Jumping ropes - backwards

[LGQ7]

I re-invented jumping ropes backwards. Maybe I invented it it, at least independently invented it. I stumbled on it accidentally. I looked on YouTube for stretching and warmup exercises, and one of the exercise is standing and swinging your arms backwards like you're swimming backwards. I wrote that down and call it jumping ropes backwards. But I forgot it was a warm up exercise, so I tried jumping ropes backwards, which I never did before.

It was very difficult. I can jump rope normally, left foot in front, right foot in front. My mind can't even think. I kept swinging the rope from back to front instead of front to back. Of course jumping 2 legs at the same time is easy, but one after another is very, very hard. (1) You can't see rope. It's totally invisible. You have to have a feel for the rhythm. (2) You are designed to react to what's in front of you, not what's behind you. I can switch legs when I jump rope. That helped a little bit because I'm reversing the order. To react to something from behind is hard.

I'll work on this to add to my repertoire.

 

[kabrac]

You've never jumped rope backwards or heard of it before now?. . .

 

[kabrac]

You've never jumped rope backwards or heard of it before now?. . .

 

[LGQ7]

You've never jumped rope backwards or heard of it before now?. . .

Never done it before. My mind can't even think. I kept throwing the rope from back to front. Never seen it in real life. Couldn't find it on Youtube either. One leg at a time.

 

[kabrac]

You must be very young? Don't take that the wrong way or anything, but it's like driving a car and finding out it can go in reverse. . .lol

Anywho. . . Jumping backwards is harder and I find you have to lift your legs more. It's fun though

 

[kabrac]

You must be very young? Don't take that the wrong way or anything, but it's like driving a car and finding out it can go in reverse. . .lol

Anywho. . . Jumping backwards is harder and I find you have to lift your legs more. It's fun though

 

[LGQ7]

I'm 47 years old. Time does not matter. If you don't have experience in something, you don't have.

 

[kabrac]

How many can you do in a row without fail?

 

[LGQ7]

Not many. I'll have to try again.

 

[LGQ7]

How many can you do in a row without fail?

I figured it out. It seems counter-intuitive. Because I was trying to jump rope backwards, I figured out how I jump rope forwards. Either way, one foot in front of the other. It is the back foot that lifts off the ground that drives both feet off the ground. In essence, we only jump rope with 1 foot. We land with 2 feet.

 

[LGQ7]

You must be very young? Don't take that the wrong way or anything, but it's like driving a car and finding out it can go in reverse. . .lol

I don't drive and I don't know about cars. But I do know that reverse in a car requires some kind of engagement to a different kind of gear mechanism. You have to do the same thing for the human body, construct a different gear mechanism.

 

[S&V-not_dead_yet]

Some people run marathons backwards; it's easier on the knees, apparently. It also engages more of the hamstrings.

When you jump rope backwards, do you find your hamstrings are getting more tired than normal?