Skipping rope is HARD.

[rei]

www.jumpsnap.com

What kind of people need this?

[Lunch of Kong]

what the heck?

[Bad Neighbor]

$50 to look like a moron. I'll take two!

[Rward]

wha wha what..?!!!!!!

"Because its ropeless, you can do the 'lunge jump'"

Or you can just not buy it and STILL DO THE LUNGE JUMP!

I wish I had thought of this product first ;(

[Derek Meister]

This needs to be paired with a Swing Wing (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8kcUjuXBFA8&feature=related) for maximum impact.

[Bad Neighbor]

I'm totally asking my dad if he had one of those.

[rei]

http://gadgets.boingboing.net/2008/05/15/jumpsnap-the-ropeles.html

A plucky businessman, accidentally receiving a shipment of futuristic dildos from his Chinese suppliers instead of the usual selection of jump ropes, ingeniously markets them as the JumpSnap, the world's first ropeless jump rope! Because jumping rope to jump rope is just too hard! That last sentence was something of a snarky joke, though truth be told, my muffed sense of equilibrium does make jumping a rope an exercise in frustration. Still, hopping up and down and swinging my arms around like a small child dizzy on lemonade is free.

[WarrenM]

It actually is pretty tough. Heh. We jump rope at the start of my boxing class and it's tough some weeks. Sometimes you just can't get the damned timing right and you have to keep starting over.

Not that I'm advocating this piece of shit to anyone, I'm just saying ... it CAN be difficult.

[Cosmic Hippo]

Hey, this reminds me that I've been meaning to pick up a jump-rope.


Thanks!

[theborbes]

Hey, this reminds me that I've been meaning to pick up a jump-rope.


Thanks!

same here, this commercial inspired me to go spend 5 dollars for the real thing

[rei]

hmm, fake undated blog posts with lorem impsum dolor.

http://jumpsnapnation.com/tressa-campbell/

[Wholly Schmidt]

Answering the question no one was asking:

"How do I jump rope in my Snuggie?"

[Rasputin]

"It even talks to you! It's like having your own personal trainer!*"

*If your personal trainer is Stephen Hawking.

[Bahimiron]

God damn it, people.

http://i42.tinypic.com/1hrq82.png

[RyanMichael]

I'm calling it now. Jumpsnap pub crawl!

[Scrax]

http://i44.tinypic.com/14kk3kx.jpg

Think of all the money we can save with invisible exercise equipment!

[wisefool]

It's like a dumb wii game without the wiimotes.

[Alan Au]

It's like a dumb wii game without the wiimotes.
I'm surprised there isn't a rope skipping minigame for the Wii already.

- Alan

[merryprankster]

It actually is pretty tough. Heh. We jump rope at the start of my boxing class and it's tough some weeks. Sometimes you just can't get the damned timing right and you have to keep starting over.

Not that I'm advocating this piece of shit to anyone, I'm just saying ... it CAN be difficult.

True...But I can't see how jumping an invisible rope is any fun at all. The rythm of actually jumping over the rope is what makes a jump rope an enjoyable excersice tool.

[RobotPants]

One of my favorite things in the world is watching these infomercials and seeing the dumb people getting SO FRUSTRATED by some inferior product. It's best when it's some normal, everyday activity that everyone on Earth is already used to, like cleaning up a spill, flipping off a light switch or cracking an egg. Or yeah, jumping rope. Who the hell has ever been that angry that jumping rope is HOLY CRAP SO HARD!?!?!

[PeterK]

One of my favorite things in the world is watching these infomercials and seeing the dumb people getting SO FRUSTRATED by some inferior product. It's best when it's some normal, everyday activity that everyone on Earth is already used to, like cleaning up a spill, flipping off a light switch or cracking an egg. Or yeah, jumping rope. Who the hell has ever been that angry that jumping rope is HOLY CRAP SO HARD!?!?!

"Blankets can slip and slide."

That one gets me every time.

[John E. Motion]

Shit, I'm 6'8 and I hated when they handed out those bullshit hunks of string in basketball practice. OOOOHHH look at the 5'3 guy go. Thing wouldn't hang right. Stupid thing was shorter than my arms out streched. That said, how expensive is some rope.

[RobotPants]

We had those shitty ones made up of all the little plastic sections and we ended up spending half an hour at the start of practice trying to match everyone up with the correct size rope. There would always be several of us dealing with ones that were 4ft too long so you ended up jumping very slowly or just short enough to smack you in the back of the head.

[CLWheeljack]

I thought institutional jump ropes were color-coded for length? The ones at my school were I think (as mentioned, the plastic tube-covered ones).

[RobotPants]

Maybe. But when they're all just thrown in a big cardboard box at the end of every class and a few dozen kids scrounge through them at the beginning of their class, you can imagine the chaos.

[Acid]

I'm afraid my mom might actually buy this.

[AndrewM]

You can also "skip rope" with a hula hoop, though you have to be careful or you'll smack yourself in the head.

[RobotPants]

Plus you'll probably get made fun of a lot.

[Demon G Sides]

Oh god the plastic sectioned jumpropes. What was best was when they finally broke mid jump and the kid who had it flung it and scatted those small plastic sections across the gym and into his peer's eyes.

That said, Jumping rope can be legitimately fun.