Howard County-based precision jump rope team Kangaroo Kids has been competing and performing for 45 years, from local elementary schools to University of Maryland halftime shows to the Macy’s ...
These kids know how to jump into action. Students skipped rope to raise money for the American Heart Society at the Jump Rope for Heart Jump-A-Thon at Sheepshead Bay’s PS 197 on Feb. 13. The ...
Every day at recess, Azhnay Williams practices her cartwheels. But the fourth-grader at Lancaster's Wharton Elementary School isn't turning head-over-heels in an ordinary way. She's flipping through a ...
On a weeknight in a mirrored room with track lights, a crowd jumps to the beat. Pop music reverberates off the walls. The mirrors fog up. The crowd bops and does fancy moves, such as the criss-cross, ...
Few things are as simple as a jump rope. Just a plastic cord, really, with a couple of handles at the ends, made quite literally for child's play. But in the hands of Rene Bibaud, a jump rope blurs ...
PARADE. >> LET’S SEE HOW SOME OF THE KANGAROO KIDS ARE PREPARING. >> THESE ATHLETES MAKE JPUM ROPING LOOK EASY BUT THEIR COACH WILL TELL YOU IT TAKES PLENTY OF PRACTICE TO BE A NATIONALLY RECOGNIZED ...
There was a time when kids spent summer evenings out on the sidewalk, practicing tricks with their jump ropes. With all the smartphones and video games in their lives today, they could use a reminder ...
If you think jumping rope is for “girls in their skirts, jumping on a playground,” Alysia Mattson suggests you reconsider. “It’s way more of a badass sport than that,” the 28-year-old Seattle ...
The Local newsletter is your free, daily guide to life in Colorado. For locals, by locals. Among CrossFit’s many puke-inducing exercises, one that doesn’t seem like it should be all that difficult is ...