Adult Double Dutch « The Spoken Word

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Adult Double Dutch

Featuring the DC Retro Jumpers

Not everybody likes to exercise, but everybody likes to play!

Since 2004, weekly jump rope sessions at Turkey Thicket Recreation Center allow adults who jumped double dutch as children to rediscover (or learn for the first time) this easy and exciting way to incorporate fitness into their lives again. Double Dutch is jump rope turned eggbeater style and is excellent exercise for promoting cardiovascular health. The DC Retro Jumpers is the exhibition team of adult jumpers that is available for high-energy demonstrations and lessons. The DC Retro Jumpers have appeared on WRC-TV, WUSA-TV, Retirement Living TV, The Washington Post, The Washington Examiner, The Washington Afro American, National Public Radio – WAMU-FM and in a documentary on women and fitness for the Department of Health & Human Services. The Adult Double Dutch Program has received funding support from the DC Department of Health-Addiction, Prevention, Recovery Administration and the Edgewood-Brookland Family Support Collaborative. In case you missed it on the news, check out this WUSA-TV Channel 9 story about the DC Retro Jumpers, my fabulous adult double dutch team.


The DC Retro Jumpers with DC Mayor Adrian Fenty


		Photo by Steve Parham

Poetry and prose are powerful! But if you missed the program or if you missed the broadcast, check out the story about WritersCorps on NPR – WAMU-FM Metro Connection, 15 Years of DC WritersCorps. Here’s the link: http://wamu.org/programs/mc/09/06/26.php#27272.

To schedule a presentation, contact us at joyjones100@cs.com.