Jump Rope, Tricks, and a Very Protective Dog – With Patty Reynolds (Ep. 19)

Dizzy Skips (00:43)
Patty Reynolds, thank you so much for joining me on the Jump Rope Podcast. It’s so great to have you here.

Patty @pattyjumps (00:49)
Yeah, thank you so much for having me. I’ve looked forward to coming on for a little while. So good to be here.

Dizzy Skips (00:54)
Well, you’ve

been mentioned on the podcast several times from Becky and Eddie Jumps. And so it’s pleasure to get to talk to you. I, you know, I didn’t look to see how long we’ve been connected, but it’s been months that I’ve paid attention to your stuff. I love your videos with your dog. Yeah. I forget your dog’s name.

Patty @pattyjumps (01:00)
Mm-hmm.

Yeah.

Yeah, yeah, she’s here.

Yes, Artemis. Yeah, she, yeah.

Dizzy Skips (01:15)
Artemis, my God, what a great name. She is gorgeous.

Is she a German Shepherd?

Patty @pattyjumps (01:20)
Yeah, she’s a full-blooded German Sheppard. She is three. She’s three. Actually, she’s almost four. She’ll be four in March. yeah, if I’m outside, she has to be. And she gets really excited when I start putting my shoes on and get my jump ropes ready. And she’s like, are we going? Is it time? We’re going now? Yeah. Yeah. So yeah, jump rope time is her time for sure.

Dizzy Skips (01:25)
Yeah.

Really?

She knows what that means.

Yeah, she, I’ve commented on a few of your videos. think that she looks like she’s protective of mama. Like she, she looks like she could take anyone out who crosses mama.

Patty @pattyjumps (01:50)
Yes.

She, yeah, and actually it’s worse with my kids than me, but yes, when we’re out there, she’s patrolling and I jump in my driveway. So she’s patrolling my front yard and everything, watching everybody. But she’s really good, so she’s trained. So she’ll stay, she won’t go anywhere.

Dizzy Skips (02:11)
Oh, really? Did

you do a training program with her?

Patty @pattyjumps (02:14)
Yeah, we did. She was not even a year. I think she was like seven or eight months, maybe younger than that. I don’t remember exactly, but we went through like a whole three month program with her. Yeah. And I may have those dates wrong, but I know my trainer’s probably watching going, no, that’s not right. Yeah, I know. But she went through a whole program and kind of graduated and, and, get, you know, we can do like follow ups and stuff. So she, we did it at a young age, very, very young age. So

Dizzy Skips (02:25)
Wow.

Right, right.

Yeah.

That’s cool. I love that she’s into your jump rope and that she watches like for the cues that you’re going out and jumping. My dog does the same thing, but her reaction is a lot different than your dog. like, I started jumping inside downstairs and, and Zuzu, my dog, she will, she’s hilarious. She will spend so much time at the bottom of the stairs during the day, like yelling for me to come.

Patty @pattyjumps (02:43)
Yep. Yeah.

Yep. Yeah.

Yeah.

Mm-hmm. Yep.

Yeah.

Dizzy Skips (03:05)
know, carry her up the stairs. She could totally go up the stairs,

but she just winds, you know, she wants daddy to come pick her up and take her up the stairs until it looks like I’m gonna jump rope. So as soon as I get in my clown costume or I grab a jump rope, she’s like, hell with this, I’m upstairs. And she goes upstairs and then gets under the bed as if it’s like, you know, there’s gonna be fallout. But yeah.

Patty @pattyjumps (03:10)
Yep. Yeah.

I’m gone. Yeah.

Yeah, yeah. Well, Artemis

does. She keeps her distance, because she knows the rope will hit her and it hurts. I think I actually hit her yesterday, so she just kind of backs up. But she was, I had a reel coming on Valentine’s Day, and she’ll be in that reel, so that’s, it’ll be cute to see her. So I included her in my jump.

Dizzy Skips (03:34)
yeah.

Nice. That’s great.

So, can you tell us where you’re located?

Patty @pattyjumps (03:48)
Yeah, so I’m in North Carolina, basically outside of Charlotte.

Dizzy Skips (03:50)
North Carolina. Outside of Charlotte. Okay. You

said you’ve been there your whole life, I think, before we started.

Patty @pattyjumps (03:57)
Yep,

yep, been here my whole life. Born in Charlotte, grew up here. I did go to school in Massachusetts for three years. So I was in pharmacy school there, yeah. Did not enjoy the snow or the cold. And I’m only, I’m really short. I’m only five feet tall. So there was always jokes the whole time I was there about the snow being like over five feet. And I’m like, guess I’m staying in cause I can’t. Not going outside. Yeah, no.

Dizzy Skips (04:06)
wow.

Yeah.

You

You have to wear a tall hat

so that it shows above the snow. Yeah. I know in Minnesota they put flags on all of the fire hydrants, you know, so that they can find them when it snows, really. You just need a little, like, bicycle flag hanging out of the back. Yeah.

Patty @pattyjumps (04:27)
Yes, above the snow, No, it was fun.

Yep. Yeah. Right. Exactly. Yeah.

Yeah. We do not get much snow here. We had one snow day. And then when it snows, like the teeniest bit, we’re done. Everybody’s closed. We’re out. But it’s really the ice because it’s like hot, cold, hot, cold, and the temperature changes. So little teeny tiny bit, and we’re done. Everyone’s staying home. So yeah.

Dizzy Skips (04:47)
Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah, yeah, I know what you mean.

So, and so you mentioned pharmacy school. I was going to ask what is your profession? Are you a pharmacist?

Patty @pattyjumps (05:03)
Mm-hmm. Yeah.

Yep. I’m a pharmacist. So a large chain retail pharmacist. I’ve been in pharmacy for, let’s see, well, I’ve been with the company I’m with for like 18 years. But I’ve been in pharmacy about 21, I want to say. Yeah, 21 years. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, I love it. I love what I do. I love people. And, you know,

Dizzy Skips (05:19)
wow.

Okay. Do you enjoy that work?

Patty @pattyjumps (05:31)
I didn’t really want to go the doctor route just because I know how demanding the hours are and the residency. I didn’t want to do a residency. I went to, I did my undergrad first and then decided to do pharmacy. by the time I finished, I did an entire 10 year span. So I was like, just to do hospital pharmacy. You have to do a residency. And I was like, no, I’m done.

Dizzy Skips (05:35)
Right.

Yeah.

Yeah.

wow.

Okay.

Patty @pattyjumps (05:58)
No more school. So

Dizzy Skips (06:00)
You’ve mentioned to me that you work like 12 hour shifts is that normal for you?

Patty @pattyjumps (06:05)
Yeah, pretty much most retail pharmacies do 12-hour shifts. Now, busier stores are going to have overlap, so two pharmacies in a day, and they may be open like 14-hour days, so you’re going to do maybe eight-hour shifts, but for the most part, most of us work 11 to 12-hour shifts.

Dizzy Skips (06:19)
Okay.

I had no idea.

Patty @pattyjumps (06:26)
Yeah, yeah, most of the time if you go in the morning and you drop off your prescription and then you pick it up at night, it’s the same person. It’s been there all day. Yeah,

Dizzy Skips (06:32)
Okay. Yeah.

I see you had mentioned your 12 hour shifts and I wondered, is she like a police officer or a nurse or whatever, but closer to a nurse.

Patty @pattyjumps (06:42)
Yeah, yeah,

yep, yeah. You get used to it.

Dizzy Skips (06:47)
Interesting. yeah. So

do you do like four 12-hour days in a week or?

Patty @pattyjumps (06:54)
No, it’s fluctuates. one, because I work every other weekend. like I’m like starting tomorrow, I do like a four day stretch, which the weekends are not 12 hours, but any day during the week pretty much is. But so it just depends. It’s like one week is like five days and I do eight, eight days every two weeks. So it’s like five and three basically. So yeah.

Dizzy Skips (07:11)
Okay, okay, okay,

interesting. So when did you start jumping?

Patty @pattyjumps (07:20)
So I started, well, technically I started trying it out. I don’t know if you know Tameka @_tamekaskips . think it’s her, yeah. So yes, yeah, she’s amazing. So I’m in like a fitness group, which is kind of how I started with like the working out. I started with doing like YouTube videos. I did Grow with Joe cardio videos, like walking, kind of lose weight, because I have three kids. So at the end of the third, I’ve

Dizzy Skips (07:26)
Yeah, I love her. Love Tameka.

Patty @pattyjumps (07:47)
pretty much was pregnant for six years. Pregnant or nursing for six years. So I never could really lose weight. So finally, after my third, I was like, okay, I’m done. I started working out and Tameka was in the group that I started in like back then. This would have been, she was born in six, she was six, 2020. So there was been like 2021, 2022, something like that. So we started working out. So.

Dizzy Skips (07:51)
my gosh.

Okay.

Okay. Okay.

Patty @pattyjumps (08:15)
Tameka jump rope back then, like on and off, like not as much as she does now, but I was like, oh, I want to do that. It looks really cool. I want to try it. But I was so bad, like so bad. I couldn’t do the basic, I could barely do the basic bounce and don’t even talk about any trick, nothing. I tried, no. so I, you know, I jump one day and then I’d do it. And basically I was just jumping and counting my skips and trying to get like so many. I had like one of those.

Dizzy Skips (08:32)
Right, right.

Mm-hmm.

Patty @pattyjumps (08:44)
wire ropes that count your skips. I don’t know how accurate they are, that’s basically what I used and I would just go to the park or in my house or whatever and just jump. And we so bad, so bad. So then, did that.

