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A piece of gymnastic equipment that children use in the backyard has an illustrious history that shows its importance for athletes and fitness-conscious adults. Two gymnasts at the University of Iowa invented the trampoline in 1934, and competitive trampolining allows men and women to compete at the Olympics. The benefits of “jumping for joy” can belong to anyone who uses a trampoline for fun or physical exercise. Working Out on a Trampoline While exercise on a rebounder or trampoline may seem easy, it requires more energy than one imagines. The effort that goes into it produces about “70 percent more effectiveness” in fitness than jogging for the same amount of time, according to Live Strong. Each bounce fights the pull of gravity, making it use more energy than walking or jogging. WebMD suggests a basic exercise on the trampoline that starts with a simple bounce that burns “a lot of calories.” Steps: Stand on a trampoline with your feet comfortably apart at about 6 inches. Bend your arms while you keep your elbows close to your sides. Bend your knees slightly, and start gently bouncing up and down. Continue the exercise for 30 bounces. As you get familiar with the equipment, you can advance to doing prances that increase your heart rate and let you feel the effect of working out. Steps: Start with the basic position with your feet about 6 inches apart. Place your hands on your hips, and bend your knees slightly. Complete your bounces on the balls of your feet. Mimic running-in-place by lifting one knee and then the other to hip level. Continue the exercise for 30 repetitions for each leg. Getting an Effective Cardio Workout on a Trampoline Alternating periods of rest and exercise lets you manage the rate of increase in your heartbeat as you do your workout. Some fitness experts recommend working out for a minute and resting a minute, or you may prefer small increments of 30 seconds of exercise and 30 seconds of rest. The exercises may look simple, but they require a significant amount of exertion. When you do a cardio workout, you need to prepare for the intensity by calculating your recommended maximum heart rate. Mayo states that it changes with age so that you need to start by subtracting your number of years from 220. Keep your heart beats per minute below the number that results from the calculation. Considering the Muscles that Trampoline Workouts Affect As soon as you start exercising on a trampoline, you become aware of its effect on your whole body. Healthy Living enumerates the effects on the muscles that work together to give you a healthy exercise routine. Cardiac Jumping up and down on a trampoline creates a high-intensity cardio exercise that increases the blood and oxygen supply to your muscles. The benefits of cardio include keeping your heart healthy, lowering your blood pressure and reducing the risk of blood clots and heart attack. Legs Without impacting your joints, a trampoline exercise gives your legs an intense workout. The jumps that you do on a rebounder or trampoline involve your hamstrings, quadriceps, and calves as they refresh the muscles with vital nutrients. The exercise helps build strength in your knee and ankle joints. Glutes Many muscles in your hip and butt benefit from a trampoline exercise, and they provide the force to lift you up and help you land when you do jumps. The gluteus maximus seems more widely known than the others that work with it. Essential for balance as you jump, they rely on the hip adductors and flexors as well. Abdomen The muscles in your abdomen make up the core group that affects your balance and supports your back. As you strengthen them, you can lose belly fat and build the muscles that prevent backache. Cardiovascular exercises help you trim weight from all areas of your body as well as your abdomen. Deciding How Long to Work Out Time magazine reported on study findings by the American Council on Exercise that equates 20 minutes on a trampoline to running 6 miles per hour, riding a bike or playing basketball. It qualifies as a “moderate-to-vigorous intensity exercise,” but students in the study thought it felt like light-to-moderate. Make sure to include warm up and cool down periods of a few minutes each before and after your workout. Fortune cites recommendations from the Centers for Prevention and Disease Control for adults to get 150 minutes of moderate exercise weekly or 75 minutes of “vigorous-intensity aerobic activity.” The study found that less than 25 percent of Americans get enough exercise. Comparing Calories Burned The amount of calories that your body can burn depends on how much you weigh and heavier bodies can burn more than lighter ones. A half-hour on an elliptical trainer burns 335 for a 155-pound body. A period of 30 minutes in a round of golf with a cart burns 130. Mowing a lawn with a push mower for the same time uses 167 calories. If you weigh 150 pounds and work out on a trampoline for 30 minutes, you may burn 125 calories. The amount that you can burn depends on genetic and other factors that you cannot control, but you can increase the intensity of trampolining by holding weights or swinging your arms. Online calculators for calories burned while trampoline jumping can give you a fairly precise estimate. Determining the Effectiveness of a Trampoline Workout Almost every kind of exercise produces effective results, but trampolining has benefits that make it a valuable addition to your workout routine. The springs or bungee bands that make a trampoline or a small version called a rebounder to absorb the impact on your joints and the soft tissue that surrounds them. In a NASA study cited by Dr. Axe, he notes that the activity distributes G-forces more evenly to the forehead, back and ankle than running that places most of the pressure on the ankles. The reduction of joint pain and injuries makes trampolining a wise choice. Aerobics Significant benefits come from aerobic exercise that strengthens your heart. An increase in oxygen that nourishes the cells seems to produce more effectiveness on a trampoline than on a treadmill. Immune System Exercise on a rebounder may increase the circulation of lymphatic fluids which enhance the immune system by generating more activity in white blood cells. Your body depends on the lymphatic system to flush out toxins, and the gravitational pull that you experience on a trampoline may help influence it. Balance Exercises on a rebounder or a trampoline improve physical strength and the development of muscles that help you sense the orientation of your body. You may want to check your balance by closing your eyes and standing on one leg, and then try it again after two months of trampoline exercises. Brain Endorphins that the brain produces when you exercise make you feel good naturally. Bouncing on your rebounder when you get home after a workday increases your blood circulation and helps relax your muscles. The stress of the day can disappear when you clear your mind and escape from tension by bouncing on your workout equipment.

