Advanced Individual Skipping Skills
These skipping skills will really test your hand-eye coordination, timing, and stamina, and, as they can take a while to perfect…. your patience! Skill #19 Cyclone This skipping skill may be known by different names but was given this name by school children at a school in Sheffield and it stuck. The whole skipping rope […]
‘Out Goes You’ Skipping Rhymes
Skipping Rhyme #1 Acka wacka soda crackaAcka wacka boo.If your father chews tabacca,Out goes you. Another version of this rhyme is:My mama and your mama live across the way.Every night they have a fight and this is what they say:Acka backa soda cracker Acka backa boo.Acka backa soda cracker acka backa boo Skipping Rhyme #2 […]
The Benefits of Skipping – a Healthy Heart
A physical activity like skipping is essential for a healthy heart can also help prevent Coronary Heart Disease. Your heart is a muscle and like any other muscle it gets stronger with exercise. Enjoying a frequent physical activity like skipping enables your heart to become stronger. This means it can pump more efficiently giving you […]
The Benefits of Skipping – Fighting Osteoporosis
What is Osteoporosis Osteoporosis literally means ‘porous bones’. Our bones are made up of a thick outer shell and a strong inner mesh which looks like a honeycomb made up of tiny struts of bone. Osteoporosis means some of these struts become thin or break, making bones more fragile and prone to fracture. It often […]
The History of Skipping
While investigating the history of skipping I have come across a lot of information on the internet that is difficult to verify so this article should be taken as an account of how skipping may have developed over the centuries. The Origins of Skipping I’ve been teaching skipping (or jump rope if you’re from the USA) around the world […]
The Boxer’s Skip
Here is an article written by one of our Coaches Jonny Callendar – back in 2012 – every bit as relevant now as it was then. “I lose count of the amount of times during the course of a week that I get asked ‘how to skip like a boxer’. So here goes……… Essentially, I […]
Intermediate Partner Skipping Skills
Once you have mastered the Beginners Partner Skipping Skills, challenge yourself to attempt these Intermediate skills. Skill #5 Facing Turn and Clap The bouncer (the person without the rope) faces the skipper for two turns of the rope and perfoms a Double Bounce. On the second turn of the rope, the bouncer claps twice in […]
Double Dutch Skipping
Click here for the more detailed version of this post Welcome to the skip-hop Introdution to Double Dutch Skipping Double Dutch Skipping is when two people turn two ropes in opposite directions while a third person in the middle jumps over each Double Dutch Skipping Rope. Over the last twenty years skip-hop have perfected the methods for […]
Top Ten Skipping Rhymes
Skipping Rhyme #1 Tiny Tim I had a little puppyHis name was Tiny TimI put him in the bathtub, to see if he could swimHe drank all the water, he ate a bar of soapThe next thing you know he had a bubble in his throat.In came the doctor, (person jumps in)In came the nurse, […]
Alphabet and Counting Skipping Rhymes
Skipping Rhyme #1 Cinderella Cinderella, dressed in yellow,Went upstairs to kiss a fellow.Made a mistake and kissed a snake,Came downstairs with bellyache,How many doctors did it take?One, Two, Three… Skipping Rhyme #2 Mickey Mouse Mickey MouseBuilt a houseHow many bricksDid he use?One , two, three Skipping Rhyme #3 Butcher Shop Mother runs the butcher shop,Father […]