jumping boots.....really kool

[moody07747]

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anyone know where i can get plans...a good pic...maby a name for them?

 

[audioguru]

I found a direct link to the video so you can play it BIG and save it:
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The jumping guy is a pro so he doesn't use a helmet anymore. I noticed that he still has knee-pads for those "oops" moments not shown in the video.

 

[Someone Electro]

But you still need to know how to do it whithout ladning on your head.(For such moments you soud put an spring on your hear trough.)

 

[olly_k]

Imagine what else would snap if the 'springs' went :shock:

 

[Dr.EM]

Incredible! Looks like great fun, but definately very dangerous :lol:

 

[DigiTan]

I've got a question: How do you stop? :lol:

 

[Someone Electro]

Ummm....
Throw your self on a matres or a pile of pilows?

 

[Nigel Goodwin]

I've got a question: How do you stop? :lol:

I would imagine the same as you do on a trampoline?, absorb the bounce with your legs.

 

[moody07747]

yea that's what he does in the video

im trying to find some spring steel so i can make these myself

wish i had some measurements

 

[Nigel Goodwin]

yea that's what he does in the video

im trying to find some spring steel so i can make these myself

wish i had some measurements

Why not just buy them?, I would have thought the USA is by far the easiest place to find them?, and they have been around for quite a few years now. Funnily enough they were on UK TV again last week, perhaps they have just been released again?.

 

[moody07747]

why dont I just buy them?....because $500 seems crazy to me when I can just pick up two bowflex rods and some steel and weld some myself

 

[audioguru]

Bowflex were recalled. Some people were seriously injured when they broke. They were only stretching with them, not jumping with them.

 

[Nigel Goodwin]

why dont I just buy them?....because $500 seems crazy to me when I can just pick up two bowflex rods and some steel and weld some myself

It's your life! - but trusting it to untested, potentially unsafe, equipment - where you have to have considerable skill to avoid injury anyway, sounds rather foolhardy?.

Why buy brake fluid?, just stick some water out of a puddle in the brake cylinder! - it's a liquid just the same :lol: :lol:

 

[moody07747]

Bowflex were recalled. Some people were seriously injured when they broke. They were only stretching with them, not jumping with them.

really....i ever heard that one...i guess they fixed it cuz its always on the TV still

 

[MrMikey83]

I ahven't seen the original bowflex on TV for a long time. They have some new thing with disks. The disks contain different strngths of springs and as you pull the handles, the disks rotate to compress the springs.

I wonder how fast you could run in those?

 

[theinfamousbob]

Here's some stuff like them:

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Bah I can't find the good ones....perhaps homemade? I can see tubular steel/aluminum enclosing a spring...they're still amazing.

They have some new thing with disks. The disks contain different strngths of springs...

They look like giant rubber bands that wrap around a center cylinder to me...

-Infamous

 

[moody07747]

I ahven't seen the original bowflex on TV for a long time. They have some new thing with disks. The disks contain different strngths of springs and as you pull the handles, the disks rotate to compress the springs.

I wonder how fast you could run in those?

i see the original here all the time...like 10 bars on each side and you clip each onto the wire...SNAP!!! :roll:

 

[moody07747]

i forgot to post it all but i found a few sites with the originals in the clip....they are $500 and not homemade...

closeup pic
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cheapest price ive ever seen...
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http://superdairyboy.com/poweriser.html

they say the spring wears out and is fiberglass....

it could snap at any time i guess.......not too fun