An indoor adventure park opening soon in Winnipeg is aiming to break a world record. APEX Active Entertainment Group will open its Winnipeg location at 1150 Nairn Avenue, with a custom-built 192-foot trampoline made by its sister company, Craze Ape Extreme Equipment in Regina, attempting to break an official Guinness World Records title. On Saturday, the location opened its doors for a preview of the site, prior to the official adjudication by Guinness. Managing partner of the group, Luke Shaheen, said it was not an easy journey. “It was stressful. Trying to fit the world’s longest trampoline in the building was no small feat and without dividing our building in half, operationally it was a challenge, but the team pulled it off,” he said on Saturday. Shaheen said while the manufacturing team was no stranger to making trampolines, this one was different. “There was a lot of trial and error … we actually took several tries to get it,” he said. “We found issues with the materials, stretching and all kinds of stuff that we’d never encountered before. “But when you’re making a trampoline 192 feet long, it’s just the tolerance for air is very, very tight.” For the world record adjudication, they need to prove that it is for public use, Shaheen said. “Guinness specified hundreds of people on this trampoline, to prove that it’s for public use and it bounces like a trampoline.” The current record holder is a 170-foot-long “Fast Track” in Russia, stretching through one of the country’s forests. The indoor facility is slated to open on April 9, with length verification and formal adjudication on the same day.
