Jump Rope Videos

This is at least the second run in jump rope has had with rock band OK Go. Recently I reported on Bouncing Bulldog and USA Jump Rope All Star Tim Martin jumping on stage with OK Go at SxSW. In their latest video for “Do What You Want” OK Go features an eclectic mix of performers. Among the performers are a group doing double dutch and a jumper doing some single rope freestyle. You have to watch for it since each is only on screen briefly.

For a long time there has been a strong link between jumping rope and boxing. Jump rope is an excellent cross training and conditioning tool for nearly any sport. Boxers like it because it also helps with their agility and coordination. Undefeated boxing champ Floyd Mayweather Jr. uses jump rope as part of his workout out routine. This jump rope video from Expert Village talks a little about why jumping rope is an important part of any boxers workout.

Lyen Wong is a fitness competitor and personal trainer with an impressive resume. Some of her accomplishments include being 2005 NAC Miss Universe and German national fitness champion in 2005 and 2006. She is in amazing shape, and includes jump rope as part of her workout, as seen in this video.

Here’s more proof that jump rope is a great exercise. In this video, Kim walks us through her jump rope workout routine. Kim is a Ford fitness model and is obviously in great shape. Whatever she’s doing must work.

It’s important for you to note that she keeps the tricks in her workout rather simple. In fact all of the tricks she does are considered basic jump rope skills. You don’t have to know how to do advanced tricks in order to get a good workout. Just basic bounce, side straddles (which Kim calls “jumping jacks”) and criss crosses are all you need to get a pretty thorough workout. However, you don’t have to stop there. One of the great things about jump rope is the literally infinite variety of tricks you can do. There will never be a point when you run out of new tricks to challenge you. Just take a look around at all of the jump rope videos on this site, and you will see new and unique things in each and every video.

Twin sisters Jennifer and Danielle Murray play on the Varsity Tennis team for Dartmouth College. They also have a strong background in jump rope.

From The Dartmouth Online:

“The duo has had a great amount of success jumping rope over the years. They competed in the Junior Olympics in Washington State. More impressively, they were able to win two titles in the Canadian National jump-roping championships, one in 2004 for pairs freestyle jump-roping that consisted of a choreographed routine created by the twins and the second for Double Dutch in 2003.”

Here is their halftime performance during the women’s basketball game against Harvard on Jan. 6:

Here’s a great street performance by the Martial Skippers from Hong Kong. They incorporate many different styles of jump rope in this video including Double Dutch, Single Rope, Chinese Wheel, and Traveling.

Here’s another jump rope video from the FISAC 1999 World Championships in St. Louis. This is from the 4 person single rope freestyle. I think this was probably the hardest event to prepare for because it was an event we weren’t accustomed to. This event doesn’t exist in USA Jump Rope competitions.

Since we didn’t have long to prepare before the tournament, we had to keep it really simple. Our motto became “K.I.S.S.” - Keep It Simple Stupid. We basically used a slightly modified version of my single rope single freestyle routine, since it was probably the easiest routine we had between the four of us. Besides, I had been doing essentially the same routine for years and the other guys had seen it enough times that they already knew it. I laughed because they quoted the tricks to me before we even started practicing it. “Double Under AS, double under cross, double under EB, double under, triple side swing cross, double under EB, double under, triple side swing cross, double under, triple side swing left, triple side swing right, TJ, Johmmy.” That’s how good my teammateswere. We just had to modify the routine to add some more movement and partner interaction.

Here is the end result:

This is USA Jump Rope All Star team member Billy Jackson competing in the 2006 USA Jump Rope Championship. Billy is from the Louisiana Jazzy Jumpers. He has a great single rope freestyle routine with some incredibly difficult rope releases.

Today’s jump rope video from around the world displays some nice single rope jumping from the Netherlands. For those of you that know the Dutch language, check out the offical Rope Skipping Web Portal of the Netherlands at ropeskipping.nl.

Here is some more video from the 1999 World Championships in St. Louis. As I said before, I was very fortunate to have some truly amazing teammates. Here is the single rope freestyle routine from Shaun Hamilton and Willie Amos. Both are very gifted athletes. Shaun is now the head coach of the USA Jump Rope All Star Team and Willie played football for Nebraska and is now a professional football player for the Chicago Bears organization in NFL Europe.

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