Tuesday, April 23, 2024

Making trampoline safer

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Greg Roe spent the first five years of his life living in a Russian orphanage before he was adopted by a Brampton family and moved to Canada. He’s since become a Canadian trampoline superstar, winning several national gold medals.

While Roe has been taking his feats further and further, he’s also on a mission to make trampolining safer.

Greg Roe has been called the world’s first ‘extreme trampolinist’.

His Youtube videos have hundreds of thousands of views and he’s appeared on shows like “America’s Got Talent”plunging from a crane that’s 18-stories high.

In between these insane stunts Greg is travelling around the world, working with trampoline parks.

“We’re trying to have basically everyone understand that there’s a lot more to it then just letting everyone have a free for all allover the trampoline. ”

Trampoline parks have rapidly grown in popularity over the last few years and there has been a lot of concern over safety.

One man in Phoenix, Arizona died from injuries he sustained at a park back in 2012, and there have been many other serious injuries since.

“The big thing that were seeing is everyone runs across the trampolines without thinking where they’re going and with other people coming at them. As well as double bouncing, which is where you land on the trampoline at the same time as somebody else. ”

Roe says that not all parks are created equal and you need to be smart as a consumer before you bounce.

“As soon as you come in the park you should be looking for a few things. You should be looking for grippy socks. You should be looking for a safety video, and really engaging staff that are moving around the park not just standing still .”

He also said beginners should start with easy moves and slowly work towards more advanced ones.

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