Zaddy Jumps, Daddy Duties & Fancy Footwork with Josh McKee (Ep. 31)

Dizzy Skips (00:39)
Josh McKee, thank you for joining the Jump Rope Podcast. So cool to have you here, man.

Josh McKee (00:44)
Hey, what’s up, Diz? Thanks for having me.

Dizzy Skips (00:46)
Yeah, it’s my pleasure. I’ve been laughing that starter that you have on a lot of your videos where it’s, love your daughter. What do you have to offer? Nothing, only this.

Josh McKee (00:55)
my gosh,

honestly, mean, there’s some guy that I follow, yeah, he just knocks those videos out day after day, and it never gets old to me. So I thought, you know, I’m gonna start doing a couple of those with Jump Rope, and it’s been fun to kind of go back to, you know, put out like eight videos and then be like, all right, love your daughter.

Dizzy Skips (00:59)
It makes me laugh every single time I watch it. Every time.

Yeah.

Yeah, it makes me laugh every single time I love it. So you are a dad, right? Like I know from your profile, did you get started on paternity leave?

Josh McKee (01:29)
Yeah, yeah, so I’m a father of two, have a four and a half year old boy, and then my daughter, she’s already 10 months. It’s crazy how fast it’s gone, but that’s when I started jumping. I was on paternity leave and couldn’t get out of the house. So I saw a quick video of Lauren Jumps and thought, you know, okay, I can do jump rope. So I ordered jump rope and took it out back and I would just start jumping on nap time. And that’s kind of how I got into it.

Dizzy Skips (01:38)
Wow.

Yeah.

So when you were on paternity leave, was your partner working?

Josh McKee (02:02)
Yeah, yeah. So my wife, she took her leave first. So we tried to stagger it, especially because it was kind of you know, winter when we were getting into our leave. So we wanted to get the baby at least to a point where she could get her first flu shot before we put her into daycare. And that’s typically at the six-month mark. So we just wanted to get that extra protection. So my wife took leave for two months and then I took leave for about four months.

Dizzy Skips (02:08)
Okay. ⁓ Mm-hmm.

Mm.

Okay.

Was that cool? that, I mean, that seems like it would be a huge challenge. Like, I don’t know what you do for work, but it seems like it’d be a big gear change.

Josh McKee (02:34)
Yeah.

Sure, yeah, yeah, it’s…

I’ll say I’m incredibly blessed to have that type of length for paternity leave. A lot of companies don’t offer that much. My company is UK based. So European company tends to be a little bit more liberal when it comes to these types of things for paternity leave. So in my day job, I typically sell vaccines for a pharmaceutical company.

Dizzy Skips (02:48)
Yeah.

Josh McKee (03:05)
You know, I’ve been doing that since about 2017. And yeah, we had the baby in July. I started my leave, I think, in, November-ish. And just staggered it through, and we got the baby to about January, and that’s when we put her into daycare. it’s, 10 months in. Hard to believe that it’s gone that fast, but I mean, to any parents out there, they…

Dizzy Skips (03:06)
okay.

Josh McKee (03:28)
They get it, you know, it’s like a blur.

Dizzy Skips (03:30)
Yeah, I bet. mean, I am only the parent of a dog, like when I hang out with my nephews, you know, I realize like it’s just a never ending stream of stuff to do or stuff to address or boo-boos to fix or, questions to answer. It’s fun, but I have to say, I like being an uncle where I can give them back, you know.

Josh McKee (03:43)
Oh yeah, 100%. And honestly…

I get that. I 100 % get that. And even, you know, we have dogs too. And so even with the dogs, you know, it just goes fast. And, you know, I’ve always had golden retrievers and, you know, the bigger dogs don’t tend to live as long. And you look back and it’s just a blur, especially that puppy phase, just how fast they grow.

Dizzy Skips (04:12)
Yeah, no kidding, right? Yeah, my stepmom and dad have a pit bull that just passed a few weeks ago at 14 and a half, and it’s just never enough time, you know? But I think that, for me anyway, the thing with pets, because I’ve lost so many, is that if the overwhelming joy that they bring to my life didn’t outweigh that crushing loss when they pass,

Josh McKee (04:13)
Yeah.

Dizzy Skips (04:38)
I wouldn’t do it anymore, but I just, get so much joy from Zuzu, my dog, you know, chances are I’ll be here a little longer than she will, but who knows where I’m jumping.

Josh McKee (04:43)
Yeah.

Yeah, no, I get it. And honestly, like, you’ve probably seen my dog in the background of some videos. I just love having him near me, you know, and they’re just wonderful companions.

Dizzy Skips (04:51)
Suh.

Totally.

Yeah, they’re the best. Yeah, I jump oftentimes in a park, as you probably know, and so I meet a lot of dogs. I’m happy to meet people, especially if they comment on the jump rope in a favorable way or whatever, but I’m always happy to meet the dogs. And I learn all the dogs’ Where the people I forget them, the dogs I know.

Josh McKee (05:16)
Yeah, know, sure.

It’s so funny, you know, when you’re out walking in a park, or just like, you know, out in public, you see people and they tend to, if they see a dog, it’s easy for them to just go up and be like, can I pet your dog? But it’s a lot harder for someone just to kind of like make conversation with a person, you know? It’s just so much easier to run to that dog, because, I don’t know, it’s just.

Dizzy Skips (05:44)
Yeah, it’s the universal icebreaker. It doesn’t matter if you’re, you know, liberal, conservative, whatever, everybody loves a frickin dog. yeah, they’re the great peacemaker. So, Josh, I’m curious, like, what is the average day in the life of Josh look like now? And when do you fit in jump rope as a dad and husband?

Josh McKee (05:44)
Heh.

Yeah, yeah, good question, Diz. It’s chaos, I’ll say. And every day is different. So, you know, my wife, she has a pretty demanding schedule. you know, certain days of the week, I’m basically getting the kids up, feeding them, getting them dressed, getting them to daycare before I start my workday. You know, my workday, I have the flexibility to kind of make my own schedule.

one of the nice things that I really like about medical sales. So I create that schedule and I have to see X amount of doctors or administrators per day. And I’m pretty efficient with my schedule. I don’t like to waste my time. ⁓ But when it comes to trying to get in exercise, trying to get in all the kid activities, right? My son started gymnastics, so that’s one of the big things. It’s hard.

Dizzy Skips (06:44)
Mm-hmm.

Wow.

