AcrobaticSports.com recently put online some of the most exceptional trampoline videos ever shot.

The first exceptional video was shot on the French Polynesian island of Tahiti after the 1994 World Championships in Porto (POR).  The video features some of the most exceptional video shots of trampoline.  The video features 1993 European Champion Fabrice Schwertz (FRA), 3-time European Champion and 4-time World silver medalist Andrea Holmes (GBR), and French internationals Fabrice Hennique and Alice Besseige. 

Link to the Tahiti video

The second exceptional video was shot in the early 1990s on the top of the Pic du Midi, a 2,877 meter high (9,439 feet high) mountain in the French Pyrenees where an astronomical observatory is located on the top.  The video also features Fabrice Schwertz.

Link to the Pic du Midi video

In video interviews with AcrobaticSports.com (not yet translated in English and a little slow to download), Fabrice Schwertz discussed the making of these videos, including the difficulty to breath on the top of Pic du Midi: Part 1 - Part 2 - Part 3 

The third video is from a French TV report shot in 1997 at the Eurocup in Paris.  The video (in French) features an interview with 1996 World silver medalist and 1997 World Cup Final winner Emmanuel Durand (FRA), shots from Fabrice Schwertz' trainings in Antibes, an interview with 2-time World Champion Lionel Pioline, excerpts from Pioline's show, and excerpts from the "Dieux du Gymnase" gala at the Paris-Bercy arena in 1997.

Link to the 1997 trampoline video

The fourth video is also from a French TV report shot in 1997, this time at the French training center in Rennes.  The video focuses on tumbling.  It features (in French) interviews of 5-time World Champion Chrystel Robert, French internationals Jean-Francois Gloux and Stephane Bayol and coaches Christophe Lambert and Didier Semmola, as well as excerpts from the "Dieux du Gymnase" gala at the Paris-Bercy arena in 1997.

Link to the 1997 tumbling video

The fifth video is from a French TV report shot in 1994 before the Porto World Championships.  The video focuses on then European Champion Fabrice Schwertz and his training at the Antibes training center before the World Championships.  The video offers shots from a video camera on Schwertz while he jumps, pictures from training, and excerpts from an interview.

Link to the 1994 trampoline video

AcrobaticSports.com added a fifth video to its "bonus" section.  The video was shot at a France-Russia show on February 1, 2001 in Grenoble, France.

Link to the February 2001 France Russia show video

The video features Olympic Champion Alexander Moskalenko (RUS) performing a routine with 4 triffises, Olympic Champion Irina Karavaeva (RUS) performing a routine from the Olympics.  The two Olympic Champions from Krasnodar also jump in synchronized trampoline at this show.  Former European Champion and World Cup Final winner David Martin (FRA) also performs a rudy out triffis pike, and jumps in synchro with Mickael Jala (FRA).  Jala performs in individual as well.

Tumbling 2-time World Champions Levon Petrossian (RUS) and Elena Bluzhina (RUS) also perform some impressive passes.  In this show, Petrossian performs a triple back pike, as well as a miller lay.  Petrossian and Bluzhina were joined in the tumbling demonstration by World Cup Final winner Nicolas Fournials (FRA) and other French tumblers.

The video also features performances by the European Champion mixed duo Elena Kiryanova-Yuri Trubitsin (RUS).   

Other athletes recognizable on the video include Olympic Champion Alexei Nemov (RUS) and Svetlana Khorkina (RUS). 

The speaker at the show was former French head coach Michel Rouquette (FRA).

AcrobaticSports.com would like to thank Ali Bourai for this video. 

You can find these videos and many other exceptional videos in our "bonus" video section.

Link to the bonus video section