Dizzy Skips (08:47)
Yeah.

Mm-hmm.

Were you trying to get like

100 skips a day or did you have a goal?

Patty @pattyjumps (09:02)
No, I didn’t really have a goal. I just kind of just jumped to see what I could do. I think Tameka was doing like a thousand skips a day or something crazy. I was trying to do something like that. And I think I was like doing like, I would do like 500, but literally dying. You know, so it didn’t really catch on. But I was working out doing the YouTube videos and I know I mentioned I have kids, so I’d have to end a 12 hour shift working. I had to do my schedule around that.

Dizzy Skips (09:06)
Okay.

Yeah,

Yeah.

Patty @pattyjumps (09:31)
So

I would, and I can’t go to the gym. Like Eddie, Eddie Jumps is my trainer and he would ask me like, why do you not go to the gym? And I’m like, I can’t, I physically can’t leave my house. If I’m working, like usually my husband before he would be gone. So I couldn’t leave, but just the amount of time it takes to get in the car, go to the gym, you know, or do anything. I just don’t have it. If I’m working, it has to be at work at nine o’clock and my kids get up for school. So,

Dizzy Skips (09:43)
Yeah.

Patty @pattyjumps (10:02)
started doing that with jump like literally once every month. I’m like, I’ll try it again. I’ll try it again. Didn’t work. And then finally, what was it? So basically Eddie started the 14 day, he did like a 14 day program back in November of 23. So that’s when I started more consistently jumping rope. I was doing strength training videos. So I’ve basically,

Dizzy Skips (10:07)
Okay.

Okay.

Patty @pattyjumps (10:30)
evolved from just cardio to yeah, I got bored with that. So then I moved on to doing strength training and did that. So I have, you know, weights and all that that I like purchased like one set of weights every like couple months because they’re expensive. Yeah, so and like I said, can’t go to the gym, got to figure it out and joined his program. Becky was there and Tameka was there and then a couple

Dizzy Skips (10:40)
Mm-hmm.

Yeah, yeah.

Patty @pattyjumps (10:59)
There may have been, there’s a bunch of people that were in that group that are in a lot of our groups that we’re in now. But I did the 14 day and just fell in love with it. Completely fell in love with it. I was like, you know what, this is so cool. I basically kept doing my weight training five days a week and then added jump rope in to that and tried to do jump rope in like on my rest days. I wasn’t doing a lot. I wasn’t doing a ton of just the basics, the 14 day program that Eddie did.

Dizzy Skips (11:03)
Mm-hmm.

Mm-hmm.

Mm-hmm. Okay.

Patty @pattyjumps (11:28)
was just boxer skips, basic bounce, some side swings, crossover, basically just your simple basic one. So I just stuck with that. exactly. When that was over there, I was completely lost, to be completely honest. It was done. And I was like, crap, what am I going to do now? So that’s how I started. But after that is when I decided to join Eddie.

Dizzy Skips (11:35)
Mm-hmm.

some good fundamentals.

Yeah.

Mm-hmm.

Patty @pattyjumps (11:56)
do his program. So, he has the Eddie Jumps Tricks and Skills Program that I did.

Dizzy Skips (12:03)
Okay. And

was that like ongoing coaching or is that more like an online program that you just kind of followed along with?

Patty @pattyjumps (12:12)
So it was really cool because it’s an online program and basically it’s a program that Eddie’s put together in 10 or 11 videos. So basically you can do it at any point in time. He probably talked about this whenever he did his thing, but basically I could watch it and like the first episode was, you know, whatever, Side Swings. can’t remember what it was, but and then you do that. And then basically he

Dizzy Skips (12:21)
Okay.

Mm-hmm.

Patty @pattyjumps (12:39)
would be available to you like on Instagram or Facebook for online coaching. So you would send a video or you could post it and tag him in it and then he would comment give you basically just give you feedback. But what happened was he basically made a group with me and Becky and one other girl who doesn’t do much jumping now but so the four of us were in a group so anytime we did any video.

Dizzy Skips (12:45)
Okay.

Right.

Patty @pattyjumps (13:07)
we kind of would keep track of where everybody was. And me and Becky basically were at the same pace. We pretty much did the episodes about the same time. So we’d post it and he would just give you feedback. Say, hey, you know, try this, do this. That’s a little, you need to slow it down. Be patient. He’d always say be patient because we’re always trying to rush everything. So that’s, yeah. So was just his program, but he was always available for feedback. So basically throughout the entire program, however long it took you.

Dizzy Skips (13:17)
Okay.

Yeah, yeah, I know how that feels.

That’s so cool.

Patty @pattyjumps (13:36)
I mean, I guess it could take somebody forever if you wanted to. took me, I bought his program in January and then started basically January 1st. And I finished the last one like end of April or middle of April. So about basically like four months. Yeah, 10, like an episode basically was 10 or 11. And then each episode has a different skill that you’re gonna learn.

Dizzy Skips (13:39)
Mm-hmm.

Okay.

And you said this is 10 videos? Okay.

Okay.

Patty @pattyjumps (14:04)
And

then he’ll do some of them, he’ll put different ones together to do combos. And then he would give us things to do outside of the videos. So well worth it, honestly. Eddie’s the best, he really is the best. He’s so patient. Yes, and he’s so patient with you. And then I would be like, Eddie, I cannot figure this out. He’s like, well, send me a video. He would slow the video down or take a screenshot. And he’s like, this is where your hands are. Do you see that?

Dizzy Skips (14:08)
Good day.

okay.

He’s such a cool guy. Yeah.

Patty @pattyjumps (14:32)
He’s like, that’s wrong. He’s like, do it. Yeah, do it this way. So I was like, oh, because I was worried about that. Because he does coaching in his gym. And I was worried. I’m like, how is that going to work? But no, he’s there. Like, you could message him.

Dizzy Skips (14:33)
That’s amazing.

Yeah.

Mm-hmm.

Yeah, when he’s in the

Manchester, UK and you’re in North Carolina. Yeah.

Patty @pattyjumps (14:47)
Yeah, yeah, yeah, exactly,

yeah.

Dizzy Skips (14:50)
But it works really well, doesn’t it? I’ve had that happen with my coach too, where I send a video and he’s like, yeah, your hands are out too far, that’s why you keep tripping. Or something.

Patty @pattyjumps (14:52)
Yeah.

Yeah, right. Yeah, I remember I

just posted my prod my mic release progress and I and I went back watching those videos was super super crazy to see what I was doing back then. And that’s how I figured out when because I had to look up to see when I did that. And I went back in our chat to find the videos. And he there was one comment he was like, No, no, no, no, your hands are completely wrong. I was like, don’t know.

Dizzy Skips (15:11)
Mm-hmm.

Mm-hmm.

Yeah.

Patty @pattyjumps (15:27)
Eddie, can’t get this.” And he’s like, no, you’re not doing that right. And then Becky would be in the chat and she’d be trying to be all nice. it’s fine. It’s like, I think you’re just doing this. And he’s like, no, it’s wrong. Try again. But yeah.

Dizzy Skips (15:35)
Mmm.

Yeah. Yeah.

That’s great. So do you still work with Eddie?

Patty @pattyjumps (15:46)
Yeah, so I haven’t done any more classes with him yet, but he’s always there, you know, just telling me like, hey, this looks really good. You’re doing really good with that. Or if I do something that he taught me, I’ll send it to him and say, look at this, look at this, I did this. So he’s still there, you know, just commenting, you know, not as much obviously because I’m not actively in program, but he’s always there.

Dizzy Skips (15:51)
Mm-hmm.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Patty @pattyjumps (16:12)
commenting or giving me feedback on different things. So, yeah.

Dizzy Skips (16:13)
Yeah.

Yeah, I know

you and I are in an Instagram group that includes Becky and some other people and I had said, hey, I’m going to interview Eddie. Anybody have questions? And it was great. Like, when is he going to have an intermediate program? And when is he going to have pink jump ropes? And as soon as I said pink jump ropes, he’s like, Becky. I was like, yep, she’s a pink and purple girl.

Patty @pattyjumps (16:21)
Mm-hmm.

Yeah. Yep. Yeah. Right.

Yes, yeah, I know,

Yep, yeah, she’s pink and purple. He posted his pink PVC and I literally messaged her and I was like, Becky, he’s got pink PVC. I was like, we have to force him to do a pink beaded robe.

Dizzy Skips (16:51)
Yeah, yeah. So

I’m curious since you brought up beaded ropes, like, are you a beaded? Is that your rope of choice is a beaded rope?

Patty @pattyjumps (16:59)
Yeah.

Yes, Rope of Choice is beaded. I started out with a super cheap Amazon rope and that’s what I was using. And then I got an Eddie’s Eddie Jumps Classic beaded basically. And it’s heavier. I think Becky mentioned that. Yes, the cable is a little bit heavier and I’ve actually got another. After that, I bought another one that’s just his blue. I’ve been using that a lot lately.

Dizzy Skips (17:06)
Okay.

Yeah, does it use a little heavier cable in there?

Patty @pattyjumps (17:25)
his, I think it’s called True Blue. It’s actually a little bit lighter. So I looked at both the chords. His classic is slightly thicker. And so the heavy, it’s not a, you know, not a heavy rope. It’s not a weighted rope at all, but it just has that weight to it. And I can do certain things with that, that I’ll start with one rope. I’m like, no, I need to do like, if I’m doing something with my mic releases, like I’ve been practicing mics

Dizzy Skips (17:33)
Okay.

Right.

Yeah.

