Hi bouncers,
there is appears lots of time the word “bushings“ that can’t be found at my dictionary, so can you explain me someone the meaning of it?
What I did found at the dictionary is the word “bearings” and if this is something different then bushings, then I just wanted to make you attempt on it, that these steel looking things they are the newest bearings. That brass part you can see, is just to replace the collar of the plastic bearings, seen the new ones doesn’t have any collar.

And yeas, this is not the first, but allready the third edition of Poweriser 2007

Thats it, so have fun, jump, high, says Dome

Hi bouncers,
that day started quiet nasty to me and seen I did wait desperately  on my T-shirts for the event of this coming Sunday, I have been like sitting on needles. And as the phone ringed at the morning hours, I almost had a heart attack, seen I supposed bad news about my shirts. But nothing such, just a request of my wholesale dealer and as I phoned him back, my shirts has been there. So the first fear that my shirts wouldn’t come at time for one or the other reason, already has been crossed over. But then I checked the export documents I found out, they have not been complete filled in. So me without any connection to the net, I have been depending completely of friendly Customer guards who helped me to complete the whole documents. A thing that is not usual at all if we’re talking about German border guards.

So my day has gone better and better and I even found time to pre clean my mats that I bought a few days ago and to think about, how I could fix these small blinkers I found, at my bouncers.

Seen that Murphy has been sitting in my back for the last few months it’s great to get such days again, time by time. So after that Event of coming Sunday me and Cype we will hopefully find the time to start by making flips. Naturally I’m talking about making flips without the stilts, to get first a feeling for it.

By this a few pictures about:














Thats it, so have fun, jump, high, says Dome

Thanks Dawesome,
it's all a question about the weather and if this is good, something like 30'000 up to 100'000 people should be part of this event. So' I'm just a very little part of this big event and if the weather is fine, no doubt for me that it will be nice.
And whoever would like to join us at the swiss Poweriser stand of this event, here is where we can be found:




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Hi bouncers,
Its 3:30 in the morning and I just finished the setup for the ordering forms made for our next event. This is the so called “Slow Up”, where 40 km of public roads are closed for all motorized traffic. The route of this happening is crossing 3 different country’s (Switzerland, France and Germany) and the happening finds place this Sunday 16 September from 10:00 in the morning till 17:00 in the evening.
So lots of skaters, bikers and hopefully a lots of bouncers as well will meet there to share. Poweriser will be present there as well at two locations and everybody is invited to join us.

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Words doesn't seem to help much,
so you brought me to the point where I picked up a 2007 Poweriser and some bearings out of my spare parts box.

 First the brandnew Poweriser 2007 and its bearings:







And this the rest about bearings:




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Hi Figrotti,
I don't have any idea about usual prices in UK. But in Switzerland and Germany all brands of trust are about at the same price range. And they're all for a price that can be considered as justified.
And if you get any doubts about the new Poweriser, why you don't go for to have a try?!!! Here arround every serious stilts  dealer is offering their customers to try them first. Isn't there any dealer nearby you???

@Bill
sorry and yes there have been onst a serie of stilts with these problems. but this has nothing to do with the "plastic" bearings. Otherwise most stilts like Powerskip should show the same problems......

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I dont think the bearings on them are crap.

Sorry,
but these stilts are the old version of the Powerisers with this brass bearings and compared to what the new 2007 Poweriser gets on it, I do consider these bearings as crap. They are noisy and not working that smooth like the "plastic" bearings that came after. But now on the 2007 Poweriser there are again better bearings on it and they are one more time much better, then the previous "plastic" bearings. So compared to the bearings of the 2007 Powerisers these brass bearings can be considered as crap. But bearings are that easy to change, so it has been a good buy anyway and these old brass bearings doesn't make crap out of the stilts. So such has never been mentioned by me. I would not sell Powerisers if I would consider them as crap, that's for sure. But with the time are comming allways better and newer improvements and so what has been usual in the past is going to be crap versus the more actual devices availlable.

And about deforming the frame, I would just say, that:
- PoweriSers are not PoweriZers!
- Powerskips they gets "plastic" bearings as well.
There is no reason to deforming a frame of quality Stilts and as such Powerisers can be considered without any doubt.

