Ropeless jumping

I realize this wasn’t the point of Tom Weber’s column, “Ropeless jump-rope inspiring” (BDN, June 3-4), but I felt compelled to point out that Lester Clancy is not the originator of ropeless jumping. The originator was the late Bruce McBogg of Denver, Colo., who came up with the idea about a quarter of a century ago.

One of his two books was about ropeless jumping and he appeared on the old television series “Real People” once in the early 1980s, showing the idea to the nation. I can still see him hopping up and down the business district of Denver in a three-piece suit with absolutely no jump rope whatsoever.

Anyway, I know that’s not really important to Weber, nor apparently to Clancy, but as someone who dearly loved my wonderfully eccentric and often brilliant friend McBogg, it is important to me.

Vince Hartford

Lincoln