Trampoline has been an Olympic sport since 2000, but without regulation equipment available, the BGA has, until this point, focused on the development of elite athletes only in the disciplines of ...

One feature of the new Nissen trampoline Co. plant is a new chrome-plating process. Instead of being painted, the rebound tumblers and other gym equipment come out with a gleaming chrome finish.

From 1947 to 1964, trampoline was a gymnastics event sanctioned by the Amateur Athletic Union and the National Collegiate Athletic Assn. The sport long seen as the poor cousin of gymnastics took ...

Trampoline Gymnastics: ... With the arrival of the discipline under the Olympic rings in Sydney in 2000, equipment manufacturers have developed better performing Trampolines, ...

Born in Blairstown, Iowa, in 1914, George Nissen was brought up in nearby Cedar Rapids. He joined his school gymnastics team at the age of 10, then a YMCA tumbling team that performed locally.

Most of the 12,500-square-foot Funtastics building in Derby houses trampolines, a bouncy gymnastics floor, zip line and other playground-type equipment that is offered for birthday and other ...