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Originally Posted by MrKrabs
Same here. We just put ours on the grass. No problems at all so far. I don't see how any of these expensive surfaces are any better than grass as far as preventing injuries, etc.
An example would be in sports....grass fields are shown to have a lesser rate of injuries over artificial surfaces.
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In sports they aren't falling from heights up to 15 feet off the ground. Most of their injuries are due to slipping or the direct contact with others, not falls to the ground.
In addition to the height of the set, the swings increase the speed at which the child would normally be going if they fall out. They will land much harder.
The reason for the materials is to give an added cushion factor for the falls to be absorbed by. Grass is growing from hard dirt and it simply doesn't allow much cushion at all.
The only broken bone any of my 4 kids has ever had was my son, who at 14 months of age, simply slid off the rocket rider onto the ground because he let go and lost his balance. He broke his collar bone in that fall.
In the 11 years I was in the child care center as management, we only had one injury from our climber equipment that required a hospitalization and that was only because a young boy decided to break all the rules and he climbed up on a top rail and jumped way over the cushioned safety zone to the hard ground and shattered his leg bones. Everyone else who fell or jumped and landed in the pea gravel only ended up with scraped skin or perhaps a bloody nose.
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