Dave Damaschek

I learned to skip rope when I started boxing when I was about 19, and I was good at it, and it came fairly easily to me.

And I realized that there's most people – interesting life lesson –

I'd run into guys who box for 20 years and I'd go, all right, let's skip some rope and get a little lather going.

And they go, I don't really skip rope.

And I'd go, you don't skip rope, you box.

And they go, I'm no good at it.

And they realize they're no good at it and they never want to go through the period where they suck at it.

So they just abandon it and they go right to the heavy bag.

Which is fine, but you never really round out your game very well because you just kind of focus on the one thing that you're good at or the three things that you're good at.

But the thing that you're not that good at, you don't want to look bad at at the gym in front of everyone else.

And especially when you get to year 13 of something and somebody goes, that guy's been boxing for 13 years and he looks like an idiot skipping the rope.

So they avoid it.

You should be doing the opposite, which is if you're shitty at skipping rope, set aside an extra 20 minutes to do it every single day.

You'll get past it.

You'll push through it.

You'll be pretty good in six months.

All I do is shadow box.

So I don't get hit in the head anymore.

Yeah, I got to do something with the rope.

It's too easy.