Tips & tricks

• Position your hands roughly the same distance away from the center line of your body.

• The jump rope rotation should be generated by your wrists, so try not to move your elbows and shoulders too much.

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basic jumps

To start, you can do these moves without a jump rope while standing on a line to see where you are putting your feet.

• Cross: land with your feet apart, then land with your feed crossed like an X; continue alternating between the two positions

• Wounded duck: jump and turn your toes in toward one another, then jump again with your heels together and your toes pointing out to the side. Alternate this pattern each rope swing.

• Scissor: first land with your right foot forward and your left back and the land with your left food forward and right your foot back. Continye alternating foot positions. 

• Swing: first land one your right foot and swing your left food to the side, then land on your left foot and swing your right foot to the side.

• Have fun!