By: Judi Ketteler@ketteljm My ten-year-old kid, Maxx, doesn’t stop moving the entire four-hour flight from Cincinnati to L.A. Fidgeting, rolling his wrists, straightening and bending his legs, leaning forward and backward, twisting, cracking, stretching. All movements in all directions. And the talking. So much talking. Trying to contain his energy is like trying to bottle a star. Maxx’s restlessness is understandable, though, because he knows we’re en route to his version of Disneyland (different, in every way possible, from the middle seat on a plane). For one weekend in october, a small slice of Venice Beach is being transformed into a pop-up trampoline park called Gravalanche. More than 500 athletes from around the world will swarm the seaside haven for the event, which is less a competition and more an athletic showcase. As for what these athletes are going to do on the dozen or so trampolines in the sand? It’s pretty simple. They’re going to flip. Maxx is a flipper. I didn’t make that name up—it’s the term used to describe the athletes who partake in this newish sport known as Gtramp (short for garden trampoline). Maybe you’re familiar; perhaps your kid has shown you a YouTube video of someone jumping off a roof onto a trampoline and doing a triple backflip or a clip of someone maneuvering an urban landscape by bounding over walls and leaping from concrete pillars. That’s all fair game in Gtramp. The sport is purely freestyle (pointed toes, for example, are unimportant), and, like skateboarding with its ollies and tic-tacs, flipping has its lingo for tricks: kaboom, cody, ball-out. Flippers have established a kind of hierarchy for the hardest way to do a trick—double bounce, when one flipper utilizes the force of his or her bounce to send another flipper higher, is the easiest, with tower bounce, one bounce, and standing following in order of difficulty. Quadruple flips are becoming more commonplace, with some flippers even doing quintuple flips (quints). Maxx does flips everywhere and anywhere but mostly on one of the four (yes, really) trampolines we have in our backyard. It all started with him teaching himself a single backflip and then exploded into more complicated forward, backward, and twisting tricks. He learns by watching videos and connecting on Instagram (under my watchful eye) with other kids around the globe who are part of this movement. The Gtramp community started to gain traction on Instagram around 2016—a quick search of the hashtag #gtramp brings up about 93,000 posts and counting—with YouTubers like 18-year-old extreme flipper Tanner Braungardt playing a big role in the sport’s growth, too (Tanner currently has about 4 million subscribers). Instead of teams and coaches, Gtramp has brand sponsorships and athlete meet-ups, with some trampoline companies sending flippers to do their thing in a slew of different countries. Gravalanche has billed itself as the “biggest flipping event of the year,” but it’s hard to know whether or not this is the case since such things aren’t tracked in Gtramp—not in an official capacity, anyway. And while some of the brands will host exhibition-like contests—take the Gtramp Games created by Greg Roe Trampoline and cosponsored by trampoline company SkyBound USA—on the whole flippers reject traditional competition-based sporting constructs in favor of an all-inclusive, supportive community. Gtramp can be a solitary pursuit until a bunch of flippers get together and show off, which is exactly what’s happening at Gravalanche. Entrants have come to sunny Los Angeles from places as varied as Michigan and the Netherlands.Mike Friedman (left) and his son Andrew observe the scene at the inaugural Gravalanche in Venice Beach. Both are repping their company, Gravitated Equations. We arrive on Friday and spend our first day sightseeing and relaxing at the beach. But Saturday is reserved for Gravalanche. Maxx is ready to roll around 6 a.m. even though the event doesn’t begin till 10. When it finally becomes reasonable to do so, we set out from our hotel near the Venice Beach Boardwalk, and within a few minutes Maxx spots a kid wearing a pink T-shirt with bold, graphic palm trees on the back. “Look, he’s wearing Grav, too!” Maxx says to me before running toward him. “Grav” is an abbreviation for Gravitated Equations, one of the most visible brands in Gtramp. I catch the eye of the kid’s dad and smile. He introduces himself as Karl Mueller and tells me he drove up from San Diego with his son, Finn, who looks close to Maxx’s age. Our kids have never met, but they are already chatting away. Their matching T-shirts mean that Karl and I understand a lot about each other, too. Like me, he’s familiar with attempting to explain these wild flips his kid spends hours every day perfecting, not for a team or competition but for the joy of doing it and sharing it with others. “There is this moment when you meet another parent who just gets it,” Karl says. I know exactly what he means, and I feel like I could cry. The four of us cruise the boardwalk, passing hot spots like Muscle Beach and the pickup-basketball courts. Though it’s barely midday, the strand is already buzzing with grunge, color, and texture. We spot someone flipping about 20 feet in the air and know we’re in the right place. “Finn was a little nervous this morning,” Karl says. But all trace of that is gone. He and Maxx are already “seshing” (their word for doing flips) in the sand with a half dozen others near the entry queue. The exuberance is palpable. It’s going to be a great day, and I know it by looking at Maxx, who is in his element. These are his people. The music is thumping, the temperature is warming up, and L.A.’s iconic palm trees are swaying in the salty breeze. By the way, the palm trees on the back of those pink Grav tees are not a thoughtless design. In fact, they’re sort of why we’re here at all.Wyatt Pedersen (above) takes a spin at a complicated maneuver. Palm trees represent paradise because vacation for me was always somewhere with palm trees,” Solomon Berg tells me. “So I thought: ‘Why can’t I live with palm trees every day?’ ” Solomon is 16. On Instagram, he is @soloflow7, “because I’m flying solo.” He’s also a cofounder of Gravitated Equations, the brand sponsoring Gravalanche. Solomon was 13 and living in Boston with his family when he connected on Instagram with Andrew Friedman (@afriedman15), who was then 15 and living with his family in Brentwood. They were two of the first flippers to push the limits of backyard trampoline tricks, which didn’t go unnoticed on Instagram (together the pair have amassed more than 200,000 followers). Early on they started a group chat on the social media platform and named it Gravitated Equations—because it was a “puzzle of language,” Solomon says. He likes random wordplay, flipping words around the same way he flips his body. The group chat would morph into its own Instagram account and eventually a popular clothing brand of the same name, one that has acquired international recognition and become inextricably linked to the flipping community. But before all that, one very key thing happened: A few adults paid attention to something their kids were saying. To hear their parents tell it, Solomon and Andrew have always been natural athletes, both with a tendency to throw themselves into whatever sport they tried. “Anything Andrew decided to take up, he hyper-focused and excelled and became incredibly good at it,” says Andrew’s dad, Mike Friedman. The Friedmans encouraged Andrew and his brother, Jason, to find ways to move from an early age. Debbie Friedman, their mom, tells me that when the boys were young, she and her husband installed a zip line and ball pit in their basement (talk about being the fun parents on the block). Mike shares how he always tried to make fitness a game in which the only thing to beat was your own best record: How high can you jump? How many push-ups can you do in 30 seconds? How far can you throw the ball? “It was always about setting new goals,” Mike says. When the Friedmans got a trampoline, flipping was simply an extension of that ethos for Andrew and Jason. Across the country, Solomon was cultivating the same passion for challenging his body, says Alisa Berg, Solomon’s mom. “But as he got older, he lost interest in structured sports and wanted to use his athleticism in a way that was meaningful to him.” Solomon started flipping—doing many of the same tricks Andrew was doing on his trampoline in L.A.—and the pair followed each other on Instagram (the Gtramp community was relatively small back then). When Solomon commented on one of Andrew’s posts, the two struck up a conversation. Soon Solomon announced he was going to L.A. to stay with his friend Andrew and went as far as buying a plane ticket on his own. Like any reasonable set of parents, Solomon’s mom and dad asked him to slow down and let them do some research. First they called the Friedmans. “They seemed like a high-quality family determined to let their children follow their own path—within parameters,” says Eli Berg, Solomon’s dad. They agreed that Solomon would go stay with Andrew for a few weeks that summer. (“It was Alisa and Debbie who really figured it all out,” Mike Friedman admits.) Solomon wound up visiting Los Angeles seven times between 2015 and 2016 before he moved out for good in January 2017 to live with the Friedmans. “We knew L.A. is where he could pursue his passion and artistry,” says Eli Berg. “It would have been a fool’s errand to try to box him in.” Before I met these boys and their parents, I would have thought that was, well, nutty. But in talking to them—and now going through this with my own kid—keeping Solomon and Andrew apart seems like it would have been the nuttier option. Solomon arrived at the Friedmans and settled in fast. He and Andrew and Jason would spend hours flipping on the Friedmans’ trampoline, hanging out, and visiting iconic L.A. landmarks. They christened every location on their list—whether it was the Walk of Fame or the Hollywood sign—by doing a flip. Andrew is naturally soft-spoken and reluctant to be in the spotlight, but Solomon’s energy was just what he needed to bloom. For fun, Jason, Andrew, and Solomon wound up creating a logo for their Gravitated Equations Instagram account. After that, using a heat press in the basement left over from one of Mike’s previous business ventures, they made T-shirts to wear to Tempest Free­running Academy in Hawthorne, the local parkour and trampoline park that catered to flippers. Soon other kids at Tempest wanted the shirts, so the trio started a small e-commerce website (by then Jason had mostly lost interest in flipping but was intrigued by the business side). When flippers across Instagram saw these kids wearing the Gravitated Equations shirts, they wanted them, too. “I thought they were playing around with a logo just to have their own thing, but I realized what they meant to the kids in the community,” Mike says. “I thought, ‘This is skateboarding 20 years ago, and you guys are Tony Hawk, so we may have something here.’ ” The Bergs became bicoastal in the fall of 2017 and joined forces with the Friedmans to run Gravitated Equations, which is now a bona fide apparel company. Nobody gave up their day jobs—Eli is a physician, Alisa is a full-time mom, and the Friedmans own a real estate appraisal company—but they tapped every resource (and family member) to build Grav. Jason, now a high school junior, was instrumental in designing the look of the Grav brand and innovating the designs of the clothing (shirts start at $26; sweats can run as much as $48). Zeke Berg, Solomon’s older brother and a junior at the University of Virginia McIntire School of Commerce, helped strategize on website development. Having shipped its merchandise to all 50 states and 33 countries since the company’s inception a little more than a year ago, Grav is the leading lifestyle brand for the flipping community.A crew of young flippers practice their sport at Gravalanche With a permit you can paint the graffitied walls of Venice Beach on the weekends, and I already spot a few artists with their aerosol cans as we make our way into Gravalanche. Maxx immediately hops on a trampoline and feels at home, but it takes me a few minutes to orient myself. There are close to a dozen trampolines, a 12-foot-tall tower—yeah, like for jumping from—with an airbag at its base, a ninja course, and an 80-foot-long, extra bouncy inflatable tumbling strip called an AirTrack. I quickly spot the Gravitated Equations-sponsored athletes, including Jack and Bailey Payne, charismatic brothers from South Carolina; Z Zoromba, the daring former gymnast originally from Egypt; and Dom Lewis, better known as Domitrick. At 26 Dom is the old man of the group and serves as a mentor and unofficial big brother to many young flippers, including Tanner Braungardt. Dom has an easy smile and a compact frame punctuated by calf muscles that pop out like baseballs. His flipping skills are self-taught, and he got serious about training when he was in college at Northwood University in Midland, Michigan (he has a B.A. in international business administration). Flipping and inspiring kids is now his full-time job, and he spends about 75 percent of his time traveling to Gtramp events, trampoline parks, and gyms. His signature move is a back handspring from a sitting position. “This is a sport where you can create your own style,” he tells me before stepping onto the AirTrack and punching out something like seven backflips in a row with a grand finale of a double twisting backflip. Maxx’s eyes widen to the size of dinner plates because he’s only seen guys like Dom on Instagram. “I love that Grav events give kids the chance to interact with each other on a more personal level,” Dom says. Many of the influencers pushing the sport forward and capturing imaginations are from humble backgrounds, but they are all self-made in one way or another. Brittany Hertz, 22, presses up into a handstand while a partner supports her over his head. (Women in the Gtramp community are few and far between, but the contingent is growing. I spot a few dozen at Gravalanche.) She’s a former national cheerleading champion who’s built a huge social media following for her skills in dance, martial arts, and tricking. “I do this because I want to promote being healthy since my dad has heart disease and diabetes,” Brittany says. “Flipping is all about intrinsic motivation.” A few hours in, I spot Karl Mueller on one of the shady couches provided for tired parents. As I plop down next to him, Finn comes over. I ask him what his favorite part of the event is so far. “Everything,” he beams, and runs back to the AirTrack to tumble more. Karl tells me that earlier this year one of Finn’s flipping friends—a girl about his son’s age who lived 40 minutes away—invited some fellow flippers to her house for a meet-up. Meet-ups involve flippers descending on the home of patient and agreeable parents so the athletes can do flips all day, eat pizza, and spend the night (or the week). For Finn, it was the first time he got to be around other flippers, and for Karl, it was the first time he started to understand the community that these young athletes have forged and that his son had become a part of. Maxx spent a few days at flipper Colby Iverson’s two-week meet-up in Waterford, Michigan, this past summer, and I experienced the same dynamic. Though flipping found popularity on social media, the in-person events, whether informal or brand-sponsored, are what help solidify these kids’ cross-country—and sometimes intercontinental—friendships. This is obvious when I watch Maxx meet his Instagram friend Jonah Schwinnen, 11, in person for the first time. Jonah is a good-natured kid from Boulder, Colorado, and his mom, Rachel McLaughlin, has brought him to Gravalanche. When she got a postcard promoting the event in the mail in August (anyone who had ever purchased Grav merchandise got the postcard), Rachel, a single mom with a lot of responsibilities, thought the same thing I did: “No way can we make this happen.” Then she remembered some family members—relatives of her estranged poet-hippie father whom she’d only met twice—who lived in San Clemente. She’d been meaning to visit, so she decided to combine seeing them with a Gravalanche trip. Watching Jonah and Maxx together, Rachel is delighted she decided to come. “One of my favorite things about the flipping community is how supportive the kids are of each other,” she tells me. “There is so much positivity. They really want everyone to do awesome things.” She’s right. All day long, Gravalanche participants are cheering on and motivating their friends new and old. They are the ones making the sport, and they are each other’s coaches. Rachel and Jonah aren’t the only ones who felt especially drawn to the event. Jannine and Gordon Sandmeier, who hail from Long Beach, New York, surprised their son, Kieran, with a trip. “Kieran hasn’t been into organized sports,” his dad tells me. “He is more enthusiastic about flipping than anything else.” Flying across the country for Gravalanche seemed like a needless splurge until the family realized they could tie it in with a memorial for Gordon’s sister, who died in 2017 and had lived in the area. They held a service for her in New York this same week last October, and it only made sense to have one in L.A. exactly a year later. “It was fate,” Jannine says. I tear up a little because I know the feeling. I made the decision to come to Gravalanche on August 31—the five-year anniversary of my father’s death. I went from saying, “We can’t possibly” at noon to “What if we just went?” by 3 p.m. Did some cosmic force bring us all to Venice Beach? A bunch of middle-aged parents trying to figure out this thing our kids do and looking for clues from our departed loved ones? Maybe. I really like the idea. But it might also be the incredible pull of Gravitated Equations. “They are bringing this world to life,” Jannine says. When they first conceived of Gravalanche in early 2018, Mike Friedman, Eli Berg, and the Grav boys—Solomon, Andrew, and Jason—knew exactly where they wanted to hold the event. “Venice Beach is the kids’ stomping ground,” Mike says. “It’s the soul of everything.” SkyBound USA, the backyard trampoline company, immediately came on board as a sponsor. But then Mike wondered if Provo, Utah-based CircusTrix, the largest developer, operator, and franchisor of trampoline parks in the world, could engineer a trampoline grid in the sand. CircusTrix owns Defy, a new breed of trampoline parks that cater to the Gtramp athlete. They liked Mike’s challenge, according to Ty Nielson, regional vice president of CircusTrix, since the company wants Defy to be the brand that innovates for the flipping community. CircusTrix tapped its network of partners and built out a version of a Defy park right there in the sand. Flipping does come with risks, but, I’m happy to see that the brands are encouraging as much safety as possible. Even the cautious parents join in: Toward the end of the day, Debbie Friedman jumps off the tower into the giant airbag, and Mike goes through the ninja course as the crowd cheers. “In my appraisal business, I deal with suits all day,” he says. “This is something much more exciting and rewarding because it involves my kids and their sport.” He waves his hands around. “It’s a movement.” The movement is precisely what brought Pamela Stefanowicz and Matt Janusz to Gravalanche all the way from Poland. On Instagram, they are @fit.lovers, and with almost a million followers, it’s possible they are the most popular people in their homeland. They came on a whim because they wanted to experience Gtramp—and Venice Beach—firsthand. “It is paradise,” Pamela says through a thick accent, and I know she means all of it: the balmy weather, the ocean, the Grav energy, and Solomon Berg’s idyllic palm trees. I’m far too Midwestern to get attached to palm trees, but there in the sand, surrounded by their lanky trunks and weighty fronds (not to mention hundreds of kids cultivating their passion), I see what Solomon saw—the soul of something purely and spontaneously athletic with a freedom of movement that slips right through any system that wants to control it. No one here is being put in a box—unless you’re counting Instagram’s square frames. Judi Ketteler contributes regularly to The New York Times. She is currently writing a book about honesty to be published by Kensington Books.

