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playing elastics at school
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i've just been teaching my daughter how to play elastics. I think it's really called chinese jump rope. It really took me back! Does anyone else remember playing it? It was usually just us girls.
I hope she gets to like it and starts a craze at school. It doesn't cost anything and keeps you fit. I tell you what - a few jumps and i was knackered!!
I hope she gets to like it and starts a craze at school. It doesn't cost anything and keeps you fit. I tell you what - a few jumps and i was knackered!!
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.We played either with rubber bands looped together, or a yard of knicker elastic (not our own, that was needed). We seemed to have sort of crazes that went on one after the other - elastics, skipping ropes, two-ball. I think we also called elastics French skipping. Sort of like a three-person cat's cradle, as I recall....
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Remember 'double-ball' - two tennis balls bounced and caught against a wall?
And that game in the playground where you formed a big long line and ran across the playground, and the one on the end would stop and pull the line round. The ones on the other end had to run faster and faster and some went their length. We got stopped from playing that when a little kid put his teeth through his top lip.
And that game in the playground where you formed a big long line and ran across the playground, and the one on the end would stop and pull the line round. The ones on the other end had to run faster and faster and some went their length. We got stopped from playing that when a little kid put his teeth through his top lip.
saxy - that long -line -whizzing-round thing was even more deadly when done on an icy playground!
There was an ongoing game that we called 'tiggy off the ground' - whoever was 'on' chased you to tig you, so then you would be 'on', but you couldn't be tigged if you were standing on something like a wall or clinging to a tree like a monkey. There would be rows about the smart so and so's who reckoned a piece of litter counted as 'off the ground'.
Then there were crazes from time to time for doing handstands against the wall in the playground - obviously, with skirts tucked into knicker legs.
There was an ongoing game that we called 'tiggy off the ground' - whoever was 'on' chased you to tig you, so then you would be 'on', but you couldn't be tigged if you were standing on something like a wall or clinging to a tree like a monkey. There would be rows about the smart so and so's who reckoned a piece of litter counted as 'off the ground'.
Then there were crazes from time to time for doing handstands against the wall in the playground - obviously, with skirts tucked into knicker legs.
And Chinese Ropes.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WimvdaXOfEM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WimvdaXOfEM
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