[Closed] Those trampoline park type places....

I bet you were the adult version of the obnoxious super ruddy, sweaty faced angry kid going at it like you'd be stung by a thousand wasps, weren't you?

To start with...then the aches kicked in, and the depression of realising the "no triple somersault" sign wasn't going to be challenged as I couldn't even muster a double... 🙁

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My Wife goes to a class every week at one, she enjoys it but always moans they're not 'proper' trampolines - she used to compete at a pretty decent level on them when she was a kid, but then if you allowed 100 kids on a field of competition trampolines all at once it would be carnage.

Tahnee Seagrave is pretty good on them

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All I hear about the popular one in Bristol is adults bringing their kids there to play and coming away with injuries. Kids all fine of course. 🙂

To start with...then the aches kicked in,

This is basically my safety briefing to my kids when i take them to the one near us. Go easy for the first 20 minutes, let the fat adults (and kids 🙁 ) wear themselves out, and then you can have twice as much room.

Thanks, didn't realise that there were a few near me, might try it with the kids!

I felt like my spine had been detached a day later, was fine fitness wise. Mrs B told me trampolines aren't appropriate for post 3 child ladies for decorum reasons 😳

I went the other day. Too many kids around to get properly creative, like bouncing clear across the room and doing tricks of the side walls. The trampolines seemed ok but too small for me to risk a somersault.

Tahnee Seagrave is pretty good on them

went to one last week, was just going to let the kids in then the guy at the till said they had to be accompanied, go on then. The opportunities for hurting yourself seem many and varied and loads of kids (including my own) just bouncing across the place with no awareness of those around them, ha dot do a few "emergency stops" with that and the bouncing across the room then landing on a stage I expected to be sore all over, especially my creaky knees, but tbh it was mainly my neck/shoulders from windmilling, rest of me just felt worked out, but not achingly so.
Initially looked at the airbag landing pit I thought "no way" but after going up with the kids I ended up doing a few somersaults onto them, couldn't help myself once I got going. Side tramps were, ahem, challenging, no idea what technique you're supposed to use.

Side tramps were, ahem, challenging, no idea what technique you're supposed to use.

Yeah, that stumped me too..
Not enough speed (? skills) to really bounce into them, so I just kind of 'hit it like a soft wall' then pushed off...

I think I imagined myself as a sort of 'space man..hopping off walls and ceilings..' type character.

And yes, the neck/shoulders are the worst!

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Kids were jumping up onto the pads. I managed to jump, bounce off them like a BMX wall tap, and just about manage to make the landing stick without wiping out a toddler since I was 'accompanying' my youngest in the little kid section.

Pain wise I was ok except for my first seat drop taking about 1/2" of the length of my spine.

Tramp centres? **** that...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-edinburgh-east-fife-31535814

"He was lying motionless and face down on the trampoline and two young boys who work there lifted him and moved him off the trampoline. This was where alarm bells were ringing for me because you should never move anyone with a neck injury.
"Twenty minutes later I was still arguing with the boy to call an ambulance but he was just interested in filling in an accident form and kept saying for me to drive him to the hospital as the ambulance wouldn't know where to come because it's a new centre.
"He didn't cordon off the area and was just asking people not to bounce near my husband.
"The doctors at the hospital said he was lucky not to be paralysed as he should not have been moved."

Mr Lawrence, from Ryze, said: "This injury incident rate is right in line with what we see in the US and what we would expect here.
"It is actually better than the industry norms and we always see the incident rate decline after the first few months as the novelty wears off and people become more familiar with the rules and, frankly as our staff gain more experience and training."

^How anyone thinks such a comment is remotely sensible is beyond me. Training people AFTER the place opens, just WTF?

From what I heard when speaking to someone I know who works at the Glasgow centre that isn't much better. And training is still near non-existant. I personally wouldn't be putting myself, let alone my daughter, anywhere near those places.*

*In balance she is left to go to gymnastics and climb all over as much crap as she likes in suitable places, I'm definitely not a worrier.

A former colleague of mine reckoned her son's bleed on the brain was a direct result of spending time at a trampoline park. It may have been a coincidence that he had stroke-type symptoms shortly afterwards, but it's put me off the idea...

The one near me seemed to constantly have an ambulance of some sort outside for the first few weeks after it opened. Still does every school holidays, guessing a few of the adults come to more harm than the kids as there's usually a few cars left overnight after the driver's been taken away 😛

The rock climbing place next to it is probably the safer option 😉

I smashed in to my lad on Christmas Eve at one last year. He faired worse, ice pack from the hot a and e lady whilst I carried on ****ting about. 360 dunks are brilliant in the basketball zone tho. .

I played aeroball a few years ago with a bunch of teenagers and over enthusiastic adults. I could barely walk the next day, put me off trampolines for life.

Until 2 weeks ago when I was challenged by a bunch of 8/9 year olds (who I teach). As they're quite a lot smaller the game was a lot slower and as a result I didn't feel quite so bad the next day!