08-20-2023 Harford Magazine - Flipbook - Page 12
H E A LT H Y L I V I N G
BY ABIGAIL GRUSKIN Harford Magazine
Ruby Snow, 10, makes her way across the bars on the Ninja Warrior course as Giuseppe Ercole, 11, left, and JaMarcus Coates, 10, wait for their turn
at Airbound Sports & Entertainment in Forest Hill. PHOTOS BY LLOYD FOX
Kid approved play
Airbound Sports & Entertainment offers soccer, basketball, pickleball and a ninja course
On a Thursday morning in July, JaMarcus Coates, 10, bounced
off four-angled yellow platforms onto a rectangular swing.
“The last part’s hard,” he said, referring to the suspended net
cargo bags, which he clung onto before falling into the foamfilled pit below.
At Airbound Sports & Entertainment, the ninja course — a
colorful obstacle arena — is a huge draw for kids, according to
Judy Gee, who opened the Forest Hill sports facility in the spring.
Tony Ashley, who works as a camp counselor at Airbound, called
it the main attraction.
“Some of the kids, they just go running off the deck and dive
into the pit,” Ashley, 58, said. “If you get older kids, they like to
try the challenge” of successfully completing the course.
But Airbound isn’t only for youngsters.
“It doesn’t matter if your child is 3, or you’re 30 years old,” said
Ashley, who also coaches football at St. Vincent Pallotti High
School, in Laurel.
Gee said she designed the indoor facility for people of all ages
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Luca Ercole, left and JaMarcus Coates play with the bubble balls.
