Oct 19

Written by: Skyzone Sports
10/19/2007 3:28 PM 

When Rick Platt started SkyZone three years ago, he couldn't get a bank to back the project.

Platt approached lenders with a plan to link trampolines to form an enclosure the size of a small basketball court -- something that had not been done before. His idea was to develop a game using the SkyZone court and charge admission fees. "I thought it would be cool to own my own sport," he said.

The 58-year-old St. Louis native already had acquired rights to a patented process for linking the trampolines, and was looking for "several million dollars" to build the first location. "The bankers wouldn't give me a dime," he said.


Read more: Sky's the limit - St. Louis Business Journal