My Powerball Dictionary

PB - The Powerball

NSD - Nano-Second technology CO, LTD. Powerball manufacturer
RPM Sports - Main Worldwide Powerball Dealer

RPM - Revolutions per minute, Powerball Rotor high speed measurement unit

HM, Phantom, 350HZ - Heavy metal NSD Powerball
LM, Raptor, Gold - Light metal NSD Powerball
PL, 250HZ - Plastic NSD Powerball
Neon - Plastic NSD Powerball with lightening LEDs on the rotor
Signature - Another version of Neon NSD Powerball
Techno - Plastic NSD Powerball with scores scrolling on the rotor while it rotates, has only 30s and HS modes.

HS, HR - High speed score measured in RPM (revolutions in minute)
30s - 30 seconds endurance run. Measuring number of revolutions made in 30 seconds
60s - 60 seconds endurance run. Measuring number of revolutions made in 60 seconds
90s - 90 seconds endurance run. Measuring number of revolutions made in 90 seconds

Endurance - Synonym for Powerball Strength Mode run

2H - Strength run with hands switching during the session
BH, Double - Both hands holding Powerball. Good for women and children
DH, Dual - Dual hand. Two Powerballs used for session, held one in right hand and another one in left
RH - Right hand
LH - Left Hand

UPC - Ultimate Powerball Challenge. The sum of 30s, 60s, 90s and HS done with one hand in sequence with less than one minute rest time between runs.

FUPC - Full round UPC. Sum of RH and LH UPCs done in sequence with no resting time between the runs. Left hand rests while right hand works and vice versa.

Marathon - One session of 1,000,000 revolutions. Usually takes around 2 hours of continuous, non-stop workout

Super Marathon - One session of 10,000,000 revolutions. Usually takes around 24 hours of continuous, non-stop workout

(G), Gripper, GT - The endurance technique where constant speed is maintained during the whole run

(E), Edouard, Edtech, ET, Burst - The endurance technique where high speed impulses are mixed with hand relaxations, invented by Edouard Kulik. This technique allows better scores in strength runs.

Akis - Powerball champion Akis Kritsinelis training complex, contains 15 exercises. Usually each exercise is done for 30s endurance with hands switching between the endurance runs. The whole complex takes 15 minutes of heavy workout. Number of revolutions is measured

Cold run - Usually run for high speed without warm up session

to be continued...

HHH

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Great day for my Heavy Metal Endurance

And so for UPC
Both left and right hand UPCs are greatly improved

HM LH UPC:
3856 + 7535 + 10459 + 9528 = 31378

HM RH UPC:
3913 + 7848 + 11892 + 10503 = 34156

Also the best HM 2H 30s: 4684

Both Highspeeds and 2H 90s endurance are a bit lower than my records but I am still pleased very much with my Heavy Metal UPC scores.

HHH

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Making rubber band for my Powerball

Many Powerball beginners, as my self, in the beginning are experiencing problems with Powerball gripping. This is because their hands are not yet used to it. Here I have the solution which could help those powerballers. Must say that this is the best idea I have found so far.
Additional rubber band on lower shell improves your grip, compensates unwanted vibration and protects your fingers from having bad blisters. The only problem with this solution is that it is not permanent and you will have to replace overused rubber bands once in approximately two weeks of daily powerballing.

So, let's begin.
We will need one piece of Marigold's (or any similar) kitchen gloves, scissors (BTW invented by Leonardo Da Vinci), centimeter and the Powerball.



You have to cut any finger part of the glove



Then from that part you have to cut the ring of approximately 4 cm wide. That will be our rubber band.



Now take your Powerball and take off the original rubber band



Now put our Marigold rubber band on the shell



Make sure that one edge of the band will fall into the gap between the shells



From all sides



Adjust the band so the shell will look like that



Now put the original rubber band back on the powerball



It will fixate our rubber band when placed back into the gap properly



Now your Powerball is ready. It is secure and better held in your hand



Do you feel it?

The same way you can put rubber band also on the upper shell, although I believe that covering just the lower shell is enough.

HHH

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Breaking through 11k level with my Heavy Metal Powerball

Good good good day for my Heavy Metal!

Breaking 11k level!

