 Welcome to Road Gear Reviews. I'm Julie from RV Love and today I'm reviewing the Strongback Guru Folding Camping Chair with lumbar support. Stay tuned. Welcome back to Road Gear Reviews everyone. Julie here from RV Love and today I'm reviewing the Strongback Guru Folding Camping Chair with lumbar support. If this chair looks familiar to you it's because Mike reviewed the Strongback Elite Chair a little over a year ago here on Road Gear Reviews. This is the latest chair that has come out in the Strongback line and it's one that I'm very excited about because I've been waiting for this for over a year. So after Mike did his review of the Strongback Elite Chair which as you would remember if you've seen that video he's a big fan of. Some of you actually commented and asked why I didn't come in on the chairs or why I didn't share my experience. Well the reason is simple. The Strongback Elite is actually a larger chair and larger for someone of my frame. I'm about four foot eight so definitely much shorter than your average person and so we reached out to Strongback and asked them if they had any plans to create a smaller chair for more petite individuals or kids or teenagers. Fortunately they had one underway and this is now out and available. It's the Strongback Guru. So when we first got the Strongback Elite chairs a year ago the one that Mike has it was just too big for me. My feet didn't touch the ground. My feet were dangling which obviously is not comfortable and it pulls on the lower back and it was just too deep through here in my legs. So what would happen is the seat would scrunch up under my knees which made it really really uncomfortable to sit on so it just was not a good fit for me which is why I'm so excited now that Strongback's come out with this smaller Guru chair which is just the right size for shorter people like me. Let's go through some of the features of this chair and what is similar and what is different to the Strongback Elite. This chair has an integrated lumbar support in the frame which is much more comfortable and supportive than most standard camp chairs or slingback chairs that you'll see at most campgrounds and campsites. This Strongback Guru chair is made out of the same heavy-duty polyester 600d tear and wear resistant fabric that the Strongback is known for. It has the same black powder coated durable steel frame and it is also rate weighted up to 300 pounds which is kind of surprising because it's a smaller chair but it holds the same weight rating as the Elite chair. The chair is easy to fold, easy to set up, it's compact and portable and it comes with a carry bag with straps that you can either easily carry by hand or separate the straps to put them over your shoulders and carry it as a backpack. If you're short like me it might be a little tricky because it bangs you in the back of the knees but it is definitely doable to keep your hands free in case you're carrying other items. So the Strongback Guru does come with two beverage holders which are integrated into the arms of the chair and you may also notice here that these are soft arms and they're not the hard steel padded arms that you get on the Elite chair. At first when I saw that I was a little disappointed I liked the hard foam arms of the Elite because it makes it easier to get up and out of the chair but now having used it for a couple of weeks I'm actually really liking this I'm liking that this is a little relaxed and I like that I could have my beverage holder right here so I can keep my drink right beside me instead of hanging off the side. If you remember Mark's review last year on the Strongback Elite he loves that chair but the one knock he had on that product it was a bit of a flimsy beverage holder on the side of the chair but these are much more sturdy and you get two of them. So when seated the Guru is about 19 and a half inches by 27 inches by 34 inches compared to the Elite which is 28 and a half by 27 by 36 and a half so you really notice the difference in the height and in the depth of the chair and a little bit in the width as well which makes it much more comfortable if you're a smaller person like me. Folded the Guru is about 6 by 6 and a half by 40 inches compared to the Elite which is 11 by 6 by 44 inches so again it's much easier to set up to pack away and to carry. The Guru weighs 10 and a half pounds and the Elite weighs 11.9 so it's just almost one and a half pounds lighter than the larger chair. We love the Strongback chairs because they're perfect for RVing, for camping, sporting events, weekend and outdoor events. It gives you a really great posture to be sitting in for hours at a time. It's terrific for people with back issues and also for those who want to prevent them and with 80% of people reporting back pain at some point in their life this is definitely an investment in your health. So the Strongback Guru is $79.95 on Amazon compared to $99.95 for the larger Elite so it's about $20 cheaper so if you are a smaller frame person I would say less than 5 foot 8. You could definitely be very comfortable in the Strongback Guru chair and save yourself 20 bucks but as a ballpark if you're 5 foot 8 or taller I would definitely recommend the Elite chair for just a little bit bigger a little bit more height in the back for back support and just a really good comfortable chair because it would also be easier for you to get out of the chair with those sturdy strong steel arms but for me being a smaller person I've really gotten used to these softer arms that I actually really like them and I like being able to keep my glass of wine on my cup of tea right here where it's hanging. So even though these don't have the steel arms they're a little bit more flexible a lot more flexible they do still have the steel bar at the front here so when I'm getting up out of the chair I grab the front to push myself up and it's just as easy and this is how easily it folds back up again just hold it at the front and at the top and then pop it in the canvas bag as easy as that and at ten and a half pounds this is still really light and easy for me to transport especially in the canvas carry bag which makes it really easy to take to events or to friends campsites. So I'm really liking that these chairs have two beverage holders and they're more sturdy than the one attached off to the side of the elite chair that Mike had reviewed last time. This is great for my to-go travel mug fits in there with plenty of space or a bottle of beer or soda or whatever you like. What a pity can in there as well. So what I love about it is now I have a matching chair to Mike's but it's just the right size for me it's comfortable I can sit in it for hours it's got really great ergonomic support easy for me to pack up and set out alone great cup holders and yeah I'm a happy camper now. So as you can probably tell we love our strong back chairs these are definitely worth the investment if you place any value at all on your comfort and your health. When Mike got his strong back a little over a year ago every time someone sits in his chair you can visibly see their reaction. Every single person sits in the chair and goes oh wow they can really really feel the difference. So much so that when we got here to Wellington Texas where we are right now filming the RV Nomads movie just about everyone else in the cast and a lot of the crew also had strong back chairs because their friends that we've met along the way who had the chairs to sit in and try out Mike's they've been inspired to go out and buy their chairs as well so we're setting up a production studio here in Wellington Texas for the RV Nomads movie we've reached out to strong back you can check out the letter we sent them at deastrongback.com telling them how much we love the strong back chairs and they very generously outfitted our entire production studio with strong back so we can all work and play and socialize in the production studio in our strong back chairs which we have also back at our campsites. So I do want to give a shout out to strong back chairs here because they really came to the party with setting up our production studio for RV Nomads here in Wellington Texas the office is exclusively outfitted with strong back chairs now which makes us all very very happy and that gave me an opportunity to bring one of these back to the campsite and review it here for you today so thanks again to everyone at strong back thank you guys for watching I hope you enjoyed the video if you've got any questions at all about this chair or any of the others in the strong back range feel free to put them down in the comments below be more than happy to answer them I'm going to put the link to this chair Mark's strong back elite chair and the other chairs in the strong back range down in the description of the video so check those out if you have suggestions for any other products you'd like to see us review here on the road give reviews channel please let us know in the comments we'd love to do our best to bring them to you and that's about it for today's video we hope you enjoyed this review on the strong back guru chair I'm a big fan Mark's a big fan of his elite chair and if you do get one or if you have one please let us know what you think down in the comments below as well so in the meantime happy camping and we'll see you on the road