Jumping rope is much more than a playground pastime. Just ask Molly Metz, a five-time jump rope world champion, who has done roughly 1,400 unbroken double-unders (that's when you turn the rope ...

COLORADO SPRINGS — More than 1,200 student athletes from all around the world are in Colorado Springs this week for the World Jump Rope Championships. "Not only this year and the economic impact to ...

Sioux Falls will be host to the American Jump Rope Federation’s National Championship event next year. Members of the federation (AMJRF) recently announced that Augustana University will welcome more ...

A new club hopes to get kids jumping off the couch and into the ropes. Anthonette Blake-Gonzalez, originally from south Florida, has been jumping rope competitively for 16 years. The 32-year-old ...

If “jump rope” conjures old-fashioned images of kids in a schoolyard skipping repetitively over a length of rope, you’ve never seen anything like the Kangaroo Kids. One rope, two ropes, passing ropes ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. — A group called Confident Girl Mentoring held its Jump 4 Confidence jump rope competition on Saturday on Bailey Avenue. The competition was free for all boys and girls between the ages ...

After sweeping the events at the USA Jump Rope Regional tournament, the Cary YMCA SuperSkippers are headed to the U.S. National Jump Rope Championship in Long Beach, Calif. After sweeping the events ...

Thirty-six members of the Heartbeats Jump Rope Team traveled to the Gulf of Mexico to compete in the 2009 U.S. National Jump Rope Championship held June 25-28 at the Galveston Island Convention Center ...

Every January, the best rope jumpers from around the country head to Bloomer. Students in grades 1-8 will be competing in the rope jump competition this weekend. Hundreds of the top rope jumpers have ...

“Not last night but the night before, 24 robbers came knocking at my door...” But it wasn’t burglaries happing in the foothills last weekend, but rather a performance by the Palpitating Panthers jump ...

Jumping rope might have been your go-to activity during fourth-grade gym class, but this simple piece of equipment is actually one of the best-kept secrets of the fitness world. And it’s not just for ...