Originally Posted by Polaris OBark

Not so fast ...

About 10 years ago we bought a trampoline for our kids. There were two options, which essentially were "lively" or "safe." We bought the safe one. I tried it a few times, and it always felt kind of dead. The lively ones are designed to be much more elastic. So for the same amount of effort, you can bounce much higher on the lively/elastic trampoline compared to the damped/safe one, which is rather inelastic, and absorbs the energy of the user trying to jump around. It is actually quite exhausting, and in my opinion, ruins the fun. But it does have the merit of reducing collisions and other injuries.

There is nothing remotely unphysical about this kind of explanation. Why would "planing" be any different?