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…

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

Double Dutch jump rope.

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 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.

Double Dutch jump roping came to America with the early Dutch immigrants who settled along the Hudson River in New York.

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 …

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Double Dutch jump roping was big in the '60s.

John H. White was hired by the Environmental Protection Agency as a freelance photographer for the "Documerica Project." In addition to taking photos "relating to environmental problems," he was sent to capture images of "everyday life in the 1970s."

Playing Double Dutch

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Past Play Double Dutch Jump Rope Quality of Play; Apparently Purposeless Play Personality; Kinesthete

Finding Forever.

Double Dutch requires athleticism, finesse and musicality. Lincoln Center honors its history and place in African-American culture.