The requirements for the ratio of skipping rope length to height need to be determined on a case-by-case basis.
If you are a person who skips rope for a short time, the length of the skipping rope is not required.
If you are skipping rope for a long time, you should at least do this: "When your feet are in the middle of the skipping rope, the two handles can touch your shoulders." This will make it easier to reduce the swing arm and use more wrists. Generally, people between 1.65 and 1.75 meters can use a skipping rope with a rope length of 9 feet. The skipping rope should not be too long. Just hold the rope with both hands just below your shoulders.
Test method: Step on the middle of the rope with one foot, hold both ends of the rope with your hands, and raise your hands laterally parallel to the elbow joint. This length of rope is best for you. .
Extended information:
The activity of skipping rope has a long history. When Nuwa "leads the rope in the mud and lifts it up to be a human being," the rope has been living with human beings. The ancients used rope to record events, and also used it to tie harvested crops, tie cattle and horses, tie up prey, etc. The rope has become an important tool in human life. Therefore, skipping may have originated from primitive farming, hunting or military activities.
In Chapter 18 of the Ming Dynasty novel "Jin Ping Mei", the names "Jiao Ma Suo" and "Jiao Bai Suo" are used, which refer to skipping rope. However, the "jumping rope" gives us inspiration to explore the origin of skipping, that is, the "jumping rope" used in ancient wars. The ancients may have been inspired by military activities. In the military training of stumbling and avoiding stumbling, they changed the horse riding across the rope to a single person jumping over the rope. This continued to evolve and eventually became a variety of rope skipping activities.
The earliest historical data on rope skipping is the rope skipping picture on the portrait stone of the Han Dynasty, which proves that rope skipping activities already existed in the Han Dynasty at the latest.