 What's up ladies and gentlemen, Dan Whitmer from ZenDude Fitness and today I'm going to be showing you my favorite jump rope trick. Now please understand a couple things, if you cannot do advanced jump rope tricks that is totally fine. We have a whole YouTube channel full of workouts and tutorials to get you on that jump rope ninja level speaking of which if you're not on that jump rope ninja level yet check out our how to jump rope like a ninja series it's its own playlist. Hey guys this happens to be my favorite trick right now. This is not my favorite trick forever but what I wanted to start doing was showing you guys how to do some of the tricks that I'm learning as I learn them and what's awesome about this is a lot of the tricks that I'm learning are from you guys. They're from going into our Facebook group if you're not in our Facebook group check out the link below getting our free blurry challenge. The cool thing about these tricks is that I'm seeing you guys do some of these tricks and then realizing Dan you need to step your jump rope game up a little bit. So that's even pushing Brandon and I to start learning new stuff. So today we are doing the side swipe excuse me crisscross. Now it's not a super advanced trick but the way that I do it is a little bit more advanced and I like to get this nice rhythm down and make it go very fast. So again you just look like a ninja and then when you're doing it in public people come up to you and they're like you know you must be a professional jump roper. They don't say that. If you guys like this video go ahead and give it a thumbs up followed by a subscribe if you want to learn to jump rope have fun and live an epic life. Alright ladies and gentlemen so the first thing we're going to start off is I just want you guys to see the move side swipe crisscross before we get into it. So just check this out here it's very simple it's just a sideswap very simple for those who are a little bit more advanced. It's a side swipe and as soon as I'm done the side swipe I'm just crisscrossing and going right back into it as you can see here is the side angle. So what I recommend first guys is if you haven't check out the side swipe tutorial that I just linked and also the crisscross tutorial first let's talk about the side swipe. So guys the side swipe is a very simple movement where as you can see I go from my right to the left you can go left to the right right there you see that movement my eye after I do the cross here you'll see in a sec my hands are open I swing that right that right hand over and as soon as the right hand comes to the left I immediately swing the left hand over to the side as well you're kind of doing a little figure eight as you can see here when I dip my right hand I throw my left hand over it as the rope spins around so check this out in slow-mo side swipe left to right and just doing a little under over so my right hand is coming under and then my left hand is coming over check it out right goes under left goes over bam now we're open and ready to do the crisscross so check this out from the front guys here we go right left comes down so it's a little under over as you can see here again my right goes under my left goes over and then as I open it back up I get ready to do the crisscross the side swipe is not that difficult of a move but it's something that you guys are going to have to practice a lot but what I would recommend is getting down the side swipe first before you move on to the crisscross and again check out that tutorial if you haven't now in addition to the side swipe one thing you're going to notice look at this when I go to side swipe I'm not just doing a regular side swipe I'm gaining momentum by stepping back check it out right here boom you see how my body is moving back what I'm doing is using my momentum to pull the rope back so that when it comes forward so that it comes sorry so that I can side swipe a little faster than I normally would that it looks like something very small but that little bit of torque look there a step back and it allows me to side swipe at a higher pace and get me more ready for the crisscross here we go so step back side swipe good step back side swipe so that back leg is the one that's really leading everything and coming back so when you guys do the side swipe just make sure as soon as that right hand goes forward you're taking a big step back with your right foot could be your left foot if you want but for me it's my right now let's add everything together and do the crisscross ladies and gentlemen so that basic little side swipe right there the step back and then having that step back allows you a little bit of momentum right here boom crisscross so we're going left or sorry right to left and then crisscross here we go again right arm left arm and now we're back and open and see how I'm running through this I don't want you guys to just do regular bounce what I want you to do is run through this so as you can see here I'm alternating my right and left feet but then once I take that step back and come out of the step back I'm ready to do the cross check it out step back and I'm stepping forward to do the crisscross so just like you got the momentum to go back when you were doing the side swipe what I want you guys to do now is when you do the crisscross move forward and move through that crisscross again to speed the rope up check it out again side swipe and crisscross there we go guys if you guys have questions feel free to let us know zendu nation thank you for another great tutorial post your comments below and just let us know what we can help with guys the whole goal of this is for you to become a badass jump roping ninja so let us know how we can help zendu nation see you guys on the next tutorial