Patty @pattyjumps (17:56)
a lot like all of January that’s basically all I did was mic releases. But when I was doing like a 360 it was easier with a little bit lighter rope but if I was doing something else easier with a little bit heavier rope. So I would like to take them both outside with me. But yeah if you see I do have a PVC. Again, I had a super cheap Amazon PVC and it was I gave it to my son who also likes to jump rope but I ended up buying Eddie’s

Dizzy Skips (18:04)
Oh!

Mm-hmm.

Patty @pattyjumps (18:23)
white PVC like his just plain PVC and it’s super nice it’s obviously when it’s colder outside like it is now I’m trying not to use it as much but double unders things like that i cannot do a mic with it eventually i’ll be able to but the light is super super light and I’m like no i can’t do it

Dizzy Skips (18:30)
Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Is it a, is it like a five mil or four mil PVC? Or do you know? Yeah. I think that’s pretty standard, but yeah, I, I mentioned on a prior podcast, I bought a six mil, um, from URope and, it’s got just a little more heft to it. You know, it’s, it’s closer to a beaded rope so I can, I can mic release with it every once in a while, you know, and land it.

Patty @pattyjumps (18:47)
I think it’s a five. I believe it’s a five millimeter. Yeah, yeah. Mm-hmm. Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah, yeah.

Yeah, yeah,

Dizzy Skips (19:08)
Whereas beaded, I’m

Patty @pattyjumps (19:09)
yeah.

Dizzy Skips (19:09)
better. think beaded, it’s just that extra weight gives more feedback, which is helpful to me. Yeah.

Patty @pattyjumps (19:13)
Yeah, it does. It really does. Yeah. And you

have the Mira Wate rope. And you guys talked about that, makes me super nervous because I’m always whacking myself. I don’t know how you got to do the mic release with that because I feel like I would probably literally have bruises all over my face.

Dizzy Skips (19:19)
I do have mirrors way over.

Yeah, yeah,

yeah. I mean, I get bruises on my face from those plastic handles because I’m going so fast and then I try it. But I have done that with Mira’s Rope and my since it’s cold in Minnesota now, I’ve been jumping rope indoors more and actually enjoying it. You know, at first I was like, God, I have to jump indoors. but I sort of really. Yeah, it is nice. I’m fortunate.

Patty @pattyjumps (19:38)
I know.

Yeah.

Yeah, yeah. Yeah, you have a nice space though. Yeah, yeah.

Dizzy Skips (19:57)
But yeah, I just had a little epiphany one day. Like you’re getting so frustrated about jumping indoors, but you jump on these stupid little limestone benches that are 18 inches wide by four feet. Like, and that’s way more confining. And I realized, yeah, you know, actually the confinement brings out different moves, right? Like you have to adjust. so, so I’ve been enjoying it, but there have been a few times in the last few weeks where I’ve broken out Mira’s rope and

Patty @pattyjumps (20:05)
Bye.

Yeah, yeah.

Right, Yep, yeah.

Dizzy Skips (20:24)
jumping just fine, but I have this chandelier, which thank God is very sturdy. You know, it’s like, I don’t know, like ship glass, really big thick thing. But I have rung that bell so many times with different ropes and I just know if I were to hit it with that lumber handle from Mira’s rope, you know, it wouldn’t be great. But yeah, I did put on gloves and practice the mic release with it though. And I was able to catch some, it’s just.

Patty @pattyjumps (20:29)
Yeah.

Yeah.

my God, it’d be done. No, yeah, it’d be done.

Yes.

Yeah.

Dizzy Skips (20:49)
I think it is probably a good 30 or 40 % heavier than the other beaded ropes that I have, which are already, prefer heavy beaded ropes to begin with like Eddie’s, but yeah, that extra weight just gives more feedback and feels like it’s easier to figure out where the rope is and land basic tricks. then once I get that motion down, once I get that muscle memory, of not dumbing down, but stepping down to a normal beaded rope, then I’m…

Patty @pattyjumps (20:58)
Yeah, yeah. Right, yeah, me too.

Yeah.

Right. Yep.

Right.

Dizzy Skips (21:19)
more likely to land the trick, you Yeah.

Patty @pattyjumps (21:22)
Yeah, yeah. I had

no idea. I had no idea even that there was a difference. Because like I said, that Amazon rope is all I had. And I’m like, OK, this is all there is. And then I got Eddie’s. And I’m like, oh, wow, this is super, super heavy. So I had no clue there were so many differences in so many different ropes.

Dizzy Skips (21:41)
Yeah, yeah. I mean, I’m self-confessed compulsive about ropes. have way too many.

Patty @pattyjumps (21:48)
Yes, I

heard that you make your own that’s super super cool. Yeah

Dizzy Skips (21:52)
Yeah, well, I’ve done that and then I’ve bought a whole bunch as well. But yeah, I have noticed that it’s not just the cable, it’s the way that the cable is, you know, sort of like the stopper that keeps it from going through the handle. There’s several different types of those and some of them tend to stick a little more or whatever. And so there’s all these little factors. But it is amazing what having like a pro level jump rope can do for you, right? Like that when I went from that

Patty @pattyjumps (21:55)
Yeah.

Yeah. Yep.

Yeah, yeah.

Yeah, right.

Dizzy Skips (22:21)
little speed rope that I got on Amazon, which was not terrible. It had bearings, but the cable was probably like three mil or something like that. And that’s the one I think I mentioned on an early episode of the podcast where I jumped out in the driveway with it so many times that I, I wore away all the plastic so that it was like sparking on the pavement because it has an actual wire in there. Yeah.

Patty @pattyjumps (22:28)
Right, yeah. Yep.

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I think that’s

that counting one, I think, like I was saying, I think that’s a wire, I think. But I never jumped outside. At the beginning, I was jumping inside only. was like, no, it’s too, because I was in November. It was like winter. I was like, I’m not jumping outside. And now I’m like, I cannot stand jumping inside now. I’m too used to it now. Yeah. Yeah.

Dizzy Skips (22:46)
Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah, jumping outside is so fun. Like just being

able to have the freedom to move around more and not worry about destroying your chandeliers.

Patty @pattyjumps (23:05)
Yeah, yeah. when things,

oh yeah. When I started jumping, I literally, I have an entryway in my house. There’s a front door and then this little carpet and I would put like a mat down. And so my table’s like right here and then a wall is right here. And I had this little sliver of space and I put my camera up and that’s literally put a, you know, I have like a chair. I put my camera, my phone on the chair and record.

Dizzy Skips (23:22)
Yeah.

Yeah.

Patty @pattyjumps (23:32)
And now I look back and I’m like, no wonder I couldn’t do anything. Like, there’s absolutely no space. I learned a 360 there. I have no idea how I did that. But it was only space in my house that didn’t have a light, like you said. like, smack in the wall. And then my kids were sitting physically at the table.

Dizzy Skips (23:38)
Right.

Yeah, that’s great.

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

Hahaha

Patty @pattyjumps (23:54)
So.

Dizzy Skips (23:56)
So I’m curious, Patty, how would you describe your style or the things that you enjoy most in jump rope?

Patty @pattyjumps (23:58)
Mm-hmm.

Yeah, so I definitely enjoy the tricks the most, I would say. Footwork is, I’m okay, I can do certain things. tried doing a like, Kathy Jumps for the lots of those like footwork, and then she’s like, okay, now add the arms. And then for some reason, I have the hardest time in my brain, like doing them all at the same time. I don’t know.

Dizzy Skips (24:12)
Mm-hmm.

Mm-hmm.

Patty @pattyjumps (24:28)
So I basically, even boxer skip, I’ve been working on it more late January. I started working on it more. Even just the boxer skip, for whatever reason, I have the hardest time. So this year, my plan for the year is to try to do more. I can do them, but I can’t do them and do a trick at the same time. So I’m trying now. Like I just practiced. I’m in a group. This is Saturday song group. And so you learn a trick.

Dizzy Skips (24:39)
and

Patty @pattyjumps (24:56)
and you do that trick to a song. some people would choose like footwork. Some people would choose just a regular trick. And some people would choose both. And we have both coming up on Saturday. it literally, like my brain was like, OK, I can’t put them together. So definitely the tricks. I’ll basically figure out when I’m going to go jump, say, OK, I’m going to work on this, or try to, you know.

Dizzy Skips (24:57)
Okay.

Yeah.

Patty @pattyjumps (25:22)
do this with this or like a little mini combo. I try to put a couple things together if I can but I try to focus on one thing at a time if I can. I’ve never gone this long like I’ve done with the mic releases. It’s actually been interesting to stick with something and do something with other tricks together repeatedly.

Dizzy Skips (25:30)
Mm-hmm.

So when you say you haven’t gone this long, like you’ve been concentrating on mic releases or mic releases for such a long, yeah. I mean, it looks like mic, like a mic drop, right? But when I had several of the guys on, or I think it was the end of last year podcast where I had multiple people on, Richard was saying mic and somebody in the comments was like, don’t say mic, you’re confusing all the newbies. Yeah.

Patty @pattyjumps (25:47)
And I say Mike. Yeah. Yeah. I know. I know exactly.

Yeah.

I know. It’s Nick. I know. I know. Yeah.

And then I think Aaron, as did Aaron say, like he called it Mike, like on purpose. I think it’s what he said. I don’t remember. Yeah. My brain like can’t. I know. I know. I know. I know. But, so yeah, like usually when I, when I learn the trick or something, I’ll do it. Like let’s say EB swings or whatever. I’ll do it. And then, okay, I’m done. Next.