We're sharing an amazing essay written by Jeffrey V., owner of a SkyBound Stratos trampoline. With his permission, Jeffrey has allowed us to publish his essay on our blog for our fans and friends to read! Read more about Jeffrey's experience with his SkyBound Stratos below

At SkyBound USA, we truly believe in the importance of giving back to the community. This is why we’ve partnered with organizations nationwide that focus on providing educational resources for families of with children with autism. Working with The Center for Autism and Neuro-developmental Disorders in Irvine, CA. www.thecenter4autism.org over the past two years, SkyBound USA had donated mini-trampolines, swings, and other outdoor play products to the center to support families and children in need. From parents and therapist feedback, we learned that our Mini-4 trampoline wasn’t designed to withstand the rigorous hours of use as a therapy and sensory needs training device. This led us to develop the Eos mini-trampoline for the sensory needs community. Prior to the Eos mini trampoline, very few options existed in the market that focused on promoting sensory play and sensory regulation. Other brands of sensory trampolines were far too expensive for families to purchase for home use. In developing the Eos sensory trampoline, SkyBound USA set out to achieve a more budget-conscious sensory needs mini trampoline that didn’t compromise on quality, safety, or performance. Through our community outreach efforts, we realized there existed a need for a premium mini-trampoline that could serve both therapists at centers and families at home alike. The Eos mini trampoline was designed for just this purpose. With a welded dual-frame design for superior strength and stability, a removable dual-handlebar design to support children’s’ balance and coordination, and a proprietary safety mat skirt to limit user contact with steel parts, the Eos truly delivers as one of the safest mini-trampolines for children on the market today. Personal Customer Success Story: Frank L., a local parent in Orange County, reached out to SkyBound after his autistic child, Broxton, broke three different SkyBound Mini-4 trampolines in under a year due to his daily hours of extended usage. Broxton, a passionate fan of SkyBound, loves his Eos mini trampoline and was very happy to report that his Eos was holding up strong after months of usage. Frank, Broxton’s dad, says the Eos is a regular part of Broxton’s daily routine at home and has provided his son with a positive outlet to self-regulate his mood and energy levels, day or night. Do you have story to share with us about your Eos and sensory needs child? Or, are you an Autism resource center or special needs childcare center interested in the Eos for your children? Please connect with us and tell us how we can help! Click to read more about the SkyBound Eos Mini Trampoline 

