By Brett Dailey

Many readers might not be familiar with Perform X Training’s Todd Schumlick yet but his list of  riders reads like a who’s who of Canadian Motocross including JSR, Blair Morgan, Mitch and Heidi Cooke and Kyle Beaton. RXC’s James Lissimore introduced me to him in Calgary and then he helped out Jared and Parker Allison when they were sidelined with collarbone and elbow injuries. Schumlick’s knowledge level shines through the minute he starts working with a rider, even new riders like the Allison twins. He seemed to ask all of the right questions and also had the right answers in regards to therapy and maintenance, which gave the riders a calming feeling when dealing with troublesome injuries. He’s now launched a new venture, www.performxracing.com, and the services provided are groundbreaking.

RXC: Todd, tell us a bit about yourself.
Todd Schumlick: Well, I am the man behind performxracing.com and trainer and therapist for about 17 guys on the national circuit including JSR, Blair Morgan, Kyle Beaton, Jeff Gibson, Kris Foster, Broc Hoyer, Kyle Murphy, Mitch Cooke, Heidi Cooke and a few others. I’m located in Pemberton, BC. I have a background in kinesiology, I minored in sports medicine and exercise physiology so I kind of focused on what I felt would be required education for this sport—because I decided I was going to get into it 10 years ago. It all started with Blair Morgan and then a few riders approached me after I started working with Blair. There didn’t seem to be a problem with me working with other riders—no conflict of interest—so it built from there.

What is your motocross and sports background?
I race motocross at an intermediate level and I’ve been doing it for 10 years. I also grew up riding BMX and I raced pro BMX. I got into mountain bikes and then at 30 years of age, I got my first motocross bike and figured the sport needed a little bit of support and it all started with Blair as I said. Since then motocross has become my main focus. I also work in the snowcross, mountain biking and snowboarding industries but motocross has become 90 percent of my work.

And you have some big plans for the future. Tell us about it.
Yes, performxracing.com is our new project and hopefully it will evolve into something bigger and better. I’m bringing a friend of mine on, Warren Barrow, and together we’re going to bring in a few other ingredients into our product line. From coaching to sports management, camps and even some acquisition or telemetry equipment so that riders are able to get some technical information from us and we will have what I believe is the most advanced system of coaching and rider performance work with real time GPS heart rate, percentage of g-forces, throttle, brake, all of this information will be collected and then we can go back and look at a rider and compare it to models for other riders and use that information to help steer the rider’s development. We are working with the equipment now and I think 2008 will be our grand arrival on this new approach. We’re really excited because it is not done in this sport yet. It’s done in Moto GP and Formula 1 and we’re learning from those guys and we want to take the sport to another level in the electronic age.

I want to thank you for working with the Allison brothers in Calgary. How did that come together?
Michael from Chunk Racing was the one that approached me. At each round, a few guys come up and ask me a few questions here and there. I always try to be approachable and I want to support everyone, I love the sport and all these guys, they are warriors and it’s tough out there on the track. I hadn’t seen the Allisons for quite a few years and I was really happy to help out. I always tell guys to approach me at the races and I’ll do my best to help out therapeutically or with nutrition or hydration or whatever I can do to help at the races.

Good luck with your new venture and thanks again for your help in Calgary.
No problem. Thanks.