The ​Pumper Jumpers, Darwin are a committed group of skippers, focused on promoting fun health and fitness, as well as building and showcasing their skipping skills. The club commenced in 2000, as the Heart Foundation's: Jump Rope For Heart NT demonstration team. In this role, the Pumper Jumpers ran workshops and put on displays at various schools and events around the Darwin, Batchelor, Katherine, and Alice Springs regions. The Pumper Jumpers train at Parap Primary School with ages ranging from 6 to adult. They offer skipping training in a variety of long and short rope disciplines.  The Pumper Jumpers have performed at such major community events such as Darwin Festival, Arafura Games, Royal Darwin Show, and Seabreeze Festival. The club has a competition squad who regularly take part in championships in Darwin and at the annual Australian Rope Skipping Championships. Members of the Pumper Jumpers have been selected to represent Australia at the World Skipping Championships in Hong Kong 2014, Sweden 2016, China 2018, and Canada 2020. The club has also been represented at World Jump Rope in Norway 2019. Many skippers enter the sport by participating in the Pumper Jumpers' FUN FRIDAYS recreational jump rope program. To find out more email Kim Rowe or visit their Facebook page. 
​The Rosebery Turtle Turners  are the NT’s newest skipping group.  They train at Palmerston College on Monday afternoons and offer skill development in speed, double dutch and single rope skipping techniques.  To find out more email
​Sunday Skippers undertake skipping-based exercise sessions (not surprisingly) on Sundays! Members have different motivations. Some want to learn to skip, others are looking to improve their fitness and for some members skipping forms part of their cross training program. 

​The Sunday Skippers' run adult skipping courses suitable for those wanting to give the sport a go for the first time.  Learn more. ​

School-based skipping workshop

Learn2Jump
28 x individual World Jump Rope Champion, Luke Boon, has just released his newly developed Learn2Jump program. This is a fantastic program that incorporates:
  • Detailed lesson plans
  • Skills checklist that clearly describes each skipping skill and allows students track their progress
  • 50 instructional videos, breaking down each skills to help kids to master them
 
The program costs $200 per school, however Skipping NT could help subsidise this cost for NT schools and also assist with purchasing ropes, if needed.  Email us to express your interest – skippingnt@gmail.com

Skipping incursion program 
Skipping NT, in partnership with Jump Force International, runs skipping incursion programs at schools across the NT. The program focused on exposing students to schools and their students to the joys of skipping. 

In 2019 Jabiru Area School, Clyde Fenton Primary School, Nightcliff Primary School and Rosebery Primary School took part.  In 2020, the program was delivered at Nakara Primary, Clyde Fenton Primary, Good Shepherd Lutheran College (Howard Springs and Palmerston), Rosebery Primary, St Mary's Catholic Primary and Holy Spirit Catholic Primary.
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"I am so impressed how quickly our students have improved their skipping skills.  They have loved learning new tricks and rope skipping is definitely an activity that we are keen to do more of in the future." Amy Buick, Health and PE teacher, Clyde Fenton Primary School, Katherine.

Skipping NT is keen to run similar programs 2021 and is interested in hearing from NT schools that would be interested in hosting a half or full day skipping incursion program. 
​Above and left : Skipping incursion programs in action

Interested in starting a skipping group?

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Skipping NT is keen to support schools, OSHC programs and community groups to establish a skipping program or skipping group.  We can work with you to tailor the support that would best assist.  Ways we may be able to assist include:
  • providing insurance cover for your skippers, coaches and volunteers
  • working with you to tailor support that would assist you to establish your group (eg purchase equipment)
  • providing you with skipping coaching resources, training and mentorship
  • inviting your skippers to participate in skills development workshops with experienced coaches
  • providing opportunities, in the future, for your skippers to participate in the NT and Australian skipping competitions
  • promotion of your skipping group on our website and facebook page ​

 McArthur River Mine Skipping Sports Day

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​​In December 2019, McArthur River Mine hosted our skippers to run a skipping sports day for 24 amazingly talented kids from Borroloola in partnership with the Roper Gulf Regional Council.  Skipping NT gifted the Roper Gulf Regional Council with a set of skipping ropes to enable them to continue skipping as part of their ongoing sport and recreation program.
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