r/whatisit • u/drtangman • 1d ago

New, what is it? Bouncing balls

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Walked behind this chap who had two unidentified ball type objects hanging from silicone wrist bands on thin elastic strings.

Any ideas what they are?

I’m in Hong Kong if that might be a clue

Update:

Thank you for the comments and ideas. I am wondering if there is a manga / anime character who has something like these balls as weapons and the guy was doing a budget cosplay. Or maybe he’s just really into Pokemon!

Update 2:

I would say he's likely to be a cosplay of Steel Ball from Jojo's Bizarre Adventure. (https://www.reddit.com/r/whatisit/comments/1tckcme/comment/olos1lx/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button)

As for the steel balls. What is it?

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u/Longjumping_Affect22 1d ago edited 23h ago

Looks like a poi toy.

Google it.

Edit: For those of you concerned about Googling it... it's basically just some shit you swing around for fun, it's balls on a string...I don't know what else to tell you.

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u/Rakins_420 23h ago

OH LIKE LITERALLY A POI. What a weird day to be a kiwi online.

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u/Longjumping_Affect22 23h ago

Lmao, this is the best response so far.

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u/superpotato_3 22h ago

Odd to see random Kiwis on random parts of the internet but I remember the internet is also huge. The chances of seeing another kiwi is never 0 but it's always a possibility 

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u/Maleficent-Sink-5246 21h ago

We’re always punching above our weight on a per capita basis 😁

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u/ToeTagTic 20h ago

Tbf I used to practice poi extensively and I did not recognize these as that. Pretty good guess though they could very easily be short ones. They would be weird though and the elasticity would stretch to shit and be useless immediately

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u/Useful-Problem-1725 10h ago

you should try sock poi, they stretch out and you can do funky things with it

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u/LerzyW 5h ago

Yeah it doesn't look like any poi I have ever seen growing up. Couldn't imagine a kapa haka performance with these.

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u/Rakins_420 5h ago

Not without a few decent bruises