# What's that thing on Kerri Walsh's shoulder? **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [August 14, 2008, 2:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-that-thing-on-kerri-walshs-shoulder/459932 "2008-08-14T02:27:32Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 18\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Sunrazor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sunrazor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunrazor)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2008, 2:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-that-thing-on-kerri-walshs-shoulder/459932/1 "2008-08-14T02:27:32Z")
Beach volleyball is on as I peruse these here boards (WTF is Norway doing with a beach volleyball team?! The same thing Jamaica did with a bobsled team?) and I noticed Kerri Walsh seems to have what looks like a big Velcro spider glued to her right shoulder. What is that, anybody know? ---
**Author:** ![Hilarity\_N.Suze](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hilarity_n.suze/32/6223_2.png) [@Hilarity\_N.Suze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hilarity_N.Suze)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2008, 2:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-that-thing-on-kerri-walshs-shoulder/459932/2 "2008-08-14T02:36:33Z")
It is a big velcro spider. Supposedly, after her shoulder surgery last fall she is 100% healed but not 100% strong, and this is supposed to help. I’m thinking it helps the way copper bracelets help, but whatever. ---
**Author:** ![buncombe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@buncombe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/buncombe)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2008, 2:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-that-thing-on-kerri-walshs-shoulder/459932/3 "2008-08-14T02:45:01Z")
It’s this. [Kinesio bandage.](http://www.kinesio.ws/xcart/home.php?cat=249) I think it looks sorta spiffy, actually. ---
**Author:** ![Sunrazor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sunrazor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunrazor)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2008, 2:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-that-thing-on-kerri-walshs-shoulder/459932/4 "2008-08-14T02:55:47Z")
Hmmmm. Part science, part marketing, I guess. The video never really explains how it works except that it “lifts the skin” to allow better circulation. Lifts the skin from what? Anyway, thanks to buncombe for the info. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2008, 4:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-that-thing-on-kerri-walshs-shoulder/459932/5 "2008-08-14T16:41:25Z")
I wondered about that myself. Thought it might be some kind of alien lifeform which loves beach volleyball and insisted on a seat _very_ close to the action. ---
**Author:** ![fiddlesticks](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fiddlesticks/32/18129_2.png) [@fiddlesticks](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fiddlesticks)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2008, 4:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-that-thing-on-kerri-walshs-shoulder/459932/6 "2008-08-14T16:56:09Z")
When I first saw it I thought maybe she had some tattoos that the organizers disapproved of. ---
**Author:** ![Figaro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ea666f/32.png) [@Figaro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Figaro)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2008, 5:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-that-thing-on-kerri-walshs-shoulder/459932/7 "2008-08-14T17:02:35Z")
[QUOTE=fiddlesticks] When I first saw it I thought maybe she had some tattoos that the organizers disapproved of. [/QUOTE] When I first saw it I thought it _was_ a tattoo. ---
**Author:** ![Darryl\_Lict](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/7cd45c/32.png) [@Darryl\_Lict](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darryl_Lict)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2008, 5:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-that-thing-on-kerri-walshs-shoulder/459932/8 "2008-08-14T17:20:13Z")
[QUOTE=Elendil’s Heir] I wondered about that myself. Thought it might be some kind of alien lifeform which loves beach volleyball and insisted on a seat _very_ close to the action. [/QUOTE] If I was an alien lifeform (or human) I’d attach myself to her ass! ---
**Author:** ![Spiff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spiff/32/9852_2.png) [@Spiff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spiff)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2008, 5:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-that-thing-on-kerri-walshs-shoulder/459932/9 "2008-08-14T17:35:03Z")
Designer nicotine patch? ---
**Author:** ![Khadaji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Khadaji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khadaji)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2008, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-that-thing-on-kerri-walshs-shoulder/459932/10 "2008-08-14T17:51:41Z")
Anyone have a link? ---
