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.