Construction is underway at the Jump Park on Chestnut Street next to Finley Stadium in downtown Chattanooga. In the fall, a bowling alley, South Side Lanes, will open next door.WHAT’S COMING: WHERE TO JUMP• Jump Park Chattanooga, 1810 Chestnut St., opens in February• Superfly Trampoline Park, 74556 Commons Blvd., opens in May• Jump Park Ooltewah, location to be determined, opens in summer 2014Sources: Case Lawrence, Scott Proesch
It’s a bird, it’s a plane, it’s – Meagan Reaves during her twice-weekly aerobics class.
The 21-year-old bounces about six feet in the air in a room where the whole floor is made of square trampolines, connected to form a massive grid. She sometimes runs from one square to the next, jumping from trampoline to trampoline, and even bounces off some trampolines mounted at 60-degree angles on the walls.
“It’s a workout, but it doesn’t feel like a workout,” she said. “We run up the walls and it kind of feels like flying. I feel like a kid when I do it.”
Reaves attends Skyrobics classes at the SkyZone Indoor Trampoline Park in Jackson, Tenn., but Chattanooga residents soon will have a chance to join her in the air. Three trampoline parks are slated to open in the Chattanooga region this year, part of a national wave of bounding growth in an industry that’s got millions of Americans bouncing.