Pretty sure everyone in my house has used this everyday since I’ve purchased it. It’s pretty fun and does help with your balance. It’s easy to use and does what it is supposed to. It’s mostly slip resistant on hard wood floors but it’s not impossible to slip either. Pretty durable for what it is and it’s about the same size as a normal skateboard.

Office game changer! Let's talk price: At first I was like eeeek this thing is as expensive as my desk but when I got it, I understood why. Solid build, great materials, will last me a long time. Function: challenging to use but a lot of fun! It's not a board you get good at so fast, you loose the benefits. You see progress in your balance fast enough that you can still type and have online meetings without distraction. But not so fast you get bored of it (no pun intended hehe) and shove it to the side because the novelty wore out. The first day I got it, I was stood on it for 6hrs and didnt notice until the end of the day. Before that, I was standing for about 1-2hr a day. Worth the buy and longevity.

Trying to learn to snowboard and this is a great tool for this purpose! Great craftsmanship! Super fast delivery! Great purchase!

So impressed with this product! Was just wanting something I could use while at my standing desk at work, this board is perfect. I was worried it was going to be too easy, but there's so many different ways to use it, I'm loving it! Great for balance and core work, but can also be used for stretching, especially ankles/calves. Spins easily, so that adds another layer of difficulty if you need. Lets me keep muscles engaged without moving a ton and becoming a distraction. Much more fun than I anticipated (i have a balance board that swings side to side on a roller but thought that would be too distracting for the office) this is such a great alternative! No noise and super sturdy, would 100% recommend.

Shipped to Canada (Toronto) very quickly, very happy with that. I’m trying to gain some balance strength and prep for the snow season. While this company do offer a standing desk balance board I chose this one and use it while at my home desk. I’m an amateur on the longboard and intermediate snowboarder, wanted something to get better balance and control. This is a great product, very well made and love the company, check their videos!

Works well while being used at a stand-up desk. If you need more stability, you can place it on an anti-fatigue mat while you develop better balance.

Seems very durable and is a good trainer for snowboarding.

This past year, I have started to become interested in working on my balance as I had weak ankles and tight hips which resulted in nasty injuries during trail races. I'm starting to become a big believer than all homes should have wobble boards as they take up very little space and even hopping on one a couple times a day for short periods can strengthen your balance, muscles, and joints. I have not fallen at all since I've been using mine for a year. But I digress...I also have always wanted to learn to skateboard so here I am in my mid-40s trying new things. I had a $20 Yes4All wobble board I love to play with, but I mastered it and needed something more challenging. This seemed like a good step between the wobble and the a Bongo board (which requires balancing in very different ways), and it seems like it could be used for much more. I can't wait to look at some YouTube videos for ideas for tricks and exercises to use with it. It looks so fun!For just balancing alone, I found it a bit more challenging than my Yes4All, but it not impossible to balance on—especially if you have used a balance or wobble board before. After trying it for a few minutes, I was able to stay up for about a minute. It's going to take me a little time to build up to where I was on my wobble board.I found Whirly put more pressure on my hip and thigh muscles to balance on as my legs are much wider apart than on a regular wobble board. This is not at all a bad thing, but it may a bit difficult for someone who has never used a balance or skateboard to get started on this. However, I totally disagree with the review that called it dangerous. Sure it can be dangerous (all balance boards can be), but if you take it slow and/or use a chair or other solid piece of furniture to hold onto when you start out it is not any more dangerous than a regular wobble board. The key is not to rush it, and let it tip to the ground to hop off if it is overwhelming.I can't wait to learn more with this cool board! This is a beautifully-made piece of equipment that I'm very happy to have invested in for myself and the rest of my family.

