Jump Rope Community Foundations with Billy Wildi (#19)

“Jump rope was the first activity I had as a notable creative outlet. Whenever I’ve been creative in other domains […] or publish my own work, I’ve always had that model in my mind.” — Billy Wildi

Billy Wildi (IG: @BilltWildi, YT: @BillytWildi) is a long-time jumper, from the UK. I’ve technically known Billy digitally for over 10 years, as we both used to create and post jump rope videos on YouTube when we were first learning our skills. We haven’t ever chatted over the phone before, so this was an extra fun conversation, getting to discuss “the old days” with somebody who shared a decent portion of that time with me. We chat about so much in this episode, including the early youtube network of jumpers, changes in training over the years, Billy’s favorite skills, frustrations with jump rope, and a bunch more.

You can listen to the podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher and Overcast.

Selected Links

Billy’s YouTube Channel

The Jump Rope Tricktionary

Jump Rope Challenges

Show Notes

1:37 Where Billy Lives

2:20 Fitness in Billy’s Life

5:42 The Excitement of Running

6:32 Training for Long Distance Running

7:57 Finding Jump Rope

13:37 Training Jump Rope

16:05 YouTubers Billy Followed

21:30 Jump Rope and Fitness Over The Years

26:10 The Early Youtube Network

29:14 How Billy Connected with Chris and Bobby

36:42 Changes In Training Over the Years

40:17 Frustration While Jumping

43:07 Teachings from Jump Rope

46:17 Billy’s Jump Rope Timeline

47:30 Billy’s Favorite Skill

52:45 What is Jump Rope to You?

54:27 Billy’s Professional Career

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Here’s what you should be doing during the Swing

Doing a Running In Place Cross to a Swing Transiti

Doing a Running In Place Cross to a Swing Transition is a classic pattern that’s great for cardio & is just really cool to do! Here’s how you do it correctly:

👉 The top hand in the Cross is the side that you are going to swing to first. This is critical because it feels like your hands are just opening up next to your body

👉 But when you put your hands in that position, the hand that is farther from your body ends up being the dominant hand, pulling the rope over to the other side of your body

👉 If the dominant hand stays on top for the second Swing, it’ll be super easy to get back to a regular Single Under

👉 And if you mix up these hand placements, it’s going to be a lot harder haha so look at exactly where my hands are, because getting those hand positions done correctly means you’re going to be able to do this whole sequence nice and easily!

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The Inverse Leg Over to a Cross is kind of the wei

The Inverse Leg Over to a Cross is kind of the weirdest leg crossing skill haha here’s how you do it:

👉 The leg you lift should moves across your body. You’ll probably need to need to turn your torso a little bit to actually make that leg get over to the other side

👉 Your hand should go underneath your knee next to the outside of your thigh. When you do this hand placement, it’s very easy to block the path of the rope. So placing the handle right behind your knee so the rope will be wide enough to actually pass over your body!

👉 And once the rope does come around, just let your hands drop down into a Cross. Use your leg to push your hand down next to your side into that crossed position

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Doing consecutive Basic Crosses without doing extr

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