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Title: Informal Sports/Jumping Stilts - Max's Poweriser Page A personal page explaining how it works with various home made modifications and pictures.
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Max's Poweriser PageMax's Poweriser pageI saw these crazy stilts with fiberglass leaf-springs while netsurfing.The original German stilts are called PowerSkips. While I was saving up $1100 (yikes!) for those, Idiscovered thatsome Koreans made $400 knock-offs calledPowerisers. The first American retailer was/isa small outfit in Pennsylvania called, strangely,SuperDairyBoy.Recently another retailer, GetPowerizers.com got into the US market. In addition to Powerisers, the GetPowerizers folksalso sell Powerskips, and have fancy accessories like a carrying case and safety gear. Also I've recently (Feb 2007) learned that there are newPoweriser Pro model that makes some engineering improvements on the original, butI don't yet have a pair to play with.I haven't gotten a chance to play with the German version either, but theKorean stilts are not cheapo toys. They're well made, feel very solid.So far they've taken a fair amount of abuse from me without repairs.However, they do have some shortcomings, though they're easily addressed.See below ...When I got them, I had difficulty getting any bounce. Some of theparts were rubbing, and each bounce sounded like Canadian geese honking.Some spray graphite fixed that. The Powerisers are 'one size fits all', with two spring-strengthratings: 50-70 kg (130-160 lb), and 70-90 kg (160-220 lb). I'm 160, so I got the stiffer springs -- but I'm at thelow end of the range, so I have to work em pretty hard to get any bounce going. I figured out that the trick is that you really haveto stomp on em hard, because they're a lot stiffer than a trampoline.Here are some of the modifications and supplemental equipment I added: The foam on the knees is much too fragile. I wrapped them with the tape Iuse to wrap my hockey stick. Similarly, the springs are wrapped in rubber, which also gets chewedup easily. I used the same tape here. I didn't like the way the knee brace was much larger than my knee,so I got some knee pads to fill that out. The pads make the mostextreme usage comfortable on the knees. The stilts have red and blackcolored bits, so I got some reversible red/black pads. I've heardthat you can get really thick skateboard kneepads that are even fatter;maybe I'll get some. I place them so that the bar hits them in the middle of the extraknee padding, just below my kneecap. The built-in strap is a piece of crap IMO, so I made some straps.I started with just lengths of nylon webbing. My trapeze instructor mademe the straps shown here. On the right is the first version, witha plastic buckle. One of the buckles broke so he made me the secondversion, with a metal buckle (left). I start with the webbing behind my calf. Then cross over the bar ... Then wrap behind the knee and repeat. The webbing straps just tie off in the back, so they aren't bouncingaround visibly. Here's one of the black straps, on my right knee. It's a shorterstrap, so it only goes around once, and I put the buckle just beyondthe very front of my knee so I don't risk landing directly on it. Good to go ... Side view ...Next up, backflips.If you're going to try flips, I recommend learning them on a trampolinefirst (layouts, not tucks). I use wrist guards, elbow pads, and a bikehelmet, as you see here. I have access to safety lines at a trapezeschool in Oakland (Trapeze Arts), and hired an instructor to keep meoff my head until I was confident I wouldn't crash badly. Oops! I rarely land my first flip attempt. I stillget butterflies before I launch, so I don't take the trick uphigh enough. One fall is usually sufficient, though. :-) Launch! Sweet  Damn, that's fun!Haven't worked out front flips or baranis yet.I can run pretty fast on em too, but so far I haven'tfigured out exactly how fast. More fun, I think, is takingbig bounding strides -- not so fast, but very high, kind oflike walking on the moon.Thanks to Hunny Bunny for the photography. :-)Last updated 22 Feb 07 by max |
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