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Hong Kong skipping champs meet citizens

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2016-09-14 10:41CCTV Editor: Feng Shuang ECNS App Download

Hong Kong's Rope Skipping Team showed of their skills to the public after their triumphant tournament at the 2016 World Rope Skipping Championships. Locals and international tourists were treated to a special show and learnt about the endurance of the sport at one of Hong Kong's most scenic sites.

Speed, skill, and synergy. That's what it takes to be at the top of the skipping game.

"We have been training together for about eight years. I think a key factor, especially to win major tournaments, is teamwork. If anyone misses in rotating the rope or skipping, the game is over," Tommy Chow Wing-Lok, Individual Freestyle Rope Skipping World Champion, said.

These boys are masters of acrobatic rope skipping. And it all stems from sheer passion and effort. The many years of practice makes them better, stronger and faster.

"Rope skipping has changed me in many ways. First: taking initiative. To ensure enough time for practice, I have to arrange my life and become more self-disciplined. Second is the way I look at things. Now you can see that I am always smiling - because when you enjoy something, you will do it better," Rope Skipping World Champion Timothy Ho Chu-Ting said.

With such a mentality, it is with no doubt that the fastest rope skipper in Asia and two-time world champion has now become a role model.

The Hong Kong Rope Skipping Team has won many international honors with their Kong Fu legs. At this year's world championships in Sweden, they bagged 79 medals - including 27 golds - and set a new world record for double-dutch speed-relay.

A clip of their lightning-fast performance went viral online. With an astonishing 671.5 jumps in three minutes, the boys smashed the previous record of 603 jumps.

You'll find that it's impossible to count when someone is jumping at a rate of 3.7 jumps per second.

But success like this doesn't come easy. The boys faced many difficulties before achieving such a feat.

"There is no specific venue for rope skipping practices. We could only count on cooperation with different schools, and that posed many uncertainties. Another problem is the lack of financial support. All the team members are students and they go to competitions at their own expenses – that's about 2,500 US dollars per person each time. Those who cannot afford it have to drop out," Roy Tai Sheuk-Ho, coach of Hong Kong Rope Skipping Club, said.

Despite all that, the coach says he is happy to see more people talking about rope skipping. He hopes more institutional support will come in, so young skippers can better enjoy the sport.

  

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