HAPPY NEW YEAR
Happy New Year to our rope skippers! Let's make 2008 a spectacular year full of joy, a great world champs and many many great training sessions together. All the best and let's get it on! Maarten
Sponsor our national team
It is allways a major mission to find sponsors. This year it is a major opportunity to get on board. The World Rope Skipping Championships are held in Cape Town. We are looking forwards to meet partners who like to cross with us the mountain and to return with medals back home. For more information contact our office.
New Rope Skipping Movies
Look here to the latest Rope Skipping Movies.
1. Double Dragons in Paris: The Competition.
2. Double Dragons in Paris backstage
3. National Rope Skipping Championships in JHB
Gold for South Africa
The South African Junior team won this weekend the international double dutch contest in Paris in the single division. Adam Smit, Eric Molosioa, Otsile Kgomo and Jastin Coetzee became the spectators favorites during their freestyle.
International Double Dutch Contest
Eric and Otsile from Free State and Jastin and Adam from Northern Cape arrived today in Belgium. After a hard practice they are ready to compete in Paris at the double dutch competition. Good luck!
Pictures from Nationals 2007
It took a while but here are some pictures from the nationals in Johannesburg. check
Results National Champs
The results will be soon online, due a bussy schedule we appolozise for the delay...
Results Free State and Western Cape Albany Cup
Check the results from the Albany Cup in the Free State and the Western Cape. Download this zip. If you can't open it please send an email to maarten@pjr.be
Congratulations to all participants!
CONDOLENCES: KAGISHO KGOMO
We are saddened to hear about the death of Kagisho Kgomo; a well known Gymnast and Rope Skipping Coach and Athlete from the Free State.
We all loved him and will forever keep him in our heart.
On behalf of the South African Gymnastics Federation we would like to send our condolences to the Kgomo family.
We wish you strength and peace at this difficult time.
Our thoughts are with you and your family.
Sincerely
ELIZABETH CAMERON SMITH JERRY MASIA
Managing Director President
MARTI HERI
National Manager; Gymnastics For All
MAARTEN GOEDEME & ANNA GUTTER
Rope Skipping
World Championships main info
Al registration documents and info are available on the FISAC website.
Soon we will upload the information as well on this website.
PROGRAM
Day1: Tuesday 22nd July
First Arrivals & registration & training
Judges Training workshop
Day2: Wednesday 23rd July
warm- up training
Judges Training workshop – Mandatory Coaches and Judges meeting;
South African International Competition : Single Rope Competition (10 - 12; 13-14 )
Masters (15-17 & +18)
Day3: Thursday 24th July
South African International Competition : Team competition (10-12; 13-14; 15+)
FISAC - Meetings: Board; Judges; Coaches etc.
FISAC Opening Ceremony
Day 4: Friday 25th July
FISAC World Championships Team competition
(Junior Girls; Senior Boys; Senior Mix)
Day 5: Saturday 26th July
FISAC World Championships Team competition
(Junior Mix; Junior Boys; Senior Girls;)
Day 6: Sunday 27th July
FISAC World Championships Masters Competition
Day 7: Monday 28th July
Out reach workshops into townships
FISAC Demo Cup & Closing Ceremony
Day 8: Tuesday 29th July
Sightseeing
Day 9: Wednesday 30th July
Departures
Qwa-Qwa Free State Albany Competition
It is cold and windy but that doesn't stop Qwa-Qwa from jumping this weekend outside. Over 300 rope skippers will compete in the Albany Cup. Good luck to them!
Cape Town is preparing for the Albany Cup
About 300 rope skippers are getting ready to compete in the Albany Cup this saturday in Cape Town. Location: Sport School, Nooiensfontein road - Kuilsrivier - Registrations are at 7 AM. The competition starts sharp at 8 AM.
During this competition there are selections to win for the national championships in September in Johannesbourgh. The competition is open for recreants as well as for elite jumpers.
This competition is sponsored by Albany Bread. We wish everybody good luck! For more info call our office. (contact)
World Gymnaestrada
The World Gymnaestrada was a major success. Thanks to all participants and spectators who supported South Africa! It was awesome. The presentation during the educational forum was received very well. We will upload the slides later this week. Keep up the good work!