**Author:** ![fiddlesticks](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fiddlesticks/32/18129_2.png) [@fiddlesticks](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fiddlesticks)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2008, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-that-thing-on-kerri-walshs-shoulder/459932/11 "2008-08-14T18:02:36Z")
[QUOTE=Khadaji] Anyone have a link? [/QUOTE] [http://sports.yahoo.com/olympics/beijing/photo?slug=52689413cba44f298c980b427d85f6e0.beijing\_olympics\_beach\_volleyball\_women\_oly711&prov=ap](http://sports.yahoo.com/olympics/beijing/photo?slug=52689413cba44f298c980b427d85f6e0.beijing_olympics_beach_volleyball_women_oly711&prov=ap) ---
**Author:** ![Don\_t\_fight\_the\_hypothetical](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/59ef9b/32.png) [@Don\_t\_fight\_the\_hypothetical](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Don_t_fight_the_hypothetical)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2008, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-that-thing-on-kerri-walshs-shoulder/459932/12 "2008-08-14T19:56:47Z")
[QUOTE=Sunrazor] What is that, anybody know? [/QUOTE] Effectively, a target. Not that it matters I’m sure she welcomes the “attention” recovered or not. ---
**Author:** ![rocking\_chair](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rocking_chair/32/2918_2.png) [@rocking\_chair](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rocking_chair)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2008, 10:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-that-thing-on-kerri-walshs-shoulder/459932/13 "2008-08-14T22:44:23Z")
[QUOTE=Sunrazor] Beach volleyball is on as I peruse these here boards (WTF is Norway doing with a beach volleyball team?! The same thing Jamaica did with a bobsled team?) and I noticed Kerri Walsh seems to have what looks like a big Velcro spider glued to her right shoulder. What is that, anybody know? [/QUOTE] norway has quite a bit of ocean front property. it may be a bit cold, but it is there. ---
**Author:** ![Cisco](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ccd318/32.png) [@Cisco](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cisco)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2008, 11:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-that-thing-on-kerri-walshs-shoulder/459932/14 "2008-08-14T23:27:16Z")
I’ve never been to Norway but I have a friend from southwest Norway and he says it’s very pleasant with nice beaches due to the gulf stream. I’ve been to Sweden and the weather was pretty much perfect. I would not compare it to a country without snow trying to field a bobsled team. ---
**Author:** ![gravitycrash](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/977dab/32.png) [@gravitycrash](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gravitycrash)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2008, 12:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-that-thing-on-kerri-walshs-shoulder/459932/15 "2008-08-15T00:58:25Z")
I know that I have been posting in way too many female related threads lately but Kerri Walsh may have the nicest legs that I’ve ever seen. Wow. Her ass isn’t bad either. Yes I am feeling like a perv. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Beware\_of\_Doug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/278dde/32.png) [@Beware\_of\_Doug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beware_of_Doug)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2008, 1:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-that-thing-on-kerri-walshs-shoulder/459932/16 "2008-08-15T01:18:51Z")
Yank though I may be, but I find myself rooting for the Belgians, Liesbeth and Liesbet, right now. One reason is that their own Olympic Committee didn’t want to send them to the Games. And at the moment they’re giving May-Walsh a helluva fight. ---
**Author:** ![Don\_t\_fight\_the\_hypothetical](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/59ef9b/32.png) [@Don\_t\_fight\_the\_hypothetical](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Don_t_fight_the_hypothetical)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2008, 4:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-that-thing-on-kerri-walshs-shoulder/459932/17 "2008-08-15T04:41:19Z")
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**Author:** ![Sunrazor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sunrazor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunrazor)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2008, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-that-thing-on-kerri-walshs-shoulder/459932/18 "2008-08-15T15:37:21Z")
[QUOTE=Cisco] I’ve never been to Norway but I have a friend from southwest Norway and he says it’s very pleasant with nice beaches due to the gulf stream. I’ve been to Sweden and the weather was pretty much perfect. I would not compare it to a country without snow trying to field a bobsled team. [/QUOTE] See, we never stop fighting ignorance!