Why Buy Vew-do? Balance Board Manufacturer Comparison Chart

Below, you will find two comparison charts. One listing balance board features. The other shows the balance board benefits of various manufacturers. To use these charts effectively, it's important that we clarify some confusion between balance board equipment and balance board equipment marketing.

Is It a Balance Board or Balance Equipment? - Because of the explosive growth of balance training and its broad marketing appeal, for some balance products, the term balance board has eroded into a general term that includes wobble boards, teeter and rocker boards. These products are only useful for static balance training, recreation and rehab. In other words, many companies are marketing static balance training equipment as balance boards.

This only confuses consumers who are unaware of the different balance training characteristics of these products as compared to balance boards which have a broad range of uses.

A piece of balance equipment should only be called a balance board if it can be used for static (stationary) and dynamic (in motion) balance training. All the other products fall into their own classification under the general term of balance equipment.

So here's a good rule of thumb, if the riding deck doesn't span or move over the rock underneath the board, it's a wobble board, a teeter board or a rocker board. These are pieces of static balance training equipment, with their own specific features. They're not balance boards.

Different Models - Some manufacturers will claim to have various models. For the end user, only true balance boards that have the ability to change the action and or benefit to the user qualify as having multiple models.

Colors and graphics, different deck cut-out shapes and accessories from manufacturers that don't provide a measurable change for the user don't qualify as having different models. That's because the action, skill level and versatility doesn't change from model to model on the boards from these companies.

Stunts and Tricks - This is another area where we have to be realistic. The wobble/teeter boards that call themselves balance boards cannot truly emulate the tricks and stunts of balance boarding, skateboarding and snowboarding. With a fixed fulcrum, not only are they not practical for stunts and tricks, they provide no cross-over simulation of the action obtained on a skateboard, snowboard, surfboard or other board sports.

Why use a slot and rail system? - For boards without a rail system, to maintain a constant "for and aft" motion over the rock without experiencing run-off (The board working its way off the end of the rock), the rider, the board and the rock would need to maintain static pressure while remaining in constant and perfect alignment. This is just about impossible given the variations in speed, body positioning and foot pressure.

With a slot and rail system, the rider only needs to stop or bail out from loss of balance, not because the board has run-off the end of the rock.

Hopefully, these charts will help you make the right choices to satisfy your needs. Don't just take our word for it. Test ride these other boards first. Use these charts and scope out other websites and see how the boards are being used, what they can and cannot do and the materials they're made of. Once you've been informed, you'll know the true value, limitless versatility and high-performance fun you can only get from a Vew-Do Balance Board.