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We are a UK accredited dealer for SkyRocket, JumpKing trampolines,  Rebo trampolines and Plum Products trampolines. We sell a great number of trampolines ranging from 4.5ft trampolines to 14ft trampolines and also the latest Ovalpod design trampoline  across the UK and worldwide. All of our trampolines are manufactured to US (ASTM) and EU (TUV) standards and we have trampolines to suit every budget - made to the highest specifications. The trampolines that we supply are made of the highest grade of materials. The frame of the trampoline is made of steel and has a unique weld free design for extra strength. The trampoline can also be easily dismantled for storage or transportation if needed. The trampoline bed is made of a strong fabric which is not it self elastic, the elasticity is provided by the trampoline springs. The trampoline fabric can be woven from webbing which is the most commonly used material. However, in the 2007 trampoline World Championships held in Quebec, a Ross (or "Two-String") trampoline bed, woven from individual thin strings, was used. This type of trampoline bed gives a little extra height to the rebound.

About My Trampolines

Our Trampolines are the highest quality whether it's a round trampoline, oval trampoline or our rectangular trampoline, they should give you upto 10 years of garden fun. If you are looking for a trampoline website that can offer quality trampolines and bouncy castles, then we are confident that our selection of trampolines will meet your approval. Our most popular trampoline is the 10ft Trampoline package. We have other sizes of trampoline available from 4.5ft trampolines to 14ft trampolines but 10ft trampolines are the most popular currently.

Some thoughts about the history of trampolines and trampolining.

Some of this information is based on fact, some hearsay, some assumptions and possibly the odd piece of downright mis-information, but we’ll let you make up your own minds about trampolines and where trampolining originated.

Trampolines without springs have been around for as long as woven cloth has been around.  I’m sure you can well imagine something like a trampoline being used to hurl people around for fun much in the same way as the fire service use a trampoline like device today to catch people falling or leaping from a burning building.

Animal skins were used by the Inuit for example to make this kind of trampoline without springs to hurl people into the air.  It’s arguable that this is not a trampoline, but just a form of catapult.   Something really becomes a trampoline when the user is exerting force to propel his or herself into the air.  Otherwise it’s not a true trampoline, but a form of catapult.

Rumours exist that a circus performer called Du Trampolin - as recently as 1934 - invented the first true trampoline.   It would seem a natural progression in a circus environment to use a trapeze net as an accessory for stunts rather than just a safety net.  Once Du Trampolin started exerting force to bounce himself into the air, then whoopee! We have the first real trampoline.  It is known that circus performers used smaller versions of trapeze nets as trampolines to perform more lively stunts.

Nobody knows if that’s where trampolines or the word trampoline really originated.  

Also in 1934, a true trampoline was devised and built by Larry Griswold and George Nissen.  They attached a piece of fabric to a frame using coiled springs so that the trampoline was something more recognisable as a trampoline to you and I today.  Spanish for ‘diving board’ is ‘Trampolin’, and so they anglicised it to trampoline.  Tramptastic!  

The Griswold-Nissen Trampoline and Tumbling Company soon started up and the two were manufacturing their trampolines.  Gymnastics seemed to be the obvious application for trampolines to the pair, but soon the forces were using the trampolines to train recruits for flight and zero gravity.  Astronauts used trampolines in the early days of the space programme.

Trampolining has only just been recognised as an official Olympic event as recently as 2000.  Trampolines are used by Gymnasts to perform impressive stunts.  Having a decent trampoline is essential to enjoying the whole trampoline experience; you must make sure you go to a reputable trampoline retailer such as mytrampolines to ensure you are buying right.

If you are thinking of purchasing a trampoline to get stuck in to bouncing and enjoying the historic sport of trampolining, then look no further than the trampoline experts Mytrampolines.

Much as there are other trampoline based sports such as Bossaball and Slamball most trampolines are enjoyed by individuals in their homes.  It’s a fantastic way to start.  And now that trampolining has been officially recognised by the Olympic games you know you’re not wasting your time, you could be bouncing your way to fame and fortune as a successful trampoline gymnast!  Just think, one day you’re looking for a fun garden toy such as one of the top quality trampolines found on the mytrampolines website, the next thing you know you’re riding high on the wings of Olympic trampolining gold!  It all just starts with that one first tentative step into the world of trampolines, and you never know where you could end up.

Gardens all over the world now feature these kinds of domestic use trampolines for a fun outdoor activity.  One thing that is striking and noticeable about these modern and well priced trampolines is that they are rarely the thing left abandoned and unused.  People don’t get bored of using superb quality jumpking trampolines, there’s something fundamentally human about enjoying fun exercise and the feeling of bouncing up free from the ground.

There are also trampolines that have been created solely for the purposes of keeping fit in a fun and exciting way.  

So we have Eskimo and Inuit people having a laugh and a giggle using something a bit like a trampoline to hurl one-another into the air simply for fun.  We have something like a trampoline being used as a safety net to catch people jumping or falling from a burning or inescapable building.  Let’s be honest here, so far these trampoline efforts don’t sound like anywhere near such a good, wholesome and fun garden game or activity as bouncing your day away on high quality jumpking trampolines from my trampolines.  Poor sausages, if only those indigenous people had been able to properly mine and process iron ore into stainless steel coiled springs then they might have begun to understand what trampolining was really all about.  More than that, if only they’d had access to the internet back in 1900 they could have simply logged onto the my trampolines website and ordered themselves top quality jumpking trampolines at an amazing price.  Bouncing about on a high quality trampoline such as Jumpking would certainly have helped to keep them warm on those frosty Acrtic mornings!

It’s interesting to note that the act of simply bouncing on a trampoline for fun wasn’t recognised as a pastime immediately.  In it’s earliest manifestations the true trampoline, as in a trampoline that is sprung and requires exertion from the bouncee rather than bouncer or bouncers, was meant as something to be observed in use by somebody else for amusement at the silliness of it.  Examples of this kind of trampoline use would be the early 20th century stage acts, which used the bouncing bed, a trampoline covered in bedding to create an amusing overly-bouncy bed.

Again Du-Trampolin is supposed to have extended the act of dismounting the trapeze net, arguably a large trampoline, when he saw how the crowd were amused by the inventive methods adopted by the trapeze artists for doing so, into a show in itself.

A world trampolining championship was organized in the 1960’s when trampolines began to take off (pun intended!)  Dan Millman and Judy Wills were both world trampoline champions in 1964.  A good day for them, a great day for trampolines and the sport of trampolining.  Incidentally, this word processor doesn’t recognise the word ‘trampolining’, such an obvious derivative of trampoline.  It’s a telling indication of how recently trampolines have become popular.