R y Ejs Rope Skipping 1º ESO

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1. Review:

2. Find a way from start to finish. You can pass a square only if the word in it is in the Rope Skipping class notes. You can only move horizontally ←→ or vertically ↑↓.

START ↓
rope	earth	eat	find	disaster	fluent
skip	jump	dolphin	kettle	clam	flock
pen	swing	jeans	raise	feet	floor
lift	workout	bread	rest	deer	cross
boot	rebound	turn	forward	scatter	tired
tile	forlong	bear	bean	treaty	posture
					↓FINISH

3. Complete the following sentences:

a) As before any exercise, do a proper ________to prepare your body. You must pay special attention to ________your calves, quadriceps, hamstrings and deltoids.

b) You must try not to do ______ jumps. The _______ you jump, the quicker you get tired. A height of three fingers above the ______ is the ideal height.

c) In rope skipping competitions, athletes ___________ in individual and team ___________ using single ropes or double-Dutch.

d) Jumping _____ helps strengthen your legs and also your arms and shoulders. This combination of an aerobic workout and ___________ makes rope jumping a popular form of exercise for athletes, especially boxers, wrestlers and basketball players.

e) The criss-cross is similar to the basic _____ with the only difference being that while_________, the left hand goes to the _______ part of the body and vice versa for the ______hand, so that you _____ the rope in front of you.

f) To do a direction change, you start jumping forwards, and in a given moment, instead of _________the rope under your feet, you swing it to one of your sides. You must then _______ with the rope to that side and raise it. When it is on top of your ______, you swing it backwards and you are jumping backwards: you have completed a direction change!

4. Name five of the individual jumps we pratise in class:

5. When you jump a long rope, when must you enter it?

6. In our classes we jump in three different ways. Explain them using the words in green:

Individual: swings, person, own, rope:___________________________________________

Pairs: partner, jumps, person, rope, enters, him:__________________________________________

Long Rope: rest of the class, individually, groups, people:____________________________________________________