Dizzy Skips (26:13)
Yeah, he likes to be contrary. Yeah, he’s six foot seven, so you got to let him do it.

Mm-hmm.

Patty @pattyjumps (26:31)
move on to the next thing. And so usually like each session, I’ll just move on. I’ll go back to it and do it again, or try to incorporate. like basically all of January, and then still now, I’ve been doing the mic releases and the whole every session, I’ve been doing mic releases. And I’ve never gone this many sessions doing the same thing. And I’m not just doing that, I’m doing that and then doing that and a 360. And I’m like, how many different variations can I do?

Dizzy Skips (26:47)
Mm-hmm.

Yeah. Right.

Mm-hmm.

Patty @pattyjumps (27:00)
That’s

what I’ve basically been doing. Can I do a mic with a 360? Can I do a mic in an EB? But, you know, so that’s kind of what I’ve been doing now.

Dizzy Skips (27:06)
Okay.

So when you say you’re working on mic releases, you’re not just working on one side, you’re working on trying both sides or different types of mic releases?

Patty @pattyjumps (27:18)
So for the most part, I’ve just been doing my dominant side. One side. I just posted a video last week doing the other side, but I’ve only done that one day. I haven’t tried it again since then. Well, I did try it today, technically, but I haven’t done a ton with it. I want to get that move down before I start adding it in. But no, just basically doing the mic and then like one day maybe I’m just going to do a mic release with toe catches

Dizzy Skips (27:21)
Okay.

Okay.

Mm-hmm.

Mm-hmm.

Patty @pattyjumps (27:47)
or whatever. Or maybe I’m gonna do it with just jumping and see how many I can do in a row. Or maybe I’m gonna do like I did mics and the 360s. I did the mics and the the Swing EB. So just like two tricks together or like maybe even like a how many tricks can I do with a mics together? That’s kind of what I did last week. So just kind of doing it

Dizzy Skips (27:49)
Yeah.

Mm-hmm.

Mm-hmm.

Yeah.

Yeah. Cool.

Patty @pattyjumps (28:15)
It kind of helps me practice the mics since I’m doing it each time, but then it helps me practice the other skills too since I’m doing them together. But what happened was I sprained my ankle back in September, like the first of September. And before my ankle sprain, I could do the mics. I could do the mics and I could jump it. It was no problem. I did the wrist pop method and then I stopped jumping. Basically I took the

Dizzy Skips (28:18)
Mm-hmm.

Yeah.

Okay.

Patty @pattyjumps (28:42)
whole time off. didn’t do weight training. didn’t do jump rope or anything for like, it was like four weeks straight. And then slowly went back into it. And then when I went back and tried to do a mic again, I couldn’t do it. And I was so frustrated. I don’t know. think it’s like, you honestly, mic releases, if you don’t do them on a, not every single time, but if you don’t do, you know, maybe once a week or, you know,

Dizzy Skips (28:51)
Okay.

Mm-hmm.

Why do you think that works?

Right.

Patty @pattyjumps (29:12)
whatever it is, it goes away. Like the memory, like the muscle memory of doing it, I feel like just left me. And yeah, I’ve heard people say like when you do mic releases like practice them every day, five minutes. think Kathy Jumps said that before, like practice them five minutes every day. But I don’t know, I lost it. And like my hands couldn’t do it. I could not jump it at all, could not jump the rope. And then I was so frustrated.

Dizzy Skips (29:16)
Interesting.

Interesting.

Yeah.

Patty @pattyjumps (29:38)
And I even told Eddie I’m like, okay, I’m having to relearn. He’s like, what do you mean? I’m like, I just can’t do it anymore. I don’t know. so I started looking into the tissue box. So then I was able to do the tissue box. I’m like, okay, that’s good. And then I could jump the tissue box. I’m like, oh, okay, well I’ll do that route. So I still have trouble jumping the wrist pop. I don’t know why, but I can jump the tissue box. So I’m just rolling with that at this point.

And I can do the, yeah, I can do the wrist pop and a toe catch, but for some reason I lost it. don’t know. Just not doing any jump rope, I guess. And I was slow to do a lot of things like the, you know, the EBs. I was pretty good at them. I could do a swing into an EB. I mean, cross into an EB, swing cross, swing EB basically. And like still having trouble with that. So there’s certain things that…

Dizzy Skips (30:07)
Interesting

Yeah.

Mm-hmm.

interesting

Patty @pattyjumps (30:33)
Yeah, there are certain things that I didn’t practice for so long that my brain’s like, no, not right now.

Dizzy Skips (30:37)
Yeah. Yeah. So,

I’m sure most people who are listening to this understand, but for people who might be new to jump rope and don’t understand tissue versus or tissue box versus wrist pop, could you explain that?

Patty @pattyjumps (30:46)
yeah.

Yeah, so the wrist pop basically when you’re doing your rope your handle pops off of your wrist. So when you basically you’re putting it out well be the I’m doing this thing. So I’m putting my my handle here and I’m popping my handle to do the rotation on the tissue box.

Dizzy Skips (31:09)
So you’re using

the impact with your wrist and letting go to kind of propel the rope in a circle. Okay.

Patty @pattyjumps (31:12)
Yep. Yeah. Exactly. Yep. And

for me, I’ve noticed I’ve watched myself do both. I keep the rotations lower, like more like on my hip level. Whereas, yeah, when I’m doing a tissue, so tissue box is basically the same thing you’re spinning, but you throw the rope. Trying to do it here. You like throw it and as you throw it, then you’re going to do it. Kathy Jumps a

Dizzy Skips (31:24)
Tamp level? Yeah.

Right.

Patty @pattyjumps (31:37)
figured that part out like she tucks it under to instead of just throw a lot of people just throw the rope and then they’re rotating but she like tucks the rope under and that helped me out a lot to do it that way there was a video that she made yeah she’s kind of like tucking it flinging it but kind of behind her honestly like she’s starting that wrote that first rotation she’s starting it by instead of throwing it up she’s starting it throwing it under this way and then it’s gonna rotate

Dizzy Skips (31:50)
So with her throwing hand, she’s tucking under and then like flinging it.

Interesting. Yeah. Yeah, I have tried both methods and I think I’m a tissue box guy, basically. And I wonder if some of it is not what you meant, is what you mentioned basically, like the wrist pop, I’m trying to keep my hands down by my, you know, hips. And then when I pop the wrist, my hands are naturally down there. But with the tissue box method, I have to throw with one hand or throw with one hand and

Patty @pattyjumps (32:09)
Mm-hmm. Yeah.

Yeah, yeah.

Yep. Yeah.

Yeah. Higher. Yeah.

Dizzy Skips (32:36)
tend to throw a little bit higher. And recently a

few people that I’ve watched or a few coaches that I’ve watched, including Coach Ghadi, who is my coach, he talks about throwing it higher and even being able to catch it a little higher and he does it very smoothly. So I’m curious, you’ve probably heard some of the recent episodes where we’ve talked about single mics versus double mics. And I think referring to like how many times you rotate the rope before you catch it.

Patty @pattyjumps (32:44)
Okay.

Yes. Yeah.

Dizzy Skips (33:04)
So I’m curious when you mentioned being able to like jump it, is that a single mic or a double mic or does it matter for you? Single?

Patty @pattyjumps (33:08)
single.

No, I cannot do a double. I think Jenny talked about it on hers. and she said that I was like, wait, what I did honestly had no idea that there was a double. And so I’m just doing a single and then so when I rotate, come back to the pocket method and then jump the rope. So basically like continuously jumping, mic, jumping, mic, you know, that kind of thing. But or

Dizzy Skips (33:14)
Yeah.

Yeah.

Okay.

Yep.

Patty @pattyjumps (33:33)
So the difference would be like me jumping the rope after doing the mic release or me doing a nick release into a toe catch. So I’m not jumping the rope. Yeah. So no, I have, tried it the other day and I was like, no, I think you have to come up high. think you have to do one rotation higher. Yeah. The double. Yeah.

Dizzy Skips (33:39)
Okay.

The double? Yeah.

The tips that I’ve heard from a few coaches recently are like, if you start your rotation down closer to your hip or your stomach level, then do your first rotation there and then lift up and do your second rotation higher because then it positions the catching handle closer to your waist height, right? So if you are doing that pocket method of returning your hand down by your

Patty @pattyjumps (34:01)
Yeah.

Go up. Yeah.

Yeah, yeah, yep.

Dizzy Skips (34:14)
waste, you’re more likely to catch it. then I think on one of the recent podcasts talking, actually talking to like Richard Head and Sean, they were talking about releasing higher and catching higher in order to be able to have time to jump it, which makes sense to me because I’m not good at catching and jumping at the same time.

Patty @pattyjumps (34:15)
Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Right. when I learned, just like I said, Eddie Jumps basically is how I learned my, my mic release. he is super like strict, I would say on the mic release. Cause that’s one of his, probably his favorite moves that he does, but he’s a very much like a pocket, like bring that hand back to like, you know, anytime I would send him a video, he’s like, Nope, your hands not back. And I was like, what are you talking about? I don’t know what you mean by bring back. So I guess that’s probably why.

Dizzy Skips (35:00)
And you’re talking about the catching

hand, right?

Patty @pattyjumps (35:04)
Yeah, yeah, the catching hand. No, yeah, we’ll both, honestly. If you notice what after he does his rotation, this hand rotation is coming back to this pocket also. So yeah, both like basically you’re just leaving this hand over here. It’s gonna, if you’re gonna catch it or it’s not. I think I posted a video of me trying the other side. And if you see me, I’m physically like doing this.

