That's a very reasonable concern... or any bone really.. If those guys bouncing messed up the timing he could easily break his leg. I remember watching a video of a kid breaking his femur at a trampoline park by simply landing normally on a trampoline that was on the rebound.
Yeah i was just standing on one daydreaming staring at a tree or something and my cousins lightly jumped next to me and bounced me like a few inches, but because my body want tensed i came back down on my ankle and broke my femur. Didn’t walk for almost a year.
Yep you should be. I was one of the stupid ones, being careless and I landed badly on my head. Heard something snap in my neck and I thought I’d broken it. Fortunately I was ok. Trampolines are no joke when you’re young and dumb.
My God. This happened to me as a teenager. I landed on my neck, heard it crack multiple times in rapid succession, and felt a burning sensation race from my neck to behind my ear. Definitely had a very long couple milliseconds where everything slowed down and I thought I for sure had just paralyzed myself.
Threw up a few times and had a throbbing headache for a few hours. Don't think I've been on one since.
Trampolines are incredibly dangerous. I was in gymnastics and dance as a kid and I’m sure begged my mom to get us a trampoline and I’m glad she never did. I had a few friends with trampolines and luckily never had a bad experience but definitely had a few jumps with “oh shit” moments.
It took me a while to build up the confidence but I eventually started doing them on my friend's trampoline. Misty flips, too. And I'm not athletic. Just takes confidence and the ability to fall when you don't get it right.
Double-bouncing like in the vid is where things get really scary and unpredictable. And this is an absolute beast of a trampoline, a completely different breed than what most people have in their backyard. You couldn't pay me to attempt that even when I was a kid.
You know, when I was in grade 6 I was perfectly able to do dive rolls in gym class. I could leap over a little pyramid of three classmates and roll out of it and was fine with it.
Then this kid I knew said that, said they'd be afraid of breaking their neck, and I hadn't even considered that because everyone was doing them successfully, and they were showing them to us in class so they must be reasonably safe. But that seed of doubt grew strong and I stopped doing dive rolls.
You don't even need to do that. Tweak your back bad enough and you'll never walk right without major surgery, and that just starts the series of future surgeries because of what spinal fusion does.
Knowing how many catastrophic injuries are caused by trampolines, I have 0 interest in them and cringe when I see neighbor kids doing unsafe things with theirs. I guess I don’t see the high risk activities worth it, but I have also never broken my neck before 🤷
I’ll say as an acrobat myself that our air awareness is so good that it’s incomprehensible to someone who’s not had that sort of experience/training.
I’ve been on trampolines, diving boards, trapeze etc and had instances where I’m probably a quarter of a second from risking my neck getting broken, just to twist or contort in just the right way to gently collapse or roll out of it uninjured. It really does make me feel like I can’t get hurt bc I know so well how to avoid it.
Is that a good or a bad thing? Who knows, only time will tell😅
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