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times. Spaceball, which he invented, was his pet love and he sponsored the Nissen trophy for the first UK National champion, won by Nick
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is given to the best male senior gymnast in the college gymnastics system. He sponsored the 1st. World
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fraternity while he was in school. He had seen circus trapeze artists use their safety nets as an elastic bed to rebound and perform additional tricks. He thought that this would be useful training tool for his tumbling. In 1934, Nissen and his coach,
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the word in an anglicised form. He built a few trampolines and promoted the sale of his trampolines by touring performances, which did gradually increase sales. In 1941, he and
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make similar equipment and eventually, although the word trampoline was originally trademarked by Nissen, it became a
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