Have fun, jump high, says Dome

Hi,
To go more into details:

1. These old bindings are crap.
2. The bearings are crap as well.

But bindings as bearings can be changed very easy and it wouldn't cost you a fortune to do so, later on. For your request, it seems the ideal deal and once they're pimped up, you would have quiet good stilts. And another nice thing about: bearings as bindings are just small things, easy and cheap in shipment

Have fun, jump high, says Dome

Yes,
Powerskips they have the 720 spring that is not listed at their site and Powerskips have very good frames. But they are very expensive and made more for gyms, than for the road use. As an alternative for you, you could go for a 120 panther spring, but take care to get one of the second generation. The first generation panther springs are crap, while a pair of second generation panther springs should do it well. At least I do know from our Powerskip spring killer, that a second generation panther spring is still alive on its springs.
At this time and my knowledge, there is no other spring with a behavior like a Powerskip spring. So talking about the behavior of a spring, the Powerskip is still unbeaten, but talking about what a spring can take, the second generation panthers seems to have their nose on the top at the time. But all stilt producers are working at the spring, so this is just the actual state of the moment, that can and would change all time.

Have fun, jump high, says Dome

Hi Ash,
I don't know what to think about your mod and only time of use will show us.
But the whole stuff looks like clean work and clean work is just what I love. Hope it would be at your satisfaction.

have fun, jump high, says Dome

Lol,
what are you crying about Wrasse?!
The first time I took this tilts, fixed it on my legs and did walk around straight away. No problem to walk right away right from standing the first time at them. And a few minutes later no problem to run on them.
But then again if we’re talking about going up to some heights, it took me months to beat my first fear and to jump on the first small obstacle. During months I had the impression it would always go more and more backwards, instead of going better. No feeling for heights and no chance to jump high, by feeling some kind of secure in my actions.
This while our youngster who has been that insecure at the beginning started already to make nice kangoo jumps of 2 meters. Not to talk about its friend who reached already heights of more than 1 meter, after its first 15 minutes on stilts.
But that’s the way it is, everybody is progressing its own way on the stilts, the main thing about is just to not be discouraged about it, when time seems to be hard. Go at your own rhythm and the rest will come by itself.

Have fun, jump high, says Dome  

Hallo Wrasse, like promised in the chat, by this now the solution for your bindings would close tighter:

Here in europe we do have kind of thick rubber plates like at teh picture. Their normal use is to put under the waschmachines to have less vibrations. Now we made of this plates a new footplate, to be fixed on the original footplate by double tape. That way the bindings at bthe childrens model took better.



If your Problem comes from to long straps, the this could help you to solve the problem. But stil I do advice you to get better bindings, for the reason the ones you have on them right now, are stretching much to much.
If ever, youz would not find what you need in your neighbourhood within the nest few weeks, contact me.

Have fun, jump high, says Dome

Yes Wrasse,
all you need to transform your stilts can be ordered separately and it's not that hard to make the changes. Just the brand new bearings of the 2007 are quiet nasty to fix on the stilts, but they're working real great and I do real feel the difference betwen them and the old ones. And you wouldn't spend a fortune to change what is needed, so why to get another pair of stilts, unless some real new top model would apear on the market?!
And if the time has used down your springs, all brands of trust are working like fools on their springs, to get them better and better. So to pimp your stilts later on could be specially for you a good way to deal, seen that even the springs would be not that expensive to ship, as a whole pair of bouncers would be. So all the other parts to be changed will cost you almost nothing to ship them over.

Have fun, jump high, says Dome.

P.s.
seen the avatar of Pin, seems that you have found a fan arround here.... 

Hi Wrasse,
Under this aspects you did a very good choice, except that point about the calf cuffs. You just need other knee protectors and they will be as save as the old ones. And for myself the biggest plus to the calf cuffs: they are much better for your cross bands. But for the moment the old cuffs would do it as well. More importance I would give at this time to the bindings and the bearings. And most important of all:
Why would you later on buy something real good???!!! Basically you get that already!!!
All you need would be to change the bearings and the bindings on your stilts and there you are with something real good.

Have fun, jump high, says Dome

Hehe Wrasse,
I always thought you would go for Upwings and now I do see you walking around with Powerisers. But why the hell you got some old type Powerisers instead of the 2007 type?$
The 2007 would have the new knee cuffs on it and better bindings and bearings as well.
But do not think that I do consider your stilts as crap, you made a much better choice than you would have done with Upwing. Your bindings as your bearings and the cuffs can be changed very easy.

Have fun, jump high, says Dome