Josh McKee (06:55)
And ⁓

I’m constantly struggling to fit in the amount of time that I need to do everything that I want to do. So what I found myself doing in the past was I still did, for the longest time, I did a CrossFit gym. And these types of gyms, they require class times where you go and you just wait for the instructor to walk you through the class, typically about an hour long.

but it never really worked with my schedule. So when I started jumping rope, that was one of the nice things about, you can do this 10 minute blocks. You can do it anywhere. You take the jump rope and you know, if you got 15 minutes, you can start jumping. So that was was really nice about that. I kind of moved away from that, the CrossFit gym where it was like,

class based and now I kind of just do my own thing. I really started getting into calisthenics and a lot of that stuff I can do at my house. So I got this bar behind me and that’s another thing I can just knock out. I try and get all my workouts in before daycare pickup because then once the kids come home, man it’s just nuts until you know bedtime. So

Dizzy Skips (07:57)
Mm-hmm. ⁓

Mm-hmm.

Yeah, all bets

are off, right?

Josh McKee (08:12)
All bets,

man. And even when you get them down, you know, it’s not for certain that they’re staying down. Especially that four-year-old. He likes to pull out everything in the book to try and extend bedtime. So every day is different. You know, I do my best to try and make some time for myself to, whether it’s exercise or just have some downtime and just really focus on my mental health. But, you know, it doesn’t always go that way.

Dizzy Skips (08:25)
Mm.

Josh McKee (08:38)
So I just do the best I can each day.

Dizzy Skips (08:41)
Mm-hmm. So I’m curious, you brought up mental health and I can’t imagine the volume of stuff that you deal with with job husband and dad and all those responsibilities. What do you do for mental health outside of jump rope? Because I mean, I’m assuming jump rope helps you with mental health because just about everybody I talked to says that’s the case, but I’d like to hear that from you and also know what else do you do?

Josh McKee (09:04)
Yeah, yeah, that’s a good question. mean, you know, fitness has always been just a way for me to kind of like blow off steam, right? Exercise is one of the best things that you can do for yourself, for your mental health. And jump rope, man, as soon as I started doing that, I mean, the benefits of cardio and everything just really helped. But you know, we have a really strong friend group and I’ve always been like the social butterfly. My wife, she kind of tends to

to be a little bit more reserved and she’s cool with kind of just like coming home and relaxing. But we have a really good social network down here, a strong core group of friends that really acts as our family because our family is far away. We’re not from the Alabama area. We grew up in West Virginia. Our family’s still back up in West Virginia. So our friends are our family down here. And having them, having them to support.

And yeah, so I’m in Mobile, Alabama down on the Gulf Coast.

Dizzy Skips (09:57)
And where are you located?

okay, got it.

Josh McKee (10:05)
I’ll give you a perfect example today. You know, chaos out the door. My four-year-old just had a meltdown, just emotional. And I had to get him to daycare. And it was just tough. I had an appointment for work that I was supposed to be at at 9.30. It was a coffee meeting with an administrator. And my boy was just, he was just clinging to my leg.

My car, I told you I was going through some car issues. I had to get my car to Firestone because I didn’t know what was happening. So one of my best friends, I was telling her like, here’s what’s happening. I gotta go to Firestone because my car is here. And about 10 minutes later, she showed up with a coffee and some empanadas from one of our favorite coffee shops in town. And you know, little things like that. It just means the world when they…

Dizzy Skips (10:53)
Yet.

Josh McKee (10:54)
They are

just thinking of you, they’re so, I don’t know, just loving and kind and considerate. And so that’s, yeah, and that’s one thing that I think really helps, you know, just my mental state is knowing that I have a close group of friends like that, you know, along with my loving wife who’s just an incredible rock for us and the kids are wonderful, wonderful kids.

Dizzy Skips (10:56)
Yeah.

And show they got your back, yeah.

Yeah.

That’s awesome.

That’s so cool. That’s so cool. So do you like as far as working jump rope time in, are you just kind of shoehorning it in whenever you can or do you kind of have a target time that you try to shoot for?

Josh McKee (11:30)
Man, I wish that I could dedicate a specific amount of time each day to jump rope. I just can’t, you know? Because to me also, like, I have some other goals when it comes to fitness. And so the biggest thing I try and do every day is to get to the gym or to get some exercise in when it comes to like calisthenic work. ⁓ Jump rope I always tend to do

Dizzy Skips (11:38)
Mm-hmm.

Mm-hmm.

Josh McKee (11:56)
after my routine workouts and sometimes, you know, I only have 10 minutes. Other times I have like an hour and a half and that’s great and I’ll jump the whole time. But it’s just so different day by day depending on like everyone’s schedule. ⁓ But yeah, I really do wish I had just a little bit more time dedicated to jump rope because you know, it’s just, you get moving and it’s such a…

Dizzy Skips (11:58)
Mm-hmm.

Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.

Sure.

Mm-hmm.

Yeah.

Josh McKee (12:24)
great flow and I don’t know you just always feel better when you’re done.

Dizzy Skips (12:25)
Mm-hmm.

Yeah, absolutely. I can lose time easy. Like, I can go out and, like, I have the benefit of not having to think about children, you know, and a dog who can last three hours in the house without me. I can go out to the park and I’ve been here two hours already and it just doesn’t feel like it. I’m just having a ball, you know? Yeah.

Josh McKee (12:41)
sure yeah

Sure, yeah I

get that. I mean that’s the thing, like there’s been a couple times where I feel, I get home early and I don’t have to pick the kids up from daycare so I’m just like jumping. And I think I have like 90 minutes and it goes by in a breeze. My son comes running through the door and I’m like, man I was just about to hit like this one routine and I gotta just like drop it. And that’s hard because I…

Dizzy Skips (13:07)
Yeah. huh. Yeah.

Josh McKee (13:13)
I’m not good with starting something and not finishing. It just eats at me, you know? So a couple times that’s happened, I’ve been like, ugh.

Dizzy Skips (13:16)
Yeah, I hear you. Right, right.

Yeah, love to see you, but wish you were like five minutes later. Yeah. So what’s your jump rope setup? I know you’re an Elevate Rope Ambassador. Like what kind of ropes do you use?

Josh McKee (13:25)
Yeah.

Yeah, so the first rope I ever bought was a Dope Rope. And just from Finding Lauren’s page, she kinda represents Dope Rope. So I bought her jump rope. It says Lauren Jumps on the handles. And I did a PVC and a beaded. I didn’t know the difference. I didn’t know what to do with either. So I had those. I’ve still been trying to like, you know, think about buy like the long handle.

