Lobes said...
If the Holograms really worked they'd be standard part of every professional sports teams uniforms and probably get a run in the military as well. That they are not suggests there is no quantifiable benefits.

Hoax or not, the PB is so popular in the US that apparently they are stitching them into
the US Army's uniform. Billabong are also stitching them into one of their boardshorts.

I think the Yankees will all be running them as well in their shoes?

I'm suprised people are still debating this. You will never change "the converted's" opinion
and the same goes for the skeptics. It's pretty obvious that it's most likely a placebo
but if the tests work on you then it's hard to look past it.

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.

russh said...

JB said...

Hilly, I will leave the answer to your logic. I have found (and everyone I have shown it to) that it helps you maintain and a consistently higher level of balance and power in balancing positions than with out. As balance is a rather large part of surfing..........

You won't grow a cape and start flying, or be able to suddenly walk on the high wire at the circus (or maybe you could??), but you will be able to go about your every day at your peak ability.

IMO the results are amazing.

JB

I have never heard so mo B**sh!T in my life.
You don't happen to sell time share or investment and financial planning on the gold coast by any chance as well?

I tried my band on a Sri Lankan guy I met a few weeks ago, who did not know what to expect or what the band or test was. This little fella's balance improved significantly, and he could not understand why. He did not know what to expect, so the mind had nothing to do with it.....

It simply works....

It is like the glass half full / versus emtpy scenario. Some people are sceptical /cynical [}:)] about everything, others are more positive.....!!!

My wife's arthritus has gone from wearing the band. !!!

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 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.

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?

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.

Her response: "What a load of $&*@, you guys are fools if you believe that stuff". Enough said.

Should have been said five pages ago

100 years ago they were called snakeoil salesmen, today they don a different guise. Unfortunately people are still gullible to these shysters out to make a buck. You guys crack me up, five pages of mindless dribble.

JB said...
...believe in the greater evil rather than the greater good....

I believe in the greater good. But the greater good has a habit of rooting out the evils of swindlers, frauds and tricksters.

JB said...
....Are you a Glass half empty person, or a Glass half full person?...

I'm a Glass is a glass kind of person. It looks like a glass. It works like a glass. It is a glass. I don't have much feeling about the level. It is what it is.

The question is whether Power Balance holograms work, not whether positive thinking and a good attitude works. I can (and usually do) have a good attitude for free. I don't have to pay $70 for it.

On the plus side, I have worn my holograms for about 12 hours:

- I did a bunch of push ups and it was a little easier than usual and I did a few more than usual.

- After my drive through heavy traffic for an hour I usually get a sore hip on my right side, enough for a grunt when I get out of the car. The pain was reduced by about 5% this morning. No grunt.

- I also zapped the holograms with a laser. It made a pretty pattern on the ceiling. No Princess Leia appearing though.

PS. I agree that this topic probably belongs on the General/Shooting the Breeze forum. Obviously enough people care about it to keep adding a reply, including the people who are sick of the topic.

petemc said...

Her response: "What a load of $&*@, you guys are fools if you believe that stuff". Enough said.

Should have been said five pages ago

100 years ago they were called snakeoil salesmen, today they don a different guise. Unfortunately people are still gullible to these shysters out to make a buck. You guys crack me up, five pages of mindless dribble.

I might add that her hysterical laughter while she called us gullible fools was a little unsettling.......

I would say the owners of PB would now be flying in Jets, driving McLaren F1's and using 100 bills as toilet paper! Not that there's anything wrong with that!!!

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

A glass in a vacuum is full of nothing,or is it empty?

Geez when we gunna put this puppy to bed , cant you all just accept you where conned and move on!

husq2100 said...

JB said...

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

since you were referring to the old adage of a glass with half its volume filled with water ill put it to you this way, it can be either half full or half empty....it all depends on how the water got to being at a point of half the volume .....think about that

Ask yourselves this Grasshoppers, what is more important, the glass or the water?

Drink the water, or pour it out, or sit there forever analising it until you die of thirst, there is always a choice...

Just as long as the glass is not full of sh!tte, which is pretty much where this topic has ended up. It's like watching a bad ping-pong game that just keeps going, and going, and going...

If you think you are going to convince/convert anyone either for or against, your dreamin...