When we're young we have an amazing positive outlook about how great life is going to be

but somewhere along the line we forget to dream and end up settling. Join up dots features

amazing people who refuse to give up and chose to go after their dreams.

This is your blueprint for greatness. So here's your host, live from the back of his

garden in the UK, David Ralph.

Yes, hello there everybody and welcome to join up dots.

Yes, it's another skipping episode if you listen back to episode

two six three we had a lady called Michelle Joni and she has created a movement in

New York City where she gets crowds of people to literally skip

hand in hand around the streets like you would as a small child. Now today's

guest is also a skipper but he does it in a very manly way and it's a show that is all

about perseverance talent struggle and ultimate success he's a man who has got to the top in his chosen career and is now a world Guinness

book of records holder too. Back in 1998 he broke the world's record for the most revolutions

turned with a jump rope while pushing off and

landing only on his backside in one minute. Yep he did 56 rump jumps almost one

a second. He has since jumped his way into books, TV shows, countless live shows

and now a series of energetic music albums and his own instructional books by teaching kids

and adults everywhere to get in shape while having fun.

And the rope warrior, as he calls himself, shows aspiring rump joke, little, say that again,

aspiring a jump ropers, how they can become rope stuntman and record holders themselves

and amaze friends and family with incredible speed and agility.

But this isn't one of those conversations that is all about having fun and enjoying yourself, but instead is about

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