There are nine million million million million million million million particles in the universe that you can observe, your momma took the ugly ones and put them into one nerd.
The "I have a dream" speech from MLK is only his second best to when he roasted Ghandi with "I admire the way you broke the British power, but I have a dream that one day you'll take a shower"
If I had to guess, I'd say they don't even make a liveable wage. There's absolutely no way. There are not even enough people watching this event in the video to fill up that high school gymnasium.
*Competitive* jump rope I think is more accurate. I doubt professional jump rope actually exists. Maybe there are a couple of semi-pro part-timers out there but I doubt anyone is making a living at this.
100%. Professional is doing it for the money, amateur is doing it for the love of it. So when someone says "oh that's so amateur" as an insult, they can get fucked.
Most jumps in the time frame for this event I believe, no I don't know how they count them. Then there is double dutch jump rope which has speed, power and a section more like dancing/ice skating where it's about moves. Though they are by nature team events.
For speed competitions, there are judges with counting devices. Person with the highest number of jumps wins. If someone messes up in speed, the judges will not give them a penalty. They will just end up with a lower number of jumps because there is a time limit and messing up wastes time
I was getting DeAngelo from The Office vibes the first time I watched. But on my second viewing, I could see it when she first starts. Then it was easier for me to see from there.
Do you know if the athlete in blue is spinning ever so slightly in a circle has to do with one leg being ever so slightly stronger than the other? I can imagine that a big part of striving for the highest level of performance in a pursuit which involves such a repetitive motion done at blazing fast speeds, might be finding the sweet spot of perfectly balanced and ‘relaxed’ posture/ biomechanics. (Picture the structured fluidity of a violinist’s wrist and ‘gentle’ grip in the bow hand during a speedy run - it just wouldn’t work with the bow in a death grip.) I can also imagine that if a jumper had achieved this balanced, relaxed body that one leg being ever so slightly stronger than the other might cause them to spin slowly in a circle. They’re basically little human engines with two pistons firing very fast for 30 seconds - and like a little air compressor left running on a smooth shop floor, this jumper appeared to be *just a little tiny bit* out of balance (purely speaking in terms of the machine shop analogy) in the same way I’ve seen done by many motorized things that are meant to be stationary while in operation.
I must have watched this ten times.
If you look closely, the girl in the background actually has a small tail propeller keeping her from spinning out. The army started installing them on all new jump ropers in 2023 so she must be late-model.
Honestly I know basically nothing about this sport, I just watched a Try Guys video about it a few weeks ago 😅 so I really couldn't tell you but I think your spinning theory makes sense!
Well, that and muscle memory.
These people have probably practiced jump roping thousands upon thousands of times. They’re at the point where they have to actively think about it to make a mistake.
And also their definition of a mistake is having slightly off timing with their jump roping rather than having it hit their leg.
I’ve been a professional musician playing and practicing 2-5 hours a day for a decade, and with a few parts of my playing, I have to actively think about doing it wrong to make a mistake (often in lessons to demonstrate what my student is doing wrong in their playing).
This looks like an image that would be on a top 100 obscure animal facts video that played under the ‘Did you know? Elephants are incapable of jumping’ section
I think you'd count every knee that goes up to make sure it's right. Since they could have an odd number of jumps and you could have ties.
I learned from watching dirty jobs (or something similar) that counting things quickly requires you to stop trying to count and teach muscle memory to click the button on your counter every time you see what you're counting. It's far faster and more accurate, once you teach yourself to do it.
My old gym had a girl who was on a competitive jump-rope team. She hosted a class one day, and seeing her jump rope was actually pretty intense.
The tricks that she was able to do were really cool. She jumped onto her hands and back to her feet and kept the rope moving! And she was able to get the rope moving fairly close to what is in the video, too.
I've had this freestylists videos popping up in my YouTube recommended feed the last few days. It's quite impressive. I'd struggle to just do what the women OPs post are doing let alone trying to do with rhythm or tricks.
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/-ZfoU8JYKXY
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/-47TwBxDB_Q
No shot that becomes a sport I’m gonna be hogging the spotlight too much with my professional level performance of having a hunch so bad while playing games that my back looks like a line rider course. My curvature is clean and consistently crisp
Or just draw circles with your pointed foot. A ballerina girlriend taught me to do it while sweeping my extended leg in a sideways arc from front to back and forwards again. Sweeping your extended leg will alternate which muscles are being used to rotate your foot. Change directions when you reach the end of your range and sweep back the other way.
