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| Flying_V_Vaulting_Team Competitive vaulting team from the Canberra region of Australia, registered with the NSW Vaulting Council. Team information, membership fees and photos. |
| Horses_of_the_Sun Equestrian facility specializing teaching Voltige in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. Lessons, summer camps, and clinics. Information about Voltige, services offered, and photos. |
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| Valley_View_Vaulters_Inc_ Includes history, awards, horses and vaulters, lesson schedule and calendar of events. Based in Lake View Terrace and Long Beach, California. |
| Vaulting__Gymnastics_and_Dance_on_Horseback Provides general vaulting FAQ and contact details for clubs in the Washington, D.C. area. |
| Windrush_Vaulting_Group Club promoting and teaching vaulting in Oxfordshire, Gloucestershire and Warwickshire, England. Regular meetings every Wednesday at the Unicorn Trust at Stow on the Wold. |
| Aerial_Golden Contains a chat room, injury reports, training, a message board, and a listing of the gymnasts' birthdays. |
| Internet_Fantasy_Gymnastics_Association Networks many fantasy gyms under one site and hosts meets including invitationals, worlds, and olympics. |
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| Aeroball_by_Alaska_Team_Fitness_LLC A very safe trampoline based sport, that can be played indoors or outside. |
| All_About_Trampolines A comprehensive resource containing information about the sport of trampolining and buying a trampoline. |
| Find_A_Sport_-_Trampolining Children's site giving an introduction to the sport of trampolining and what it is all about. |
| Gymnastics_Australia_-_Trampoline_Sports Official Australian Gymnastics trampoline and tumbling page, with details on the sport in general, events and results, management committee and technical information. |
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| United_States_Trampoline_and_Tumbling_Association Official site of the USTA, with news, events and information about national teams and the association itself. |
| USA_Gymnastics_Tramp_and_Tumb__Page Official USA Gymnastics trampoline and tumbling page, with details on all of the trampoline/tumbling levels and information about famous athletes. |
| Welcome_to_Trampolining UK based resource providing calendar, photos, videos, club list, and a database of results and rankings. Also includes a message board and a section of general technical articles about the sport. |
| Allexperts_Gymnastics Volunteer experts (gymnastic coaches) answer questions about gymnastics. |
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| The_Drills_and_Skills_Pages Drills and skills covering all artistic gymnastics events. A constantly growing database of drills. Animation and video for many skills. |
| European_Gymnastics_Institute A resource to aid fans, athletes and professionals in discovering gymnastics. Publishers of Worldwide Gymnastics magazine. |
| Flip_and_Tumble_Gymnastics_Poems A site full of gymnastics poems and links to other gymnastics sites. |
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'Play up' card for the Natives' Rugby TourThe New Zealand Native Football Representatives' tour of Britain is relatively unknown. The first New Zealand representative rugby team to tour beyond Australia, they played their first game in Britain on 3 October 1888. The title of 'The Originals' was bestowed on the next New Zealand rugby team to tour Britain, that of 1905/6, which arrived home to an official welcome befitting conquering heroes. But even though it was soon forgotten, the Natives' tour was to have enduring significance for New Zealand rugby and society.The Natives had originally been called New Zealand Maori. After five Pakeha were selected to strengthen the touring party it was renamed by its promoter on the basis that all 26 team members were New Zealand born. This was a promotional device: two had in fact been born overseas. Most of the team assembled at a training camp near Napier in May 1888, and they played their first match against Hawke's Bay on 23 June. Before they left New Zealand they were condemned as 'a poor team' who wouldn't beat the strongest local club sides. But after they slipped quietly back into the country a year later, their play was praised as a 'fine exhibition of what several months of combination and practice will do.'
The Native team's capBy the time the team dispersed at Auckland in August 1889, they had played a staggering 107 rugby matches in New Zealand, Australia and Great Britain, winning 78 of them - plus eight Australian Rules and two soccer fixtures! For much of that time, no more than 20 of the touring party were fit, which forced those who were into a playing schedule that no modern team would contemplate.A major book on the Natives' tour by historian Greg Ryan, Forerunners of the All Blacks (Canterbury University Press, 1993), provides a detailed study of the tour, and anyone interested in further information on the topic should consult this book. This feature draws extensively on Dr Ryan's research and insights. Material from Forerunners of the All Blacks has been used with the kind permission of Dr Ryan. Additional material has been compiled by David Green. 
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