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I can understand the feeling because I never learned how to enter a double-dutch situation successfully and I'm not sure I ever will. I do remember this process from when I learned as a child:
Start by jumping at a steady pace, slowly, with little "pumps" in between for pacing. The "pumps" are like toe lifts basically, so that you can keep up a rhythm even though you're only actually jumping once per second (or maybe a touch faster - the idea is to feel bouncy, so the pace will be whatever makes you feel most bouncy). Do this while holding the rope behind you, with your hands at your sides. Then when you feel settled into your pace, you can concentrate on trying to spin the rope fast enough for it to pass under your feet.
This doesn't work for everyone of course. It just never seems to feel natural to some. I've seen my old dojo brothers try just getting through a fixed number of them by concentrating a whole lot. If you can only get through 3 jumps, stop at three jumps and then reset and start over for another 3 jumps... and repeat. When three jumps feels more comfortable, make it 5. I don't know how successful that method is, but I did see some improvement.
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