Jump Rope Videos

This video focuses only on Double Dutch and is from a Hong Kong Rope Skipping team called Silver Jelly. I dig the music and the way they introduce the team members. There is one trick in here that really stood out for me; the leap frog over the turner and a jumper. Pretty cool stuff.

This video was submitted to JRV by Mary Beth Arnold of Indy Air Bear fame. Mary Beth jumped with the Indy Air Bears for 14 years. This is some video of her and her old double dutch partners throwing down some great freestyle with a ton of turner involvement.

Nice work ladies!

Here is the Advanced Fusion routine from the Bouncing Bulldogs at the 2007 Double Dutch Holiday Classic. It’s a very impressive and extremely difficult routine. There are some extremely innovative double dutch tricks in this routine. The Bulldogs placed 4th in this event behind three Japanese teams. The misses clearly hurt their chances of winning the whole thing. I wonder how much higher they would have placed if they nailed it. Even with the misses, I’m blown away by what this team can do in the ropes.

This is a style of Double Dutch created by AKI that he calls “Realism”. The key here is that everyone, the jumper AND the turners, are “dancing” during the routine. Once again this proves to me that the variety of things you can do in jump rope is only limited by your imagination. Fun stuff!!

Here is the routine that won first place in the Advanced Fusion event at the 2007 Double Dutch Holiday Classic. This is team “Masterpiece” from Japan. You can check out the rest of the results on the NDDL website.

CBS Evening News visited Harlem to report on the Double Dutch Holiday Classic. It’s great that Jump Rope is getting some exposure at the national level, but unfortunately their coverage is a little misleading.

CBS reports that the event “amounts to Rope Skipping’s World Championships.” Real jumpers know that Worlds will be held in Cape Town, South Africa in July 2008. The US trials for selecting Team USA will be held in Mason, Ohio in late January. The Double Dutch Holiday Classic is certainly a high profile event, but it is definitely not the world championships of rope skipping.

CBS also reports that Japanese teams “took first, second, and third.” That’s accurate, but only for one event. The Advanced Fusion event is what they are referring to. And yes, Japanese teams took the top three spots with the Bouncing Bulldogs coming in fourth. However that doesn’t give a complete picture of the results. The Bulldogs actually dominated the competition. They won 8 out of 10 events and actually won the Novice Fusion event. Very impressive.

That being said, it’s great to see the popularity of our sport continue to grow. Here’s the report from CBS:

The Bouncing Bulldogs appeared on the CBS Evening News this week. The Bulldogs will compete this Sunday (Dec. 2nd) in the Double Dutch Holiday Classic at the world famous Apollo Theater in NYC. The stars of the documentary Doubletime will go up against some of the toughest double dutch teams from around the world. The highlight of the competition is the Fusion event that we’ve seen explode in popularity over the last few years. The Bulldogs’ primary goal is to take the title back from the Japanese teams that have dominated the event 9 out of the last 11 years. Regardless of who wins, it will be an amazing show and an awesome display of talent.

Good luck jumpers!

Here is another series of insane double dutch tricks for you to watch. I really like the way the video is edited to show us the same tricks several times in a row from different angles. Not to mention the tricks are spectacular. These guys do a basket toss over the turner and actually land it in the ropes like you’re supposed to. Very nicely done. I also really love the toe-pitch over the subway. That’s got to be a really scary (and dangerous) trick. Finally, they do an amazing variation on the subway. I know from experience how tough a standard subway can be to complete. They take a much harder version and make it look pretty easy. The jumpers do an excellent job, but if you want to know the real secret to landing the trick… watch the turners. They are excellent. You can’t do much in Double Dutch without good turners.

Here’s another sick Double Dutch trick from some of the staff at Southern Jump Rope camp. Southern camp has historically been a hotbed of innovation in jump rope. Several tricks have been invented just for the staff show that marks the last night of camp each year. That is where we did the very first Subway, where the Grand Central Station was created, and where this trick was performed.

DO NOT TRY THIS AT HOME!

This video was submitted to us by Angela Martin of the Wall Street Journal Online. From the folks at WSJ Online:

To most people, jump-rope is what children do to pass time on playgrounds and street corners. But over the past decade, it has blossomed into an international sport, with hundreds of teams and thousands of global competitors. WSJ’s Jamin Brophy-Warren visits the North Carolina Bulldogs who think they have a shot at the Apollo Theater’s annual Double Dutch title, which has been dominated by the Japanese.

Be sure to check out the full article at the WSJ Online.