By Steve Bisheff-You make your way off the frantic San Diego Freeway and travel along a busy, trafficstrewn street located some seventy miles south of Los Angeles, until, finally, you turn onto a lonely road that is part of the rich, rural real estate of Orange County. It is quiet, green and picturesque, and as you go over one final hill, there is no hint that you are about to enter a brave, new world.

What you see, instead, is an exclusive resort community known as Coto de Caza. It has swimming pools, tennis courts, a new modern clubhouse and everything you'd expect at a posh vacation spa. It is not until you further inspect the premises---until you are led around the side where a building known as the Coto Research Center resides that you begin to realize there is more going on here than just fun, sun and relaxation.

Suddenly, you are jolted by the sights and sounds of what seems to be a dazzling Futureworld of sports technology: You find a maze of cameras and computers and remarkably refined machinery, all designed to maximize the potential of the human body. Coto is the most advanced sports research center in the world, a $1.2-million project started by Dr. Gideon Ariel, a Ph.D. and former Olympian, and Vic Braden, one of

PSA MAGAZINE May 1982