Book Description
"Jumping Rope the Second Time Around" is the first book written on the backward twirling style of jump roping.The book was written primarily for a busy adult audience looking for an inexpensive easy to learn and fun alternative exercise program that could be done just about anywhere and at anytime. Unlike jump roping books currently available and targeting the adult audience, "Jumping Rope the Second Time Around" demonstrates how the backward twirling and multidirectional movement techniques are safer for an older audience especially for those who have suffered from repetitive stress injuries to their wrists, or have concerns about stress and impact on their ankles, knees, and lower back. The book also demonstrates how one is able to condition all of the major muscle groups of the upper and lower body by doing exercises such as "biceps curls", "rowing", and "rope walking" - all of which are techniques using the jump rope as the only piece of exercise equipment needed.

To date, all of the books and videos on jump roping for adults teach the same technique used to teach children.Often times little consideration is given to the fact that using a "childhood" technique can be injurious to an adult body which undoubtedly has gone through many physical changes over the years. Briefly, forward twirling and stationary jumping creates premature muscle fatigue as well as impact and stress to the ankles, knees, and lower back.The backward twirling and multidirectional movement techniques virtually eliminate stress to these parts of the body.

Not only does "Jumping Rope the Second Time Around" provide the reader with a safer and more efficient workout, it is also in a user friendly format.It provides the reader with tips on stretching and on ways to reduce stress at work and at home; it provides travel tips for working out while on business travel or vacation, and it contains a letter of commitment, and several workout charts which are duplicated and perforated for easy removal. Perhaps one the most unique features of the book is that it is only 9" x 4" (approximately the size of any airline ticket jacket)and is spiral bound. Thus, the book is just as portable as the jump rope itself. Another feature included in the book are inspirational/motivational quotes from notable people such as Oliver Wendell Holmes, John F. Kennedy, Mohandas Ghandi, Vince Lombardi, and Muhammed Ali.

Without any tricks or gimmicks, "Jumping Rope the Second Time Around" provides the reader with a new look at an old pastime activity. ... Read more

Customer Reviews (8)

Awesome!
This is an excellent way to stay in shape.I've tried it and it works!I commend the author for such an innovative and extremely easy way to jump rope and stay fit.Everyone should read this book.It's the best I've seen out there.Do yourself a favor -- buy this book, you will not be sorry.

A little surprising
The book that arrived (as a gift) was a small spiral bound pamphlet that appears to be self-published. No one would have thought it should cost more than $8-$10. And there seems to be a religious/spiritual content; for example, there are quotes from "The Daily Word", The Holy Bible, as well as "Tao Te Ching".

All Around Athlete With Bad Knees
I'm a 36 year old aerobic instructor, runner, High-school volleyball and basketball coach, K-12th grade physical education teacher, and an all around athlete who is always looking for new and exciting workouts. I was sad when I found out that I had bursitis in my knees . The condition was from all the years of pounding on the hard gym floor and running on pavement. I was elated to read the book "Jumping Rope The Second Time Around".I thought that at first my poor knees would not take the jumping. I was not thinking of the innovative jumping technique taught by Mr. Carlos Coffman. The Irope technique does not put any stress on the knees, and the backward twirling of the rope does not fatigue the arms. Therefore I have the energy and endurance to rope longer. The book is very easy to follow. It is like having Mr. Coffman right by your side teaching you the Irope techniques. My daughter, who is 11, is learning to Irope . If you have a kid that does not like traditional sports, but will jump rope, Irope is probably something you might like to try. I live in the San Antonio area and we have been labeled one of the fattest cities. So my daughter and myself Irope at least 30-45 minutes 5 days a week. And she loves it, I love it. Irope is fun and challenging and we're exercising as a family. I can think of 6 reasons to Irope:
1. Inexpensive
2. Portable
3. The whole family can do it
4. Full body workout
5. It's fun
6. It works
Look for me in 4 to 6 months doing my first Irope race.

