Gravity Guidance System

Former NFL 3 Roman Gabriel has flipped for them. William Shatner has gone head over heels for them too. They’re called Inversion Boots, and according to their creator, California physician Dr. Robert Martin, some 200,000 people around the world are now using them to help eliminate physical hang-ups ranging from pot bellies to chronic back pain.

Inversion Boots are part of what Martin calls his Gravity Guiding System, a jungle gym of chrome-plated steel bars, clamps and hooks plus an oscillation bed that rotates 180°. With ankles strapped into the thickly padded metal cuffs, subjects hook their boots onto a metal bar, lean back on the bed and, raising their arms, allow their bodies to fall backward toward the floor. Experienced users may disengage from the bed and hang freely.

Some people experience fear and discomfort at first. “My eyeballs felt like they were coming out,” reports a first-time dangler, who nevertheless tried it again. “

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