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Your First Clue.

Welcome to the Clue. This blog will update every Thursday morning immediately after I get through with my morning meditations or after the cartoons are over. whichever comes first. Full disclosure: I don't meditate and I do watch cartoons regularly.

Despite the fact that this blog is posted on the brand, spanking new GameBike and GamePad website, it will not be a shameless, self-serving shill for these ingenious, well-made, just-gotta-have fitness products. Was that self-serving enough?

Instead, this space will introduce you to people and stuff that are making a difference in the health and fitness of kids and adults.

The Gospel According to Phil

Think back to those painful years of middle school and early high school. It's an awkward age. You were too young to drive and too old to cry about it. Well-meaning but clueless parents expected you to act mature but treated you like some dorky kid.

Then there was that class that gave new meaning to irrelevance. That's right; we're talking gym class or as it was known in my school.PE. Has there ever been a greater waste of time? The PE "teacher" was always some young, assistant coach who hated supervising the "civilians" who had not joined up for the school's athletic teams.

He was bored. You were bored. Most of these classes featured such challenging "courses" as dodge ball, jumping jacks, laps around the gym, and towel popping. Oh wait. That happened AFTER gym class.

GameBikes Racing at the Grand Prix

There's something about hopping on a GameBike and hearing that roar of the "Grand Turismo" game firing up. It's all about the adrenaline. You hit the pedals and you're in the middle of the race. Watch out! You're going 150 miles per hour and that steering wheel is sensitive.

About the only way to magnify this experience is to put that GameBike about 20 feet from a Formula One race track in the middle of a race. In our never ending need for speed, that's exactly what GameBike's Matt Bearden and I did on the weekend of April 21-22 at the Choice Homes Family Fun Zone at the Houston Grand Prix. That was a few months ago, and my hearing has finally returned to normal.

As the little girl who lives down the street likes to say..."OMG!!!!"

Raising a Ruckus

People who see the GameBike and GamePads for the first time usually slap their foreheads and say..."What a great idea! Why didn't I think of that?" Thank you...thank you...and you too.

Maybe you think you could come up with something like GameBike if someone would just listen to your brilliant ideas. Well, Sport...today's your lucky day. All you have to do is raise a ruckus!

The people at www.hopelab.com have announced the launch of www.rucksusnation.com and they want to give you a nice fat check if your new product idea is chosen.