If you're not watching the trampoline events at the 2012 Olympic Games in London, well what the hell is wrong with you? This is basically the best thing you could have ever hoped for when you were eight years old.
With swimming and gymnastics getting all the attention, let us remind you of one of our favorite (and rather obscure) Olympic sports: trampoline! Performing complicated tricks while catching big air, trampolining takes an incredible amount of skill and strength. Check out the airborne acrobatics in the men's medal competition on Aug. 3 and the women's gold-medal competition the following day.
Having been involved with the sport for the past 15 years, Gluckstein who considers trampolinists as pioneers at opening the eyes of the public to this awesome sport tells us five things most people wouldn't know about the sport he loves so much.
Steve Gluckstein - the sole male U.S. Olympian for trampoline in 2012 - demos high-flying moves and shows why his sport isn't just a kid's backyard pastime.
In its basic physical form of flips and jumps, trampoline can be traced way back to archeological drawings found in ancient China, Egypt and Persia. Some claim that the first type of trampolining was done by the Eskimos, who would toss each other up into the air on a sea lion skin similar to the sheet used by firefighters to catch people jumping from a burning house.
If you're not watching the trampoline events at the 2012 Olympic Games in London, well what the hell is wrong with you? This is basically the best thing you could have ever hoped for when you were eight years old.
With swimming and gymnastics getting all the attention, let us remind you of one of our favorite (and rather obscure) Olympic sports: trampoline! Performing complicated tricks while catching big air, trampolining takes an incredible amount of skill and strength. Check out the airborne acrobatics in the men's medal competition on Aug. 3 and the women's gold-medal competition the following day.
Having been involved with the sport for the past 15 years, Gluckstein who considers trampolinists as pioneers at opening the eyes of the public to this awesome sport tells us five things most people wouldn't know about the sport he loves so much.
Steve Gluckstein - the sole male U.S. Olympian for trampoline in 2012 - demos high-flying moves and shows why his sport isn't just a kid's backyard pastime.
In its basic physical form of flips and jumps, trampoline can be traced way back to archeological drawings found in ancient China, Egypt and Persia. Some claim that the first type of trampolining was done by the Eskimos, who would toss each other up into the air on a sea lion skin similar to the sheet used by firefighters to catch people jumping from a burning house.
