Thursday 8 May 2014

127. Skippy the Swedish Kangaroo

6th May 2014, Virgin Active Canary Riverside, Canary Wharf, London

I was one of those clumsy kids who fell down a lot. I even had to go back to the doctor twice when I was 5 to re walk the dotted line since apparently my level of clumsiness was abnormal.

Due to said clumsiness I never learned how to skip rope. I also couldn't play football and had a disappointing selection of Lion King stickers. Needless to say I wasn't the coolest kid in the schoolyard.

At the tender age of 29, I thought that perhaps it's time to learn how to skip rope. I was going to teach myself in secret using YouTube clips. Unfortunately for him, my trainer realised that I didn't have this very essential skill and decided to teach me. Oh boy, did he regret that.

I really have no coordination. None. At the first 20 attempts I got my feet tangled in the rope at the first jump and the next 30 attempts I got so excited managing the first jump that I tripped myself when trying the second....

After an hour of 'jump' - 'jump' - 'jump' to teach me how to keep the pace, I finally had it. Current record is 48.5 jumps. The half skip before falling on my face totally counts.

Apparently you can teach old dogs new tricks.

(There is a video. It will never be leaked)

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