June 2020 Board Meeting Highlights

The IJRU Board of Directors met electronically on June 6, 2020 to discuss memberships, committee charters and rule updates. Please review the board meeting highlights to stay informed. 

Finland gains full IJRU member status 

 We would like to congratulate Finland (Finish Gymnastics Federation) as they move from observational to full membership status with IJRU! 

Youth Development Commission

Over the past few months, the IJRU Board of Directors and Technical Committee have been discussing the position of youth within the sport of jump rope/rope skipping. We believe that in order to ensure that young athletes have opportunities to access our sport and excel, we need to focus on developing a youth strategy. This strategy will help inform future decision-making around competition events, structures, rules, training techniques and programming for youth in our sport.  

The IJRU Board of Directors approved the establishment of a Youth Development Commission and Charter so that we can begin this important work. In the coming weeks, we will put out a call for volunteers to sit on the Youth Development Commission. Please stay tuned for more information. 

Board of Directors approves IJRU rule updates 

The IJRU Board of Directors reviewed and approved all rule proposals presented by the IJRU Technical Congress. We would like to congratulate the Technical Committee and Technical Congress for their great work. Learn more about the rule updates and Technical Committee report. 

Event postponements 

Due to COVID-19 the following events have been postponed: 

  • IJRU 2020 has been postponed and will be held from July 19 to July 26, 2021 

  • ISF 2020 Gymnasiade Summer Games  

  • TAFISA 7th World Games (fall 2020) 

We will keep our members posted once we learn more information about the rescheduling of these events. 

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