Kickboxing Fitness: Jump Rope Cross Swing

Video Transcript

"Hello! I'm Sifu Mallon with the Clearwater Kung Fu center. This is my assistant Melissa and this is kick boxing. We're going to be working on a jump rope warm up exercise. This is called our cross swing. To perform the cross swing, you're going to hold the rope in both hands. You're going to keep your legs straight. Knees a little bent. You're going to just perform the swing side to side, of your body. Now the idea with this is, we're not even going to incorporate a hop. But we're just getting this swinging part. Getting used to turning our body. And feeling the timing of the rope hit. I'm going to go ahead and let Melissa demonstrate this. And I'll show you some of the finer details. So she's going to begin with her feet together. Her knees are little bent. O.k. The body is straight and she puts ropes in both hands. So she holds a rope, one hand, two hands. She lets it down, by the side. Now she's going to bring it. Keeping her hands very close to each other. She's going to swing it to her right and then to her left. Making this crossing action. Now you want to go ahead and move it Melissa, towards nice and fast. So you start feeling that the rope has some tension to it. When you're jump roping, the worst thing you want, is have a loose rope. Very good, Melissa. You can go ahead and stop. This is cross swing, kick boxing."