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Soon we wont even be able to resolve our cognitive dissonance by saying cycling is exempt (check those men on strava going for 100 mile cycles in an hour).
In preparation I have taken up skipping.
Day 1 - 20 skips and 10 peppers before the rope snagged
Day 2 (yesterday) 39 skips and watched Malcolm Mclaren’s 8 min version of Double Dutch (knACKERED)
Cuh mon say Eh Bo, Eh Bo EBONETS.
@bax San, all this scratchin’ is makin me itch.
The Ebonettes are creepy old Malcolm’s favourite Double Dutch Team
Eh bo Eh bo Ebonettes
My record is now 52
52 is top tier.. i'd be hard pushed to take that challenge
opening track obatala on that album was class
bought my vinyl copy of that in a record shop in southend, day trip to the sea on the back of a scooter from newham east london town
Mod buys birth of hip hop skipping album in south end Nice
nah my mate had a scooter but there was absolutely no mod nonsense going on i can assure you
need to get into this skipping malarky, gembo
whats the hampden, do you have a pro setup or strictly diy handle fashioned
@bax it is old school, quite heavy rope, old wooden handles but they do seem to have ball bearings or something that gives a swivel to the rope.
The guy on YouTube had some wild looking kit. Top of the range thin cord and fancy handles.
A bit of rope cut a bit long and wrapped round the wrists will still work.
Quite windy to start today but 52 skips set last night will be hard for me to beat.
I found my rope in the InterSport in York in 1991 which closely resembled the ropes we'd just been introduced to at school for attempting maximal skips per minute. Light, slightly flexible polypropylene braid with plastic tubes around it for weight.
59 today, incremental not exponential
have ordered one online, hopefully it will arrive for the weekend or early next week
will try some jumping up and down on the spot meantime, so i'll be ready to skip later
@bax I can join in the Ebonettes and am really quite amazing at skipping if I dont use a rope for sure
skipping rope ETA thurs 9th April
gives me ample time to get fit for the challenge
@bax, we have a trend Double Dutchers now include @sheeptoucher of this parish
my skipping rope has arrived
the fife town diamond skippers
Saw this thread and borrowed my daughter's rope. First try was 37, 2nd try a minute after was 15. Still breathing hard 5 mins later.
Paddy is not light on his feet...
Good name, i will get back to you on. That.
Mrs Garto entered our competition and with her first skip she hit 60
Has taken me all weekend to get up to 67
Balerno Bush Kangaroos
a formidable force, gembo-san
paddy, thats a good innings considering your hand op
i am not yet ready to skip in earnest, it appears
any day now though
Are these numbers for consecutive skips until you need to rest or just until you thwack your feet?
@wingpig, until you catch the rope but I guess you could stop as tired or just showing off if you become super confident. @bill claims could easily achieve over the ton using pink ropes back in the day
OK. Just stopped at sixty on a first wee test to see if there was enough space between the basketball hoop and the pigeon tree. I have decided on an initial arrangement of doing at least one skip per minute of logged-in WFH, preferably not building up a debt of more than 180 so that I'm not sitting still for three hours, not that that's even remotely possible with children all over the place.
The next hour banked already.
@wingpig provides the correlation... sixty is the bar !
oh lordy that's a mountain to climb.. may have to invoke the covid veteran's handicap
meantime i can cycle 15 miles daily but legs/lungs immediately complain at any effort to jump the rope repeatedly
Today's efforts 26, 29, 8,29. Happy enough to have done more overall, even if 37 is the peak
@paddyirish, good effort I think i made 33 today tops. Very windy, might go out now and try as have had 2 glasses 0f wine. Lovely white cote du Rhône from scotmid. Very golden colour just failed to spot it was 2012 vintage, thought better drink it
10,10,14 - not so windy now. Drinking and also having fire going just to your right not conducive
@wingpig would appear to be the winner
i've been doing rather more drinking than skipping this week
still 20 miles daily on the bike though
will skip harder next week
@bax, good to alternate, i was out this morning for a spin and ended up directing the polis
43 on the skips
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