Originally posted by: BeauJangles
Originally posted by: sdifox
I don't get the concept... why are you trying to skip a rope that doesn't exist? Why not just do rhythmic jumping? or even just arhythmic jumping, aka jumping around.
Because you can't sell people a product for simply jumping around.
This product is everything that's wrong with the way the majority of this country tries to lose weight. Learning to jump rope isn't THAT hard and, what makes jumping rope really hard is keeping your rhythm and timing as you get progressively more tired. Your punishment for not keeping proper time is getting caught on the rope. This stupid gadget doesn't punish you at all.
It's pathetic that people fall for these gimmicky products all the time and, over their lifetime, probably spend more money with worse results than a gym membership.