Dizzy Skips (35:08)
Mm-hmm.

Mm-hmm. Yep.

Mm-hmm.

Trying to grab it out of the air, yeah.

Patty @pattyjumps (35:29)
grabbing and I caught it. was like, I got it. But I was like, I’m literally like this. It’s like way over here in the air, flying around. I’m just like, whoo.

Dizzy Skips (35:34)
That’s great. Yeah.

Yeah, there’s

some people that I follow like, you know, Aaron Jumps 365 He, he tends to really is really high and catch really high. Yeah.

Patty @pattyjumps (35:43)
Yeah. He does. Yeah. Yeah, he does.

He actually helped me a little bit because, you know, he helps everybody. he helped me because, yeah, I had told him, I’m like, I can’t do the mic anymore. And he’s like, well, send me a video and let me see. And then he sent it. And he was telling me, he’s like, try doing it higher. That was before I had decided to try the tissue box. And so I’m like, because my tissue box, it does go up higher.

Dizzy Skips (35:50)
Yeah, he does.

Mm-hmm.

Patty @pattyjumps (36:08)
So that’s where I figured out, okay, let me try that and do that. Do a little bit higher. Yeah.

Dizzy Skips (36:12)
Yeah.

I ran across a video by Nate KG, you know, Coach Nate, and he was talking about like returning to pocket basically and the importance of that. in his analysis, I, I’m, you know, forgive me if I misstate you Nate, if you ever hear this, but he was saying that a lot of people don’t or have trouble catching because they don’t return their spinning hand to the pocket area and that

Patty @pattyjumps (36:17)
Mm-hmm. Yeah. Yeah, yeah.

back to the

pocket, yeah.

Dizzy Skips (36:38)
that

returning of the pocket sort of snaps this end of the rope back to where your hand should be. And I saw that and then I tried it out and like hit like three in a row. I was like, that’s the thing I’ve been doing wrong. And now when I video myself and I go back and watch when I mess up, it’s because my spinning hand, you know, like I spin and then I’m often lala land.

Patty @pattyjumps (36:43)
Right. Yeah. And I think it makes that loop again.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Still at the top.

Yep, yeah. It makes sense if you think about it. Because if you’re bringing your spinning hand back to your pocket while this hand is catching at your pocket, you’re getting your hands back in that regular loop alignment. So then you can actually jump through in your regular rotation. So I think that’s why. And I think Eddie probably, I think he took some classes from Nate. So it makes sense. Because they’re both very similar if you look. Yeah.

Dizzy Skips (37:10)
Mm-hmm.

Alignment. Right.

Yeah.

Yeah, yeah. I just

talked to Eddie the other day and he mentioned Nate several times, yeah. And getting advice from Nate on that kind of stuff.

Patty @pattyjumps (37:30)
Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Yeah, yeah. So I’ve tried watching Nate’s videos and I love it because he does the slow motion videos, but he is so like, everything is so perfectly straight in line. It like freaks me out because I’m always like arms, my arms way out. Like I did something this morning and my arms were way and I always think in my head, I’m like, Eddie, would yell at me right now if my, he saw my arms. And so I watch it and I’m just like.

Dizzy Skips (37:39)
Yeah.

Yeah. Yeah.

Patty @pattyjumps (38:00)
like watching his EBs when he jumps the rope and I’m like I don’t understand how your rope is right next to your body and then you he doesn’t even move like his body just stays in one spot and I’m like flinging my rope all around everywhere.

Dizzy Skips (38:07)
Yeah.

Yeah.

I know exactly what you mean, yeah. And I just, I wanna be clean like that too. And so, yeah.

Patty @pattyjumps (38:19)
So he intimidates me just a little bit. Mm-hmm. Yeah, yeah.

I’m sure it takes time. He’s been jumping rope, I think, forever, I think is what I was, so. But no, eventually, just bringing my, I mean, I’ve brought my arms in a lot over the last year, but everyone, and I watched my video, I’m like, oh, they’re back out again. But some moves, because my rope is a lot shorter now than it was, I shortened it. And some moves I

Dizzy Skips (38:29)
Yeah. Yeah.

Mm-mm.

Patty @pattyjumps (38:48)
can’t do unless I’ve pulled them out just a little bit. Just gotta pull them out a little bit more. Yeah.

Dizzy Skips (38:51)
Yeah. How

do you size your ropes?

Patty @pattyjumps (38:55)
So I just basically try them out and then so I’m just bringing my handles up and I think my handles are like up to here like I think they’re over here. Yeah, yeah. And then but basically I’ll

Dizzy Skips (39:06)
Like bottom or chest kind of? Okay. And

when you do that, are your handles straight up like this or perpendicular? Okay.

Patty @pattyjumps (39:15)
Yeah, straight up. Yeah. So I

guess down. They’re probably right here. But I basically, though, I’ll pull some beads off and size it I’ll go jump and just see what I can do. And then I always keep length on the end just in case. Even my PVC, I have length on the end because I’m always afraid. So those PVC points you cut them, it’s done. There’s no going back. So yeah, I just jump it. But I shortened it.

Dizzy Skips (39:19)
Okay.

Mm-hmm.

Yeah, yeah. Right.

Patty @pattyjumps (39:40)
probably a month ago or so and I did like the best run of crosses I’ve ever done. I’m so bad. Crosses are my like worst probably, which is super crazy because it seems like the most simple trick. Yeah. For whatever reason, like I cannot, it’s arm, I know it’s hand placement. Like I know when I’m jumping in my brain’s like, nope, let’s do something else. But I did like the best run ever. And I’m like, Ooh, I’m keeping the rope this length. I can do crosses with this rope.

Dizzy Skips (39:50)
Really.

Yeah.

Yeah, yeah.

So do you size each new rope independently or like if you get a new rope are you going to take it to your favorite rope that is sized that works well for you and then just kind of make it that length?

Patty @pattyjumps (40:19)
Yeah, once I figured out the size of my classic beaded that I have when I got a new one, because I only use the two, I only really have the two and then that old Amazon one, but I sized it so they’re the same size beads, so I just matched the beads up and then sized it that way. Yeah.

Dizzy Skips (40:23)
Yeah.

Okay.

Yeah. Yeah,

I do the same thing. I know exactly what my length is and it makes it so much easier. And it took me a while though. I mean, I think I sized, I don’t know, 10 jump ropes independently before I thought, wait, dummy, you’re, making these ropes with two inch beads. Count the beads. All right. You got 42 beads. It’s 84 inches. Yeah. It makes it easy, but yeah.

Patty @pattyjumps (40:40)
Mm-hmm. Yep. Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah.

Right. Yeah. Exactly. Yeah. I it took me forever. Yeah. To figure

out.

Dizzy Skips (41:04)
Yeah.

I’m curious to hear your experiences with the jump rope community. Obviously, you know Becky and you met Eddie or whatever, but what was your first exposure to the jump rope community and how has it affected your relationship with jumping a rope?

Patty @pattyjumps (41:22)
Oh my gosh. So it’s funny because I told you I started jumping basically with Tameka every once in a while jumping. Well, I think it was, I asked her, I’m like, Hey, you who do you, how did you, what do do? Do you watch videos? Do you follow someone like one person who you follow? And it was, I think it was probably funny to her because I asked her, I’m like, Hey, who do you follow? She’s like, I can’t really tell you. Like there’s so many people.

Dizzy Skips (41:29)
Mm-hmm.

Mm-hmm.

Mm-hmm.

Patty @pattyjumps (41:52)
Cause I’m sure at that point she was already like into the jump rope and I didn’t even know there was a community per se like of these people. And it was me and Becky. So basically I knew her. And then back then I only had my personal Instagram page. I didn’t even have, and Becky was on my personal page and Tameka was on my personal page and Eddie. And that was literally it. And so then I made basically what happened was I talked to Becky and Eddie and I was like, Hey, I think I’m going to make

Dizzy Skips (41:52)
Mm-hmm.

Great.

Mm-hmm.

Yeah.

Patty @pattyjumps (42:20)
a public page, who I don’t want my kids on public, you know, on Instagram publicly. And I said, I think I’m going to make a page. So anytime, like if Eddie shares something, nobody can see it because my page was, was private. And, and I’m like, let me, let me see how that goes. So I’ve made an Instagram and basically downloaded all my jump videos from November 23 until then. I don’t even remember when I made the page.

Dizzy Skips (42:26)
Mm-hmm.

Private, right?

okay.

Patty @pattyjumps (42:49)
I have no idea. It probably like, it’s not been that long. Probably whenever we started talking, so a few months, like four or five months ago maybe. Yeah, so probably, probably at my year mark, I would say. So maybe it was like October, November. And so I made that and then just literally I was flabbergasted at how many people I just started following. And I’m like, oh my God, Kathy Jumps.

Dizzy Skips (42:58)
Okay.

Okay.

Patty @pattyjumps (43:17)
you know, meet like, was looked at, basically looked at Tameka’s friends. I’m like, who are you friends with? Because whoever you’re friends with, I’m gonna add this tool. And so that’s what happened. then just started, Becky put me in our group, the chat that you were talking about. So I added all those people. And that’s just how it started. Every person that I saw or that commented on somebody’s page, I’m ooh, I wanna see what they’re doing.

Dizzy Skips (43:34)
Mm-hmm.

Mm-hmm.

Patty @pattyjumps (43:42)
And

then I realized there were tutorials. I had no idea there were tutorials out there that you could watch. And so just completely amazed. I’m still amazed honestly how nice everybody is and how supportive and they comment and they like your stuff and they’re, you it could be like the crappiest EB you’ve ever done. And then they’re like, my God, that’s so good. Yeah.

