14th Street Y Punk Ropers Cheryl Cohen and Sarah Sattin left New York City approximately a year ago to travel throughout Africa. Although their suitcases were already overloaded they kindly agreed to bring some jump ropes with them. In Tanzania they put the ropes to great use as you can see in the above photo. They not only donated the ropes to two orphanages, but also taught some of the children how to jump. You can see Cheryl, Sarah, and the kids in action in this video. In the next few days I’ll add some photos to our Facebook page. [...]

Haverhill is a classic, old, New England mill town, which once upon a time served as home to a thriving shoe and hat industry. Founded in 1640, the town of roughly 60,000 is perhaps best known as one of the main inspirations for the comic Archie. The comic’s creator, Bob Montana, attended Haverhill High from 1936 to 1939. He based Riverdale High School on the old high school building and the characters Archie, Jughead, Veronica, Betty, and Reggie on his classmates from Haverhill High School. Anyway, we were thrilled to conduct a Punk Rope Workshop at the [...]

“Results from the 2007–2008 National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) indicate that an estimated 34.2% of U.S. adults aged 20 years and over are overweight, 33.8% are obese, and 5.7% are extremely obese” write Cynthia L. Ogden, Ph.D., and Margaret D. Carroll, M.S.P.H., from the Division of Health and Nutrition Examination Surveys. To put this another way, only 26.3% of U.S. adults are at a “normal” weight.
Personally, I’m not a huge fan of scales or BMI measurements. I’m much more interested in fitness than in weight, but these numbers are staggering and we’re not even including kids in the [...]