The Rope Wrap
This podcast focuses on the competitive sport of jump rope. The hosts, Carly Simpson and Chris Brown, are two former jump rope athletes who interview guests from the jump rope community and have conversations about all things jump rope.
The Rope Wrap
Benni Schmitz: It Needs to Be a Show
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The Rope Wrap
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We talk to Benni Schmitz about choreographing a jump rope routine, developing a spidey sense for finding routine music, how it’s not going down if you use Kesha’s Timber (though we still love Kesha), his time in Italy in lockdown, and using jump rope as a creative outlet.
Spoiler alert! Harry Potter plot details within.
You can find Benni on Facebook and here are links to some of our discussion topics:
- Benni’s blog post
- Nick and Kaylee’s jump rope workouts through their company Learnin’ the Ropes
- The Inverse Toad or Toad Inverse and EB Inverse TJ or EB TJ Inverse skills (demonstrated by Dylan Plummer on the Tricktionary site he and Svante Bengtson put together)
- Shazam (an app that most of the time can listen to a song and identify it)
The Rope Wrap:
Logo and artwork by Tori Boggs (@snorib)
Music and sound effects from http://www.freesfx.co.uk
Instagram= @theropewrap
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Email= theropewrap@gmail.com
Your hosts:
Carly Simpson- @carlyssimpson
Chris Brown- @prodigalzephyr
Intro
Hyperfocus, sleeping in, and ADHD
Pandemic under-stimulation and creative outlets like jump rope
Jump rope community growing in the pandemic
How Benni got roped in
Jump rope boys
Creativity, collaboration, and choreography
Energy for the routine
Finding music for your routine
Fitting tricks with the music
Spoiler alert!
Standing out