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KOMPAN PLAY INSTITUTE<br />
THE MORE THRILLING<br />
PLAYGROUND<br />
Informed by Older Children<br />
The Cliff Rider combines thrilling heights<br />
with the feeling of gliding through the air, two<br />
thrilling activities<br />
Jeanette Fich Jespersen, Head of the<br />
KOMPAN Play Institute<br />
Why thrill in playgrounds?<br />
Free range kids may be an extinct species.<br />
Research shows that a combination of urban-<br />
ization and parental risk averseness results<br />
in restricted ranges of mobility for even older<br />
children today. Today’s risk averseness is vis-<br />
ible in many public playgrounds, being dulled<br />
down in fear of litigation. Swings and other<br />
wild movements are left out when planning.<br />
Spinning equipment is bolted down to prevent<br />
it from rotating1!<br />
Play scientists fear that this trend causes even<br />
more physical inactivity, and may even cause<br />
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