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YOUR JUMPING STILTS => Before you buy questions => Topic started by: Intaru on May 13, 2008, 05:28:59 PM
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Hey Guys,
Seen quite a few awesome youtube videos and really eager to buy a pair of these for the upcoming summer.
Im 17 and weigh about 11 stone/70 KG.
Just not sure where to buy from, i can see there are alot of different brands and dealers out there but which is the best?
I read somewhere that powerrizers were because they do everything else the others can but apparently are silent, and more quiet then some of the others which can make a loud noise, is there any truth in this?
Also who is offering the best prices for them.
Any advice would be brilliant, thanks in advance guys.
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Hiya Intaru
First you should go for 80-90Kg ( I'd say 90's )
There's nothing wrong with Pro-Jumpers the link is at the top of the page !
Their great value for a first pair.
One last thing when buying you should buy some pads at the same time !?
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and dont go for powerriZers coz some ppl on the fourm have had them and the springs snap go for powerriSers or pro-jumps
power skips or 7-leages and welcom to the forum
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and dont go for powerriZers coz some ppl on the fourm have had them and the springs snap go for powerriSers or pro-jumps
power skips or 7-leages and welcom to the forum
Sorry Greg11 but your wrong, Projumps are exactly the same as PoweriZers, they both come from the same manufactuer. The only difference is that one has projump stamped on them and the other has poweriZer stamped on it.
I read somewhere that powerrizers were because they do everything else the others can but apparently are silent, and more quiet then some of the others which can make a loud noise, is there any truth in this?
No idea where you heard that from but thats false information, most bocks squeak some brands more than others but this can easily be fixed with a bit of lubrication of the joints.
Like with everything in life you get what you pay for, for a good beginner pair Projumps are a bargain and well worth buying. As you progress you may find yourself limited on them so you would look to upgrading them.
The more expensive and better brands are powerisers, 7leagues and powerskips.
Hope this helps a bit
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Yeah cheers that does help, so you reckon after ive actually trained enough, ill be able to still do front and backflips on the projumps, or howso are they limited please?
Just thought maybe as its kinda the thing you only purchase once so maybe if it wont be as good to get the best.
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you can flip on pro jumps, team 101 does, and i am learning to flip on my pro jumps :thumbs:
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I was going to ask Athoul the same question!
What can you do on other brands that you can't on Pro-Jumps?
I agree other brands have certain parts that may be better, but also have parts that aren't as good, also when considering the options remember the difference in pricing too and weigh up whether the increase is actually worth it.
I personally dont think that you will be limiting your ability by going for Pro-Jumps over other brands, you will progress on the stilts regardless of brand and then depending on your ability you will need to go up a size or you may go for something different but this will be the case with any brand...
By the way I do represent Pro-Jump but feel free to let me know if im wrong ;)
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Nothing wrong with Pro jumps :) I flipped em, once.....still waiting to try again :)
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ive allways used them i find them fine to be honest! im on my 3rd pair moving up the weight classes lol up to 15 stone model and i way 9.5 =)
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Go for pro jumps for a few reasons..
the price cannot be beaten, they are genuine retailers not knock off merchants and the most important reason, THEY REAL NICE PEOPLE TO DEAL WITH!
as for the noise thing, yeah its s**te, and you can do everything on pro jumps that everyone can do on every other brand of stilts, granted theres a CHANCE youll be doing it slightly higher on skips, but does an extra foot of hight out weigh that £565 extra as a beginner?
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well... i wudnt mind a entra foot of height u no and yer as EVERYONE is saying Pro-jumps are the cheapest and best stilts u cna get for the beginner and u really wont wanan do flips when ur a beginner but split kicks and grabs can be done with them and they look just as good and sumtimes better than flips also no risk of breaking ur neck just ur legs :haha: :banana:
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The question of better Bocks is subjective
Some bocks are better engineered than others, some are better designed than others and some last longer than others
The thing I like about Pro-jumps is that if I had been faced with £600 or even £250 to try a sport that I might or might not continue with I wouldn't be here now
I may one day get a pair of more expensive bocks but so far I have had the bottom of the hoofs up to 4ft 6", jumped off a 4ft wall, and even had a go at flipping
I'm 48 unfit and weighed 17 1/2 stone when I started and got down to 16 1/2 stone within 6 months
All on Pro-jumps
So if you want to try Bocking I don't think there is a better Bock than Pro-jumps for beginners on a budget
Jason :Hoofies2:
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Ok thanks for the advice guys i guess i will go for the projumps then as you all reccomend them, so just to choose which size, I am 17 and weigh about 11 stone/70 KG, but i read somone earlier saying i should get 90KG ?