-Teresa

Youngest Iroper
...I have the book "Jumping Rope The Second Time Around" and it's very easy to follow along with. I am the first child to do the irope method. I'm surprised because it's so easy....-Courtney Acklin

JUMP TO IT
It's the best overall workout, in a very simple program. Keep an open mind and a willing attitude to try your best, no matter what your current level of fitness is....you SHALL be challanged. This is an effective way to get in shape and increase your stamina, plus acheive a whole new level of fitness. The program works for anyone, the most helpful feature is being are able to chart your progress in the forms provided. There are various drills that can target specific sports if you so choose. Finding time to workout has always been my challange, but this technique takes less time and it's fun. When people see you IROPE for the first time, yes they will stare, but only to try to figure out HOW you are doing this so easily. Soon you will have all your friends joining in on the fun!

It's a great book, share it! ... Read more

Book Description
Develop greater quickness, agility, balance, strength, power, and endurance—all from one portable training source! In Jump Rope Training, former Marine and six-time U.S. national wrestling champion Buddy Lee shows you rope-handling skills, jumping techniques, and much more to supplement your training for fitness and performance.

Workouts and progressions are included for warm-ups, cool-downs, fitness components, and sport-specific training, with sample programs used by elite athletes. Lee's system has been used by 25 U.S. Olympic teams in 1996 and 2000 and by several national teams, including the U.S. figure skating and U.S. wrestling teams.

If you want to get in better shape and seek greater variety and results from your workouts, Jump Rope Training is a proven way to improve both your fitness and performance. ... Read more

Customer Reviews (5)

Great product
What can you expect from a book? Ok its difficult sometimes to envisage what is meant sometimes, but perseverance is the only thing that separates the has, from the has nots of this world. If you want to develop good hand and foot speed and leave the opposition thinking "whendid that takedown happen" then you need to jump rope every day, and this book is where it can start from. A+ excellent...

Outstanding work
Buddy Lee's Jump Rope Training is a very enriching work dispelling the misconceptions of rope jumping and revealing its incredible secrets.The quality of the work results in its combination of solid scientific and physical education explanations,clear technical details,prominent figures' testimonials,and Lee's own testimonial.In the preface Lee presents the interesting and touching story of his life as well as his successful olympic athlete path in order to disclose to the reader the important role jump rope can play in the existence of many.The book provides explanations and programs for people of all fitness levels and ages,transforming jump rope into an easy and motivating exercise for everyone.Although someone may think a book on such topic could be boring and superficial,Lee creates a work interesting to read and very insightful.A great experience!

Achieve all your fitness and sports performance goals!!!
Buddy's Jump Rope Training system is the most complete form of exercise available for improving anaerobic capacity, speed, quickness, agility, explosiveness, total-body coordination, and kinesthetic awareness. Buddy is a former U.S. Olympian wrestler, U.S. Marine, Jump Rope Conditioning Consultant to over 25 U.S. Olympic Teams, and current CEO of Jump Rope Technology. He is the "World Jump Rope Wizard." Utilizing his own experience, and drawing upon sound exercise science principles, Buddy has formulated a training system that targets almost any exercise related goal that you may have. His book is clear, concise, and comprehensive in nature. Buddy takes you through 4 phases of jump rope training, and then focuses on sport-specific programs. Find out why rope jumping is a hidden gem in the arena of sports performance!!!

A helpful guide...
Ever read someone's CV or résumé?That's how Buddy Lee's book starts out, unfortunately.He describes, in moderate detail, the different high-level atheletes who have used his system in their training regimen as a way of demonstrating the benefit and versatility of the jump rope for aerobic and anaerobic training.While Lee himself is unquestionably an accomplished athlete and one of the world's best rope jumpers, this presentation of testamonials sometimes borders on self-aggrandizement and self-promotion (of his line of high-speed ropes, which I do recommend, by the way).

