Just News: End of January

February 7th is the annual African American Heritage Celebration.

203 will be performing their first fusion routine. Fusion is comprised of jump rope tricks and choreography set to mixed music.

As a pure enthusiast for all things jump rope, we try and remember that children are attracted to skipping because it's fun. To be precise, consistent, and have stamina it takes hard work and many, many, hours of practice.

With a wink and a nod, let's just say we have the fun part worked out. It has been a pure joy watching these children who range in ages 7 to 9 take to jump rope irregardless of skill, culture, or gender. When a cultural pool of 20 kids ranges from Southeast Asian, African American, Mexican, South American, Chinese, European American, German, Tibetan, British/Latino, this kind of diversity is simply worth mentioning. And the academic productivity is equally varied.

Even still, smiles light up at the very mention of Double Dutch.
And performing in front of 500 people for the first time is not a problem.

3D Double Dutch Jump Rope Arts Morning Summer Sessions!

3D is in the process of setting up a schedule for Summer Classes 2008 in Berkeley.
Classes will be in beginning and intermediate jump rope skills. Summer sessions will begin June 23rd and continue through July 31st.
Subjects of focus for kids 7-13 include:

• leadership
• problem solving
• rope skipping and turning techniques
• musicianship and jump rope arts
• health & nutrition
  
• skipping routines

3D actively combines the rhythmical arts of rope skipping with interdisciplinary studies to build ambassadors for a better tomorrow!
Contact doubledutchdelco@gmail.com for further information.

Other Details in the News...because nutrition is key...

January 14 Alice Waters Honored for Edible Schoolyard Project

Help Raise Healthy Children benefit special guest performers was a squad from the Bouncing Bulldogs International Jumprope Club from Chapel Hill, North Carolina. BTW the Bulldogs will be participating in the next Olympics. Event honoree was the Chez Panisse Foundation for it's creation of the Edible Schoolyards project in Berkeley schools.

The key idea behind the Edible Schoolyard project is to educate children about healthy food so as to offset the 'fast food nation' phenomenon where the culture of processed food with high fat and calorie content is contributing to childhood obesity.

It is interesting to note that Alice Waters happened upon sustainable farming in her quest to find the best tasting food. It just so happened that the ingredients that tasted the best came from organic farmers. It was not long after these times (circa 1970's) that the effects of our current eras 'fast food nation' began an alarming trend of childhood obesity.

video interview of Alice Waters on abc7 news from January 11, 2008 can be accessed at...
http://abclocal.go.com/kgo/story?section=view_from_the_bay/health_fitness&id=5884184