The Jump Park Trampoline Center is at 1810 Chestnut St.With his school uniform flying untucked, 6-year-old Dallas Jowers sprinted across a big black trampoline that curved gently up a wall.
He took a dozen steps, slowing as the angle increased, then flung his body toward the top, arms outstretched, trying to grab hold and hang.
He missed by a few inches and slid, in slow motion, down the trampoline — where he rolled over, splayed on his back, arms still out, until he caught his breath.
“I’m having fun jumping and doing flips and, and all of it,” he said a minute later at the foam pit, cheeks flushed. “It’s definitely more fun than going to the park.”
Jowers is one of the first patrons at Chattanooga’s first-ever trampoline center, which opened Friday at 1810 Chestnut St. in the Southside. The Jump Park, just across from Finley Stadium, includes 20,000 square feet of wall-to-wall trampolines.