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Are you still struggling on what type of rope to buy? With an array of ropes in the market, you may have no idea which one suits you the best or which one serves your training purpose the best. Yet, apart from types of ropes like beaded rope and PVC rope, do you know the length of the rope handle also matters? Scroll down to dig it out!
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Different kinds of jump ropes are designed for different purposes. For instance, the light beaded rope is designed mainly for learning new skills, heavy beaded rope for higher intensity training while the PVC rope for speed training. However, these are not the only differences that determine which to purchase, you should also take the handle of ropes into your consideration. There are mainly two types of handle: short and long. Let’s see what their differences are.
1. Short handle
Lighter in weight
As obvious as it seems, a shorter handle has lighter weight. But what does that mean? It means that you can have better balance when doing tricks like the release, and hence, easier for you to pick up this trick.
Smaller in size
Meanwhile, a short handle is also smaller in size, this allows a closer and tighter grip of the handle that has similar shape to your hands, therefore allowing better control on the rope. This could result in faster movement of the rope.
2. Long handle
Good for wrist mobility training
Although a longer handle carries more weight, sometimes adding some weight on the end can actually encourage and allow you to understand and learn the wrist mobility. So, using a long handle is a good way for us to learn wrist mobility. If you can do smooth and clean double unders using a long handle, you can definitely move back to normal ropes because you now have good wrist mobility! In the meantime, another practical situation is that, sometimes athletes have larger hands so apparently, a longer handle suits them better to fit their hand shape, and thus have better control on the rope.
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