I am glad to hear others are bumbling along trying to jumprope
Our Y just completed a great new circuit training area and one of the aerobic stations is to jumprope for a minute - "NO problemo I thought
I was WRONG ! ! !

First of all my jumprope style has diminshed incredibly in 40 years AND I am way taller and way heavier than i was 40 years ago AND I can't jump or hop anymore (except to Polka

I too would jumprope for hours on wonderful spring days when I was a child - What happened

I do have a "professional" type adult jumprope I too will now have to dig out. The 3 times i tried it for a total of about 3 min it worked well. It is one of the rope ones, not vinyl, and has the swivel ballbearing handles.

One of the tricks I DO know is the rope has to be the right length for your height.

Start slow and gradually add speed as you get better at it.

I do the 2 foot hop, one where one foot stays as lead all the time,(kind of rocking) or the one that is actually "skipping" where you alternate feet.
the 2 foot hop is the most difficult IMHO and gets the HR up the quickest.

Cinderella dressed in yellow went downstairs to kiss her fellow . . .

Bubblegum bubblegum in a dish . . .

Tinker, tailor, soldier, sailor, rich,man, poor man . . .

Go play everyone!