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90 kilo will help you to jump higher but I think its harder to learn. And does anyone know a US site that ships to the Netherlands? It will save me like 150 Euro :thumbs:
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Surely it would be cheaper to get them shipped from a seller in the UK?
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Surely it would be cheaper to get them shipped from a seller in the UK?
Well I was thinking of the US because here it costs almost 400 Euro, and there almost 400 dollar...
which is 250 Euro. I dont think the shipment would be 150 Euro ;D But I didnt look what the price would be in the UK, I wonder if it would save me money ;D :laugh:
EDIT!!! WOW!!! I thought that importing it from the US was cheap, but the pro-jump site is far cheaper! its only 135 pound/170 euro. Its even with free P&P (I hope that means shipment :P) Now just try to get my weight up a bit (38 kilo, want around 44) and maybe grow a little (please tell me if this is needed when i'm 1.52 meters) and I will buy them! Theres also a friend of mine who wants them and I tolld the 375 price... Think hes happy with 170 :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh:
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You might want to check but i'm almost certian that projump can't sell to outside of the UK
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:'( :'( :'( :'( :'( :'( It looked such a good deal :banghead: I've send them a mail asking if they could ship to the Netherlands and what the price would be. I hope the anwer is positive... If they answer :'( :'( :'( :'( :'( :'(
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It's all to dowith trademarks and copyrights !?
Sneaky way would be get someone in the UK to buy them and send them to you has a gift and just pay postage !? Don't know if you'd have to pay any tax ?
But I didn't tell you that ;)
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LOL That would be possible :laugh: I just checked my mail and they said they couldn't ship outside of the UK :'(
My sister once bought a cd in Amerika, she met someone on a forum who was willing to order it and send it to the Netherlands if my sister would pay... That worked very well. The problem was the cd was 20$ and pro-jumps 135 pound :( I think that I could trust some of you guys with that money but i'm not sure if my parents will... I'll go ask it
after school. Anyway if you don't find it a problem to do this please tell me. I'll try to convince my parents. :biggrin: :biggrin: :biggrin:
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I would think about it if you got mega stuck
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Thank you :laugh: Actually I could buy an other brand in the Netherlands but it will be 200 Euro more. I think I could afford it... but it would be much better to get them from the UK. Thanks for your possible help :banana:
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What brand are they?
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PoweriZers, 390$ =250 Euro includes shipment.
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Powerizers are the same as projump. So just go for the cheapest and easiest.
I am pretty sure powerizers are same as projumps and powerisers are differnt but correct me if wrong
:spudT:
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It's all to dowith trademarks and copyrights !?
Sneaky way would be get someone in the UK to buy them and send them to you has a gift and just pay postage !? Don't know if you'd have to pay any tax ?
But I didn't tell you that ;)
I've done a quick check and as fas as I can tell EU countrys don't need to bother ?
Check with your local post office ?
Could do a check this end too at the weekend !?
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It's all to dowith trademarks and copyrights !?
Sneaky way would be get someone in the UK to buy them and send them to you has a gift and just pay postage !? Don't know if you'd have to pay any tax ?
But I didn't tell you that ;)
I've done a quick check and as fas as I can tell EU countrys don't need to bother ?
Check with your local post office ?
Could do a check this end too at the weekend !?
How comes?! I live 5 mins froma post office if I can help and ask something ???
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I''ll ask my dad if he knows someone from work living in the UK. maybe they can send it to the Netherlands.
If not I will try if someone here can help (Spud said he might).
What are the weight of pro-jumps? this might help to calculate the shipping costs.
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Mine shipped at 20 lbs.. dunno what that is in kg... like 11 or so? dunno.
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The box said 9.5kg
If not I will try if someone here can help (Spud said he might).
I am a girl :P
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A site said it's 9 kilo. I think i'll be able to gueas the shipping costs now.
The box said 9.5kg
If not I will try if someone here can help (Spud said he might).
