Yu Dawei and Yu Canyi. [Photo provided to chinadaily.com.cn]

Yu Dawei, 39, a jump-rope coach from Changchun, Jilin province, has been busy recently preparing for the coming 2022 Asian Jump Rope Union Virtual Championship. He is joined by his wife, Lin Xiaolin, and his 6-year-old daughter Yu Canyi.

The family members were selected for China's national jump-rope team to compete in an online event to be held in a few months.

Yu, who runs a jump-rope club in Changchun, has been involved in the sport since he graduated from the Jilin Institute of Physical Education in 2002 and won several world championships in different competitions.

He is also a national-level social sports instructor specializing in jump-rope and boxing.

Yu Dawei, Yu Canyi and Lin Xiaolin [Photo provided to chinadaily.com.cn]

Lin, his wife, learned rope skipping from him after they began dating. She quickly mastered the skills. Later, with the birth of their two children, Lin suspended her practice for a time.

She returned last year to win the championship at the International Jump Rope Union Virtual Champions 2021, the world's top jump-rope competition, after several months of training.

Yu and Lin were the first married couple in China to both win world champions in jump-rope.

Yu Canyi (middle) demonstrates her jump-rope skills. [Photo provided to chinadaily.com.cn]

Yu Canyi showed her talent and interest in the sport when she was only 2 years old. Under the instruction of her father, she spent more than an hour every day practicing and could independently complete all the movements when she was only 27 months old.

During a national-level jump-rope competition in 2020, Yu Canyi won seven championships in different events. Her personal best performance was skipping 114 times in 30 seconds.

"For the coming international competition, I hope she can learn more about hard work and persistence in competitive sports," her father said. "I also hope the sport can help her maintain physical fitness and help if she chooses to be a professional athlete in the future."