Trampolines?

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R Baez, Tuesday, 26 October 2010 23:40 (fifteen years ago)

are u me?!

arby's, Wednesday, 27 October 2010 00:35 (fifteen years ago)

TRAMAPOLINE!

Telephoneface (Adam Bruneau), Wednesday, 27 October 2010 00:46 (fifteen years ago)

My sibs & I used to sleep on the trampoline at night and, because the thing is stretchy canvas & springs, it always meant waking up in a pile in a big divot in the middle of the trampoline covered in dew.

Someone told me they thought of "trampoline ownership" as a Mormon trait.

17th Century Catholic Spain (Abbbottt), Wednesday, 27 October 2010 00:51 (fifteen years ago)

We had a pretty complicated game called "Parliamentary Procedure" where we made up new rules for how many times you had to bounce to make up a new rule, and new rules were voted in by bouncing various numbers of times. You also argued your case for how many times you bounced by bouncing.

17th Century Catholic Spain (Abbbottt), Wednesday, 27 October 2010 00:53 (fifteen years ago)

When I was 17, my neighbors were having a neighborhood barbecue. I remembered when I was very small how I loved when bigger kids & adults would jump on the tramp* with me because it threw off my balance so much & was like crazy space bouncing. So I rounded up all the little preschool age kids & told them I'd jump with them. They were all up on the tramp, and I got on there, and jumped, and instead of landing I went right through the canvas, leave an Abbott-circumference sized hole and a bunch of little shocked kids staring at me.

*we always just called it a tramp

17th Century Catholic Spain (Abbbottt), Wednesday, 27 October 2010 00:56 (fifteen years ago)

I move to extend the discussion of "Parliamentary Procedure" indefinitely

kbuster, Wednesday, 27 October 2010 01:04 (fifteen years ago)

cracking the fuck up at parliamentary procedure

god yeah it's all about lead-in for the super bounce! though you totally run the risk of collapsing like a noodle if you don't expect it

arby's, Wednesday, 27 October 2010 01:35 (fifteen years ago)

I LOVE them!!! We used to have some kid slang for adding to someone's bounce vs stealing a bounce via being heavier than them. Can't ... quite... remember what it was....

I've got ten bucks. SURPRISE ME. (Laurel), Wednesday, 27 October 2010 01:55 (fifteen years ago)

^yeah same boat

arby's, Wednesday, 27 October 2010 01:57 (fifteen years ago)

Love tramampoline! Especially love parents & grandparents on tramp, the way they all bounced without jumping. Oh except Dad, he was good at it and could do tricks like somersaults and things.

Our friends had a proper sunken trampoline stretched over a pit, like they had at the trampoline places at the beach, with the thick woven stuff and covered springs. Sooooooo cool.

That is the stench of tyranny (VegemiteGrrrl), Wednesday, 27 October 2010 02:01 (fifteen years ago)

Oh and a trampoline on it's side made for good tennis practice too

That is the stench of tyranny (VegemiteGrrrl), Wednesday, 27 October 2010 02:02 (fifteen years ago)

That's ingenious in an "god, why didn't I think of that" way.

R Baez, Wednesday, 27 October 2010 02:03 (fifteen years ago)

Yeah, Mum planted a bunch of trees and shit against our tennis practice wall so we took to the tramp. Was fun to see if you could hit it in the right spot hard enough to flip it back over. Had to do it really freaking hard !

That is the stench of tyranny (VegemiteGrrrl), Wednesday, 27 October 2010 02:07 (fifteen years ago)

Trampoline is part of my favorite Simpsons episode: Bart's Inner Child.

Homer:Tramapoline! Trampopoline!

Bart: I will never get tired of this!
Lisa: I'm going to have my wedding here!

Homer: Marge, it's the perfect exercise! It'll double the value of our
house, and it was free! Free!