I am a girl :P
lol sorry :laugh:
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I Find it kinda funny hehe..everybody (including me) things maggzie is a girl and that I am a boy LMAO
:spudT:
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The box said 9.5kg
If not I will try if someone here can help (Spud said he might).
I am a girl :P
Prove it :P ;D
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The box said 9.5kg
If not I will try if someone here can help (Spud said he might).
I am a girl :P
Prove it :P ;D
B***H!!! hehehe. :) I cant prove it :-\
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>:( >:( :banghead: I am so angry!!! Yesterday I called my dad if he knew someone from buissenis in England for the pro-jumps. Then he said that he was disappointed that I wanted to buy everything I liked ( :censored:) and told me I couldn't buy it. He also kept on saying it was a TOY, while this really is a sport. until I told him that most people are at least above 15 and he said that it showed children shouldn't buy them.
I know someone with a nephew with flyjumpers, so I asked if I look and test them there if I could then buy it. He said that was oke but I still couldn't buy it myself, my parents would pay a part for my birthday. So now my hope of getting pro-jumps is almost gone, unless I might get them for my birthday after 9 months. Well i'll keep on trying :-\ :-\ :-\
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Oh that sucks. Keep begging..it does eventually work. I begged for 3 years to get one pet chicken. Now I have 4 :D
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4?? it was three the last time i looked :P
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Yea well. Things have happened. I have 4 chickens.
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Oh that sucks. Keep begging..it does eventually work. I begged for 3 years to get one pet chicken. Now I have 4 :D
Chickens don't like being Tiggers
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They not big on being in pairs either. I spoke to some guy. he couldnt tell me why but he was adoment that 3 (or more) is the magic number with chickens.
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Lol ;D, but I don't think begging will help. he will just get annoyed so I will never buy them. The only thing I can do is try them out at my friend's nephew and wait till my birthday :-\
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Thats sucky..when is your birthday?
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Thats sucky..when is your birthday?
The eleventh of Januari
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quite a while then unfortunatly...hoep you get them sooner :-\
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I don't really think bocking could be classed as a sport. Certainly it's sporty, sporting, sport-like. But the definition of sport encompasses rules & regulations, boundaries, officials and some sort of scoring system. And it's usually competetive. ...The term "lifestyle sport" may apply. A large part of my dissertation was on lifestyle sports.
AAAAaaaaanyway... Have you considered purchasing the bocks and keeping them at a friend's house? Especially if you have a friend who is also interested in Bocking, as you could let him/her use them in return for holding them for you. :) You could even split the cost of buying them. :)
Make sure it's a close, trust-worthy friend though! You don't want to lose them. :P
Actually how old are you? I don't want to be corrupting youthful minds by telling them to disobey their parents! lol. :D Respect your parents kids! ;)
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Lol i'm thirteen (Castlevania1995)
I respect my parents really much so I don't think it will be good to buy them without them knowing, and they will probably figure out anyway.
The friend with a bocking nephew told me I could come with him to try the bocks, so i'll just do that.
Maybe I will pay 150 Euros and get them for "Sinterklaas" (I don't know if it has an English name, i don't even know if he exists outside the Netherlands) Sinterklaas is on the fifth of december, so with the bad weather I won't be able to test my bocks.
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i w8 about 170 lb i want to go with the 198 to 265 pound powerizer pro set. Will i still be able to hit off the ground?? Does extra stiffness = better support higher jump and less damage or break. I will buy from "GET JUMP STILTS" any one prefer a different site. AND THIS s**t LOOKS ALSOME AS HELL. by the way i like this forum and i was reading up on these jump stilts. I live in the US by the way
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not sure of any US stores sorry there is some i just dno wat there called some1 is bound to post em if u wait lol
get the next wait catogory up from u :) thats it lol
Jackk
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So you're looking at poweriSer PR90120s? You should be fine on those at almost 80kg.
Higher weight springs mean you bottom out less which means you do get a little extra height, but it doesn't mean they're less likely to break or become damaged.
PoweriZer Pro are different to the poweriSer Advanced/2007/2008, they are completely different brands. I can only assume you mean poweriSers as poweriZer have no 90-120kg range springs.
dealers in the US are
xphub.com and getjumpingstilts.com
I would recommend xphub as they are the main importers, GJS simply buy their bocks from xphub then sell them on for slightly more.