[quote]gregron wrote:
they are really popular these days. If you watch sport on TV you’ll see A TON of players wearing them. Whoever started that company is so rich [/quote]
Indeed.
If it wasn’t for stupid people, lots of business wouldn’t be around today.
[quote]gregron wrote:
they are really popular these days. If you watch sport on TV you’ll see A TON of players wearing them. Whoever started that company is so rich [/quote]
I saw an interview with Kevin Durant where they asked him about his bracelet and he said he wears it as a fashion statement and doesn’t care if it does/doesn’t do anything(which I am reading into as meaning he isn’t feeling some obvious super amazing effect).
[quote]bushidobadboy wrote:
[quote]samdan wrote:
Frequencies can’t be emitted by a “hologram”. End discussion.[/quote]
Really? So the atoms in the material used to make the holograms (and the bracelet and everything else) are NOT vibrating? Wow, you must have discovered an entirely new form of matter.
You should patent that shit 
BBB[/quote]
You, a trainer/therapist-type (who’s opinions I’ve read in various places around here and respect, although I don’t know your exact job title) are going to try to tell me, an engineer currently in grad school who has taken two courses PURELY CENTERED AROUND DYNAMIC RESPONSE OF THINGS that atoms can vibrate in an unpowered, unlimited way to create a real response in an object? That’s literally the definition of “free energy”. Yes, all atoms vibrate but there are more vibrations coming from the floor when someone walks across it than a non-reacting set of atoms.
Sources of dynamic response propagation in everyday life:
People walking
Things hitting the ground with great force (either high weight or velocity)
The wind
Your blood circulating
The building you’re in
If you’re trying to tell me that the atoms in the bracelet are vibrating with such a force to create a dynamic response large enough to impact a body WITH ALL THE REST OF THE WORLD IMPARTING DYNAMIC RESPONSES AS WELL, then I’m going to call bullshit. Some of the items on the list you’re looking at and thinking “yeah, what does that really do? it’s too small”, but keep in mind that the body is basically a big fluid mass dampening system.
Whether or not the bracelet works, the company’s copy is not creating a valid case for it to work. They’re using a lot of vocabulary that the general population will hear and say “THOSE ARE SCIENCY WORDS!” and not look any further than that. “Frequency” is not what this product works on, not without a motorized component or something that is free to rotate and yet heavy enough to create a dampening effect. I call bullshit on the latter because you’d notice a dampening effect like that in everyday life.
Your response?
Like I said before I actually own and wear one of these all the time because I like the way it looks. I’ve felt zero effects from it.
Here’s my explanation for why it seems to “work” in their tests:
If you have me stand on one foot or with my feet close together I naturally don’t have a great stance for balance. I’m not sure if you’re going to push me over or pull me over so I don’t exactly know how to balance. After your first attempt I’m knocked off balance pretty easily BUT my body knows how to counterbalance myself now. Next you hand me a bracelet with super hologram magnets in it and try again. Well I know what you’re going to do and how it’s going to feel so I’m obviously going to be better at balancing now that I know what to expect and have already done it once. Pretty easy concept
Also when you buy the bracelet they tell you that it can’t be loose cause you need each of the two magnet hologram things to be touching your skin in order for it to work, but when they do the tests at the mall kiosks it “works” even if you just place the bracelet on top of the persons shoulder?
It’s pretty obvious that they don’t have actual science to back up the claim that they work otherwise everyone would have one. They would be all over TV and the News. Every athlete in the world would have one and be WAY better than they are. I mean if you buddy couldn’t push you over while you were wearing one imagine how good they would make an NFL running back? His balance and power would be so amazing that virtually no one could tackle him lol
[quote]bushidobadboy wrote:
For all the naysayers: Have you tried one? Until you do, please reserve your scepticism.
I have experimented with them and yes they do work, to a degree.
Please refute this ‘evidence’ if you can, and don’t give me the old ‘placebo’ reason, which is simply the old get out for ‘it works but I can’t figure out why, so I use this slightly scornful label to apply to it’.
Ok so I am standing, feet together, arms by my side. My friend (a strong BBer) pulls down on my right arm and naturally, I topple towards him, despite trying my hardest not to (whilst maintaining an upright position, i.e. not leaning away from him).
Now I put on the wrist band and we repeat the test. With the band on, but the exact same test as before, I am able to keep my balance and upright posture MUCH more easily than before.
There is another test, but I ‘broke’ that one, so they don’t work across the full spectrum of puported benefits for every person (suprise!).
Please bear in mind that I am a scientist at heart and did NOT want this thing to work… yet it did, and there’s no denying it.
So come on, knowitalls, hit me with your personal experience of these things - if you have any.
BBB[/quote]
Neural adaptation? Your body learns from the first trial and reacts better to the second.
Try something where you wear the wrist in the first attempt and take it off for the second.
Coming from a math background where I took a lot of physics courses, including electromagnetism and quantum mechanics, the shit they put in that description makes no sense.
If you’re joking, I fail.
Hey, I’ve tried the tests out with mine and it works. Just sayin’
And it’s worked on other people. 2 bucks. It’s worth it. Plus my basketball game improved phenomenally- people actually were asking me what happened. Best two dollars I ever spent on a fake placebo.