My name is Dominic See the inventor of the Thingy Flip. I was a great sportsman as a kid, I jumped 2m in the high jump and was a 1st 15 Rugby player but I struggled at school being dyslexic and probably today I would be diagnosed as being hyperactive. To me, I was just a kid. My confidence with school word was very low to the degree that I did not care at all about school apart from making sure I had fun and that's hard to do when you are so far behind the other kids in class, my grade average was Es and Fs, about as bad as you can get.
As a boy of about 9, I learnt to juggle 3 balls. I had been trying for a few years but could never get the hang of it. I remember being so determined to juggle and finally I did it. Soon after all my grades went up dramatically to Cs and Ds, my confidence grew and I was actually concentrating in class and I was happier.
As a boy of about 9, I learnt to juggle 3 balls. I had been trying for a few years but could never get the hang of it. I remember being so determined to juggle and finally I did it. Soon after all my grades went up dramatically to Cs and Ds, my confidence grew and I was actually concentrating in class and I was happier.
Over the last 20 year kids have been doing less and less of what I call backyard ball play instead they have been on devices to entertain themselves.
Australian schools are in 'absolute decline' globally, says PISA report ( see supporting info ) I believe this decline coincides with less backyard balls skill time and more screen time.
You may have heard about brain plasticity but juggling has been shown to improve the connections in the brain.
http://www.ox.ac.uk/news/2009-10-12-juggling-enhances-connections-brain
Juggling is very hard to learn so I set about to find a new way to quickly gain the same sorts of skills.
The Thingy flip is an Offline Physical/Educational Games Platform that you can play loads of different games on. All the old games in your cupboard can be played in a new way.
It's great for indoors or out.
A simple model of the brain was developed in the 1960s where functions of the brain were assigned to the left and right hemispheres of the brain from operations performed on patients with epilepsy. However recently we are finding out that the connections in the brain are much more complex.
Also as researches claim that so much of the brain is settled by the time we turn 7 early connections in the brain are extremely important.
This may be why its so much harder to learn a language after you turn 7.
So parents need to be aware that if they make an effort to encourage brain development early it will have long term benefits.
From the 1940s onward IQs were shown to be increasing which was know as the Flyn effect. However recently researches are finding that IQs are actually on the decline. This is now known as the Reverse Flyn Effect.
Juggling is very hard to learn so I set about to find a new way to quickly gain the same sorts of skills.
The Thingy flip is an Offline Physical/Educational Games Platform that you can play loads of different games on. All the old games in your cupboard can be played in a new way.
It's great for indoors or out.
The Ultiimate Goal for the Thingy Flip
I believe the thingy flip will actually increase the brains efficiency by giving kids a fun way to workout their brains, Its like a Flippin Gym and we can reverse the current decline in education. We can actually start using more brain power efficiency than we have ever used, as human race.
They say we use 10% of our brain cells, What if we could use 20%. This is the ultimate goal for the Thingy Flip.
Please join THE EXPERIMENT
Juggling helped my eye hand coordination, concentration, maths, spelling, writing, and most importantly confidence.
Its like juggling but even more fun with 100s of games to play.
Flippin Toss
Its like hand ball but more FUN!
If you drop the sack you go to the back.
Play you favorite music and showoff your skills.
See trick shots in this video.
