Trampoline centre Ryze proves a summer hit with Hong Kong youth

For Hong Kong youngsters more comfortable with computer games it might not seem the obvious place for a summer outing, but a trampoline park in Quarry Bay is proving a big hit.

"We've sold out almost every session, every day," said Felicia Liu Ho-ming, a member of the Ryze trampoline park's "flight crew" whose job is looking after the 100 or so who are jumping in the park at any given hour.

Late yesterday afternoon the venue was full, and by 5.30pm a long line of enthusiastic teens was snaking across the waiting room.

With the lure of trampoline dodge ball, somersaults into pits filled with foam blocks, and even trampoline dance parties at night, an estimated 16,000 people have passed through, paying HK$150 a ticket, since July 18, said staff manager Brian Tong.

But media reports of children suffering injuries have alarmed some parents, such as Vivian Tong Pui-ling, 40, a banker.

"It's a bit dangerous. It could be better if they separated the kids from the adults."

Her son, Darryl, five, bounced enthusiastically nearby sporting a pair of sunglasses, a bright yellow Hawaiian shirt and pants ensemble with a small toy dog tucked into the waistband.