{"id":26162,"date":"2015-06-04T13:20:01","date_gmt":"2015-06-04T13:20:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jomec.co.uk\/altcardiff\/?p=26162"},"modified":"2015-06-04T13:20:01","modified_gmt":"2015-06-04T13:20:01","slug":"trampoline-park-brings-american-craze-to-cardiff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/2015\/06\/04\/trampoline-park-brings-american-craze-to-cardiff\/","title":{"rendered":"Trampoline park set for summer opening"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\">Cardiff will soon be home to two trampoline parks, the first of their kind in Wales. \u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Air Trampoline Park are hoping to open their doors this July near Llanishen Leisure Centre, whilst Infinity will be based in a warehouse and former skatepark off Newport Road.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Marketing manager Lisa Entwistle-Evans tells us that Air will be made up of a hundred interconnected trampolines, along with additional surfaces built into the walls.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u201cYou can literally bounce off the walls\u201d she says. \u201cWe\u2019re also going to have dodgeball courts and rebound exercise, so it appeals to a very broad demographic. Everyone from kids to grandparents can come along and bounce\u201d.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_26163\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"width: 480px\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2015\/06\/Screen-Shot-2015-06-02-at-13.33.41.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2015\/06\/Screen-Shot-2015-06-02-at-13.33.41-480x308.png\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2015-06-02 at 13.33.41\" width=\"480\" height=\"308\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-26163\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2015\/06\/Screen-Shot-2015-06-02-at-13.33.41-480x308.png\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2015-06-02 at 13.33.41\" width=\"480\" height=\"308\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-26163\" \/><\/noscript><\/a> The site will also be home to a foam pit, which visitors can safely plunge into from great heights (Credit: Air Trampoline Park)<\/p><\/div>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Air will also be targeting the student market, she says, with plans for a dodgeball league that they hope to roll out across university towns around the country.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Trampoline arenas have proven enormously popular in the United States. The Sky Zone franchise has more than 90 locations across 17 states, with additional locations in Canada and Australia.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u201cIt\u2019s huge in the States,\u201d says Lisa. \u201cIt\u2019s a mainstream activity that you might think of in the same way as going bowling, or taking your child to softplay. The UK tends to follow trends like this, so we\u2019re not surprised to see it snowballing\u201d.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Some concerns have been raised around the safety of the sites. Earlier this year the BBC reported that a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-scotland-edinburgh-east-fife-31535814\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">trampoline park in Midlothian<\/a> had seen over a hundred accidents within the space of three weeks. \u00a0 \u00a0<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u201cSafety is of paramount importance at Air\u201d says Entwistle-Evans. \u201cTrampolining is statistically safer than many sports \u2013 figures show that incident rates in trampolining are typically 2 in 1000, compared to 21 in 1000 when playing football. Yet it\u2019s still a fairly extreme sport, which is why we\u2019re extremely careful about keeping our jumpers safe&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">&#8220;This is a mature market in the US, with stringent national guidelines in place which we are voluntarily adhering to across all park operations, plus we are working with a US operator to make sure all of our policies and procedures are sound\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Air will bring the American trampoline arena craze to Cardiff<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":252,"featured_media":26167,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[4477,4478,4479,4480],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-26162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-active-life","tag-air","tag-extreme-sports","tag-infinity","tag-trampoline"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.2 - 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