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Preparing jumping

  1. Spring up with double leg from squat
  2. Long distance jump in space
  3. Long distance jump with a single leg
  4. Jumping with double legs in space (left- left touching the ground, right-right touching the ground)
  5. Five jumps on a single leg (left, left, left, left, left or right, right, right, right, right) then altering legs
  6. Teeter/seesaw: two children are swaying in front of each other while holding their hands, the board is ridden up and down by children at either end
  7. Hopping in squat position while merging each others’ arms and standing against the backs
  8. Star-like jump: springing up, shouting out with legs apart
  9. Two children hold each others’ arms while a third person tries to jump over it
  10. “Hopping snake” holding the partner’s hip without letting it off
  11. Hopping with double legs into both directions  (perhaps up a hill)
  12. While hanging on wall bars children will kick a football back
  13. Monkey jump: squat on wall bars then jump onto the other one
  14. Jumping onto wall bars to and fro
  15. Hanging on wall bars while doing spring motions and movements with legs (thigh is horizontal)
  16. Springing up with double legs onto wall bars then trying to climb up higher and higher
  17. Hopping over a ball (be careful, do not jump on it)
  18. A ball is between ankles. While jumping up it should be caught
  19.  Children are standing in a line. For a clap the second in the line runs forward holding a rope which should be jumped over by the other children. It is repeated several times.
  20.  Jumping on a bench laid against wall bars at an angle (rabbit-, frog- jumps etc.). The degree of steepness can be changed depending on children’s skills
  21. Hopping on a bench, over it, from its one side to the other, up and down
  22. Springing up from squat position then jumping onto a vaulting box and jumping down from it
  23. The previous exercise for several times
  24.  Jumping down from a vaulting box on a sponge mat with a single leg, then double legs forward and backward. In the flying phase a  half turn should be done around the longitudinal axis
  25. Hopping on a gymnastics stool onto, over down it with a single leg then double legs
  26. Hopping up and down on stairs (with double legs, legs wide open while altering legs)
  27. Jumping over lower blockages with different rhythms
  28. The previous exercises repeated with merged arms over the head
  29. Continuously altering legs in offensive position
  30. Offensive position, altering legs