Jump Rope Workshops!

Beci and Gemma then Travelled across Scotland to Oban where they ran 2 days of workshops on Monday 11th and Tuesday 12th February at Oban Primary School Campus.

They worked with every class from Rockfield and St Columbus and on the last day they did a big assembly demonstrating their skills and talking about the sport.

Thanks to the teachers that organised all this, as the trip was a huge success, the schools were lovely, and we hope to see them again!

Training Day inScotland

Beci and Gemma Travelled up to Portlethen, Aberdeen on Saturday 9^th February 2013 to run a Workshop on Sunday 10^th February for the Portlethen Skip Hop club.

The girls worked with the club mainly on how important teamwork is and helped them work towards putting teams together for the next British Rope Skipping Team Championships. They all worked really hard and we were both impressed with their teamwork, ability and determination.

The workshop went really well and the kid’s enthusiasm was very inspiring, we look forward to seeing them at the next team competition if we don’t see you before!!

After a fantastic 2012 for JRUK we are pleased to present Jump Rope UK Girls promotional video 2013. Please check it out!

Click here to watch the Promotional Video 1

Promotional Video 2

For more information about the group please contact us via our email: info@jumpruk.com

JUMP ROPE UK FESTIVAL

The Jump Rope UK girls which were part of the Group “Get Tricky” who performed at the Olympics would like to share with everyone this statement from “Get Tricky”

Inspire A Generation:

Jump Rope UK girls Beci, Rachael, Gemma and Laura are all getting ready to perform at the Olympics with their performance team GET TRICKY, made up with International jumpers.

You can also follow the GET TRICKY team at the Olympics on our Twitter page @GetTricky_12 or via our Facebook page which you access through Jump Rope UK’s page.

THE JUMP ROPE UK members have just returned from Washington DC after a very successful World Championship held at the George Washington University.

Read more: Jump Rope UK aces are Washington DC wonders | Redditch Standard

Rachael from Jump Rope UK was asked to hold two presentations on single rope speed and Double Dutch speed, as well as teaching in the camp, and these presentations will be available on the World Jump Rope website at www.worldjumprope.org.

The trip to America was an amazing experience for all the girls and they are looking forward to going back next year, but this time it will be in Orlando, Florida, so the fund-raising begins now!

Jump Rope UK will be travelling to Washington DC on Tuesday 3^rd July for the World Jump Rope Championships.  To follow the event and Jump Rope UK you can log onto the live stream and twitter account that WJR are providing : www.worldjumprope.org

Jump Rope UK will be promoting our sport at Sports Fest 2012 this Saturday 30th June, with Demonstrations and have a go workshops. For more details of the event click on link

http://www.sportsfestivals.co.uk/sports-and-activities

Jump Rope UK were invited to perform and run Have a Go workshops at Bradford’s “Games in The Park”during June.

Jump Rope UK, Rebecca Jayne Dale, Rachael Ann Dale and Laura Summers visit to the Isle of Man.

Celebration of skipping

JRUK Demonstration

Please click on the link below to see the footage of Jump Rope UK’s promotional Video. There is a mixture of training and commercial work, we hope you enjoy it.

JRUK Promotional Footage

Jump Rope UK was invited by Studley Parish Council to
perform at their “Picnic in the Park” Jubilee celebration on Monday 4^th
June. Jump Rope UK Kidz were joined by their coaches and put on a wonderful
performance. Please click on the link below to see footage:

Jubilee Performance

Jump Rope UK stars get out and about

An article updating everyone on all there recent exposure over the last few weeks. Lots more exciting events coming up soon!

Matalan / YST “Your Activity” Vists:

The British Rope Skipping Association is in Partnership with Matalan and Youth Sport Trust for their “Your Activity” scheme, here is an extract from the Matalan Your Activity Pilot  Report about Jump Rope activity taken up by Greenfield School and Jump Rope UK coaches who delivered the session:

Two members of NGB staff came in to provide some training for the teachers and Young Leaders and were also involved in the first session.

