Talk:Skipping rope

skipping rope
Why is it called jump rope? surely it was called skipping first.... Myself0101 (talk) 18:59, 30 April 2008 (UTC)


 * You don't skip when using a jump rope. You jump. 128.211.198.168 (talk) 03:31, 18 January 2010 (UTC)

anaerobic?
Is skipping anaerobic? I was sure it wasn't but I've just read you don't get much oxygen whilst skipping...

Would it be a good idea to mention some organisations which run these skipping competitions, such as FISAC-IRSF (International Rope Skipping Federation)? --Xidon 19:13, 7 June 2006 (UTC)

Length of Rope
How does one size a jump rope so that it fits them properly? --Dennis Fernkes 00:24, 16 June 2006 (UTC)

The right length of rope for someone would be if you tread on it with both feet in the centre of the rope and the handles should be in your armpits or thereabouts. Xidon 09:47, 16 June 2006 (UTC)

Wikification
I previously wikified this page, however all of those edits have been reverted. The page is no longer compliant with WP:MOS. As I don't understand why the edits were undone I'm not prepared to spend time wikifying again. Rich257 12:50, 18 September 2006 (                                                   =

Exercise
I think the exercise section sounds like an advertisement. It's just kind of weird to have in an encyclopedia article. If someone thinks it needs to be changed...
 * Your right, I've tagged it with as you can't really 'advertise' excersise. You could copyedit it yourself, or wait for someone else to come along and sort it out Ollie 23:29, 6 December 2006 (UTC)

ill try (98.211.66.42 (talk) 15:43, 12 August 2008 (UTC))

Picture
what we need is a picture of a jump rope itself (Mini no ipod (talk) 03:32, 10 August 2008 (UTC))

Strength Building?
At a couple points within the article it mentions jumping rope as either building or requiring strength. While jumping rope is a challenging exercise unless someone has a really low level of strength jumping rope is not going to require or build strength. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 96.52.146.232 (talk) 05:34, 8 October 2008 (UTC)


 * High level jump rope is similar to gymnastics in this respect. Many tricks involving handstands, flips, and push up positions require substantial upper body strength.  But a number of sources have also shown that simple sustained jump roping does in fact build upper body strength  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Bigdavedsh (talk • contribs) 18:19, 14 July 2010 (UTC)

External links: advert link?
Under external links, the link labelled "[1]" seems to be nothing more than a link to a site selling related merchandise. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 142.179.14.47 (talk) 22:55, 24 December 2008 (UTC)

Rhymes
My granddaughter would appreciate someone adding to referencing a list of jumping rhymes. Geologist (talk) 01:51, 8 February 2009 (UTC)


 * You'll find some here: Skipping-rope rhyme. Gronky (talk) 03:33, 30 August 2009 (UTC)

Possible side effects?
I heard that jumping rope could be detrimental to brain health since during the practise the brain is always jolting. Is there any research on that? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Davor.danach (talk • contribs) 15:24, 11 December 2009 (UTC)


 * Nope that's an unfounded claim based on no scientific research —Preceding unsigned comment added by 94.192.4.22 (talk) 23:36, 1 August 2010 (UTC)

Buddy Lee?
Mr. Lee is a commercial inventor/retailer of jump-ropes. However, his jump rope videos are very entertaining, he's an Olympic athlete, 3-time world military wrestling champion and I would motion that a link to one of his videos, a picture of him jumping rope or a link to his website would serve the general Wikipedia-reading public well. http://www.buddyleejumpropes.com/video.htm Pär Larsson (talk) 02:25, 10 November 2010 (UTC)

Techniques section
I expanded this section a while ago, although someone has since changed it. The toad trick was changed to be called a leg over cross (which is not what it is called, it is called a toad) and it also mentions a trick called the awesome Anna (which should be the awesome Annie) which describes the trick in an entirely incomprehensible way. I am going to edit these back to the way they should be (as a jump roper/skipper I do know what I am talking about) and when I can be bothered I'll probably start up a jump rope tricks article which would be useful, considering most other performance arts have pages with tricks on them. To any editor of this page, don't edit the techniques if you don't know what you are talking about. (Js1056 (talk) 17:09, 23 February 2011 (UTC))