HM RH HS: 11007 (under UPC!)

also

HM RH 30s under UPC: 4383
HM LH 30s under UPC: 3713
HM RH UPC 32261



My Powerball Video on YouTube

HHH

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My plastic Powerball March 2009 progress

This was very good month. My High Speed was improved from 12345 rpm to 13544 rpm. Numbers marked as red are my this month best scores in different categories. Numbers marked yellow are my brakes (previous bests).
Must say that UPC here is not always real UPC, sometimes high speed part of it is reached after several attempts after first one, but in many cases it is the first attempt which was the best.
Last column is about spinning with both hands holding one Powerball.
On graphs above you can see good days and also bad days. Bad days usually are days when I had wrist or back pain or my blisters were too painful to spin it better.
This table doesn't show my Akis complex progress. It is because I didn't start it at the beginning of the month, I used it only to warm up, sometimes I did "Burst" Akis sometimes "Gripper" and then scores were too much different. Also sometimes I was mixing Akis complex with my own Powerball exercises.

HHH

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Understanging scores and records

Many times people are asking me about Powerball scores and records and I have decided to give here some explanation.

First of all, there are 3 main NSD Powerball categories: Plastic, Heavy Metal and Light Metal. These powerballs are different. The difference is in material they are made of, the weight, speed characteristics and sizes. Plastic NSD Powerballs include 250Hz-Pro, Screamer, Neon, Signature and Techno powerballs. All are made of plastic and their speed capability, weight and size are more-less the same. There is only one Heavy Metal model. It is twice as heavy as Plastic powerball, so it requires much more power to put in order to get higher scores. There is also only one Light Metal model. This powerball is really light and very very fast, it is the fastest powerball in the world.

There are several official competition holding for each of Powerball categories:

1. Highest Speed. The highest speed of Powerball rotor rotation is measured
2. Strength 30 second. Maximum number of rotor revolutions made in 30 seconds time period
3. Strength 90 second. Maximum number of rotor revolutions made in 90 seconds time period
4. Dual High Speed. Two powerballs are spun simultaniosly with right and left hands, then speed reached on both powerballs is summing.

Here I will list all Official World Records for each type of competitions and each category.

Men League

Plastic Powerball

1. Highest Speed

16732 rpm
scoreboard star Akis Kritsinelis - World Record! (GR)
7/01/2009
NSD Amber 250Hz-pro Powerball

2. Strength 30 second

7561 revs
scoreboard star Akis Kritsinelis - World Record! (GR)
18/01/2008
NSD Amber 250Hz-pro Powerball

3. Strength 90 second

21228 revs
scoreboard star Akis Kritsinelis - World Record! (GR)
18/01/2008
NSD Amber 250Hz-pro Powerball

4. Dual Highest Speed

31816 rpm sum
scoreboard star Akis Kritsinelis - World Record! (GR)
18/10/2008
NSD Amber 250Hz-pro Powerball
NSD Blue 250Hz-pro Powerball

Heavy Metal Powerball

1. Highest Speed

14091 rpm
scoreboard star Akis Kritsinelis - World Record! (GR)

22/11/2007

NSD 350Hz Heavy Metal Powerball

2. Strength 30 second
not yet registered

3. Strength 90 second
not yet registered

4. Dual Highest Speed
not yet registered


Light Metal Powerball

1. Highest Speed

20090 rpm
Akis Kritsinelis - Unofficial World Record! (GR)

02/02/2009

NSD 350Hz Light Metal Powerball

2. Strength 30 second
not yet registered

3. Strength 90 second
not yet registered

4. Dual Highest Speed
not yet registered

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Ladies League

Plastic Powerball

1. Highest Speed

13316 rpm
scoreboard star MJ Méndez Vázquez - World Record! (ES)

17/12/2006

NSD Neon Blue Powerball

2. Strength 30 second
not yet registered

3. Strength 90 second

16695 revs
scoreboard star MJ Méndez Vázquez - World Record! (ES)

04/04/2007

NSD Neon Blue Powerball

4. Dual Highest Speed
not yet registered

Heavy Metal Powerball

1. Highest Speed

10884 rpm
scoreboard star Sue Phillips - World Record! (IE)

10/12/2007

NSD 350Hz Heavy Metal Powerball

2. Strength 30 second
not yet registered

3. Strength 90 second
not yet registered

4. Dual Highest Speed
not yet registered


Light Metal Powerball

1. Highest Speed
not yet registered

2. Strength 30 second
not yet registered

3. Strength 90 second
not yet registered

4. Dual Highest Speed
not yet registered

HHH

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