SKILL ADDITION
Different skills categories can be added together to form new skills which are greater than the sum of their parts.
Top tip: think of skill addition in jump rope like chords in music. The C major chord is made up of a triad of C, E and G, which together produce a sound unlike any of the notes do individually.
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One of the first ways in which new jumpers first experiment with skill addition is by combining footwork with other skill categories.
Since footwork skills are fully independent from other skill categories, they can easily be built upon in this method.
Examples:
1) High Knee with Crosses
2) Running Man with Mic Releases
3) Alternating Step with Double Unders -
Multiples have the unique feature of compounding several steps of a sequence into a single step or ‘skill’.
This offers us a lot of ways to add other skill categories to multiples such as wraps, turns and releases, all of which are multi-step in nature, allowing them to span across the multiple unders of one multiple under skill.
Examples:
1) Double Under with 180 Turn
2) Triple Under with Mic Release
3) Quadruple Under with EB Wrap 180 -
Wraps act a lot like formulas do in math. We can add another skill category inside a wrap in the same way that we can insert a bracketed operation into the middle of a formula.
Examples:
1) Arm Wrap with embedded Step-Through
2) Leg Wrap with inverse bounding Footwork
3) Step-Through Wrap with unwrap Release
