Normally I don't, I don't believe in aliens or any other crap like that and I'm not normally one to buy into bulls@$t gimmicks.....BUT.

I was given a Power Balance band by a rep that was up in the snow fields a few weeks ago and I can't believe the sh$t that I'm pulling off on my short boards, Gybes, super fast tacks and basic error recovery. It may all be in my head but I'm starting to BELIEVE, I may have just finally worked this sport out or the band is helping...Who knows. The point being I was crap at the end of last season and now I'm better then crap with and Alpha of 18.73.





DO YOU BELIEVE......

jh2703 said...

DO YOU BELIEVE......

No


Is it the 30 cent piece of plastic and stuff on your wrist or the $3000 + for a new board and rig?

I wonder if you put one around your penis,,,,,would that improve your sex life too???

I better get a box of 'em, I need as much help as possible! ....errr I'm talking about sailing!

Placebo effect.

jh2703 said...

nasty said...

Placebo effect.

Placebo effect...Are you for real, Have I been hoodwinked, Are you telling me I'm not going to be a freestyler like Gollito or Paskowski just because they wear one.

I'm shattered

Do they wear 'em? I better order a pallet then.

c'mon its a rubber band.. there is no natural magnetic features its just snake oil..





my mate sells these at club vass to fund his PWA tour, makes a killing to gullible euros wanting to carve gybe better... its a clever test but a complete hoax,

its also 2010. and were well aware there are no 'natural bodily frequencies' which interact with plastic holograms

saw this in the age, seems the bunch of dirty frauds realise they are better off not explaining how they think it works.. I think Dr. Karl should make a citizens arrest and donate the profits to our education system.



www.theage.com.au/sport/power-band-the-latest-snake-oil-20101006-167tf.html

My mate bought one, that night at footie training he broke his ankle in two places. Hes been of work for six weeks now, cant say its done him any favors!!

I am a bit confused here.

Are people suggesting there is something wrong with my snake oil I get sent from the US every month ?

I thought snake oil cured everything, I am behind the times or something ?

^^ and I am sure there is something about footie training and broken ankle, but it is late and I can't quite get the sarcastic connection to work.

But hands down, footie training is no good for anklies.

nosinkanow said...

But seriously jh2703, if you find that it works for you it works for you. If it is in your mind and it is positive your mind is a powerful thing which has an amazing ability to perform things in your subconcious and your body responds. In medical situations positive thought is part of the therapy used by cancer sufferers and people with serious injuries, without it you can go downhill pretty quickly, in sports it can make you cross the line in a PB, etc. etc.. If an object triggers that positive thought use it.

I have to strongly disagree here,

giving someone a sugar pill and telling them its an active medicine is all well and good, a white lie. but this is different.... when the cancer drugs fail, in come the grifters with their Snake Oil and Power Bands, to make a mint of the desperate and unfortunate..

We cannot neglect science and reason. There is no scientific basis for the claims of this product, and the people selling it are outright liars or only innocent in their ignorance.

It is the same failure of understanding of science and logic we see in Power Balance Bands that, in other parts of the world leads to the poaching of Rhino horns to trigger that 'positive thought' and the black market of tiger's penis to treat impotence... Shark fin soup, and bear bile and many more are sending species extinct.

add in this homeopathy, acupuncture, transubstantiation and antivaccers and its a dangerous mix.

while some of us have walked on the moon, cracked our genetic code and built the LHC... the rest of us are running around cutting off tiger penises and wearing magic bracelets, completely oblivious, or worse, disregarding basic physics and physiology.

any objective aliens watching would surely conclude there is no intelligent life on earth.

Belief in something is a strong thing and that was the point behind the starting of this thread...And to offer some entertainment for the night but everyone has got hung up on the whole power balance bit.

My mother recently died with brain cancer, What did she believe in...Crystals.
Did it help her in the end....NO.

Did it bring her peace and some way of dealing with the pain and fear of death...YES.

I told her it was nothing but BULLS%IT so many times but did it sway her....NEVER.

Physics, Physiology, Science, God or Snake Oil could not save her. Would I have cut of a Rinos horn if that was the cure for cancer....YES I WOULD, But it isn't.

In the end she went happy in her belief of the crystal and their powers and that she was going some place better to be with God, If I go out and sail well because I think that little black rubber band works...Well so be it.

At the end of the day a rubber band that costs anywhere from 99c to $60 depending on where you get it from is not hurting anyone.....unless they chop up dolphins to make them? But i don't think that is the case. There are plenty of people out there that spend heap of cash on Smokes, Grog and Drugs and for what reason, We know these things are very bad for us but they still get consumed on a daily basis....My power balance band is not doing me any harm.

Fair enough. Many people including myself have beliefs if when examined in the cold light of day are irrational. I personally hope there is something out there besides the physical world we experience.

I was listening to the radio last night and they were talking about Conan Doyle. He created the character Sherlock Holmes, a very rational, evidence based and deductive private detective. Despite creating such a character, Doyle believed in such things as fairies living at the bottom of his garden.

I was a bit negative about the power balance band as someone started a thread about them on Seabreeze in the attempt to sell them. If it works for you then go for it.

Trousers said...

as a friend, I think it is my duty to tell you that your undies should actually go on the inside of your wetsuit

Oops...Thanks for the heads up, but now that I have lost faith in all things not based on scientific fact I'm no longer going to wear them.

Hey look at that I've just seen a mermaid in the Husky harbor....goto go

Hmmm... maybe Santa will bring me one for Christmas!?