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Comment on What Kinds of Shoes? For How Long? by kimskips

kimskips — Sat, 28 Apr 2012 20:24:27 +0000

Congrats on starting down the skipping path! It sounds like you are doing rope skipping, which isn’t what this site is primarily about (we just skip happily from point a to point b) so I am not sure what the best shoes for jump rope might be. I wonder, though, if you are stretching before you skip? That helps with the none rope skipping kind as far as shin splint pain goes!

Comment on What Kinds of Shoes? For How Long? by Nicole

Nicole — Thu, 26 Apr 2012 03:31:43 +0000

Hi!
I recently started skipping and I started out with just a pair of casual sneakers and had bad shin pain. So I set out to find a pair of decent shoes and it was recommended at the time that cross trainers are best; so I purchased the Asics Gel Spree Cross Trainer — but I’m still getting shin splint pain. Do you have a favourite pair of shoes for jump rope? I’m also kinda vain in that I don’t like to look dorky in my running shoes (aka they have to be functional yet fashionable). Thank-you so much for taking the time to make a recommendation.

Comment on Skipping World Record by Brandon Corbin

Brandon Corbin — Wed, 11 Apr 2012 19:31:19 +0000

This is awesome!

Comment on 80′s Skipper Bill Martinelli by Skipping’s Long Lost Grandfather! : iSkip.com

Skipping’s Long Lost Grandfather! : iSkip.com — Wed, 11 Apr 2012 05:49:13 +0000

[...] video of 1980s skipper Bill Martinelli continues to skip its way around the Internet and a Slate Magazine writer recently published this [...]

Comment on World’s Fastest Skipper by Skipping World Record : iSkip.com

Skipping World Record : iSkip.com — Wed, 04 Apr 2012 03:04:26 +0000

[...] world’s fastest skipper, Ashrita Furman, has done it again! This time he set the world for skipping the fastest 1/2 marathon….and [...]

Comment on benefits by Exercises to improve balance – Skipping | | lifeloveandhorses.comlifeloveandhorses.com

Sun, 26 Feb 2012 07:16:18 +0000

[...] The video may be tongue in cheek comedy, but skipping is a fun healthy exercise for adults. Kim Corbin founded the group ISKIP in 1999 to encourage the joy of skipping. http://iskip.com/blog/benefits/ [...]

Comment on World’s Fastest Skipper by Marvelous Night for a Moon Skip : iSkip.com

Marvelous Night for a Moon Skip : iSkip.com — Fri, 11 Nov 2011 06:28:34 +0000

[...] gone for 2 or 3 miles at a time when I was in prime skipping shape and some skippers go longer! Ashrita Furman even skipped an entire marathon! I look forward to being back at a place where I get lost in a [...]

Comment on Skipping with Donny & Marie by Kim Corbin: Founder of the Skipping Movement! | Soul Salon International

Kim Corbin: Founder of the Skipping Movement! | Soul Salon International — Mon, 03 Oct 2011 01:28:47 +0000

[...] People, USA Today, the BBC, CNN, and more all did stories about Kim’s efforts. She even got to skip and hold hands with Donny Osmond when she was interviewed on the Donny & Marie [...]

Comment on People Magazine by Kim Corbin: Founder of the Skipping Movement! | Soul Salon International

Kim Corbin: Founder of the Skipping Movement! | Soul Salon International — Mon, 03 Oct 2011 01:27:41 +0000

[...] World to Skip.” That set off an unprecedented flurry of national media attention: Time, Newsweek, People, USA Today, the BBC, CNN, and more all did stories about Kim’s efforts. She even got to skip and [...]

Comment on Canadian Skipper Extraordinaire by Worldwide Skipping Movement | Advice Mint

Worldwide Skipping Movement | Advice Mint — Mon, 26 Sep 2011 06:13:31 +0000

[...] On July 31, 2011, nearly 2,000 international skippers rocked the globe in the world’s first annual SUDS (Skipping up and down the Street Day), founded by Toronto skipping enthusiast Dawna Marie Wright. [...]