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As a result of all these benefits, Bongers promote a positive attitude, deep sleep, good health, personal growth, and improved communication and friendships. Not to mention Bongers are portable, battery-free, inexpensive, reusable, fun, and easy to use! Bongers are hand held percussion massage tools that give an energising and awakening percussive massage. This grip is borrowed from the “German-style” of playing drums and percussion. The Bongers themselves encourage proper technique for drumming by rebounding immediately after impact, making Bongers a great pedagogical tool. To start bonging using this grip: Pasca D, Crisan R, Muntean V, Popovici I, Kiss S and Dragan-Bularda M 1998 Enzymological and microbiological study of the evolution of a technogenic soil submitted to biological recultivation at the lead and zinc mine in Rodna (Romania). Soil and Till. Res. 47, 163-168. Bongers or Bonger is a Dutch toponymic surname akin to modern Dutch boomgaards ("from the orchard") and is thereby equivalent to Bogaert and van den Boogaard. [1]Van de Peer, T., Verheyen, K., Ponette, Q., Setiawan, N. N. & Muys, B. Overyielding in young tree plantations is driven by local complementarity and selection effects related to shade tolerance. J. Ecol. 106, 1096–1105 (2018). Wodar D, Aescht E and Foissner W 1992 A weighted Coenotic Index (WCI): Description and application to soil animal Assemblages. Biol. Fert. Soils 14, 5-13. Sudhaus W 1980 Systematisch-phylogenetische und biologischökologische Untersuchungen an Rhabditis-(Poikilolaimus-) Arten als Beitrag zu Rassenbildung und Parallelevolution bei Nematoden. Zool. Jahrb. (Syst.) 107, 287-343. Huang, Y. et al. Impacts of species richness on productivity in a large-scale subtropical forest experiment. Science 362, 80–83 (2018). Cantelmo F R, Tagat. M E and Rao K R 1979 Effect of barite on meiofauna in a flowthrough experimental system. Marine Environ. Res. 2, 301-309.

Wrap your first finger around the other side of the wooden collar. The crease of your first joint of your first finger should be aligned with the metal shaft and the center of your thumb. (Imagine there were no wooden collar so the metal shaft would rest inside of the crease of the first joint. Giving a deep tissue massage puts unnecessary stress on your hands and fingers, and often leaves the massage therapist needing a massage themselves! But by using Bonger you can give a quality and pain free massage for extended periods of time. Bonging is as easy and fun as drumming, and is a great excuse for getting drummers to practice on you! Make it a musical massage by putting on some music and playing along in rhythm.

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