The first description of rope jumping as such is found in a delightful verse of 1618 by the dutch poet jacob cats in which he compares children s skipping to good time management.
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Just 10 minutes using one of these can be comparable to half an hour of jogging on the treadmill.
The national guidelines on physical activity for ireland recommend that children and young people should be active for at least 60 minutes a day every day 2.
If a child is good enough to do the somewhat complicated maneuvers required by these last few rhymes perhaps it s time to branch out into other jump rope games like double dutch.
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Two girls twirl two long skipping ropes a third girl runs in to skip as they all sing the.
I m originally from northern ireland and we played this game in the 1960 s.
From children s games with things iona peter opie 1997 oxford university press.
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I had a little sports car a two forty eight i drove around the cor ner and slammed on the brakes.
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We called it german jumping.
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I payed chinese jump rope in the late 60 s and early 70 s in jamaica west indies.
A popular training option for many professional athletes including footballers and boxers skipping ropes improve agility coordination and cardio fitness too.
The earliest european references are to single skipping with a hoop rather than a rope and these date from the sixteenth century use woodcut illustration.
Children s games filmed in the back streets of edinburgh accompanied by traditional children s songs.