Jump Rope Videos

As you know, jump rope is an excellent exercise. Many people workout with a jump rope to lose weight. I’ve seen it claimed that you can burn up to 1000 calories an hour by jumping rope. That’s probably only realistic if you weigh 220 lbs. You can find out how many calories you burn based on your weight and the time you spend jumping using this nifty calories burned estimator from healthstatus.com. To lose one pound you must burn 3,500 calories more than you take in.

Jump Rope is also used heavily as a cross training tool for other sports. Many professional athletes use jump rope to improve their endurance, agility, and coordination. Boxing is probably the most often cited example of a sport that uses jump rope as part of it’s training regimen. Even undefeated boxing champ Floyd Mayweather Jr. jumps rope as seen in this video:

The next stop on our tour of rope skipping from around the world is Germany. This jump rope video is of a performance by Sebastian Deeg of Rent A Sportstar. Sebastian’s solo rope skipping demonstration is just one of many acts that Rent A Sportstar offers as entertainment for charity, advertising, or corporate events.

Today’s jump rope video is of Justin Meier the 2006 Grand National Champion in Male Three Minute Speed. Justin won with a score of 900. That’s only 8 jumps shy of the national record set by Veyom Bahl in 2004. Justin averaged 5 jumps a second over three minutes which is very amazing.

If you are working on speed, pay very close attention to the form that Justin uses while he jumps. He leans slightly forward, his arms are at his waist. He makes small tight circles with his wrists and his feet barely come off the ground.

Nice work Justin!

Tori Boggs is one of jump rope’s youngest and brightest stars. Tori is a member of the USA Jump Rope All Star team. She currently holds the U.S. national records for 1-minute single rope speed and 3-minute single rope speed. Her 1-minute speed record is an amazing 359. That’s nearly 6 jumps a second for an entire minute. I think my fastest speed score ever was 284. A mere 4.7 jumps a second. The girl is fast.

Not only is she good at speed, she’s also got a great single rope freestyle routine. See for yourself…

Ken Solis (aka “Dr. Jump“) has been involved with jump rope since the late 70’s. I had the opportunity to work with Ken on the board of directors for USAJRF in the late 90’s. As an engineer myself, I really appreciate Ken’s academic approach to the science and history of jump rope.

Ken has a distinct performance style that is unique in the world of Jump rope, which is demonstrated in this video. I think he deserves a lot of credit as an early innovator in the area of rope manipulation.