No Joke: Hong Kong is hosting the World Rope Skipping Championships from July 27 to August 3

The World Rope Skipping Championships have been happening annually since 1997, and this year Hong Kong gets the honour of hosting them. The event seems like quite the undertaking, taking place in three different locations including the Hong Kong Coliseum, a venue that has seen some of Hong Kong’s biggest pop stars. Besides the world championships, Hong Kong will also be simultaneously hosting a world youth tournament and an international open tournament, because apparently there are so many rope skipping enthusiasts that they had to have multiple tournaments to satisfy them all.

Hong Kong seems like it might be trying to make itself a name in the arena of obscure sport championship event hosting, after hosting the Dodgeball World Championships just last month. The Rope Skipping event is supported by Meetings & Exhibitions HK (a HK Tourism Board organization), the Leisure & Cultural Services Department, and the Home Affairs Bureau. Actually, the theme for the government Sport For All Day in early August is “Rope Skipping For Health” and was scheduled to coincide with the end of the championships.  It’s like rope skipping is vital to national security or something. But we’re not complaining. It’s going to be awesome.

Check out this video of Hong Kong competing in the 2010 world championships and my god… we’re actually… not bad! We were not even aware of the fact that one could jump rope while doing handstands, and judging by the team’s elation at the end of their set it seemed like maybe even they doubted their ability to pull it all off.

Tickets can be bought online on Cityline.

Check Coconuts in the near future for more coverage on the 2014 World Rope Skipping Championships! 

Screenshot/Video: Ropeskippingtimothy via Youtube



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