Dizzy Skips (43:47)
Yeah.

Yeah. I know.

I know, right? I know. And somebody’s gonna come pack you on the back and like, go Patty!

Patty @pattyjumps (44:12)
good, that was amazing. I’m like, okay, yeah, okay. It wasn’t that bad, I guess, you know. Yeah, so that’s basically what it was. I’m sure Tameka will laugh at me now, because I literally said, who should I follow? So she did. She sent me like four or five people, think, like Kathy Jumps and things like that. And at that point, I was like, she thinks I’m absolutely crazy, because I had no idea there were so many people out there to follow.

Dizzy Skips (44:34)
Yeah.

I mean, I didn’t in the beginning either. of course I saw Lauren and I saw Kaydee Jumps and a few other people and I was like, this is amazing. But, there’s just an ocean of people out there jumping all over the world. And it’s crazy. Like I posted a video the other day and within an hour I had comments from seven different countries.

Patty @pattyjumps (44:38)
Yeah.

Mm-hmm.

Yeah, yeah.

Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah. Yep.

Dizzy Skips (44:58)
You know, people

all over the world like being supportive. It’s just so amazing. I’m curious, it didn’t take you long to fall in love with jump rope. Once you started doing it on the regular, how long did it take before you started realizing physical or mental benefits And what benefits did you find?

Patty @pattyjumps (45:02)
Yeah, super

Right.

Yeah, yeah. So I told you I started like more of like a weight loss journey when I was done nursing. yeah, kids are done and finally can focus on my body and myself and my mental health. And so when I when I first started working out, I lost like 40 pounds. And then it became Yeah, and it became just basically a routine like

Dizzy Skips (45:21)
Mm-hmm. With three kids.

Wow.

Patty @pattyjumps (45:40)
Working out was a routine, doing weights was a routine, and then once I got into jump rope, it was hard for me to balance it. I had a really hard time balancing, you know, work. I separated the two. I separated workouts and jump ropes. I didn’t consider the jump rope my form of workout. In my brain, it was all fun. I was just having fun. So I actually switched my brain and decided I was going to put jump rope

Dizzy Skips (45:54)
okay.

Right.

Yeah.

Patty @pattyjumps (46:08)
primary. I’m like, of course it’s working out. It’s cardio. It’s muscle. mean, my legs sometimes are so sore from, you know, jumping ropes. And, and so I realized how much actual working out it was that I started doing it full time. And then now I do like maybe a weight training once a week or, whatever I can fit in, but, jumping rope is primary at this point. But so for me though, mental, the

Dizzy Skips (46:18)
Mm-hmm.

Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.

Patty @pattyjumps (46:38)
I have, I don’t know if you, I mean my kids are young. have eight, six, and four. So they’re super young and my brain sometimes can’t really focus. So it just helps me clear. I realized that when I was not jumping or doing any workouts for those four weeks in September, after that was done, I was like, oh, this is not good. I just wasn’t happy. I wasn’t as happy as I was when I was jumping and working out.

Dizzy Skips (46:44)
wow.

Patty @pattyjumps (47:07)
Sometimes I’ll do 10 minutes, sometimes I’ll do 30 minutes. And it’s just the cardio benefit and the sort of mental health that it gives, you know. Yeah.

Dizzy Skips (47:11)
Mm-hmm.

Mm-hmm.

Yeah, it’s the bounce boost. You get out there and bounce a little bit and all of sudden, get little endorphin rush or whatever.

Patty @pattyjumps (47:23)
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, right. So I’m not really exactly,

yeah, I’m not really necessarily trying to lose weight or do anything, just kind of maintain what I’ve done. I lost the 40 pounds, now I’m just maintaining. But yeah, it’s weird how I didn’t really consider it necessarily working out. And even, I told you I was doing five weight training, so I would do jump rope on my rest day. So now I’m like, oh no, you know, I’m doing

Dizzy Skips (47:37)
Mm-hmm.

Mm-hmm.

Yeah.

Patty @pattyjumps (47:52)
30, 45 minute jumping, I’m exhausted, my legs are sore, my calves are sore. So I’m like, no, that’s definitely a full blown, full body workout. Yeah, yeah.

Dizzy Skips (47:56)
Yeah.

Yeah, it’s a great workout, isn’t it?

So, mental health benefits, like just you felt happier when you jumped and more focused.

Patty @pattyjumps (48:07)
Mm-hmm.

Yeah, I happier. Yeah, I felt like I could,

yeah, more focused. I felt like I could get through a 12-hour workday better when I was able to work out, the cardio, get my heart rate up, know, first thing in the morning. I like to, I try to jump in the morning. It’s hard now because it’s so dark early in the morning, but I used to jump inside. So I would do it first thing in morning.

Dizzy Skips (48:29)
Yeah.

Patty @pattyjumps (48:35)
And no, just getting my day going, like getting my brain functioning first thing is almost like drinking caffeine, like caffeine and jump rope. Those two things are required to continue on in my day. Yes. Yeah.

Dizzy Skips (48:43)
Yeah, yeah, yeah, they’re a great combo. I love them. Yeah.

So do you still jump primarily in the morning or at least when you’re working?

Patty @pattyjumps (48:54)
So if I’m doing a longer session, which for me, longer sessions, like a long session would be like an hour. I don’t normally do an hour. I try to stick with around 30 minutes, 30, 45 minutes. If I don’t have time, but I still want to jump, I’ll do a quick like 10 minute, just like a workout. I’m not filming. I’m not doing anything. I’m just doing a quick workout. But yes, I will do. So if I’m off.

Dizzy Skips (49:01)
Mm-hmm.

Okay.

Mm-hmm.

Mm-hmm.

Patty @pattyjumps (49:21)
depending on my schedule, like if I’m off all day, then I’ll probably do it like in the morning, but not super early, like maybe 930, 10 o’clock. I’ll, you know, have like an hour of time, you know, and I have to add in like getting the rope, getting my mat out, getting my camera set up. I’m always filming even if I don’t like have anything to post. It’s because you never know when you’re going to hit something and you want it on camera. So I always film, I always have my camera. I know my neighbors think I’m psycho. One of my neighbors,

Dizzy Skips (49:29)
Mm-hmm.

Sure, right.

Yeah.

Yeah. Right.

Patty @pattyjumps (49:51)
post on some of my stuff. yeah, so I don’t remember when we did the Halloween. Was it Halloween? No, the New Year’s, the New Year’s. And I wore the plastic bag. The Target bag, she was watching me like she had come home and in her, was literally across like my driveway and then her driveways right across. And so she had pulled in and I’m sitting here jumping in this Target bag.

Dizzy Skips (49:54)
Really?

Mm-hmm. Yeah.

Yes, the Target bag.

Patty @pattyjumps (50:19)
and I just stopped. I’m probably gonna probably post that at some point because I have all of that on video. And I just start busting out. I’m like, I don’t, I don’t know. And she goes, she goes, it just looks like a Target shirt. It’s fine.

Dizzy Skips (50:25)
my God.

It’s fine. That’s hilarious.

Patty @pattyjumps (50:34)
Here I am doing

my rope and my target bag and then my husband actually saw me. I didn’t even tell him I was going to do the bag but so I basically jumped like against my house. So the bathroom window is above where I jumped and he’s up there banging on the window and I turn around and he was like, what are you, and I was like.

Dizzy Skips (50:46)
huh.

Yeah

Patty @pattyjumps (50:56)
It’s fine. Everything’s fine. I wish I could have gotten him on video. Like, dude, what are you doing in a freaking target bag?

Dizzy Skips (50:59)
my gosh. Right.

Patty’s becoming a Target vagrant. Like, yeah, I’m gonna live in a bag now. That was such a cool video because the music was that, what’s the name of the song? But do you ever feel like you, like a plastic bag drifting in the wind? Yeah, you’re right. Firework. Yeah. Yeah.

Patty @pattyjumps (51:08)
Yeah.

And then I had the cards. That was, yeah.

Oh gosh. Yes, who was it? Is it Katy Perry? Fireworks? Yeah, I think it’s fireworks. Yeah, yeah. And then I had the

deck of cards, which were, if you look really closely, they’re not actually cards. They’re like a play, like one of my kids’ cards. I was like, I need some cards! Someone find me cards! And then it was like, this like kids’ game. And so he sees me up there, like throwing cards in the air with a plastic bat. And he’s like, okay, she’s gone completely psycho.

Dizzy Skips (51:34)
Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah,

Patty @pattyjumps (51:47)
She’s, she’s, it’s done, we’re done.

Dizzy Skips (51:47)
my wife the pharmacist is taking something. Yeah. Yeah.

Patty @pattyjumps (51:52)
He’s

like, I don’t even know. And then I finished and then I came in and he’s like, wow. I’m like, I had to do a bag. Becky said do a bag. I’m doing a bag.

Dizzy Skips (52:03)
Did he get to see the completed video? Yeah. Yeah. It was a cute video. Yeah. Those are the, mean, yeah. That Halloween and the New Year’s collaborations, think were the, and there was a Christmas one too, I guess. But those are the first collaboration things I’ve ever really done, but they’re, they’re fun. And I think Becky put a couple of them together and she’s really.

Patty @pattyjumps (52:05)
Yeah, yeah, I made him watch it. That was a cute video.

my gosh. I made everyone watch that one. Yeah, the Halloween was cute.

yes.

Yeah, yeah, they’re a long time.

