Fluke Board

Fluke Board The versatile ‘Fluke Board’ was designed to promote fitness, strength, healthy recreational activity, rehabilitation and fun for a wide range of people.

This is me with the grown up three of my six children plus Ash's wife Yulia and their baby Elli, who is my first grandchild. Brendan and Cara are to my right and left. This photo was taken in Singapore.

A special hello and message to the people of Fiji. I noticed that you have been very enthusiastic about the 'Fluke Board'. I suppose it appeals to your appreciation of the water surrounding you with the beautiful coral atolls, boating swimming and fishing being such a part of your lives. Thank you for your interest. My connection with Fiji is that my parents, Mike and Eva Palairet, met eachother in Fiji. Mum was from Australia and was working in the bank in Suva while dad was in the NZ airforce and was stationed in Fiji, working on the Sunderland flying boats doing search and rescue. My older brother Roger was also born in Fiji in 1963. I also have a cousin, Michelle, who was also born iin Fiji. So since you have been so supportive of my new invention I thought I'd tell you all about my personal connection with your sunny islands.

While working as a doctor, here in Australia, I meet people of all ages who have pain and injuries to their muscles and joints and who require physiotherapy, fitness and strength training.
Many of our Australian population gain weight and suffer from diabetes, high blood pressure, heart disease and arthritis as they age. These people are in need of exercise for regaining strength and fitness and health, but find it uncomfortable and boring or too difficult, so never get to do the exercise they need.
These two groups also suffer from increased rates of depression, anxiety and social isolation because of their physical condition and sometimes because of their unsightly physical appearance.
The 'Fluke Boad' is ideal for many of these people and will be a valuable tool for rehabilitation and for the people who have become unfit and overweight and have joint pains or injuries and who now wish to regain health.
So let me know what you think about this post, especially those of you who suffer from injuries and also from the medical professionals and allied health professionals who work with rehabilitation and with the overweight medical patients who are needing to exercise.

I will tell the reader about myself and how I came to invent the 'Fluke Board'.

I am a medical doctor, currently working as a general practitioner in a seaside town called Yeppoon, in Central Queensland Australia.

I am interested in general wellbeing as I'm sure most people are and to me that involves finding a good balance in life, taking care of the body, the mind and also spiritual awareness.

I believe that Love and light is who we are and we are a tiny spark of God and all is One.
I believe that we must use love and aspects of love like forgiveness gratitude, treating all as yourself and providing service to others to make us feel strong peaceful and happy. But there are also lessons and tests for us all to grow from while we live out our lives here on planet Earth. I believe we must join more as a world community and not let the differences separate us.

The first idea I came up with, that led to the 'Fluke Board', was to provide a ride-on machine, that is powered by the rider, to travel across water. After simplifying and refining the idea I came to the earlier versions of the 'Fluke Board', which I tested with a few generations of prototypes to end up with the size and shape of board that you see in the videos.
My patent for this invention also includes a stand-on version which uses guy ropes attached to the wrists to secure the board on the feet. The rider then jumps up and down to move the board shallowly through the water while varying the angle by tilting the board forward and backwards. I have not done much with the standing version yet but it would be harder to use. I may wait till the hand-held version earns its place in the market first.
Thank you for showing an interest in me and the 'Fluke Board'.

Thank you to all those of you who have clicked on my page to learn about the 'Fluke Board'. It has been very interesting for me to 'meet' you and see your profiles! It makes me feel personally connected to other societies and families that share planet Earth with me and that is a lovely feeling.