•What is Power Balance?
Power Balance is performance technology that uses holograms embedded with frequencies that react positively with your body’s natural energy field.

Balance • Strength • Flexibility


•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.

Dries van Tonder wrote:Last week, while at the local cycling shop to buy some cycling gear, the owner (whom I have known for a number of years) offered to show me a couple of "party tricks". He pulled off a wristband that he was wearing and gave it to me to hold in my right hand. He then attempted to push me of balance but was unable to do so. After I had put down the writsband, he again attempted to push me of balance and managed to do it quite easily. We went through the procedure again; but this time he used a different technique. The results was the same though. The bracelet turned out to be a power balance bracelet.

On the power balance website this is how they explain the bracelet works:

•What is Power Balance?
Power Balance is performance technology that uses holograms embedded with frequencies that react positively with your body’s natural energy field.

Balance • Strength • Flexibility


•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.

It sounds like utter bullshit. This is the website: http://www.power balance.com

GerryC wrote:The is a big thing amongst sports people - and, unfortunately, young sports people.
Powerband use a form of "applied kinesiology" to prove that it works - the Australian Skeptics debunked this in the above TV show.
The bracelet is spreading. The shop for an Australian Broadcaster (SBS) is selling them in their shop.
Go to SkepticBros to purchase a version called the Placebo Band - great for piss-taking!

I don't think this would surprise anyone, but PowerBalance—manufacturers of plastic wristbands with hologram stickers on it—have admitted that there's "no credible scientific evidence that supports [their] claims and therefore [they] engaged in misleading conduct." Here's their statement:

In our advertising we stated that Power Balance wristbands improved your strength, balance and flexibility.
We admit that there is no credible scientific evidence that supports our claims and therefore we engaged in misleading conduct in breach of s52 of the Trade Practices Act 1974.
If you feel you have been misled by our promotions, we wish to unreservedly apologise and offer a full refund.

They had to publish that in Australian media. The company has been under attack by consumer associations all over Europe because of their bogus claims and pseudo-scientific mumbojumbo, but this seems to be the first time in which a regulatory authority has made them admit that their claims are a simply a fraud.

Dries van Tonder wrote:Last week, while at the local cycling shop to buy some cycling gear, the owner (whom I have known for a number of years) offered to show me a couple of "party tricks". He pulled off a wristband that he was wearing and gave it to me to hold in my right hand. He then attempted to push me of balance but was unable to do so. After I had put down the writsband, he again attempted to push me of balance and managed to do it quite easily. We went through the procedure again; but this time he used a different technique. The results was the same though. The bracelet turned out to be a power balance bracelet.

On the power balance website this is how they explain the bracelet works:

•What is Power Balance?
Power Balance is performance technology that uses holograms embedded with frequencies that react positively with your body’s natural energy field.

Balance • Strength • Flexibility


•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.

It sounds like utter bullshit. This is the website: http://www.powerbalance.com

You take an old trick that scamsters have been doing for eons, dress it up with some pretty design and some sciency sounding words and then get yourself into gymnasiums and convince the sweaty denizens that your magic plastic wrist band can make them stronger and have better balance. Once you have the money rolling in from that (and at $60 each for bangles that probably cost less than a dollar to make it rolls in fast) you convince a television show to give you some free publicity. When that publicity backfires a little and causes some questioning of the product you run away and hide, cutting off all communication with critics because you can't justify the claims you make. The one thing stopping this site from being a candidate for an Anus Maximus Award is that the only damage done to victims is financial and even then $60 is not a great deal of money. Taking it from people without offering anything of benefit in return is naughty, but most people don't die just because someone came along and took their money.

Power Balance is performance technology that uses holograms embedded with frequencies that react positively with your body’s natural energy field.

Power Balance, the company that would have led you to believe their hologram-embedded bracelets could give you super-human balance and strength, is going to pay out $57 million to settle a class action lawsuit filed by buyers of the product, TMZ reported.