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I don't see there anything really dangerous, sure those bars in first two photos could be lower, but if you can't handle the height you will be anyway probably
by Markoff 4y ago
I don't see there anything really dangerous, sure those bars in first two photos could be lower, but if you can't handle the height you will be anyway probably too afraid to climb there.
After all most of the work injuries during fall happen from height ~1.5m when your body don't have enough time to rotate and you will just hit your head, so bigger height can be actually beneficial for safety.
Here in Czechia closest playground to my house has rubberized ground and bars (dinosaur backbone) for climbing on them at roughly 3m height, don't think it would really make much difference if they were 1-1.5m higher, if someone falls down from that height on head it can be pretty dangerous already from current height. In the end my kids are climbing on trees in park nearby in bigger height than in playground.
I grew up as kid in 80/90s mostly just with metal constructions playgrounds and my most serious childhood injury was when I took down matress down from bed and had great idea to jump from matress to wooden surface to break my skull, so much for dangerous playgrounds.
Btw. there is still fairly dangerous (longest) slide in Parukarka park in Prague I ocassionally try, it's pretty long and fast and you just need to stay there short time to see kid flying off, if it's cleaned from rubber left from shoes, happened to me, happened to FIL visiting, seems kids with lower weight don't go that fast usually as adults. So you can still find fun rides even nowadays.
https://www.idnes.cz/praha/zpravy/v-parku-na-parukarce-se-deti-svezou-na-nejdelsi-skluzavce-v-praze.A120423_1768062_praha-zpravy_sfo https://www.idnes.cz/praha/zpravy/v-parku-na-parukarce-se-de...