The big "What is your background?" topic

[Installed]

what the................?

I wasnt the first one.... http://www.powerballs.com/faq.php?q=23

Here's a short video of me getting a moderate score:

http://files.filefront.com/Two_hande.../fileinfo.html

[weee]

Name: Ken N.

Nickname: Weee

Country: USA

Age: 24

Job: Electrical Engineer

Powerball experience: Coming Soon

Sense of humor: Sarcastic

Current speed record: I had A ball, but no computer, so no incentive to take it really fast

Further hobbies: Tennis, Swimming, Cycling, Running (Training for first triathlon) Weightlifting, inline skating, golf, bowling

I had another gyro exerciser, i never took it fast at all just light rotations. I'm trying to build my left side up to match my right as most of my sports have made me decidedly imbalanced. Also, sitting at a computer all day at work has lead me to just start having wrist pains recently which I am trying to alleviate!

[ccc4]

Name: pierre
Nationality: french canadian
Soubriquet: dude
DOB 08/04/1957
Height: 6'1''
weight: a slinky 172 lbs
status: married/heterosexual
Occupation: lab rat
Interests: strength training(especiallyforearms and functional and grip), math puzzles, music(the weirder the better) !
Sense of humour: Yes, but also weird!
Powerballing Time: since july 2006
Speeds:9991 with metal gyro, but with no particular technique (i.e. no hand switching)

[slim123]

Name: Daniel Grinnell

Nickname: Slim (123 optional)

Nationality: English

Age: 16 (18/05/1990)

Marital status: Serious Relationship

Job: 6th Form Student

Powerball experience: 10 Months

Sense of humor: Very Good

Speed record: Look at my sig

Endurance record: Look at my sig

Hobbies: Rugby,Powerball,Golf,Football,Weight Lifting

Best Regards

Slim (123 :P)

[mnixon]

Name: Mark Nixon

Nickname: Nixon

Nationality: Irish

Age: 19

Marital status: single

Job: apprentice

Powerball experience: started using it for the first time in about a year 2 weeks ago, and i cant put it down, but ive got it about 18-24 months i'd say

Sense of humor: brilliant

Current speed record: 11545rpm (left), 10000rpm (right)

Current endurance record: 13124 rotations per 90s

Further hobbies: football, running

[donkapone]

nice but you could really improve your endurance... i scored 14097 on 90s and my highscore is only 11725 but at the time i could hardly score over 11k

[Installed]

I think his endurance is pretty good compared to his speed records. Maybe you're just unusually good Donkopone, lol.

[mnixon]

nice but you could really improve your endurance

yeah i'm working on improving it, as i said ive only started using the powerball again after about 10-12 months of not using it so i kind of have to re-adjust to the powerball. and already since yesterday ive improved my score to 13514, by my calculations if i can keep up this rate of improvement 1 year from now my 90s endurance score will be 155864, so thats my goal ;oP

[Jarkko]

Name: Jarkko Pietilä
Age: 21
Location: Northern Finland, Rovaniemi
Height: 185cm
Weight: 73kg
Hobbies: Guitar, Powerballing, Computers
Powerballing: Since early 2005
Occupation: Basic school

Current speed records:
14253(R)
13648(L)

Metal:
12446(R)
12228(L)

[mnixon]

...you could really improve your endurance... i scored 14097 on 90s and my highscore is only 11725 but at the time i could hardly score over 11k

ive been using the powerball alot in the last few days and ive increased my endurance record to 14275 and my highscore to 11665, so donkapone i reckon that u shud be able to beat ur endurance record, what i do is change hands every 20 seconds for the 1st minute then after 15 seconds for the last half minute, i feel it gives me the best chance to rest each hand before going again, give it a try and let me know if u can beat ur personal best. my goal is to get into the top100 before the end of the month