Chito Ines — The Art Of Zen Jumping, Patience & The Process, And Letting Imagination Guide Your Journey (#72)

“Once your imagination gets triggered, it’s hard to stop it. You’re going to attempt to push yourself to see how far you can go.” — Chito Ines

Chito Ines is a PJRA Athlete Council Member, Rush Athlete, and all around awesome dude. Chito and I connected online a while ago during the pandemic, and since then we’ve become great friends. We discuss Chito’s journey and I know it will really resonate with everyone, but especially newer jumpers who are learning about the community.

We cover a lot of territory, including how Chito lost 40+ pounds jumping, why basic skills have always been a staple throughout Chito’s journey, how having fun is the unlock for staying consistent, the top tips that beginners should know, the skill that frustrated Chito the most, and loads more.

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

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Show Notes

01:17 How Chito Started Jump Roping

02:35 Chito’s Sprinting Career

04:33 How Chito Started His Weight Loss Journey

06:30 Why Chito Started And Stayed With Jumping

08:07 Staying Consistent With Jump Roping

09:09 Scheduling Jump Rope And Making The Time To Workout

13:23 Evolving Jump Rope Style

16:24 Advice To Beginner Jumpers

19:03 How Chito Became Involved With The PJRA

22:53 Learning Different Styles Of Freestyle Over Time

26:08 How Chito Approaches Posting Videos Online

33:45 How Jump Rope Impacts Other Parts Of Life

35:14 Workouts Are Not An Obligation When They’re Fun

37:24 The Value Of Unbroken Single Unders

40:28 What Chito Has Learned From Jump Rope

45:12 What Beginners Should Know

48:47 The Skill That Frustrated Chito The Most

51:32 The Value Of Always Learning More

53:07 How Jump Rope Improves Self-Esteem

55:49 Can Someone Without Sports/Exercise History Still Jump Rope?

57:30 Chito’s History With Photography

1:03:54 What Would Your Younger Self Say About You Now?

1:07:06 What Chito Hopes To Accomplish With Jump Rope In The Future

1:09:03 What Is Jump Rope To You?

1:11:03 There Are Infinite Options With Jump Rope

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Here’s each step of this combo: 👉 Swing 👉

Here’s each step of this combo:

👉 Swing
👉 Leg Over Swing
👉 Arm Wrap + Release
👉 Unwrap + Regrab
👉 Swing
👉 Basic Cross

Make sure you keep your hands really close, even as you’re doing all of this wrapping. Keep a smooth, even rhythm without speeding up the rope aggressively. Doing this will prevent handle from flying away from your body haha

And definitely don’t power through this combo with your entire arm. You want to use your wrist to rotate the rope and get that nice, smooth motion for this combo!

#jumprope #skippingrope #athomeworkout #ropeskipping #jumpropetricks

The Split Bound Handstand is where your feet split

The Split Bound Handstand is where your feet split apart (like a front straddle) right before bounding into the handstand position!

Remember: DON’T TRY THIS IF you haven’t already learned how do a Stepping Handstand Pull Through.

If you’re ready to try this, use your front leg to push off the ground to bound into the air.

Once you’re in the air, your back leg swings to rotate you into the handstand position.

This one is intimidating at first, and I would definitely recommend NOT full sending it right away! Take it slowly and only do small bounds into that handstand position at first 👌

#handstands #jumprope #skippingrope #doubleunders #handstand #athomeworkout #ropeskipping #jumpropetricks

This combo is: 👉 Toad Cross 👉 Toad Swing

This combo is:

👉 Toad Cross

👉 Toad Swing

👉 Elephant Cross

For this to work, you MUST use both hands to turn the rope! That might sound a little bit obvious, but it’s really easy to forget to use the hand that’s underneath the Toad leg.

As you go from the Toad Cross into the Toad Swing, use that Toad hand to rotate the rope as you transition into that Elephant position.

Make sure you go slowly so you don’t jump too early for the Elephant. If you wait until the rope comes all the way down to the ground before jumping, it’ll be way easier to do the Elephant Cross!

#jumprope #skippingrope #athomeworkout #ropeskipping #jumpropetricks

The Swing, Swing, Open, Open Quad is a classic ski

The Swing, Swing, Open, Open Quad is a classic skill!

You start this with a Swing, and then use the hand that’s farther away from your body to transition over your other hand to the other side.

Then pull the rope back to an open and finish with one final open rotation!

This one’s definitely tough, but the most important important thing to remember is to make sure your hands are really really efficient at doing that swing transition movement!

Your hands must be able to transition from one side to the other with very minimal movement in order to get this done. You could still complete the skill without efficient movement but it’s going to be a lot harder haha so keep all of these tips in mind as you try the SSOO Quad!

#jumprope #skippingrope #doubleunders #tripleunders #quadrupleunders #athomeworkout #ropeskipping #jumpropetricks

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