5 years of development 2002 - 2007
Meet Sbu and his friends… This movie shows his way in rope skipping from the very beginning till now. Download (Save with right mouse click first)
Next week 500 south african gymnasts are going to the World Gymnaestrada in Austria. Under them are many rope skippers. They expect 23.000 gymnasts from more than 50 countries! On the 14th of july Marti Heri from SAGF and Maarten Goedemé will give a presentation about rope skipping during the educational forum.
CAPE TOWN - HOST to 2008 FISAC IRSF World Championships
It is official - Cape Town will be hosting the 2008 FISAC- IRSF World Championships!!
from the 22 July 2008 - 31 July 2008. Get your self ready!!! Thanks to Play2Think and SAGF that made this possible - also thank you for the international community that entrusted this big event to us.
Albany Skip4Health Hanoverpark
Play2Think and Chrysalis Academy introduced 7 primary schools in Hanoverpark (Mitchells plain - Cape Town) to the Albany Skip4Health program during the week 21 May - 26May. It was highly successful and on the 26th May the schools competed against each other. 138 jumpers participated and they ranged from grade 3 to 7. Albany bakeries ensured that the stomachs were taken care of - and with a volunteer team like Chrysalis is was all smooth sailing, thanks Me Diedericks; Mr. Ruben Kotzee; Jerome; Bandtino; Kenneth and Lelani who were the driving force. Taski and his group from Khylitsha brought some experience to the day. The following were the results:
Results
Grade 3
1st Denavan Goliath no. A9 (Summit Primary)
2nd Nicole no. A16 (Belmore Primary)
2nd Juniad Ventura no. A43 (Summit Primary)
Grade 4
1st Shafiek Olivier Atlantis no. B20 (?)
2nd Jamie lee Frank no.B95 ( ?)
3rd Ikaam Davids (parkfields)
3rd Mushfeeka Sterras (Blomvlei)
Grade 5
1st Taariq Shahoedien no. C81(?)
2nd Ageetah Hendriks no. C3 (parkfields)
2nd Shimone no. C86 (?)
Grade 6&7
1st Lwando Magali No. D49 (?)
2nd Sive Mbala No. D43 (?)
2nd Marchell Alexander No. D 41 (?)
THANKS To Albany Skip4Health; Chrysalis Academy; Play2Think and all the schools participating
Western Cape Boys Jumps in Gobabis Namibie
Thank you to Hennie van Niekerk (part of the organizing committee of the Gobabis "Vleis Fees")who decided to imported the Rope Skippers from the Western Cape to Namibie for his "vleis fees". During the festival Sibusiso; Masixole and Nicholas had the opportunity to share the stage with other artists and after performing were swamped by children interested to learn a few tricks with a rope. This led of course to small teaching sessions. We hope that this sparked something special in Gobabis and that rope skipping in Namibie will grow.
Disney Channel Movie "Jump in"
The Disney Channel Movie "Jump in" was launched in South Africa on the 19 April 2007- and Kagisho; Eric; Jane and Arusha from Thaba Nchu travelled all the way to JHB to do a display at the Melrose Arch Hotel. Thank you to Taryn Fritz Public Relations who made it possible
Rope Skipping World Champs in Cape Town?
Anna Gutter is on her way to Canada now to present the south african bid to FISAC. Cross all your fingers so that in july 2008 the world champs will be hosted in Africa for the first time!
Rope Skipping in Mozambique
Edmundo Ribeiro is a docent a the sport university in Maputo. The national language is Portugees overthere. Last year they organized the first competition. There are about a 1000 rope skippers and clubs are getting started in every province. Since 2004 Edmundo is involved in rope skipping and developing the sport in Mozambique with his students. Every year he joins the South African rope skipping camp to gain more knowledge and to spread out the sport. In this movie you learn more about the great job that he is doing... download the interview
Single Rope Movie from the camp!
New movie online with all the best skills of the single rope freestyle battle. Check it out now! (40 mb) Download here.
thanks to everybody for the awesome rope skipping camp
more pictures, movies and documents will be online soon...
Database
I developped a new database for rope skipping. It is a try-out and a long term project to gain more information about rope skipping in south africa, to improve communication and to speed up the registrations. Feel free to complete the forms and to send your comments to maarten@pjr.be Thanks a lot! Click here to check it out.