Jump Roping Grammatically Correct?
There are a couple places where 'Jump Roping' is used instead of skipping or jumping rope. I believe this to be incorrect grammatically since "define: 'jump roping'" shows no results on google which means it occurs in none of the online dictionaries that google searches. Furthermore 'rope' is a noun and -ing is a progressive tense for verbs, making this a wrong combination. I realize that some people do say this (I met one today) but I believe that it's simply incorrect on their part and colloquial slang. 64.114.134.52 (talk) 22:52, 7 October 2011 (UTC)

Additional citations
Why and where does this article need additional citations for verification? What references does it need and how should they be added? Hyacinth (talk) 20:00, 2 May 2012 (UTC)
 * Are you serious? Most of the article is unsourced. - Sum mer PhD  (talk) 21:45, 2 May 2012 (UTC)
 * If it is self-apparent what need is there for the template? Hyacinth (talk) 22:21, 2 May 2012 (UTC)
 * It notes at the top of the article that improvements are needed and adds the article to a category, allowing those who actually fix problems to find the article more easily. - Sum mer PhD  (talk) 23:23, 2 May 2012 (UTC)
 * Let's talk about the article and not each other. Hyacinth (talk) 23:29, 2 May 2012 (UTC)


 * I've added places where WP:RS should be used. In doing so, maybe the language can be made more encyclopedic. A lot of top-of-the-head stuff gets inserted when people, well, just make up material. With citations, one is looking at already edited material which tends to be more formally worded, Student7 (talk) 13:52, 7 May 2012 (UTC)

Jumping rope in Egypt...and Australia?
I tried to remove the reference to jumping rope in ancient Australia. There are several reasons. 1) Australia was "lost" to the world from when it was settled in neolithic times until about 1800. There was no way to "export" this knowledge to the world. 2) Australians had no written language to convey history nor any concept (except oral) of conveying this knowledge from ancient times. We do not know what happened in 1492, 1066 nor 800 in Australia except from excavations. Ropes unlikely to be preserved in a manner to convey its usage.
 * The exact origin of jumping rope is unclear; however, jump rope dates back all the way to the ancient Egyptians and aborigines of Australia. The first jump ropes are said to be made of bamboo and vines found in jungles. Jumping along with these items led to what is today referred to as jump roping. Some  say it originated in China, while Western versions are said to have originated around 1600 B.C. in Egypt.

If we found the Australians skipping rope, more than likely they "discovered" earlier Europeans doing this and copied them, not the other way round.

Egypt was different. We have papyrus records and possibly preserved ropes in tombs someplace. Student7 (talk) 18:43, 3 June 2012 (UTC)


 * If you don't have a source for the claim regarding Egypt on Wikipedia they are equally weak. Hyacinth (talk) 20:32, 3 June 2012 (UTC)

Removed: History
The above was removed as uncited. Hyacinth (talk) 04:46, 8 December 2012 (UTC)
 * The origin of jumping rope comes from ancient Greece. Widely considered the most intense sport of its time it was banned from the Olympics. Soon after, it became illegal to jump rope within the city-states of Greece. If citizens were caught jumping the rope they were put immediately to death by jumping rope until they died from pure exhaustion. After many were put to death, ancient Greeks became smarter and began their own underground jump roping association, but since the sport was quite dangerous many men died in the game. The original ropes used consisted of a rope and a small handle on each side. Which in order to hold you must impale your hand with the spike on the handle. This was because the original rope was quite slippery. Jump rope was actually considered the most intense training process that the spartan warriors themselves went through. Jump rope was lost for a very long period of time after the Persians were defeated in the incredible game of double dutch. The outraged Persians began conquest all over Greece for revenge and the sport was soon forgotten. It did not make a return until it was found as an activity seen in medieval paintings. Children rolled hoops and jumped were some of the first to jump rope in America which brought about the variation of jump rope called “Double Dutch.” In the 1940s and 1950’s jump rope became the game of choice for city or town children because any one could play and it only required a rope. The 1970s brought an increased interest to jump rope as a way to achieve physical fitness and health. Since then, jump rope events and programs have emerged and jumping rope has become part of many different exercise training regimens.