Dizzy Skips (13:36)
Okay.

Mm-hmm.

Mm-hmm.

Josh McKee (14:00)
I haven’t bought one yet, but I’m really close. I’ve just heard really good things about, you know, if you have mobility issues, which I tend to have trouble getting my arms all the way around my back on like the EB swing. I’ve always been tight, you know, and my mobility, I’ve tried to do yoga before and I just, I’m so ADD that I have trouble like staying in a pose for a minute long.

Dizzy Skips (14:01)
Mm. Mm-hmm.

Is it because you’re so buff?

Yeah.

Mm-hmm.

Yeah, I know what mean.

Josh McKee (14:28)
I just can’t do it.

So I just, should stretch more and I’m terrible at it, you know? Yeah.

Dizzy Skips (14:34)
Really? Yeah. I actually

filmed myself the other day. I haven’t put anything out, but I filmed myself doing my calisthenics because I do a lot of yoga-ish kind of stretches. But the thing that makes me laugh is I’ll have my headset on and I’ll be listening to music while I’m trying to focus on my breathing or whatever and inevitably my head’s going or whatever. I just can’t stop dancing no matter what I’m doing.

Josh McKee (14:46)
Mm-hmm.

Haha, yeah.

I get it, when you hear the music, you just gotta move to it, For the most part, I mean, so today, because I didn’t have my headphones, I just kinda went down near the water and just jumped and just tried to get like a freestyle session in where I just tried to do everything that I know how to do, tried to make it work. And you know, it was fun. It was peaceful, is what I’ll say, you know.

Dizzy Skips (15:03)
Yeah, are you always jumping with music?

Mm-hmm.

Mm-hmm.

Mm-hmm.

Mm-hmm.

Josh McKee (15:27)
a different type of jump. And

Dizzy Skips (15:27)
Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.

Josh McKee (15:30)
you know, I’ve seen you kind of jump out there before without headphones, just kind of feeling it. And I think I’m going to do that a little more often now because I really enjoyed it today. Yeah.

Dizzy Skips (15:40)
Mm, cool.

I think I saw that one. That was that was the one where you’re on the pier, right? The “Saved by the Bell” one.

Josh McKee (15:47)
I just threw that song on there. was like, man, I love this song. It takes me back to like grade school in the morning. And I was just rocking to that song. So I threw it in there.

Dizzy Skips (15:50)
Yeah, yeah, totally. Yeah, yeah.

Yeah, to be clear, I never ever jump without music. Like if it looks like I don’t have headphones, I’ve got small clip-in headphones. I went to the park the other day and all I had was cheap headphones.

Josh McKee (16:03)
really?

Dizzy Skips (16:10)
The podcast I did last week, I reviewed four different sets of headphones and I had the cheapest of them and I was like, ah, okay, well, know, bass just sounds so much better with the over the ear headphones. So I drove home from the park to get these and go back. I mean, it’s only 10 minutes away, but yeah, it’s dedication to music. Like I gotta have the tunes. Yeah. So do you jump more with beads or with PVC?

Josh McKee (16:14)
Yeah.

⁓ man, that’s dedication to the headphones.

Heck yeah, I get that.

So recently it’s been more PVC because I have been trying to focus on footwork. You know, when I started, I just felt like my feet were so heavy and it was really bothering me. You know, I grew up running track. I played sports all throughout, you know, grade school, high school, and I was always really active. But, you know, past couple years, I feel like it’s, I’ve slowed down a lot. And, you know, when I first started jumping rope, I felt like I had clown feet.

Dizzy Skips (17:03)
Mmm.

Josh McKee (17:08)
So like, I really wanted to focus on footwork and speed, so I’ve been trying to do a lot more PVC, ⁓ but I did pick up the beaded rope the past two days. And it’s funny how different it feels when you haven’t picked it up in a while. And I would like try and do the mic release, I’d be like, this is like foreign to me, it feels so weird, I can’t get it. So I feel like I do need to do both a little more often, just to stay,

Dizzy Skips (17:13)
Mm-hmm.

Mm-hmm.

Yeah. Yeah.

Mm-hmm.

Yeah.

Josh McKee (17:36)
consistent with both of them.

Dizzy Skips (17:38)
Yeah, totally. I have the opposite thing. I jump with beaded probably like 80, 90 % of the time because the PVC is lighter and I like the extra weight and the feeling and I feel like I’m still so much in the learning phase. things like tricks, like the release and stuff, I want to get them down with a beaded and feel confident in that and then move on to PVC. But man.

Josh McKee (17:39)
Yeah. Uh huh.

Yeah.

Mm-hmm.

Dizzy Skips (18:01)
talk about speed. It’s so fun. And I watch some of these videos of people jumping with PVC and doing all this cool footwork. And I feel like, man, that’s so awesome. And then I switch from beaded to PVC and I’m like, look how fast I can go. my gosh. Sometimes I watch videos of myself and I’m like, dude, that’s awesome.

Josh McKee (18:02)
Yeah.

Yeah,

it is. It’s really cool the difference that these two ropes make. And I notice you got some names for your ropes. Binky, is Binky one of them? Yeah.

Dizzy Skips (18:24)
Yeah.

I name them all. Binky is one of them. I’ve got Rain

right over here. I should have put her on because she’s nice and colorful. And yeah, I have Rain for Rainbow, Binky I’ve got a whole slew, I’ve got a whole family of them. Yeah.

Josh McKee (18:35)
Yeah?

Heck yeah, I love that.

I should probably start thinking of some names for my ropes.

Dizzy Skips (18:50)
I’ll tell you what’s fun about it, Josh,

is then if you’re weird like me and you talk to your ropes in the park, the conversations you have when people overhear them are hilarious. know, like, Binky, why do you keep slapping me in the ass so hard? Like, I’ve got enough welts already.

Josh McKee (18:58)
Uh-huh.

Yeah.

Yeah, I’m sure you give those people a good story to go home to at dinnertime.

Dizzy Skips (19:08)
Yeah, I see them walking down the path

toward me and then they overhear me and they turn around and go back to their cars.

You mentioned Lauren and getting one of her ropes. did the same thing by the way. And I noticed in a recent post, you mentioned that you use the Fancy Feats app or that you had, you had used that. Do you actively use that rap?

Josh McKee (19:26)
Yes, yes I do. I I spent a lot more time on it in the early couple months. I’ve gotten away from it but I always use that as a reference point if I’m trying to think of like, footwork to put into a routine. I go back to that app and I start like looking through her roadmap. And there’s still a lot of things that I haven’t even got through yet. I mean because there’s a ton of information that she’s put on there. So…

Dizzy Skips (19:32)
Sure.

