Recommend a trampoline please

[NoelWatson]

Can be as big/unsightly as possible as it is not going in my garden

Thinking of this

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Telstar-Trampoline-Combina...

Is it OK?

[tonym911]

If you want unsightly you can have the one that's parked up in the corner of our garden gathering bird poo. Otherwise the Amazon one looks cool. The beauty of Amazon is their brilliant no-quibble returns policy which I've just used for a faulty food mixer.

[Tiggsy]

same here - ours is waiting for the skip. people will give it the "let kids be kids, in 1972 I used to drive a Cortina to school age 4" but there are far better ways to entertain kids than letting them bang into each other at speed.

[defblade]

Tiggsy said:

there are far better ways to entertain kids than letting them bang into each other at speed.

Really?

Remember: bones heal (and chicks dig scars)

[Solitude]

TP....half a dozen people in my street have tramps, mines the only TP ....Worth the extra couple of bucks as it is used all the time and has held up the best of em all !!!

[anonymous-user]

Please take the one that's in my neighbours garden. The repetitive squeak from the springs for hours on end drives me insane. [/old grumpy bd mode].

[herbialfa]

Maybe an idea.........

Dig a pit for the trampoline and you have less distance to fall!

[crxdave]

Solitude said:

TP....half a dozen people in my street have tramps, mines the only TP ....Worth the extra couple of bucks as it is used all the time and has held up the best of em all !!!

Sadly, TP have discontinued their decent trampoline, to be replaced with a cheap alternative.

You can't go wrong with Jumpking Trampolines - TP spec and quality at a slightly better price.

http://www.outdoortoycompany.co.uk/jumpking_trampo...

[allgonepetetong]

As with anything there is more to this than meets the eye. Round (toy) tramplines don't give great bounce as all the springs stretch and contract at the same rate. This is why proper tramps are rectangular and give greater bounce.

My daughter is a member of a tromplining club and we asked the tutors what's best to go for. We didn't want to get her a round one if it's going to feel crap after a proper gym one.

Without doubt, these are the best, but you pay for it!
http://www.supertramp.co.uk/Rectangular-Trampoline...

We went for the middle ground and have bought her one of these:
http://www.gardengames.co.uk/acatalog/7ft_x_10ft_S...

You need to look for non welded legs with at least 1" tube with thick walls.

[dave0010]

Being a bit "not right in the head" Ive always had the urge to dig a trampoline into the ground, leave it there for 6 months for all friends to get used to it and then one day fill back in the hole directly under it but still leaving it flush with the garden. Then get a camera set up and watch them run and jump and land flat on hard ground

[K77 CTR]

Some of the worst fractures I have seen in kids are attributable to trampolines

[Digger]

Aye. As a kid I failed to negotiate exiting a trampoline in the customary perfect parabolic arc and managed to snap an elbow when I finally hit terra firma at a far from vertical angle! Ouch.