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What an amazing community and group of people to work with! We are so thankful to have been invited by CircusTrix, the largest trampoline park company in the world, to sponsor and support FLIPCON 2018 in Las Vegas! This year's FlipCon 2018 features some of the best acrobatic, tumbling, gymnastics, parkour, freerunning, and Gtramp athletes from around the world for an action-packed, fun-filled weekend at the Las Vegas strip to promote the flipping community.  Our partnerships and collaboration with CircusTrix, Greg Roe Trampoline, Tanner Braungardt, AirTrack US, and Gravitated Equations has helped to make this world-class meet-up event a major success for the flipping community. To celebrate our partnership with FLIPCON, SkyBound and CircusTrix have created limited edition co-branded FLIPCON socks that will ensure you won't slip or fall when bouncing on an indoor or outdoor trampoline! We're also hosting a free SkyBound x FlipCon 2018 sweepstakes contest for your chance to win our newest flag-ship trampoline, the SkyBound Horizon rectangle 11x18 ft trampoline! Runner up winners will receive exclusive SkyBound x DEFY FLIPCON socks! Join our free contest now at www.skyboundusa.com/promo for your chance to win a brand new SkyBound Horizon trampoline. Contestants will also receive an email with a 20% off single-use discount promo code that will expire on 12/31/18!  SkyBound x FlipCon 2018 Contest ends on 8/24/18. Contestants will receive a 20% discount code via email upon the conclusion of the contest on 8/24/18. Discount code is applicable until 12/31/18. Single use coupon per order.  www.skyboundusa.com/promo/ www.flipcon2018.com/ www.circustrix.com/ www.gravady.com/ www.tbraungardt.com/ www.gravitatedequations.com/ www.trampolinecoaching.com/ www.freestyletrampolineassociation.com/  

