My first day was terribly disappointing I had no bounce and less
balance. However my 2nd day I ran around downtown Oakland and jumped
over a road sign, it was great. I am having some difficulty with the
back of my knee I am wearing knee pads and the strap is digging into
my leg. I wore a knee pad backwards after checking out Max's webpage,
it helped a lot. Because I weigh 155lbs I bought the 7090s and I am
considering buying some ankle weights to get bit more bounce.

Any pointers on running fast? I do enjoy the moon bounce but I can't
seem to get a forward bounce.
How long before they are broken in?



--- In Poweriser_Jumping_Stilts@yahoogroups.com, "Brian, Jennifer,
Jacob, Benjamin, and Levi" <jennifer@s...> wrote:
>
>
> Yes Absolutly Technique. One thing to think about it really
bending your
> knees and also if you can get somewhere to hold on to something ie. a
> baseball backstop or the "A" end of a Big Swingset that helps Jumping.
>
> And Around here some of the old timers think we're nuts too.
>
>
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Mark Maxham" <mark@m...>
> To: <Poweriser_Jumping_Stilts@yahoogroups.com>
> Sent: Thursday, April 15, 2004 11:51 PM
> Subject: Re: [Poweriser_Jumping_Stilts] New Poweriser user here. :)
>
>
> > roboursa wrote:
> >
> > > I had my first day today with them. It wasn't so good. I was made
> > > fun of by a neighbor, lol. Mainly because I cannot do much in them,
> > > walk oddly but that's about it. They seem a bit stiff.
> >
> > My first day on Powerisers was HUGELY disappointing, for exactly that
> > reason. They were so stiff that I could bounce no more than six
inches,
> > which was a far cry from the six FEET I'd been promised! However, if
> > you stick with it, and use some good spray graphite lube on all the
> > joints, and get your technique down, it'll get better.
> >
> > The technique I found most useful was "hate the ground". When you
> > bounce, really try to stomp the earth to get as much flex into the
> > springs as possible.
> >
> > Your neighbor is a big LOSER. ;-)
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Yahoo! Groups Links
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >