I know my hands are too far from my body and I’m not on the balls of my feet as I jump. I travel a little at the end. Looks like a set of 7 (maybe 6) are on this bit.
Feel free to offer suggestions. Ignore the swearing or turn the sound down. A co-employee makes a guest appearance. I didn’t get a release to put her on the internet. i need to wear smaller or at least shorter sweats when I jump rope.
ok: aside from people wasting their time doing band curls and stability ball crunches, I see someone who mainly just needs more practice.
focus on keeping your elbows a bit tighter, and not jumping quite so high. I also find it helps to only accelerate the rope on the downward stroke. next, now that you can hit single-double-single, start trying to string doubles together. lastly, it’s hard to focus on DU when your bottoms are loose at the waist.
I pulled up some jump rope team demos to compare. One big difference I noticed is that the really good jumpers kept their elbows in tight to the body even (especially) during the super crazy stunts. Their hands get out wide but not their elbows.
I think you’re ready for consecutive DUs. Single-double single-double timing is actually harder, IMHO. I’d work on faster single unders, concentrating on rope speed and minimal jump. Then double unders become only a slightly faster rope speed and slightlly higher jump.
So as a fellow suckee of double unders, do you guys think that these are something that will come around as ones level of fitness improves, or they take specific skill work to get better at? I ask because I feel I am pretty balanced but my overall gpp has a long way to go. MY double unders are one of the many things I need to work on but I dont know how high on the to do list they should go. And to gd’s second part of the stupid criteria I plan on competing, as far as being competitive I doubt it.
So as a fellow suckee of double unders, do you guys think that these are something that will come around as ones level of fitness improves, or they take specific skill work to get better at? I ask because I feel I am pretty balanced but my overall gpp has a long way to go. MY double unders are one of the many things I need to work on but I dont know how high on the to do list they should go. And to gd’s second part of the stupid criteria I plan on competing, as far as being competitive I doubt it.
Mastroj
The ability to do double unders is a skill you need to practice until you get muscle memory to do them at will….the ability to stand up to 150 double unders in a single workout is akin to learning to kip vs being able to do 100 kipping pull ups very fast. That is a function of your GPP.
i need to wear smaller or at least shorter sweats when I jump rope.
