Why we choose the Jumping rope team

    In September the school association was recruiting new blood for activity groupssuch as the basketball team, the volleyball team, the Martial Arts club, the Dancing club, the Recitation club. Joe had great interest in the basketball team and the fancy jumping rope team. He took part in the two team selections and was picked by both of them . But the two team training schedules were at the same time. Joe could choose only one team. Our family had a discussion about the choice yesterday evening.

   At first we asked Joe’s opinion. Joe wanted to join the Fancy Jump Rope team because there are a lot of fancy and fun. Using one rope, the coach teaches several styles of jumping ——two leg jumping, right/left leg jumping and Double Dutch, in which two people twirl two long ropes，one or more children jumping among the ropes.

   As per Joe’s Papa’s suggestion, the fancy Jumping rope team for Joe is better than the basketball team, because jumping role exercise is the foundation of all kinds of sports (especially for boxing, fencing). Fancy jumping rope can improve the power，speed，agility of the children .It can mix gymnastics、hip-hop、break dancing、freestyle with rope-jumping in the background music.

In a mum’s eye team qualties in a jumping rope team are less than in the basketball team. The coach can pay more attention to every teammate, the performance for everyone can be observed and corrected more easily than the other. On the other hand there is a world-wide Jumping rope competition for different children group (AGE 6-8, Age8-10, Age 10-14). The teammates have more chance to join in the matches.

So we, as awhole family, gave Joe the support to join in the Jumping rope team.