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Team Blue
Boulder climber
Frederick, MD
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Topic Author's Original Post - Mar 20, 2018 - 01:51pm PT
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Hi! We are pre-engineering students from Linganore High School. Our team is currently designing an Inflatable Crash Pad to make carrying a crash pad easier while covering more surface area. We would very much appreciate if you took some time to take our survey below:
https://goo.gl/forms/OlchMeIKQiuX96aL2
Thanks for your time!!
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Roots
Mountain climber
Redmond, Oregon
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Mar 20, 2018 - 03:25pm PT
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Seems like the logical way to go...but wasn't it already done and no one bought them?
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WBraun
climber
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Mar 20, 2018 - 03:49pm PT
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Yeah just fill it up with air and bounce off it like a trampoline into the surrounding talus.
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PSP also PP
Trad climber
Berkeley
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Mar 20, 2018 - 04:28pm PT
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Ray Anders from fullerton gymnastics invented inflatable crash pads for stunt work and gymnastics; although they had flaps on the sides for air release and an air pump keeping them inflated. Like the bouncy house with out the bounce.
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Jon Beck
Trad climber
Oceanside
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Mar 20, 2018 - 04:48pm PT
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OP is a Russian bot collecting ammo for 2018 mid terms. There will be a crash but not on a pad.
#DELETEFACEBOOK
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JC Marin
Trad climber
CA
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Mar 20, 2018 - 05:12pm PT
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Yer gonna die...
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tom woods
Gym climber
Bishop, CA
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Mar 20, 2018 - 05:52pm PT
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So 9 kg/ 20lbs for the already available one? Maybe these kids could do better.
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GuapoVino
climber
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Mar 21, 2018 - 06:06pm PT
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If you make it about 12' long and mount some fins on the back you can paddle it down the river.
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jogill
climber
Colorado
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Mar 21, 2018 - 08:30pm PT
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Use a top-rope.
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hooblie
climber
from out where the anecdotes roam
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Mar 21, 2018 - 08:45pm PT
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i'm picturing six recruits, ear to ear, cheerfully blowing on wiggly nipples, prepping
for the next plummeting poofter. individualism was an just an interim solution
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john hansen
climber
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Mar 21, 2018 - 08:59pm PT
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What if you had only the perimeter inflate and had a trampoline type material stretched across. If the 5 foot diameter circle of inflated material was very strong you could only inflate it 75 % to let it conform with the terrain.
Think of a little kid pool turned upside down..
,,, it's an idea.
There is still the problem of inflation...
What if there was a matrix that always wanted to form a certain shape?
You could crush it into a mass , like the plastic wrapping on paper towels, but it would always go back to its original shape.
Instead of a few air chambers it would have tens of thousands of chambers that would compress and exhale when impacted, but then inhale and revert to their original shape.
I think a 3 D printer would come in handy.
Edit: I just realized that what I am thinking of is a sponge.
Nature had this figured out long ago.
So just dry out a big sponge , and add water.
But use air instead of water.
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WBraun
climber
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Mar 22, 2018 - 08:46am PT
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They will soon find out to their horror how these things will leak and get punctured with microminiature pin holes from pine needles or other unseen sharp objects.
In the field, it's a lot different than laying it down on flat floors inside buildings or on concrete ......
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Mungeclimber
Trad climber
Nothing creative to say
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Mar 22, 2018 - 10:47am PT
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Mar 21, 2018 - 08:30pm PT
Use a top-rope.
got a chuckle out of that response. :)
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