The Ottawa Acro-Ropers was established in 1989 as a demonstration and competitive acrobatic rope-jumping team and is the only club of its kind in Canada’s Capital Region. The team has performed their spectacular rope-jumping routines on CBC’s nationally-televised Canada Day festivities on Parliament Hill, the Central Canada Exhibition and many schools across Canada and the United States. In October, 1997, we visited Cuba to introduce the sport of acro-roping to Cuba’s Ministry of Education and Ministry for Sport. Some of our members attended the All-Japan Open Nawatobi and the 5th International Friendship Power Jumping Championships in Joetsu, Japan, in August 1998, as well as competitions and workshops in Hungary and the Netherlands in November 1999.

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Provincial, national, and international individual and team titles have been earned, as well as a North American endurance record which saw one member perform over 12,495 jumps in one hour! We have actively supported the City of Ottawa’s “Girls in Sports”, Lighthouse, and recreational rope-jumping programs. We have developed new teams, performed charity work, and established the first “school league” rope-jumping program in the National Capital region.