Who Else Knows These Facts About Trampolines

"El trampolino" was the Mexican word for "diving board",and one of the many words in common usage, which was onceactually trademarked as "trampoline".

The first gold medal awarded in Olympic trampolinecompetition, went to Irina Karavaeva, of Russia. Theevent, which took place at the 2000 Olympics in Sydney,Australia, was witnessed by George Nissen, the 86 year-oldinventor of the trampoline.

The famous picture taken in the late 50s, of inventorGeorge Nissen on a trampoline with a "tame" kangaroo, wasonly accomplished by Nissen holding its front paws whenthey got on it, so the animal could not kick him.

The Gillingham Jumpers, a club based in Kent, England, isthe largest known trampoline club in the world, with 1500members bouncing around the Jumpers Rebound Centre, everyweek.

Trampolines have entered the arena of "extreme sports",with some centers offering a combination of bungee jumpingand trampoline jumping, where participants wear a harnessattached to bungee cord rigging, that allows them to bounceextra high off the trampoline, without the danger offalling if they lose their balance.

The 2005 edition of the Guinness Book of World Records,includes a category for the longest slam-dunk of abasketball from a player bouncing on a trampoline.

Judy Wills Cline became the first World Champion on thetrampoline, in 1964. Cline held a total of ten worldtitles in trampoline, synchronized trampoline, andtumbling. The first men's World Champion, also crowned in1964, was Dan Millman, who is a noted personal growthauthor and speaker.

In 1986, a six-man team from the Delta Epsilon fraternityat Cleveland State University, set a Guinness World BookRecord for 53 days of continuous bouncing on a trampoline.They received a phone call of congratulations from fraterRonald Reagan.

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