Trampoline Parks Are Built for Kids. Here's the Adult Version.
Short answer: trampoline parks are good at what they're for: kids, birthday parties, an hour of bouncing with a wristband on. If you're an adult who wants to come away having learnt something, a front flip, a wall run, a skill you can build on next week, you want the coached version: adults only, groups of four, a coach on every jump and a progress card that tells you what's next. That's what we run in Brookvale on Wednesday evenings and Saturday afternoons. Here's how the two compare, and what an adult session looks like from the inside.
What a trampoline park gives you
An open floor of trampolines, a time slot, and the run of the place. For a ten-year-old's birthday that's exactly right. The format has three built-in limits for an adult, and none of them is the park's fault.
There's no coaching, so whatever you can do when you arrive is what you can do when you leave. The floor is shared with kids, which sets both the mood and the rules. And there's no progression: the park can't tell you that you're ready for a back drop, or that your landing needs work before you try a flip. You bounce, you get tired, you go home.
Plenty of adults search for a trampoline park and find that out on the day. This article exists so you find it out now.
Why adults want the coached version
Bouncing is a real workout once someone is teaching you. Jump-based training, the kind coaches call plyometrics, improves lower-body power and strength in healthy adults, according to meta-analyses of controlled trials. (Oxfeldt 2019; Sun 2025.) It does that with far less joint load than running, because the surface takes the landing instead of your knees. (More on that in 7 health benefits of trampolining for adults.)
The coaching is what turns an hour of bouncing into a skill. Every trick has a technique, a bail-out and a step before it, and the reason our members keep coming back isn't the cardio. It's that they can feel themselves getting better at something.
What a session looks like
Each guided session runs 1 hour 45 minutes, in a group of up to four adults, with Che Kirschner or Sergei Romanov coaching every block.
- 15 minutes ground warmup.
- Four 15-minute lesson blocks, coached. This is where the skills happen.
- 15 minutes free jumping, to practise what you just learnt.
- 15 minutes cooldown and stretch.
Groups start staggered through the evening or afternoon, so as one group moves into free jumping the next is warming up, and you end up training alongside people from other sessions.
The progress card
Every adult gets a progress card with seven levels, from absolute beginner to advanced acrobatics, and works through it at their own pace.
Level 1 is the foundation: the safety stop, landing upright, seat drops, back and front drops, your first wall run. Level 2 is where flips start, front, back and side, plus wall technique and your first combinations. Level 3 opens up full acrobatics and wall transfers, running up the wall and dropping from the top, layouts, kabooms. Most people leave their first session with three to five new skills ticked off, and the card comes back with you next time.
If you've been to a trampoline park and wondered how people learn to do the things you saw on the way in, this is how.
Who it's for
Adults, 18 and over, with no experience. Almost everyone who walks in has never done anything like it, and we've had people from their 20s to their 60s come through. There's no fitness bar to clear. Everyone works at their own pace, and the coach sets the pace to you, not the other way round.
If you've read our pieces on balance training or bouncing after 50, a session is the moving version of both.
The practical bits
- When: Wednesdays 5:00 to 10:30 pm, Saturdays 1:00 to 6:30 pm. Pick a start time that suits; groups begin every 15 minutes.
- Where: Run The Wall, Brookvale, on Sydney's Northern Beaches.
- Wear: comfortable athletic clothes, a t-shirt that covers your shoulders, and good durable socks. Jewellery off, long hair tied back.
- Bring: photo ID for check-in, since sessions are 18+.
- Book: online, in the session widget. A gift certificate for one guided session is valid for three years if you'd rather give it than take it.
FAQ
Is there an age limit?
Yes. Adults only, 18 and over, and we check ID at reception. That's the whole point of the format: nobody's birthday party is happening on the next trampoline.
Can I come on my own?
Most people do. Groups are four at most, so you'll be training with two or three others at a similar stage, and the coach is with you the whole time.
Is it safe if I've never done this?
Before you try anything challenging, the coach teaches the landing and the bail-out for it, and every move is supervised. The first level is built entirely around landing safely.
I've got a dodgy knee or back. Can I still do this?
Ask your GP or physio first, then tell the coach at the start of the session. Bouncing is low impact and we scale everything, but a current injury is a medical question before it's a coaching one.
Can I just jump without the lessons?
The last 15 minutes of every session is free jumping. The coached blocks are why you'll be doing something in that free time that you couldn't do when you arrived.
Ready to learn the thing you watched at the park? Book a guided session at Run The Wall. Adults only, groups of four, coached on every jump.
References
- Oxfeldt, M., et al. (2019). Effects of plyometric training on jumping, sprint performance, and lower body muscle strength in healthy adults: A systematic review and meta-analyses. Scandinavian Journal of Medicine and Science in Sports. PMID 31136014
- Sun, J., et al. (2025). Effects of plyometrics training on lower limb strength, power, agility, and body composition in athletically trained adults: systematic review and meta-analysis. Scientific Reports. PMID 41034241