 What's up ladies and gentlemen welcome back to day number two of our seven day challenge where we teach you how to just learn how to jump rope. So in today's video we're going to cover correct hand placement on the jump rope along with how far to extend your arms when skipping. Before we do any of that what I want you to do is pause and we're gonna run through two 30 second periods of just practicing the regular bounce to pick up from yesterday. So let's stop, let's break, let's do two rounds of 30 seconds of you just practicing regular bounce with the jump rope and then we'll get into hand placement. Alright ladies and gentlemen so first we're gonna start off with a little bit of practice from yesterday. We got branded on the jump rope again doing regular bounce. All I want you guys to do here is focus again on your rhythm the homework from yesterday that one two three four bouncing and just slowly do the regular bounce. If you can't go very fast that is completely fine. Remember guys the most important thing is that we want you to get your form down. If you don't get your form down you're not gonna be able to do all the other tricks and everything for jump rope that you need to be able to do. So make sure to concentrate most of this most of your time first on just being perfect at doing the regular bounce. Let's go one more 30 second interval here ladies and gentlemen and then we'll have you into the tutorial where we'll talk about hand placement for the day. And guys don't you know you don't need to go as fast for this this is more about just finding your rhythm so if you need to go a little bit slower that's fine don't worry about it. Now that you guys have practiced let's go take a look at how to hold the rope when jumping. Alright ladies and gentlemen hand placement of the jump rope look first when I'm holding the rope my hands are out and my palms are facing upward and my thumbs are on the rope a lot of people make the mistake of gripping the rope and wrapping their thumb around their hand you actually want to have the thumb up near the top of the handle so that you can control it more and also like you see here as I start jumping with it my hand placement is keeping the rope open so when you're holding the jump rope and spinning it as you can see here you want to have a nice open handle and again have your thumb up towards the end of the handle and you want to have a nice relaxed grip don't be squeezing the rope too tight because you want to be able to whip it around and have your wrists and forms controlling it. Alright ladies and gentlemen that's how you hold the rope the next thing I want to focus on is your arms. The arms are very important because I see a lot of people going like this and they take their power away when their arms are straight like that the right form to have for your arms when jumping rope is to have your elbows in and spinning like this so your wrists and forearm are really controlling everything and keeping the rope tight excuse me keeping the rope tight. This guys arm extension by far the biggest mistake I see people making is extending their arms too far. Do you see here how my arms are bent this is the reason I'm able to spin the rope very fast as you'll see here from the footage in a second. I keep my elbows in and all I'm doing is using my forearms and my wrist to spin the rope around at a very high pace that ladies and gentlemen is exactly what we want. Look here look how much control I have look how tight the rope stays because I have that leverage because I'm wound up like a coil and my forearms and wrist are controlling everything a lot of people make the mistake of extending their arms and then they have no power the rope doesn't stay tight it doesn't swing fast enough and they mess up. Putting into practice what we have learned I'm going to take you guys through two 30 second periods of just jumping rope and a lot of this footage up next is going to focus on showing you the proper form with your forearms and hand placement of the jump rope. Alright ladies and gentlemen low homework time let's go let's focus on our wrist placement and also our arm extension so check again look at my wrists here check out my wrists they are literally exactly they're open my thumbs are going towards the top of the handle and the rope is very tight my left elbow isn't as far in but again guys they don't have to be I want to stress they don't have to be the whole way in but just notice as I turn it aside here my upper arm pretty much stays exactly where it is and then everything that's moving is in my forearm and wrist that's really what you want it to look like come on send you nation 10 second rest and then we're right back on it and guys for those who are a little bit overachievers don't just do this twice feel free to do this more feel free to do this four times if you're feeling up for it you feel like you need a little bit more practice keep practicing guys be sure to stay tuned for tomorrow's video and we'll get right back after it in today's endu nation be sure to stay tuned for tomorrow's video where we cover proper foot placement when jumping rope and also changing speeds