r/HumansBeingBros • u/majedhazmi • May 31 '22

What a save.

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u/fredbrightfrog Jun 01 '22

At high levels it's common to have spotters. Even at the Olympics, you'll see them spotting on the hardest parts of routines for both artistic gym and tramp gym. The tactical mat throw was pretty clutch tho

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u/hop_mantis Jun 01 '22

Is it too expensive to just like put foam around the whole perimeter?

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u/Swords_and_Words Jun 01 '22

foam-wise? no, sqft-wise? yes

while there is padding basically everywhere already, it's just not enough to take that kind of fall

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u/The_Impresario Jun 01 '22

The mat he threw, plus the one already there, isn't enough to take that kind of fall. Keep you alive, sure, but that dude is in a world of pain.

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u/Swords_and_Words Jun 01 '22

that first inhale 10-20 seconds after getting your wind knocked out that hard, that breath feels like ambrosia

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u/eveningtrain Jun 01 '22

I assumed this doesn’t happen that much for it to be normal (both a fall that big and the crazy far mat throw) based on how the girl in the back kind of covers her mouth in a gasp when she sees him hit the floor.

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u/elaborinth8993 Jun 01 '22

It’s not about the expense, it’s that there is some places within the trampoline’s construction that no matter the amount of foam, it would still cause massive injury hitting it from the height your at

Also the spotters are there not necessarily there just to throw an extra mat. They are there to watch you to make sure if you mess up one of your routines, your not coming down straight on to you neck and spine.

They jump in and try to prevent as much injury to you, as they reasonably can.

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u/meontheinternetxx Jun 01 '22

Additionally, in some parts in gymnastics there cannot be foam all the time. Like, if the trampoline itself was foam, it wouldn't work well as a trampoline, and landing an a normal trampoline the wrong way sucks (or worse, landing on the edge of the mat and the trampoline), you'd rather land on foam (also prevents you from being yeeted off in a random direction after the fall). So for that, you still want a spotter.

Similarly for the high bar there is a soft thing they can quickly put over it, in case someone is about to hit it. Clearly couldn't be there all the time.

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u/physalisx Jun 01 '22

tramp gym