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You guys ever heard of or used one of these? A few companies make them I think (http://www.powerballs.com/), it's a small gyroscope that is used for rehabilitation and strengthening of the wrists, forearms and hands. I suffer from either ganglion cysts (inflammation of the lining of the tendons) in my wrists or carpal tunnel syndrome, this thing helps quite a bit. Ya, I'm a disabled piece of shiet. Also a good warm-up and warm-down for guitar playing and I'd imagine it would be good for drummers and people who use their hands/arms for sports. As I know there's a few musicians and other sporty freaks in here I thought I'd post this.

Also has a built-in display so you can count your RPMs... the world record holder has something like 16,000 RPMs... I could only ever get to about 11,500. This thing rapes your fuckin' forearms if you get it up to about 5 or 6k RPM and hold it there for a minute... my god, I've never felt a burn like that before in my life. Apparently can provide up to 40lbs of resistance...



Drumeh, might wanna grab one and try it out on your students?

Somebody here posted about this a few years ago. I think a few people ended up getting these as a result.

Bastards.... I wonder if it was me

i got one 8 or 9 years ago. no idea where it is now, i should look for it. but yeah, those things are awesome. i think the highest i ever got was 10k-11k.

Here's a vid of the world record holder in action.

quite a disturbing performance.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iXbax3wh99M

Holy fuck, thing sounds like a fuckin' siren

[xeno]Julios wrote:
quite a disturbing performance.

lol

I wish his hands weren't out of view...

My wrists are all fucked from my skateboarding days. This thing is perfect. I have one.

HM-PuFFNSTuFF wrote:Somebody here posted about this a few years ago. I think a few people ended up getting these as a result.

i posted that thread...

I should have known.

I've got one of those. Haven't used it in a while but when I did, it helped me advance my guitar playing to the next level. Combine it with a "Gripmaster" and they'll give the hands, wrist, and forearms quite a workout.

Drum posted first.

http://www.quake3world.com/forum/viewto ... ?f=1&t=719

http://www.quake3world.com/forum/viewto ... =1&t=14479

nnnope, made a thread about it a couple years before the board was destroyed, it was my previous username... as stated in this post
viewtopic.php?p=280503#p280503

well then

These things are ancient.