VANslagle, Inc. was started in October 2004 by Chad Vanlandingham and Chadwick Slagle, two friends that decided to pursue the American dream of building a company from scratch.

Chadwick Slagle is a Personal Trainer and has used resistance tubing extensively for fitness and rehabilitative purposes with his clients because it is great portable exercise equipment. While he has always liked the benefits tubing provided, he saw that it offered limited potential. So he wanted to find a way to use tubing that provided greater benefits. After a night of tinkering, he came up with an idea for a solution. The next day he brought his contraption to a training session to test it out on his friend, Chad Vanlandingham. The original prototype for VERSASTICK™ consisted of a cut off broom stick handle, a couple hose clamps and key rings. The Chad's talked at length about the idea and decided that it could definitely be something worth pursuing. They worked collaboratively on ways to improve upon the initial idea. After more than two years of product development and testing, a few more prototypes, and extensive market research, we're excited to take VERSASTICK™ to the next level of production, marketing, and sales. I guess we're fitness manufacturers.

Our company was born out of the idea for a new and innovative fitness product and the passion to see it come to fruition.

	Chad Vanlandingham Chad Vanlandingham brings sixteen years of entrepreneurial and management experience from having worked in several fields. He grew up in Flagstaff, Arizona the son of a real estate broker, developer and investor Through years of tag along meetings with his dad as a kid, Chad graduated the school of life with a self taught degree in business and real estate. At the age of sixteen, when most other kids were just getting their drivers license or their first job, Chad was being awarded the title of Flagstaff’s youngest entrepreneur when he started and operated Empress Hot Dogs. Two years later, partnering with his dad, he opened the first ever bed and bath specialty store in Flagstaff. After accomplishing all of this at a young age, he decided it was time to take on the world of real estate. He worked with his dad in this arena for a few years until Chad moved on to break out on his own. For the past six years he has purchased, renovated and sold single and multi-family residential property in the highly competitive Los Angeles market. From a hot dog stand to high end real estate deals, Chad has mastered the importance taking risks, being persistent and working on the things that are also your passions.
	Chadwick Slagle Chadwick Slagle grew up in the tobacco and fried food belt of North Carolina . At the age of eighteen, Chadwick wanted to be the first one in his family to attend college. After months of persistent phone calls and drop in visits he was admitted to Appalachian State University in NC. That is where his passion for health and fitness began to take shape as he studied Health Promotion at one of only three schools that offer such a program. While there he became president of the University’s National Professional Health Honor Society and was certified by the prestigious American College of Sports Medicine as a Health Fitness Instructor. In addition he worked in cardiac rehabilitation, pulmonary therapy and started his own business, Corporate Wellness Consulting, where he worked with factories in order to increase health awareness and reduce health insurance costs. For the past three years, Chadwick has worked for himself in Los Angeles doing private personal training and in home workouts. By following the principle that “necessity is the mother of invention”, and having some spare parts lying around, he created the home fitness gym he needed to work with. Now he can bring his passion to the world.

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