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Nov 07

The Benefits of Mini Trampolines

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by Jason Gluckman

Mini trampolines are mainly meant for exercising. Mini trampolines can be a great way for kids to exercise indoors. It is also known as a fitness trampoline because it can be used as a workout machine to help you lose weight.

You can do aerobic exercise with a mini trampoline. Mini trampolines for kids or adults are a space-saving way for the whole family to exercise. Grade school kids can have fun on children’s trampolines.

Mini trampolines are versatile in that they can be used indoor or outdoors. Mini trampoline exercises help strengthen the legs while providing a relatively low-impact exercise that doesn’t needlessly jar the joint and bones.

Mini trampolines can also be used for jogging. The size of mini trampolines ranges from six feet in diameter (for kids) to sixteen feet diameter. They come in many shapes – round, rectangular, square, hexagonal and octagonal.

Mini trampolines typically range in price from $200 to $500. Mini trampolines are usually round. Typically, their dimensions are about four feet in diameter and six to ten inches in height.

As with any trampoline, when choosing a product, you should carefully consider its durability and safety as well as a product guarantee from the manufacturer. Pay close attention to the frame pads, springs.

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Nov 01

Trampoline Facts

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Who Else Knows These Facts About Trampolines?

by Paul Johnson II

“El trampolino” was the Mexican word for “diving board”, and one of the many words in common usage, which was once actually trademarked as “trampoline”.

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

The famous picture taken in the late 50s, of inventor George Nissen on a trampoline with a “tame” kangaroo, was only accomplished by Nissen holding its front paws when they got on it, so the animal could not kick him.

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

Trampolines have entered the arena of “extreme sports”, with some centers offering a combination of bungee jumping and trampoline jumping, where participants wear a harness attached to bungee cord rigging, that allows them to bounce extra high off the trampoline, without the danger of falling if they lose their balance.

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

Judy Wills Cline became the first World Champion on the trampoline, in 1964. Cline held a total of ten world titles in trampoline, synchronized trampoline, and tumbling. The first men’s World Champion, also crowned in 1964, was Dan Millman, who is a noted personal growth author and speaker.

In 1986, a six-man team from the Delta Epsilon fraternity at Cleveland State University, set a Guinness World Book Record for 53 days of continuous bouncing on a trampoline. They received a phone call of congratulations from frater Ronald Reagan.

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