 The SkyBound GT Games goes Global! Presented by GRT Inc. & SkyBound USA  Media Press Release    May 29, 2018 - Escondido, CA.  SkyBound USA, a Fuloo LLC company, has partnered with Canadian Trampolinist  Greg Roe of GRT Sport Events to establish themselves as the leaders in the freestyle and garden trampoline community movement (#GTramp). SkyBound USA launched the world’s first official garden trampoline competition with support from Greg Roe Trampoline in summer 2017. In 2018, the US version of the GT Games will return to the Escondido Sports Center on June 29 - July 1, 2018. One month following the USA event, the GT Games will travel to Denmark for the first ever GT Games in Europe! GRT and SkyBound USA have been the trailblazers in the garden trampoline community, creating events around the world and providing the freestyle trampoline community an outlet and a platform to showcase their incredible athleticism, skills, and abilities.   The SkyBound GT Games, short for “Garden Trampoline Games,” is an annual event to promote the freestyle garden trampoline community of athletes.  Each year, the GT Games invites the top athletes around the world whom demonstrate not only outstanding skills but also control, creativity, and style.  The judges review through hundreds of online video submissions using the hashtag #GTGamesUS2018 or #GTGamesEU2018 and registering to officially compete at www.gtrampgames.com/registration. Greg Roe, a former Olympic-level trampolinist for Team Canada, will serve as co-host and emcee of the event as well as providing mentorship and support for the young athletes whom will be competing in the GT Games from all over the world. Over 1,000 submission entries were received for the SkyBound GT Games this year, with the selected athletes invited to compete in a friendly competitive tournament. Many of these young athletes (age 11 - 21) are excited to have the chance to demonstrate their unique skills and talents in front of their peers and spectators, their social media followers, and their fellow freestyle Gtramp athletes. Some athletes as young as 11 years old have already become social media influencers, developing a YouTube following spilling over from their Instagram and SnapChat accounts where they post highlights of impressive tricks and skills, as well as their unique ‘daredevil’ style stunts. The GT Games is expanding to a three-day event this year with Friday, June 29 being the ‘Media and Training Day’, including a press conference at 12:30 pm at the Escondido Sports Center in Escondido, CA. All media partners are invited to attend this exclusive event conference featuring Greg Roe and some of the top sponsored athletes in the sport for a ‘Question & Answer’ segment and live demonstrations of their skills on the SkyBound trampolines provided for the GT Games. Lunch and refreshments will also be served.  The competition will start on Saturday June 30 at 2:00 pm PST and will last until approximately 9:00 pm PST. Sunday morning at 10 am PST, the top ten finalists from each division will compete for the first, second, and third place prizes for their respective competitive event. On Friday, registered athletes will have the opportunity to free-bounce and test out the new flagship SkyBound ‘Horizon’ rectangle trampoline that is about to hit the North American consumer market, as well having their free-bounce sessions coached by Greg Roe. “The Horizon trampoline is SkyBound’s newest flagship model trampoline. Rectangular in shape, it’s the largest garden trampoline of its  kind.  SkyBound’s engineers have extensively tested the bounce quality, enclosure safety, performance, and durability of the Horizon trampoline to develop one of the bounciest and strongest garden trampolines in the world.” - Ricky Lai, Marketing Manager, SkyBound USA SkyBound USA’s corporate philosophy is closely aligned with the message GRT has been delivering to the trampoline community worldwide -- creating a fun and safe environment for ‘flippers’ and Gtramp athletes, achieved through a safe and educational trampoline training program. Based on Roe’s step-by-step approach to training and putting safety first, SkyBound USA believed in aligning with GRT’s mission for bridging the gap between the recreational trampoline enthusiasts and professional trampoline athletes. “Over the past few years, the Gtramp community has been faced with criticism for allowing kids to perform multiple flips and tricks on their backyard trampolines without supervision and coaching. What the general public don’t realize is many of these young athletes actually learn the skills from well known and respected trampolinists by watching on-line tutorials, taking classes at local gyms or trampoline parks, but still many are self taught;” explains trampoline professional Greg Roe.  “ The fact that they can achieve the skill level we are seeing today is a testament to their perseverance and the improvements in the quality of equipment available. Both SkyBound and GRT Inc. see them as true athletes in their own regard and want to give credit to the GTramp community through the creation of the GT Games.” – Greg Roe, GRT Inc. Greg Roe is a well known former gymnast, Team Canada Trampolinist and Level 3 Coach, who will also be hosting a trampoline skills camp training with the athletes invited to the GT Games. Greg Roe respects the skills and the style that the Gtramp athletes bring to the bigger trampoline community as a whole. Rather than patronizing the Gtramp community for their perceived ‘dangerous’ tricks and flips, Greg Roe believes there is value in coaching and reinforcing safety and positive mental training for all trampoline athletes attending the event and viewing the event across the live stream and social media partner networks. “This is an amazing sports opportunity for the GTramp community!” added Trish McGeer, GRT’s Director of Marketing and GT Games organizer, “Greg and I began working in partnership with the SkyBound USA last year, bringing his unique style of coaching and enthusiasm to the brand. We are thrilled to bring this unique event to California for the second time. Last year was an a amazing event and it will be even bigger and better this year.” The SkyBound GT Games is growing this year to include Europe! Taking place on August 4 - 5, 2018 at the world-famous gymnastics school, Ollerup Gymnastics, located in southern Denmark, European freestyle garden trampoline athletes will be treated to a state of the art facility, dorm rooms, and beautiful accommodations. For more information on the SkyBound GT Games presented by GRT Inc., please visit their website at: www.gtrampgames.com   GT Games USA event hosted by: Escondido Sports Center (Kit Carson Park), California GT Games EU event hosted by: OllerUp School, Denmark, Europe   For more information please contact:  Trish McGeer, GRT Inc.  - email /  trishmcgeer1@gmail.com Ricky Lai, SkyBound USA   - email / rlai@skyboundusa.com

