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Film History Uncovered: 1965 World Trampoline & Tumbling Championships
An amazing coincidence: Precisely 50 years later, film of the 2nd World Trampoline and 1st World Tumbling Championships has been discovered. On January 30, 1965 the event was held in London at the...
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HISTORY: 1974 World Trampoline Championships
Last year, gearing up for the 50th Anniversary of the first World Trampoline Championships, I did my best to cover every World Championships up to that point. With the help of many officials, athletes...
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50 Years of French Trampoline
The sport of Trampoline just celebrated it’s 50 years of World Championships in grand style at the 2014 World Trampoline and Tumbling Championships in Daytona, Florida. The past and future on display...
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5-Time World Champ Judy Wills at 13
Just published to YouTube is a rare video of the future 5-time World Trampoline Champion Judy Wills Cline. It was filmed in the Nissen gym in Cedar Rapids, Iowa in 1961, when she was 13 years-old and...
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Igor Challenge
Continuing the subject of prodigies, I don’t know if USSR gymnast Igor Galimbatovski was a child prodigy, but most would assume that he was. If you have ever seen his 1986 trampoline routine performed...
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Old Rules
If you click the button link below, you’ll see a routine uploaded to Facebook by a friend of 1966 and 1970 Men’s World Trampoline Champion, Wayne Miller. Watch closely. Wayne Miller, 1968 NCAA...
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Best of the US in 1966
Recently, I received a YouTube link from Peter Hurle, the 1974 Trampoline World Bronze medalist from Australia. In it are his world class predecessors from the United States. The link is a film of the...
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1966 World Open Trampoline Championships
It was 50 years ago this weekend that the 3rd World Open Trampoline Championships were held in Lafayette, LA USA. They were held on April 28-30, 1966. It was the first World Championships held outside...
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1955 Trampoline History
If you have an interest in the history of trampoline sports, you will enjoy a video recently uncovered called Whatever Goes Up, featuring trampoline founder, George Nissen, his wife Annie and ’52 US...
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1967 Professional World Trampoline Championships
Yes. There were World Championship competitions for Professional trampoline gymnasts. They were held in the 1960s and sponsored by the Nissen Corporation. There was only one event: men’s individual...
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