Later Years
Nissen remained involved in a trampoline manufacturing business making trampolines for exercise and for spaceball, a game similar to volleyball, but played on a trampoline surface.
Nissen had always wanted to have trampolining included in the Olympic Games. This finally happened in the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney. In 2008, Nissen was able to travel to Beijing to watch the trampoline event at the 2008 Summer Olympics. He was given the honor of testing out the Olympic trampoline before the event.
He died in San Diego California on April 7, 2010 at the age of 96 from complications from pneumonia.
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