Just breaking it in, feels comfy (MintIce), Wednesday, 27 October 2010 02:14 (fifteen years ago)

I am frankly terrified of trampolines because of that simpsons episode

have never been on one

dayo, Wednesday, 27 October 2010 02:17 (fifteen years ago)

Someone told me they thought of "trampoline ownership" as a Mormon trait.

― 17th Century Catholic Spain (Abbbottt), Tuesday, October 26, 2010 7:51 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark

i have never heard of this and yet it makes sense, completely

we also called them 'tramps.' they are wonderful.

BIG MUFFIN (gbx), Wednesday, 27 October 2010 02:25 (fifteen years ago)

My mom started drying towels by hanging them off the side of the tramp. She did this even in winter, bringing in these half dry but still kind of frozen terrycloth representations of 90º angles.

17th Century Catholic Spain (Abbbottt), Wednesday, 27 October 2010 04:27 (fifteen years ago)

After reading this last night I found myself looking up "Mormons and Trampolines" on Google. I laughed out loud.

Just breaking it in, feels comfy (MintIce), Wednesday, 27 October 2010 18:52 (fifteen years ago)

I have medals and trophies for proper trampolining! But I haven't been on one for about 25 years.

Every kid in our street has one of those stupid round trampolines in a net things which they just bounce on, bounce bounce bounce. I sort of want to go and steal a shot on one and see if I can still do pike somersaults and the like, but there's no room to do anything but bounce up and down. Also, I am lol fattey now unlike when I was 12 and good at this.

ailsa, Wednesday, 27 October 2010 18:56 (fifteen years ago)

Ailsa, wow! do you have any pics of the medals? I think that's SUPER cool.

The trampolines with the nets make me sad. I mean, I understand them, and god knows how many times little ones take a tumble and land on their head, but yeah, you can't do cool trix on them

That is the stench of tyranny (VegemiteGrrrl), Wednesday, 27 October 2010 20:26 (fifteen years ago)

Sunken pit trampolines OTM!!!! Our youth leaders from church lived on a farm, and had super fun things like trampoline in the barn that was sunk up to floor-level into loose hay for painless (if scratchy) spills. They also had the inner tube from kind of gigantor construction vehicle tire, you could line up like 10 people in a ring around that thing and try to bounce each other off.

I've got ten bucks. SURPRISE ME. (Laurel), Wednesday, 27 October 2010 20:31 (fifteen years ago)

I had a friend in high school who came from a mormon family. They had a trampoline and a pogo stick.

kkvgz, Wednesday, 27 October 2010 20:33 (fifteen years ago)

Tramapoline ownership is an Orthodox Jewish thing, too, at least in my neighborhood. At least 3/4 of the houses have them, including my neighbors, who also have a lot of young boys in the house and very squeaky trampoline springs.

Tub Girl Time Machine (Phil D.), Wednesday, 27 October 2010 20:35 (fifteen years ago)

So, large families desperate to get their rambunctious children outside doing some kind of good, clean activity that's possible in the confines of a suburban yard and keeps the kids in one place for maximum observability by mom, inside. Preferably one that will burn off a lot of energy so they can be allowed back inside.

I've got ten bucks. SURPRISE ME. (Laurel), Wednesday, 27 October 2010 20:40 (fifteen years ago)

PHIL D, do you live around B3rkley Rd.? i used to live on that street

browns zero loss (brownie), Wednesday, 27 October 2010 20:49 (fifteen years ago)

Ailsa, wow! do you have any pics of the medals? I think that's SUPER cool

Not around here. sorry. I believe my mum has the actual medals and trophies somewhere (quite possibly in their garage that burned down, unfortunately). There are also pictures of me competing in the Scottish championships somewhere, but they will NEVER see the light of day. Ever.

I could do back somersaults and double front somersaults with twists and everything. If you see the state I am in now, this would take some believing.

ailsa, Wednesday, 27 October 2010 20:51 (fifteen years ago)

I've definitely heard about the Mormon/trampoline connection. It's no lie.

