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Covers and other accessories for your trampoline

Trampolines are great to have around the house. Not only do they provide for children’s recreational fun time, they’re also used for fitness purposes such as gymnastics or aerobics workouts
Many believe that trampolines and trampolining were originated by Eskimos in which a walrus skinned sheet was used to toss people up into the air. However, the trampoline process has evolved greatly to having present day trampolines are made of a strong taut fabric stretched over a metal frame anchored together by strong metal coils.
In all the luxury we’re surrounded in today, there are also many types of trampoline accessories available to promote more safety, fun and ease of use in the trampoline that includes enclosures, exercising equipment, ladders and more.

Trampoline Bounce Board
A safer way to practice your big air skateboard, snowboard, and wakeboard moves Fun Spot’s Bounce Board lets boarders harness the trampoline’s full training potential without damaging the trampoline mat

Trampoline Cover
Trampoline covers protect your investment by extending the life of your trampoline’s components. Fun Spot trampoline covers protect against sun, rain, salt and leaves, and are especially effective at extending the life of your safety pad and mat. Trampoline covers also serve as a safety tool by helping communicate to children that the trampoline is “closed” when adult supervision is not present.

Trampoline Ladder
Crafted of powder-coated, high-carbon steel, our trampoline ladders are built to withstand years of rain and UV exposure. Unlike other trampoline ladders that require a lot of tedious assembly that compromises stability, the rungs of our trampoline ladder are welded to the sides, making assembly a breeze and the ladder safer. These trampoline ladders have two height settings–39 inch and 47 inch–making them perfect for most home trampolines.

Flybar
Skating legend Andy Macdonald’s latest love jumps like a trampoline and travels like a skateboard. This is not your daddy’s pogo stick! Macdonald and an MIT engineer stoked the Flybar with enough patented elastometric springs to launch a 200-pounder 6-ft in the air! The elastometric spring system is fully adjustable, propelling riders from 120 to 250-lbs. Powered strictly by leg strength and body weight, the Flybar will launch both your and your heart rate.

Backpack Cooler
Fun Spot’s Backpack Cooler is the ideal beach companion! This all purpose bag is equipped with an insulated cooler spacious enough to contain an entire six pack of beverages. The upper mesh pouch opens wide to hold wet beach wear.

Anchor Kit
Our trampoline anchor kit secures your trampoline against flight in high winds. Kit ships complete with four steel anchors and industrial strength straps. Buckles allow for easy strap removal for mowing grass.

Saddle Bag
Our trampoline saddle bag neatly stores shoes and other gear. Stays organized and strike a blow against golden retrievers, Labrador retrievers and other four legged shoe thieves.

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Storing/Covering your Trampoline

So you’ve bought your first of trampoline covers, and you’ve used it a couple times as well. But now you might be wondering where to store it. Storing a trampoline is one of the things users want to know more about, especially that the unit can be quite bulky. Not only that, trampolines, as with most things, eventually wear out.

Before you store your trampoline, make sure it is clean so that it stays in good condition when you bring it back out. Cleanse the trampoline with hot, soapy water and leave out to dry. This eliminates most of the insects and their larvae. It is important to wait until it’s entirely dry otherwise mildew will grow on your trampoline when stored.

To store your trampoline, it’s a good idea to use oversized plastic totes rather than boxes. Place your storage totes in a location in your home that is easily accessible and free from traffic. Disassemble your trampoline and arrange all parts on the ground by type, shape and/or size. Neatly stack the parts in the totes, which should already be positioned in the chosen location. The springs should be at the bottom.

To store a water trampoline, cleanse the tube and frame with water and mild soap. Avoid using vegetable oil-based or petroleum-based cleansers. Leave the tube entirely dry prior to deflation. Once deflated, roll your trampoline and put in a large plastic container. For easy access you may lean the frame against a wall indoors and seal it with a sheet or tarp.

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Reasons for buying a trampoline cover

A nice trampoline is a fairly substantial investment for any one person or family. It is no surprise that people are concerned about protecting their investments during the colder months, especially since they won’t be using their trampolines until the sub zero temperatures of winter warm to pleasant spring weather. However, few people have room to store massive trampolines indoors. How do you keep your trampoline safe from the elements when they aren’t in use? Trampoline covers, or tarps, are designed to protect trampolines when they aren’t in use.

While ice storms will obviously cause damage to a trampoline, many other things can cause your trampoline to wear out more quickly. Rain, Ultra Violet light, extreme temperatures, dust dirt and rust can all be dangerous for your trampoline. If it is not properly protected, it may wear out much more quickly than it should have. You will find yourself replacing the bed, or even the whole trampoline, sooner than you expected if you dont use trampoline covers.

The best outdoor protection you can provide are trampoline covers that has been made specifically to fit its shape and size. These trampoline covers are designed to fit specific square, rectangular or round trampolines in different sizes, so be sure you have the correct measurements before you make your purchase. If you aren’t sure which trampoline cover to order, talk with the supplier before you make your selection.

While trampoline tarps are less expensive than your initial trampoline purchase, some are a bit pricey. A small cover may cost as little as $20, while a large, deluxe tarp may be $100 or more. However, a tarp designed specifically for trampolines is more than worth the cost, because it will fit the trampoline properly and won’t blow off as readily as standard lawn tarps would. It’s also a small price to protect your investment over the long term.

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How do i lose the thin layer of fat covering my abs?

I used to do trampolining so i used to have really good abs, but i got bored with the sport and quit. It’s been 4 months since i last jumped on a trampoline and i have noticed that my abs are slowing going away as fat builds up on top of my stomach, I am a very active person and i don’t think exercising more will help so i was wondering if anyone has any other ideas to help me please??