Mm-hmm.

Mm-hmm

Sure.

Mm-hmm.

Yeah.

Josh McKee (19:54)
It

was like my bible for the first two months of learning jump rope. And yeah, I still use it, just not as much as I did.

Dizzy Skips (19:59)
Yeah.

Yeah, I use it a lot for the, the warmup. She’s got an intermediate warmup and I’ll do that because it’s got some good stretching in there. And then I do reference things. I love how,

Josh McKee (20:12)
Yeah.

Dizzy Skips (20:15)
when she’s showing a trick, she steps through it slowly and then has this section at the end where she’s calls out the things that often go wrong. know, like when you come out of this move, your hands are gonna wanna be out here, but you need to keep them in because then you go into whatever, you know? It’s just the common trip ups is just super helpful.

Josh McKee (20:26)
Yes.

Yeah.

It really is. And I mean, you know, she’s obviously incredible. But the amount of work that she’s kind of put back into this to help other people, it’s just, it’s awesome. So anytime I get a chance to be like, you should download the Fancy Feats app because, you know, anyone who’s trying to learn jump rope, the roadmap is just so easy to follow. So I always try and recommend it to anyone who’s just getting into it.

Dizzy Skips (20:45)
Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah. Yeah. I think it’s a cool app. There’s a whole bunch of great apps out there and I have in fairness, not used all of them. I I’ve heard wonderful things about Tricktionary from Jump Rope Coach Chris. And I would like to try that out at some time.

When you were getting started, what were the big challenges that you had in getting going? I mean, did you start with a Fancy Feats app right away like how did you start learning and where did you have the most challenges?

Josh (21:25)
Yeah, I think I did download the Fancy Feats app pretty much right when I ordered that rope. But you know, when you first start jumping, I mean, you’re just happy to get the boxer step down. You’re happy to get just a few rotations where you’re not kicking up. The whole thing with even the length of the rope is a question. You just don’t, you don’t know. And it’s in

Dizzy Skips (21:32)
Okay.

Right, right.

Josh (21:49)
incredibly frustrating, you know, when you want to try and get these cool tricks and you just can’t. And I remember when I really wanted to get like a cross, a single cross, and it took me forever. I couldn’t figure out what I was doing. you know, it’s just, you hear people say it. And I think Kathy talked about it on the show with,

with you earlier where your body sometimes just takes time, it needs time to catch up, right? So it’s that muscle memory that you’re learning, but you can’t get it right away. And what she say, sometimes it takes just to sleep on it. And then you go back to it the next day and all of a sudden you kind of get it. And so once those, you have those little successes,

Dizzy Skips (22:23)
Mm-hmm.

Mm-hmm.

and then you come back to it the next day and all of sudden you kind of get it.

Josh (22:42)
you start thinking like, okay, I can do this. Now it’s gonna take a while and I’m gonna be frustrated, but if you keep with it and you keep practicing, then you’re gonna get it. It just takes time.

Dizzy Skips (22:42)
Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah, absolutely. Yeah. And that also reminded me of that episode with @doc.jumps, Em Foley, where she was talking about her tip, which was basically like video yourself doing it and then take out that one time that you did it perfectly and segment that out and rewatch it 50 times before you go to bed. And then the next day you’re going to have a better time with it. You know, like you’re going to, you’re going to hit it and

Josh (23:07)
Mm-hmm.

Yeah.

Mm-hmm.

Dizzy Skips (23:20)
And I just know my brain chews on stuff like that too. it’s, for me, it’s a matter of understanding what I’m doing wrong. Like the last several days I’ve been out freestyling and I try and do this cross and…

Josh (23:23)
Yeah.

Mm-hmm.

Dizzy Skips (23:33)
It’s the same cross all the time. I whip my left butt cheek so hard it takes my breath away and I’ll swear and like, all right, what am I doing? But it’s the same thing. And when I break it down and then I watch the video, I’m coming out of it with my arms too wide or something like that. I’m shortening the rope and I just can’t clear it.

Josh (23:51)
Yeah.

Dizzy Skips (23:52)
It’s identifying that one thing and then focusing on doing it right, even if really slowly and then sort of easing into it. But, I want to just put the pedal down and just do it full speed all the time. And that’s not, that’s not always the way to success.

Josh (24:05)
Same, I know.

Exactly, yeah. But that is great advice from @doc.jumps I even saw something else. I saw it earlier today or yesterday and I cannot remember who said it and I really wish I could give them credit. But what they said was when they’re doing like some kind of combo or even like choreography that they put together and they trip up on some sort of trick, they won’t let themselves go back to start over in that choreography.

until they do the specific trick that they messed up on three times in a row. And then they can start over from the beginning. But if, let’s say like you have an EB swing right in the middle and they mess up on that, she’s going to do three EB swings just to get it like in her muscle memory. And then she’ll start back at the beginning of the choreography.

Dizzy Skips (24:42)
Okay.

Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.

Okay.

That’s really interesting. That reminds me of what I was working on yesterday, which was jumping releases. And I was kind of keeping the pace, and then I would throw the release and goof it up. And I kept trying to start over with the jumping and the release. And finally I stopped and was like, all right, just practice releases for a few minutes. Like, make sure you can land that without the jumping. And that helped. I was able to jump a few, but it wasn’t pretty. It’ll get there.

Josh (25:16)
Sure. Yeah.

Yeah, but you

know, sometimes it does just take us back to the basics, right? Just start over with some of the basics, get that going again, and then next time we’re jumping, we get it. It’s amazing.

Dizzy Skips (25:37)
Yeah. Yeah, it is. And it’s cool

how that knowledge and that muscle memory gradualizes into your system. Like I saw this reel of yours, that six month recap that you had, which was really cool. I mean, you showed these clips of you starting out, which was not bad skipping by any stretch. Like you were doing great in the beginning, but it showed the difference in how you’ve progressed. And I’m sure from your perspective, there probably weren’t a lot of

instances where you went, I just got super better right there. You you sort of gradualized into it, but you know, we see it over time and it’s really cool.

Josh (26:07)
Yeah.

Yeah, you’re right though. I you know, I remember thinking back in December when I started jumping and I was just like, this is impossible. I’m never going to be able to do the mic release or I’m never going to get like multiple crosses in a row. But you’re right. It just over time, it just happens. And you really, it just happens so natural that we may not be focused on it. But like you said, anyone else who’s watching or who follows.

they can kind of see the progression and that’s really cool and God the biggest thing has been just how supportive everyone is. It’s incredible and that makes you want to keep getting better, keep practicing ⁓ because you know everyone’s just been so wonderful in the community.

