Each of our specialized jump rope camps are designed by Ropeworks owner and creator, Rene Bibaud. Our highly acclaimed approach to skill development and growth mindset provides participants a personalized, high quality experience focused on the whole child. Expert instruction ensures an engaging experience for every student.
Ages 7 – 14 | ALL experience levels!
SUMMER 2024 CAMP LOCATIONS
Learn to jump rope with world champion Rene Bibaud and her Ropeworks team. Camps are designed for kids aged 7 -14. Students learn how to jump rope along with fun variations and styles of rope jumping. Each day students will learn new single rope jump rope skills, partner routines, long rope and double dutch jumping. Participants are all challenged at their own skill level.
Athletes learn to build skills in a success-oriented environment and we play skill building games to maintain student engagement and enthusiasm. Build coordination, timing, foot speed and endurance while having a blast creating a performance for friends and family.
Kids will rave about this camp for years to come! Please see our newly added “Jump Rope & Dance Camp” this August 2024!
July 8-12 9am to noon Meridian school (Wallingford)
Registration Opens February 5th, 2024
July 15-19 9am to noon Redmond Parks and Rec
at Redmond Schoolhouse
Registration Opens March 26 for Redmond Resident | April 2 Non-Resident
July 29 -Aug 1 1pm-4pm Eton school in Bell-Red
Registration Opens soon
August 5 – 9 9am to noon Mountlake Terrace 9 to noon
Registration Opens March 4th, 2024
August 5 – 9 1pm to 4pm Evergreen School in Shoreline
Registration Opens in Late February
August 12 – 16 9am to noon West Seattle YMCA
Registration usually opens late February.
August 19 – 23 9am to 3pm West Seattle VFW Team and Community Jump Rope and Dance Camp
Registration is now open
August 26 – 30 9am to 3pm West Seattle VFW – Team & Prospective Team members only. Focus on building more advanced routines, skills, long rope and double dutch routines.
TEAM CAMP REGISTRATION
Rain City Ropeworks Jump Rope Camp
Develop new skills in preparation for the team season. Team members and pre-team members plus general public (team and community camp) will participate in a deep dive into jump rope choreography, dance and acrobatics with a special focus on creating new skills and routines with choreography at the center of our work.
WHY JUMP ROPE?
Because it’s good for the whole person
Jumping rope is an incredible lifetime fitness activity. Athletes use rope jumping for agility, timing, coordination, foot-speed and endurance. Learning the skill early in life helps develop the skills for a lifetime of rope jumping for fun and fitness.
Jumping rope is an excellent exercise for cardiovascular fitness, muscular endurance and coordination. Now researchers are learning that physical activity like jumping rope also prepares the brain for optimal learning too. So, it’s great for the mind, the body and the soul!
Current brain research supports the need for movement in the learning process. Here are just a few ways that jumping rope may help prepare the brain for learning.
- Raising heart rate gets more blood to the brain, feeding it needed nutrients and oxygen for heightened alertness and mental focus.
- Aerobic exercise grows new brain cells in rodents, and promising research suggests that may also apply to humans. In short, jumping rope is an exercise that allows both brain hemispheres to perform parallel.
- The vestibular system that creates spatial awareness and mental alertness is strengthened through activities such as jumping rope. Balance and jumping activities provide the student with a framework for reading and other academic skills.
- Rhythmic aspects of jumping rope can develop the internal dialogue needed to establish basic reading skills. Beat awareness and beat competency simulate the basic rhythm patterns of our language that need to be established for better language acquisition.
- Physical activity reduces stress. Cardiovascular exercise places the brain into homeostasis and contributes to balancing the body’s chemistry, electrical and organ systems. Exercise can have similar benefits as some anti-depressant medications. Jumping rope can be a lifelong activity requiring little equipment, time and space.