# 1995 VHS • Freestyle Roping The Ultimate Jump-Rope Workout 60 FPS

Freestyle Roping: The Ultimate Jump-Rope Workout is an instructional video presented by Louis Garcia and Rita May, identified as performing and teaching partners who have worked together for 8 and 12 years respectively. Garcia introduces freestyle roping as a sport he developed over 12 years of performing and private instruction, framing it as a reinvention of traditional jumping rope toward individual expression and athletic training. The video is aimed at all fitness levels, from beginners who have never held a jump rope to competitive athletes seeking sport-specific cross-training. Equipment guidance covers rope selection, emphasizing adjustable length, foam grips, and avoiding weighted handles. Footwear guidance recommends aerobic or cross-training shoes with ball-of-foot padding and lateral support. Body position instruction covers grip technique using thumb and index finger, elbow position close to the body, wrist-driven rope rotation, soft knees, weight over the balls of the feet, and jumping only a few inches off the ground to minimize impact. Rope turning techniques demonstrated include one-handed forward and backward turns, hand switches, and figure eights. The program introduces neutral and resting moves as outside-rope footwork done with the rope turning to the side of the body, used for warming up, recovery, and building timing without the risk of missing. Footwork demonstrated includes twists, box steps, boxer shuffles, runs, and crosses. A three-step learning…

- Kind: Film
- Year: 1995
- By: The Vista Group®
- Archive: [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/TheVistaGroup-FreestyleRopingTheUltimateJumpRopeWorkout)
- Licence or status: none stated by the archive
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

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