How it works
The skipper with the rope travels along a line of bouncers, doing a face to face partner skip with each one, then skipping into the space before the next. Bouncers stand two arms' lengths apart, fingertips touching, so there's room for a skip in each gap.
Step by step
- Pick the team
- Line up
- Start at the end
- Partner skip
- Into the space
- And back
Lee’s teaching notes for each step, the video and the printable coaching card come with the All-Access Skip Pass.
Teach travelling with the All-Access Skip Pass
Everything a teacher needs to teach this skill to a whole class, from skip-hop coach Lee Collinson-James:
- Setting up: the line of bouncers and the spacing
- Step-by-step teaching: down the line and back
- Lee’s tip that keeps everyone in time
- A variation where every skipper ends up travelling
- Spot the fault, with the fix
- A pupil self-check
£149 a year for the whole school, or 6 months free with the whole-school rope set.
Where it fits
Travelling
This skill isn't part of a Skipping Award yet but it's a great one for lessons, clubs and playtimes.
In the scheme of work
Where this skill is taught in the skip-hop scheme of work.
- UKS2Lesson 4: Team skillsTricks, Teams and Double Dutch · Years 5 and 6
What you need
A longer rope gives two skippers room. skip-hop ropes are designed specifically for the skills shown on this site.
SEND and inclusion
Make it work for everyone
Ideas for pupils with SEND, and for anyone who finds travelling hard. Change one thing at a time.
What usually makes it hard: Moving along a line of bouncers in rhythm.
- SpaceBouncers stand two arms’ lengths apart, so there’s room in each gap.
- TaskTwo turns of the rope in each gap to start.
- CommunicationThe bouncers count together.
Seated or no-jump version. The seated pupil is a bouncer the skipper travels past, clapping or counting each turn.
An adapted pass is still a pass on the Skipping Awards. Use your own judgement and each pupil’s care plan. More in SEND and inclusion at skip-hop. Pupil struggling to get started? Try Lee’s tips for pupils who are struggling to skip.