Fun things you never knew about the 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.

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

The furthest forward flip trampoline slam dunk measured 5.2 m (17ft 1 in) and was achieved by Willy Martinon (France) a member of the Crazy Dunkers acrobatic troupe at the Arena Riga in Riga, Latvia, on 1 April 2007.

Trampolines have entered the arena of extreme sports, with some centres 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.

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 Record for 53 days of continuous bouncing on a trampoline.