Austin ( @itsaustin2005 ) suffers from a rare condition called Mitochondrial Disease. This means that his mitochondria are unable to completely convert food and oxygen to generate energy, which is essential for normal cell function. As a result of this, overexertion can tire Austin out really quickly. He also has heat intolerance, which can be difficult when living in a place like humid and sunny Florida. Austin and his mother, Tonia ( @mitomommy ), drive to Houston, TX from Florida to receive treatment for his condition every six months.For Christmas, Austin asked his mother if he could have a SkyBound Trampoline just like Tanner Braungardt’s ( @tannerbraungardt ), whom he is a huge fan of! As a single mother, this proved to be difficult to manage so Tonia reached out directly to us at SkyBound in the hopes that we could offer some level of assistance. After learning about Tonia and Austin’s story, we offered to donate Tonia and Austin one of the Stratos trampolines that we used at the first annual SkyBound GTramp Games!Needless to say, Austin was ecstatic to get the trampoline! We’re so glad that we could help Austin get exactly what he wished for Christmas this year – a SkyBound Stratos trampoline and a chance to speak to his favorite Youtuber, Tanner Braungardt! 

Huge shout out to everyone who participated in our free seasonal contest!! 🎁🎅 Congratulations to the SkyBound Cyber Monday Contest Winners!! @lilly.flips11 is the winner of one 10x14' Orion trampoline! @backflip_jesse is the winner of one 11'x16' Orion trampoline! 🆓 Stay tuned for new contests, discounts, and upcoming promotions by joining our SkyBound Member's Club newsletter: www.skyboundusa.com/members-club 🚀 

SkyBound is donating 1% of all it's sales this September to Hurricane Harvey Relief and we are donating money personally to Hurricane Irma as well. We invite you to inform yourself about these issues and to see if there's anything you can do to help. www.FeedingAmerica.org makes 11 meals for every $1 donated to them and they have been focusing on Hurricane Harvey and Hurricane Irma. There is also a Hurricane Irma Relief Fund with Global Giving that helps to find the most immediate needs of the people affected by this disaster. To learn more about this Fund or to donate yourself, please visit https://www.globalgiving.org/projects/hurricane-irma-relief-fund/

Celebrating trampoline season! 5 winners get one of our Stratos, Cirrus, Super7, Swing Nets, or Skybound Swag Bags. The more people you get to enter, the more entries you have under your name, so spread the word! This contest ends on July 21st, so in order to have a trampoline to practice your moves on this summer season, get moving! You can enter the contest by going to http://www.skyboundusa.com/promo  

For Memorial Day 2017, we wanted to support our long-time partners, Honoring Our Fallen, in a way that would help them feel invigorated by their amazing on-going support for the families of our fallen heroes. We also wanted the children of our fallen military heroes to feel happy and care-free during a difficult period of transition for their families. Honoring Our Fallen works tirelessly to support the families and loved ones affected by the loss of a parent or family member during their honorable military service for our country. We first worked with Honoring our Fallen in 2015, when we donated and delivered a pallet of children's mega blocks and our Super 7 trampolines to Chick-Fil-A in Seal Beach, CA, which hosts the "Children of the Fallen Toy Drive" event annually every year. Laura Herzog, the director and president for Honoring Our Fallen, started her non-profit organization in Southern California in 2011 and has since seen it grow from one chapter into numerous local chapters across the nation with the same mission and values: to support the children and families of our fallen soldiers. Our team at SkyBound USA has always been touched by the mission and values of the staff and volunteers that work with Honoring Our Fallen. As Honoring Our Fallen has seen growth over the past couple of years, SkyBound USA also has developed our own network of loyal fans and followers. This growth has allowed for SkyBound USA to donate over $9000 worth of SkyBound outdoor products, toys, and trampolines to Honoring Our Fallen during this year's Toy Drive event! We were ecstatic to donate 50 SkyBound swing nets and 50 SkyBound Mini-4 trampolines to support our military families and children in need following the loss of their loved ones. 