I'm not much of an athlete so keeping up on physical activity usually means having to hit the gym to work out--something I find boring and unengaging. On top of that, I work in an office at a desk and my hobbies generally involve sitting as well. So I am in serious need of a physical activity that engages me with a huge bonus to any activity that I can incorporate into the things I'm already doing.Enter the Whirly Board. After a solid 3+ hours of scouring Amazon for balance boards, I came to the conclusion that this one was the right choice. And after spending about a week with mine at my standing desk, I can advise that this is the best choice for me by a wide margin. I'm making solid improvements to my balance and core engagement day over day. This will have a positive impact on my posture and will ultimately help me address my lower back issues by retraining my abdominals and obliques to hold me up instead of my glutes doing all the work all the time.Balance boards on Amazon seem to fall into only a couple of categories:1.) Round or rectangular wooden boards with coarse grip tape on top and some kind of semi-rigid ball or cylinder on the underside. These are aimed squarely at the gym crowd and the elderly. They don't seem to come in varieties larger than 16 inches in diameter or roughly 16 inches in width. They look very nice for their simplicity but with no grip tape options and their relatively small size make them difficult to recommend for an adult male who would ideally have their feet at least shoulder width apart or wider to accommodate a lower center of gravity.2.) Longboards made of any number of materials (plastic, wood, etc.) with softer grip tape on the top and a separate cylinder on the underside. Sometimes there's a rail system underneath to help the cylinder stay in place, some of the older products in the space feature a fully separate cylinder with no rail system. The boards themselves are longer, like a skateboard, than the kinds mentioned above. Within this category, you'll see that they are either aimed at office workers as standing desk accessories or they'll be aimed at the outdoorsy types as an activity akin to, say, slacklining.The smaller round and rectangular types are cost-effective, usually hovering somewhere around $25-$60 (sometimes more) and they all appear to be essentially the same thing. It's quite possible that they are all manufactured by the same company and are sold with different branding--that's how similar they all look to one another. And they seem fine but the small size isn't so much meant for two feet planted on the board activities. It seems like they're especially well-suited for lunges and single appendage kinds of workouts. But they aren't going to get you much mileage otherwise. And while they all appear to be made from plywood, I can't say that I necessarily trust the build quality sight unseen.The latter category of longboards ranges in price from upwards of $100 to beyond $200. Again, they are being marketed at office workers a ton and I think there's some price gouging here predicated on the notion that companies will pay the premium. Many of these office-focused boards use mixed materials--seemingly lots of plastics, and generally look about as office-friendly as you'd expect--lots of black and gray, boring. The boards that focus on the more outdoorsy type are similarly priced and tend to look the part as well--more colors are available, more designs, but maybe not in keeping with most people's office decor.As mentioned, these boards tend to feature a free cylinder that you have to balance on. The cylinder means you don't have to worry so much about your forward/backward balance but the ones that don't feature a rail system are terrifying for those of us who don't have excellent balance already because the board can shoot out to either side if and when you lose your balance. I've tried these kinds of boards in the past and nearly hurt myself. They're absolutely great for anyone that already has good to great balance but they are too challenging for those of us just getting started.And it's all of those factors that ultimately played into my decision to buy a Whirly Board. Overall design, price, and relative difficulty. The Whirly Board nails it in every one of those categories.I work in an office all day long and when I get home I play PC games or draw at my desk. Sitting all day and all night is no good for my back--I now have somewhat frequent issues with lower back spasms. To stymie the effects of a sedentary lifestyle, I bought a standing desk and a nice mat to go with it and that really changed things for the better for me. It's made a huge improvement to my quality of life.I wanted to kick things up a notch now that I'm standing more often and I wanted something versatile, something that looks good, something that is challenging without being dangerous, something that will really test my balance and get me to engage my super-weak core muscles.The Whirly Board checks all of those boxes. It's a pretty straightforward skateboard design. The laminated plywood board is solid. I am roughly 200 lbs and the board does not flex or bow under my weight. I have no doubt that this board will last me a lifetime if I treat it well. The cork grip is very nice on bare feet. And the natural finish is quite nice. The colored dome on the underside comes in a few different colors that you'll likely not see often but it's great that they put so much care into how the board looks from all angles.The fixed design of the rigid domes on the underside of the board provide me with a solid challenge while also maintaining a certain amount of predictability and user-friendliness. The fixed elements down there mean that I don't have to focus so squarely on just balancing, it is not a complete activity unto itself. In fact, the Whirly Board invites you to get comfortable quickly so that you can start doing more interesting things on the board--spins, walks, squats, etc.Overall this thing is very well-designed, it's clearly been well thought out from top to bottom. And it does more than just help you balance! Check out their website and watch their videos that go into greater detail on how you can use the Whirly Board to help you wakeboard train, snowboard train, etc. etc. At this price point, the Whirly Board does everything that it's competitors do at easily $70 less than some of the more expensive products out there and with more versatility and higher build quality than the enticingly cheap products out there.If you are like me and spend a lot of time at a desk (for fun or otherwise) and you want to mix it up with some physical exertion and training, this is a great choice. This is definitely the best balance board to get for a standing desk since it can be used away from the standing desk for more than just balancing if you want it to. It looks the best out of the humdrum options out there, too. You just can't go wrong with this one.