10 Jul 2019

Dangers of trampoline parks

From The Panel, 4:47 pm on 10 July 2019

The school holidays are here and the kids might be heading to a trampoline park. But there are some pretty serious injuries to be had. A biomechanical engineer from the US says the designs of trampoline parks can create a "hazardous transfer of energy". We get University of Auckland physicist Richard Easther to explain exactly what this means.

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