Witness the ‘Flip(ness)’

Our Correspondent
EMIRATES BUSINESS

Flip Out is Australia’s first, largest and premier trampoline park operator offering an unforgettable, fun trampoline park experience. The entire brand and every venue is edgy, cool and grungy – kids and adults alike love it.
Flip Out started with very humble beginnings in a Western Sydney car park in December 2012 and has now expanded to over 50 facilities including 40 parks in Australia and sites in Malaysia, Mexico, Taiwan, New Zealand, the UK and now Dubai.
All the while CEO Brent Grundy, a man with a simple business idea who built his empire from the ground up, has become living proof that someone can become a millionaire in just one year. Prior to launching the Flip Out trampoline park business, Brent was— by his own admission— “down to his last two hundred dollars”. When the first Flip Out park opened in Penrith in 2012, those “two hundred dollars” went into the till to provide change for the venue’s first guests.
Flip Out Dubai is the Middle East’s largest trampoline park with a mammoth Al Quoz facility spanning 40,000 square-feet. Flip Out Dubai boasts more than 200 interconnected trampolines and 10 trampoline-based attractions not found anywhere else in Dubai including a double-decker kids trampoline arena, trampoline football and 3D wall runners. The mega entertainment complex also features the UAE’s only dedicated fields for Archery Tag— an eight-a-aside sport combining elements of dodgeball and paintball.
“Following our fantastic launch in May, we digested feedback from more than 1,000 people who experienced the facility and decided to close our doors for six weeks to make several key improvements to the park. We’ve added more of what our flippers loved and improved areas where we felt we could do better. Our goal is for every person who comes to Flip Out Dubai to be wowed— we don’t do average or mediocre,” said Sameer Ali, Director of Flip Out Middle East & North Africa.
Flip Out Dubai will also launch its new Summer Camp concept next week. Designed for trampoline-loving kids and teenagers who want to get airborne and learn flips and tricks, as well as wannabe archers who see themselves as the next Katniss Everdeen from The Hunger Games or The Avengers’ bowman, Hawkeye, the Summer Camp product also includes sessions in two purpose-built Archery Tag fields housed under the same roof as Flip Out Dubai’s 200 interconnected trampolines.
Sameer continues, “Lots of families have stayed in Dubai over the summer months but there is a lack of indoor options to keep kids amused and get them off the sofa. The kids who join our Summer Camp won’t just jump on a trampoline; our teams of qualified experts will teach them new skills, airborne tricks, flips, parkour-style acrobatics and Archery Tag.”
The mega Flip Out Dubai entertainment complex also features the UAE’s only dedicated fields for Archery Tag – an eight-a-aside sport combining elements of dodgeball and paintball where opponents fire-off foam-tipped arrows at their opponents. The pair of Archery Tag fields— one with a jungle theme and the other resembling the Capitol from Hollywood blockbuster series, The Hunger Games— provides another draw for guests.
Flip Out Dubai offers complimentary valet parking at the venue and is in walking distance from Noor Bank metro station. The park will soon begin offering regular, complimentary shuttles to transport guests to-and-from the park. The shuttle bus will depart Flip Out Dubai every 20 minutes past the hour and return back to the park from Noor Bank metro station every 40 minutes past the hour.
Launched by CEO Brent Grundy in Sydney in 2012, the globetrotting Flip Out empire now spans over 50 facilities including 40 parks in Australia and sites in Malaysia, Mexico, Taiwan, New Zealand, the UK and now Dubai – the first in a regional network set to number over 15 parks by the end of the 2018.