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Anyone that knows me will tell you that I love to travel. One part that has always intrigued me is the opportunity to learn wherever you go. Last month I took a trip to Florida to watch the world jump rope championships (FISAC edition…for those of you outside of the sport, there are 2 different world championships now, FISAC is the real one). While there I got to see a lot of great jumpers from around the world and then I stayed on to help teach at their workshop. Just because I’m teaching, doesn’t mean I know it all, I’m there to learn as well.Read More →

After a rather unfortunate “car meets unicycle in garage” incident last year I had been in need of a new “around town” unicycle. I finally bit the bullet and ordered a 36″ touring style one to round out my collection. With the weather being awesome, I’ve been out pretty much everyday that I’ve been home to break it in…and of course do some grocery shopping, library/bank/whatever runs. I have noticed that my monster unicycle seems to be a tractor beam for stupidity, as evidenced in a situation that occured about 2 weeks ago. My wife wanted to go pick up a book at the libraryRead More →

Almost every day for the past 6 weeks I’ve received an email with the subject “It’s Time to Check In”. In fact, I’ve performed 43 shows in 31 cities and 18 states during that time. Plus, I had a first for me while performing when I had a volunteer throw up on stage during the show. Needless to say, I’ve been busy. So…what have you been up to? It’s hard to think back to any specific flight I’ve taken, since after 40 some odd different planes, they all start looking the same. However, I do have a lot of specific memories about the shows IRead More →

One of the busiest times of the year for me is between the end of February and the end of March. During this period I will be on an airplane almost everyday flying around the country to perform most nights of the week. It will be quite the adventure. Today is one of my last “days off” for a while and I’m fortunate to be spending it visiting a good friend of mine in West Virginia, Mod. About a year and a half ago, at the age of 59, he rode a bicycle from Oregon to West Virginia and I’ve been having some fun talkingRead More →

I just got home from a two and a half week trip to Tanzania (East Africa if you are geographically challenged). I went over to help Mike Fry with One World, One Rope teach rope skipping at some various schools and street centers for runaway kids. I landed in Dar es Salaam the day before Thanksgiving and then spent Thanksgiving day on an 11 hour bus ride from Dar to Moshi (at the base of Mount Kilimanjaro). If you have never experienced bus rides in 3rd world countries, you are missing out on quite an adventure. I got the back row of the bus comfortablyRead More →

It has been a busy couple of months, thus I must apologize for the dearth of posts. I am just about to board a flight to Tanzania where I will be performing and teaching for about 2.5 weeks. Last year, I had the opportunity to perform in Kenya and work with the first ever East Africa jump rope tournament. We are doing the second tournament next month (which I will miss due to a show in Montana the same day). I will be spending the time prior to the tournament teaching the teams located in Dar Es Salaam and Moshi. I will give an updateRead More →

If you’ve been keeping up with my travels at all, you know that I’ve been spending an exorbitant amount of time on airplanes this year. A few months ago I sat next to this really interesting lady on one of my flights and I have to say, it was most enlightening. She works as a franchise manager (or some title like that) for Einstein Bros. Bagels. Being a small business owner myself, I love discussing different styles of business ownership and we had a very pleasant discussion where she explained to me the ins and outs of Einstein. I learned about floor plans, sizes, locations,Read More →

This morning I was at the airport on my way to security screening. When I got to the escalator there was a line, but no one was on it. I stood there a little perplexed before I heard a little girls voice say, “I’m scared”. I then see her mother pick her up and step onto the escalator, before setting her down for what must be one of her first escalator rides. I chuckled to myself and didn’t think much of it until a couple things happened which made me think she just may be braver than me. A little girl in a princess outfit.Read More →

What a summer! It’s hard to believe the number of things I did over the past 3 months, but I took a lot of pictures…and they really did happen. The latest trip was a month long tour through Vietnam, Thailand and Cambodia. I could fill a book with the number of things that we did (and happened to us) during this trip. The food was amazing, the locations were breathtaking and the people…well, let’s just say they were an adventure unto themselves. This was a trip that will go down as one of the most adventurous that I’ve been on. We started out with aRead More →

After many months of waiting, the trailer for the movie I jumped in is out! Many of you speculated that it was Adam Sandler who I was doubling for the movie, and you were correct. The film is called Jack and Jill and comes to theaters on November 11 (11.11.11). Below is the trailer, there is a short shot of me inside Double Dutch near the end. Pretty much anytime they were jumping inside the ropes I was the one doing the jumping, but through the magic of movies, it looks like Adam was doing all the work.Read More →