Jump Rope Videos

Here is the performance by Saltare from the east regional on ABDC. Be sure to vote for them @ the ABDC website.

If you are coming here after seeing Saltare perform on ABDC, you will probably enjoy some of the Fusion videos we’ve collected here on JRV.

If you are interested in Jump Rope as a sport, I recommend checking out the documentary Jump! and the video Workshop Saturday.

Look out everyone! Jump Rope is in the spotlight on the national stage thanks to a group of USA Jump Rope All Stars. A crew called Saltare has made it on season 5 of America’s Best Dance Crew on MTV. If you follow jump rope, you already know their names… Chaz Robinson, Tyler Perez, Lee Reisig, Billy Jackson, Lisa Brown, & Brittany Fortier. What an amazing collection of talent!

I just watched the east regionals in which Saltare debuted on national TV. Saltare absolutely killed it! They nailed their routine without a flaw, got the entire audience on their feet, and left the judges in awe. The judges were unanimous in their praise of the crew’s talent. When it was time to select which crews would advance, Saltare was the first crew to be chosen to advance to the next round.

Follow Saltare on their website saltarecrew.com and on Facebook.

Here is an in interview with the crew backstage during the taping of the season 5 regional.

Good luck Saltare! The entire Jump Rope community is behind you. We hope you go all the way!

These videos were sent to us by our good friend Maarten Goedemé from Belgium. This is video from DDCB 2009. This year’s DDCB was broadcast in 46 countries in 11 different languages. The official website for the event is www.ddcb.be The production values of these videos and the competition are great. Not to mention there is some serious jumping and performing going on here. These guys are definitely taking it to another level.

Thanks for sharing Maarten!

Introduction movie Double Dutch Contest 2009

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Highlights Double Dutch Contest 2009 (30 min video - Eurosport 2)

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Nailed it.

This is one of the best Fusion routines I’ve seen recently. This is from DOUBLE DUTCH CONTEST BELGIUM Vol.2. There are some great looking tricks in here. The leap frog front punch is pretty cool. And so is the two footed frog-180-high frog into a freeze headstand combination. Fun stuff. The jumpers and turners look super smooth throughout the whole routine.

Check it out…

The results for Double Dutch Contest Japan Vol. 7 have been announced. You can check them out on the DDC.jp website. Here they are translated in english, thanks to Google. This year the DDCJ had 96 teams with a total of 507 jumpers competing. That’s a record turnout for the event.

This is a promo video for the event which has some very impressive jumping in it. Check out the guy jumping on his hands in an amazing display of strength and balance. He does at least 13 consecutive jumps on his hands before the video cuts to the next shot. Very impressive.

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.

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.