00:00It was something, an activity that you can do every day and you're not getting tired
00:20of it.
00:21Siri felt so sorry.
00:22She gonna push.
00:23She gonna jump.
00:24She gonna tap.
00:25She gonna tap.
00:26Smiling, right?
00:27Like, Double Dutch is everything to me.
00:28If I see anybody, I'm gonna jump in.
00:29Hey!
00:30Woo!
00:31Woo!
00:32Woo!
00:33Woo!
00:34Woo!
00:35Woo!
00:36Woo!
00:37Woo!
00:38Woo!
00:39Woo!
00:40Woo!
00:41Woo!
00:42Woo!
00:43Woo!
00:44Woo!
00:45Woo!
00:46Woo!
00:47Woo!
00:48Woo!
00:49Woo!
00:50Woo!
00:51Woo!
00:52Woo!
00:54Double Dutch definitely means going to the corner store, asking for a cable.
01:04As soon as you bring out the rope, someone's ready, everyone's ready to jump.
01:12Yes!
01:14That's what's up now!
01:16Double handed is when you're not turning in rhythm, so it sounds like it's skipping.
01:21In order to successfully jump, the ropes have to be going at a steady rhythm.
01:26Otherwise, you know, they'll trip up your feet.
01:28My fear with Double Dutch was always getting hit by the rope.
01:31So there's like a little trick to it.
01:33You know, when the ropes start turning, you kind of go out.
01:36Like, the rope goes out, you go out with the rope, and then when it goes in, you jump in.
01:40We're gonna see what happens.
01:52Yes!
01:53Yeah!
01:54I said yes, baby!
01:57That's Black girls.
01:58That's a thing that's passed down, you know?
02:00Like, Mom taught me how to jump rope.
02:01I had a sister, I had a mom.
02:03They jumped Double Dutch every day while I was out there playing football.
02:07Then when I wasn't playing football in the street, I was Double Dutching with my sister, so I learned at an early age.
02:25Whenever we get together for family reunions, somebody says, let's play Double Dutch.
02:29And I'm 58 years old now, so we're still saying, let's play Double Dutch.
03:07Woo!
03:08Yes!
03:37She gonna quit.
03:39She gonna walk.
03:41She gonna quit.
03:42We used to say this thing like, zero, zero, zing, zing, got no higher.
03:45So that's like the first, first, first person before number one.
03:48You learn these sort of little rhymes, right?
03:50Because it's like, even though I may not have been able to Double Dutch, it's not like I haven't turned the ropes for people who could Double Dutch, right?
03:56We gotta start in the middle.
03:58Ready, set, go.
04:02Woo!
04:06they playing games.
04:17I think I gotta teach all of this.
04:18No, no, no.
04:20Okay.
04:21You can, you can!
04:22No.
04:23No.
04:24No.
04:25No.
04:26No.
04:27At least you went in.
04:28You went in!
04:29Jumping is one of those recipes that we're, you know, in danger of losing.
04:34the babies and we're going to teach them too because you know we need to carry on the traditions.
04:38When I don't see ropes turning in the streets it reminds me of the culture that we lost.
04:48I love black women and girls full stop and anything that contributes to
04:56our love of self, our love of each other, our connecting with you know our
05:04bonds and our traditions and things in the ways that we grew up is important to me and for me
05:10double dutch is one of the major parts of my life for that so I'm always going to be pro-double
05:16dutch anywhere it shows up.
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