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$360.00
Carve Your Destiny:
The Freestyle Original board brings the beauty of movement and athleticism to you. Express your ride style with smooth controlled turns, graceful momentum transfers or pure powerful ambition. Either take it slow and steady or fire up your muscles and set yourself apart.
Find Your Comfort Zone:
Our most popular board size fits a variety of ride stances and is comfortable for upper exercises. Transitions between moves are easy and let you master new skills without overtiring your legs. A great medium board that is fast, fun and strength challenging at the same time. With a large rail space there is plenty of room for 2 balls or half balls for full body moves.
The Freestyle Original features a steel rail system that allows you to create 16 different types of boards. A perfect balance board for learning skill progression. Create your own unique combo that suits your needs. Add Balls and Half Balls for your training. Features a steel rail system you can attach Resistance Bands or a BOSU to expand your exercise routine.
6.5" Medium Ball:
Provides the best combo of board tilt and ride space. Keeping you off the ground for big flowing turns and upper body coordination. This ball rides very graceful and lets you hang for stability or will respond to your every move.
5" Small Balls:
Perfect when creating the double pivot. Place both balls under the board to practice full body move and one foot balance. Place the 5" ball with the 8.5" Half Ball and create a single pivot board.
8.5" Half Balls:
Perfect sizes for plenty of movement for your rocker and wobble board. Place one or two Half Balls under the board for complex upper body moves while stimulating your balance. Combine the 5" Ball inside the 8.5" Half Ball to make the Thrasher or Rock and Roll combos. Combine the 6.5" Ball inside the 8.5" Half Ball to create the Big Drop combo. These are great for unpredictable moves or partner drills.
6.5" Half Balls:
These smaller Half Balls are great for beginners or those recovering from injury who need less board tilt. Combine the 3" Mini Ball inside the 6.5" Half Ball to make the Thrasher or Rock and Roll combos. Combine the 6.5" Ball inside the 8.5" Half Ball to create the Big Drop combo. These are great for unpredictable moves or partner drills.
Resistance Band System:
This Original board features a steel rail system that anchors the Resistance Bands System. Perfect for adding greater body awareness and posture control as the bands pull you down toward the board. Use the handles and foot straps to take any exercise move and expand the challenge.
BOSU Strap System:
Place your board on the BOSU and secure it with our strap system. The unique movement is gentle and feels like floating on water. Great for movement sequences from quadruped to full standing, landing jump progressions or partner drills.
Elysia's Notes:
This is my favorite board to ride, get into deep squat and board grab positions and save some leg fatigue for an extended ride session. I love the 6.5" balls for a double pivot board and all around ride. I will use the 8.5" ball when I want work on fine tuning my board movements with a little less ball speed. The Freestyle Original and 6.5" ball is the combo we most often use at trade shows because it fits most riders and they get a better feel for all the motion
Are your balance boards good for building ankle strength for basketball players? I know they would do a whole lot more, but I’m just wondering about ankles specifically. What size combo would you recommend for a 6’ teenage boy?
Ankle strength- that can be a broad question. When I think of building back and ankle from injury or doing injury prevention exercises there are a few key areas I address. Physical strength to move the ankle through a range of motion against resistance-these would be band exercises. Wrap the band around the foot and move the foot and ankle through left and right, up and down, diagonal and alphabet patterns. After you gain the strength from these exercises, you need to learn how to get those muscles to fire to maintain balance and good joint position. This is where weight bearing exercises comes in. Then I put the athlete on one foot on the flat ground and make them balance. I progress them with ball throws and trying to knock them over. Then I progress to jumps in all directions with a balance hold once they land- this is great for basketball players. I also incorporate balance boards- trying to maintain balance on a moving surface helps initiate core control, posture, pelvic awareness and lower body strength. And when you look at the fine details of being able to balance on a board, a lot of it comes from the feet and ankles. When the board is moving around, I keep my upper body very stable and it’s my ankles and feet that are doing the fine tuning. I will have the athlete move the board in all directions to incorporate concentric strength and movement coordination at the same time. And I will have the athlete stay steady and react to the board and activate eccentric strength. At times I put a weight on the edge of the board to gain more resistance and increase strength of the foot and ankle. So the answer is two fold. The balance board will help coordinate and activate the strength in your lower body. But you must also build up strength doing some non weight bearing, jumping and resisted exercises. The balance board ties it all together and will help with overall sports performance because you have better reactions and core control. And since it all stems from your feet, you are strengthening your ankles and feet. Now, in cases of somebody with a chronic unstable ankle, there is only so much we can do with specific tape, rehab, bracing and treatment. Sometimes when the ligaments are too far gone and rehab exercises are exhausted and you are really active, sometimes the ankle will still give out. The supporting ligaments just aren’t there, but balance training does help tremendously. I’ve used our balance boards all soccer season with players and the non-contact ankle injuries were low or none. But when you have contact and somebody slams into your ankle, there isn’t much you can do. With basketball, I always saw injuries from the agility turning and tight rebound spaces where you land on somebodies foot. A balance board will help train for these situations. Especially when you are have youth athletes who are still growing and gaining strength- they just don’t know how to properly activate and control their bodies. The injury might still occur but the extent of it is lessened and recovery is faster. A 6′ teenage player would do great on two board sizes. The Freestyle medium board will get you into a nice comfortable squat position but will have a tighter lunge stance. This is a great board for general training. If you think they are still growing, you might want to consider the Commando board. The larger size allows for a wider deep squat to simulate a defense stance, a comfortable lunge position to simulate running and agility moves, a comfortable push up for rebounding strength, and a greater surface area for changing your stances. I would suggest a half ball to be able to do complex moves with basketball drills while on a wobble board. Go into a lunge position and practice dribbling skills. Get into a free throw stance and practice the motion. Stand on one foot with the hands in the air to simulate rebounding and landing. Riding on a board and ball combo will help with agility and being able to move side to side. It will also help train core stability and muscle activation when a defender is trying to block you or contact you.