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Trampolawn
Kids can do acrobatics on a portion of the lawn without the eyesore of a trampoline. | |
Just bury a trampoline with wide enough weave to let the roots of a hardy breed of grass grow into / mesh together with it when you cover it with sod. The kids could have a bouncy section of the lawn to play on.
If natural turf wears out too quick you could use Astroturf I guess. Anyway it wouldn't
make your backyard look like hick central the way a trampoline does.
Moon Shoes
http://www.walmart....?product_id=4184093
[21 Quest, Mar 29 2009]
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Would certainly make cutting the lawn much more interesting. Talk about putting a spring in your step... |
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Darn, I thought this was going to be a security system that released over cafinated cattle to deal with trespassers, but I guess that would be a tramplelawn. |
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I thought that it could be like a Chia-trampoline but then I thought naw, sod it. |
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I can't believe how many of my neighbors are getting ugly trampolines. Why can't everyone chip in and get ONE and agree to let the neighbor kids use theirs? Seriously I live in a neighborhood with 1/4 acre yards, and at least 5 out of 12 in a row have them. Pretty ridiculous. |
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However, I assume families want their own kids in their own backyards to keep an eye on them, so a ground-level trampoline is a great idea. Even if the grass doesn't grow into it, having an in-ground trampoline similar to an in-ground pool sounds like an excellent solution to the eye-sores to me. |
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//Why can't everyone chip in and get ONE and agree to let the neighbor kids use theirs?// |
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Several reasons, actually. Perhaps your child doesn't fit in with the rest of the neighborhood kids and they won't let him use their trampoline. Maybe you don't want the risk of a lawsuit if somebody else's kid gets hurt on yours. Or maybe, because it's ill-advised to have more than 3 kids on at a time and there are a dozen kids in the neighborhood who all want to play at the same time. |
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I got one for Christmas when I was 13, and it was amazing how many kids (who had never wanted anything to do with nerdy little Quest before) started showing up wanting to be friends the next day. As to the idea, I'm not so keen on it. Part of the fun of a trampoline is the view when you jump really high, and putting stuff on top of it would severely limit the bouncyness to the point where you might as well put on Moon Shoes. |
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What I like about it is that nobody else knows that you have one. So in Quest's situation, the nerdy kid wouldn't discover 30 new friends lined up at his front door the next day. |
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That's true, Jscot. But it still wouldn't bounce nearly as well as a traditional trampoline. One compromise option that would remove the eyesore and still let you bounce just as well would be to simply place the trampoline in a sunken pit, so that the surface is level with the lawn. That would give you all the benefits of a real trampoline, remove the hazard of falling off, and remove the eyesore effect. Also, neighborhood kids wouldn't see it. However you do it, however, the neighborhood kids are going to find out that you've got some sort of cool new toy when they see you kids mysteriously defying gravity. Even with a 6-ft privacy fence, a kid's head is going to be seen frequently poking above it. |
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One observation- You will still be able to fall off of it but your falling distance will be about 30-42 inches less with it being inground. |
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True. But that 30-42 inches makes a hell of a difference, trust me. My friends and I used to play a WWF-style wrestling game in which you win by throwing/pushing everyone else off the trampoline, and trust me, you can feel every inch. I didn't lose very often... |
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//I guess that would be a tramplelawn.// |
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I figured maybe a refuge for the homeless: tramp-o-lawn. |
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//But it still wouldn't bounce nearly as well as a traditional trampoline.//
Unless you made it much bigger to compensate. It would be quite simple to turn the entire lawn into a square trampoline, with the centre part getting a huge amount of travel. |
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Whoa. Moon Shoes. I'd forgotten all about that. |
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I just checked. They're still making them (making them again?). I wonder if they are as disappointing as they were 50 years ago. |
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Last I saw them was in the early 90's, and they were exceedingly disappointing. |
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mitxela, that might work with a bunch of kids jumping in sync, but for one or two kids it would never work. It would simply be too heavy. Besides which, having all that grass growing through the weave would vastly reduce the elasticity. |
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If they bounced at the trampoline's resonant frequency though, even the tiniest jumps would build up to a ridiculous amplitude. |
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