The shootAndstar rebounder is easy to assemble and use. When you are finished using it, you can just allow the net to hang from behind the backboard while using the entire basketball court for any purpose. This keeps the ball from bouncing over into the neighbor’s yard and protects your landscaping. If you want the net down, the Velcro attached sleeves are easy to slip off their supporting angles, the apparatus portion attached to the backboard easily compacts and stores out of the way on top of the backboard. If you want the entire apparatus down, you can easily, by hand, unscrew the clamps that secure the apparatus to the backboard, and compactly store it away.

Hudson has formed his own corporation, Sporting Advantage Inc., and has Bloomington IL based RB White, Inc. manufacturing the aluminum portion of the invention, with other components being supplied by various companies throughout this country and the world. Hudson is talking to several large backboard manufacturing companies about building the shootAndstar rebounder directly into the backboards that they manufacture.

Hudson has created his own website- www.shootAndstar.com through which his company will market and sell the shootAndstar rebounder. The product will only be available to purchase over the Internet, and he does not plan on allowing stores to purchase and sell his product. He believes he can efficiently sell and market his product at its lowest cost without bringing in a lot of middlemen. Initially, there will be three versions of the product so that almost anyone with any type of backboard, from fan shaped and narrow rectangular shaped baskets to 72” wide backboards, will be able to purchase the appropriate version for use with their backboard.

The basic unit of this rebounder starts out at a regular retail of $169 plus the appropriate taxes and handling costs. Hudson’s goal is to continue to develop sales volume and ways to reduce costs so that every basketball player that wants a shootAndstar rebounder can afford it.

Hudson’s initial marketing efforts will be in starting a grass roots effort to make as many basketball players aware of his product so they can benefit from it. He has demonstrated product at various basketball camps, tournaments, and other events including camps at Illinois State University, Illinois Wesleyan College, Bradley University, Southern Illinois University-Carbondale, Millikin University, Augustana College, and Western Illinois College.

Be strong in body, clean in mind, lofty in ideals.
--Dr. James Naismith, the father of basketball.

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