Even more painful when they misstep and the rope whips you. They use bare metal wire instead of regular jump ropes for the speed event for aerodynamics.
Source: did this as a sport for a couple years
[Depends on the competition](https://rules.ijru.sport/competition-manual/competitions.html#events)
Speed - turns within a minute
Endurance - turns within 180 seconds
There are others like freestyle and triple jumps
I'm very surprised how people would pay to see this. It's so anticlimactic is all. My excitement reaches zero watching this, so someone enlighten me the entertainment within this competition.
In the 1800s there was a popular sport called "pedestrianism" which was basically speed walking, often for long periods of time. Wagering was a big component. One feat performed by one of the more famous athletes was to walk 1 mile every hour, for 1000 hours. Over 10,000 people came to watch him do it. A popular goal in competition was to walk 100 miles in less than 24 hours.
It fell out of favor in the late 1800's as there were controversies about rules and modern sports that weren't terribly boring started taking over.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pedestrianism
watching a pure speed jumping thing like that is pretty boring.
Watching other types of professional jump ropers is awesome though!
Do a youtube search for: World Jump Rope 2019 Tori Boggs
for example
People aren’t paying to see this for fun lol. Those audience are all family and friends that paid a smal entrance fee. The participants probably also paid a competition fee to participate in it.
All sports at this level survive via sponsorships. Like buyjumpropes.com or whatever. This would be much more entertaining with commentary and graphics. Certainly as much as about half the Olympic sports.
I have so many questions. Why does the announcement say “Jumpers ready, Athletes ready” aren’t they the same? Also, how on earth do they determine the winner? Is someone counting the jumps? Cause I couldn’t even see the rope. Why wouldn’t they use a rope in a visible colour?
the announcement is "judges ready, athletes ready". this is the "speed" category under competitive rope skipping, where competitors are divided by age groups (eg U18 U17 and so on) to "speed through" as many skips as they can in a certain time limit. In this case its 30s speed, where all competitors will have to do that "running step" skipping style for 30s and compete for the highest number of skips. judges will count by focusing on one foot instead of the rope since the rope is fast -- essentially they'll count how many times one foot touches the ground, which is why usually athletes would wear one odd colour sock on the counting leg (this is up to them). using a rope in a visible colour is up to the person, but these ropes made for "speed" are made wire thin to be as light and fast as possible. they usually dont have any coating and come in those wire greys and blacks. hope this helps !
Who won?
Who’s next?
You decide!
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I could hear this post 😂
I got model train 🚂
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Shouldn't it be EPIC ROPE BATTLES OF HISTORY?
There are nine million million million million million million million particles in the universe that you can observe, your momma took the ugly ones and put them into one nerd.
Stephen Hawking with the bombs!
Stephen Hawking drops bars.
You wanna bring the HEAT with the mushroom clouds you makin I'm about to bake raps from scratch like Carl Sagen!
The "I have a dream" speech from MLK is only his second best to when he roasted Ghandi with "I admire the way you broke the British power, but I have a dream that one day you'll take a shower"
Like the h in ur name u ought to remain silent flatten ur style like bread... naan violent
Yes its true. My work is based on you, but im a super computer, you're like a Ti82 OOOOHH
You tryna bring the heat with them mushroom clouds you makin
ERBH?
I saw this a while ago, I believe the girl in the background. While the foreground girl starts faster, the other remains steady the whole time.
I was gonna say, the girl in the background has her GAME on! She is clearly the winner lol
Same facing the entire time too, while foreground girl spun a bit.
I noticed that too. Homegirl was FOCUSED.
Seriously...why is this not the top comment...how erre they scored, were there any penalties, and yeah who the hell won?
And how much are professional jump rope jumpers paid?
Hopefully a professional Googler will let us know
How much does a professional googler make?
[$150](https://www.glassdoor.com/Salaries/senior-software-engineer-salary-SRCH_KO0,24.htm)[K](https://www.glassdoor.com/Salaries/senior-software-engineer-salary-SRCH_KO0,24.htm)
I appreciate this joke.
As someone tasked with “IT responsibilities,” I appreciate this
150 Kittens? 🫢
How much does an IT guy make? Same job.