The NGB staff themselves were perceived to be ‘amazing’ and Mrs Williams noted that the participants had enjoyed having them involved. As she noted:

“The girls that came and did the demonstrations, they were lovely, they really were amazing, and the pupils were hanging on everything that they did”.

Several participants also commented that the emonstration by NGB staff had been “really good” and “amazing”, with one girl noting that “it really made you want to join in and do it”. The aim at Greenford is to continue the Jump Rope sessions indefinitely and perhaps try to tie some of the activities into PE lessons. Mrs Williams felt that this would help to facilitate the sustained impact of Matalan ‘yoUR Activity’ in the school. The resource pack itself was perceived to be very good, being described as ‘brilliant’ and ‘useful’. “It was a really, really good activity pack and it tells you how to organise warm up routines, how to put routines together, it’s absolutely brilliant”

In particular, Mrs Williams liked being able to print off and laminate activity cards for the Young Leaders to use within activity sessions. The format of these cards was also perceived to be ‘fantastic’, with pictures and descriptions facilitating the pupils’ use of them. Natalie also noted that the activity cards were “useful” and several of the participants also commented that they found it helpful to have examples of how to use the ropes. As one girl commented, “I’m really not that used to (Jump Rope) so if I didn’t have some advice on what to do I think I would just be
lost”.

Views on Project Impact

Mrs Williams felt that, overall, the project had been very
successful at Greenford. In particular, she noted that it had “definitely” achieved its aim of re-engaging ‘non-doers’ of sport in school. The activity sessions regularly attract around 60 pupils a week, with a combination of sporty and non-sporty girls involved (and sometimes some boys). This mix of pupils was also highlighted as a positive impact of the programme.

Putney Junior School First Visit:

“I just wanted to say how pleased we were with today’s workshop. All the girls had a fantastic time and Laura and Beci were brilliant with them. They all have skipping fever now”

Putney Junior School Second Visit:

“I just wanted to say thank you again to Beci and Rachael for the workshop yesterday. The girls in Years 4 and 6 loved it and want to do more! I am thinking of setting up a skipping club at the school”

School Games Organiser, Blackburn:

“The girls who delivered the course on Wednesday were Excellent, and those who took part in the course really enjoyed it. They have all gone away with lots of ideas about how they can use Jump Rope within their schools.”

Rachael Dale from Jump Rope UK was featured as the Mystery Guest on the Russell Howard Good News Show on BBC3 alongside team mates Beci Dale and Gemma McGhee.

Video link

Beci, Gemma and Laura representing the British Rope Skipping Association were invited by the National Federation of Young Farmers to judge their first ever Jump Rope Competition at the Arena, Riviera Centre, Torquay

The girls judged the finals witnessing  some outstanding routines from the teams, they were very impressed as this was very new to many of the competitors taking part.

Two teams from Jump Rope UK competed for the first time in the Fusion Style Competition.

Junior team – REACTION  is a team made from different clubs, Lauren, and Stacie from Jump Rope UK, Harry and Sam from Bouncers and Lewis from Taurus came together especially for this competition.

The did a fantastic job in the Fusion event and came a commendable 7^th place.

Senior Team J-RUK with members Rachael, Beci, Laura and Gemma competed in the Mini Fusion event and were placed an impressive 3^rd place

Both teams had a fantastic time and are looking forward to next years Event.

Rachael, Beci and Gemma were asked to shoot a short commercial for Schwarzkopf to promote their New LIVE Color XXL

To watch commercial click here

Rachael, Beci and good friend Vivien Vajda from Hungary representing  the British Rope Skipping Association were invited by Matalan and Youth Sport Trust  to travel to London to run “have a go “ workshops and perform a demonstration in support of Matalan Your Activity launch.

To watch the video click here

JRUK were asked to perform at the British Colleges Championships this year due to high demand. The performance took place at Bath University and the girls were the closing act at the event. Belwo is a quote from the British Colleges Sports Events Officer:

“I would like to say a very big thank you for your performance on Friday night – it was excellent – please thank the Girls for us.  We received many comments from everyone stating how much they enjoyed the display.”