The Southern California Special Olympics "Regional Spring Games" event at Irvine High School was such a blast! We were so excited to come out and support our partners, The Center for Autism and Neurodevelopmental Disorders, at their booth with a free give-aways and raffle prizes for SkyBound mini-trampolines and outdoor swing nets!  Our partners, the Center for Autism and Neurodevelopmental Disorders, serves all of Southern California's diverse local population. With their ground-breaking research, education, and training services, they have become one of the premiere centers whom support local families in their quest to understand and educate themselves on their childrens' varying needs for development. In the past year, they have helped over 2500 families through over 18,000 visits to their center located in Irvine, CA. The Center for Autism and Neurodevelopmental Disorders' mission and vision is, "To be the local and national leader in creating opportunities and removing all barriers toward a fulfilled life for people with autism spectrum and other neurodevelopmental disorders." We were so honored and thrilled to support these amazing athletes in their various sporting events throughout the entire day at the Regional Spring Games! Providing the attendees with awesome resources to programs and community events for people of all ages with special needs, as well as hosting an awesome give-a-way and raffle, made for a happy day under the sunny California sun. SkyBound USA is excited and already looking forward to next year's Special Olympics event! Bring your A game!      

Two teams. Same dream! #TeamSkyBound is now made up of two dynamic teams, the Pro Team - Invite-Only athletes, and the Skills Team - best of the best applicants from all over the world. Together, our sponsored athletes represent our brand and make up the core of our Gtramp community.  Head on over to Team SkyBound's Skills page to learn more about the new program and how to submit your sponsorship application for review! We are seeking the most passionate and dedicated athletes to represent SkyBound as our brand ambassadors. Good Luck to the new SKILLS TEAM applicants! Are you all ready to get SkyBound? #TeamSkyBound 💯 #SkyBoundWorldWide 🌎 #SkysTheLimit 🚀

What’s up Team?! Next week the SkyBound staff will be flying to New York City as first time exhibitors at the 51st annual New York Toy Fair!! Hosted at the Javitz Center in Manhattan, you can locate us on level 1 at our booth #4131 if you’ll be attending the event! We’ll be hosting really cool give-a-ways and having a meet and greet with Greg Roe (@gregroetrampoline) on Saturday, February 18, 2017!!! We’ll also be hosting a ton of give-a-ways and freebies at the fair so don’t miss out! Even if you aren’t attending the event, check out our Instagram live feed @skyboundtrampolines!! We’ll be broadcasting really cool stuff that we see on the ground at the Toy Fair! Are you ready to get SkyBound with us?

Now through Cyber Monday you can shop exclusive deals on trampolines, outdoor accessories and trampoline parts! Visit Trampoline Parts Center to start shopping! $100 off the Cirrus Trampoline Buy 2 get 1 free Children's Trampolines! Free Anchor Kit + Ladder with Cirrus or  Stratos Trampoline purchase! Free Mini 3 with Super 7 Trampoline purchase! Free Swing Net with Stratos or Cirrus Trampoline purchase! *Offers end Cyber Monday    

SkyBound is proud to present our second new product of the month- Children's Trampolines! These mini trampolines are 40" in diameter and come in two dynamic patterns sure to encourage creative and imaginative play.  The Children's Trampolines come in two patterns- blue with white clouds and red with white polka dots.  The vinyl pad cover protects the jumper, while a foam padded handle bar maximizes safety and stability. In a time of television and video games, SkyBound Mini Trampolines will improve your child’s gross motor skills, coordination, and balance.  With a ground clearance of 10” and a handle bar height of 21” from the jumping surface, these trampolines are perfect for children ages 3-6. Maximum weight: 100lbs. SHOP NOW 

Introducing our newest product:  The Cirrus The SkyBound Cirrus Trampoline is a 14 ft trampoline designed for greatness. It will inspire your children to dream bigger and jump higher. Six enclosure poles encourage stability and safety while blue accents provide a fresh and clean style perfect for any backyard. This trampoline is fully enclosed within our premium net enclosure system. The nets concave design adds to the visual appeal in addition to protecting the jumper from landing outside the jumping mat. Enclosure poles and pad are covered by SkyBound's proprietary blend of vinyl PVC material & pole foam. Both net and pads are coated with UV resistant material and when compared to standard foam, it better withstands UV degradation and offers 4x the lifespan of standard foam. The SkyBound Cirrus is a structurally stable and highly functional trampoline. Our lightning-quick enclosure system allows for easy set up without bolts, screws, brackets, braces, or pole caps. Premium zinc dipped gold springs bounce higher and last longer than industry standard springs. Topped off with a 10-year frame warranty, this aesthetically-pleasing, minimalist design is everything you have wanted in a trampoline, and more! PURCHASE NOW