Yeah, she does

most- I think she’s done a lot. one- I did- Did I do Christmas? I think I did Christmas. Or did I New Year’s? No, she did New Year’s. She did New Year’s. I think I did do Christmas. Whichever one she wasn’t in, she couldn’t with the house and everything. Um, because I made it up into two. Yes. Yep. Yeah. Yeah.

Dizzy Skips (52:35)
I you did New Years. Did you?

Okay, did you do Christmas?

Yeah. Right, right. Because I think I sent you a separate video because you did two of them in the first one. And I was the

only person facing away. So it looked like here.

Patty @pattyjumps (52:56)
It was

Christmas, because you had the suit, you had the elf thing on. Yes, yes. Yeah, that was fun. Yeah, yeah. I’m not great at things like that, but I was like, I’ll take one for the team, if Becky can’t do it, but she’s amazing. It’s crazy what she can do with that.

Dizzy Skips (53:00)
yeah, Yeah. My Elfie selfie. Yeah.

Yeah. Have

you done any remixes of people or collaborations with just one other person where you’re coordinating in some way?

Patty @pattyjumps (53:19)
I haven’t done them myself. Becky did one with me like two weeks ago when I was doing like I just started doing the mics and I had done like a mics into a I get swing, EB and EB swing, but it was a EB swing. EB swing? Yeah. So I was doing a mics into that. So she remixed me, which was super cool. thought that was awesome. But I have a goal. I have a video of someone who actually trained with Eddie in-house.

Kelly, her name is Kelly, her is Kelly, Kelly jumps, can’t remember what her handle is, but she has a video with mics and my goal is to be able to remix her in that video, that’s one of my goals for this year, because it’s like, yeah, I’ve been doing them, but she does them like, mics, trick, jump twice, mics, trick, and I’m over here like, when I do my mics and then I do into a trick, it takes me like 15

Dizzy Skips (53:52)
Okay.

That’s so cool.

Patty @pattyjumps (54:15)
basic bounces to like get my handles back where they should be. So I’m jumping a lot in between. So to remix her I’ve got to like shorten. I’ve got to be able to do back to back to back like Aaron, you know, just like trick trick trick trick. So that’s my goal, but I would love to do that. I haven’t done anybody else, but yeah, yeah, that would be a lot of fun.

Dizzy Skips (54:19)
right.

Yeah.

Yeah. When I interviewed

Janie, think she, I think Janie was on like episode two or something like that. She was talking about how within Instagram, she will favorite videos and then put them in folders or you can kind of organize them into different buckets or whatever. And I just thought that was great. So now I have one that is a remix one. So when I see something where I’m like, I think I’ll be able to do that, or I really like that. I want to remix that. I put it in the remix folder.

Patty @pattyjumps (54:42)
Mm-hmm.

Yes, yeah. Yep.

Yeah.

Yeah, yeah.

Dizzy Skips (55:03)
So far I haven’t done any of them, but I’ve got a few where I’m like,

Patty @pattyjumps (55:03)
I need to do that. Right, right. It’s very intimidating. then you’ve got, like, I have the hardest time for me is remembering. Like, you’ve got, I have to write down, because you’ve got to have it, to the, you’ve got to have it, like, to the T to do it. And, and so yeah, no, I’m like remembering routines is probably one of my very worst qualities.

Dizzy Skips (55:17)
Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah, yeah, I’m with you. I think it takes me longer and I, I’m a tactile learner. So, you I can watch it, but until I can do it and experience it, I’m not going to retain it. And my memory is not what it was when I was younger, I’m sure. Yeah. Yeah.

Patty @pattyjumps (55:40)
Yeah, yeah, exactly.

I cannot remember anything like my brain like

mom brain times 15 for sure I’m like no Eddie gave us a routine to do like after we were all done with the program and I I did it I had to tweak it though and he’s like I don’t care as long as you have you know, the the tricks in there and Yeah, yeah, but it was like I cannot do and he was like like with ease like doing all ten of them because he

Dizzy Skips (55:49)
Yeah.

the moves in there.

Yeah.

Patty @pattyjumps (56:12)
And I was like, can’t even remember which one I’m supposed to do next. He’s like, it doesn’t matter. Just do as long as you get them all in there. I have a really hard time remembering.

Dizzy Skips (56:17)
Yeah.

Yeah, yeah. Have you ever been to any jump rope meetups?

Patty @pattyjumps (56:26)
No, I have not. I don’t even know if anyone around here jumps ropes, honestly. I know Sean’s in Georgia, which isn’t too far from me, but North Carolina, and I’m super close to South Carolina, but I have no idea if anybody does any. Like, that’d be cool if like Charlotte.

Dizzy Skips (56:31)
Yeah.

Right.

Yeah.

Patty @pattyjumps (56:42)
Yeah, or like, I don’t know if like. Oh, yeah. Okay. Yeah.

Dizzy Skips (56:42)
I think Kelly is near Georgia too. Yeah. Yeah, they would be fun to learn from. Yeah. That’s one of my goals is to go to a meetup this year.

Patty @pattyjumps (56:50)
Yeah, yeah, yeah, that’d be cool. I would be, it would be so awesome. Yeah,

yeah, that’d be super cool. I feel like there’s more like in the UK than we, I mean, I don’t know, maybe there are more in the United States. I have no idea. Yeah.

Dizzy Skips (57:04)
I know, I have that same impression and I think I said it to

Becky and Becky was like, there’s not that much, you know, but one of the things that I noticed was several of the people that I talked to in the UK were exposed to or fell in love with Jump Rope or were reinforced with Jump Rope through these Cancer Research UK fundraiser things like 100 skips a day kind of stuff or those challenges.

Patty @pattyjumps (57:09)
Yeah, yeah.

Yeah. Yep.

Dizzy Skips (57:29)
And at least,

you know, and they may be here in the US too. I just don’t know about them.

Patty @pattyjumps (57:33)
Yeah,

I have no idea. Right. Same thing. I don’t know. Most of the people I follow, think, are overseas or in other countries. I don’t know. Yeah, maybe we should figure out who’s in, make a list of everyone who we know that’s in the United States and figure out who can set up a meetup.

Dizzy Skips (57:35)
Yeah.

Yeah, yeah. There have been a few times where I’ve been chatting with people online like Janie on the jump who’s in the Chicago area and I said, hey, we should organize a meetup or whatever and there were crickets on the other end of the text. I’m like, yeah, I don’t want any part.

Patty @pattyjumps (58:00)
Yeah.

Yeah, yeah, I would love to go. I don’t think I would have the energy to like set it up, but I would definitely love to go. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Dizzy Skips (58:09)
Yeah.

Organize. Yeah.

Yeah. That would be a lot of fun.

Patty @pattyjumps (58:17)
Hmm.

Dizzy Skips (58:19)
So what’s next for you in jump rope? Like what are some of your next goals?

Patty @pattyjumps (58:25)
Basically just getting back into it because like I said September took all that month off back into it October it was really slow for me the whole end of the year I probably didn’t really start jumping consistently until like right before Christmas So just getting back into like consistently jumping Learn like basically learning different combos like the you know

Dizzy Skips (58:40)
Okay.

Mm-hmm.

Patty @pattyjumps (58:53)
focusing on what I do know, trying to strengthen those. I think Richard had talked about that, like not necessarily learning more, but tightening up the ones that I know. Yeah, yeah, tightening them up, maybe making some combos, maybe doing some remixes. Just kind of, I feel like this year for me is just gonna be, let’s just see what happens. Let’s see what I can do. You know, I don’t really necessarily have any specific things that I wanna do, but just kind of getting more consistent.

Dizzy Skips (58:56)
Mm-hmm.

Yeah.

getting tighter.

Yeah. That’s cool.

Yeah.

Patty @pattyjumps (59:20)
you know, now that I am jumping more consistently. And like I was saying, I had mentioned before, I didn’t even know what to do. So when I did start Eddie’s program, it kind of gave me something to focus on. So that’s what I’m doing now. Like each time I go out, I have a schedule of when I go out. And so anytime I go, like, okay, this is my plan. This is what I’m going to do today. Like if we’re doing a collab, then okay, today’s the day that I’m going to do, you know, the Christmas jump.

Dizzy Skips (59:22)
Mm-hmm.

Mm-hmm.

Okay.

Patty @pattyjumps (59:50)
you know, see what I can get with that. And I try not to rush myself when I’m jumping. So I just have one thing. Like if today I’m going to do mics, I’m going to do mics. Maybe I’m going to try mics with 360. Sometimes I surprise myself and do more. But usually it’s like let’s focus on one thing and try and see if we can get that. And then if I have something to post, I have it. If I don’t, I don’t. But yeah, just tightening up, I think.

Dizzy Skips (1:00:00)
Okay.

Mm-hmm.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah, I’m totally with you there. And that’s another great reason to film yourself is just to be able to see how you can tighten up. What role does music play in your skipping?

Patty @pattyjumps (1:00:16)
Mm-hmm.

Yeah. gosh. Yeah. Yeah. It’s so crazy. Look back.

So I cannot listen to music while I skip. I do those Saturday songs and everyone’s like, my gosh, you jump right to the beat. But what happens is I listen to the song a couple times before I go out and I’ll have my earbuds and I’ll listen to it or I’ll listen to it I’m setting up and I’ll get the beat in my head and basically just sing the song in my head while I’m jumping or at least like.

Dizzy Skips (1:00:32)
Mm-hmm.

Yeah.

Yep.

