Ready to get started? The videos below give you a guide on all things ropeflow, consider it my gift to you for your support!
This series teaches you practical elements like how to figure out a good length and how to hold the rope. As well as Tutorials for the fundamental moves. Explanations of key concepts in ropeflow and some advice about how to practise and how I can help!
Make sure to visit the Getting Started: Part 2 page to fully set yourself up with the basics and key nuggets of wisdom necessary to kickstart your ropeflow journey.
A short video about how to tell if your rope is a good length for you to start flowing. There is no 100% correct answer but you may want different lengths depending on what you are doing.
A couple of different knots and some advice on where to place them, with the aim of finding a good length for you to begin flowing with. It is useful to practise flowing at different lengths from time to time, but most of us have a favoured length.
This A OK grip is the most common way to hold a rope and the grip I would recommend for beginners. As you become more advanced you might play around with different grips but the one in this video is going to be your bread and butter.
The aim is to strike a balance between gripping too tight, and gripping too loosely. You want the rope to be able to twist and rotate freely within the grip, whilst not flying out completely (too often).
As I reference in the video, it is fine if it occasionally slips out of your hand. This happens to me still most sessions. If you are never dropping it, it is probably a sign that you are actually gripping too tight. So embrace the dropping, and the messing up. If you are going to stick with ropeflow, you will have to get used to this!
We finally do something with the rope! This is one of the fundamental moves called the race and chase. It consists of you doing this figure 8 pattern with your hands and the rope doing one beat/rotation on either side of your body.
The next video in this series shows you the underhand race and chase (the same concept but in the opposite direction). I would recommend you watch that video now as is shows you how to tell if you are in overhand, or if you are doing a move in underhand instead. There are many different ways to do every move. I show you 2 in this video but send me a message if it doesn’t feel quite right or you want a different variation!
Underhand Race and Chase is the same as the Overhand apart from this difference. One beat on each side. It can be useful to walk as you are doing this move so you can notice the carryover it has and how it relates to locomotion. Next up is the Dragon roll which is a lot of fun and for most people the first Aha! Moment.
This is such a lovely move. Opens up your chest and is great for warming up and improving your shoulder mobility.
It is also the first move that is neither underhand or overhand – but more about that later in the week.
It can be a little bit of a brain teaser but when it clicks it’s really satisfying. The move can be broken down into 2 parts.
(1) – Bringing your arms up and over your head, then back over again.
(2) – Turning your body from North East to North West or vice versa. This creates space for the rope to move around the body and not hit your calves or shins.
In this video I show a way to break this down and do the move in a few parts. I recommend you doing this regression a few times to understand the move, then trying to do it in “real time”.
If you are still struggling after trying for a cumulative time of over an hour or so, film yourself and send me a video! I can provide some specific feedback which might help.
Next video is the Overhand Matador (my favourite move!)
