Trampoline apparatus for use in connection with tumbling and the like

Trampoline apparatus for use in connection with tumbling and the like, the apparatus including elongated laterally spaced side members extending longitudinally of the apparatus and defining a trampoline-like bed frame but open at its opposite ends, a trampoline-like bed but narrower relative to its length of flexible material extending longitudinally of the apparatus disposed between the frame side members, the length of the bed being substantially 3 times or more its width to provide directional rebound characteristics, the bed having a pair of bed side edges along and spaced from the frame side members and first and second opposite bed ends unenclosed by the respective opposite ends of the frame, a plurality of elongated and resiliently extendable members interconnecting the bed side edges and the frame side members to effectively resiliently suspend the bed in tension therebetween, the resilient members most adjacent the open ends of the bed providing a greater tension on the side edges of the bed than is provided by the resilient members along the remainder of the bed side edges effective so that a performer running along a floor or the like and then jumping onto the first end of the bed is rebounded therefrom onto and then off the second end of the bed and onto the floor or the like, and means for supporting the frame and bed in overlying spaced relation above a floor or the like.