Ginny,

You have some excellent points! Being flexible and knowing how to "read"
your group is the essence.

I had so many requests for help in designing routines that I compiled a
Handbook on Choreography which includes 20 routines used by the Kangaroo
Kids, ranging from very basic to advanced. They can be used as such or
modified for your team.

The ad for this was in the July USAJRF newsletter. If anyone is
interested in more info please contact me at hodgesj@...

Jean Hodges

On Mon, 5 Nov 2001 17:48:58 EST GarlandGrl@... writes:
> From my experience, it seems that it's always best to start combining
> a
> couple tricks at a time and then work up to a routine. See if you
> can
> possibly jump to music and try to get your jumpers to start filling
> up eight
> counts of music at a time. Then allow them to go beyond that.
> Technically,
> you can start at any section of a routine and see if you can put
> those pieces
> together. Try not to push your jumpers into doing routines you made
> up for
> them, give them some guidelines maybe, depending on their skills,
> but let
> them put skills together for themselves (especially if they're in
> 3rd grade
> and up).
>
> When I first started jumping, my coach had skill lists and there
> were
> different levels. We were to have tricks from where we were in our
> skill
> lists in our routines, maybe a couple from the section below, and
> one or two
> to work at attaining (of course within reason).
>
> At one point, in double dutch (and single rope too actually) I was
> stuck in
> wanting to jump on a pogo ball (anyone remember those?), anyway, my
> coach
> finally pulled me aside and told me that there were greater things
> in my
> realm that were possible for me to reach. This took a lot of
> coaxing, but
> finally I gave in and did learn a lot.
>
> So really, just start with small goals and then build up to bigger
> ones,
> always throwing in a challenge or two. Your skill level should go
> up and you
> should have the beginnings of good routines. Competition between
> your
> jumpers may work too, it certainly did for me, particularly in the
> beginning.
> Speed scores, quality of trick performance, among other things can
> be
> improved this way.
>
> Please, if anyone has anything to add to what I've said, or can
> think of
> anything that might throw anyone off, do post.
>
> Ginny
>
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