Be this as it may, the book is a wonderful introduction to various jump rope techniques for the purpose of improving general fitness and athletic performance.The first half of the book works on mastering basic and advanced jump-rope techniques.The details of your practices at this stage are left largely up to you, although Lee provides some recommendations.In the main section of the book, Lee describes in detail various conditioning program aimed at increasing endurance and performance, and specifically one's Quickness (reaction time), Speed, Agility and Explosiveness (strength/power).The book concludes with a brief presentation of sport-specific recommendations.

In summary, Buddy Lee's book is an excellent presentation of various jump rope techniques for athletes and novices alike.Jumping rope remains a time-proven method for increasing performance and endurance in all sports, not to mention general cardiovascular health.Anyone who dismisses the jump rope as an unnecessary or 'inferior' method of training is truly doing himself a disservice.So buy a high-quality jump rope (<$35) and, in the words of Buddy Lee, "Get a jump on your training!"

Great Motivation
Buddy Lee gives great motivation to use a jump rope to get in shape: agility, quickness and balance, verified by olympic athletes and others using the program.The book was easy to follow and has great pictures and descriptions.The workout plans are well thought-out.I learned the basic techniques well enough in a few days to get a great work-out with very little frustration. ... Read more

Book Description
"Schoolyard rhymes are catchy and fun. They are easy to remember. In fact, they stick in the mind like bubble gum to a shoe." writes Judy Sierra in her introduction to this lively collection of traditional playground chants. Included are more than 50 verses ranging from the familiar jump rope rhyme about the mythical lady with the alligator purse to less familiar counting-out ones, from funny rhymes for ball-bouncing and hand-clapping games to "Liar, liar, pants on fire, nose as long as a telephone wire" and other choice insults of children. Melissa Sweet includes bright, colorful fabric swatches in her watercolor-and-pencil collages to perfectly capture the spirit of these funky, street-smart verses that children love to recite and chant. ... Read more

Customer Reviews (2)

Good book
Nice book.Has lots of rhymes ... some I knew, some I didn't ... some had more lines than I remember...This book just has the words to the rhymes, so if you are looking for the rhythms or the hand clapping sequence (as I was) this isn't the book for you.

Back down memory lane!
What a wonderful blast from the page! I so enjoyed reacquainting myself with many of the childhood rhymes from my double dutching days. This will be a great gift for me to share with my nieces as they too will be introduced to such famous childhood rhymes. Even the illustrations made the rhymes stand out fully engaging one to try them out on the playground. ... Read more

Book Description

For new or experienced jumpers, Red Hot Peppersintroduces dozens of tricks, rhymes, and games, with easy-to-follow,step-by-step instructions. The book is packaged by itself or with aSkookum speed rope to get jumpers started. ... Read more

Customer Reviews (2)

Everything you wanted to know about jump roping!
This is a neat book that not only has jump roping rhymes, it's history and also different ways to jump rope! What a cool book!

Great teaching resource
Red Hot Peppers is an excellent resource for Elementary Physical Education specialists who want to integrate reading into their gyms.I use it as a resource for rhymes to teach children a variety of rhymes for their use.Jump rope rhymes are a great way to integrate reading and poetry into the "physical" realm. For the kinesthetic student, many times the jumping rhythm will support the rhythm in reading class.Also, my third graders take it one step further and write their own jump rope rhymes (again poetry).Your classroom teachers appreciate the support and the kids love the challenge. ... Read more

Book Description
Shameka and her crew love to skip rope all day long. But mean Miss Minnie, the resident spoilsport, wants them to be quiet and go home. Shameka holds her ground, and before long the jump-rope beat starts to work its magic on Miss Minnie. ... Read more

Customer Reviews (4)

Lovely Book
I recently purchased this book and highly recommend it.It is a great gift for a child, is well written, and beautifully illustrated.I intend to buy additional copies to give as gifts.

great rhythms, real rhymes
This book is a book of jump rope rhymes, loosely forming a story.The illustrations are truly special.David Diaz' illustrations show boxy figures, a mixture of soft and bright colors, and some of the most hilarious faces I've ever seen in a picture book.

