You don't have trouble landing too heavily and not recovering in time for the next swing doing pike jumps with the rope? Squat jumps - those are where you squat, do a left-right, right-left criss-cross/side-swing then jump - from and into the squatting position? Those are tough!
Yeah they're not great pikies,my feet probably don't come up quite high enough that i could touch them. For the squat I just practiced swinging the rope side to side with a very shallow squat and got gradually deeper,never really going passed what was easy. Giving yourself little challenges like that pass the time and make it more enjoyable to skip.