How To Do The Thing With The Jump Rope Dudes (#54)

“You can’t rely on feeling good to do things. You have to rely on the practice of just doing something consistently all the time.” – Dan Witmer

On this episode I talk with the legendary Jump Rope Dudes, Dan Witmer and Brandon Epstein. These two need no introduction, as they have built a platform delivering jump rope information to hundreds of thousands of people and have brought an incredibly large amount of folks into the jump rope world. Dan and Brandon use jump rope to not only better themselves, but also to impact others and help create lasting positive physical and mental change for so many. We dive into a bunch of different topics about their journey with jump rope, including how both dudes lost a lot of weight with jump rope, the importance of consistency and the Stackin’ Bricks philosophy, a discussion on Mental Fitness Training, some of the dudes most fulfilling moments, and a whole lot more.

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Show Notes

1:16 The JRD Origin Story

6:00 The First Time Picking Up A Rope

10:34 Mental Training In Zen Dude Fitness

13:23 Dan’s Experience with Depression And Anxiety

18:58 What Is Mental Fitness Training?

23:38 The Importance Of Consistency

25:34 Stackin’ Bricks

27:05 Other Sports And Activities

36:53 Making Hip Hop Music Videos

39:09 Has Your Fitness Evolved?

44:26 Best Place To Live

46:57 How To Use Social Media

54:44 What’s Changed Over The Years?

1:01:25 When Was A Time You Felt Fulfilled?

1:09:00 Goals For The Future

1:13:48 Working Through Difficult Decisions

1:19:30 What Have You Learned From Making Videos For Two Years

1:22:16 What Would Your Younger Self Say About You Now?

1:25:20 What Is Jump Rope To You?

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The name “TJ” is a shorthand term that refers

The name “TJ” is a shorthand term that refers to a Triple Under where you do a Swing, Toad Cross, and Open all in one jump.

BUT the most important part is that you can’t scale the name down to a Double or Single Under… The TJ specifically includes three rotations, so those have to happen in order for the skill to be a “TJ”

However, you can add more skills on top of the TJ! For example, you could have:

- TJ Quad
- TJ Quint
- TJ to Cross Quad
- TJ to EB Quad

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Once you’ve got your Switch Cross, this is a rea

Once you’ve got your Switch Cross, this is a really cool combo to try out 👇

▶️ Swing
▶️ Cross
▶️ Switch Cross
▶️ Swing
▶️ Cross

This combo really tests your ability to keep your hands in the right positions the whole time!

Make sure the hand that is farther from your body during the Swing is the top hand during the Cross.

Plus you really want to make sure your hands are low, scooping the rope under your feet as you do each Cross 👌

#jumprope #skippingrope #beginnerjumprope #athomeworkout #ropeskipping #jumpropetricks

The Basic Cross is a little tricky to get smooth,

The Basic Cross is a little tricky to get smooth, but there’s a few things that make a huge difference with this skill.

The first is to make sure the Cross happens very close to your body. When your arms are far from your body, so is the rope! And that makes clearing the loop of the rope much harder haha.

The next thing to keep in mind (arguably the most important) is to point your hands DOWN, not out to the side. The rope needs to pass under your toes, so point your handles in that direction to make it easier!

You also don’t want a super wide Cross where your elbows almost touch. You can still do a Cross this way, but it’s way more energy than you need, and it’ll make future skill like Cross Doubles harder than neccesary.

#jumprope #skippingrope #beginnerjumprope #athomeworkout #footwork #ropeskipping #micrelease #jumpropetricks #jumpropefootwork

💥BACKWARDS LEG OVER TIPS The Backwards Leg Ove

💥BACKWARDS LEG OVER TIPS

The Backwards Leg Over is a little tricky to get into, but it’s actually easier to exit than forwards!

In this example I’m starting with a Backwards Swing, but you could start this in a variety of other skills, including a Backwards Cross.

The most important parts of this skill are:

1️⃣ The hand that goes under your leg should be underneath in the Swing. This is extremely important to making sure this combo feels easy!

2️⃣ You need to pull your leg up really high. The higher your leg, the easier it’ll be to finish the Leg Over!

3️⃣ Your hand that’s under your leg should be close to your calf/ankle. This will give you enough room to actually get the rope all the way around your body!

#athomeworkout #ropeskipping #jumpropetricks #jumprope #skippingrope #beginnerjumprope

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