The skipping magic continues! What a week it has been. This time I got an email from some people who started their own skipping movement in Quebec. Their website went up in 1999, the same year that iskip.com did.

I just love that I am not the only person who has been bitten by the skipping bug. I think it is quite miraculous that so many have been so powerfully inspired by skipping. But I am really not surprised. Skipping has completely changed my life in amazing ways. It is pure magic.....So much so that of course I am not the only one!!

Here's the email I got from the Quebec skippers. If you speak french before sure to skip on over and check out their website!

We are 2 skippers in our mid 20s from Québec. We started a website in january 1999. We actually created a complete story and history of the group, with symbols and characters. It is humor based since in contains everything for it to be a religious group, with leader and all. People are often confused at first, because they are not sure what is true about the website. But everyone figures out in the end that we are just having fun and like to skip. Today, about 1000 people have signed up as members of the group to receive the newsletter. Our largest group of skippers skipping at the same time is 16. We never organised group skipping events! Because of recent media attention, there is a lot of people willing for group action recently and we plan a big event for this spring. Time will tell...

Here is the official story : )

Our leader, Grand Gambadeur (Great Skipper), traveled when he was young and ended up in Burkina Faso where he met Dernier Gambadeur (The Last Skipper). Dernier Gambadeur was the last survivor of a long tradition of skipping. Before he died, he transmited all his knowledge to Grand Gambadeur. Dernier Gambadeur taught him that when enough humans will be skipping at the same time, we will enter the «blooming of skipping joy», an era of universal peace and joy!

Grand Gambadeur came back home with only one goal in mind : to make skipping known! So in 1980, he founded the Mouvement des Gambadeurs et Gambadeuses (Skippers' Movement) to promote skipping and to improve the skippers' quality of life. The Mouvement got online in 1999 and published a 16 pages booklet to inform the public about skipping. Radio, newspapers and television also helped promote the Mouvement and it's goal. For short term, the Mouvement is planning a public event for spring, a new website look and a promotional video.

So that was just a message to introduce ourselves and let you know there is another movement out there that takes care of the skippers who speak french. You are doing great work out there on the west coast and the rest of the english speaking world. We were really happy to discover Iskip and also Extreme Gene. It makes us realize skipping really is universal and it makes us more enthousiastic about it!

Bon gambadage!

Aleikscendre and Freideireik
Mouvement des Gambadeurs et Gambadeuses

Wow! Talk about a creative and irreverant way to bring skipping to the masses! Skip on Aleikscendre and Freideireik you two rock!!! Skip on! Skip on! Skip on!