PPT Slide
Minimizing the Risks, and
What can the Gymnastics community do to help?
- Make someone in your family the “expert” on trampoline safety
- “Enclosures” have some benefit, but…
- In-ground have some benefit, but…
- Secure trampoline to avoid unsupervised use
- Get professional training at a local gymnastics club
- Produce a video to demonstrate and / or bring the abuses to life without actually doing them (e.g., demo’ multiple bouncing using a donut mat)
- Offer introductory safety classes to the community for free (perhaps the local newspapers, radio and TV would give free advertising?)
- Offer beginner and intermediate classes to students who attend the safety class (see Judy Wills Cline’s video on beginning trampoline; Danny Millman has one too)
- Caveat: Liability when advising on trampoline safety