http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ CityCyclingEdinburgh Forum » Topic: Skipping en Tue, 19 May 2026 07:59:56 +0000 http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=20160&page=4#post-343645 Fri, 08 Jan 2021 20:20:10 +0000 gembo 343645@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Ah the ice might be an assist then @acsimpson? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=20160&page=4#post-343644 Fri, 08 Jan 2021 20:16:32 +0000 acsimpson 343644@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@Baldycyclist, sorry to hear that. I hope you start making some improvements soon.</p> <p>My skipping spot is covered in what fell as snow last night. I had been clearing it so it's just one layer of very rough ice now. so heavily frozen that even the swishing of the skipping rope didn't have an effect. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=20160&page=4#post-343642 Fri, 08 Jan 2021 20:08:56 +0000 Baldcyclist 343642@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Oh, this thread has reminded me of my stupidity.</p> <p>I've just been given amitriptyline to treat the pain from the probible nerve damage I've given myself. 3 months in and still got a sore rear end... </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=20160&page=4#post-343632 Fri, 08 Jan 2021 18:37:43 +0000 gembo 343632@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Will need thaw before I get back to the Eh Bo, Eh Bo, Ebonettes</p> <p>Skipping rink covered in snow. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=20160&page=4#post-343624 Fri, 08 Jan 2021 17:36:49 +0000 acsimpson 343624@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>We're back in lockdown(lite) so my skipping rope is out for the first time in months. A combination of lack of practice, lost fitness and heavier clothes limited me to a maximum of 70 and a speed run of 30. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=20160&page=4#post-341794 Fri, 11 Dec 2020 00:12:07 +0000 steveo 341794@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Next year mate, next year. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=20160&page=4#post-341793 Fri, 11 Dec 2020 00:08:34 +0000 Baldcyclist 341793@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Not skipping, but other Covid/midlife crisis related activities.</p> <p>The boy decided he wanted a skateboard, and of course so did I. I was quite good in my teens and early 20s, and therefore it stands to reason that I would still be good now nearly 30 years later.</p> <p>Of course I'm not, but I only discovered that failing to do a front side kickturn at the skateboard park. Cue the heavy landing on my coccyx followed by smacking my head off the concrete ramp (luckily helmeted) resulting in a short term concussion, and it's still painful to sit now 2 months later.</p> <p>Can skate again though, and luckily riding my bike isn't too sore now, but I couldn't do either for 6 weeks.</p> <p>50 is when you grow up right? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=20160&page=4#post-332273 Fri, 19 Jun 2020 11:15:23 +0000 Baldcyclist 332273@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@gembo It is through choice, not been told to. But being asthmatic it seems to me until the virus is much less prevelant, or someone orders me to go into the office. I'll be staying in the house most of the time.</p> <p>I do go out for a long walk once a week with the family where I know there will be very minimal contact to other people, lucky to have deserted rural walks very close. Some smaller walks 'round the block' at times I can avoid people.</p> <p>Have been in the car to go to relatives back garden once, and they have been here to ours once. They are not good at distancing which bothers me.</p> <p>Other than that I'm lucky to have a mice big garden, and so spend a lot of time there. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=20160&page=4#post-332262 Fri, 19 Jun 2020 09:55:22 +0000 gembo 332262@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@acsimpson, good effort</p> <p>@baldycyclist, sorry you are still essentially shielding</p> <p>@bax - gave up when I could get back out cycling every day. Was early morning but this week due to Haar has been evenings </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=20160&page=4#post-332263 Fri, 19 Jun 2020 09:55:19 +0000 gembo 332263@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@acsimpson, good effort</p> <p>@baldycyclist, sorry you are still essentially shielding</p> <p>@bax - gave up when I could get back out cycling every day. Was early morning but this week due to Haar has been evenings </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=20160&page=4#post-332252 Thu, 18 Jun 2020 23:47:40 +0000 acsimpson 332252@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I skipped tonight for the first time in over a month. I can still make it to the hundred but not much further. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=20160&page=4#post-332251 Thu, 18 Jun 2020 23:44:55 +0000 Baldcyclist 332251@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>For me yes, I appear to be too fat to skip, I keep bursting my right leg.</p> <p>I've moved onto elastic bands and a kettlebell. Still regularly on spin bike.</p> <p>I'd love to go out on the real bike, but I'm essentially still sheilding, don't even go to the shops really. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=20160&page=3#post-332250 Thu, 18 Jun 2020 23:20:11 +0000 minus six 332250@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>what with the advent of face mask culture</p> <p>eight long years of full beard fashion may soon be over</p> <p>but what of skipping.. is it merely a passing fad ? