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Trampoline, that brings back so so so so so many memories.

The trampoline in my neighbor hood was the thing to do. We would watch the WCW fights on Monday night and as soon as we got home from school we would reenact the fights from the night before, broken noses and a few concussion's from that little phase. The next step was my neighbors 2 portable basketball goals and 3 trampolines lined up side by side for what we called sky ball, this game resulted in broken fingers, chipped teeth on the goal rims and a piece of backboard stuck into my buddies head. The third game was all three trampolines lined around the outside of my pool, one gladiator on each trampoline the fourth buddy on the deck, he would throw the nerf football, the three would jump and you did anything to be the one that ended up with the ball, this game resulted in multiple injuries to the head and many a black eye. Then there was jumping off the roof hitting the trampoline and trying to land the highest up in the tree. Thinking back on all this, where were are parents?

My vote is give em the trampoline nothing but great memories are sure to come.

We've had one for 12 years.........oldest child is now 25.....HE and his friends still jump on it ocassionally..........the girls, 18 and 22 also jump a little more than the boys do...........

We always had a rule........when the youngest was little,(cause that's who it really was for) only 2 children at a time, certain children in the neighborhood (who were not her friends before we got the trampoline) were not allowed on it at all!!!!!!. No one was allowed on it if an adult wasn't around. That was rare We've not had any problems yet......
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When I was in high school my best friend's family got a trampoline and had it installed over a pit in the backyard. Then they covered the springs with pads that were attached to the springs so they wouldn't bounce free. It was great fun since you could run across the yard at full speed and launch yourself on to the trampoline and really get a lot air. We spent hours playing around on it and I'm sure we did our fair share of stupid things yet the worse injuries any of us sustained were burns from sliding across the trampoline and a few pulled muscles from trying things that we weren't limber enough to do yet.

You've gotta let kids be kids.. Trampolines are good in my book!

Tiki Bar wrote:The easter bunny is bringing my kids a 15' trampoline this year:

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They are 9 and 7 years old.

Your thoughts?

Make sure you put a net around it ,
When my daughter was young she her girl freind were jumping on one her girl freinds brother bounced over the neighbors fence funny as he''

Love 'em but NEVER without a good sports bra! Right, Mal??

From an insurance standpoint, it's about as desirable a risk as a beach house in Florida. Your homeowner's insurance will probably be cancelled if your agent finds out about it, or at the very least, they won't accept any liability for it. And the nets are a joke.

But they are fun!!

tikitatas wrote:Love 'em but NEVER without a good sports bra! Right, Mal??

Where's the fun in that?



& now..

Got one for my kids a few years ago. They use it a few times a year. Ours has a safety net around it. Nobody has had any accident on it.

part of my kids physical therapy... they're awesome..

Some friends of mine had theirs buried in the ground so that the top of the tramp was ground level, easy for the keets to get on and off and is much safer. keets will jump on the thing for hours and hours!

Moonie wrote:Don't let inebriated adults near it...that's who you gotta watch out for...

My kids loved theirs....

or at least have the video camera running for the drunk adults.....good fodder for later humiliation.

Well... so far so good!! They want to sleep out on it!

Adding this to the yard has boosted our popularity as an after school hangout amongst the kids in the neighborhood! No less than 10 kids who have never been in our back yard before, have spent quite a bit of time there this week! I better stock up on Kool Aid! These are friends of my girls... they've just always normally played at their houses, not ours. Our swingset/clubhouse/climbing structure, which was basically unused last summer, is feeling the love again too! It's all good!

Tiki Bar wrote:.....Adding this to the yard has boosted our popularity as an after school hangout amongst the kids in the neighborhood! ....

That's great. One of the reasons my sister got a pool (years ago, now) was so her kids would hang out with their friends at THEIR house, rather than being out and about....

Coconuts wrote:From an insurance standpoint, it's about as desirable a risk as a beach house in Florida. Your homeowner's insurance will probably be cancelled if your agent finds out about it, or at the very least, they won't accept any liability for it. And the nets are a joke.

But they are fun!!

I don't want to be negative and I am not saying don't get one, but insurance co's definitely have an opinion on them. As someone else said you might want to look into an umbrella policy if you value your possessions.

2 years ago we were going to get one and started hearing about the insurance issues. A guy I worked with told me he had some flood damage and when the insurance co came out to the house and saw the tramp they told him he had two days to remove it or they would drop him. We called are insurance co and asked about them, they told us if they didn't know about it and there was an injury/lawsuit they would probablty cover it, but then would drop us immediately.

Just my 2 cents.

Anyone who makes it through childhood without a broken bone just didn't have nearly enough fun.

rednekkPH wrote:Anyone who makes it through childhood without a broken bone just didn't have nearly enough fun.

That describes me exactly...

But we did have what was called a "trampoline center" go in
near our house. It was a fenced-in lot with pits with tramps
over them and gravel all around them. You paid by the half-
hour, I believe. Being a total wimp, I never got past the butt-
drop, back-drop, belly-flop stage, but it was fun, late-60s style.

It's okay. I would just advise that:
A) There is no more than one person, maybe two people, on the trampoline at a time, and
B) When the kids are playing on it, watch them as if you are watching them playing in the pool.