This article was very misleading. The serious injuries we have (1 in 20,000) are broken arms and broken legs, not broken necks as this article would have you believe. Stephen Merrill was the only injury like this and it never would have happened if he hadn’t broken two main rules of our facility. No jumping into the pit from the box, and our most important rule NEVER DIVE IN HEAD FIRST. Unfortunately he penciled in head first with not even his arms first. Our facility followed all industry regulations before this accident, and now have basically tripled it, adding foam support under the trampolines for more support with the cubes on top. We feel so sad for his injury but we know it never would have happened if the rules had been followed or even if he had lead by his arms and not his head when breaking the no diving rule.
We feel this article is very misleading. You make it sound like every 20,000 people someone gets paralyzed. The serious injuries we have are broken arms and broken legs (1 in 20,000). Stephen Merrill was the only injury like this, and from our information he is paraplegic and not quadiplegic. Our facility was then compliant with all industry standard regulations, and since then we have decided on our own to basically triple our safety standards. We feel so sad about his injury but we believe had he not broken two of our main rules, this injury never would have happened. Those rules are no jumping into the foam from the platform and ABSOLUTELY NO DIVING IN HEAD FIRST EVER!!!! The sad thing is, is he pencil dove (no hands above his head) straight in head first. To be fair can you please be honest about your reporting and not try to spin it as you have. We have had several thousands of people come and participate with this one devastating injury which happened because of a poor choice. Why don’t you print all the health benefits that are associated with this activity? If you’re interested I would more than happy to enlighten you, which affect far more people than the rare injury. Try to be more honest in your reporting, please.
This article was very misleading. The serious injuries we have (1 in 20,000) are broken arms and broken legs, not broken necks as this article would have you believe. Stephen Merrill was the only injury like this and it never would have happened if he hadn’t broken two main rules of our facility. No jumping into the pit from the box, and our most important rule NEVER DIVE IN HEAD FIRST. Unfortunately he penciled in head first with not even his arms first. Our facility followed all industry regulations before this accident, and now have basically tripled it, adding foam support under the trampolines for more support with the cubes on top. We feel so sad for his injury but we know it never would have happened if the rules had been followed or even if he had lead by his arms and not his head when breaking the no diving rule.
We feel this article is very misleading. You make it sound like every 20,000 people someone gets paralyzed. The serious injuries we have are broken arms and broken legs (1 in 20,000). Stephen Merrill was the only injury like this, and from our information he is paraplegic and not quadiplegic. Our facility was then compliant with all industry standard regulations, and since then we have decided on our own to basically triple our safety standards. We feel so sad about his injury but we believe had he not broken two of our main rules, this injury never would have happened. Those rules are no jumping into the foam from the platform and ABSOLUTELY NO DIVING IN HEAD FIRST EVER!!!! The sad thing is, is he pencil dove (no hands above his head) straight in head first. To be fair can you please be honest about your reporting and not try to spin it as you have. We have had several thousands of people come and participate with this one devastating injury which happened because of a poor choice. Why don’t you print all the health benefits that are associated with this activity? If you’re interested I would more than happy to enlighten you, which affect far more people than the rare injury. Try to be more honest in your reporting, please.