Using Plastic Speed Jump Ropes for Boxing

Video Transcript

"One of the jump ropes I'm going to be talking about today is the general plastic, we call them plastic type nylon jump rope. Most of them are equipped with a ball bearing type swivel at the very end so that makes them a little bit faster and the jump rope itself doesn't get balled up inside the handle. These are also adjustable if you decide that a nine foot one is too long for your average boxer, most of your boxers. You can actually shorten it by passing the jump rope back through it, through the handle itself and there's usually a net or a wire coupling on there that you can actually cut and then reattach so you'll get a little bit shorter jump rope. Once you shorter a jump rope, that's as short as it's going to be and there's no way of lengthening them. The plastic jump rope sometimes is a little bit fast for your beginners. You'll see, if you look at some of the beginners sometimes, they'll come in and the jump rope will be so fast that by the time they jump, they've already passed it back around again and they're hitting themselves in the ankles the second time around before they get a chance to jump again. So keep an eye on your beginners and tell them right away if the jump rope is a little bit fast for them, we'll go with a little bit slower rope and we'll talk about that in just a moment."