Further, a free fall can indicate what is or isn’t working for an adventure park’s clientele. “If your free fall is in a heavily trafficked area, you will start to see people congregate,” says Corbin. “If you have a bunch of people down there for 20 minutes and they’re all saying, ‘no way I’m doing that,’ then you know it’s probably a little too extreme.” FREE FALLS What's Happening With...
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Sales of Head Rush’s QUICKFlight free-fall device, which hit the market in 2014, have remained steady since a 2018 peak.
OTHER BENEFITS
Even those whose initial expectations might not have been met when free-fall devices started entering the main- stream market in 2015 acknowledge their benefits and silver linings. Head Rush’s zipSTOP zip line brake, which, like the company’s auto belays and free-fall devices, uses magnetic braking, is a result of advances in both free fall and auto belay technology.
“One of the things that came out of all of this is the zipSTOP, which is a byprod- uct of these other Head Rush devices, and that has been probably the best product for our industry,” says Azarm. “It’s used all the time and it really, really works well.” Important option. Despite their lim- itations, free falls have offered enough benefits to the adventure park world to
give them an enduring role in the evolu- tion of adventure operations. They have helped shape adventure parks as we know them today, and will likely remain an entrée on the adventure park menu for adrenaline-seeking visitors. It remains important, for many oper- ators, to provide guests with options, and free falls have a place in that.
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