Either it's the science fiction spoof film, or the animated television spin-off, game or episode of the short lived Galactica 1980, you must have heard about Spaceball but I myself didn't know about the trampoline game.

If you can relate to things easily, then you'll soon figure out about the game played on specially adapted trampolines. It was invented by trampoline pioneer George Nissen in the early ‘60’s. Scott Carpenter categorized as the best conditioning exercise games for space travel; he was one of NASA's original Mercury Seven astronauts.

The game is based on hand-eye coordination, balance, timing and trickery to throw a ball through a tunneled, netted gantry to the other side without your opponent catching it and while bouncing up and down on the trampoline.

The special made trampoline takes no more space than an ordinary trampoline would but it has two almost vertical trampoline sides at both ends. That's how players can time their jumps, by using either a vertical or horizontal side of the trampoline's surfaces and decreasing the angle of their shots making it easier to score some points.

It sports a galvanized steel frame that resists corrosion, while its sturdy playing surface is made of polypropylene that will take hours and hours of sitting in the Sun thanks to its UV treatment. EPE foam is used for the padded boarders to avoid any injury.

4.26 meters long, 2.59 meters wide and 3.2 meters high, the gadget weighs no less than 184KG, so no wonder the maker mentions on the website that you should allow four to six weeks for delivery. By the way, that's also the maximum weight for both players. I wonder what the shipping cost for that will be. Whatever it is, add it to the $699.95 price tag of the trampoline itself (I have a slight suspicion the maker doesn't even give you the ball).


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