 What is going on? Today we're going to talk about why you can't currently do a double under and we are going to go through all the things you may be doing wrong and make sure that you correct those mistakes so you can start doing a double under like a jump rope ninja. Let's dive right into this. Let's find out why you can't double under. The first thing is that you probably haven't mastered the regular bounce if you're still having trouble with the double under. So look here. We're just going to show you a quick example of what the regular bounce should look like. We're also going to link you to a tutorial so if you want a really in-depth look on how to master the regular bounce we'll link it for you but right here just look at what's going on throughout my body. Okay if you look at my feet I'm just coming barely off the ground staying in between the balls my feet and the tips my toes and also very very minimal movement when it comes to the upper body. So the wrists are doing all the work the arms aren't moving much the shoulders are staying stationary and overall when you look at the body there isn't much movement here and so that's where most people enter have problems with the double unders because they're moving their body too much and that may happen because you're doing the exact same thing in your regular bounce but you get away with it because it's an easier move so make sure you watch the tutorial if you need to this is the foundation for the double under start with the regular bounce. Next up you may be moving your body too much in general so understand that this is called the dolphin right here and you may see this by a lot of people and this it may seem like it's a funny thing but a lot of people teach the double under and do the double under this way where they're you know jerking their neck forward and their feet out and when you try to learn it this way it's a lot harder to fit the the rope under your feet because you have a ton of extra movement and so people who try to use this form end up even looking even sillier like what you can see on the screen right now and so limit the movement in general okay look at what i'm doing here see this example very minimal movement you know coming slightly off the ground and trying to keep everything controlled throughout the entire body so if you learned anything here do not do the dolphin keep the movement minimal and you're going to start the massive double under next up you may be using your arms to spin the rope instead of the wrist you can get away with this when it comes to the regular bounce but you can't get away with it when it comes to double under so you can see here obviously i'm really trying to overdo it here but a lot of people move their arms all over the place when they're trying to double under to force the rope under and they end up tripping over it so this is going to happen over and over again if you continue to try to use your arms to spin the rope instead of using your wrist okay this is something that's going to happen over and over again you're going to keep on hitting your legs as long as you're you're not using the proper form so as you can see here when we slow it down i'm not moving my arms at all really i'm just keeping my wrist spinning and that's very slight movement is enough to spin the rope under my feet twice without any extra movement in my arm so really focus on spinning with your wrist and not with your arms next up you're trying to hard to spin the rope twice so a lot of people have an idea in their head that they want to double under they have to spin the rope twice this is actually not not as true the yes it has to go under your feet twice but as you can see here when we slow it down i'm just doing one abrupt whip of the rope to get it under my feet the first time and the momentum takes it under my feet the second time so we're going to show this to you a handful of times here i want you to really watch what happens here boom watch my wrist boom there's a aggressive whip and that one aggressive rip whip gets the rope under my feet two times and it's happening very quickly but really try to watch and see how this double under doesn't take a ton of movement throughout your entire body doesn't take you trying to spin the rope uh you know multiple times all it takes is that you spin the rope one time very aggressively and that aggressive movement that one time with your wrist is going to allow the rope to actually spin two times under your feet and that's what it looks like in real time all right mistake number five you're not keeping your arms stationary so this is very similar to the mistake we talked about earlier but if you're trying to move your arms uh or your hands out to the sides or up or down you're going to continually bring the rope into your legs and into your feet and trip over so you can see here when we slow it down my wrists aren't moving they're shining right at my hips it's a very tight motion here and so because i keep this motion so tight the the rope can easily slide under my feet and one doesn't take as much effort and two make sure you don't trip over the rope so the lesson here you want you to get is do not try to force the rope by moving your arms up down side to side instead keep your hands exactly where they are and just use that wrist movement to make sure you get two cycles under your feet so we're going to show it to you one more time here and one final look giving you a 360 view of what this looks like right and in real time the wrists are doing all the work are not moving your arms up and down or side to side finally the number six mistake people make is not investing in a good rope obviously you see here we're using the jump rope uh by cross rope this is the quarter pound agility rope we linked in the description below for you if you want to grab it but you don't have to grab this one this is what we use every day but in general get a high quality rope because if you don't have a high quality rope you're going to end up dealing with issues like your rope getting tangled you're going to end up dealing with issues uh of your rope wearing out super fast in general guys just invest in a good rope it's going to be easier to do tricks do double unders and continue to improve your jump rope skill set and that's it guys if you want to grab that rope you can do so below here is a recap on the double under if you master these things you are going to get the doubler under 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