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Kenneth Cato performs a Back Tuck as Coach Ray Fredrick, right, and Anna Reeb, co-captain, turn the Double Dutch ropes.
The Bouncing Bulldogs are a jumprope troop based in Chapel Hill, NC. Since their founding more than two decades ago, they have won nine world championships and seven national championships, and they’ve traveled the globe competing and doing demonstrations as talk grows worldwide of turning jump rope into an Olympic sport.
The Bouncing Bulldogs have traveled as far away as China and Australia. Closer to home, they’ve become fan favorites everywhere in their uniforms created by acclaimed designer Alexander Julian, a Chapel Hill native.
The Bouncing Bulldogs even anchored the 2007 jump-rope documentary, “Doubletime.”
In April, the Bouncing Bulldogs opened what Head Coach Ray Fredrick Jr., a retired PE teacher, believes is the world’s first jump rope gym.
It’s 5,800 square feet, a building that sits on the border of Chapel Hill and Durham. It cost $1.3 million, almost all of which was raised since 2011. The donations came from 400 people, with 95 percent coming from the families of jumpers.
Photographed, Thursday, April 20, 2017, in Greensboro, N.C. JERRY WOLFORD and SCOTT MUTHERSBAUGH / Perfecta Visuals
The Bouncing Bulldogs are a jumprope troop based in Chapel Hill, NC. Since their founding more than two decades ago, they have won nine world championships and seven national championships, and they’ve traveled the globe competing and doing demonstrations as talk grows worldwide of turning jump rope into an Olympic sport.
The Bouncing Bulldogs have traveled as far away as China and Australia. Closer to home, they’ve become fan favorites everywhere in their uniforms created by acclaimed designer Alexander Julian, a Chapel Hill native.
The Bouncing Bulldogs even anchored the 2007 jump-rope documentary, “Doubletime.”
In April, the Bouncing Bulldogs opened what Head Coach Ray Fredrick Jr., a retired PE teacher, believes is the world’s first jump rope gym.
It’s 5,800 square feet, a building that sits on the border of Chapel Hill and Durham. It cost $1.3 million, almost all of which was raised since 2011. The donations came from 400 people, with 95 percent coming from the families of jumpers.
Photographed, Thursday, April 20, 2017, in Greensboro, N.C. JERRY WOLFORD and SCOTT MUTHERSBAUGH / Perfecta Visuals

