Pocket singles
Singles with the hands pinned where a double under needs them.
3 × 45 seconds
Hands flying out wide on double unders
Like you need the space to turn the rope. You do not.
The cue
“Hands in your pockets.”
What it looks like
The hands drift away from the hips, out towards a T.
Why it costs you doubles
Every centimetre of hand width comes off the bottom of the rope. Wide hands shorten the loop until it clips the feet.
Before you drill it: is your rope too long? Check your rope length. Compare rope types for your rung.
The fix
The drills for it, best first. The figure is the first one, at half speed — tap it to pause.
Towel tuck
Pins the elbows to the ribs so the arms cannot fly out.
3 × 30 seconds
Fast wrists
The second pass of a double comes from the wrists speeding up, not the arms.
3 × 40 seconds
Can the camera see it?
dulike can see this one only from the front.Film side-on or at an angle and it is reported as not checked — never as passed.
It watches your body, not the rope: a speed rope is a few millimetres across and faster than a phone records. Whether a jump was a double is estimated from your time in the air, and how it works shows every threshold.
Not sure this is you? Film 10–30 seconds of skipping and dulike will check — along with the other faults it can see, and the one to fix first.