Yoga Balls?

Dave_techie · Post by **Dave_techie** » Wed May 27, 2009 4:35 pm

I am not going to have much space to get my stuff to the burn (shade structure is bulkier than I had planned)

and I am thinking, yoga balls, so the people people camping with me, and myself have something to sit on

my concern is, how do you keep a yoga ball from blowing away if it's under the shade structure, but not in the tent? and not just chain it down?

it had crossed my mind to put some sand in them, or something of the like, any experience with such? is it a good idea?

ygmir · Post by **ygmir** » Wed May 27, 2009 4:42 pm

you might try driving a spike through them into the ground.........

rodiponer · Post by **rodiponer** » Wed May 27, 2009 4:42 pm

Put the ball in a mesh laundry bag, tie a rope on the bag, stake down the rope? Or put bean bags inside the laundry bag?

Ugly Dougly · Post by **Ugly Dougly** » Wed May 27, 2009 5:01 pm

Put it to work for you:

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Or build a fence.

Artemis · Post by **Artemis** » Wed May 27, 2009 5:23 pm

Sorry for distraction here Dave, but didn't anyone else see this topic and think that it was going to be some joke about how One-eyed-dick can wrap them behind his head or something?

Wish I had a suggestion, but the best I could think of is putting it in the tent....

DrPeffer · Post by **DrPeffer** » Wed May 27, 2009 7:09 pm

[quote="Artemis"]Sorry for distraction here Dave, but didn't anyone else see this topic and think that it was going to be some joke about how One-eyed-dick can wrap them behind his head or something?
.[/quote]

Yes...It immediately made me think of a painful condition a friend of mine developed not long after he took up yoga for the first time.

SilverOrange · Post by **SilverOrange** » Wed May 27, 2009 7:28 pm

Someone on the board was talking about weights they made by filling milk jugs with cement. Maybe tie them onto something like that. They're still mobile that way. The wind out there has the potential to carry away just about anything not tied down, and some things that are. Sand would probably work too, you would just have to put a lot in them.

robotland · Post by **robotland** » Wed May 27, 2009 9:38 pm

SilverOrange wrote:Someone on the board was talking about weights they made by filling milk jugs with cement. Maybe tie them onto something like that. They're still mobile that way. The wind out there has the potential to carry away just about anything not tied down, and some things that are. Sand would probably work too, you would just have to put a lot in them.

Empty water jug PLUS contents of "Play Snake" (dust drift) EQUALS Instant Weight!

I chased one of those orange balls that were roaming the trash fence a couple of years back...thought it'd be fun to kick on 'em for a while, but the wind caught my chosen victim and carried it over the fence and down range. Thinking fast but not deeply I jumped on my bike and gave chase, kicking the offending ball in an un-thought-out attempt to arrest its forward movement. Then I decided that it would be "wiser" to just DIVE OFF of my bike (traveling at perhaps 10 MPH) and TACKLE my target, which I then did, popping it immediately BUT miraculously NOT causing me to break my arm, bike or expensive camera (which I had forgotten about). I then walked back the half-mile-or-so to the fence carrying my flattened foe, having avoided being injured OR intercepted by LEOs.
Moral?
Luck Is Blinder Than Justice.

Simon of the Playa · Post by **Simon of the Playa** » Sat Jun 06, 2009 6:32 am

it's just too easy....i cant...it's like shooting swedish fish in a chocolate barrel.

yoga balls....sounds vaguely like tennis elbow.

i'm gonna chuckle to myself all day and no one will know why....

ygmir · Post by **ygmir** » Sat Jun 06, 2009 6:50 am

SilverOrange wrote:Someone on the board was talking about weights they made by filling milk jugs with cement. Maybe tie them onto something like that. They're still mobile that way. The wind out there has the potential to carry away just about anything not tied down, and some things that are. Sand would probably work too, you would just have to put a lot in them.

that might have been me.
I make weights with left over concrete, filling gallon plastic jugs (mostly square antifreeze and motor oil), so the handle is available for tying.......
and, am happy to share, if anyone wants some.

Ugly Dougly · Post by **Ugly Dougly** » Sat Jun 06, 2009 10:34 am

Just keep your balls inside your tent, buttercup.

Token · Post by **Token** » Sat Jun 06, 2009 11:17 am

Just put a tag on the ball:

Please return to camp so and so at intersection some and such for a soapy hand job.

Bring nice hand soap, cuticle cutters and a nail file.