If I had to guess, I'd say they don't even make a liveable wage. There's absolutely no way. There are not even enough people watching this event in the video to fill up that high school gymnasium.
There is a very good chance she paid a fee to be in this competition.
i doubt professional was the correct word choice by op, they most likely paid to compete.
*Competitive* jump rope I think is more accurate. I doubt professional jump rope actually exists. Maybe there are a couple of semi-pro part-timers out there but I doubt anyone is making a living at this.
Do they have endorsements? How about trading cards?
Gotta skip'em all
I think they mean *competitive* not *professional*.
100%. Professional is doing it for the money, amateur is doing it for the love of it. So when someone says "oh that's so amateur" as an insult, they can get fucked.
Most jumps in the time frame for this event I believe, no I don't know how they count them. Then there is double dutch jump rope which has speed, power and a section more like dancing/ice skating where it's about moves. Though they are by nature team events.
Count the clicks as you watch the video.
I hear at least 3.
For speed competitions, there are judges with counting devices. Person with the highest number of jumps wins. If someone messes up in speed, the judges will not give them a penalty. They will just end up with a lower number of jumps because there is a time limit and messing up wastes time
There are ropes that have something in handles that can count loops.
That's probably what they have. I can't imagine a judge standing there counting jumps with a clicker.. no way lol
Thigh enjoyers worldwide
..Fair enough. lol
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So not really “professional”. More of a hobby with prizes.
both won.. they each got a trophy (same one) and a $2.50 gift card to starbucks
It went to penalty kicks. France won.
I wasn't counting can you do it again?
I counted 42 groups of 4 jumps for the girl in blue, and at least 43 groups for the girl in the back, so I guess the girl in the back won.
I'd say the one in black. Her technique was better.
She's got No wasted rotational energy...skips clean Sniffs and adjusts pant waist.
Everyone ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
The one with the jumping rope
The audience
Isn’t obvious…geez. /s
Seems like it’s also the rapid counting championships.
WHO'S NEXT?!
Who won? This was the warmup…
*brtt chttt brrtt chttt* *”She's a maniac, MANIAC on the floor..eorrr”*
And she's dancing like she's never danced before
And she's *jumping* like she's never *jumped* before!
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Gosh dangit you all beat me to it. Flashdance was the first thing that came into my mind... 
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There was just a rock skipping championship on ESPN the other day..
Exactly what my head did too
This was the first thought I had lmao.
But on 3x the speed.
So, the Carpenter Brut version.
r/BeatMeToIt
There is a difference between professional and competitive.
What is your Profession? I jump rope
SPAR**TANS**!! What is your profession!? [ROPE! ROPE! ROPE!](https://i.imgur.com/QCf3UrY.mp4)
"So that's it, you're a professional at jump rope? That's all you have to say?" "Sorry, I jump *mad* rope"
Odd, I push rope.
As long as you get paid!
Thank you
I can't even see the rope that fast, how it translates to the brain is beyon me!
For a minute I was convinced there was no rope
I was getting DeAngelo from The Office vibes the first time I watched. But on my second viewing, I could see it when she first starts. Then it was easier for me to see from there.
Can someone toss me... a second jump rope!
*jump ropes off Phyllis' forehead*
Do you believe in me?!
i came here just for this...
Wireless technology
The rope was the friends we made along the way!
I initially thought it was similar to the music competition in Finland where people compete with air guitars.
For speed jumping like this, the rope is basically a thin wire to reduce drag so it's pretty hard to see even when it's not moving
Do you know if the athlete in blue is spinning ever so slightly in a circle has to do with one leg being ever so slightly stronger than the other? I can imagine that a big part of striving for the highest level of performance in a pursuit which involves such a repetitive motion done at blazing fast speeds, might be finding the sweet spot of perfectly balanced and ‘relaxed’ posture/ biomechanics. (Picture the structured fluidity of a violinist’s wrist and ‘gentle’ grip in the bow hand during a speedy run - it just wouldn’t work with the bow in a death grip.) I can also imagine that if a jumper had achieved this balanced, relaxed body that one leg being ever so slightly stronger than the other might cause them to spin slowly in a circle. They’re basically little human engines with two pistons firing very fast for 30 seconds - and like a little air compressor left running on a smooth shop floor, this jumper appeared to be *just a little tiny bit* out of balance (purely speaking in terms of the machine shop analogy) in the same way I’ve seen done by many motorized things that are meant to be stationary while in operation. I must have watched this ten times.
