Make plans to visit Juneteenth Atlanta June 16-19, 2023 and be prepared to double dutch.
We are planning some special double dutch presentations for Juneteenth Atlanta attendees and we want you to be prepared. Start planning now. Get in shape now. We want to see your double dutch skills. If you're a beginner and have never double dutched but would like to learn/get started, refer to the Double Dutch video below.
We are planning some special double dutch presentations for Juneteenth Atlanta attendees and we want you to be prepared. Start planning now. Get in shape now. We want to see your double dutch skills. If you're a beginner and have never double dutched but would like to learn/get started, refer to the Double Dutch video below.
Juneteenth Atlanta gives thanks appreciation and acknowledgement to our friend, and her team,
Pamela Robinson - Founder of Over Forty Double Dutch Club.
Pamela Robinson connecting with Juneteenth Atlanta brought her Over Forty Double Dutch club members to Atlanta, Ga in 2021 and turned out the streets of Atlanta with the ropes. They jumped in the Juneteenth Aboriginal/Black History Parade and at Centennial Olympic Park for the Juneteenth holiday weekend and Juneteenth Atlanta is forever grateful. Juneteenth Atlanta is a promotional partner in support of Over Forty Double Dutch, in one of their goals, of expanding double dutch globally!
Pamela Robinson - Founder of Over Forty Double Dutch Club.
Pamela Robinson connecting with Juneteenth Atlanta brought her Over Forty Double Dutch club members to Atlanta, Ga in 2021 and turned out the streets of Atlanta with the ropes. They jumped in the Juneteenth Aboriginal/Black History Parade and at Centennial Olympic Park for the Juneteenth holiday weekend and Juneteenth Atlanta is forever grateful. Juneteenth Atlanta is a promotional partner in support of Over Forty Double Dutch, in one of their goals, of expanding double dutch globally!
What is double dutch?
A style of jump-rope, where two ropes are moved counter to one another. One person stands on each end of the whirling rope-complex, and a third person jumps in the middle of them. Double dutch requires significantly more concentration than standard jump roping.
Evolving from Africa, Double Dutch is historically a jump rope game played originally by Aboriginal/Black children (mainly girls) in rural and urban areas in America. The first concrete evidence of jump rope activity can be seen in medieval paintings where children roll hoops and jump rope down the cobblestone streets of Europe. Although the exact origin of jump rope activity is unclear, early explorers observed from their expeditions aborigines jumped with flexible bamboo and vines as a form of play.
Jump rope activity can be traced back to 1600 A.D. when the Egyptians used vines for jumping. At one time, rope skipping was thought of only as a game for little girls who chanted rhymes while jumping and has, from the boys' perspective, traditionally been looked at as a girl's game.
After World War II, Double Dutch was found on the sidewalks of New York City, where mothers and neighbors could safely supervise children. The girls used clothesline rope. By the late 1950s, a number of municipal and societal factors had made the game nearly extinct. Never extinguished, Double Dutch has been back on the streets and has moved into international competition in the last quarter-century. Players jump over a rope.
If children play by themselves, they take one end of the rope in each hand and swing it over and under their body, jumping when it passes beneath the feet. With at least three children, the game goes a little differently. Two children hold the ends of the rope and turn it while the third child jumps over the middle. The rope turners should be far enough apart that the rope goes over the jumper's head but just barely touches the ground as it goes under the feet. If more than three people are playing, the jumper loses her turn if she catches the rope in her feet or has cleared the rope a set number of times. If the rope is still turning when her turn is up, she jumps out, and the next player jumps in.
Experienced jumpers can make the game more challenging by hopping on one foot, bouncing a ball, picking up and putting down a stone in between jumps, or jumping high enough for the rope to pass twice before they land. They can also add styles and tricks such as pop-ups, mambos, and around the world. Beyond the fun and play, Double Dutch is great exercise.
Reference:How They Play.com
Pushback.us
Wikipedia.org
The African American Atlas
Black History & Culture an Illustrated Reference
by Molefi K. Asante and Mark T. Mattson
Macmillan USA, Simon & Schuster, New York
ISBN 0-02-864984-2
A style of jump-rope, where two ropes are moved counter to one another. One person stands on each end of the whirling rope-complex, and a third person jumps in the middle of them. Double dutch requires significantly more concentration than standard jump roping.
Evolving from Africa, Double Dutch is historically a jump rope game played originally by Aboriginal/Black children (mainly girls) in rural and urban areas in America. The first concrete evidence of jump rope activity can be seen in medieval paintings where children roll hoops and jump rope down the cobblestone streets of Europe. Although the exact origin of jump rope activity is unclear, early explorers observed from their expeditions aborigines jumped with flexible bamboo and vines as a form of play.
Jump rope activity can be traced back to 1600 A.D. when the Egyptians used vines for jumping. At one time, rope skipping was thought of only as a game for little girls who chanted rhymes while jumping and has, from the boys' perspective, traditionally been looked at as a girl's game.
After World War II, Double Dutch was found on the sidewalks of New York City, where mothers and neighbors could safely supervise children. The girls used clothesline rope. By the late 1950s, a number of municipal and societal factors had made the game nearly extinct. Never extinguished, Double Dutch has been back on the streets and has moved into international competition in the last quarter-century. Players jump over a rope.
If children play by themselves, they take one end of the rope in each hand and swing it over and under their body, jumping when it passes beneath the feet. With at least three children, the game goes a little differently. Two children hold the ends of the rope and turn it while the third child jumps over the middle. The rope turners should be far enough apart that the rope goes over the jumper's head but just barely touches the ground as it goes under the feet. If more than three people are playing, the jumper loses her turn if she catches the rope in her feet or has cleared the rope a set number of times. If the rope is still turning when her turn is up, she jumps out, and the next player jumps in.
Experienced jumpers can make the game more challenging by hopping on one foot, bouncing a ball, picking up and putting down a stone in between jumps, or jumping high enough for the rope to pass twice before they land. They can also add styles and tricks such as pop-ups, mambos, and around the world. Beyond the fun and play, Double Dutch is great exercise.
Reference:How They Play.com
Pushback.us
Wikipedia.org
The African American Atlas
Black History & Culture an Illustrated Reference
by Molefi K. Asante and Mark T. Mattson
Macmillan USA, Simon & Schuster, New York
ISBN 0-02-864984-2
Great exercises included in double dutch world:
double dutch.
hula hooping.
hopscotch.
Chinese rope,
& hand games
Connect with over Forty Double Dutch and Join a double dutch club here!
Official website for Over Forty Double Dutch Club
double dutch.
hula hooping.
hopscotch.
Chinese rope,
& hand games
Connect with over Forty Double Dutch and Join a double dutch club here!
Official website for Over Forty Double Dutch Club
HOW TO DOUBLE DUTCH
