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Welcome to the Brampton Acro Ropers Site |
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Welcome to the offical website of the Brampton Acro Ropers competitive jump rope team. The Brampton Acro Ropers are a competition skipping team from Brampton, Ontario, Canada. Established in 1987, the Brampton Acro Ropers compete in regional, provincial, national and international competitions. The Brampton Acro Ropers are composed of energetic and enthusiastic eight to seventeen year olds who love the challenge and fun of this competitive sport. In recent years, the team has travelled throughout Canada and the U.S. to attend competitions and elite jump rope workshops.
The Brampton Acro Ropers are actively involved in the community, promoting fitness awareness at local schools and community events as volunteer representatives for the Heart and Stroke Foundation. The Brampton Acro Ropers will do demonstrations for schools, community events, and business events. A demonstration consists of choreographed skipping routines involving our complete team. The Brampton Acro Ropers skip to lively music that makes the audience want to get up and join us. We guarantee that you will be tapping your feet as you enjoy our amazing acro-roping. If you haven't seen a world class rope skipping team then you don't know what you are missing. For something different at your next event, send us an email. You won't regret it!
Our performance history includes appearances in the Disney movie "Jump In!", Canada AM, CityTv, YTV, at Toronto Argonauts football games, and most recently at the Sprockets Film Festival premiere of the documentary "Jump". Also the Acro Ropers sponsors a recreation program to inspire novice skippers to develop their talents. |
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Last Updated ( Sunday, 05 October 2008 07:08 )
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2008 Worlds - South Africa |
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 In July of 2008, the Brampton Acro Ropers (BAR) sent 10 athletes to Cape Town, South Africa to represent Brampton and Canada in the World Rope Skipping Championships. In a preliminary tournament, the South African International (SAI), Erika Wolter won gold for our country in Power with 134 triple unders and finished 8th overall. Other athletes competing in the SAI included Kathleen O'Callaghan (16th overall), Brittany Yard (13th overall) and Amy Chiappetta (7th overall).
The World Championships had 2 BAR groups competing in team events and 5 BAR athletes competing in the individual (master) events. The three top teams and the five top individual athletes from 19 different countries competed for the title of "World Champion".
In team events, the team of Matt Delorey, Amy Chiappetta, Brittany Yard and Kathleen O'Callaghan had 9th place finishes in Single Rope Pairs Freestyle and Double Dutch Speed and placed 13th overall in the Senior Mixed Team events. The team of Jaclyn Santamaria, Erika Wolter, Samantha Santamaria, Brittany Gillies and Shelby Toews had a 4th place finish in Single Rope Speed and placed 12th overall in the Junior Female Team Events.
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Last Updated ( Sunday, 21 September 2008 06:43 )
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Jump Rope Featured in new TV series |
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Starting Saturday Sept 20th, Fox, CW, ABC, My TV and affiliates will feature a a new series: The Real Winning Edge TV series for teens. The shows are unfortunately only be available in the US. The Winning Edge delivers to our youth the kind of entertainment value they enjoy watching, while promoting a value system that enforces a strong source of purpose and worthiness. This 13 week television series includes three profiles of young achievers per 30 minute episode. On week 8, Anna Schemmelfing, from H.S. Jump Rope. National Champion, NC will be featured. Check out the website for more info: http://www.challengerfilms.org/index.php |
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Last Updated ( Sunday, 21 September 2008 06:41 )
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- 2 Current Canadian National Overall Champions
- Junior (12-14) & Intermediate (15-17)
- 2007 Intermediate Team Champions
- 2007 Canadian Junior record holder in 3-minute speed
- Current national record holder in triple unders
- Current national record holder in 3 min endurance for 12-14 year olds female
- Current national record holder in 3 min endurance for 10-11 year olds female
- Current provincial record holder in 30 sec speed for 10-11 year olds female
- Current national record holder in double unders for 8-9 year old female
- Current national record holder in 30 sec speed, 3 min speed & double unders for 8-9 year-old males
- Current national record holder for Team Single Rope Speed Relay (15-17)
- Current national record holder for Team Double Dutch Speed Relay (15-17)
- Canadian records in double dutch and 30 second speed
- Largest representation on Team Canada at 2006 Worlds Competition
- Over 15 world champion level titles and over 40 national wins for our coaches
- 5 time AAU Junior Olympic Champion
- and a team full of energetic, dedicated, talented athletes, awesome coaches & supportive parents!
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Last Updated ( Saturday, 04 October 2008 07:32 )
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2008 Junior Olympics - Detroit |
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 Three Brampton Acro Ropers who qualified for the AAU Junior Olympic Games brought home 7 medals and 4 ribbons. More important, the athletes and family members who made the trip were able to exchange lots of tips, tricks, stories, high fives, team pins and hugs.
The AAU Junior Olympic Games competition is the largest youth multi-sport event in the world with 16,000 athletes competing in 21 sports from nearly all 50 US states and many countries from across the world. The BAR skippers fit in well among the 575 jump rope athletes from 39 teams, coming from as far away as Singapore and Australia to jump rope.
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Last Updated ( Saturday, 09 August 2008 07:40 )
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 Skipping has been around for thousands of years, although historically, it was only boys, using grapevines or clothesline as ropes, who were permitted to skip.
The sport of jump rope, however, has a much more current history. Recognized officially in Canada in 1982, competitive skipping is governed by the CRSF. Today the sport has jump rope associations in over 15 other countries and includes national, U.S., European, and bi-annual world competitions. Athletes compete in both individual and team events (male, female and mixed). Skipping lingo includes phrases such as suicide, donkey kick, pretzel, octopus, triple unders and speed, speed, speed! It is the fun and exhilaration of conquering these strange sounding and spectacular moves that inspire the over 1000 young Canadian athletes involved in this terrific sport! |
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Last Updated ( Sunday, 08 June 2008 06:18 )
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