Apropos comparison to running
Hi, just wanted to mention the incorrect comparison with running, where its implied that running is uniformly performed with heel strike. As correctly noted, heel strike is pretty dangerous, but almost no runner/jogger runs or jogs that way. All runners conscious of their health learn to run by rolling their foot from balls towards heel, mitigating injury potential. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 135.19.126.195 (talk) 02:29, 21 January 2013 (UTC)

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Alternate name
The American name for the game is "jump rope" a noun confirmed by 5.9 million hits on google. The alternative "jumping rope", a verb, got 969 thousand hits. Student7 (talk) 21:59, 14 November 2015 (UTC)

Accidental vandalism due to good-faith anti-vandalism reversions
Hello all.

I am concerned about this article being reverted over and over without fact-checking the content. While it may seem strange there are over a hundred tricks many with unusual names for example: the awesome annie, the Wounded Duck, EB, TJ, TS, and many more. As I was looking over the edit history I noticed that many edits that were factually correct were reverted due to formatting and other relatively arbitrary issues (that could have been fixed by a native speaker or experienced editor), without talking on the talk page first.

Please research claims first or put the removed section in the talk page. Any trick or technique that is real and relevant will almost certainly come up in a video on your favorite search engine.

KnowledgeablePersona (talk) 20:29, 21 June 2019 (UTC) Credentials for this section: I was a competitive jump roper for 7 years in which my team and I practiced two to two and a half hours each night, 3 days per week, and all year round with no off-season in fact in the summer we practiced more often. I competed in the World Jump Rope Federation's week-long championship and camp in Washington DC twice (it changes every year) with my team called the Comet Skippers (I can provide a link to their website if requested).

Requested move 25 November 2022

 * The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this discussion. 

The result of the move request was: not moved. Currently there is consensus against moving to Rope skipping. A new RM may be opened if anyone would like to propose moving to Jump rope instead. Thanks. (closed by non-admin page mover) echidnaLives  -  talk  -  edits  05:29, 10 December 2022 (UTC)

Skipping rope → Rope skipping – Contrary to what the opening sentence might lead one to think, the article is primarily about the activity rather than about a type of rope. The suggested title seems more clear about that. —⁠ ⁠BarrelProof (talk) 19:37, 25 November 2022 (UTC) — Relisting. — Ceso femmuin mbolgaig mbung, mellohi! (投稿) 07:47, 3 December 2022 (UTC)
 *  Change to Jump rope Oppose Skipping rope covers both the rope and the activity, and per the suggested move, check the n-grams for the little usage of the term "rope skipping". N-grams for skipping rope, jump rope, and rope skipping. Randy Kryn (talk) 04:21, 26 November 2022 (UTC)


 * Oppose move. MOS:RETAIN applies here, and if anything instances of "jump rope" which have been placed in the article, regardless of the MOS's instructions, should be changed to "skipping rope", although I'm not volunteering to do that. It's not surprising that the activity dominates: it is the only use for the item the article is named after. "Skipping" is the name of the activity in the article's English variant. Bazza (talk) 10:05, 26 November 2022 (UTC)
 * Here's the n-gram which includes "jumping rope", jump rope still predominates and skipping rope and jumping rope are just about tied in second place. Do kids jump rope anymore? They probably have an app. Randy Kryn (talk) 11:08, 26 November 2022 (UTC)
 * Relisting comment: Common name question also apparent. — Ceso femmuin mbolgaig mbung, mellohi! (投稿) 07:47, 3 December 2022 (UTC)

The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.
 * Support jump rope as common name, but if not, oppose move as proposed. Red   Slash  19:59, 3 December 2022 (UTC)
 * For information, and not a contradiction of your opinion, "jump rope" is not a common name in all varieties of English. I would agree, if asked that, it's likely that the same applies to "skipping rope". Bazza (talk) 22:02, 3 December 2022 (UTC)
 * Oppose. No need for a move. Certainly no need for a move from a British English term to an American English term. -- Necrothesp (talk) 15:51, 7 December 2022 (UTC)

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