Double dutch

You had already mastered skipping rope solo, but jumping in a single rope had you and your two friends bored. And really, seeing all the older girls jumping Double Dutch made you want to be a "big girl" too. Little did you know that when you made up your mind to push yourself in those two white clotheslines flipping back and forth, the legendary game of Double Dutch would carry you through your most impressionable years and become the game that would bond you to many other young Black girls…

The Chicago-based 40+ Double Dutch Club has more than a hundred chapters across the country and two internationally. Founder Pamela Robinson says it's about more than just jumping rope.

The ties between Double Dutch and hip-hop can be traced to Nelly's "Country Grammar," Missy Elliott's "Gossip Folks" and "Throw It Back," and the Cartoon Network animated series Craig of the Creek.

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Basically, Double Dutch is a rope skipping exercise played when two ropes are turned in eggbeater fashion. While the ropes are turned, a third person jumps within In these dog days of summer, growing up in New York my favourite passtime was to jump double dutch with my best friend Denielle and some other neighborhood girls. Now in my still young age (36) not one rope I can witness twirling in the neighborhoods. Cause if I did surely glimpse one I would quickly park and ask for a few jumps in…

The sun is setting on the first warm day of the year in Manhattan, and 63-year-old Brooklyn resident Betty Lewin strips off her coat and steps up to the swinging jump ropes. “Let me go again!” she …

Double Dutch: a native New Amsterdam game Double Dutch isn’t just a jump rope game played by city kids; as of this spring, it’s the newest official varsity sport in New York City public schools. doubledutchstreet And it got its start in Manhattan in the 17th century, supposedly brought by Dutch settlers. The story goes that British kids living here saw Dutch children playing, so they starting calling it Double Dutch.

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I loved Double Dutch style jump rope in the1980s. When I was in grammar school, I loved jumping rope at lunch time. We girls would gather together and work off our lunch jumping rope together. Back then it was awesome, today I'd die if I had to jump rope after lunch. I remember loving Double Dutch. Double Dutch was a game we loved to play in the school yard with two jump ropes going in different directions, which seemed very confusing. One or more girls would skip over the ropes. It was so…

Double Dutch is a form of jumping rope that involves two ropes and one or more jumpers. Two people rhythmically turn the ropes while the jumper(s) hop over them. Double Dutch started as a street game but now has advanced to competitions...

I am sure I would break my neck doing this today...but back in the day I was a champ!

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Playing Double Dutch

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