Powerball gyroscope for physical sensory input (stimming)

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Greetings all

I write to ask some advice and a favor from you guys please?

I am CEO of a company which manufactures and globally distributes a product called 'Powerball'. We've been doing this for almost 18 years so I hope at least some of you will already be familiar with our products.

Last week, we were contacted by an Autistic customer who had lost their Powerball starting cord and, during the course of the conversation, mentioned that they had been using both Powerball and Powerspin as 'a form of physical sensory input' to help control their 'stimming' issues.

Naturally, as I'd never heard the word before, this piqued my interest immediately and a full scale email correspondence ensued between the both of us during which Mark (our customer) relayed to me all manner of benefits he'd been personally accruing from using our devices, both from a physical perspective and, in particular, as a device with which to provide sensory input during those times when he wasn't physically active (which in his own case saw him painfully twisting his neck from side to side if he couldn't occupy his attention in other ways).

Despite recently diving fully into the strengthening and rehabilitation markets with our products, Autism is an area about which we as a company (and me personally) had no real understanding and so all of the information I received from Mark was totally new to us. The end result of it all however, appears that Powerball, because of the concentration required by the user to get 'in sync' with the spinning rotor, in addition to the fact that it can be used to strengthen the upper limbs while you're sitting, is indeed something that could be of considerable merit to a person with Autism.

And so I am here with you today, not to try sell or promote the product, but to ask whether a) any of you have already tried Powerball (or Powerspin) in the same way that Mark has and b) whether any of you would actually like to try one?

As I've written above, we had never considered how Powerball (or Powerspin) could be advantageous to Autism as a condition and so are here today simply to learn. And the only way we can truly learn is to ask for 4 or 5 of you guys to actually try Powerball out for yourselves and report back to the group here in general with the good, bad or ugly of what you've found after using it for a week or two (albeit based on what we've had back from Mark, I suspect you're going to experience only good things in fairness...but...if you were to come back and slate it then we'll take that on the chin too..)

I ask therefore, whether 4 or 5 of you will please PM me with your preferred delivery name/address details so that we can send you off a shiny new 280Hz Autostart Powerball by return? (We'll take the first 5 PMs regardless of which country you're from)

There will be absolutely no cost or strings attached to this and the Powerball will be 100% yours to keep for free, but - as these are quite expensive little devices - I'll simply ask that, if you do chose to put your name forward for one, you actually use it properly for at least a full week and then come back on to this site and publicly tell everyone about your experience in good detail - whether you thought it was the best thing you've ever used for the condition and that everyone should be using Powerball or whether it was a complete waste of your time and is now just a pretty ornament sitting there on the mantle piece.

(Though if you use it as it's meant to be used, I promise it'll never see that mantle piece..)

This could be a beneficial little study for the both of us and I thank you sincerely for your consideration of my proposal today - I look forward to seeing where this all might lead.

With my best wishes, Rory McLoughney, RPM Sports Ltd.

I feel weird about responding to this and if you've already got your volunteers you can just ignore me.

I had never heard of your product but was able to google some videos. I just wanted to suggest that you might have more luck if you described in more detail the physical sensations that the product gives. Texture, weight, vibrations, etc are all going to be relevant here but may not be mentioned in a typical review.

Good luck.

Hello iammaz

Thank you for your reply and comments, these are appreciated.

Interestingly, my post appears to have faded into the blue and received almost no traction on the forum (albeit, we did have one lady take us up on the offer and her Powerball will be going out today, thank you Debbi) - I suspect the post was either too long and very few read it to the bit about getting the free Powerballs at the end or, as you said, no-one has any idea what a Powerball is or how it can help them.

On that basis therefore, instead of me writing about the satisfying inertial resistance / force it can create (from 1-50lbs+ btw), or how engaging the gyroscopic precession it creates is for the mind and body as the rotor inside spins, let me simply ask anyone interested (4 more Powerballs still awaiting testers btw) to watch this short video which shows it in action please:

https://youtu.be/iDtAYQwo-84

If this doesn't engage then it's back to the drawing board for me it seems.

Thank you! With my kind regards, Rory