Watch here 

The national speed competition ran by the BRSA was held up in Glasgow for the first time. The JRUK girls travelled up to Scotland where they competed in various events coming back with a mixture of medals. There was a workshop/training day the day after where the JRUk girls ran the day providing all participants with lots of new skills.

Article in the Newspaper, read here.

Jump Rope UK girls Beci, Rachael and Laura are part of the new 2012 FIFA street TV commercial!

WATCH HERE

Jump Rope UK girls were crowned Senior team of the year at the 2012 Stratford sports awards.

Read more: Sports Awards glory for globe-trotting Jump Rope UK stars

JUMP INTO 2012

Following a successful debut at the London Prepares Series in 2011, four British Champions from “Jump Rope UK”, Beci Dale, Rachael Dale, Laura Summers and Gemma McGhee, have been given the honour to demonstrate the sport at the 2012 London Olympics as top performers. The girls, along with eight other elite Jump Rope stars from …all over the world, have been invited to perform during the complete period of the event.
The elite Jump Rope group “GET TRICKY” will take four weeks from their increasingly busy schedules to showcase the skill of Jump Rope on the highest platform. Team Manager Sue Dale has spent months coordinating the British Champions along with teammates Nick Woodard and Robbie Csonstos (Hot Dog USA); Joe Edney and Ted Lehman (Bouncing Bulldogs USA); twins Wouter and Willem Tack, and Jonas Vermeulen (Recrean Belgium); and Vivien Vajda (Hungary) to choreograph a number of performances to wow the unsuspecting crowd. The group is honoured to represent the growing International Jump Rope community at the 2012 London Olympics.
The London Organising Committee of the Olympic Games and Paralympic Games (LOCOG) are currently putting the finishing touches on plans to host the “GET TRICKY” stars

JRUK CISCO performance

Back in May 2006 Beci and Rachael were cast for a Commercial for a juice drink called Adez. The commercial was shot in Barcelona and the girls were part of a team made up of American, French and Spanish skippers. The Final edit of the video is below:

Adez Juice Commercial

On Friday 27th March Jump Rope UK Girls Lauren, Stacie, Beci and Rachael were on CBBC FRIDAY DOWNLOAD, it was a great appearance for JRUK, for more details click on the link below:

Article in the Newspaper: Friday Download Article

To watch the footage click on the link: Friday Download

Jump Rope UK were asked to appear on “The One Show” to perform a 45second routine to impress and then get Michael McIntyre into the Double Dutch ropes. So Beci, Laura and Gemma travelled down with Coach Sue Dale to appear on the Live show. The girls did a brilliant performance and successfully got Michael McIntyre jumping inside the ropes first time. He was actually pretty good and looked like he was having a lot of fun jumping around with his bouncy hair.  The video is below:

  The One Show with Michael McIntyre Video 

Rachael and Beci were asked to be on staff at the Jumping with the Stars annual Comet skippers workshop held in Ohio, which is the biggest workshop held in the USA. This was Rachael’s 3rd year of being asked back and Beci’s 1st year of attending to teach at this workshop. They travelled round many schools in the area on the friday with a mixed group of 40 jumpers from across europe and the USA.The saturday consisted of workshop sessions with a staff show to end the night and on the Sunday they held a elite workshop for those who wanted more tuition and wanted to work towards competitions. It was a great experiance and the girls feel very priviledged to be asked to be part of workshop.

Beci and Gemma were put forward to appear on the channel 4 documentry for GymBox which will be out in the next few months. The documentry is about following 3 personal trainers that are looking for new ways to work out in the gym. Beci and Gemma had to pitch Jump Rope to the judges demonstrating their own skills as well as how it would work in a fitness enviroment. The judges loved the girls passion for the sport and and loved Jump Rope. We hope they loved it enough to use it in their gyms…well have to wait and see.