Patty @pattyjumps (1:00:54)
maybe one part of the song over and over again in my head and then once I get the beat I’ll just skip to that beat but I have tried jumping and I am so bad I don’t know and like I even try to do it like if my kids are outside with me which a lot of times they are I try to drown them out because they’re loud and they get me unfocused but even jumping trying to drown I’d rather listen to them I think than the music I don’t know I know I’ve heard so many people on your podcast and I think you also everyone jumps to the music but

Dizzy Skips (1:00:56)
Mm-hmm.

Yeah.

Yeah, I’m compulsive about it.

Patty @pattyjumps (1:01:23)
I don’t know what it is, it’s like my brain needs to be quiet, I guess, even though like I’m thinking in my head. I don’t know, it’s so weird.

Dizzy Skips (1:01:27)
Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah, that is interesting. But you’re not the first person who said that to me. Like I talked to someone earlier who said, yeah, you know, it’s like it engages their brain, you know, whereas me, it… Yeah, interesting.

Patty @pattyjumps (1:01:33)
Yeah.

Yeah, yeah, I think it messes me up. Yeah.

Yeah, but so what I’ll do though, like if I do make a reel, if I don’t already have a song picked out, I will basically just pick out a song that matches my flow that I’m doing, like whatever speed I’m jumping at. Yeah, yeah, I just pick something I like that matches it. put that, as far as sometimes there’ll be like similar songs over and over again. But sometimes I will hear a song, yeah, and I’ll be like, ooh yeah, I’m gonna jump to that song.

Dizzy Skips (1:01:58)
Yeah, like your beats per minute or something, yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah, I’ve done that myself. Yeah.

Yeah. I,

one time I did, or I actually, this has happened a couple of times where I’ve jumped to a song that I found on Spotify and I was like, this is awesome. I’m to jump to the song and I have so much fun jumping to it. And then when I go to post it on Instagram, that song is not available on Instagram. And so, which sucks, especially when you’re so proud of what you’ve done, right? Like I totally pulled it off. So, so then I’ve done things like gone to like ChatGPT or AI.

Patty @pattyjumps (1:02:25)
Mm-hmm.

Yes. Yeah.

Yes. I know. Yeah, I know. fuck.

Dizzy Skips (1:02:40)
Can you find me a song that has the same beats per minute as you know, whatever the song is that I’ve listened to and then got some suggestions but Yeah There are also times where I’ve just totally forgot what it was that I was jumping to like I know I was listening to these ten songs I’m not sure which one that was I’m gonna just put one in and see if it fits and every once in a while it does Yeah

Patty @pattyjumps (1:02:44)
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, that’s a good idea to do that, yeah.

Yeah.

Right.

see if it matches up. Yeah.

I have a hard time finding music. Honestly, I’m like, eh, a lot of stuff that I use on my reels, I actually listen to because I know the songs. Because otherwise I have no idea. Like unless it tells me, know, trendy, I don’t usually use trending songs, but my kids, you know, I did that jump where I did like the troll, like from the movie Trolls. It was like.

Dizzy Skips (1:03:13)
Yeah.

Yeah.

Patty @pattyjumps (1:03:25)
was like the Backstreet Boys or whatever and the only reason why I jumped to it is because my daughter was obsessed and we were listening to it on the way home and it was like one those where it starts out real slow and it speeds up. I’m like, ooh, that’d be fun to like start slow and then, you know, increase our speed on my jumping. I was like, I’ll try that. So that’s the only time I actually did listen to the song while I was jumping because it, you know, I needed to, there’s no way. Yeah, it changes the rhythm. Yeah. Yep. Yeah.

Dizzy Skips (1:03:34)
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

Okay, because it, yeah, it shifts gears in the middle, right? Yeah,

that’s fun. So one other question I have for you is,

Patty @pattyjumps (1:03:54)
Mm-hmm.

Dizzy Skips (1:03:57)
What advice do you have for somebody who might be in your shoes thinking, I do some weight training or I do some other stuff. I’m interested in health, but I’m not sure that jump rope is for me. What do you tell somebody?

Patty @pattyjumps (1:04:04)
Yeah.

Yeah, so I would say just try it. know, see, because I was the same way and I was super clumsy and a lot of the weight training videos I follow, for probably two years I did a girl, her name is Sydney Cummings. She’s actually out of Charlotte, which I didn’t realize when I started doing her that she was super close. So I basically did her programs over and over again. She would do a new program every month, but she actually did jump rope in her

Dizzy Skips (1:04:28)
So.

Patty @pattyjumps (1:04:37)
workouts. So it kind of got me kind of doing it every year, you know, here and there. Yeah, exposing to it. I would say try it out. See if you if you need a cardio option, you know, running, I used to run. Not great for, you know, your your shins and your feet and the legs and everything. But if you want something cardio, try it out. So easy. And it’s so much fun. know, and then you can do it anywhere. Like I literally walk out

Dizzy Skips (1:04:42)
exposed to it.

Mm-hmm. It is so fun.

Patty @pattyjumps (1:05:04)
Yeah, walk outside onto my, you know, my driveway. And you don’t have to go to the gym. You know, can if you want to, if that’s what you want to do, but you don’t have to. And it’s not expensive at all. know, buy one rope, two ropes, you know. Yeah. Yeah, for sure. Yeah. Right. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

Dizzy Skips (1:05:09)
Yeah.

Hmm?

Yeah, I know it’s less than the cost of a gym membership for a month. You can get a couple ropes and yeah. I did that this

morning where I just put a rope in my pocket and walked to the park and then whipped it out and like, all right, here I go. Yeah, so fun.

Patty @pattyjumps (1:05:31)
Yep. Yeah. Yeah. And I want to tell

people, like, there’s, one of my friends is like starting out jumping rope now. And my brother actually jumped rope too. He did Eddie’s, Eddie did like a seven day program last, end of last year. Yeah. So he did that. So I’m trying to get him into it too, but, I want to like tell them, just join the community, make your Instagram public and join it because just, even if you

Dizzy Skips (1:05:43)
cool.

Patty @pattyjumps (1:05:57)
didn’t even jump up all the time once a week, twice a week. Just being in the community is so awesome. Just for that, I’m always like, just do it and post something, one thing, and then just watch what happens, because it’s amazing. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Right.

Dizzy Skips (1:06:03)
it is.

Yeah, it is amazing, isn’t it? I’m just so thankful for the community. Like the amount of support and love I’ve got from people

is mind boggling to me, really. Like totally mind boggling. And the breadth of connections, like so, you know, from Australia to Africa, all over the place. Yeah, yeah, it’s really uplifting.

Patty @pattyjumps (1:06:21)
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Yeah, yeah, so crazy. I didn’t realize Peta

was, yeah, I didn’t realize Peta was from Australia. Yeah, yeah, think she, didn’t, because like I said, she’s on the Saturday, I met her through the Saturday song group. And, and I had no idea where anybody, it’s funny though, because we have, I should have paid attention, we have flags right next to our name, but I’ve really not even looked at any. I’ve seen like a couple here or there, but

Dizzy Skips (1:06:39)
Down under. Yeah.

Mm-hmm.

Yeah. Right. Yeah.

Patty @pattyjumps (1:07:00)
But yeah, no, it’s so crazy.

Dizzy Skips (1:07:02)
Yeah, it’s amazing. Well, Patty, thank you so much for coming on and talking to me. This has been so much fun and I really appreciate your support on Instagram. I love watching you and Artemis.

Patty @pattyjumps (1:07:04)
Mm-hmm. Yeah.

you.

Yes. Like I said, watch out for Valentine’s Day. She’s in it. It’s the very end. So yeah, yeah, she loves it.

Dizzy Skips (1:07:17)
That’s great. Somebody sent

me a video of like how to train your dog to jump rope and my dog is 13 pounds. You know, she’s smaller and I think it would be so fun to get her to jump rope with me. But yeah.

Patty @pattyjumps (1:07:24)
my god.

How funny that would be. I

might have to look into that. That would be interesting. She’s huge. She is. I think she’s actually taller than me when she stands up. She’s, is she 85? I get confused if she stands over 85. If my husband was in the room, he would tell me. I think she’s 85 pounds. But she’s mad. There’s some of those videos that you’ve seen where she jumps up onto me. Yeah, I’m pretty sure she’s stretched out.

Dizzy Skips (1:07:33)
But she’s probably almost as tall as you are if she stands up,

Yeah.

Yeah. Yeah, she’s a bit head

Patty @pattyjumps (1:07:56)
She’s pretty… Yeah, yeah.

Dizzy Skips (1:07:56)
higher than you are. Yeah. Yeah. She’s so gorgeous.

Patty @pattyjumps (1:08:01)
I have to figure that out. That’d be cool. I’ve seen the dogs do the treadmill, know, train them to do that. Yeah. She’s probably scared though, because I’ve hit her so many times with my rope. I don’t know if she would do it, because she’s probably scared. Yeah, yeah.

Dizzy Skips (1:08:05)
Yeah.

Yeah, she’ll react like my dog Zuzu where as soon as I break out

the jump rope, I am out of here. Yeah. Well, you need to keep her around because she’s obviously a fantastic protector and she loves her mama. Yeah.

Patty @pattyjumps (1:08:17)
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. But no, thank you so much. Yeah. yeah. Yeah, she loves it. Yeah,

yeah, for sure. But no, thank you for having me. It’s been a lot of fun to jump on and talk.

Dizzy Skips (1:08:30)
Yeah, absolutely.

Well, my pleasure and I’m sure we will do this again.

Patty @pattyjumps (1:08:37)
Yeah.