Power balance bracelets

some of my golf teammates have these. I've been skeptical, but curious to try one out. maybe if it was like a dollar or free.

Looks like a giant fucking gimmick

well how about you try one and get back to me...

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How does it work?

Most everything has a frequency inherent to it. Some frequencies react positively with your body and others negatively. When the hologram comes in contact with your body’s energy field, it allows your body to interact with the natural, beneficial frequency stored within the hologram. This results in improved energy flow throughout your body.




suuuuuuure it does

lets break this down.


"Most everything has a frequency inherent to it."

So not everything, but most stuff it atleast has a frequency, we're not going to tell you what kind of frequency we're talking about, but hey, this isn't wikipedia.

"Some frequencies react positively with your body and others negatively."

OH SHIT some frequencies, which we're not going specify, don't like you.

"When the hologram comes in contact with your body energy field, it allows your body to interact with the natural, beneficial frequency stored within the hologram. This results in improved energy flow throughout your body."

But yo CHECK IT, we got a hologram from the future and kick gives you super powers.

I put those on my chode

I actually heard that they work a bit!

placebo effect

my dad is in the fitness industry, he wanted to find out if it was placebo or not so he took out one of the little hologram thingies and put it in my sisters necklace. slight improvement, although there is a bit of placebo affect also

placebo or not they still improve my balance drastically, and the same for all my friends that ski with them. I guess i have to wait till it turns into a trend from some pro repping one like everything else in the industry that the majority of you flip your shit over.

Anyone who thinks these work is a gullible idiot. These things are effective as homeopathic medicine.

I have a friend and his mom does the advertising for those. I've done those balance tests and IDK seems legit. Never worn one skiing but I wore one longboarding one night and I didn't feel anything different. The guy I know wears one 24/7 and he says after wearing it for a while you feel weird when you take it off.

Haha....Fail!

I have a lucky quarter, it makes you stomp dubs like wallnuts anyone wanna buy it?

well in that case these would probably be GREAT.

tom wallisch wears one so i recommend all you get them as well.

Omg I'll take 7

Got one for free, dont really see why people pay for these things

C'mon, the company CEO even admitted it's bullshit and they're still selling like hotcakes. It's just like any other bullshit TV shop product that "guarantees" results in a few silly days. It's illegal to sell them in Finland now until they change the description of the product.

On March 1, my beloved Arco Arena will become Power Balance Pavillion. Yay corporate sponsorship!

placebo effect

exactly

Completely fake, it just looks like a rubber band with a sticker in it. I've tried on my friend's and it did literally nothing. The placebo effect, nothing more.

this.

Everyone who thinks this is more than a placebo effect should be shot immediately.

http://www.phitenusa.com/

these things really work too, especially the stickers. I put them on my hammys and i could touch my palms to the floor without feeling anything.

i think wayyyyy down the road there will be a lot of discoveries with this natural frequency and magnetism, but i don't think we are there yet.

i have one because i got it for a present, i dont know if it works but i havent fell since i have got it haha

seems like a joke to me. there 50 euros here in germany. my friend has one, and all it is, is a livestrong band with a little silver sticker that fell off of his.

i watch the infomercial, the "tests" were pretty off

when the person selling it would pull on a person who wasn't wearing a bracelet, he would pull the person diagonally, mostly to the side, easily taking the person off balance

when the person put on the bracelet, the salesman would pull their hands or whatever area of the body he was focusing on straight down where the person is much more stable, followed up by "WOW look at the difference!"

They were forced to issue an apology in Australia for false advertising:

http://www.powerbalance.com/australia/CA

shit is a joke.

I was given one... It did nothing. I had a horrible day while wearing it and then played pool and did absolutely no better than usual. I noticed nothing. Just like I noticed nothing when my roommate suggested I start drinking alkaline water...

they're total bullshit i think but the tests do work. i've been meaning to try a blind test, where one bracelet is the power balance, the other is something random, and you have the subject close his eyes and see if the tests work with the power balance and not the other one

my grandpa gave me one and i wear it sometimes for working out. clearly it enhances some form of performance even if it is mental, so why not wear it and get the illusion of higher performance and balance, thus giving you higher performance and balance? even if they're a hoax they still work in terms of the mental component

no i already carry my lucky condom that i never take off with me everywhere i go...

they don't do shit

Anyone who thinks these do anything is an idiot. That said if you perform better with them even through the placebo effect and don't mind wasting how ever much money on them, i guess it's alright?

enough said

Its placebo for sure.

theyre a stupid mindset shit

POWER BALANCE MAKER ADMITS BANDS ARE WORTHLESS

The Australian manufacturer of Power Balance, the wildly popular rubbery bracelets embedded with holograms claimed to somehow adjust the body’s energy or vibrations, has admitted that there is no proof their product works.

A representative of Power Balance Australia issued a statement that read in part, “We admit that there is no credible scientific evidence that supports our claims. Therefore we engaged in misleading conduct.”

Power Balance bracelets achieved global popularity, in part because they were embraced by a parade of celebrities. Dozens of professional athletes, movie stars and musicians use them and have been photographed wearing the bands.

So what were A-listers like Robert DeNiro, Shaq, Kate Middleton, and P. Diddy getting out of them?

Australian researcher Richard Saunders told Discovery News, “The claims are that these bands will improve your strength, your balance, and your flexibility. They also suggest it will improve your well-being, give you clarity of thought, improve your stamina and sports performance, that sort of thing.”

Saunders, co-host of the Skeptic Zone podcast, was asked by an Australian television show to test the bands on a representative from Power Balance. “I tested the head of the Australian branch, and he failed five times out of five tests. So it was pretty conclusive. These were blind and double-blind tests where he had to tell which one out of six volunteers had the band on. He was pretty shocked when they failed to work.”

Australian Competition and Consumer Commission chairman Graeme Samuel stated that “Suppliers of these types of products must ensure that they are not claiming supposed benefits when there is no supportive scientific evidence. Consumers should be wary of other similar products on the market that make unsubstantiated claims, when they may be no more beneficial than a rubber band.”

How, exactly, were the bands said to work in the first place? Josh Rodarmel, co-creator of the bracelets, tried to explain the “science” behind his product by claiming that everything in nature has a “frequency,” and that the Power Balance bands restore a “natural healing frequency.”

Claims like this, though common in New Age and “alternative” health circles, are laughable to scientists and skeptics like Harriet Hall, a retired medical doctor and former Air Force surgeon.

Hall, who runs a Web site called SkepDoc, devoted to examining dubious medical claims, told Discovery News that Power Balance claims about body vibrations and resonance are pure nonsense. “This whole resonance and vibration business is pseudoscience emanating from the myth of the human energy field—not the kind of energy physicists measure, but some vague and unproven life energy like the acupuncturists' qi (or “chi”). Statements like ‘We are a frequency’ and ‘We are a bunch of cells held together by a frequency’ are completely at odds with scientific knowledge. I e-mailed the company and asked simple questions like, 'How do you measure the frequency of a rock?' They didn't answer.”

So if you ask, "What’s the frequency, Josh?", he's got no answer.

While the Australian manufacturer of Power Balance bands has been forced to admit its products have no scientific support, other Power Balance distributors around the world continue to insist the product is effective (though it’s not clear why scientific evidence for the band’s efficacy would only apply outside of Australia).