CHINESE BAODING BALLS

Baoding balls were first made thousands of years ago out of iron during the Ming Dynasty, and their use developed alongside the principles of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM). With a rich cultural history dating well before The Great Wall of China, it’s astonishing that Baoding balls are still popular today.

It’s a simple practice – one holds both balls in a single hand and carefully rotates them. Fine muscles and tendons in the hand come alive to carefully grip and manipulate the balls over one another, which stay in contact throughout. As the hand gains strength and the user becomes more adept, the balls can be rotated without touching one another, and manipulated in a variety of increasingly challenging ways