Every kid in our street has one of those stupid round trampolines in a net things

I see where they're going with this, how they don't want to have a bunch of kids with broken necks anymore, but this is one of those new safety guards that make me think the next generation of Americans will be more pussified than the one before.

http://tinyurl.com/beaaarrr (Pleasant Plains), Wednesday, 27 October 2010 21:12 (fifteen years ago)

I love seeing the kids jump on net trampolines. It looks like they're an exhibit in a zoo of kids.

17th Century Catholic Spain (Abbbottt), Wednesday, 27 October 2010 21:18 (fifteen years ago)

Our neighbour's cat got trapped in their one last night, just scrabbling about in a bouncy manner looking for the gap in the net to get back out. I wish I'd known where the camcorder was.

ailsa, Wednesday, 27 October 2010 21:19 (fifteen years ago)

Random zoom on an eastern Salt Lake City neighboorhood:

http://img132.imageshack.us/img132/2632/screenshot20101027at414.jpg

http://tinyurl.com/beaaarrr (Pleasant Plains), Wednesday, 27 October 2010 21:24 (fifteen years ago)

Yeah, this is taken from an article about Edinburgh a few years back, and is pretty much like the area I live in:

http://img.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2007/04_01/trampolineMOS0704_468x356.jpg

ailsa, Wednesday, 27 October 2010 21:26 (fifteen years ago)

Hmmm. Lot of Mormons in Edinburgh, I take it.

http://tinyurl.com/beaaarrr (Pleasant Plains), Wednesday, 27 October 2010 21:27 (fifteen years ago)

Growing up, only one of our friends had one, and they were pretty white trash small-town Georgia kids (we all were), so we ended up creating our own version of WWF using the trampoline as the ring. We had a card table lined up with certain kids being the interviewers/hype men/commentators and then everyone had their own name and costume and they'd wrestle on the ring. Really pretty fun, you could pull some amazing moves on that thing...

Telephoneface (Adam Bruneau), Wednesday, 27 October 2010 21:40 (fifteen years ago)

http://defendingcontending.files.wordpress.com/2009/12/bad-trampoline.jpg

http://tinyurl.com/beaaarrr (Pleasant Plains), Wednesday, 27 October 2010 21:41 (fifteen years ago)

lol

That is the stench of tyranny (VegemiteGrrrl), Wednesday, 27 October 2010 21:55 (fifteen years ago)

:D

acoleuthic, Wednesday, 27 October 2010 21:57 (fifteen years ago)

PHIL D, do you live around B3rkley Rd.? i used to live on that street

Yes! I live on B3ndemeer.

Tub Girl Time Machine (Phil D.), Wednesday, 27 October 2010 22:47 (fifteen years ago)

:)

browns zero loss (brownie), Thursday, 28 October 2010 02:22 (fifteen years ago)

Bizarre trampoline games were the BEST. We had this thing where we'd bounce up and down in time to a song we'd heard on the TV test pattern once, not knowing what it was, just sort of wordlessly bouncing in time to this "huh huh huhhhhh" melody.

...turns out it was fuckin "Lorelei" by the Cocteau Twins.

Sunn O))) Sundae Smile (Trayce), Thursday, 28 October 2010 02:41 (fifteen years ago)

We also used to run the hose over the mat - our original tram had a solid vinyl mat - and put the whole thing on a slight slope, and slide bum-first across the surface and off the edge in a flying leap. How we didn't bust our heads open I have no idea.

Doing all this rotted the stiching of course so dad replaced the mat with a mesh one. So resourceful us took to sticking a sprinkler under the trampoline so the water would shoot up thru the mesh, and bounce up and down with water going everywhere.

Ah, summer.

