Kickboxing Fitness: Jump Rope Basic Hop

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 our basic hop for jump rope conditioning. To start this, we're going to go the cross swing to arm open into basic hop. I'll demonstrate it for you, first. Now Melissa, go ahead and go through it a few times. So you can see. So I start with my basic cross swing. I get the rhythm and then I open, basic hop. One, two, three, four. Basic hop. O.k. Melissa, go ahead and step forward. And we'll go ahead and show you some of the finer points. So she begins with her legs little close together. Knees little bent. Now she starts with her cross swing. O.k., she goes about four and then open, straight through. Good. Now you'll see, this is called our basic hop. So she's going one hop, one jump. One hop, one jump. Another way that a beginner can go ahead and do this. Melissa, go ahead and do the double hop. So go cross, cross. Open and now double hop before you jump. So this is a little bit slower pace. And allows you get the timing of that jump roping, a little bit faster. Very good. This is kick boxing. Basic hop."