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Bob & Brad Foot Massager Machine -- DEMO & REVIEW
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Jun 22, 2024
Your aching feet are going to love the Bob & Brad Foot Massager Machine with its full-foot massage, easy controls, and great design. Tech expert Dave Taylor slips his feet into the Foot Massager and finds that it's easy to love, but hard to stay awake after a 15min full foot massage with heat, shiatsu and more. HEADS UP! Bob & Brad have upgraded the design and it's now known as the model 721. Here's a link to the newer model on Amazon: https://amzn.to/3tFUUO4 Check out Dave's Q&A site at https://www.AskDaveTaylor.com/ #footmassage #shiatsu #massager #health #wellness
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This is the remedy for tired feet. Let's check it out
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Dave Taylor here and I'm checking out this
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This is the Bob and Brad foot massager machine and it's Bob Shrupp and Brad Heineck and they're
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physical therapists. They have their own YouTube channel and everything but they work with
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a lot of people that need help with their physical condition and so they've started
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designing gear and this is really nice. They've done a lot of things here that when you look
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at other foot massage units you realize why don't they do that too. For example a carrying
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handle. Why does no other device have that? They also have on the front they have this
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little adjustment so you can change the angle because it's normally going to be flat on
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the ground but it might be more comfortable for you to have it like that. Now you put
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your feet in from this end and they go in all the way and deep so it's really nice
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The controls are here. I know on the other side of the unit. Let me just spin it around
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so you can see. So the controls are all right here and there are three primary controls
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One is rolling speed and there's three different speeds. Air compression levels, heat levels
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It's a 360 degree massage. It's really interesting actually when your feet are in because there's
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a lot going on on all the different points of your foot and forward and backward rotation
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It has a 15 minute timer. They recommend that after your 15 minutes if you're still awake
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don't just immediately turn it on again. Give the machine a few minutes to cool off and
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give your feet a few minutes to just sort of soak in what you just experienced. There's
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that 110 degree support stand I just pointed out and it does have the carrying handle
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It's a little heavy. It's 14 and a half pounds so this isn't something you're going to be
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like probably toting around if you're 90 years old and really need to work on your feet
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But once you put it in the right place you're probably not going to move it around anyway
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Worth noting is that the foot sleeves unzip so you can take them out and give them a
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wash as needed. Honestly wear socks. Wear clean socks and you'll never have to think
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about that ever. Really I don't think these work very well barefoot and that's really
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where you're going to get the sweat and everything. So don't worry. Yes you can clean the sleeves
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You probably won't need to if you just wear clean socks every time you use it. So up to
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a men's size 12 foot and I have a 10 and a half foot so I will tell you that when I put
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my foot in here it fits. It's very comfortable. I'll switch and show you a sort of foot close
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up so you'll be able to see what's going on in just a second. But I also wanted to say
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it's designed to help with Achilles tendon issues with plantar fasciitis with blood circulation
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There's a lot of things and with that heat and everything it's really pretty hard not
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to fall asleep. It's very nice. In fact let's switch to foot cam. All right so we have foot
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cam here. This is basically the experience of what you would see if you looked down
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Now I just want to point out that the controls are right here and a long push turns it on
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Then I can adjust the need from low to medium to high. I'll put it back to low and then
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the air intensity is low, medium, high. Again I'll put it back to low and the heat level
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that one I'll turn on high. So pretty easy you can get it all set up and then put your
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feet in. Although I kind of prefer putting my feet in before it turns on but I can do
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this and as you can see your feet go all the way in. It's a nice experience here and feels
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really nice. So what I'm experiencing right now is the air bladders are expanding and
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contracting to give you that sort of overall push across the surface of your foot and then
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there are rollers that are moving from back to front. One's on my heel and one's approximately
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centered in the pad of my foot and the whole thing is slowly heating up as that heating
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element comes into play. And I have no complaints. This feels really lovely and of course as I talk
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it's also starting to roll from front to back and there's another I don't know if it's a roller or
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just the air bladder but there's a pushing sensation on the top of the base of my toes
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And it is all in symmetry so you get the same experience on each foot simultaneously. It'd be
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really weird if you didn't but some might do that. Anyway okay so let me jump back on camera
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That was very nice I have to say. Now I do want to point out just a couple more things one of
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which is it comes with power. It has to be plugged in. A unit like this uses too much power to
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actually just work off batteries and the cable's reasonably long. It's not super long so here maybe
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it's I don't know six feet total that's probably about right. So it's a six foot cable and it plugs
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into a little extension on the edge here and now you're ready to plug it in and go. There's no
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remote control. It's a very simple interface. There's not much to worry about. You're not going to get
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confused. I feel like the icons on the control panel are pretty good at telling you what they are
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I think they probably could have used color to help convey like which one was heat but be that
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as it may you'll figure it out and you'll use it without any problems. It is a 28.8 watt motor and
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a 10.5 liter air pump so there's some decent mechanicals inside of this too. I feel like it's
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going to last a mighty long time and you know even if you use it every single night if it's only 15
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minutes at a pop then you should have years and years out of this. This is really nice. You know
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one of the things I think that they've done with this unit is they've looked at the other units and
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said what's designed poorly on these other units. So they've really addressed a lot of that. I think
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that the whole thing is just really terrific. I do have a couple of complaints though. So number one
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I wish it had a remote control. I know that's kind of dorky but if I'm sitting back on a couch for
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example and I have my feet in here I don't want to have to lean forward to adjust all of my controls
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I would like to just have a remote of some sort. It's pretty easy and the second thing is I will
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say that the experience is really nice but there's nothing that really addresses or touches my toes
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and I kind of wish even just the air bladder expanding and contracting. I wish that included
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my toes too but I think your expectation should be that it's from the pad of your foot all the
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way back and to some extent up the sides of your ankle. It is a really nice foot massager. It is
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not as nice as having a human being do it but it's a pretty darn close simulation and if you're
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looking for shiatsu or something yeah it can do those sort of things and honestly if a person's
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doing your foot massage are they going to be using heated towels and everything? Probably not. So this
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is definitely one to check out. Now before I tell you the price let me just ask super quick if you
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can subscribe to my channel. It's super easy just a click or a tap on that red subscribe button
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and you're subscribed. Great. Now this is the Bob and Brad foot massager machine and it's $199.99
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minus I just saw a $30 coupon so it's $169.99 at amazon.com. Your price may vary ever so slightly
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depending on if that coupon's still there etc etc. I like it. This is my favorite of all of the foot
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massage units I've ever tried. I'm going to wrap this up because I'm going to go back and do another
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15 minutes. Sorry Brad, sorry Bob, but my feet need it. So I'll hope to catch you in my next video
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