Sunn O))) Sundae Smile (Trayce), Thursday, 28 October 2010 02:44 (fifteen years ago)

Tramps and sprinklers = fun in the sun! For sure, Trayce. Good memories, thankfully no broken skulls to report

That is the stench of tyranny (VegemiteGrrrl), Thursday, 28 October 2010 02:52 (fifteen years ago)

We had a champaline growing up. Also had three other siblings. Not Mormon though.

corey, Thursday, 28 October 2010 02:54 (fifteen years ago)

No broken skulls, but my lil bro did once snap his front tooth in half (yep, in half, rather than knocking it out) by falling face-first onto the frame. While no one was home looking after us except me.

Pre mobile-phone era. SO much blood.

Sunn O))) Sundae Smile (Trayce), Thursday, 28 October 2010 02:55 (fifteen years ago)

http://thumbnails.hulu.com/9/21/28079_512x288_manicured__mIfl7BHrgkOg4etCfcfKQw.jpg

Sunn O))) Sundae Smile (Trayce), Thursday, 28 October 2010 02:57 (fifteen years ago)

neighbourhood girl i kinda knew jumped off tramapoline onto a garden stake, major but survivable injuries.

as an adult i jumped on an old trampoline at gf of the time's parents' house. i went right through the canvas, ending up with remarkably sore legs.

dronestorm (electricsound), Thursday, 28 October 2010 02:58 (fifteen years ago)

those aerial photos are blowing my mind - i had no idea trampolines were such a thing - in 1980s greater boston maybe like one or two kids had them

ice cr?m, Thursday, 28 October 2010 03:04 (fifteen years ago)

Once in gymnastics class I fell between the springs holding the mat to the frame. No injuries, I was just really confused about how I suddenly ended up underneath the thing (I think I was 4). Still, I would've loved to have had a trampoline of my own. Oh, how the Hammacher Schlemmer catalog taunted me as a child:
http://www.bigbearadventures.com/images/jump.jpg

lindseykai, Thursday, 28 October 2010 03:16 (fifteen years ago)

that thing looks fucking amazing

ice cr?m, Thursday, 28 October 2010 03:17 (fifteen years ago)

maybe pull it around behind a boat real fast

ice cr?m, Thursday, 28 October 2010 03:17 (fifteen years ago)

Oh man I would go nuts on one of those, knowing you cant hurt yourself!

Also, holy shit @ tramapoline stake injury, jesus fuck.

Sunn O))) Sundae Smile (Trayce), Thursday, 28 October 2010 03:22 (fifteen years ago)

yeah her family moved from the street not long after that

dronestorm (electricsound), Thursday, 28 October 2010 03:22 (fifteen years ago)

You didnt see this happen at the time did you? God that'dve traumatised me.

Sunn O))) Sundae Smile (Trayce), Thursday, 28 October 2010 03:28 (fifteen years ago)

I am frankly terrified of trampolines because of that simpsons episode

have never been on one

― dayo, Tuesday, October 26, 2010 9:17 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark

talkin lip 'bout my tramp

arby's, Thursday, 28 October 2010 03:29 (fifteen years ago)

You didnt see this happen at the time did you?

no, fortunately. tho it was a trapoline i'd bounced on many a time. it could have been meeee!!

dronestorm (electricsound), Thursday, 28 October 2010 03:31 (fifteen years ago)

Its funny to think when we were kids no one gave much of a rats arse about injuries - we had a slip n slide people would frequently gouge limbs open on sliding over the metal pegs holding it in place, for example. I bet they dont make em like that anymore and theyre all inflatable or some shit now, right?

Sunn O))) Sundae Smile (Trayce), Thursday, 28 October 2010 03:35 (fifteen years ago)

Holy fuck I was just joking, but wtf!

http://blog.tmcnet.com/blog/tom-keating/images/banzai-falls-twin-blast-rapids.jpg

I WANT ONE.

Sunn O))) Sundae Smile (Trayce), Thursday, 28 October 2010 03:36 (fifteen years ago)

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

System, Saturday, 30 October 2010 23:01 (fifteen years ago)

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

System, Monday, 1 November 2010 00:01 (fifteen years ago)


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