Equipment & Uniforms
Ropes
We provide all jumpers with a beaded jump rope at the beginning of the year and put their names on the rope. They are responsible for bringing this rope to each practice. If they lose it, they will have to pay for a replacement ($7). Those jumpers, who are doing competition, will have additional ropes for speed, power and freestyle. These can be purchased at one of two sites:
For speed and power ropes, jumpers, typically, purchase the triple rope cable. Younger jumpers may want to start with the Ultra Speed Cable Ropes (plastic coating over the wire cable). For freestyle, jumpers prefer the Championship Long Handle Freestyle Jump Rope or the Freestyle Cable Rope (wire running through the cable for extra weight).
Coaches will have extra supplies of speed replacement cables (typically wear out every couple of weeks during heavy training periods), but it is helpful if jumpers can supplement this replacement supply if they are going through more than one or two cables each month.
Since ropes will break or need adjustment through the year, we ask that jumpers come to the coaches at the very beginning or the end of practice, if possible, to make these changes. We ask this of our jumpers because it often takes time to size new ropes or replace a worn cable, and we do not want to take this time away from our practices. Sometimes it’s unavoidable to have to make a change when the break happens during training, but we prefer to make these equipment adjustments outside of practice when possible.
Some jumpers order speed training balls to improve their wrist and forearm strength and fine tune their form. These are not required as we provide a couple pairs during practice for our interval training, but are optional for jumpers who want to practice at home.
We provide Beaded, Double Dutch and Chinese Wheel ropes for competition and demonstrations. Jumpers do not need to purchase these ropes.
Uniforms
The American Heart Association provides us with our demonstration shirts for the year. Jumpers must have black shorts to go with these shirts. For competition, jumpers will receive shorts, speed and freestyle shirts, as well as a practice t-shirt. Jumpers may purchase our royal blue warm-up suit in the fall (approximately $75 depending on numbers ordered).