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Skipping rope. A skipping rope or jump rope is a tool used in the sport of skipping/jump rope where one or more participants jump over a rope swung so that it passes under their feet and over their heads. There are multiple subsets of skipping/jump rope, including single freestyle, single speed, pairs, three-person speed (Double Dutch), and ...
The IJRU was created by a merger of the International Rope Skipping Federation and the World Jump Rope Federation. On July 12, 2021, It became the 10th International Federation to gain Observer status from the Global Association of International Sports Federations .
Skipping-rope rhyme. A skipping rhyme (occasionally skipping-rope rhyme or jump-rope rhyme), is a rhyme chanted by children while skipping. Such rhymes have been recorded in all cultures where skipping is played. Examples of English-language rhymes have been found going back to at least the 17th century. Like most folklore, skipping rhymes tend ...
Move 1: The basic bounce. Keeping knees, hips, and ankles soft, with elbows in to the ribs and hands slightly forward of hips, use your wrists to swing the rope over your head and bounce lightly ...
Place the jump rope on the ground in a line (like previous exercise). Then jump over and back moving up the rope. Then jump over and back moving back down the rope to your starting position ...
1. Burns Major Calories. While it’s no surprise, this is one of the main benefits of jumping rope. In a study conducted by Science Daily, jumping rope “can achieve a ‘burn rate’ of up to ...
Various moves (creation of positions or figures) are combined to create patterns which are often accompanied by chants. Chinese jump rope combines the skills of hopscotch with some of the patterns from the hand-and-string game cat's cradle. The game began in 7th-century China. In the 1960s, children in the Western hemisphere adapted the game.
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