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Bal-A-Vis-X : Rhythmic Balance/Auditory/Vision eXercises for Brain and Brain-Body Integration
- Spiral-bound
- Author: Bill Hubert
- Publisher: Bal-A-Vis-X, Inc.
- Release Date: April 2001
- ISBN-10: 097080850X
- ISBN-13: 9780970808509
- List Price: $25.00
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Summaries and Customer Reviews provided by Amazon
SummaryBal-A-Vis-X is a series of Balance/Auditory/Vision eXercises of varied complexity, most of which are deeply rooted in rhythm. These exercises require full-body coordination and focused attention. The Bal-A-Vis-X program utilizes racquetballs, sand-filled beanbags, balance boards, and multiple principles from Educational Kinesiology. It demands cooperation, promotes self-challenge, fosters peer teaching. It is school-friendly and just plain fun. Part One, THE STORY, is a narrative, experiential account of this program's evolutionary development over 20 years in public school classrooms. The reader is a silent witness to one teacher's trial-and-error journey, in grades 1 though 8, FROM an uninformed, intuitive grasp of some link between physical and mental (in)abilities TO assimilation of the most recent brain research and theory, especially as applied to physical movement's crucial connection to cognitive function. Along the way the reader will encounter, with him, the many people and ideas which lead to understanding, then point the way to Bal-A-Vis-X. This is also a story of hundreds of students, in particular the Lab Kids of Hadley Middle School in Wichita, KS where the Bal-A-Vis-X program was born in 1997. Both annecdotal and "hard" test data accompany their collective/individual stories. Part Two is a series of accounts by educators and parents who have personal experience in the use of Bal-A-Vis-X. Part Three consists of step-by-step instructions for the more than 200 Bal-A-Vis-X exercises. |
Customer Reviews
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Bal-A-Vis-X
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I find this book fascinating on two accounts: First, that the age old question of whether the mind and the body are separate has been answered - dualism is not supported. And second, that there are educators so dedicated to helping those kids who typically fall through the cracks of our system of education. Bill Hubert takes the reader through his journey of exploration to help the 20% of kids who simply don't learn to read with conventional methods. What accelerates their learning? Exercise! Using old-time balance boards and juggling stimualtes the brain in rhythmical patterns which seem to provide the necessary neurological maps for their brains to begin the sojourn toward more disciplined thinking. Awesome book! Recommended for anyone in education or even coaching of younger children.
Bal-A-Vis-X Workshop
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I'm just ordering this book to reinforce what Bill taught at the three-day workshop at Western State in Gunnison, Colorado. It was fast-moving and invigorating. Everyone who wants to REALLY DO Bal-A-Vis-X exercises needs to be trained by BILL to SEE and HEAR the exercises. I would recommend it to all... I foresee that I will probably buy his new DVD set in order to remember exactly how to do the exercises.
Bal-A-Vis-X : Rhythmic Balance/Auditory/Vision eXercises for Brain and Brain-Body Integration
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Very valuable input and helpful to us as we struggle with learning for our son. Product was received in excellent condition and we are looking forward to implementing all of the ideas in the book.
Yet another example of "pop psychology"...
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...Bill Hubert was an elemntary and middle school teacher who "Over time...concluded that all of his students who struggled academically tended to exhibit similar physical characteristics:
-an inability to control eyes
-an inability to focus attention
-an inability to sit or stand without moving
-graceless, often illegible handwriting
-stiff/locked posture while sitting, standing, walking, or running
-limp/supportless posture while sitting, standing, walking, or running
-rhythmless gait while walking or running
-rhythmless cadence while talking or reading aloud
-apparent ambidextrousness, which was often neither-handedness
-general clumsiness
-mental and /or physical apathy"
...sorry, thirty years observation in an elemntary school classroom doesn't qualify as substantial evidence for such a conclusion...and as if that weren't enough of an intellectual "leap of faith" he then claims after "two decades of trial-and-error discovery" he found a therapy: "Bal-A-Vis-X"...and while juggling balls while standing on a balance board may, in fact, enhance mental faculties in some fashion, there is not a shred of scientific evidence that it does...the concept of "educational kinesiology" falls under the category of "applied kinesiology" which itself was founded by a chiropractor named Goodheart about forty years ago...and neither "educational kinesiology" nor "applied kinesiology" have any more scientific merit than chiropractics -- i.e. none...but Mr. Huber does have something -- he's got a lot of stuff to sell to you...why, he's got books, videos, seminars, demonstrations -- all available to order from his website...heck, you can even order the beanbags and balance boards from him!...if your kid's got some learning inadequacy you would probably do just as well buying him a skateboard or a gameboy as hounding him with the activities in this book.
Great information, just takes time to get to it!
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I was expecting something that would cover how to set up a bal-a-vis-x program, but what I ran into was the complete history and impetus for creating the program. It took longer to get to the meat of how the program works, but by having the cronicle of how it all came about, I was even more encouraged by the program. I am going to buy more of these books for my son's school's teachers.
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