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05-30-2016, 05:12 PM
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05-30-2016, 05:32 PM
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Well, if you are going to get one, I suggest you dig a hole in the ground under the tramp, allowing it to be at ground level.
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05-30-2016, 05:38 PM
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05-30-2016, 06:20 PM
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Coming down upside-down on your head and breaking your neck can easily happen while dead-center in the middle of the trampoline "bed". Similarly, a toddler or young child can cause permanent nerve damage (worst-case scenario, read as: quadriplegia) by doing a simple knee-drop with their head tipped slightly. I am astonished at the risks people are willing to take with their children. Talk to an ER doc. Please. Or not. Best of luck.
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05-30-2016, 07:18 PM
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I'm convinced that a large percentage of humans were meant to fly, and it's only through a great deal of negative reinforcement that we can be convinced otherwise  A trampoline is still a poor substitute for the real thing, but it's the cheapest and most convenient substitute available.Whatever you do, don't deny them the opportunity to fly in some way at least once a year.
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05-30-2016, 07:29 PM
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Rationalize all you want.
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05-30-2016, 07:47 PM
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That's why I asked for hard data. Can't deny that. But so far all I've been able to find are absolute numbers of accidents, and percentages of each type, which are rather meaningless without knowing how many man-hours of jumping it took to cause such mayhem...
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05-30-2016, 08:08 PM
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1. Engineers and actuaries. 2. People who ask for impossible data to shut down a discussion. What's your profession?
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05-30-2016, 08:10 PM
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I'll offer a slant I've not seen here yet :
Aside from the injury risks already posted, I'm curious about Whose idea is this , really? Yours or your kids? If yours, why? What's it give the kids that they cannot get from some other source? Your kids? Why? Is it a keeping up with jones's issue? I don't know how expensive they are , maybe it's no big deal if it only gets a few years of use. I would guess that, at best, the kids would use it until they went off to college. Risk versus reward, I think you were on the right track to ask for input, your hesitation is evidence you aren't satisfied with something about the situation. Good luck Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk
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05-30-2016, 09:28 PM
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05-30-2016, 11:12 PM
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Some major home owner insurance companies won't cover trampoline injury claims, and will cancel policies if they discover a trampoline on the property. Others may charge extra, require security and safety features like a perimeter net, or let the insured carry a special liability umbrella policy. Why would they do this if there wasn't a significant chance of danger?
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05-31-2016, 01:09 AM
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I picked up a 15 foot a couple years ago for our two girls. One daughter was involved in gymnastics, and the other played mandolin and basketball. I think we got it at Walmart and probably in the $300 range. I put it together, it was very sturdy and I was actually impressed with the quality of all the materials.
We've had it for 5 years now and its still in great shape. It came with padding all around the outside edges, a safety net and safety arms to keep bodies inside on the jumping area. Both daughters learned to do some amazing things on it. All sorts of flips, no hand cartwheels, etc. It helped our daughter that did gymnastics a lot. We've yet to have any injury. I like to jump and do simple flips and I like the feeling of catching air. I built a two story playhouse with a walk off deck that was around 10 feet high, the girls could run and jump off the ramp and hit the center and get a lot of air. That's big fun also. We did have a dog that loved jumping. She would run and get in it and when the girls were jumping she would bounce all over the place-you couldn't get her out. Its great exercise, and if you keep the safety items in place and keep them in service, I found it to be of no alarm regarding injury. I work in a busy hospital ER and honestly, in all the years I've been there, we rarely see trampoline accidents. Usually the ones we do see have no safety wall or safety net, and with those, people bounce out and break a part of an arm. I see far more accidents and on a regular basis, broken arms, legs, cervical spine and lumbar injuries, from bathrooms. Yep, bathrooms are quite the danger. The JumpGyms are neat also. Its good clean fun. Anything can have danger. I bicycle, I whitewater kayak and go off waterfalls, I used to shoot in handgun competition, ride and build motorcycles, fly and build airplanes. Life is short. Buy your family a trampoline. d
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05-31-2016, 09:21 AM
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Great response...thanks for a big chuckle to start off my day...
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05-31-2016, 12:21 PM
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We bought a 12-foot trampoline for my daughter when she was three. She's now nine and has two younger brothers. If I were you, I'd get the larger one. The more room, the better IMO.
When we got ours, it had one of those nets around it. FYI: Those nets WILL dry rot over time, so you might want to look and see how much a replacement net will be in five years or so. Ours was so dry rotted, we felt that it gave our kids a false sense of security, so we took it down. The kids would have fallen straight through it, so now they tend to stay more in the middle. Our kids are not big risk-takers, so a trampoline has worked out well for us.
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