Trampoline boarding apparatus and assemblage

Abstract

Apparatus, ancillary structures and equipment are disclosed particularly adapted to the sport of trampoline boarding (trampboarding). The trampboarding apparatus includes a frame adapted to define plural planar fields intersecting at obtuse angles, a flexible material mounted therein and supported and located thereat to retain definition of the obtuse angles as defined by the frame at the flexible material when mounted at the frame and during use of the apparatus. The ancillary structures and equipment, when combined with the apparatus, provide a trampboarding arena for performances and competitions. A fully rotatable foot mountable sporting board is also disclosed.

Description

FIELD OF THE INVENTION [0001] This invention relates to trampoline sports, boarding sports (skate boarding, snow boarding and the like) and related equipment, and, more particularly, relates to equipment and methods particularly adapted for use in the new activity of trampoline boarding (also called “trampboarding”). BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION [0002] The act of utilizing a trampoline in combination with a foot attached sporting board (a skate board or snow board type sporting board, for example) has been heretofore suggested and / or engaged in (see, for example, U.S. Pat. No. 6,196,558 and U.S. patent application publication no. US2002 / 0077222 A1). Various attachments for trampolines are also known whereby resilient edge panels or safety nets may be applied to the trampoline (see U.S. Pat. Nos. 6,135,922 and 5,941,798). In addition, sporting / game equipment combinations including trampoline surfaces have been heretofore suggested and / or utilized (see U.S. Pat. Nos. 5,624,122, 5,833,5...

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Benefits of technology

[0017] It is still another object of this invention to provide a trampboarding apparatus including a frame configured to define at least first and second planar fields intersecting at an obtuse angle as defined by the frame, a flexible material having first and second opposite surfaces and maintained at the frame thereby providing a resilient boarding surface at the first surface thereof, a support structure including a relatively rigid portion maintained adjacent to the second surface of the flexible material at a position selected to extend along the obtuse angle when the flexible material is maintained at the frame, and positioning means connectable between the support structure and the frame for resiliently positioning the relatively rigid portion of the support structure to retain definition of the obtuse angle as defined by the frame at the flexible material when maintained at the frame and during use of the apparatus.

Problems solved by technology

While these devices are each useful for particular previously defined activities, none are optimized for (in the case of heretofore suggested sports boards and related bindings), or particularly well adapted to (in the case of previously suggested trampoline attachments and game equipment combinations), the activity of trampboarding itself as a formalized sporting activity (the parameters of which have not heretofore been suggested).

Moreover, much of the heretofore suggested equipment is crudely constructed, is not readily adjustable or manipulable by a user, and / or is not suited for activities wherein an elongated, semi-rigid body mountable structure contacts a resilient continuous surface formed to provide plural surface engagement angles across the surface.

Finally, no development in the field of a trampoline boarding arena, or structures, games and competitions related to skills and tricks performable by trampoline boarders, has been undertaken.

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