Jump Rope Techniques

November 19, 2007

I get these from Buddy Lee’s Jump Rope Training. It’s an excellent book, and I would definitely recommend it to anyone who jumps rope. And I believe everyone should jump rope, it’s great fun and an excellent form of conditioning. So, basically, I recommend this book to everyone!

I can only currently only do two techniques, and to be honest I can’t do them very well. As I said in my first post, before boxing I did next to no form of physical exercise, especially skill-based stuff such as rope jumping. But now I’m doing it fairly often, I’m improving rapidly, and without meaning to sound arrogant I do think I am the best (or at least in top 3) skippers in my EBC group (the beginners group Grin 4).

Onto the moves. The ones I can well do so far are:

Bounce Step
This is the most simple one, just involving jumping up and down with both feet at the same time. By far the easiest, and the easiest to do fast.

Alternate-Foot Step
This is the one most boxers and wrestlers use. It is similar to the Bounce Step, although it involves alternating feet each jump. Harder than the Bounce Step, it requires more coordination, fitness, timing and lightness on the feet. Great fun though, and it’s the one we’re recommended to do at boxing practice.

Those are the only two I’ll cover for now. Happy