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  2. Hooverball - Wikipedia

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    Hoover ball is a medicine ball game invented by President Herbert Hoover's personal physician, Medal of Honor recipient Joel T. Boone, to help keep then-President Hoover fit. The Hoover Presidential Library Association and the city of West Branch , Iowa co-host a national championship each year.

  3. Medicine ball - Wikipedia

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    A medicine ball (also known as an exercise ball, a med ball, or a fitness ball) is a weighted ball whose diameter is about a shoulder-width (approx. 350 mm (13.7 in)), often used for rehabilitation and strength training. [1] The medicine ball also serves an important role in the field of sports medicine to improve strength and neuromuscular ...

  4. Episkyros - Wikipedia

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    Phaininda takes its name from Phaenides, who first invented it, or from phenakizein ("to deceive"), because they show the ball to one man and then throw to another, contrary to expectation. It is likely that this is the same as the game with the small ball, which takes its name from harpazein ("to snatch") and perhaps one would call the game ...

  5. Newcomb ball - Wikipedia

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    Baer first officially published a description of the game in 1895, together with the first book of rules for women's basketball. Originally, Newcomb ball involved two teams placed facing each other in a small gymnasium , the object being for one team to "throw the ball into the other team’s area with such direction and force that it caused ...

  6. Exercise ball - Wikipedia

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    Those balls, then known as "Pezzi balls", were first used in treatment programs for newborns and infants by Mary Quinton, a British physiotherapist working in Switzerland. [ 1 ] Later, Dr. Susanne Klein-Vogelbach, the director at the Physical Therapy School in Basel , Switzerland, integrated the use of ball exercise as physical therapy for ...

  7. History of sport - Wikipedia

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    The Mayan ballgame of Pitz is believed to be the first ball sport, as it was first played around 2500 BC. There are artifacts and structures that suggest that the Chinese engaged in sporting activities as early as 2000 BCE. [22] Gymnastics appears to have been a popular sport in China's ancient past.

  8. Spaldeen - Wikipedia

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    Modern-day Spaldeen. A Spalding Hi-Bounce Ball, often called a Spaldeen or a Pensie Pinkie, is a rubber ball, described as a tennis ball core without the felt. [1] These balls are commonly used in street games developed in the mid-20th century, such as Chinese handball (a variation on American handball), Australian Handball, stoop ball, hit-the-penny (involving trying to make a penny flip on a ...

  9. BOSU - Wikipedia

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    A BOSU Balance Trainer (or BOSU ball) is a fitness training device, invented in 1999 by David Weck. [1] It consists of an inflated rubber hemisphere attached to a rigid platform. The device is often used for balance training. When the dome side faces up, the BOSU ball provides an unstable surface while the device remains stable.