Advantages: great fun, good way to exersice,
Disadvantages: you have to fight the kids off

...As you may have noticed by the title, i am reviewing the 8ft trampoline with enclosure. Which looks different from the one pictured ( but looks nice) and is smaller, but i will get round to that later. PACKAGING : This trampoline and enclosure come in the same box which is about 5ft x 2ft x 1ft and is a rectangle shape. the packaging is quite plain as it is a large cardboard box, with a big sticker on it showing the trampoline and the name of maker. I will add the box is very heavy, i had to have my partner pick it up for me as there was no way i could have lifted it by myself. So if you are a single mum and you want to pick it up, it would be easier if you had someone to help, also i dont think the box will fit into small cars, exspecially with the kids in the back. SETTING IT UP : When you have opened the box, if you have... Read review

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Advantages: Great exercise for little legs, lightweight, sturdy, lots of fun!
Disadvantages: None.

...My daughter was one on 1st June and I can honestly say that there is not one toy that she does not play with or that we wish she had not have got. Karys (my daughter) loves to bounce. As soon as her legs were strong enough for her to push on them - she bounced. We bought her a door bouncer which she used daily from 5 months old and loved it. So when it came to her first birthday I searched around for a suitable trampoline. The bog standard junior trampolines that have the handle on were quite pricey but also impossible for Karys to get on and off on her own as she is not quite walking unaided just yet. Also these type of trampolines usually state they are for 3 years up which was no good at all. Then I hit the jackpot whilst creating Karys' birthday wish list on the Early Learning Centre website and here my story continues... Read review

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Advantages: good price,strong build,easy to assemble
Disadvantages: not much fun when its raining

...,padding for the poles and brackets to attach poles to the trampoline. --Assembly-- Assembly took about 1hr 30min and does need two people, First the main frame needs to be put together the last piece can be tricky and may need some brute force six bolts need to be fixed into the legs. Once the frame is together the matt and springs need to be put in place, I found it easier to clip springs to the frame first then using the supplied tool attach them to the mat (imagine a clock face attach the 12 , 3,6,9 oclock positions first then one inbetween each of those and so on) it keeps the tension even so less muscle power is used. finally put on the padding ring which just sits on top and ties to each leg Enclosure net consists of bracketing the poles to each leg of the trampoline with backets suppilied easy to tighten as they have wing nuts slip... Read review

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Advantages: Easy to build, well made and great fun.
Disadvantages: See text!

...What do you do with an energy filled 5 year old? Buy him a trampoline to bounce it all out on. You want more? OK. tp do a large range of climbing frames, trampolines and all manner of accessories for keeping kids amused in the garden. They have a great full colour catalogue which covers everything in detail with sizes, part numbers and recommendations. Having decided to buy a trampoline, tp was our first port of call having already bought one of their climbing frames and been impressed by the ease of build and general quality. We picked up a catalogue from John Lewis/Waitrose and after checking sizes, placed an order for a medium sized one which arrived a few days later. Putting it together is very straightforward. Some fairly chunky but lightweight metalwork needs to be slotted together to act as the base and main ring... Read review

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Advantages: Hours of endless fun and not just for the wee ones
Disadvantages: When the weather is bad

...The reason we decided to buy this trampoline is because my youngest son never asks for anything really expensive for birthday or christmas presents and we thought this would make the perfect birthday present. The trampoline was bought for his last birthday (July 2007), he was delighted, all my kids have had hours of fun and the added bonus is that they are out playing and I know they are safe. We bought the trampoline from Woolworths, it cost around £125 (approx) It came in two large cardboard packages. Whats in the box ? 6 pieces - upper frame tube with foam 6 pieces - lower frame tube with foam 6 pieces - cap blue and green 12 pieces - screws 12 pieces - screw cover 5 pieces - cord 96" 6 pieces - cord 120" 1 instruction manual When assembling it was quite easy but it does take two people, however hubby did all... Read review

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Advantages: great for playing fish on
Disadvantages: Quite soft butt section

...Terry Hearn 12ft 2lb 9oz The rod: built with a full length duplon handle and fuji real seat, stainless steel collars cap the reel seat and handle of, a line clip is neatly whipped onto the blank, and silicon carbide rings anre used from a three legged butt ring to 2 legs to save weight on all other rings. An absolutely cracking rod to play fish on, with a nice through action and forgiving tip to prevent hook pulls. Optimum casting leads are around 3oz and the rod is capable of distances to around 120yards in the right conditions. The rod does struggle with pva work though and small bags only are advised. All in all it is a superb margin to midrange rod with a high build quality and varnish.... Read review

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Advantages: -
Disadvantages: -

...Anyone who has read my brothers first review will know that it is his trampoline that I am writing about! I did offer to help him re-write his but he unfortunately wasn’t interested and so I decided I would write a review on it myself. ~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~ The Trampoline ~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~ The trampoline was brought for my brother as a birthday present back in September. It had become a bit of a craze where we live to have one of these trampolines and so after persistent begging my dad ordered him one from Argos. The trampoline itself is 13ft in diameter (396cm) and 35inches in height (89cm). The framework is made from galvanised steel and is very robust. The jumping mat is high quality and made from black heavy-duty material, which has a white X, shape marked in the middle to indicate the safest spot to jump! The jumping... Read review

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Advantages: Nice and compact size for the smaller garden.
Disadvantages: Maybe the cover could be better.

...attached, it becomes more difficult. If you pull the bed towards the frame, you not only have the stretch in the spring, but also the bed stretch too. (Hopefully you can imagine what I mean?!!) You then put spring no. 2 in, on the opposite side of the frame. You need to count the holes along the frame to work out where the exact opposite spring should go in. Then put third spring in; imagine a clock face, 1st spring at 12 o'clock, 2nd at 6 o'clock - the 3rd should be 3 o'clock and 4th at 9 o'clock, and then fill in the increments between. Halfway will be a bit of a struggle, as the trampoline bed is fairly stretched to capacity but by using the method stated in the manual of using a spring as a tool for putting in the other springs, it became a straight forward and fairly easy way of putting them in. You basically hook the desired 'being... Read review

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Advantages: A good way of keeping fit, burning calories and improving balance
Disadvantages: You can get hurt if you mess around

...Of course I could only be talking about my favourite sporting hobby, trampolining – what did you think I was talking about? I grew up in Hastings and as a kid, loved playing on the seafront trampolines, but it got quite expensive if you wanted to have a go for half an hour every summer day. In the end my friend Jayne and I (Dodger on Ciao) used to visit the trampolines late at night after a session washing up at a restaurant, and remove the barbed wire covers. We could be seen practicing somersaults up to about 11.00 at night at the age of 13, such fun! At age 19, I moved to Bucks, which is not exactly known for it beaches, so my trampolining stopped as I assumed there would be nowhere I could continue. How wrong I was. •• WHERE CAN YOU DO IT? •• There are a number of trampolining clubs in my... Read review

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Advantages: everything
Disadvantages: nothing

...When I arrived at UMIST last September I was delighted to find that they had a trampolining club, albeit one run by Manchester University. Still, we w