Dizzy Skips (26:51)
Yeah.

Right.

Yeah, I saw you call out our friend Jenny Linden the other day for being so supportive. She was one of my first supporters too. She’s just such a queen. She’s just the most supportive, cool person. I love her to death.

Josh (27:05)
He

Yeah, yeah, I agree. And there’s so many people from that situation that you want to make a video, a skipping video shout out to them because of how supportive they’ve been and they’re always cheering you on. Even if you put a little video up, they just talk it up and they’re so wonderful. But not everyone has a cool song like Jenny, right?

Dizzy Skips (27:27)
Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah, the community is amazing. I’m curious, like, if there were other people that you found inspiring, like you found Lauren, of course, but who else has sort of inspired you along your journey?

Josh (27:52)
man, okay, well, I think Kailey (@kailey.jumps) there’s a ton, you know, there’s a ton, but like, you know, Kailey was one of the first as well, right? She’s awesome. And her videos are always so fun and like happy, right? She just has the best smile. like, she was awesome from the start. Kathy (@kathy.jumps), of course, Kathy’s incredible. And you know, even for how many people,

Dizzy Skips (28:02)
Yeah, she’s a badass. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, always.

Yeah.

Josh (28:19)
Kathy has probably messaging her. She has so many followers. She’s still so down to earth and she’ll make time to message back and it’s just really cool. But yeah, there’s so many to name. mean, Papa Joe (@papa_joe01), know, he was one of the beginning supporters as well and he’s just, he’s a great guy, great jumper, consistent. ⁓ So yeah, you can name so many.

Dizzy Skips (28:23)
Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah. Hell yeah. Yeah. Right.

Yeah, yeah, super support.

Yeah, yeah, all great people. Yeah, I feel so lucky to have that community like that. You’re right. I was thinking about it the other day, like, what if Instagram took my account away? What if I couldn’t post on Instagram? Would I still do this? Hell yeah, I do this. I know what it does for my mental health. I know what it does for my happiness and stuff, but.

Josh (28:48)
Yeah.

Dizzy Skips (29:05)
But there is another level that comes with the community and the pats on the back that you get and the encouragement and the inspiration. you know, like, yeah, it’s amazing.

Josh (29:12)
my gosh.

Absolutely. The things that people can do with a rope and like there’s always a new challenge. No matter what you can accomplish, I feel like there’s always something else that you can like chase or push yourself to achieve. And so, you know, some of those like Olympic athlete jump ropers are unbelievably good and it’s just, it’s amazing to watch.

Dizzy Skips (29:21)
Right. Yeah.

Totally.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah, absolutely. I’m wondering, based on your experience so far, are there any, mistakes or things that you encountered early on that you could help other jumpers avoid or things that you found that you did that, like, hey, you know, save a little time and don’t make this mistake I did?

Josh (29:54)
You know, we kind of touched on this earlier, but just trying to move too fast and not going through the proper steps and the progressions to be a good jumper. I mean, form is a huge thing, right? And if you just try and skip through and get to the really cool releases without addressing your form, I think you’re never going to be as good of a jumper as you can be.

Dizzy Skips (30:00)
Mmm.

Right.

Mm-hmm.

Mm-hmm.

Sure.

Josh (30:20)
So

I think it’s embracing the journey, right? And just take it day by day. And it’s easy to look at Lauren Jumps and be like, I wanna do that, but it’s gonna take time. Lauren’s been jumping, what, for five years now. So it really takes time to get the feel for the rope. And yeah, that’s what I’d say.

Dizzy Skips (30:23)
Yeah, yeah, absolutely.

Yeah.

Mm-hmm.

Yeah. Right.

Mm-hmm.

Yeah, it’s kind of like learn to love where you’re at and embrace the process really, because I totally agree with you. You mentioned Kathy earlier and she on a previous episode said that she spent the first year or year and a half doing basic bounce and boxer skip and that she credits that for a lot of her future progress because she just kind of had that in the bag. And going back to your

Josh (30:48)
to say it.

Yeah.

Dizzy Skips (31:06)
video showing your six month progress. I went back and looked at some early videos of mine where I was practicing basic shuffle

And I remember how clumsy I felt, you know? And I can tell you now, I don’t think about that stuff except when I’m trying to change it up. Like, yeah, I want to exaggerate this or something like that. But the basic moves I don’t think about anymore. And so I guess if I had one piece of encouragement to people who are starting out, it’s like that shit that looks really hard now, just keep at it, chip away at it, because someday it’s just going to be in your brain. And that’s the stuff you take

Josh (31:22)
Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.

Dizzy Skips (31:41)
for granted while you’re trying to learn releases or while you’re trying to do a backflip or whatever.

Josh (31:46)
Yes, yeah absolutely and you know I remember it can be so frustrating right but we got to remember why we’re jumping in the first place and you should never let it get to a point where you’re just so frustrated at one thing and if you get to that point give it a break you know table that and just go back to maybe your basic bounce go back to what you’re good at

And I think then you’ll, you start building confidence that way. And like you said, it’s amazing how you can just get to a point where it just becomes natural for you and you’re not even thinking about like where your feet need to be because you’ve done it so many times. So then you can really start focusing on kind of like the new challenges.

Dizzy Skips (32:16)
Mm-hmm.

Right.

Yeah, and that’s totally what I can see in that six month progress video of yours is in the beginning you’re thinking about your feet and at the end you’re thinking about your rope and your hands and the other stuff you’re doing.

Josh (32:38)
⁓ 100%.

Yeah, you can probably even see me like looking down like okay, put left foot out. Okay, put right foot out. ⁓

Dizzy Skips (32:46)
Yeah, right. One, two,

one, two, yeah. I totally get it. So do you plan out your goals? What are you planning on learning next? Or do you have goals when you go out? Or are you all just like, hey, I’m going to just do what I can fit in today

Josh (32:51)
Yeah.

Sometimes yeah, sometimes I’ll like see a cool video and you know, like you want to do everything but I Know what I can and can’t do so like I haven’t even been able to try like a Lauren video yet or anything like that but like you see some videos that are really cool and I’m like, alright I think I think I might be able to do that so I might save that one and that might be my new goal just to try and like do a remix of that.

