The videos are starting to pour in from the World Championships in South Africa. The results from the tournament are available on the IRSF homepage. Here is a video sent to me by Zev Troxler from Worlds. This video is of Mathew, Garrot, and Collin from Hot Dog USA. This routine blew me away. It’s what I call a very “dense” routine. It has a ton of tricks and turner involvement all back to back. There are no wasted jumps in this routine. There were also several original tricks that were just fantastic to see. Great job guys!
Here is another great video promoting JUMP! This video was shot in front of the PUMA store at North Park Center in Dallas, TX. It features interviews with director Helen Hood Scheer and jumpers Jeff Mauss and Nick Woodard. And of course it goes with out saying that you will see some amazing jumping!
This video should give you some ideas, what JUMP ROPE is and can be.
Most of the sequences are from national or international championships or shows.
The video includes jumpers from Australia, Belgium, China, Germany, Japan, South Africa, United Kingdom and the United States of America. But there are MANY more…
Here is a video of the FR4 Team Show from the 2008 US Nationals. FR4 placed 1st in the Team Show event with this routine. That is an amazing accomplishment on it’s own. What makes it even more amazing is that this group was composed of members from 4 separate jump rope teams from 2 states. That means these kids pulled this together by traveling on their free weekends to different towns across state lines just to prepare for this one event. Way to go FR4!!!
While you wait for the official airing, here is a sneak preview of one of the routines you are sure to see. This is 2008 Grand National Champion Shane Winsor doing his award winning single rope freestyle.
This is the third installment of “The Rope Show” by Lee Reisig. In this episode Lee shares with us a project that he has been working on for the past 4 years. It is called the Jumphabet and it is a brilliant way to describe jump rope tricks concisely and accurately. It helps remove ambiguity when describing a trick. I’m still trying to digest it all at this point, but I can already see the power in what Lee is proposing here. He describes it as a “periodic table of jump rope skills”. As an engineer myself, I definitely appreciate his very academic approach to breaking down every skill into it’s fundamental building blocks. I now fully understand why Lee has been called the “Mad Scientist of Jump Rope”.
Now that the 2008 US National Jump Rope Championships are behind us, it’s time to get pumped for the World Championships. They will take place in less than a month in Cape Town, South Africa from July 22nd-30th. To help us all prepare… here’s a cool story about the development of the sport of Jump Rope in South Africa.
Good luck to all of the competitors from around the world!
This video was submitted by Vienna Huber from Camrose, Alberta in Canada.
Vienna writes:
Hi,
We love your site, it is amazing. We have put up a few videos to youtube, if you want to use any of them you can.
Our team is the Camrose Spirals, from Camrose Alberta, Canada. Our club has been competitive for 15 years. We do demonstrations, have attended camps, and compete.
Thanks for sharing Vienna. Your team has some great videos. This was my favorite because of the variety of jump rope styles that it demonstrates. Tell the team I said great job and keep up the good work spreading the word about the sport!
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