Jump Rope Workshops

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I am about to head over to Egypt for the very first time. While I am there I will be putting on numerous jump rope shows at a festival for over 15,000 people per day. After we finish up there I will be heading back to Cairo where I am scheduled to put on some jump rope workshops over a 4 day period. It should be a great trip and can’t wait to have the opportunity to perform and teach the awesome sport of jump rope! One of the main reasons I started Jump Rope Secrets was to offer a detailed resource to teach andRead More →

Asthma feels like you're stuck in smoke

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I have a confession to make: I have asthma. This is something I’ve struggled with my whole life and has led to many interesting experiences throughout my career as an athlete. However, as I’ve gotten older, I have noticed that I have had less asthma attacks and when they do happen, they are significantly less severe. I don’t often discuss this with people, but when I do I mention that I have long held the belief that all the jump rope activities I do have helped my asthma. In fact, the more I push myself in jump rope (like when I was trying to breakRead More →

Jump Rope Curriculum Launched at Oklahoma AHPERD

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I’m excited to announce that we launched our brand new jump rope curriculum at the Oklahoma AHPERD conference on Monday! I was invited to teach a workshop session for the PE teachers that were in attendance (along with a number of students from the University of Central Oklahoma). I love hanging around PE Teachers since they tend to be a rather high energy group to start with and they’re as passionate about physical activity as I am. I took the opportunity to teach them some of the activities that we cover in our jump rope curriculum that is now available here at Jump Rope Secrets.Read More →

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I am putting the finishing touches on our brand new jump rope PE curriculum! I am only days away from making this available to you. I’m also finishing up our detailed information on how to start and run a jump rope team. It has been quite a project, to say the least! Coach Tommy Hager and I met up at the end of July to film a jump rope PE curriculum that is both practical and informative. We had considered putting a book together on the subject, but realized that what has been missing is a video curriculum that not only explains how a jumpRead More →

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Hopping (or jumping rope) on one foot for 2 minutes per day may reduce the risk of hip fracture. Today they published a study that followed some over 65 year olds for one year to see how hopping on one leg would impact their bone density. They only had them hop on one leg for the year so they could measure the difference between the hips. They found “Bone mass increased by up to 7% in parts of the exercised hip’s outer shell or cortex. The results also showed increases in the density of the layer of spongy bone under the cortex. These effects wereRead More →

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Every once in a while I get requests to do TV interviews. It’s always interesting to see the different takes people have on what I do. Last week I did one of the longer interviews that I’ve done with Explore Tulsa (Oklahoma). I’m based in the area so it was a nice change to do a local interview where I wasn’t rushed. We discussed some of my history, Guinness World Records, etc. We filmed the Explore Tulsa spot over at Fast Fitness in Tulsa, OK. They have a great gym that I would recommend checking out if you are in the area! If you’re inRead More →

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If you’re running a jump rope team, creating a mentorship program is a great way to maximize the learning potential for your jumpers. While we were filming our PE curriculum and Team information, one topic that Coach Hager and I focused on is the idea that assigning an older jumper to each new skipper on your team can do wonders for both of them. Coach Hager has been using this on his team for years. We never had a set version of this on the team I was part of, though we did utilize some of the concepts in teaching newer jumpers. However, a fewRead...

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I love reading exercise related research studies because they so often prove the really obvious stuff. They certainly come out with some genuinely shocking news from time to time, but often it is verifying things that would seem rather obvious to most of us. This is a good thing since we shouldn’t blindly accept an idea, but I do find it entertaining to say the least. A recent study had this awesome headline “Exercise may reverse age-related bone loss in middle-aged men“. The study that was completed at the University of Missouri-Columbia found that “certain types of weight-lifting and jumping exercises, when completed for atRead More →

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Have you ever noticed that you can hear something a hundred times, but never bother to actually think about what it means? The head coach of my jump rope team, Mr. Berry, used to always start out our shows with a quick speech explaining what the crowd would see. One of the lines that he would say is that jump rope is a cooperative education model. As a kid I never even thought twice about it, some form of PE Teacher gobbledy-gook that I didn’t understand or care to ask about. I was talking with him the other day as I was looking for feedbackRead More →

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Do you want your child (or student) to learn how to be self-disciplined and healthy? Of course you do. The University of Montreal just finished a study where they found that having students get involved in regular, structured extracurricular sports starting in Kindergarten will help them develop the discipline they need to engage effectively in the classroom. You can read the press release here. Outside of the results that the students “were identifiably better at following instructions and remaining focused in the classroom” (can I hear a big “yes!” from all the teachers out there) they also found that if students were involved in structuredRead More →