So I’ve done a few things like that. I did one with Maria Jumps where I just, she was kind of doing like a salsa dance and I just thought it was so cool. And like seven years ago, my wife and I took salsa classes right before, well, it was right before COVID. So I guess it was six years ago, but I hadn’t since. So I was like, I’m going to give that a try. And that was kind of my goal for the next couple of days. And it took me about.

Dizzy Skips (33:46)
Mm-hmm. Okay.

Josh (33:56)
two and a half, three days of practicing to get it down. But yeah, so it was fun, know, it was short, but like, I don’t know, for me it takes time to tell my feet to do what my brain wants it to do. But things like that, it just might be a random video that I see and that might be my new goal for the week. Or other times it’s going back to the fancy feets app being like,

Dizzy Skips (34:00)
Yeah, that was cool though.

Yeah, yeah.

Mm-hmm.

Josh (34:25)
Alright, I need to really work on EB with my weak side. ⁓ So just, it just depends. I’m all over the place, man.

Dizzy Skips (34:29)
Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Yeah.

Are you, you mentioned weak side there. Are you very cognizant of like learning tricks on both sides?

Josh (34:41)
I’m not as good as I should be. So I have practiced the mic release with my left hand. Man, I’ve got some work to do on that side. Yeah, I’ve done a lot of EB on both sides, but I can tell my left side is very weak. And it still feels awkward when I do it to the point where I have to think so hard about what I’m trying to do and where my hands need to be.

Dizzy Skips (34:51)
Me too,

Mm.

Josh (35:08)
So it’s, you know, it’s taken a while for me to kind of work the left side. Because again, you want to learn as much as you can and if it’s easier on my right side, I’m trying to like do that. yeah. You do, yeah, exactly. So I could definitely be better with working both sides and I think recently I have because that’s what makes you an overall better jumper.

Dizzy Skips (35:13)
Mm-hmm.

Yeah, you want to flow with it too, right? You want to get to the point where you can work it in and have fun with it. Yeah.

Mm-hmm. Yeah. Have you noticed that just by nature of jumping rope that you have balanced your sides a little bit more? I mean, I know you’ve done a lot of fitness and calisthenics stuff as well, but…

Josh (35:48)
Yeah, yeah, I think my balance has gotten a lot better just in the, you know, what six months that I’ve been doing this and I noticed early on that my left side was a little weaker and a little slower and I don’t know if it’s just from over the years me really like, I don’t know, favoring my stronger side which is my right side but like my left would just be a little bit slower and I’d trip up more often on that.

Dizzy Skips (36:02)
Okay.

Josh (36:16)
So when I’d be practicing, what I’d do is I’d, for every like three jumps on my right leg, I’d do six on my left. Just to try and build that up and you know, try and even these out. And I think it has gotten a lot closer over the last you know, month or two. ⁓ But yeah, I think it’s still progress in the making. Yeah.

Dizzy Skips (36:31)
Mm-hmm. Yeah.

Yeah, yeah.

I have this suspicion, and there’s probably science behind it. I’m sure there’s science behind it. Dizzy science. That jumping rope rewires your brain in a way that gets both hemispheres working a little better and gets both sides of my body working a little better. My reaction time, even with my left hand, is ridiculous compared to what it used to be. And balance, my balance is…

Josh (36:44)
Yeah

Yeah.

Dizzy Skips (37:02)
insane to me like just I could almost handstand in the shower you know.

Josh (37:08)
Yeah,

yeah, it’s wonderful. Like the benefits that I’ve seen in six months and yeah, not only the reflex speed, but just in general, like feet moving quicker. It’s just repetition and learning and finally your feet are like, all right, this is what he wants me to do, I’m gonna do this.

Dizzy Skips (37:12)
Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah, you’ve got what a four and a half year old, so he’s probably not quite into jump rope yet. But what do you hope you’re you’re gonna you did? Of course you did.

Josh (37:34)
man, a bottom one. Yeah, a bottom one.

He likes to like pull it around. you know, wishful thinking for me to think a four year old can actually jump rope. But we have it for when he is ready and old enough and shows an interest in it. I think it’ll be another year or two years before we get there. But.

Dizzy Skips (37:40)
Yeah.

I

don’t know, dude, if he’s watching you, like you’re a superhero with a jump rope, he’s gonna be like, I wanna be like, dad, show me the release, dad. He’ll be six doing back flips and releases of both hands at the same time.

Josh (38:02)
Dude, no, no.

Man, I can only hope. This kid, it’s hilarious what he says. And we heard this about a month ago. We got a babysitter. And the babysitter took him in as we were leaving. And I had to run back in and get my keys, because I forget everything. And as I’m grabbing my keys off the counter, he doesn’t know I’m back in the house. He’s talking to the babysitter. And he’s telling the babysitter, my dad’s really good at jump rope. And I’m like.

Dizzy Skips (38:30)
you

Hahaha! ⁓

Josh (38:36)
There’s no context. This babysitter, she’s a girl in high school, a senior in high school, she’s probably thinking, what? Like, what is he talking about? That Mr. McKee’s a jump roper? Just hilarious what they say.

Dizzy Skips (38:45)
Yeah.

That’s awesome.

Yeah, that is hilarious. So, well, for your kids or your fans, what do you hope they take away from your jump rope or your jump rope experience or watching you jump rope?

Josh (39:03)
Man, I just hope they smile. Honestly, like, come to my page, smile. I mean, I’m, you know, I hope that I inspire a little bit, you know, but I really just wanna make someone look at something for 10 seconds and smile and just have a good day. You know, I’ve always been someone who’s optimistic. I’ve always been someone with high energy and positive glass half full. And so…

Dizzy Skips (39:05)
Yeah.

Josh (39:29)
I just want everyone to be happy as well. So if they come to my page and they smile, I’ll take that as a win.

Dizzy Skips (39:35)
Yeah, that’s awesome. That’s a good thing to put out there. Good energy, yeah.

Josh (39:38)
Hahaha

Dizzy Skips (39:40)
Now I have to ask you about your tech because when you left the phone followed you, you must have some sort of cool stand or something.

Josh McKee (39:48)
Yeah, it’s a, gosh, honestly, I don’t know what it’s called. We got it from Amazon and it’s a, it’s kind of like one of those video tracking devices so I can put my phone. What’s that?

Dizzy Skips (40:00)
Like a gimbal stand?

Is it like a gimbal stand where it’s got kind of like a motorized gimbal thing on it? Mm-hmm.

