Skipping Ropes

Abstract

Skipping ropes are described with angled handles. One usually longer portion ( 1 ) is held between palm and fingers. A second portion ( 2 ) is angled and has a swivel mounted rope ( 5 ) projecting from its end. When skipping, the hands can be held with the palms facing the skipper's thighs, but with the rope ends pointing outwards. This is a more comfortable skipping position than the customary one with the hands splayed outwards.

1 . A skipping rope consisting of a length of rope having a handle on each end wherein each handle is an elongate member bent or angled through at least 60°, such that when one portion of the handle remote from the rope is held by a skipper's hands aligned substantially horizontally and along an axis extending transverse to the plane of the skipper's body, the other portion of the handle is directed outwards to direct the rope laterally away from the skipper's body.  
   
   
       2 . A skipping rope according to  claim 1  wherein the handle is generally L-shaped.  
   
   
       3 . A skipping rope according to  claim 2  wherein the ends of the L are angled one relative to the other by at least 75°.  
   
   
       4 . A skipping rope according to  claim 3  wherein the angle is at least 85°.  
   
   
       5 . A skipping rope according to  claim 1  wherein the portion of the handle adjacent the end of the rope is narrowed or necked to provide a narrowing or neck which may be located comfortably between the fingers of the hand of a user.  
   
   
       6 . A skipping rope according to  claim 1  wherein the swivel connection of the rope itself to the handle includes a rotating ball in a socket.  
   
   
       7 . A skipping rope according to  claim 1  wherein the handle is formed having external contours configured to match the contours of a hand.