Skipping Rope

Sarina, Kids still jump rope in our area. A few years ago I was donated a couple cases of jump ropes to distribute to my low income families. I was amazed at how happy the kids were. I figured that the jump rope days were long gone. They are not long gone. Kids still enjoy it and they sing the same little songs. LOL It was a great experience to see and hear the kids excitement at jumping rope.

Sure. I was fascinated by the other children who could jump so well until the count of 100 nonstop. I loved jumping rope. Until now I have a jump rope and this time I use it for exercise. As children, my sisters, my friends and I played a lot of those jump rope games you talked about . One I remember is "Down in the valley where the green grass grows, there lived a pretty maiden as sweet as a rose. Along came a stranger and kissed her on the cheek. How many kisses did he give her?" Then the fast turning of the rope for "One, two, three!" There were still others like "Rich man, poor man, beggarman, a thief.." but I think one of the more exciting way the jump rope was used was for Limbo Rocking!!!

lol yeah i know the peppers song, we use to sing that most of the time. it use to be so fun. and sometimes we use a real big one so smetime like 3 or so people could run in at once as well.

Oh yeah, we used to have great fun with these in school. All the girls and sometimes even boys would joimn in, Sometimes the single one and sometimes double.. I miss beeing a kid times like these. I had completely forgetten about the skipping rope thing =)

i do remember the best times in skipping rope... you can be in groups, or you can just skip rope alone. it was better though if you skip with your friends and take turns.

o yes i remember that! we did it on school and when we just played outside. we had a lot of fun doing it. i was always surprised how these American girls culd jump so fast with the double ropes!and i am still surprised how they do that!

Oh yes I remember the good old skipping rope and use to do get out on my front verandah and have such a wonderful time with my skipping rope, also my father used to make my children go out side every morning when we visited them and make all of my children skip with their skipping ropes as it is very good for their health and making them breath more better as four of my children were asthmatics.

There's a blast from the past, LOL. I remember jumping rope all the time as a kid and now my granddaughter is teaching me those all over again. But I'm not into jumping anymore cuz' it jolts the body too much at my age, lol. I do hold the rope now though. I noticed that most of the jumping ropes are plastic now, hmmmmm.

I loved jumping rope! The many rhymes involved counting...but I've been trying to remember some of them... Cinderella Dressed in yella Went to town to see her fella. How many times did they kiss? !, 2, 3, 4, 5, ... Were you a country girl? I've only noticed city girls jumping double dutch.. Have you? I also remember jumping with 2 girl in te ropes at a time. Do you?

I remember, we used to have a lot of fun with our jump ropes, hula hoops and such. It was great exercise and fun at the same time. I never could get the hang of the hula hoop though.

I do remember that we could spend hours with a jumprope and of course, the trapezee bar on the swing set was our second favorite. I don't know why kids these days can't be active like that. That is probably the biggest reason that American kids are fat. I just bought my daughter a jump rope a couple of days ago. She loves it! We also pay hopscotch occasionally. Where are the good old days??

oh how i miss my child hood days too! wi love playing jumping rope too and i am quite good with the hola hoop and jackstones!hehe i enjoy hide and seek so much too. well, i truly miss being a kid when i dont think and worry of anything but playing! and i miss my playmates too. i havent seen them for quite sometime now!

I sure do remember. Almost everyday on the playground we would be jumping rope. I was always the slowest one. Some of those girls were really fast and could keep up with the ones who were turning the rope as fast as they could. I also remember playing hopscotch, and simon says. I think little kids play that now, but we were still playing it in 2nd and 3rd grade. It's funny I don't remember any of the jump-rope songs.

I remember jumping rope. I thought about one day not to long ago. I thought to myself that was great exercise so I went out and bought myself and adult jump rope. I came home all excited and ready to work off some calories. Guess what jumping rope was awhole lot easier when I was a kid. So the rope is in the drawer and hasnt seen the light of day in awhile. Maybe I'll give it another go soon.

Looking back,I realize I could have been a gold-medal winner at the Olympics if they had an event for the slowest skipper in the world.My ability was like around 20 skips a minute without tripping myself.I chose the grass as the pavement got awefully hard after awhile.But scenes like me attempting to skip rope is what memories are made of.

Oh yes I do as I used to love it to Skipping and Rollerskating where my 2 Favorites Once I got on them Roller Skates there was no stopping me lol and I could be on them for hours When I see the Kids today and they have no interest in that sort of thing I just think to myself they don't know what they are missing

Oh what a sweet memory! I had three girlfriends on the block that I lived on and we would have Jump Rope marathons to see who could jump the longest with out making a mistake or falling. We made up our songs, we would bring our little tiny transistor radios outside and try to jump to the music. Boy I wish I could do that now..... now I am afraid I would be hurting pretty bad LOL things are larger now amd not quite as firm if you get my drift. But it is sure good exercise. I see them do it at the Gym! Thanks for the walk down memory lane :)

i do that kind of games when im still young and i find it fun and makes us more wseat and hungry after each games..and ive been doing that when im in the 20's or something just as a form of exercise coz it makes us sweat a lot.

I used to love jumping rope. I remember we had jump rope marathon type things to raise money for heart disease when I was in school. My kids love it, too. We had a children's safety fair today that we went to and they each got a little jump rope. They have been playing all day with them. My fat 36 yr old butt tried to jump some and I thought I would die after just 8 or 9 jumps! LOL

oh yes.i was okay at the single rope..but i sucked at double dutch.just couldn't get co-ordinated enough. they had some other thing at my school too-it was like a gigantic rubber band they put at the bottom of their ankles-you jumped it like jumprope,but also made patterns with it-i'm not sure the name of it.