The streets, the trees, the people-- everything Diaz draws has a special look that you won't mistake for any one else's illustrations.

The text bounces along with a nice rhythm.Even if you are rhythm-inhibited, it's easy to find the rhythm in this book.

The text of the book resembles the speech of children, rather than the bookish speech that you sometimes see in juvenile books.Here's a sample:

"Hey, Miss Minnie,

can you come outside?

I got a new car.

Let's go for a ride.

We can put the top down.

We can blow the horn loud.

We can show the gold rims.

We can captivate the crowd."

Captivate?Not many children would use the rest of this speech and the word "captivate."The incongruity of the speech (there are more examples, and you don't have to look for them) is the only thing that mars this otherwise wonderful book.

The illustrations are inventive and distinctive, and the text has a wonderful, animated rhythm.It should be a book that children ask for over and over again.

ken32

Kids can feel the magic
My son (age 6) is a picky reader...few books totally captivate him. This one does. He loves the rhythm (and it's almost impossible not to read this story out loud without falling into the urban lilt captured in the rhyme) and he loves the subject matter. He has never jumped rope, but he seems to be able to feel the freedom and thrill of jumping through the story. This is one of the few books he has memorized entire passages of (and it's a long book that we've only had for a week). I'm sure this book will capture the imagination of every child as it has my son's. (He hasn't even seemed to notice or mind that the story is about girls.)

Finally - some solid rhyme!
As a poet, and as a library clerk who loves to focus her programs on poetry, I can say that this is a book I will definitely be using in my work with kids! Who in this world isn't familiar with jump rope rhymes? If youaren't - read this book. Jump some rope. Get that rhythm in your bones.There are so many books for kids that are written in rhyme, but they haveno "guts", no real feel for the music of language. I am so happyto have found one that does! ... Read more

Book Description
Do you know the Phantom Slalom and Double Dutch? They're not roller coaster rides; they're jump rope tricks and you can learn to do them and many more! On your own or with a pal, this book can show you how. ... Read more

Book Description
This digital document is a journal article from Psychology of Sport & Exercise, published by Elsevier in 2006. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Media Library immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

Description:
Objective: The open feedback system used in aesthetic sports functions such that after judges have rated a performance they are informed of the scores given by the other judges before rating the next performance. This experiment was designed to determine whether such open feedback results in conformity among panels of judges in rope skipping. Method: Twenty-seven certified difficulty judges were randomly divided into panels of maximum five judges. These panels had to rate the same 30 videotaped individual performances: 15 in Phase 1 and 15 in Phase 2. Design: Two independent variables were orthogonally manipulated: feedback (or none) during Phase 1 and feedback (or none) during Phase 2. Results: Feedback increased score-conformity within a panel of judges in Phase 1. In contrast with previous research in synchronized swimming, this conformity did not last when feedback opportunities were removed in Phase 2. Conclusion: The conformity observed in the present study seems to be caused by normative influences rather than by informational influences. ... Read more

Customer Reviews (1)

Maybe Not as Fancy, But Fun, Fun, Fun!
Chinese Jump Rope is a fantastic guidebook for use by the middle reader child interested in this fun rope-skipping game. The illustrations are simple and easy for children to understand. Adults working with children will also enjoy the book and can easily introduce the game due to the excellent format of the book. Much more informative than other CJR books on the market!!
Too bad the book is out of print!Highly recommend! ... Read more

Book Description
Get in shape with exercise that's fat-blasting, portable, and fun

RopeSport is the revolutionary fitness program people across the country are using to get fit, lose weight, and have a great time doing it.

Now you can, too!

