Trampoline Park
Waiver

Trampoline parks are one of the few activity categories with a real body of litigation behind them, and the pattern in the decisions is consistent: releases fail when the risk description is generic. A signer who agreed to "the risks of recreational activity" did not knowingly accept a double-bounce fracture. A signer who agreed to a paragraph naming double bouncing, awkward landings, collisions in the foam pit, flips, and dodgeball contact did.

So the assumption-of-risk section should read like your incident log, not like boilerplate. Name the attractions you actually operate — main court, foam pit, ninja course, drop tower, dodgeball — and the specific mechanism of injury on each.

The busiest hours are birthday parties and school groups, and both arrive as one adult with a list of children who are not theirs. That is the single biggest gap in most parks' paperwork.

The workable pattern is a party link the host forwards to every attending parent before the event, so each child's own guardian signs, plus a check at the door that flags who is missing rather than a staff member scanning a clipboard. Missing signatures should be visible as a list, not discovered at the trampoline.

Insurers increasingly want to see two things: the release, and a separately initialled acknowledgement of court rules — one person per trampoline, no flips beyond your ability, no jumping with pockets full, socks required. Keeping them as distinct sections means you can show a signer read and accepted the rules even in a state that narrows the release itself.

State law decides the ceiling. A handful of states will not enforce pre-injury releases at all, several require statutory wording for specific activities, and no state enforces a release of gross negligence. Treat the wording as a strong draft and have your insurer or attorney confirm it before it goes live.