by Neetu | Jun 22, 2020 | Fitness Activity
Skill: Basic
Equipment Required:
Basic Long Skipping Rope – One per 3 or more persons
Activity Description
- Turners: Make waves by moving your arms up and down.
- Jumpers: Can you time it so you jump over the lowest part of the wave
Progression
Easy: Turners can keep it slow on speed and not high above the ground
Hard: Turners make it faster and higher to make it harder
Challenge: Ad twists & turns while jumping over the rope.
by Neetu | Jun 22, 2020 | Fitness Activity
Skill: Basic
Equipment Required:
Basic Long Skipping Rope – One per 3 or more persons
Activity Description
- As the rope brushes the floor and moves away from the skipper, they run under the moon.
- Continue running around the turners in a figure of 8 to run “Under the moon again”
- Encourage skipper to enter and exit the rope on a diagonal, close to each turner
Progression
Easy: Turners can slow down the speed of the long rope or skippers can away under the rope
Hard: Try jumping over the rope instead of running under it.
Challenge: Can you involve other people and make up your own game.
by Neetu | Jun 22, 2020 | Fitness Activity
Skill: Basic
Equipment Required
Basic Long Skipping Rope – One per 6 persons
Activity Description
- This requires four skippers and two turners
- The skipper enters the rope in turn, facing the same directions.
- In unison perform the simple foot pattern
- Keep close together
Progression
Easy: Involve fewer skippers, skippers can start off in the roop instead of entering
Hard: The leader turns to face the group and skips to the end of the line, weaving in and out of the other skipper. Everyone moves up the line to fill the leader’s space. This sequence is then repeated by the new leader.
Challenge: How many skippers can you get skipping altogether in one rope?
by Neetu | Jun 22, 2020 | Fitness Activity
Skill: Advanced
Equipment Required:
Basic Long Skipping Rope – Two per two persons
Activity Description:
- Face each other holding one handle of each rope in either hand.
- Keep elbows in at waist level, close to the body.
- Turn the lower arm in small circles, keeping the wrist firm.
- The rope should form a good arc overhead and then clip the floor.
- Turn ropes alternately towards one another with the smooth, steady, ‘one-two’ beat.
Progression
- Easy: Practice with just one of the turners turning the rope to start with.
- Hard: Turners can go down on one knee and back to standing.
- Challenge: Can you bring your arm closer to the body to make a circle smaller and speed up the rope? Can you move your arm away from the body to make circles larger and slow down the rope?
by Neetu | Jun 22, 2020 | Fitness Activity
Equipment Required:
Basic Long Skipping Rope – Two per 3 or more persons
Activity Description:
- Skipper stands close to the turner and concentrates on the rope furthest away.
- As this rope clips the floor and continues moving up and away the skipper enters the ropes and hops from one foot to the other at double speed.
- Skippers skip in the center of the rope and moving feet quickly.
Progression
Easy: Practice the ‘double bounce’ standing outside the double dutch ropes and jump in time with the ropes as they clip the floor saying ‘One-two’ out loud can also help to establish the rhythm for both turner and skipper.
Hard: Try exiting the ropes- the skipper jumps towards one of the turners and immediately after jumping the rope steps out towards a turner. The last jump may need to be slightly high.
Challenge: How long can you skip inside the double dutch ropes for?
