Practice Jumping By Placing the Rope in a Straight Line

Limited Space Activities Jumping Activities

            If room is limited, the rope can be used to stimulate different jumping activities. The rope can be arranged in a straight line, circle or made into letters. Primarily focus on jumping or hopping activities as a prelude to rope jumping. Since rope jumping is a demanding activity, these limited space activities can be used to offer rest intervals:

Straight Line Rope Activities

When the rope is placed in a straight line, start at one end and perform the activities along the length of the rope.

1.         Jog around the rope forward and backward. Try other locomotor skills such as hopping, jumping, skipping, and sliding. Do the Crab Walk down and back. Use various animal walks, such as Bear Walk or Lame Dog Walk.

2.         Hop back and forth across the rope, moving down the line. Return, using the other foot.

3.         Jump lightly back and forth down the line. Return.

4.         Hop slowly, under control, down the line. Hop rapidly back.

5.         Jump so that the rope is between the feet each time, alternately crossing and uncrossing the feet.

6.         Jump as high as possible while going down the line and as low as possible coming back.

7.         Hop with a narrow shape down and a different shape back.

8.         Walk the rope like a tightrope.

9.         Do a movement with the rhythm slow-slow, fast-fast-fast, going down the line; repeat it coming back.

For the following movements, move back and forth across the rope without changing the relative position.

1.         Hop back and forth across the line. Jump back and forth.

2.         Go over with a high movement. Come back with a low one.

3.         Lead with different parts of the body back and forth. Propel with different parts.

4.         Get into a moderately crouched position over the rope. Jump the feet back and forth over the rope.

5.         Take a sprinter’s position with the rope between the feet. Alternate the feet back and forth over the rope.

6.         Jump back and forth lightly on the tiptoes.

7.         Go back and forth, using different shapes.

8.         With toes touching the rope, drop the body forward across the rope, taking the weight on both hands. Walk the hands forward, out to the limit.

9.         Stand straddling the rope. Jump up, perform a heel click (or two), and return to original position.