Yeah, well one time I swam 300 miles and then just like jumped out of the water on two ship and was like eh Beat that well, did I tell you about the big blue whale? I made friends with yesterday who I was riding around oh, yeah, yeah my big blue whale who I let come get you and then I demanded it Come back. Yeah, that you played no part in no way. Yeah, it's my super man. You know Darrell the big blue whale He's mine. Yeah super mean. Oh, yeah, fuck yeah. I don't know. He's just a guy who helped people No Dude is it are we thinking of the right Darrell we have the wrong Darrell What is going on zen dude nation today We are gonna be learning and going over again the fundamentals of how to jump rope because you need to get these skills down before we start doing some of the more advanced stuff So you can't run if you can't walk you know, I'm saying your homework is to jump rope for five minutes That's it continuously. Let's get into it y'all All right dudes and due dads so to start off guys We're gonna start with sizing your rope now It's super important to have the right jump rope table length and as you can see here You can measure that by stepping in the middle of the rope and pulling the handles up to your nipple or chest area And as you can see the nip the rope handles should be right underneath my armpit So as you can see here again now the recommended size for your rope guys If you are five ten or taller your rope cable excluding the handles should be three feet taller than your height So I'm six three so therefore my rope cable is nine three not including the handles if you're below five ten Just add two feet ten inches to that and that's the length of the rope cable that you should have So you again pulling it up into underneath my armpits Super super important to have the right rope length because you have the right combination of tightness and ability to spin that rope now holding the rope guys before we go All out and start showing you how to jump You good you're going to need to know how to hold the rope now notice here my body is in perfect symmetry My wrists are jutting out to the sides of my hips directly and jump rope is all about doing less There is not a lot of movement involved as you'll see here in a sec But in terms of holding the rope you don't want to be too high up You don't want to have your wrist down too far because you want to spin the rope so that it clears your head with the same amount of Inches or centimeters that it clears your feet so you want to be right in the middle of that spin Always have your knees bent guys. I cannot stress that enough. You don't want to be You know having your knees locked because that will definitely mess them up. You don't want to be having them You know too low because that would be a really hard way to jump rope Anyway next up guys we have get up on go toes, okay? So With bending the knees guys you want to make sure that you're up on your the balls of your feet on your toes the entire time You're jumping never want to be flat footed, okay? And as you can see here I'm jumping and I'm on my toes the entire time and my feet are not coming any more than at the most two inches off the ground for regular bounce So somewhere in the range of one to two inches is all that and as I see as you can see I start going faster And it requires that I actually jump Lower to the ground so now putting it all together guys spinning the rope check out my body movements here as you can see jumping rope is all about doing less The only thing that's working here guys you'll see in a sec my wrists my wrists are controlling everything I cannot stress that enough some people jump too high and do almost like a butt kick And you really want to focus more on your wrists and the feet will follow I promise so check out here the wrists Notice how I'm I'm spinning the rope with every just using my wrists and my shoulders and everything above my elbows Has no movement as you can see here from the side look at that perfect up on the toes knees bent I'm swinging the rope everything is controlled by my wrists and I'm making sure that everything is staying nice and tight So go ahead guys trust me I was not and Brandon was not that good when we first started and that's totally fine I know I say this in every video But it just takes some practice so next what I want to talk to you guys about is how can you just start doing this What I'd recommend is that you guys start practicing Three to five minutes today to just get the fundamentals down of this regular bounce because this from here If you can spin the rope fast you can not only get an awesome body But you can do more tricks and make it challenging See you guys on the next ZenDude Fitness tutorial You