Top US Basketball player Steph Curry's Floatation Tank secret

Here’s a great opportunity to find out just how good floatation tanks are and how they work.

Featured in this clip from American sports show Hang Time in which EPSN – The Magazine’s journalist Sam Alipour visits a floatation centre with Stephen Curry (Warriors Guard) and Harrison Barnes (Warriors Forward) of the Golden State Warriors basketball squad.

We learn that one of the biggest trends in the sports science world is athletes using floatation tanks to protect and repair their bodies and minds.

In the clip, the two basketball players use i-sopod tanks, based at Reboot Spa in San Francisco. They go on to discuss the benefits of regular float sessions and they both agree that it’s good to let go of their thoughts and see where their mind takes them as they lay back in the Epsom salt solution.  They endorse the experience because it soothes their bodies as well as their minds. 

Stephen mentions that he begins the session by planning play strategies but within minutes he’s relaxed and it’s Russian roulette as to what his mind may turn up.

All in all, our i-sopod floatation tanks are certainly having a positive impact on these two player’s game. The team’s performances speak for themselves just as they are getting closer to the longest regular season winning streak in NBA history.

Coincidence? We don’t think so.

History of Floatation Tank Therapy – part 1

Although the Floatation Tank was not developed for therapy in the first instance, its current uses where discovered as a ‘by-product’ of experiments in sensory deprivation.

Originally invented by an American neuroscientist called Dr John C. Lilly in the 1950s. 

By the 1970s he had perfected the design of what was then known as the Sensory Deprivation Tank.

The tanks were developed to prove whether or not the brain needed external stimuli to keep its conscious states active. They needed a device that would essentially cut test subjects off from the outside world and limit sensations to the body.   

Early models of the device would see users submerged vertically in a large cylindrical chamber filled with water. 

Subjects were given breathing apparatus and were then suspended (with buoyancy aids) upright just atop of the surface.  The accessories proved to be too distracting so new designs that have much in common with today’s models were prototyped.

By the 1970s, he had developed a model in which users would lie horizontally in a high concentration Epsom salt laden water (which has super buoyant qualities).  Users would report its positive relaxation qualities, so beyond its origins in mental health exploration it began to find popularity as a well-being and health enhancement application.

Read more about the Floatation Tank’s development throughout the 1980s and 1990s in part two:

Please visit: www.floatworks.com to book your session in a i-sopod floatation tank today. 

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Mixed Martial Artist and Kickboxer Alex Reid - heals and relaxes his mind & body

Mixed Martial Artist, Kick-boxer and actor Alex Reid (Cage Rage, BAMMA, UFC and UCMMA) - heals and relaxes his mind & body in the i-sopod floatation tank.

"I used to use float tanks years ago & found it very helpful. I slept fantastically last night! Body healing and rejuvenating"

Floatworks Customer Tosin Oke in action. Winning triple jump gold medal for Nigeria!

Congratulations to Floatworks Customer Tosin Oke who was recently crowned African Champion. The world class triple jumper stormed past the competition with a massive jump of 17.22m securing Tosin and Nigeria with Gold! Tosin is one of many top athletes that use the i-sopod floatation tanks at Floatworks…. proof that floatation is for champions!

Georgia May Jagger likes our massages

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Hollywood Actress Naomie Harris likes our Floatation Tanks

Pirates of the Caribbean / Miami Vice / 28 Days Later Actress Naomie Harris

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Floatworks congratulates Tasher Danvers

Congratulations Tasher on your Beijing Olympic Bronze


Hope to see you again soon!

Congratulations Phillips

Olympics Games Silver 2008 Beijing

Phillips Idowu uses i-sopod Floatation Tank

Phillips at the Floatworks with owner Tim Strudwick after his last Float 

session before heading to the airport and Beijing.

PHILLIPS IDOWU has been banking on a flotation tank to sink his Olympic rivals.

The Londoner spent last year battling a back injury and the floating treatment has paid off.

Triple-jumper Idowu, 29, now goes into the Beijing Games as the only British athlete ranked No1 in the world.

He leaped 17.58 metres at the Olympic trials last month as he warmed up for his attempt to follow in the footsteps of world-record holder Jonathan Edwards and win gold.

He said: "Most days before I came out here I was in a floatation tank for about an hour."

Long Jumper Jade Johnson likes our Floatation tanks

“When I first got into floatation therapy I tried it three times in a week and it was so beneficial that I had another two sessions leading into the 2008 European Cup at Annecy, France.

It was there I jumped a personal best of 6.81m and qualified for the Beijing Olympics. I have always used Physiotherapy and massage to help injury recovery but floatation is different. When I float I can really feel a lot of pressure being taken off my back and when I compete I feel calm and my mind and body feels in balance.

I think everyone should at least have one float in their lives, or they just don’t know what they are missing!”

Post isolation tank interviews

This video features Floatworks customers speaking directly after their isolation tank sessions, explaining how the floatation experience helps them to relax, recuperate, and rejuvenate.