If you want a high-energy, low-impact way to tone your body, get a complete cardiovascular workout, and burn up to a thousand calories an hour, RopeSport is for you. This book covers everything from the benefits and basics to extreme jumps and alternative workouts. The step-by-step approach helps you become proficient in just a few workouts. RopeSport:
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Progresses from basic jumps, combinations, and workouts to intermediate and advanced routines
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Features four complete, detailed workouts for each skill level
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Has more than a hundred photos that show you how it's done, jump after jump
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Includes success stories from real people who love jumping rope
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Is a workout endorsed by celebrities, including leading fitness expert Kathy Smith, Eric Nies of MTV, and Kelly Packard of Baywatch
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Keeps you challenged with extreme jumps like the Matador, Running Doubles, and the Inverted Jump
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Shares tips for a healthy lifestyle, effective training, and building athletic skills

You'll learn the techniques and get the tools to create your own RopeSport full-body workout program-one that you can vary any number of ways and do almost anywhere. ... Read more

Customer Reviews (2)

The Ultimate Jump Rope Workout
I truly believe this type workout is the best for probably 85%+ of people. And this book presents it all perfectly. I was fitness instructor back in the Army. Too bad we didn't add this into our routines. I have severe arthritis; recently a hip replacement; and a groin implant. I'm 58; can't jog anymore. But, this is far superior to jogging. Or even doing windsprints. All things considered, this is really the only type of workout anybody needs. My cholesterol was high; now it's normal. And my blood pressure is textbook perfect. Even better than when I was young. Signed: Meshugena Mike

Skip the book and buy the DVD
I started a jump rope workout and wanted to take it to the next level. I spotted this book and thought it would be just what I needed.While it is an informative and thorough book about the sport of jump roping, it's difficult to visualize the many jumps they describe without actually seeing someone do them.Soon after receiving the book, I purchased the DVD and found it much easier to learn the jumps. I could clearly see the correct placement of their feet, arms and hands in motion and, at the same time, try to imitate their rhythm.Jumping rope is all about timing.If you don't think you need visual instruction, then this book is fine.If, like me, you prefer a live demonstration, skip the book and buy the DVD instead. ... Read more

Customer Reviews (1)

Over In The Pink House
When I opened this book teddy bears, midnight skies, pink parasuls, glasses of milk, butered toast, granndma's sewing, and bottles of homemade jam swarm out and danced around me. And as I read the pages I could hear the sound of children laughing and taking turns jump-roping as they chanted the magical rymes. Any child of any age will smile as these original, tymeless rymes that only Rebeca Dotlitch's collection will give you are told. Great for bedtime- morning time- anytime.
From "Handsome Harry" to "Pizza Pizza" to "Cookies" This book of witty clever poems complete with touching illistrations will stick with you forever!-Taylor Baldwin ... Read more

Book Description
Photographs by Martha Cooper. Packaged with the only other equipment a child would need--the jump rope--here is a book steeped in the know-how, culture, lore, and trivia of this simple, easy-to-learn, play-anywhere game. The Jump Rope Book is a complete skipper's reference, from how to put your best foot forward to over 250 rhymes. There are jump rope fashions (cushy socks a must), basic jumps and fancy steps (including Scissors, Jumping Jacks, and Cancan), jump rope jargon, how to decorate your rope, and the games--Spoons, Siamese Twins, The Clock, Chase the Fox, Over the Rainbow, Double Dutch, and dozens more. THE JUMP ROPE is 100% cotton, seven feet long, and comes with wooden handles. 50,000 copies in print.

The Classic Game series have over 317,000 copies in print. ... Read more

Customer Reviews (1)

School Teacher
I bought this book to teach a summer school class, hoping it would give me a ton of songs to teach grades 1 through 4.The majority of the songs were not really appropriate for children.There were a lot of suggestive phrases that I did not want to be responsible for teaching a first grader.I took only a few things from the book to use in my class. ... Read more

Book Description
This digital document is an article from U.S. Kids, published by Children's Better Health Institute on March 1, 2001. The length of the article is 1489 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

Citation Details
Title: Jump In!(tips for skipping rope)
Publication: U.S. Kids (Magazine/Journal)
Date: March 1, 2001
Publisher: Children's Better Health Institute
Volume: 14Issue: 2Page: 6

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