The 5 Essential Skipping skills for everyone – START HERE!
We believe that everyone should start their journey by mastering the basic skills as they are the backbone of all styles of skipping
Beginner Individual Skipping Skills
Here, you will find fun and relatively easy skipping skills for beginners. We believe that everyone should learn the following skipping skills before they attempt any of the more challenging skips. Skill #1 Side Straddle (Jumping Jax) One turn of the rope with the feet together, the next with the feet apart, and so on. […]
Intermediate Individual Skipping Skills
We recommend that you master the Basics and Beginners Skipping Skills (#1 to #6) before attempting these Intermediate skipping skills. Skill #7 Diamonds/Zeds/Squares ….and many more shapes. For these skipping skills, the skipper combines the Bell and Slalom to create different shapes on the floor. e.g forwards, back and right at the same time (i.e […]
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 […]