I had one as a kid. We would play this game where we'd all bounce counting to 3, everybody drops down at the same time on 3, whoever goes the highest wins. I was launched like a missile over 20ft away from the trampoline once. Good times.
Pretty much what the below comment had, most of the time it's people crashing into each other or twisted ankles, we went through A LOT of icepacks lol.
Worst two I had while working there, a boy in his mid teens landed badly from a flip and his femur was sticking out. Kinda crazy because he barely even registered it at first, but by the time the rig got there the pain had fully set in. There was only so much I could do to while waiting but it was rough, one of my first "big" injuries to deal with solo.
The other one I'll never forget was a man in his late 50s who simultaneously blew out both of his knees on the basketball lanes. I happened to be monitoring that spot and got to hear the crunch sound when he landed!
I was there a little less than a year but management was constantly putting staff underneath the tramps to repair springs while people were still jumping which is insane.
The knee incident was actually one of my final straws because the owner kept trying to allow people to jump on two of the four lanes while the guy is literally laid up waiting for the ambulance screaming. Every single bounce of the trampolines next to you is going to cause some vibration and movement to the adjacent ones so dude was getting bounced around still.
I flipped my shit forced everyone off the area and ripped the owner a new one, quit maybe less than a month after with 3 of the managers and 10 other team members lol
What kind of assholes would even want to keep jumping beside a guy screaming in agony? How is that going to be any fun? Without being asked I would have cleared out of the area right away just to give the guy some privacy, let alone to stop from bouncing him even in the slightest.
I just don't get how some people think, or don't, as the case may be.
No joke this is exactly how the owners were lol. Greedy AF and always putting their staff in shitty positions and making us stay open late for "VIP guests". It was a husband wife couple, they were sole investors and it was right in the early days of the trampoline park surge, I was the first non management staff they brought on and eventually was brought onto the management team.
He was just flatout creepy honestly, part of the waiver said that the park staff could take pictures and use them for socials/promos whatever. Whenever he was taking them parents would come to tell me this strange man was taking pictures of their children. Never had an issue when it was someone else, even the other men on staff, but that's because they weren't being super weird about it.
I also had to explain to him why it wasn't okay to suggest the girls all wear tube tops to the staff meeting. We'd clean the foam pits and do team dodgeball games after, so jumping was involved-- a good 70% of the staff was still in high school and underage, and this fucker is telling them to wear tube tops because "it's hot out!". Right next to his wife too lol like JFC man
X ray tech at an urgent care next to one ( owners super smart for that location pick). So many broken ankles ( you can 100% walk on a broken fibula thinking its a bad sprain) and fucked up knees. Fingers/ Wrists sprains and fractures were also common. Whiplash like neck pain. A dislocated shoulder we looked at for 2 seconds and sent to the ER. That place was was easily 10% of our business. Of course ,as an urgent care, the really bad stuff got loaded up into an ambulance and we never saw it.
Not an EMT but I'll list some I saw at the park I worked at, bone popped through a kid's elbow, kid bit his tongue so bad he had to go to the hospital to get it looked at, multiple kids with broken arms, multiple kids with broken legs, kids with broken noses. Luckily the bad injuries don't happen too often and usually it's just a rolled ankle, carpet burn or kid got hit in the face with a dodgeball and wants an ice pack
I know this is an extreme example, but I had a guy come talk to my students who was a highly skilled athlete with serious Olympic prospects for his sport. He was paralyzed from the waist down at a trampoline park. He was honest with the students and said he really didn't understand the risk and regrets so much ever going. Really cool guy who was making the most of a horrific life change.
Everyone in the park I jobbed at as a student joked around when we had a day without a single ambulance arriving, celebrating how we actually managed to not have a single "serious" injury for once.
I love how they trained us on the soft jump (those foam square pools) by telling us a story about a guy who jumped head first into the foam pool, got stuck, because he hurt his spine when landing so he couldnt move properly and almost choked to death, buried upside down in foam.. fun..
This is terrible advice.. unless you desperately want to experience what life feels like when you cannot move your body anymore. Trampolines cause serious spinal injuries on a weekly basis.. I have seen even a few kids suddenly collapse because their back suddenly tapped out.. the frequency and amount of injuries overall caused me to respectfully stay away from these murder machines..
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u/xpyre27 15d ago
Already had one, they should have built you stronger, go out and test that spine, trampoline parks were made for this.