Bouncy footwork that lights up your calves.
Stay springy off the balls of your feet, never let your heels thud down.
ACB-Skips stack the whole drill sequence into one pattern, knee drive, a kick-out of the lower leg, and a sharp snap back down, with a double hop on the same side before switching. All that bouncing lives in the calves, which have to stay spring-loaded on the balls of the feet through every contact. They earn their place as the coordination test of the skip family, if your rhythm survives ACB-skips, your mechanics are in good shape.
They chain the knee drive, the leg extension, and the pawing downstrike into one continuous rhythm with a same-side double hop, so coordination and timing are challenged as much as the calves. It is the graduation drill of the skip series.
Everyone does at first, the same-side hop before switching legs trips people up. Slow the whole drill down, count the pattern out loud, and speed up only when the sequence is automatic.
No, stay on the balls of your feet with a soft spring in every contact. Heels thudding down means the calves have stopped doing their rebound job and the drill has turned into marching.
