Thanks T-Nation in your retraction and public apology relating to the articles: BOSU: The Good, The Dangerous and the Ugly and Tip: Puncture all BOSU and Swiss Balls because the articles “unfairly extrapolated from his (Eric Cressy’s) findings” and “damned the product largely on the best way some misguided individuals use it, and that is not truthful by an extended shot.”
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“An Apology to Bosu Ball
by TC Luoma | 10/02/19
I lately wrote an article titled “Puncture All Bosu Balls,” and as my ordinary caustic self typically does, I gave it a snarky subtitle:
“The following time you see somebody utilizing one in all these implements, do them a favor and shove them off.”
The article was posted on T Nation just a few weeks in the past and it fairly understandably pissed off the Bosu Ball individuals to a substantial diploma. They ended up asking me (pretty properly, contemplating the circumstances) that I write an apology.
That is that apology.
Throughout the article, I repeatedly referenced Eric Cressey’s Grasp’s thesis on unstable floor coaching (UST), the findings of which had been written up in an article by Eric over 5 years in the past titled, “BOSU: The Good, the Dangerous, and the Ugly.”
The issue is that this: Cressey’s unique examine was performed utilizing the sarcastically title stability discs – small, wobbly cushions. The outcomes had been pretty damning.
And this is the place I screwed up: Whereas he did not particularly write that his outcomes prolonged to Bosu Ball, I unfairly extrapolated from his findings and instructed that Bosu Balls are equally poor.
Whereas I discussed unstable-surface coaching (“UST”)a number of occasions within the article, I did not make it sufficiently clear that Cressey’s findings utilized particularly to UST and never Bosu Balls, so it is easy to see how the overriding notion can be a adverse one towards the Bosu Ball.
So far as Cressey’s unique T Nation article from 2014, I gave it a deceptive title (in opposition to Eric’s needs). In my protection, I assumed {that a} extra precisely named article titled “Stability Discs: The Good, the Dangerous, and the Ugly” can be met with a collective ho-hum, as a result of nobody knew what the hell stability discs had been again then. So I changed “stability discs” with “Bosu Ball.”
Once more, I apologize as a result of it misled individuals into considering his Grasp’s thesis, ergo his article, was concerning the Bosu Ball.
However possibly I must discover my emotions towards the Bosu Ball a little bit extra. I actually often use them for quite a lot of workout routines, however I’ve typically taken umbrage with them — not a lot for the product itself, however for the best way many individuals use (abuse) them.
Whereas the warning on the Bosu Ball says to not flip the factor over and stand on it (as a result of it may probably pop), many, many individuals do it anyway, utilizing it to do dumbbell curls, dumbbell over head presses, and even barbell squats.
As such, I’ve damned the product largely on the best way some misguided individuals use it, and that is not truthful by an extended shot.
I hope they settle for my honest apology.
— TC Luoma “
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