Talk:Swiss ball

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[edit] Best article title?

I had never heard the term swiss ball before reading it on Wikipedia. That in and of itself is no big deal, I don't know of a lot of things. But I think the term excercise ball is much more common for this thing. See these two search results [1] and [2]. Exercise ball gets about twice as many hits. That's not entirely definitative, but does hint it is the more common term, and by naming convention, the most common term should be the one used. - Taxman 13:19, Mar 8, 2005 (UTC)

This suggests that the original name was "Swiss ball" because it was invented by a Swiss coach. That said, I'm happy whichever name is chosen, as long as all the relevant redirects are in place. GeorgeStepanek\^talk 20:28, 8 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Sounds reasonable. As I mentioned above, I think we should go with the most common and perhaps generic name, which I think is exercise ball. I'm happy to wait it out though until someone else weighs in with a method to decide for sure which name is more common. - Taxman 21:19, Mar 8, 2005 (UTC)

I am happy with either name, too. I only chose the current title when creating the article because it was exclusively called "Swiss ball" in the Weight training article. I don't know which name is used more commonly. - Marcika 02:38, 10 Mar 2005 (UTC)

For what it is worth, I prefer Exercise Ball over Swiss Ball -- many of the other names are overloaded with other meanings. A 'sports ball' describes pretty much every ball out there, but a Body Ball is more exact. I've always thought that the "Swiss Ball" name came from the marketing habit of assigning healthful things to Switzerland. "Swiss formula soap!" "Swiss hair removal!" "Swiss... balls..." I'll look into some redirects for this article. --Mdwyer 18:10, 31 March 2006 (UTC)