Stewart Isaacs Pt. 1 – Speed Training (#43)

“It takes a lot consistent and hard effort to make the progress you want, but when you do it, it pays out.” —Stewart Isaacs

Stewart is one of the top tier world champion jumpers, with a massive amount of experience in the sport. In addition to jump rope, he’s also pursuing a PhD in Aeronautics and Astronautics from MIT. Needless to say, Stewart brings a lot of great perspective to table. So much so, that we recorded over 3 hours of conversation! I’ll be splitting up our chat into three parts, with this being the first.

In this portion of our chat, we really dig into a lot of speed training detail, discussing how to make speed training more enjoyable, why most younger jumpers actually like speed training despite the difficulty, and some methods to get more out of your training without having significant mental fatigue.

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

Selected Links

Jump Rope For Heart
Tori Boggs
Kaylee Couvillon
I-Dive
Dylan Plummer
Zev Troxler
Vivien Vajda
Endure
Zac Tomlinson
Luke Boon
Molly Metz
Justin Meier
Celina Furman
Fusion Jump Rope
Jump! Documentary
Porter Ballard
Seth Ingram
Hamisi Kondo
AMJRF
USAJR
NDDL
ADDL

Show Notes

2:04 Team Tryouts

5:10 Other Sports

8:08 Mindset To Push To The Limit

12:13 Engineering and Jump Rope

13:19 How Stewart Creates Quad Sequences

18:01 Success in Competition

19:36 Speed Training

34:31 Stewart Crushes His Wrist

39:45 How Stewart Does The Moneymaker

41:40 Hamisi Kondo’s Jumping Style

43:50 Speed Training In Ghana

Subscribe to My Newsletter!

Every week I send out an email with all of the jump rope goodness I see in the community. Enter your info below to get my emails!

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

Load More... Follow on Instagram

← Prev:Jump Rope As A Gateway Drug with Juli Camp (#42) Stewart Isaacs Pt. 2 - Using Music to Prime Your Mind for Competitive Jump Rope Events (#44) →

You May Also Like…

Alex “Onlyjuanalex” – Defining & Maintaining Consistency, Finding Your Jump Rope Tribe, And The Value Of Showing Up (#83)

Alex “Onlyjuanalex” – Defining & Maintaining Consistency, Finding Your Jump Rope Tribe, And The Value Of Showing Up (#83)

Mar 3, 2023

"Once you reframe what consistency actually is meant to be and what definition of achieving or hitting the target is,...

The Jump Rope Journey (#82)

The Jump Rope Journey (#82)

Feb 24, 2023

"Jump rope can really be based on your personality" - Bernadette Henry There's been a good chunk of episodes so far,...

Defining Jump Rope “Coaches,” How to Use Social Media, and the History of Skill Names with Celina Furman and Chris Walker (#81)

Defining Jump Rope “Coaches,” How to Use Social Media, and the History of Skill Names with Celina Furman and Chris Walker (#81)

Feb 17, 2023

“The other thing is to not compare yourself to other people, that jump rope is your journey. You are seeing highlights...

0 Comments

Submit a Comment Cancel reply

This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed.