Trampoline Parks
Trampoline Parks
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Has anyone ever designed an indoor trampoline park? I'm contemplating submitting a proposal on one, but am a bit nervous. It seems loads on the columns and beams and such could get quite substantial.
I would imagine there are columns with kickers at a 45deg at the base that goes under the trampolines?
I'm assuming loading from the trampolines would come from the manufacturer?
I have been in these things with my kids before and they are just big open spaces with really big grids of trampoline material and springs.
I would imagine there are columns with kickers at a 45deg at the base that goes under the trampolines?
I'm assuming loading from the trampolines would come from the manufacturer?
I have been in these things with my kids before and they are just big open spaces with really big grids of trampoline material and springs.






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I like to debate structural engineering theory -- a lot. If I challenge you on something, know that I'm doing so because I respect your opinion enough to either change it or adopt it.
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The only KOA in Connecticut has an outdoor bounce pad.
Think of a giant fuel bladder, maybe 30 ft x 50 ft, inflated with air, and half-buried in sand, so that the big seam is just underground, and the only thing the kids can fall on is the bladder surface, or sand.
I mention it because the only trampoline park I have seen comprised an array of standard tramps, buried in gravel(!) down to the springs, with (soil-crete?) pits under the tramp fabric and springs. They had the usual pads over the springs, but it was still possible (and therefore mandatory) for untrained unsupervised teenagers to land with a leg jammed between the springs.
It closed in a hurry, presumably because of a few foreseeable accidents.
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Mike Halloran
Pembroke Pines, FL, USA
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If someone lands on the side structures or the floor, who gets sued?
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JHG
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My wife's a teacher at an elementary school and they have dodge ball tournaments at these places. It's actually pretty awesome to watch.
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Our kids did not like it, but we did forbid them from getting on backyard trampolines. Whether they actually obeyed us, I don't know
DaveAtkins
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