Scrapbook Saturday - Jumping (Skipping) Rope...

This is today's entry in my personal challenge, "Scrapbook Saturday", which I started a month ago (see here).

Today's challenge is "Jumping Rope" (the scrapbook is American - we Brits would call it a "Skipping Rope"). I persuaded son #3 to do the skipping and then we did a certain degree of manipulation to try to give an appropriate effect of the action.

The skipping rope is a high-tech one: you can see on the inset picture that it has an LCD screen in one of the handles. You set your weight, then it counts your skips, measures the time you've skipped for, and produces a calorie count. On this shot it's been set for a weight of 55Kg; the skipper has been going for 14 seconds and has done 10 skips. They've used 1 calorie!!