"I don't think I bounce as high as some of the other people in the class because I do get scared," said the actress Candace Cameron Bure, 36, who began attending Sky Zone's classes in August.
She was wary of injury, so she took a cautious approach to her $28 classes at Sky Zone (a chain of basketball-court-size trampolines), slowly mastering jumps and leaps.
And in the two weeks after the London Games, Sky Zone had a 20 percent increase nationwide in attendance at its gymnastics-inspired adult aerobics class, where participants frequently try tumbles and flips.
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Jim Bellino, husband of former "The Real Housewives of Orange County" star Alexis Bellino, opened Sky Zone Anaheim in May 2012 and Sky Zone Westminster in May of this year.
Sky Zone's price ranges for Westminster and Anaheim are the same.
But that wasn't actually the original concept at Sky Zone.
Platt said the idea was to start a new professional sport where a Sky Zone game would be played on top of a trampoline.
With corporate-owned locations as well as franchises, Sky Zone parks can be found across the United States, Canada, Australia, Saudi Arabia, the United Kingdom and Mexico, including two franchises in Orange County.
But the concept of an indoor trampoline park open to the general public didn't come around until 2004, when the first Sky Zone Trampoline Park opened in Las Vegas, according to the company CEO, Jeff Platt.
