vew-do balance board

[descender]

Now that I have this contraption, what the hell do I do with it? OK, I know generally, but anyone have some good routines or cool exercises?

[jimmy page]

Just throw it down in front of the TV and try to balance on it for as long as you can (or till you get bored). Try to keep your gaze forward toward the TV and away from your feet. Also, as you get better you can try riding the end of the board, hang ten style. You can also try doing squats on the board. This will work all of the little balance musles as well as your quads.

I have had a Vew-Do Balance board for about 6 years and other than the grip tape getting a little worn the thing has been bomber.

Also, it is fun to leave out so that you can watch your friends eat shit as they try it for the first time.

[lemon boy]

one foot

[Tap]

try a shuv-it

[DarkStar]

I have an Indo board in my apartment and try to spend as much time on it as possible now that ski season is coming up. I suspect the Vew-do board is similar....

as suggested, throwing it down and watching TV is the best....try to make it the whole show without coming off the board. Try working on riding the board parallel with the cylinder (much smaller balance point). spinning 180 on the board, work on jumping off the board and spinning a 180 in the air (while the board remains balanced on the cylinder). as mentioned, you can hang ten (toes out on the nose) and if you get good you can probably do a pop shove it...you can ollie onto the cyclinder with the board on the ground...this takes some practice and you have to be comfortable rotating on the cylinder.

I also got kind of good walking on just the cylinder...more or less like the log rolling races on the outdoor games. I can walk around comfortably on the cylinder, can balance on one foot (either foot) for extended periods of time, jump and spin a 180 in the air while on the cylinder...I even figured out how to do a pop shove it with the cylinder.

try changing up stances on the board in order to tweak out nose and tail presses....theres really a lot of different things that you can do with it, it just takes a bit of time and practice on the board to really get comfortable...from there you will start to experiment with what you can really do with the board. My balance has gained tremendously from using this.

[descender]

Thanks.

Wow I suck so far, but I can already see some improvement. Makes TV fun.

[Tyrone Shoelaces]

yeah balance boards are way fun. I used to use mine a ton until my dog decided that the "rock" was another one of his toys.

anyway, yeah, don't just watch TV on 'em.....watch a ski movie and see what happens....

squats with free weights add another great challenge too. then start moving to different foot positions and try to do more squats as well. Definitely gets you in shape, helps balance, proprioception, all that stuff.

[Huckwheat]

I third the squat motion. Aside from just "playing" on the thing, it makes free weight squats a whole new exercise.

The strange thing is the bar in some ways makes standing on the voodoo easier (like a tightrope walkers stick). However, with balancing just doing like 6 deep squats will be plenty for a set.

In other Gimp rehab news.....I am obsessed with learning to stand on the swiss ball. I just saw it in Telemarker mag, and always hear stories around here of Chuck Patterson doing sets of squats with huge chains dangling from the bar (so it gets heavier as he gets higher).

Anyhow, who can pull off this feat of strength/balance???

I do it under a pull up bar, and can take my hands off the bar for about 4 seconds.