's salary went from $800,000. from the previous year, to $6,000,000. after the 1993 season. He weighed 190 lbs. at the time. Eventually, I had a Batting Emulator in the clubhouse for the Los Angeles Dodgers and the Chicago Cubs.
34. In 1993, I allowed field goal kicker, Craig Davis, for the Phoenix Cardinals to use my field goal kicking emulator for one week. That week, he kicked the longest field goal in the history of Phoenix Cardinal franchise.
35. 1n 1995, I created the first sport specific, movement specific training facility in Scottsdale called the SAME Performance Center. SAME is an acronym for Specific Athletic Movement Emulators. I had machines for every sport that involved throwing, swinging or kicking a ball.
36. I trained PGA golfer Steve Jones for three months in this facility on the Golf Swing Emulator. He was recovering from a wrist injury and he had to play a qualifying round just to get into the 1996 US Golf Open. Then, he won the tournament. That interview can be seen on my YouTube Channel.
37. Because of that success, I was invited to be on the Golf Channel with the Golf Swing Emulator. That segment can also be seen on my YouTube Channel.
38. Sold 75 Golf Swing Emulators to a golf instructor from Wichita Ks. in 1997 who quit his job to sell my machines.
39. Licensed my golf machine out to the same golf instructor for 2 years.
40. Also in 1996 my nephew Todd Hundley, who was the catcher for the Mets, using my Batting Emulator, broke the single season record for most home runs hit by a major league catcher and his salary went from $1,000,000 a year in 1996 to $6,000,000. a year in 1997. The NBC interview with Todd and Sammy Sosa is also on my YouTube channel.
41. In 2003 I met attorney Scott Preggerson in Los Angeles. We performed 2 sets on the Golf Swing Emulator before we played a round of golf. Prior to this, his average drives were 275 yards with a duck hook. On the first nine holes Scott hit 4 drives over 350 yards in the fairway. Scott eventually purchased a Golf Swing Emulator and went on to become one of the top amateur golfers in Los Angeles. His longest drive was eventually over 400 yards. This is not the norm but he is not the only person to hit his drives over 400 yards from using the Golf Swing Emulator.
42. In 2005 I started to build the first prototype of the Running Emulator in Martinsville Va.
43. I have sold 13 Baseball Emulators to high school baseball players who have either received a full ride scholarship to a large Division 1 college or signed right out of high school and made it to the major leagues.
44. In 2007, I sold twenty eight Golf Swing Emulators to a distributor in Dubai, UAE and traveled there to demonstrate how to use the machines.
45. In 2009, I allowed a high school substitute teacher in Atlanta, Eric Suttle, to train on my Baseball emulators for 5 months for free. He was hitting the ball 450 feet with a wooden bat and throwing the ball 300 feet in the air when he signed his contract with the Houston Astros at the age of 24.
46. I have helped 7 amateur golfers become their club champion after buying a Golf Swing Emulator.
47. In 2011, I started to work on the Long Game Program which is a 40 video golf learning program primarily for golfers that take the game up later in life. The program was finished in 2017.
48. Helped a former Disney executive to eliminate some of the effects of Parkinson's by training him to use my Golf Swing Emulator for about 10 days and showing him how to trick his brain to allow him to eliminate the Parkinson's shuffle.
49. In 2014 I was contacted by David Tristan, the dad of a 9 year Tino Tristan, who loved baseball. The problem is, Tino was not able learn the mechanics of baseball from just playing like normal kids. Something was missing. He could not throw a baseball like other kids. His dad said he loves baseball but he has Aspergers Syndrome. Tino also had ADD.
When I met Tino, it was difficult to have a conversation with him. I knew that this would be challenging but it was worth the try. I sold Tino's dad a Batting Emulator but my main goal was to see what it could do for Tino in his personal development and not just for baseball.
Tino was so small he had to stand on a pallet to use the Batting Emulator. In 2017 Tino's dad purchased a Throwing Emulator also. The next year, Tino went from being the worst baseball player to being the best in his league. He threw harder and hit more home runs than his peers. He also developed friendships with other kids, became very popular, had 4.0 GPA and had a girlfriend. This is one of my most successful and rewarding experiences I have had making and selling these machines. This also proved to me that this technology can be used to turn on DNA switches, that are not naturally on from birth.
50. In 2015 I modified a Shopsmith V wood working system to be able to use it like I would a machine shop lathe. I basically created a compound system using a vise that I attached to the table of the Shopsmith. I did this in order to be able to make a specific type of wooden drink coaster that would normally only be possible with a machine shop lathe. A video of this process is available.
51. In 2017 I changed the name of the Golf Swing Emulator to the Long Ball Trainer.
52. In 2017 I designed a human powered ornithopter.
53. In 2018 I designed a system of human flight similar to a vertical wind tunnel. The difference is, instead of being confined to fly in a wind tunnel, you can fly horizonally over a ground surface using wings to navigate your flight path.
54. In 2018 I built the second prototype of the Running Emulator.
55. I built 5 web sites using html code.
56. In 2020 I made the third version of the Running Emulator.
57. Received a patent for the Running Emulator.
58. I am currently working on the the Pallet Train. This is a system of unloading 48' and 53' freight trailers in 60 seconds. The first prototypes are done.
59. Received a patent for the Pallet Train.
60. Just opened a training facility in Chicago that features my movement-specific training machines for baseball and golf and football called The Athletes Gym.
These are just some of the things that I have accomplished. I have been fortunate enough to be able to sell my training machines in and travel to 16 different countries.