Winter
2009-10
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"Superhuman Rope Skipping" - Don't miss an article in "University Students" Magazine about teaching jump rope in East Africa. [. . .]
University Students Magazine - China
07 Aug 09 Jump rope team is third in nationals
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 [. . .]
The Medina Sun
Spring
2009
On teaching jump rope in Tanzania:
I've seen a lot of January winters. The first twenty-one were windy, snowy, and brutally cold. This January was different. . . this January, I taught jump rope in East Africa [. . .]
Oberlin College
Oberlin, Ohio
Spring
2009
Wave Makers
"Jumping rope has given me great opportunities to share with others," [Fry] says, referring to a winter-term project he designed in January that led him to several schools in Africa [. . .]
Oberlin Alumni Magazine
(final story)
29 Apr 09 Idea pays off:
. . . Michael Fry was one of three winners this year of Oberlin's Creativity & Leadership Fellowships, which reward students with great business or social-justice ideas [. . .]
The Plain Dealer
Cleveland, Ohio
(final story)
25 Feb 09 The AKA, Mombasa tries "jump roping"!
In January the Academy welcomed Michael Fry, who has been touring East Africa to promote the sport of jump rope. Michael is a student at Oberlin College [. . .]
News
Aga Khan Academy, Mombasa
25 Feb 09 Jump Rope in East Africa
Jump rope - rope skipping. There's more to it than you would think. Modern jump rope has become a fully developed sport combining old-fashioned rope skipping with skills adapted from gymnastics, dance, breakdance and martial arts [. . .]
TanzaniaSports.com
18 Jan 09 Everybody Jump
. . . One of the things that sets superior jump ropers like the Heartbeats apart from playground jumpers is their strength and stamina. Imagine jumping rope without stopping for an hour and a half. That's what happened in November, when the older kids in the group jumped in Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade [. . .]
TanzaniaSports.com
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