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Summary: Bouncing on a trampoline safely requires moving the arms like a breast stroke and aiming for the center of the trampoline to avoid jumping too high or losing control. Master a basic trampoline bounce with a circus gymnastics performer in this free video on trampoline stunts.
Paul Anderson is a professional circus performer who has studied throughout Europe and the United States. He runs a circus school in Hollywood, Fla. Anderson is a clown, acrobat, tuba...read more
"In this clip we are going to show you the complete bounce. In the last clip we started by showing the feet open, together, open together. Now we are going to add the arms to that. The arms are going to be like a breast stroke action. Down, up, down, up, down, up. You noticed that there is a pause here. Pause, pause, pause, pause. And you see my feet are pointed. And it is a slight, ever so slight pike. I don't want to go: arch. I want to go a slight pike this way, to control. Now the next step is to see if you can bounce ten times in a row on that "X" nice and high. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten. And stop. The last one is very important too. To bounce and to be able to stop when you want to. Because you don't want to just keep bouncing and smaller, and smaller and smaller and smaller until you stop. You want to be able to stop your bounce."
eHow Article: How to Bounce on a Trampoline