Jump Rope Videos

In today’s jump rope video Mathias De Jans does a nice demonstration of a “Suicide Kip”. Mathias is one of the top jumpers in Belgium and he makes it look easy. Don’t be fooled, this is a very advanced double dutch trick and takes a lot of practice.

A suicide kip is different from a regular kip. In a regular kip you roll on to your back before launching to your feet. In a suicide kip you actually jump back on to your shoulders and hands before launching to your feet.

First, here is a nice walk-through of how to do a basic kip by “BBoy Frostbite”.

Here is Mathias showing the more advanced suicide kip.

I’ve been around the sport of Jump Rope for a very long time. I’ve seen A LOT of tricks and I’ve even invented a few. But no matter how long I’ve been jumping, people are always showing me something I’ve never seen before.

One of the coolest things about being invited to judge the all star tryouts this year was the chance to watch the candidates perform at the staff show following the workshop. I saw a lot of new things in that show. I know there were several times when I actually felt my jaw drop. One of those times was when they busted out this trick in Double Dutch.