Shakalaka

Shakalaka Extreme Air Sports, the long-awaited indoor trampoline park in Huntsville, opened this week after months of heavy construction at its new University Drive location.

HUNTSVILLE, Alabama – Shakalaka Extreme Air Sports, the long-awaited indoor trampoline park in Huntsville, opened this week after months of heavy construction at its new University Drive location.

The 26,000-square-foot trampoline arena in the Huntsville West Shopping Center was originally slated to open in April, but was stalled because of work delays. The 4710 University Drive venue features up to 12,000 square feet of trampolines, slack lines, dunk basketball hoops and Olympic Foam Pits with more than 50,000 cubes of foam.

The attraction also has a Ninja Warrior Aerial Obstacle Course and is open for birthday parties, corporate events, dodgeball tournaments and trampoline aerobics classes.

Available to jumpers of all ages, Shakalaka is open from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. Monday through Thursday, 9 a.m. to midnight Friday and Saturday and closed Sunday. Click here for ticket information.

Shakalaka is California developer Case Lawrence's 10th U.S. trampoline Park. Lawrence opened his first arena in Fresno, Calif., followed by locations in Albuquerque, N.M., and Durham, N.C. He later opened venues in Birmingham, Knoxville, Virginia Beach, Va., Richmond, Va., Greenville, S.C., and Columbia, S.C.

To participate, jumpers must sign a liability waiver, which is available online or at an in-house kiosk. Children under 19 must present a waiver signed by a parent or legal guardian to jump.

Lawrence said trampoline parks have an injury rate of two incidents per 1,000 jumpers. He said most injuries are minor and range from cuts and bruises to trampoline burn on bare feet.

Citing an alarming number of injuries among patients, medical doctors expressed concern about Birmingham's extreme trampoline park in early 2013. See the AL.com article here.

Send Lucy Berry an email at lberry@al.com.