Josh McKee (40:08)
I think so, yeah, yeah, cause

it’s got the camera below it and it just kinda watches you, so it just turns a little bit and we really got it for like FaceTime with the grandparents, you know, cause the kids are always like moving around, but I’ve kind of hijacked it a little bit for jump rope.

Dizzy Skips (40:20)
Yeah.

Sure.

I wondered, I watched one of your

reels earlier and it seemed like it was zooming in or out a little bit. And I wondered if you had enlisted a camera person or if that was tech that was doing that for you.

Josh McKee (40:37)
No, yeah, it’s just that I think it’s called CapCut. It’s the app that kind of allows you to camera track, which you know, it’s just so cool and it just adds to the video a little bit. Yeah.

Dizzy Skips (40:42)
Okay. Okay.

Yeah.

Do you always process your videos in CapCut?

Josh McKee (40:54)
Not always. ⁓ Probably about 50 % of the time. ⁓ Sometimes I’ll record on my iPad and I’ll just go straight from my iPad to Instagram and put it on. I know Instagram added that Edits app, which I think I’ve used once, but haven’t really got into it yet. I don’t know, I probably need to play around with it a little more.

Dizzy Skips (40:56)
Okay.

Okay.

Mm.

insert.

Mm-hmm.

Yeah.

I’ve used it a couple times and at least so far, I can’t tell you what the compelling features are that are not built into the original editor. I think it’s supposed to UHD or something like that, or maybe better resolution or 4K or whatever, but outside of that, I’m not sure.

Josh McKee (41:37)
But yeah,

I’m like you, I haven’t played around with it enough to really see the differences.

Dizzy Skips (41:41)
Yeah. Yeah. So what

does CapCut give you that the Instagram editor doesn’t give you?

Josh McKee (41:49)
For the most part the camera tracking I mean it it has all kinds of like effects that you can add to the videos but like I don’t know I’m not really good with video editing and sometimes I think those effects really just take away from the video. Yeah Yeah, so I really have only used it maybe for like a filter and maybe for camera tracking, but that’s about all

Dizzy Skips (41:51)
Okay.

Mm-hmm.

Mm.

subtract from it, yeah.

Okay.

Josh McKee (42:15)
But I I think for a video editor, like they could do some amazing things with that app.

Dizzy Skips (42:18)
Mm-hmm.

Yeah, absolutely. I see some little training stuff on it and I feel like I’ve got quite a bit of room to learn on just video editing in general, but I have fun with what I do.

Josh McKee (42:30)
Yeah.

And that stuff, I mean, just goes over my head. And like the time commitment, I’m like, all right, I gotta make dinner. I don’t have time for this.

Dizzy Skips (42:37)
Right? Yeah.

Yeah, absolutely. You need some sort of AI bot. You could just give your jump rope video to and say, here, make me look pretty and make this really captivating.

Josh McKee (42:48)
Yeah.

Man, I’m sure there’ll be something like that in our lifetime.

Dizzy Skips (42:54)
Yeah, I think it’s kind of here in some ways, but it’s just not all built together yet. if you could jump anywhere in the world and be listening to any song, where would you be?

Josh McKee (43:08)
That’s a good question. Gosh, all right, a couple of my favorite places that I’ve ever been. One, the Cliffs of Moor in Ireland. Just a beautiful spot. However, thinking about it, you know, it’s hard to jump rope in the wind, and the wind gets wild up there. ⁓ So I could imagine it’d make for some breathtaking views and some really good jump roping, but I think the wind would be

Dizzy Skips (43:16)
wow.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Josh McKee (43:32)
pretty nasty and probably cause some frustrations. Some of my favorite bands, I don’t know if you’ve ever heard of Arizona, the band. Yeah, man, I can listen to them from album to album, song to song, nonstop. Like the guy just, I don’t know if it’s his lyrics or just the type of music or even his voice, but like.

Dizzy Skips (43:34)
Yeah.

Yeah.

Josh McKee (43:57)
They, ever since I heard them, I think in like 2016, 2017, they’ve been my favorite band. And I don’t get sick of their songs. So probably some type of Arizona song, depending on the day, depending on how I’m feeling, and I’m gonna go find whichever one speaks to me that day. Yeah, what about you?

Dizzy Skips (44:05)
That’s awesome.

Yeah.

That’s awesome. So,

man, I was just going to say that’s a stupid question. No, it’s a hard, it’s really a hard one to answer. And after I asked it, I was like, what would you answer? I, you know, I, I have been on a Yeah Yeah Yeahs kick for years now. I love the Yeah Yeah Yeahs and so I would probably pick like Spitting Off The Edge of the World or “Gold Lion” by the Yeah Yeah Yeahs. And honestly, if

Josh McKee (44:33)
Yeah. Yeah.

Dizzy Skips (44:42)
Now that it’s summer here, there are a few places that are prettier than Red Wing. Like there are areas in Red Wing that are just gorgeous. And so I’d be at Memorial Park listening to the Yeah Yeah Yeahs know, skipping on a limestone bench, I guess. If it were more like winter, I would be somewhere where it’s warm, know, Florida or I don’t know, Mexico, Australia, something like that. But yeah, I like the warm weather.

Josh McKee (44:56)
Heck yeah.

Yeah.

For sure. Yeah. Man, I love that though.

Like one of your favorite spots is just in your backyard. I love that. I mean, cause that’s, you wanna love where you live, right? And I mean, I certainly get that whole aspect of like in the cold, it’s tough, but I’ll tell ya, man, we are entering summer down on the Gulf Coast and it is miserable. Brutal. Yeah, so like it’s

Dizzy Skips (45:13)
Yeah.

Yeah.

Brutal, yeah. Brutal.

Josh McKee (45:32)
It already hit 90 today and it’s May. So I’m not looking forward. Yeah, even worse, right? The humidity, it’s just sticky. You walk outside and you’re just sticky. So I don’t know. I don’t know what.

Dizzy Skips (45:34)
Yeah. What’s your humidity like?

Yeah.

Yeah, I’ve spent some time down in that

area and that’s exactly how you feel. Like you can step off the plane and you’re like, whoa. Yeah.

Josh McKee (45:47)
Yeah!

immediately.

honestly, I don’t know what to expect this summer, jump roping out in that heat. Like I feel like I’m gonna get fatigued real quick. So we’ll see.

Dizzy Skips (45:56)
Yeah.

Yeah, that’s actually interesting that you mentioned that because I was thinking earlier about what are your special jump rope tactics for dealing with that. But I guess you really haven’t been through a full summer with jump rope yet, have you?

