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Originally posted by bryanc:
Maybe it'll be like the medicine ball--shoved away in a corner for decades until one day, a clever marketer makes it "NEW" and potentially "IMPROVED", and everyone will be using one or at least want to have one (though how you improve a medicine ball, I'm sure I have no idea).
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Ahh, students. Caught in the ivory tower and so blissfully unaware of the methods of marketing. [img]smile.gif[/img] The medicine ball was 'improved' since it's inception by:
-changing the casing from leather, which wears and can get slippery, to a thick vinyl covering with good 'tack' for hold in sweaty use conditions. The thicker skin also made it less prone to breakage.
-varying weights and sizes
-COLORS! C'mon, this is a major change!
Of course, you'd know all of this if you were older than 35.
