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When I started my first jump rope team back in the early 1990s Apple was still just a struggling computer company and jump rope was just a fringe activity practiced by kids on the playground and a few of us crazy jump rope competitors.  25 years later we have the app store, and jump rope has gone mainstream as fitness pros and researchers have discovered the  benefits of jump rope for everything from increasing bone density to improving memory.  Jump rope is now a core co …

Speed jump ropes have evolved in an amazing way the past 10 years. Back in the early 2000’s, there were only a few options. But then CrossFit discovered the benefits of double unders and the need for varied speed ropes reached the ears of manufactures.  Today you can find a huge assortment of speed ropes that are made to go faster and do double unders with greater efficiency. Back in 1998, we invented the first jump rope with the cable coming out at a 90 degree. Soon after …

Disclaimer: This solution only works with PVC cord jump ropes. This will not fix kinks in steel cable ropes.It's a common problem: kinks or memory coils in your PVC jump rope cord. This most frequently happens when you get your jump rope brand new and pull it out of the package. Because the rope has never been used and has spent most of its life coiled inside a package it maintains quite a bit of coiled memory. We also see this problem frequently if a jump rope has lived in a gym bag w …

I’ve been jumping rope for over 25 years, and the Heavy Beaded Fitness Rope is the best rope for improving rhythm, coordination, increasing muscular endurance and cardiovascular fitness and developing new skills. Basically, if you want to up your jump rope game, regardless of your skill and fitness level, this is the rope you’ve been looking for! Most fitness magazines and industry experts will tell you that jumping rope is the number one way to increase your cardio fitness and burn ca …

Jump rope has long outstripped it's playground stereotype, and now is hugely popular activity for fitness and competition. And if you're serious about either, you're probably looking for a faster rope ... a "speed rope." What is a Speed Jump Rope? Back in the day (1998) when I began coaching a competitive jump rope team, a “speed rope” was simply a jump rope with a thin PVC plastic cord. These were the fastest ropes around, and what everyone used at speed jumping competitions. The team …