Wii Fit.. FUN or FAD?

[_Stretchie_]

Is it REALLY worth me putting all this energy into finding a place that has Wii Fit and board the proper price of £69.99 (some cheeky sods are charging over £100)??

Is it cool? Or is it just cool for a couple of days then it'll live behind the TV until the Wii is equivalent to a Spectrum 48k with a seperate tape drive.

To you younger ones that was the muts nuts back in the day.

You had to load a game which took about 45minutes just to find that you'd put the wrong tape in because you'd not written over where you tipexed over the title on your sisters 'Now 6' double tape with Bomb Jack and Monty the Mole leaving her about to cave your head in with VCR tape covers that look like dark blue or green books beacuse she's lost her favourite Nick Kershaw and Communards songs.

[Bluepete]

No. Not worth it.

That is all....

[SoulKiss]

The Wii is like a Virus

Originally Posted by article

"It's a virus where you buy it and you play it with your friends and they're like, ‘Oh my God that's so cool, I'm gonna go buy it’. So you stop playing it after two months, but they buy it and they stop playing it after two months but they've showed it to someone else who then goes out and buys it and so on. Everyone I know bought one and nobody turns it on. Obviously there's a class of people who really love it and enjoy it and are getting into the games but I'm still waiting for that one game that makes me play it. Who knows, maybe Wii Fit will be it."

http://www.edge-online.com/news/epic...i-like-a-virus

Regardless of the questionable "health" benefits, it inarguably improves your balance as far as I am concerned. I do an odd sort of skateboarding called "Casterboarding", one one of these:
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In some respects, it's easier/better than a skateboard, in others, it's a lot harder. One respect is that it only has two wheels, so balance is a lot harder. I could only successfully grind about 30% of the time and even then, only about 3 metres. The board was forever popping forwards out from under my feet. Literally one evening on the wii fit revealed that my COG was way too far back through my feet and not enough weight was going through my toes. Having 'learnt' to correct this on the wii fit, I was amazed the next time I went skating I was able to grind about 70% of the time, the board felt it was stuck to my feet with glue (didn't pop forwards once) and I was able to treble the distance I could previously grind and only stopped then because I ran out of kerb where I skate! I know it sounds like some "miracle cure" and that I must be exaggerating, but it's the truth.

As an aside, I personally have lost over half a stone since I started using it, primarily because it's a convenient way of tracking your weight over a long time and the improvement in my casterboarding made it that much more enjoyable, so I did the casterboarding more, which certainly helped. I'd suggest if you do any board sport, the aid to your balance alone is worth it. People swear by balance boards (not the wii ones, these: http://www.activetoys.co.uk/shop/kit...rd-378518.html), but IMO they only help you improve if you know what you're doing wrong, whereas the Wii can show you.

BTW, I loved the ZX-48K analogy. Bombjack was mint.

FAD, i sold our wii cus the kids stopped playing with it when the novelty died off.