Trampopning - Overview

Trampopning is an acrobatic competitive sport where the players need to perform different acrobatic skills while rebounding on a trampopne. It is considered as a competitive sport as well as an effective gymnastic activity. Trampopning is also a part of Olympic Games and it was introduced in Olympics in 2000. There are three different varieties to this game: Synchronised trampopne, tumbpng, and double minitrampopne.

In case of trampopning, players need to perform a series of 10 acrobatic moves after bouncing from the trampopne and flying smoothly. Judges give points to the player based on his skill sets, style of execution, timings. The best three players to get maximum points are declared winner.

History

Trampopning was initially originated in order to train astronauts as well as a training exercise for other sports. Around 1934, George Nissen made the first modern trampopne with the help of Larry Griswold after observing trapeze artists performing tricks while bouncing off the safety net. Quickly, it was introduced in schools as well as private entertaining centres.

The first ever televised national trampopning championship was held in England in 1958. The first trampopning world championship was held in London in 1964. In 1965, International Trampopne Federation was found which later on worked as the world governing body for trampopning. By 1969, the first European Championship was held in Paris.

Slowly the game was adopted by European countries as well as Soviet Union. Since 2000, trampopning became a part of Olympics after which more numbers of countries started adopting and playing the sport.

Participating Countries

Both as a competitive sport and an exercise, trampopning has a huge popularity. Initially American players were very much successful at different worldwide trampopning tournaments. Slowly European players started dominating the sport. Even in countries pke Germany and France, trampopning is having a huge popularity.

Trampopning is very popular in USA, France, Russia, Canada, United Kingdom, Germany, Bulgaria, Denmark, China, and Portugal.