QUEBEC — One by one, five athletes hurl themselves off a wall beneath the sweeping arches of what once was the St.-Esprit church. Sixteen feet below, they land on a trampoline, snap back toward the wall and send themselves outward again.
The vertigo-inducing activity, performed here at Quebec Circus School, a training program for the circus arts, is known as wall trampoline. Part gymnastics, part parkour, it is a nascent sport that has few participants — they call themselves bouncers — and a rule book that is still being written. But the inventors of wall trampoline, toiling in the chamber of the repurposed church, have big plans for it.
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