The QATSPY® GOLFER’S Inside-the-Leather Sport Page
The A-2 Leather Flight Jacket that I’m wearing can be purchased from my online store and can be personalized to meet your needs/requirements. More information on the A-2 Leather Flight Jacket can be found at the end of this article and in my online store in my toolbar.
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The Persona of the A-2 US WINGS® Leather Jacket
It has been stated that there is nothing more American than baseball, leather jackets, apple pie, and The Harley-Davidson. All are American success stories.
While my wife and I were having lunch at a local restaurant, a lady that recognized me from my Sports Page asked about the title of my weekly article. I was also wearing my US WINGS® Leather Flight Jacket at the time (in July). She was inquiring about the name QATSPY, which is part of the title of my weekly sports page, THE QATSPY® GOLFER; Inside-the-Leather Sports Page. She asked me how on the earth did you ever come up with that name, THE QATSPY® Inside-the-Leather?
Never to shy away from an inquiring question, I explained to the lady that the term QATSPY was a nickname given to my grandfather in the late 1920’s. My grandfather’s name was Homer Quincy Boatright. His friends referred to him as Qatspy, taken from the title of the 1925 book The Great Gatsby by Scott Fitzgerald.
My Grandfather was a very fashion-conscious person, as evident from a 1927 photograph that I showed the lady on my I-Phone, shown above. He was at Yellowstone National Park in 1927, beside his tent with his riding boots on a camping expedition.
The lady asked me a follow-up question, ‘Why are you wearing a leather jacket in July in Mississippi? Not to be daunted by her question, “I simply replied, because it got you to ask the questions about my leather jacket. The leather jacket just doesn’t start conversations; it is the conversation.” Like the Harley-Davidson Motorcycle, its reputation precedes the iconic motorcycle like rolling thunder in the distance.
I asked the lady, “If I mention TOP GUN, what comes to your mind?” The lady replied, “Tom Cruise and that leather jacket.” I replied, “Precisely!” If you want to promote a brand, product, or recognize someone, nothing does it better than putting them inside a leather jacket and putting your brand on a leather flight jacket like I have.
There are several reasons why the US WINGS® A-2 Leather Jacket has the persona that it does. The first edition to the A-2 Leather Flight Jacket was designed by Irving and Jack Schott in 1931.
The A-2 Leather Jacket helped formed the title of my sports page, Inside-the-Leather. This is also in reference to a general rule of thumb in Match Play in golf, where a putt is usually conceded to a player within the grip on the putter shaft from the hole. If the golf ball falls within the grip on the putter’s shaft laying on the green with the head of the putter in the cup, then the putt is usually conceded, as this is called a gimme.
The Timeless Classic of the A-2 Leather Flight Jacket
The origins of the classic A-1 and A-2 Leather Flight Jacket were designed and manufactured by Irving and Jack Schott, two second-generation Russian immigrants, that originally manufactured raincoats in their basement factory and sold them door-to-door in the Lower East Side of Manhattan. In 1928, Irving and Jack Schott manufactured the first motorcycle jacket for Harley-Davidson, called the Schott Perfecto, after Irving’s favorite cigar.
This Perfecto was sold to Harley-Davidson and was the first zipper front with waist belt, rather than button-up front. Their creation didn’t stop there. The Schott Perfecto caught the eye of the U.S. Military. Irving and Jack Schott designed and manufactured both the A-1 and later the A-2 Leather Flight Jacket for the pilots and aircrew in World War II.
After the war, the classic A-2 Leather Flight Jacket found a new use. The guys that came back from World War II needed an outlet for what they experienced during the war, what is now called PTSD, so they took to the open road on Harley-Davidson and Indian Motorcycles forming clubs.
They turned to the only jacket that they knew and relied on during the war, which was the Schott A-2 Leather Jacket. To develop the swagger and persona that protected them during the war, they took the A-2 Capeskin Leather Jackets and sewed patches on the jacket that identified their group.
This same type A-2 Leather Flight Jacket can still be used to identify and promote your brand, business, organization like Rolling Thunder Veteran Group, which does a lot of charity work. With a small investment in a leather jacket that has been part of American success story, you can project a persona and your brand to the public like nothing else can. The US WINGS® LIMITED Collection of Leather Flight Jackets is like a traveling neon sign promoting your business.
The Biker’s Rocker Patches are options that the customer can select to have sewn on to the back panel of the LIMITED Collection of the A-2 Cape buffalo Flight Jacket along with other options to personalize their jacket.
Just like my A-2 Leather Jacket that caught the lady’s attention in the restaurant it also caught the attention of workers at THE HOME DEPOT every time I go into the store. The first thing people want to do is to touch the jacket and feel the quality of the Cape Buffalo leather. I try to wear my US WINGS® A-2 Leather Jacket at least ten (10) months out of the year for the recognition factor is tremendous. My US WINGS® LIMITED Collection of the A-2 Cape Buffalo Jacket is better than a marquee, but you just have to pay for it one time to serve you a lifetime.
The Durability of the US WINGS® Cape Buffalo Leather Jacket
My US WINGS® LIMITED Collection of the A-2 Cape Buffalo Leather Jacket is the toughest leather in the world. I travel with my LIMITED Collection A-2 Flight Jacket to every presentation that I make, whether driving or flying on behalf of US WINGS® or THE QATSPY® GOLFER Inside-the-Leather Sports Page.
My weekly articles, THE QATSPY® GOLFER Inside-the-Leather Sports Page, promotes an active lifestyle and fitness, using golf as a sport. The sport of golf requires flexibility, strength, along with mental and physical stamina that is a great exercise for life. There aren’t many sports that can provide an athletic activity as we age.
I’m 61 in the photograph above, and play golf four or five times a week, if I’m not writing, coaching, or traveling. I walk the course (18-holes), where I usually register between 9.1 to 9.2 miles on my I-Phone that is on silent. (I check my I-Phone in between holes, please don’t leave your phone on ring mode on the golf course). The 9.1 to 9.2 miles per round of golf is like walking a marathon each week.
I don’t know of too many sporting activities that provide a person over nine miles of walking exercise that they can actually enjoy and not be aware of the distance that they have actually walked.
I have several FREE YouTube Videos in my Coach’s Film Room, along with Downloads that will help the golfer turn their frustration and inconsistencies in golf into a game they can enjoy playing, with confidence and consistency while staying fit!
I just released a new QATSPY Training Download entitled: QATR-408- The CHAMPS Technique (the Wrist Action in the Golf Swing) that is also in my Coach’s Film Room. As the title implies, this 408 Training Download allows the golfer to establish 80 percent of their golf swing just by presetting the wrists and syncing the elbow. This is exactly the technique that Arnold Palmer gave to President Eisenhower before both played in a Pro-AM. This will instinctively improve your golf game more than any other technique can.
As evident with my second YouTube Video covering the Rap-Type Golf Shot. I do first takes videos, never re do’s. I have one golf shot that went wayward, because I wanted to show how important presetting the wrists is to the golfer:
THE QATSPY® GOLFER Coaching Training and Fitness
As part of the services that THE QATSPY® offers to Churches, Athletic clubs, Schools, and especially Veterans groups, and other organizations, is golf training and fitness workout, focusing on golf as the catalyst. I can present THE QATSPY® GOLFER’S Coaching Training and Fitness to your organization for a minimum fee and travel expenses outside Mississippi.
I have attached a FREE YouTube Video demonstrating what I call my CASPER Workout Program below:
Please use my CONTACT located in the toolbar to schedule your Golfer’s Coaching Training and Fitness Seminar, or call me at 1-888-514-1228.