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=20160&page=3#post-329225 Wed, 06 May 2020 18:47:37 +0000 gembo 329225@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Good efforts </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=20160&page=3#post-329224 Wed, 06 May 2020 18:30:15 +0000 Baldcyclist 329224@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>24, 34, and 32, and then that right calf muscle gave in again </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=20160&page=3#post-328986 Mon, 04 May 2020 09:54:37 +0000 acsimpson 328986@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I know some local news outlets have been suspected of following CCE in the past but is this evidence of wider reach? </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=20160&page=3#post-328947 Sun, 03 May 2020 16:08:20 +0000 minus six 328947@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>So the Grauniad has leapt onto the lockdown skipping bandwagon</p> <p>But we were there when it all started </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=20160&page=3#post-328925 Sun, 03 May 2020 11:27:39 +0000 Baldcyclist 328925@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I e decided my 'pulled' Calf muscle is just down to lack of use, so skipped through the pain.</p> <p>I have quite a bad leg imbalance after an injury last May, with left leg being strong and right really weak.</p> <p>I'd been trying to fix that doing daft unbalanced cycling pushing more on weak leg, was just really uncomfortable.</p> <p>Turns out doing kettlebell squats and skipping seems to naturally work those muscles equally.</p> <p>24 best today.</p> <p>Does a good job of getting the heart going to after 50 or so cumulative skips. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=20160&page=3#post-328911 Sat, 02 May 2020 20:24:18 +0000 wingpig 328911@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Fit in my 40s: 10-year-old girls love it, but will skipping work for me?</p> <p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2020/may/02/fit-in-my-40s-will-skipping-work-for-me?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Copy_to_clipboard" rel="nofollow">https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2020/may/02/fit-in-my-40s-will-skipping-work-for-me?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Copy_to_clipboard</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=20160&page=3#post-328910 Sat, 02 May 2020 20:13:49 +0000 gembo 328910@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Scores not to be sniffed at @srd </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=20160&page=3#post-328905 Sat, 02 May 2020 18:37:17 +0000 SRD 328905@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>got a` couple of 20s this afternoon. better than nothing. also sewed a dozen masks for London colleagues. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=20160&page=3#post-328891 Sat, 02 May 2020 15:08:52 +0000 gembo 328891@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Shame, was going so well </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=20160&page=3#post-328881 Sat, 02 May 2020 12:41:53 +0000 Baldcyclist 328881@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Skipping ropes arrived yesterday.</p> <p>This morning I managed a 2, 2, 3, 4, 9, 10, a 14 and a 15, and a pulled calf muscle. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=20160&page=3#post-328208 Thu, 23 Apr 2020 11:37:09 +0000 I were right about that saddle 328208@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I just got @acsimpson's post. Thought it was a reference to some date in the late nineties. Thought @gembo had gone madder.</p> <p>Going for the ton at luchtime. There. I've said it. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=20160&page=3#post-328207 Thu, 23 Apr 2020 11:28:37 +0000 miak 328207@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>I need to join this movement. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=20160&page=3#post-328202 Thu, 23 Apr 2020 11:10:18 +0000 gembo 328202@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@acsimpson turns out @wingpig was all Lincolnshire school skipping champion in 1990 and again in 92, 93 and 94. The boys mocked him but the girls loved him. You can see his logic quite transparent really. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=20160&page=3#post-328182 Wed, 22 Apr 2020 22:15:53 +0000 acsimpson 328182@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@gembo I missed out on a round number but but in all ways Winpig's round number is vastly superior to mine. </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=20160&page=3#post-328174 Wed, 22 Apr 2020 19:02:10 +0000 wingpig 328174@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>Is it not goofy/regular, when speaking of the feet and legs, like skate or snow-boarding?</p> <p>I think this was 256 but I lost count whilst looking at possible paths for new washing lines.<br /> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tGFycQoOcL4" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tGFycQoOcL4</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=20160&page=3#post-328171 Wed, 22 Apr 2020 17:34:03 +0000 gembo 328171@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>@acsimpson, heartbreakingly close to the century. Great effort</p> <p>@bax - rope comes over you lift your right foot, rope continues you lift your left./ Or other way if you lead with your left (southpaw that is called) </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=20160&page=3#post-328170 Wed, 22 Apr 2020 17:27:39 +0000 acsimpson 328170@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>29/10/97</p> <p>The first two I was trying to avoid the rope hitting the ground, the last one I went back to my trusted knees and feet locked together and working as a single spring while the rope hits the ground for an audible rhythm. </p>