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Parking on the floor on double unders

Like setting up for each one.

The cue

“Hot floor. Quick feet.”

What it looks like

Long, flat contacts between jumps — land, stop, then go again.

Why it costs you doubles

Doubles live on elastic ankles. A contact that long throws the stretch away, so every jump is built from scratch and costs double.

The fix

The drills for it, best first. The figure is the first one, at half speed — tap it to pause.

Pogo hops

Teaches the legs to stay long and the ankles to do the work, with no rope to worry about.

3 × 20 hops

Bouncy singles

The rhythm every double is built on: small, quick, and the same every time.

3 × 45 seconds, 30 seconds rest

Double, single

One single between doubles: nearly unbroken, with a breather built in.

4 × 10 doubles

Can the camera see it?

dulike can see this one from any angle.

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.

Film a setHow to learn double unders