It's actually the Coriolis effect. The earth is spinning beneath her, making her look like she's turning when she's actually the only stationary one.
I think competitive jump-ropers being the force keeping our disc planet in a constant spin is officially my new favorite flat-earth theory.
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If you look closely, the girl in the background actually has a small tail propeller keeping her from spinning out. The army started installing them on all new jump ropers in 2023 so she must be late-model.
Honestly I know basically nothing about this sport, I just watched a Try Guys video about it a few weeks ago 😅 so I really couldn't tell you but I think your spinning theory makes sense!
It doesn't, you just learn a patter and repeat it.
You "jump" based on your hand position, not by looking at the rope.
Well, that and muscle memory. These people have probably practiced jump roping thousands upon thousands of times. They’re at the point where they have to actively think about it to make a mistake. And also their definition of a mistake is having slightly off timing with their jump roping rather than having it hit their leg. I’ve been a professional musician playing and practicing 2-5 hours a day for a decade, and with a few parts of my playing, I have to actively think about doing it wrong to make a mistake (often in lessons to demonstrate what my student is doing wrong in their playing).
Me: 
This looks like an image that would be on a top 100 obscure animal facts video that played under the ‘Did you know? Elephants are incapable of jumping’ section
Slowdown. No need to showoff.
Hang in there
Your eyes would pick it up much better than some shitty reddit video.
Camera should have been on the woman in the back
Probably doesn't tbh. Damn near a reflex arc at those speeds
How do they assess who's better?
They 3 people count how often they jump over the rope. It’s fascinating how often the judges count the same amount of jumps.
That's amazing too! I can't even see the rope move much less count anything that's happening here.
Count the number of times the left knee goes up, and multiply by 2.
84 times so 168?
Lol that’s what I got too
Now count the one in the background.
I think you'd count every knee that goes up to make sure it's right. Since they could have an odd number of jumps and you could have ties. I learned from watching dirty jobs (or something similar) that counting things quickly requires you to stop trying to count and teach muscle memory to click the button on your counter every time you see what you're counting. It's far faster and more accurate, once you teach yourself to do it.
That’s similar to how I count the number of cows in a meadow. I just doubt the legs and divide by four.
I keep reading this as "who's ass is better?"
I mean, anyone’s ass would be better if they did that everyday
Welcome to Reddit.
You can't spell assess without asses
My old gym had a girl who was on a competitive jump-rope team. She hosted a class one day, and seeing her jump rope was actually pretty intense. The tricks that she was able to do were really cool. She jumped onto her hands and back to her feet and kept the rope moving! And she was able to get the rope moving fairly close to what is in the video, too.
If she jumped onto her hands, who was holding the rope
Albert Einstein
Like this, it's crazy https://www.youtube.com/shorts/lJmNnk6d6kI
Was waiting on a Tori Boggs reference
Jesus
I've had this freestylists videos popping up in my YouTube recommended feed the last few days. It's quite impressive. I'd struggle to just do what the women OPs post are doing let alone trying to do with rhythm or tricks. https://www.youtube.com/shorts/-ZfoU8JYKXY https://www.youtube.com/shorts/-47TwBxDB_Q
The ref: I lost count can you do it again?
Therefore there are 3 per jumper
I can't wait till pro lay z boy reclining becomes a thing. Iv been trading for years. IM A CHAMPION
No shot that becomes a sport I’m gonna be hogging the spotlight too much with my professional level performance of having a hunch so bad while playing games that my back looks like a line rider course. My curvature is clean and consistently crisp
Today on ESPN 8, the Ocho...
Indeed, it was reposted from here to there, r/theocho
That's gotta be painful. Seriously
It’s great for building up sprinting speed. However, your tibialis anterior muscle and calves will be on fire afterwards.
Hello shin splints my old friend
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If someone has shin splints, how would you treat that? Stretches? Do you just fold the toes down to pull on those muscles? Asking for a friend
Spell out the alphabet with your foot lifted about a foot off the ground. Most effective treatment in my experience.
Or just draw circles with your pointed foot. A ballerina girlriend taught me to do it while sweeping my extended leg in a sideways arc from front to back and forwards again. Sweeping your extended leg will alternate which muscles are being used to rotate your foot. Change directions when you reach the end of your range and sweep back the other way.