Rachael from Jump Rope UK was asked to be on staff at the North Carolina annual Bouncing Bulldogs workshop. This was Rachael’s 3rd year of being asked back to teach at this workshop. She went round many schools in the area on the friday with the rest of the internationals put on shows to the schools. The saturday consisted of workshop sessions with a staff show to end the night and a very fun battle between the staff which can be seen in videos very soon.

Rachael travelled to Paris to compete in the IDDC fusion competition with 5 belgium guys. Rachael travelled to Belgium a few weeks before to work with the guys and in there few sessions they put together a great routine. The next time they got together was in Paris where they performed the routine to everyone. The performance went down amazingly and the audience loved it. They won over the judges and audience and were placed 3rd overall.

Video here

Jump Rope UK worked with Veyom and Ankur Bahl (two ex american jumpers) to put a performance together for the filming of Comedian Jason Byrnes next DVD – “Cirque Du Byrne”. The girls travelled down to London where the filming took place at the Hammersmith Apollo. Jason joined in with the performance and showed some great skipping talent. The Performance went amazing and the audience loved it, it was a great end to his show.

Will keep you posted on when the DVD will be out next year.

Beci Dale from Jump Rope UK was selected to be part of this video, introduced by Ian Wright former top footballer. It was made as original content for MSN’s New Thinker Index, sponsored by Hyundai. The videos are below:

Fancy Footwork

The Making of Fancy Footwork

The British masters was held at Kingsley sports centre Redditch, where we had competitors from the area, Wales, London and Scotland come together to compete for the title. This year Jump Rope UK girls took the top 4 places with:

Rachael dale ine 1st place, Rebecca dale in 2nd place, Laura Summers in 3rd place and Gemma McGhee in 4th place.  As well as the overall placings the girls took home medals for individual events such as: 30seconds speed joint 1st place Rachael and Rebecca Dale and in joint 2nd place Laura Summers and Gemma McGhee. 3minute speed 1st place Gemma McGhee, 2nd place Rebecca Dale and 3rd place Rachael Dale. Freestyle event 1st place Rachael dale, 2nd place Laura Summers and 3rd Place Rebecca Dale.

Video footage of each Individual routine to be uploaded very soon.

Article in the Redditch Standard – Link

For the past 4 years Jump Rope UK have been invited over to UCD Dublin to perform and run have a go session for the University students during freshers week. It is always an enjoyable week and i dont think any students went home without having a go.

Head Coach Sue Dale was approached by the Entertainment Committee of LOCOG to provide a Jump Rope Team to perform at these events in August 2011. The Team consisted of Top Jumpers from, Belgium, USA, Hungary and UK (JRUK jumpers).

This was an amazing experience for all that took part, to see the performances click on link below:

The Internation Jump Rope Team performance

The Jump Rope UK Girls travelled to Hungary where the European Team Championships  July 2011 were held. The team took Gold in single rope speed relay and Silver in double dutch speed relay.

Beci, Laura and Gemma from Jump Rope UK were asked to perform as part of the Olly Murs music video, which was filmed in July. The single was a success and went straight to number one. Check out the video in our gallery.

One of our Jump Rope UK girls (Rachael Dale)  travelled to the USA to check out and compete in the new World Jump Rope Championships which were held in Washington DC. Rachael competed in the indivdual 30seconds speed event where she got a Gold and Silver. She also then competed in the pairs speed event with Jump Rope friend Vivien from Brazil and they acheived 1st place. Rachael also competed in individual freestyle where she did an amazing routine and got 5th place.

For the Past few years Jump Rope UK have been invited over to the Isle of Man where there host Michelle Poyzner takes them around schools to teach the children and demonstrate our skills to them in the hope of inspiring them to do more. Over the past few years Michelle has created a skipping population in the Isle of man. Schools from all over the island come together once a year to do a group skipping demonstartion, each year Jump Rope UK are amazed at how much of an improvement there always is. After all the schools have demonstarted we put on a performance for the children to remember and to go back and work towards.

We always enjoy this opportunity and we hope to be returning next year.