'I think we walked in, not knowing the intensity it was going to be and how fast-paced the action was going to be and we were very surprised. A few months ago, he made the transition to trampoline dodgeball. Then he joined a court dodgeball league on stable ground. Lye says his training was actually college basketball. 'So you will see people running on walls, jumping, dodging, falling back.īen Lye of Indianapolis was wearing a muscle-hugging, green shirt with the team name Shell Shockers, in honor of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. They’re at a 50-degree angle, surrounding the flat surface,' Platt said. 'Most of us played dodgeball growing up, but the difference here is instead of it being played one-dimensionally, on the ground basically, you’re playing it here on the surface and five, 10, 15 feet in the air and the walls are trampolines.

With a $25,000 prize on the line, the tournament attracted teams to Los Angeles from all over the U.S. It caught on, growing into regular tournaments throughout the country. Rick Platt came up with 3-D Dodgeball eight years ago at his company, Sky Zone, a chain of indoor trampoline parks. After the thunk of a ball hitting a body, a ref yelled, 'Out!' and the targets were done. One ball sits in the middle of the arena, waiting for the bravest and quickest team to grab it Hunger Games style.Īs the red ball zoomed toward players on the other side, they dived and ducked out of the way. Five players on each side gripping cantaloupe-sized balls, waited for the chance to use them to peg members of the other team. Earlier this month at the Ultimate Trampoline Dodgeball Championship, players - mostly guys in their 20s to early 30s – bounced up and down on a dodgeball court made of trampolines.

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