getting started?

[bounce]

the best way to get started is to find some junior football posts (about 3 feet high) that you can hold on to. This way you can gain confidence in jumping up and down and experimenting with your new toys.

This worked for me anyway!

anyone else got any tips for starting off?

[Grumpy Goat]

The first time I put mine on I was indoors in a corridor. Plenty of walls to lean on, but no furniture to blunder into, and crucially no witnesses to any embarrassing pratfalls. It took me about ten minutes to be able to walk without leaving paw-prints on the walls.

On my first outdoor trip I took my girlfriend. She was there to lean on if necessary, although from her point of view her purpose was photographic.

I found sitting on the back of a park bench was a good place to strap the Powerisers on, at least at first. Nowadays any seat will do, or the open back of the car.

[waveskier]

Can someone tell me, will I get more spring on the 50's or the 70's, I weigh 74kgs. The salesman told me I would get MORE spring on the lighter springs because they would depress further than the 70's for my weight.

Made sense to me?

Thanks Russ

[Grumpy Goat]

As you have ordered the PR5070s already (see your other post), why not try them and if they constantly bottom out, order and retro-fit the 7090 springs.

I assume all adult-size* Powerisers are identical except for the springs themselves.

* Ha, ha. Imagine that! Powerisers for grown-ups! 

[Jumping Jak]

With regard to what you'll get out of your springs, the 50-70s will be easier for you to use, ie: you'll be able to run and jump without too much effort. With the 70-90s you'll get a bigger kickback from the springs and so will get some extra height but it will take more effort on your behalf. The 70-90's are like a higher tension trampoline more effort needs to be made to make the springs bend. Its almost ability dependant, if you're light the more effort you put in the more you'll get back.

[fuse]

Hi i was wondering how long does it roughly take to get used to them and be able to walk? and how much balance is required? and is it really that hard to stand still? sorry for the interigation its just i want to know thanx

[Razor]

Hi i was wondering how long does it roughly take to get used to them and be able to walk? and how much balance is required? and is it really that hard to stand still? sorry for the interigation its just i want to know thanx

im by no means an expert, but i picked it up reasonably fast, and could walk quite well almost immediately and as you can imagine, you need good balance. and it is very difficult to stand still.

[fuse]

Ok thnx erm y is it so hard to stand still?

[Matt]

I think it's actually impossible to stand still.
When you're on Powerisers, the only contact you have with the ground are the two very small areas of the rubber 'foot'. So in order to stand still, you'd have to keep your centre of gravity directly above these two small areas. This is very hard to do, since if you move your centre of gravity even slightly too far to one side, then you become out of balance.
Standing up with shoes on is so much easier because your shoes have a larger area and so there is room to move your centre of gravity around while keeping your balance.
Hopping from one foot to another provides a way of staying on the spot, and that's what i tend to do. Shifting your weight from one foot to another keeps you up for a while without losing your balance.

Matt

[Grumpy Goat]

Ok thnx erm y is it so hard to stand still?

In the natural world, the only animals that can stand on two feet have a relatively large foot area. In our case, as Matt notes, it's relatively easy to keep our CoG between heels and toes, and it's similar for birds with their long toes.

Meercats (aka prairie dogs) are digitigrade (they walk on their toes), and when they stand still they use their tails as the third leg of the tripod. If you use a stick as a third leg, standing still becomes easy peasy.

However, I can't think of any digitigrade biped creatures that can stand still outside classical mythology or Narnia.

[fuse]

Penguines can!! so wat if u stnd like off centre

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The * reprsent where you put yor feet so its like stnding on 2 oppoing conrners of a square (sorry for the bad diagram)

If this dosent work y can you bounce slightly on the spo without getting any air i mean i used to do x pogo and if u wanted to stnd still you just bounce but dnot go for any air and each time you bounce you are kind of resetting the balance of your body it might work that way?

[fuse]

i just learnt to balance on stilts so will that help me?

[Razor]

welll why would you wanna stand still? thats not what they are for, and if you want you can lean on a wall lol. stilts wont make a difference i dont think.

[fuse]

i was jw ok tnx i suppose u dnt wanna stand still its just like if i get em i will be using instead of my bike so at some point on my travels i will need to stand still even if its just 4 a second

[Matt]

You could learn from Goat's observations on bipedal animals and attach a giant tail to your back. Then you'd really look like a kangaroo!