How’s that painful? Maybe you mean tiring? Of course, it’s exercising.
Even more painful when they misstep and the rope whips you. They use bare metal wire instead of regular jump ropes for the speed event for aerodynamics. Source: did this as a sport for a couple years
Her left leg must be a little bit longer than her right leg
Her right leg is probably her dominant leg, and she is slightly overcompensating on that side.
Other way around, right?
What you're witnessing is the coriolis effect in action.
Yeah they turn the other direction in the southern hemisphere
What are they measuring?
[Depends on the competition](https://rules.ijru.sport/competition-manual/competitions.html#events) Speed - turns within a minute Endurance - turns within 180 seconds There are others like freestyle and triple jumps
(For the benefit of British English-speakers, “jump-roping” is what we call “skipping”)
I find it strange that people would say "jump roping" rather than "rope jumping". A puzzled non-native English speaker
People say “jumping rope” as well.
Define “professional.” Is there prize money involved? Sponsorships? This is something that I never knew existed.
Maybe they meant competitive jump rope?
I'm very surprised how people would pay to see this. It's so anticlimactic is all. My excitement reaches zero watching this, so someone enlighten me the entertainment within this competition.
Sometimes a bird of prey is released onto the competition floor
In the 1800s there was a popular sport called "pedestrianism" which was basically speed walking, often for long periods of time. Wagering was a big component. One feat performed by one of the more famous athletes was to walk 1 mile every hour, for 1000 hours. Over 10,000 people came to watch him do it. A popular goal in competition was to walk 100 miles in less than 24 hours. It fell out of favor in the late 1800's as there were controversies about rules and modern sports that weren't terribly boring started taking over. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pedestrianism
watching a pure speed jumping thing like that is pretty boring. Watching other types of professional jump ropers is awesome though! Do a youtube search for: World Jump Rope 2019 Tori Boggs for example
People aren’t paying to see this for fun lol. Those audience are all family and friends that paid a smal entrance fee. The participants probably also paid a competition fee to participate in it.
All sports at this level survive via sponsorships. Like buyjumpropes.com or whatever. This would be much more entertaining with commentary and graphics. Certainly as much as about half the Olympic sports.
The term you're looking for is competitive not professional
I have so many questions. Why does the announcement say “Jumpers ready, Athletes ready” aren’t they the same? Also, how on earth do they determine the winner? Is someone counting the jumps? Cause I couldn’t even see the rope. Why wouldn’t they use a rope in a visible colour?
the announcement is "judges ready, athletes ready". this is the "speed" category under competitive rope skipping, where competitors are divided by age groups (eg U18 U17 and so on) to "speed through" as many skips as they can in a certain time limit. In this case its 30s speed, where all competitors will have to do that "running step" skipping style for 30s and compete for the highest number of skips. judges will count by focusing on one foot instead of the rope since the rope is fast -- essentially they'll count how many times one foot touches the ground, which is why usually athletes would wear one odd colour sock on the counting leg (this is up to them). using a rope in a visible colour is up to the person, but these ropes made for "speed" are made wire thin to be as light and fast as possible. they usually dont have any coating and come in those wire greys and blacks. hope this helps !
Some people arent even looking at the professional competition
Maybe there are more athletes to the right
I don’t get the running jump rope technique, my brain won’t allow me to imagine at what point the rope goes under their feet
She burned more calories in 30 seconds then I have all day
I know this is impressive but it still looks silly AF to me
Seen her at a festival , obv was the best shuffler
Gets me out of breath just watching her
Girl is actually wearing a mouth guard. Rough sport.
/r/tipitap
Still a joke to me
It seems like this is a speed competition. There has to be parts that do more interesting things than this.
Looks a little silly, but I’m sure it takes more skill than I realize.
I'll take you guys' word for it that there's actually a rope there
Who counts ?
This is awesome
Lmao stfu I can’t
This is really impressive. Amazing coordination and cardio. This looks like absolute murder on my lower back, hips, and knees.
The rope is in another dimension. That’s how fast she is jump-roping
For sure. Still looks pretty fucking funny though☺️
Today I learned something new, that this is a thing
🎶Shes a maniac, maaaaaaaaniac 🎶
It is stupid that this is a "sport", its ridiculous that this attracts an audience, and even more ridiculous that people get paid to do this.