trampolines Article

Do You Know The History Of Trampolines As Exercise Equipment ?
The manufactured trampoline, as we know it today, wascreated by two men, George Nissen and Larry Griswold.Around 1935, Griswold, then the assistant gymnastics coach at the University of Iowa, and Nissen, a tumbler on theUniversity of Iowa gymnastics team, "made regular jaunts toBloomington, Illinois where numerous circus people had their winter homes.Among them were the "Flying Wards", some of the finest trapeze performers in the world. Griswold and Nissen worked out with them at the local YMCA, and frequently helped them make or mend their large trapeze nets. Nissen remembers the hours they spent in the basement of the YMCA, threading the long cords of the nets, using large javelin-head needles.This experience was one of several that led them to the idea of creating a trampoline.One day, with the help of the wrestling coach at theUniversity of Iowa, Griswold and Nissen bolted together an  angle iron frame. A piece of canvas, in which they had inserted grommets along each side, was then attached to the frame by using springs. This was the first trampoline.Since Nissen was still training for tumbling, they decided to move the trampoline to a YMCA camp where he was an instructor.

There, during his free time, Nissen used it for his tumbling training.

Immediately, he found that the children loved it. This was the first realization that the trampoline could be more than a piece of equipment to use when performing, or seriously training. It was something that many others could enjoy.In 1942, Griswold and Nissen decided to formalize their small operation of making trampolines. They created the Griswold-Nissen Trampoline & Tumbling Company, and history was made.But where does the name "Trampoline" come from? "El trampolin" means diving board, in Spanish.

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