Champ skips out of 2018 and won’t stop in 2019
His passion is to introduce skipping to schools in the district as a fun and easy way to keep the children active
You will not meet a man more enthusiastic about his sport than Thandwangubani Skipping Champ Nxumalo. Fondly known simply as Champ, Thandwangubani started skipping in 2012 after seeing the Dundee Skipping Club perform locally for 67 minutes via the Courier’s Facebook site on Mandela Day.
“I thought skipping was such an easy and fun way to keep fit. I contacted the Club and I started skipping. I have not looked back since.”
He works in Johannesburg but his home is Nyanyadu and he immediately passed on his passion to local kids in that area.
“I was bitten by the skipping bug and I am proof that anyone of any age can take it up. It is cheap, all you need is a rope, and off you go,” said Champ. He recently hosted a Christmas Skipping Event for school children in the Nyanyadu area and it was a way to keep the children active during the holidays, he added.
Champ also visited Dundee where two of his proteges, Kwanele Sibiya (14) and Skholiwe Ntuli (15) of the Nyanyadu area, who finished first and second in the competition (see next weeks Courier for details) gave an impromptu demonstration at the Royal Country Inn.
Champ is in contact with skipping enthusiasts in the USA and his hoping for a visit in 2019 from at least one of them. The plan is to visit local schools to introduce skipping as a fun and easy way for children to keep fit.
See Champs and Kwanele and Skholiwe’s demonstration here:
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