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Trampolines in the winter? (snowy?)?

Ok so I have a trampoline, and I live in Montana (where it shows 4 months out of the year) so is it bad to leave it out there? I’ll cover it with tarp too, but is it bad? And also, if I did use a tarp, could I take the tarp off and jump on it when it’s like 10 below outside?

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is there a cover for a trampoline that keeps the rain out but still jump on it?

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Fun and crazy things to do over summer?

I’m 15 and a male. I’m looking for crazy and fun things to do over summer with my friends. I don’t want to ride a bike or go to a park; I already do that. no jobs either. i just want some creative, crazy, and funny things to do with my friends over summer. i thought of stuff like bringing the basketball hoop by my trampoline, eating a white castle crave case, and cover a whole backyard with giant tarps and making a water slide. i also play guitar and i like music, so maybe something that involves that, i dont know. things like that. please help with ideas.

also i already have thought of concerts and theme parks.

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I'm not sure if this is poison ivy or 50 bug bites?

Okay so I was walking on this trail with a few of my friends, and I wasn’t really looking for poison ivy. I was walking along, when my friend told me that she just saw me walk through something that looks like poison ivy. That was four days ago.

Then last night, I was hanging outside on a trampoline at night time. It felt like a few bugs were attacking me, but it felt like I would only have 5 bug bites tops.

Well I woke up this morning and my legs are covered in these red dots, that itch pretty bad. It looks like a rash. At first I thought it was just bug bites, but then I looked down and there are about 50 bumps of about bug bite size on my legs. I didn’t think I got bitten that many times! I told my mom who is a nurse, and she said it looks like a rash, and put some stuff on it that has helped. However, she really isn’t sure what it is because it has been so long since I walked through poison ivy. I am allergic to poison ivy, but I’m not sure if any of the leaves actually touched my leg. But I really want to know what it is!

Is it the poison ivy? But wouldn’t it have popped up sooner if it was poison ivy considering I walked through it four days ago? Or is it just a lot of bug bites?

Thanks for any help you can give me!

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Will I be bullied if I go to normal school?

Okay, so my name’s Krystal. All my life I’ve gone to school at this place called Maverix. I’ll tell you a tiny bit about it.

Okay, so this woman called Mickie bought this old run-down out-of-the-way church that was abandoned and fixed it up, and opened this school. (Maverix, duh)

Anyway, the place isn’t really a school so to speak. We don’t have a curriculum, but in all the classroom places(there’s one more ages 6-8, one more for ages 9-12, one more ages 13-15, and one all high-school-y. The ages 2-5 one is just an enormous playroom with a ton of toys) there’s a DVD player and a TON of DVDs(all educational) and a bunch of educational books. There’s also a big kitchen stocked with every kind of snack, a big art place stuffed with fabric, markers, pom-poms, pipe-cleaners, glitter, every possible thing, and a library full of old paperback(Mickie has stuffed the entire library from Salvation Army stores, and there are about 6-7,000 books. It’s almost a fire hazard). We all read and watch DVDs, and all score pretty highly on our tests(we take them at the end of the year so Mickie can make sure we all learn enough)

There aren’t any rules. You can go in whatever room you want and do whatever. No one, and I mean NO ONE bullies anyone. On the third time Mickie hears you say something even slightly nasty that’s not in a teasing, friendly way, you’re asked not to come back. You can show up anytime from 7-4. No one swears. If someone does, Mickie usually shows them all sorts of fancy words and shakespeare quotes to make it so much smarter-sounding. No one is mean, and everyone is nice.

Outdoors there’s a huge yard that has swing-sets and trampolines, as well as a little shed that has TONS of balls, skipping ropes, hula-hoops, bubbles, etc. The other part has the most amazing flower garden ever. It’s amazing.

The older kids help the little ones, and it’s just… we’re like a big family. There’s Mickie(who more supervises and plays with us and talk to us than bosses us) Jason and Nicole who are her helpers, then about twenty-five little kids, ten high-schoolers, and thirty people in between(including me).

Everyone dresses pretty weird and acts pretty weird. We all dress like hippies and almost all of us have severe ADD, ADHD, ODD, OCD, panic disorders or Aspergers and were bullied too much or couldn’t handle school and ended up coming to Mavericks. And here’s an example of what I wear to school- I might wear a T-shirt I’ve covered in Pom-Poms and feathers, a little-kids dress-up ballet skirt, and thick crazy rainbow polka-dot tights, and no one cares. We all get to just be us.

My mom and dad love Maverix and Mickie as much as I do, but my dad’s job transferred him halfway across the country. The only private school in out area is a Catholic one, and those are so… so CONFORMIST-Y! (Also, Maverix is technically registered not as a private school but a homeschool tutor thingy-mah-bob)

So, I don’t know how I’m going to do regular school. I’ve never had a strict schedule, we just teach ourselves. And would I be bullied if I dressed crazy and wore way too big clothes and mismatched shoes? And a teacher being all in-charge, and standard tests all the time, and not being able ot just GO wherever you want and having all sorts of rules and not having all ages… I just don’t know how I’ll do it!

Advice?

P.S.- I’ll be going into Grade Eight. (Ick, grades all in one room and having to stay in desks for hours… bleh!)

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Hurricane Irene Help?

Ok I’m kinda scared about Hurricane Irene..does anyone know how bad it’s gunna be? Like, will it kill people and destroy homes?

Oh, and I have an outdoor trampoline–I think it’s around 15′ round. It doesn’t have a net around it or anything to cover it up. So what should I do with it during the storm? I don’t think it can come inside, it’s too big to fit through the doors. It’s possible that it might be able to fit through my garage door, but I’m not sure. What should I do if I don’t want it to fly away or break or harm anyone during the hurricane??

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