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Again, your responses will be treated anonymously and only be used for academic purposes and improving our services.Any Solver who opted out of receiving emails from InnoCentive will not receive the Survey.The survey is targeting "active" Solvers, that is, those that have submitted to several Challenges in recent history. Some will be award winners and some will not.The survey should only take about 15 minutes of your time.Not everyone will receive a survey, but please check your email (and spam box) for the survey next week. We ask that you answer all questions as accurately and honestly as possible so that we can build your feedback and insights into our future Challenges and serve you better.I have just completed your survey and hope that my answers were suitable. Having answered several of your challenges without getting a winning solution and having not seen the solutions that did achieve this success, I have become somewhat suspicious as to the possible use that my ideas are being put. I imagine I am not alone in taking this attitude.Can you please provide us solvers with some information that will give us reassurance about what we try to do to help. Thank you for participating in our Survey. Your responses will help us better understand our community and show us ways to improve it.I will try to answer your request, but the answer is somewhat Challenge type dependent.For Theoretical and RTP type Challenges, the Seeker is looking for a specific answer to a problem. They buy or the submission(s) that they wish to own and use that have met the requirements. The Solver usually turns over the rights to the solution (or at least a license to practice) for the posted award. All other submissions are and all rights are returned to those Solvers. Those submissions cannot be used by the Seeker as they are wholly owned by the Solvers. If you have not been awarded for these type Challenges, then your solution is not being used by the Seeker as that would be illegal by our agreements. Some people they are being used, but I assure you it makes no sense for the Seeker to a solution and chance a lawsuit and reputation damage when they could buy it for a few thousand dollars. They only use what they pay for and we have legal recourse if they did. We have never seen this or have any evidence that it has every happened.For an Ideation type Challenge, the rules are different. Upon submission, you the Solver, are giving the Seeker a non exclusive license to practice your idea for a chance at winning part of the award. In this case, all the Solvers still own the ideas, but the Seeker gets to practice all of them. In return, the Seeker guarantees that the full amount of the award will be paid out no matter how good or bad the submissions are and usually the award is split between the top 2 4 submissions. (Note: the Challenges above are not guaranteed, but are only paid if the requirements are met.) The Seeker gets to try them all, but in reality, they are going to try the top few first (the awarded ones) and will probably never get too far down the list, I suspect. Also, you still own the idea and can use it yourself or license it to someone else as long as it does not interfere with the first license.We do have Seekers provide feedback for the first types of Challenges above. You should be told what requirement was not met. Of course, you could meet all the requirements and still not be awarded, if someone else provides a solution that is better, faster, cheaper, etc. We do not provide feedback for Ideation type Challenges. We do rank submissions on a 1 5 scale, but we have not been able to provide that information to the Solvers to date. We hope to provide that more consistently in the future. Unfortunately, we cannot show the winning solutions as they are owned by the Seeker and they usually do not wish to show it for proprietary reasons. Sometimes the not for profit Seekers will show the winning solution and we do that when we can.Tina, Sorry for not responding right away, but I took a few vacation days right after this post. We get many requests from inventors like yourself who want to find backing for their ideas. Unfortunately, our model finds solutions to existing problems and not the reverse of promoting a and looking for the person who has the problem it can solve. I really do not have any suggestions as I would just do the same search that you have done. I would recommend that you join the LinkedIn InnoCentive Solvers Group and post your question there. 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Not all of us may like it but it is as easy as putting one foot in front of the other.That is not the case according to Mike Antoniades and his team of experts at Sports Dimension who are teaching people to run with amazing results at The Running School.Our modern lifestyle may have given us instant gratification and luxury however it has robbed us of the ability to not only run properly, but in some cases walk properly too."People assume that running is something we should just pick up naturally," explained Antoniades ."I would agree with that about thirty years ago because we spent a lot more time walking and running and in general spent more time playing outside."What has happened over the last ten fifteen years particularly with kids is that more and more of them have turned to the internet, video games and computers for their pastimes. Less and less of them are playing outside and they are just not developing those motor skills needed to run.""We also have a lot of people trying to pick up recreational running they think, oh I will go and buy the most expensive pair of shoes and go out and run. What happens is that they get a one programme fits all and in six weeks they are injured."That is because of bad bio mechanics. Last year we saw over three thousand marathon runners and I would say 2/3 were injured and nearly all of them got their injury in the first 4 6 weeks. We spend a hell of a lot of time sitting down on our backsides which means important muscles groups like our glutes and hamstrings switch off. They are difficult to switch back on again when we start to run again."We teach them to switch on these major muscle groups and they get used to the feeling of what it is like to have these muscles working while they run."Running on instinctsThe Running School is based on 26 years of Antoniades ' experience as a coach and rehabilitation expert having worked with some of the best athletes from the world of football, rugby, track and field and basketball.It was during the rehab of some of these world class athletes that he began to formulate the idea for The Running School."During rehab I had to teach these athletes the running basics," explained Antoniades ."I have always been fascinated by speed but before I could even progress to getting these athletes faster they needed to learn how to be more efficient"I was fascinated that no one was teaching anyone to run and I started working on a protocol that I would able my team to teach people how to run."It was trial and error and a lot of experimentation but we developed a programme that would teach people how to run more efficiently and faster too."Six ways to better runningQuicker and better in just six sessions sounds too good to be true, however it is a remarkable system that is having huge success with runners of all abilities.The key to success at the Running School is to identify your weaknesses and muscle imbalances while walking and running. That means the first session is an extensive assessment of your body during movement.The next five sessions are dedicated to adjusting those muscle imbalances and working on getting the correct technique."Usually it takes the body about six weeks to change its metabolism," added Antoniades ."You will notice a huge difference after two weeks however we need to make sure that these techniques become more permanent and the body does not resort back to old habits when you are fatigued."Injury freeAntoniades explains that this is not a one size fits all programme and that each person is monitored by a team that includes performance rehabilitation specialists and physiotherapists."There is no holy grail in running technique everybody is built and shaped differently so we have to make sure that we are teaching them the correct technique for them."Everyone has different muscle imbalances that affect their running style and wastes energy, we guide people how to move more efficiently."It is amazing how we can pick up people's injuries just by watching them run and walk," added Antoniades ."Incorrect technique puts so much strain on your body that it is inevitable that it is going to break down. 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