Just out of curiousity - how many of you true believers either import or sell or are friends or family of someone who imports or sells these bands ? Just wondering ! And before you ask - I have had a rep try the band on me and YES it worked a miracle and improved my balance in the tests and NO I did not and will not buy one and will continue on through life as an unco' kook and may invest my $50 in Southern Comfort cos I seem to be able to do everything better after a couple of cans.
cant believe this post is still going , now thats advertising you just cant buy.Wonder how many other forums are debating the merits or lack thereof of this product.
This time last year I was skeptical and a non believer. www.seabreeze.com.au/forums/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=49673
If it works for you and you feel better it is obviousley money well spent , me i would spend my spare $60 bucks on a carton and a packet of durries , doesent do much for my balance or coordination , but sure makes me feel good.
I can not find anywhere that suggests the New York Yankees have adopted powerbalance. However I found a website that claims it is being used by Penn State Football Team, Oklahoma State Football, University of Oklahoma, Georgia State University and the University of Cincinnati. Please note these claims of use are made by the Powerbalance website NOT the universities I listed.
I think its pretty far fetched to suggest the US military will be using them. Millions of soldiers with X amount of uniforms each, the cost would be tremendous with no justification. If taxpayers heard about it they'd go ballistic, and rightly so.
As for boardshorts. Judging by the amount of credulous people in this thread who actually believe this stuff I think Billabong would be crazy not to offer a range of Powerbalance boardshorts. Sew a hologram in and add $50. Why wouldnt you? People will obviously buy it. We have the marketing research right here in front of us.
I would like to see Powerbalance subjected to a double blind test. That is people do the test with the bracelet, without the bracelet, with a fake/placebo bracelet (no hologram) and with the bracelet but not knowing they are actually wearing it.
I tried the tests the first time and was completely amazed. My Balance improved so much and I could not work out why. Initially a full believer. Told everyone I seen about it. Frothing.
Then I had a friend of mine who had also tried the tests and then obtained 2 holograms and stuck them on the back of his watch so he didn't look like a sucker dooley. He was also a believer.
Here's the kicker, his watch was identical to mine, an older Rip Curl tide watch. Same condition and no visible way to tell the difference between the two. Even sizing was similar not to be able to tell.
We put both watches in a box and mixed the two up. We grabbed a watch each and repeated the tests. After each time we had to decide if we had the PB watch or not. 3 out of 5 times we got it wrong. I would say I had it and didnt, he would say no and did. We were dumbstruck. What had happened? What happened to the phenomenal differences??
Our only conclusion was that most of it was in your mind and that if you believed it worked it did. This seems to be the general consensus anyway. You thought you had it and felt better balance, but did not have the PB watch on.
Then my wife came home who had not even heard about it, after a bit of convincing to do these balance tests without the watch and then with it without alluding to why we wanted her to do them she agreed.
First time, no band. Crap Balance, fell straight over. Second time watch on, Crap balance, fell straight over. So after that we explained what is meant to happen.
Her response: "What a load of $&*@, you guys are fools if you believe that stuff". Enough said.
The placebo effect in medication has been observed even in people who knew they were taking the placebo. The suggested reason is that the ritual of taking a medication and the focussing of the mind creates the result.
From my reading I think the placebo effect is all about how you feel. It makes you feel better and produces all the chemical reactions to do with that. It does not actually heal ailments. No underlying pathology has ever been cured by the placebo effect.
Certainly I know that if I approach something with a positive frame of mind I do better. I can run far and fast if I feel fit and have a good tune on the ipod. If I feel crap and negative I plod along. Visualisation is a common training technique for all physical activities.
I'm not sure how that relates to when I feel bad and do something physical and end up having a great time and feeling really good and performing really well. It's not just the adrenaline rush and increased blood and oxygen flow of exercise. Playing the guitar or piano will do it. Even sedentary things like doing a crossword will have an effect.
I just received my Power Balance bracelet and did a couple of informal tests.
Strength. Front raise with a dumbell. I could raise the dumbell exactly the same distance and it required the same effort. The niggling pain in my elbow is still there.
Balance. Close my eyes and stand on one foot with hands down beside me. Wobbley both before and after.
I will still do the magic "tests" and do some double blind tests using weights and a spring balance, but it's not looking good for hologram magic.
BTW. They charge $8 to post the thing from Kilsyth. That's $1.10 in stamps, maybe $1 for the envelope and what?
No affiliation with PB at all, pay full retail (for once). Am a true believer!
I say don't hassle it till you honestly try it! Like everything, Demo it, try it, understand it.
I really don't care if you don't believe as your the one missing out. But to those that will try it and see the difference, you'll be stoked
JB
If u believe it doesn't work you will find a way to prove that it doesn't.
If u believe it works u will find a way to prove that it works for u.
Simply as that.
Personally i own one and i believe it helps with my sleeping.
i should take mine off and see if my elbow and lower back problems come back, but i don't ---- --. any, get one or don't, who cares after 5 pages
This thread is great, keep it going for 10 more pages
It is a bit disturbing to see how passionately people can be negative about something they have never tried, but hey I guess that's the world we live in, believe in the greater evil rather than the greater good.
I leave you with this one question....
Are you a Glass half empty person, or a Glass half full person?
JB
I put mine on last Friday, I didn't know what to expect. So I expected nothing and got nothing. I went into a couple of sports stores and it was always the young kids working in the shop that who would ask about the PB "what do they do for you" I simply told them I don't know I'm trying one to find out. I'm sure if I told that young kid it makes surf like Kelly them he would have probably stolen from his mother to buy one. That's the real power of the PB
I surfed it with noticed nothing, I wore it for 3 days 24 hours a day and took it off Monday and in all honesty it did nothing, secretly I wish it had because I would love to surf like Kelly.
Rob
Q.) Whats brown and sticky??
A.) A Stick!!
(A smart, well balanced stick would be wearing a power balance band)
Q.) Whats wet and brown and sticky?
A.) A wet stick!!
(A smart, well balanced stick would be wearing a power balance band, and he would probably dry faster)
Q.) What do you call a boomerang that doesn't come back?
A.) A Stick!!
(Probably lost his power balance band)
Q.)What do you call a stick that comes back??
A.) A clever stick!!
As I didn't get the response I was hunting for, I'll let you in on the answer I was waiting for.
Unlike Rusty, I am a full glass. It's half full of fluid/water and half full of air/O2. There's always something to fill nothing! Look outside the square from time to time, there's often something you didn't see!
JB
Geez when we gunna put this puppy to bed , cant you all just accept you where conned and move on!
but what is nothing?
Is it in the eye of the beholder?
Is one mans trash another mans treasure?
Did you know that dolphins are just gay sharks?
if a tree falls in the woods at the sound of one hand clapping, and that hand wasn't in the woods, could the tree really hear the hand clapping?
JB
