powerSkip Pro - will ProJump calf cuffs fit?

[PaulH]

Hi, simple question.  I have PowerJumps with calf cuffs.  If I buy PowerSkip Pros (which seem to come with an in-front-of-the-knee bar), can I put my calf cuffs on them?  Or are there calf cuffs sold for skips?
Thanks!

[Spud]

I think you have projumps actually lol and that in-front-of-the-knee bar is normally known simply as a knee bar

There are no calf cuffs you can buy for skips but you should have no problem fitting a projump calf cuff onto them. Altho, I don't know if anybody has tested it so cant say for sure. The risk is with them being made for the knee bar is that they wont hold the cuffs in securely. Most parts whatever brand will fit on to other brands of stilts.

btw, powerskip pro's are ideal for running, thats what you want out of bocks right? I am no fan of the moving footplate but for running is pretty nice

Edit: jason might know about this

 

[carlgreen]

Spud u was on a pair of powerskip pros with calf cuff on sat!

MINE.....yeh works fine but u will need metal cuff brackets

[PaulH]

yay!  Thanks for both those replies and yes, Spud, you're right on two counts:  they are ProJumps (d'oh!), and I do want to run.  I'm an old git and probably not up to backflips and suchlike, but I do want to be able to run long(ish) distances.

Incidentally, has anyone tried bock-jousting?

[sprog]

Spud u was on a pair of powerskip pros with calf cuff on sat!

MINE.....yeh works fine but u will need metal cuff brackets

AND THEY ARE SEXY
Apart from that bolt falling out and being a pain to get back in

[Spud]

Spud u was on a pair of powerskip pros with calf cuff on sat!

So I was You have poweriser bracket right? Thats gonna be the thing to make it work.

I do want to run.  I'm an old git and probably not up to backflips and suchlike, but I do want to be able to run long(ish) distances.

Then I think the moving footplate is for you. But it's still gonna need you to be pretty fit. It's hard work. I don't know about other people but I find it easier to run on harder springs

 

[PaulH]

Hi Spud,

You mean the poweriser bracket is needed to fit the calf cuffs to the Powerskips?  Anyway, I'll buy them first and worry about it after.

Re. running - glad to hear that the moving footplate makes it easier.  Fitness-wise, well, what can I say?  I'm an old git who can so far manage a few hundred yards in ProJumps.  I figured upgrading to Skips can only be an improvement.  Did I read that powerSkips are something like 60% as heavy as ProJumps?

[chocl8]

Incidentally, has anyone tried bock-jousting?

It didn't end well...And hurt rather a lot, and got us banned from bocking at school...[quote author=PaulH

Btw if i remember rightly, Powerskips have metal holders anyway. I know of at least 2 with cuffs, cue Greg...

[Jason]

Powerskips come with metal clamps a bit like the ones you use on exhaust pipes and I will be testing them with cuffs fairly soon

They should hold very well looking at them but as soon as I finish making a few more bits I will post if they work

Jason 

[PaulH]

Thanks Jason.   Can you or anyone else confirm that PowerSkip Pros are 40% lighter than ProJumps?

[Jason]

They are much lighter (I don't know about 40% but much lighter) you can really feel the difference with only a few bits fitted to other frames and I have in the past handled some skips and they did feel a lot lighter

Try the Skip site in germany they have weights I think

Jason 

[Paul-Self]

skips feel way lighter i own a set of the standards and carrying them compared to projumps their seems to be a big diff !

[Greggles]

me and carl have the skip pro frames and calf cuffs we have the metal brackets from poweriSer or you can get some from 7's but i have the little u shaped clamps i just havent fitted them as they are fiddaly think i will give it a go when i have some free time tho