Some inspiration
"The secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret of getting started is breaking your complex overwhelming tasks into small manageable tasks, and then starting on the first one."
Mark Twain
DDF - SuperTalent Flanders
Maarten is competing with DDF in a tv talent show in Belgium. After the camp DDF has to jump again in the semi-final! watch it here
Rope Skipping Camp in PE
Rope Skippers be ready! It is one week before we gonna do some new rope skipping miricals and magic! Let's work hard to be prepared for the world champs in 2008! I can't wait to see you all again! Maarten
Double Dutch Telkom Advert
The quality of the movie isn’t very high but as you can see Rope Skipping is booming and hot in South Africa. 10 days to go before the national camp in Port Elizabeth will start! Download the advert
BREAD FESTIVAL with ALBANY Skip4Health
With Albany bakeries running their bread festival in WC, GP, FS & KZN - PLAY2THINK with the help of skippers in these provinces got the opportunity to promote the Skip4Health program in schools. Thank you to the following jumpers that will be promoting during this time the project.
WC - Jerome & Lilanie from Chrysalis & Vuyolwethu Gwama form Khylitsha
KZN - Sandile Ntombela, Goodenough Mcwabe & Luyanda Duma
GP - Tumelo Sebelebele ; Sojah Semetjane; Patrick Lehana, Thumelo Kunene &Arnold Maqubane
165.118 jumps in 10 hours
12 rope skippers (8 from Belgium - also Maarten was jumping - and 4 Hungarians) did 10 hours double dutch speed the 24th of feb. In total they did 165118 jumps! The record was hold in Antwerp (Belgium) in the shopping mall. Pictures and movies will be soon online on www.ropeskipping.be
World Champs 2008 in South Africa?
The SAGF board voted positive to bid for hosting the next rope skipping world championships (2008) in Cape Town. The international rope skipping federation, FISAC will make a decision in May about which country wins the bid.
THANK YOU to PLAY2THINK; for making the bid presentation possible.
G' Day
Whats up everybody. Just want to remind you about the S.A.Gymnastic camp IN P.E. Its gonna be great. Hope to see everyone there. From Nicholas
Annual General Gymnastics Camp 2007
Dear Jumper Fanatics,
The next exiting event in SA is the Annual General Gymnastics Camp 30 March - 5 April 2007 in Port Elizabeth at PE College (Dower College) close to the BEACH!!! We are aiming to get the best 4 girls and 4 boys + 2 coaches of each province there. Train hard and be pro-active to make sure, you will join us. Talk to your coach about this and make sure, they are in contact with the provincial development officer.We will have 6 gorgeaus Danish Girls joining us for the week with Maarten and Anna leading the activities. SKIPPA regards.
MARTI HERI, National Development Manager, SAGF
Buyani Trust to capacitate Rope Skipping Coaches
With the help of Linda Behr & the Buyani trust,
SUCCESS IS NOT FINAL, FAILURE IS NOT FATAL: IT IS THE COURAGE TO CONTINUE THAT COUNTS!! ~ Sir Winston Churchill
New pictures online
Go to our photoalbum and check all the pictures from the workshops in Port Elizabeth, Free State, Cape Town and Limpopo from the last month.
Limpopo Province
Anna and Maarten went to Limpopo Province (Mokopane). Together with the local rope skipping team we did some displays and workshops in front of the mall and in schools to promote rope skipping. The campagne was very successfull and soon some new rope skipping clubs will be started up. It was really awesome. Thanks to everybody!
Maarten in SA
It is almost time for Maarten to return - BUT before he does, we are going to Potchefstroom and Mokopane:
A New year, with new things
Dear Skippers!
Be ready for an adventures year with lots of adrenaline, cause every day of this year is ending with .007. Keep on jumping and hope to see you all in PE for the camp, and then at the Albany Open! Keep watching! Kind regards Anna
calendar update
WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS ROPE SKIPPING
CAPE TOWN - GOOD HOPE CENTER
22 July 2008 - 31 July 2008.
The National training camp will be from 25th -30th March in Bloemfontein - at HTS - the school next to FSSSI.
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