Fisher was so enamored of his rope-jumping that he kept it up after leaving ... long cloth ropes knotted at ends that he uses for double Dutch. He went out the backyard and garage, crossed the ...

Mr. Fisher’s three decades of double Dutch rope jumping came in handy, he said. In double Dutch, two so-called turners swing ropes around a jumper, and Mr. Fisher said he often practices ...

A famous jump-roper recently saved a young man from drowning after falling through the ice on a frozen lake by using his jump ropes like safety lines. During the 80s, 90s, and 00s, David Fisher became ...

David, who is a three-time world record jumping rope champion, told the outlet he immediately grabbed his Double Dutch ropes in an attempt to save the man. “I just instinctively went right for ...

A professional jump-roper, who goes by the stage name The Rope Warrior, received the Lifesaving Citizen Award from the town of Westfield, Ind., for using his jump rope to pull a drowning young man ...

“I have three world records for jumping while seated on the ... “I just instinctively went right for my bag of jump ropes and pulled out the double Dutch ropes,” David said.