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Baoding Exercise Balls, anyone use them?
on: January 15, 2018, 06:03:50 AM
Well just like the subject says, anyone use them, or have a pair? The Mrs bought me a pair like 2-3yrs back, of course there the simple stainless steel with the chimes inside. I got to get a diff pair, I gotta start using them more often but I can’t stand the chimes. I’ve seen they make them solid stainless but another thing about these is the smell they leave, idk if it’s just the cheap steel? Yet I’ve also seen them marble, stone, or even wood, I was just wondering what’s good?

I kinda like the wood, but no weight to them? Marble I heard chips? Yet no info on stone? So any info on any of them would be greatly appreciated..
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Re: Baoding Exercise Balls, anyone use them?
Reply #1 on: January 15, 2018, 11:08:16 PM
*bump*
Guess no one even knows what these things are?
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Re: Baoding Exercise Balls, anyone use them?
Reply #2 on: January 15, 2018, 11:20:59 PM
I used to have a set of them a while ago and I found them very relaxing.  Everyone around me found them very frustrating.   :ahhh

Honestly I like them and I find they are an excellent stress reliever as well as promoting circulation and dexterity in your hands.  They really helped my hands get better after various injuries to them, something I did an awful lot in my younger days. 

I had gotten them at a kiosk at the mall right before Christmas and used them almost constantly for the next couple of years.  I was fascinated by the guys that can really work them, but never got beyond two balls and just going foreward and back.  I wanted to be like the poor guy that did all the work for David Bowie in Labyrinth*, but never really worked towards it and so never really got there.  Nowadays there are lots of videos and instructional videos and the like on YouTube that could really get you going.

*For those that don't know, that wasn't David Bowie spinning the glass spheres.  He tried but just couldn't master it, so they ended up using the guy who had been brought in to teach David Bowie, except that he was hiding behind Bowie with his arm sticking out under Bowie's armpit.



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Re: Baoding Exercise Balls, anyone use them?
Reply #3 on: January 15, 2018, 11:31:23 PM
What kind did you use, the normal ones with the spring thingys inside? I just can’t stand them, I gotta get something different but what?
I don’t think I’ll ever be like some of these people that just make them flow as if they have superpowers, but I gotta work the hands, the one was twitching last night.
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Re: Baoding Exercise Balls, anyone use them?
Reply #4 on: January 15, 2018, 11:48:12 PM
that might actually help with my tendinitis
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Re: Baoding Exercise Balls, anyone use them?
Reply #5 on: January 16, 2018, 12:33:48 AM
that might actually help with my tendinitis
It’s worth a shot, the cheap chiming ones are only like $5-8, but heck if you have golf balls, there the same size, or even mini pool balls, another thing I was looking into last night, cause I’m after something that has a little weight to them, won’t chip or crack and are around 1-1/2” the same size as a golf ball or a set of mini pool balls, but I’m kinda leaning to solid stainless steel bearings, just not sure of the smell, but definetly has the weight! Just over a pound for two!
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As I sit on my Crapper Throne in the Reading Room and explode on the Commode, thinking, how my flush beat John’s and Jerry’s pair? Jack’s had to run for the Water Closet yet ended up tripping on a Can bowing and hitting his Head on the Porcelain God! 🚽


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Re: Baoding Exercise Balls, anyone use them?
Reply #6 on: January 16, 2018, 02:36:45 AM
Mine were the stainless steel ones with something inside that made them ring, which is why they annoyed everyone else so much.

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Re: Baoding Exercise Balls, anyone use them?
Reply #7 on: January 16, 2018, 02:40:29 AM
I have a decorative pair that also chime.
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Re: Baoding Exercise Balls, anyone use them?
Reply #8 on: January 16, 2018, 03:25:50 AM
Cheap chrome ones, just can’t stand those chimes or the smell of the cheap steal..
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As I sit on my Crapper Throne in the Reading Room and explode on the Commode, thinking, how my flush beat John’s and Jerry’s pair? Jack’s had to run for the Water Closet yet ended up tripping on a Can bowing and hitting his Head on the Porcelain God! 🚽


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Re: Baoding Exercise Balls, anyone use them?
Reply #9 on: January 16, 2018, 04:30:29 AM
I've got a pair of the stainless steel balls with the chimes.  I used them as part of a street act where I was playing the part of a Janissary to an Ottoman sultan and he would tell everyone to pay me no mind because I was just a eunuch, and I would puff up with pride and say yes, I am unique. Then he would correct me and tell everyone no, he is snippy, snippy, and he has no, you know (pointing towards crotch) at which point I would pull a silk pouch out of my sash with the balls in it and clang them together and say Yes I do, right here. It was funnier in person though.  Whenever I think of Baoding balls (or worry balls) though I think of Captain Queeg in the Caine Mutiny.


