As a young girl, one of my favorite playground activities was jumping rope. Much later, I discovered the wedding reception gag of tying cloth napkins together and having the bridal party jump rope on the dance floor. (I lasted quite a while at my wedding; some things you don’t lose, I guess.) And now my girls are jumping rope with their friends at school.
We used to kick it up a notch on the playground, using two ropes, running in-jumping-running out, and having more than one girl jump at a time. But the video below of a group called Kings Firecrackers (performing at the US Naval Academy) is jumping rope like I’ve never seen it. (Check out a higher resolution version from this link.) My girls were wowed watching it last night (and so was my boy). Find eight minutes today and watch the whole thing. I’ll bet you’ve never seen someone jump rope on her belly before!
(hat tip: Peter Raven)
Shimshonit 
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