Josh McKee (46:11)
Yeah, yeah, so I don’t know. mean, maybe I’ll do a lot more jumping indoors. You know, I have a gym membership at like a club for fitness type thing and they got a big space that I could jump rope. But yeah, I mean, or just start jumping like early in the morning or late at night when it cools off, you know?

Dizzy Skips (46:16)
Yeah.

Okay.

Mm-hmm.

Yeah.

Yeah, I know a few folks in Arizona and Florida who say that, they try and get out there before like 7 a.m., you know, get their exercise in before the sun comes up and bakes everything. Yeah. Well, I’ll be looking forward to following your journey there to see how you deal with the brutal summer.

Josh McKee (46:41)
Right. Yeah.

Yeah,

thank you.

Dizzy Skips (46:51)
Do you have any like meetups planned? know we talked about community and stuff like that. Have you, have you ever been to a meetup or planning to go to any?

Josh McKee (46:59)
No, I mean I’ve never really even heard of a meetup close to me. I I saw that they just did one over in Europe, like a Baltic Sea meetup or something like that. ⁓ I mean I think that’d be so fun to go and just meet the people that you follow and just have a day, love what they do. Putting together some kind of choreography that everyone knows, I think it’s really fun.

Dizzy Skips (47:05)
Sure.

Mm-hmm.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Josh McKee (47:27)
But man, I don’t know how I could make one work with the two little ones at home, you know? Trying to spin that like, hey, I’m flying up here to do a little meetup for Jump Rope and I don’t know, I’ll see you in a couple days. ⁓ So I don’t know, we’ll see. mean, if anything comes close enough to me, I think I would certainly try and make the commitment to get there. ⁓ But I mean, I feel like maybe it’s just me and maybe you,

Dizzy Skips (47:32)
Right, yeah.

Right. Yeah, yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah. Well,

Josh McKee (47:57)
know more of like a community in the United States, but it does feel like Europe is a lot more like jump rope driven, you know, and it’s a bigger thing over there. Do you feel that?

Dizzy Skips (48:10)
Yeah, and it’s hard for me to gauge too, Josh, but I have felt like that. And I think, you know, part of it was the first, I don’t know, out of the first 10 episodes, half of the people that I interviewed were from the UK. And many of them either heard about Jump Rope or sort of

fell in love with jump rope through these Cancer Research UK benefits, where it’s like 100 skips a day kind of stuff. And so I, and I don’t know of those kinds of things in the US. That doesn’t mean they’re not here, but I just haven’t encountered those kinds of like nationwide, you know, cancer benefit jumping rope kind of things. So I felt like there was a higher…

Josh McKee (48:44)
Mm-hmm.

Dizzy Skips (48:46)
percentage of people in the UK that were maybe participating. But mentioning that to some folks in the UK, they were like, yeah, I don’t know. It seems like you guys have a lot. So yeah, I have not, I’m young enough that I haven’t been aware of all of the meetups. know that Jump Rope Coach Chris from the UK did a meetup with I think Elite Jumps in Washington a couple of years ago, Washington state.

Josh McKee (48:54)
Maybe not, yeah.

Dizzy Skips (49:10)
And I know that like Kathy Jumps has put together a meetup in the past and stuff. So I’m keeping my ear out for those because I think it would be so fun to like meet up with these people. feel like in so many ways, all of my friends live in my phone on Instagram and I want to meet them in person, you know, and have dinner, have a coffee.

Josh McKee (49:14)
Yeah. Yeah.

Right.

Absolutely.

Yeah, and you know honestly like this kind of speaks to you and how you become like an ambassador for the jump rope community hosting this podcast because you know you watch this and You learn more about the person so it’s more than just just like they show up on your screen to do jump rope for 15 seconds and that’s really cool, but then when you get to kind of see the person behind that jump roper. It just connects even more

Dizzy Skips (49:43)
Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Josh McKee (49:56)
So it’s really been awesome that you’ve started this podcast and been able to bring people on so we can kinda just see what they’re about.

Dizzy Skips (49:56)
Yeah, totally.

Yeah, well, thanks, Josh. I appreciate it. And certainly it means a lot more to me. mean, like now, from now on, when I see your jump rope videos, I’m going to be thinking about, you know, man, this dude is doing this in between selling drugs to hospitals and administrators and dealing with his kids and tumbling practice and that sort of stuff.

Josh McKee (50:19)
You

We try and stay busy, that’s for sure.

Dizzy Skips (50:26)
Yeah, absolutely. So, people can find you on Instagram at @zaddy.jumps. What’s the significance of zaddy?

Josh McKee (50:34)
I figured you’d ask that. All right, so I spoke earlier about we have a really tight friend group in Mobile. And it’s about 15 of us. We have a group chat, all 15 of us. We’ve had it going for probably four, four and a half years. And we communicate every day. It’s just, it’s our family.

Dizzy Skips (51:00)
Yeah.

Josh McKee (51:03)
And so half of them, probably more than half of them, probably like eight of them are lesbians, and the other half are, you know, just like me and my wife and a couple other buddies. But there are two guys in the group, two guys. Me and my other buddy Matt. the group calls us their zaddies. So it just was something that kind of stuck with me.

Dizzy Skips (51:15)
Mm-hmm.

Josh McKee (51:26)
And I was trying to think of something just a little different when it came to making the jump rope handle. So my friend Allie, she had texted me something and said Zaddy. And I was just like, all right, that’s it. @zaddy.jumps. I’m gonna go with it. We’ll see how it’s received. But it’s just something funny they call us.

Dizzy Skips (51:41)
Yeah.

That’s cool. It’s fun. It’s easy to remember. This has been so much fun, Josh. I really appreciate you coming on to talk to me and I hope you’re willing to come back again.

Josh McKee (51:49)
Yeah.

Yeah man, I enjoyed this too. I appreciate you having me on. And like I said, I only see this kind of growing with the community. It just helps connect people in a different way. So, really appreciate you putting it together.

Dizzy Skips (52:08)
Yeah.

Yeah, man, it’s my pleasure and thank you for being such a great example and for putting out such great content. It’s just a pleasure to follow you and it’s just a pleasure to be connected. So man, have a great evening and I love your daughter.

Josh McKee (52:25)
What do you have to offer?

Dizzy Skips (52:26)
Nothing,

just this. I don’t know, whip it off and start jumping. Yeah. All right, man.

Josh McKee (52:30)
Love it. Hey, thanks Diz. I really appreciate it and I’ll see you on Instagram.