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Re: Baoding Exercise Balls, anyone use them?
Reply #10 on: January 16, 2018, 05:02:33 AM
If that’s what he’s using they must be small, but yeah that’s what he’s looks like he’s doing..
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Re: Baoding Exercise Balls, anyone use them?
Reply #11 on: January 16, 2018, 03:39:12 PM
Cheap chrome ones, just can’t stand those chimes or the smell of the cheap steal..
JR

Those are almost identical to the ones I had.

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Reply #12 on: January 16, 2018, 04:29:52 PM
Why do you guys create threads like these?!

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Reply #13 on: January 16, 2018, 04:30:42 PM
Yeah, also got a couple of those. I'll try to get some pics when I get home.

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Re: Baoding Exercise Balls, anyone use them?
Reply #14 on: January 16, 2018, 04:36:44 PM
Why do you guys create threads like these?!

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Yeah the forum says multitools, but this place is more like family, beside there multipurpose, stress relief/defense tool, well I guess that’s more stress relief..
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As I sit on my Crapper Throne in the Reading Room and explode on the Commode, thinking, how my flush beat John’s and Jerry’s pair? Jack’s had to run for the Water Closet yet ended up tripping on a Can bowing and hitting his Head on the Porcelain God! 🚽


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Re: Baoding Exercise Balls, anyone use them?
Reply #15 on: January 16, 2018, 08:18:24 PM
Why do you guys create threads like these?!

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Yeah the forum says multitools, but this place is more like family, beside there multipurpose, stress relief/defense tool, well I guess that’s more stress relief..
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At any rate you can also chuk 'em at people and that can help with stress too
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Re: Baoding Exercise Balls, anyone use them?
Reply #16 on: January 17, 2018, 12:52:31 PM
Why do you guys create threads like these?!

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Yeah the forum says multitools, but this place is more like family, beside there multipurpose, stress relief/defense tool, well I guess that’s more stress relief..
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It's not that... A thread about balls, who has them, how do you play with them...
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Dude, you can't fathom the amount of restrain needed for not making stupid jokes about every post here...
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Eff the ineffable, scrut the inscrutable.

IYCRTYSWTMTFOT



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Re: Baoding Exercise Balls, anyone use them?
Reply #17 on: January 17, 2018, 12:53:27 PM
I'm okay, I just played a little with my balls and that calmed me down...

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I'd give my right arm to be ambidextrous.

Eff the ineffable, scrut the inscrutable.

IYCRTYSWTMTFOT



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Re: Baoding Exercise Balls, anyone use them?
Reply #18 on: January 17, 2018, 01:39:51 PM
I'm okay, I just played a little with my balls and that calmed me down...

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I bet that was like shooting fish balls in a barrel for you, huh?  :facepalm:
Hooked, like everyone else. ;)

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Reply #19 on: January 17, 2018, 01:41:07 PM
I'm okay, I just played a little with my balls and that calmed me down...

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I bet that was like shooting fish balls in a barrel for you, huh?  :facepalm:

Don't you start, Pablova O'Pooper!

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I don't have OCD, I have OCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ.

I'd give my right arm to be ambidextrous.

Eff the ineffable, scrut the inscrutable.

IYCRTYSWTMTFOT



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Re: Baoding Exercise Balls, anyone use them?
Reply #20 on: January 17, 2018, 01:44:26 PM
I'm okay, I just played a little with my balls and that calmed me down...

 :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:
I bet that was like shooting fish balls in a barrel for you, huh?  :facepalm:

Don't you start, Pablova O'Pooper!

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Hooked, like everyone else. ;)

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Re: Baoding Exercise Balls, anyone use them?
Reply #21 on: January 17, 2018, 04:57:27 PM
Oh you know this forum, sooner or later by saying “balls” someone’s going to start something! There’s no ifs!
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As I sit on my Crapper Throne in the Reading Room and explode on the Commode, thinking, how my flush beat John’s and Jerry’s pair? Jack’s had to run for the Water Closet yet ended up tripping on a Can bowing and hitting his Head on the Porcelain God! 🚽


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Reply #22 on: January 17, 2018, 05:00:35 PM
Oh you know this forum, sooner or later by saying “balls” someone’s going to start something! There’s no ifs!
JR

Balls...

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I don't have OCD, I have OCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ.

I'd give my right arm to be ambidextrous.

Eff the ineffable, scrut the inscrutable.

IYCRTYSWTMTFOT



 

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