Nina O, April 27, 2007
This is me doing what I do...
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This video shows the correct way of turning Double Dutch ropes, not the incorrect "double handed way.
Latest revision- May 2, 2022
A few general comments about turning the rope in Double Dutch are also included in this post.
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Thanks to all those who are associated with the video that is embedded in this post and thanks to all those who are quoted in this post.
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All of these excerpts and comments refer to recreational Double Dutch. However, the definition for "double handed" and the comments about what is required to be a good turner (except for singing ability) also pertain to the Double Dutch sport.
DEFINITION FOR "DOUBLE HANDED" (as it refers to Double Dutch)
"Double handed" is an insult that refers to a person who is unable to maintain a steady rhythm while turning the ropes for Double Dutch jump rope.
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Excerpt #1
From https://www.drebonywhite.com/blog/2016/9/12/lorem-ipsum-dolor-sit-amet-3-xgt35 Double Dutch by Dr. Ebony White, April 26, 2020
"Kids these days just don't know the fun we had playing outside when we were younger. We did have TVs...Yes. Game consoles...Sure! However, although a different world, Mario Bros, and Sonic The Hedgehog were entertaining, there was nothing like the competition of seeing who could last longer doing dance steps, while singing "Soul Train comes on Channel Five" between two clothes lines that doubled as disciplinary tools. (If you know, you know).
a steady rhythm ,(they would be shamed, and banned from ever turning the rope again. Also, you had to sing the song for the jumper. Plain and simple, being the rope turner requited talent"...
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This article was written in all capital letters. I changed that writing style to conform with the other excerpts and quoted that are found in this pancocojams post.
Excerpt #2
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Excerpt #3
From https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-1987-06-12-8702130338-story.html Double Dutch Jumpers Know The Ropes by Nancy Maes, Jun 12, 1987
"Learning how to move into the ropes without getting tangled up in them is part of the skill involved. But it is just as important to perfect the technique of turning. In double dutch, the hands and wrists do the turning and the arms stay as still as possible. The two rope turners hold a rope in each hand and turn them inward in circles, the left hand turning clockwise, the right hand counterclockwise.
''You have to turn them with a very even rhythm at a steady pace so you get an eggbeater effect,'' Teamer says, ''and the rope must touch the floor so you hear it clacking when you jump.'' When Teamer learned, she says, ''friends helped you turn by standing behind you and holding your hands and turning with you.
But for a while double dutch disappeared from the city
streets. ''It kind of died out in the `50s,'' Frazier says. ''Kids started
doing other things and jumping rope was not popular.''
The first time double-dutch rope jumping was seen in the U.S. was some 300 years ago. The name itself reveals its origins. Children of Dutch settlers in New Amsterdam--today known as New York City--jumped with two ropes. When the English children saw them, they named the game ''double dutch.''
Although double dutch almost disappeared after the `50s, here and there, now and then, a few girls still gathered to pound the sidewalk with their rhythmic jumping to the clack of the rope on the cement to see how long or how fast they could jump.
In 1973, two New York City community affairs police officers came across just such a group of girls. It was a folk tradition formed in the streets with idiosyncracies and chants and challenges that varied with the creative inspiration of the neighborhood or the city where you lived. The two officers decided to organize the game. They developed a standard set of rules and created the American Double Dutch League (P.O. Box 776, Bronz, N.Y. 10451).
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The turners are strong enough to turn ropes that are long
enough for two or three girls to jump at the same time. They know how to turn
the ropes outward in what is called double irish and one girl can hold the two
ropes in just one hand and turn them."....
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SELECTED COMMENTS ABOUT BEING DOUBLE HANDED IN DOUBLE DUTCH JUMP ROPE
From https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IrW_5jXcwwU Double Dutch after school, published by Mdowdell98, Sep 15, 2006
"Ok what does is mean when someone says "the rope is DOUBLE HANDED!"??
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"@LoveyBabe1213 it means u cant turn"
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3. Buzzcut. 2017
"I remember this in gym class. I loved the jumping but my
teacher had me mostly turn the ropes 'cause other people kept messing up."
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4. outcast566, 2017
"Girls are good at that sh&t*. Us dudes can't mess with
them. I could never get the timing right to jump in, and when I turned, they'd
be like "boyyy you double handed." Lol"
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*This is the way that this word was spelled in this comment.
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Discussion thread #2
From https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_tkMEjoIEwU published by KNES 215 Basic Double Dutch, Apr 21, 2012
"the worst turning ive ever seen. have you no rhythm? good
lord. you cant hear that thats wrong? how can one jump when the ropes dont
touch the ground evenly? what are you suppose to jump like a crazy person?
people with no rhythm shouldnt do rhythmic things"
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2. Makeda Knight, 2016
"lol, im 30 sec into the video thinking the same thing."
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3. blssngszn, 2017
"You guys are holding the rope wrong"
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Discussion thread #3
1. taccora, 2015
"I'm that weirdo who can only jump double dutch if the ropes
are being turned fast. I missed this
when I moved down south because no one knew how to play but one girl who was
from Philly and you need at least 3 people to ensure everyone gets a turn to
jump. Whenever the other girls turned,
you could just hear the double handed tap tap and that just screwed up the
rhythm."
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2. Jordan A., 2017
"Damn back in the day apparently I wasn't turning the rope
right and I didn't know how to jump 🤕 so all I could do was
watch lol"
3.
..."We would use the plastic clothes line it was the best! Just the right weight and you could hear it hit the ground so it kept the beat as you turned the rope."
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4. Katrina B, 2020
"@Dionni Thompson I just made the same comment. And heaven help you if you were "double-handed". Kiss of death."
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5. Kall Me Kiki, 2019
"Favorite pass time as a child, i always hated when somebody
turning the rope for me was double handed 😒😣😄😂💃"
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6. T Jones, 2019
"They're turning too, slow and somebody doublehanded! Messing up the flow and the rythym of the
jump."
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7. Z H, 2019
"They were turning so double handed💁🏽♀"️
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8. Scorp1983, 2019
"Is there a double Dutch challenge happing? Lol I use to play
as a kid, idk if I can even jump now. “You double handed” 😂
our Turing of the rope was a aggressive, I mean going in!!"
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9. Kall Me Kiki, 2019
"Favorite pass time as a child, i always hated when somebody turning the rope for me was double handed 😒😣😄😂💃
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10. Katrina B, 2020
"@Terri Quinn
i love that someone else remembers what double-handed means. It was the
kiss of death. I loved jumping (with style), but loved turning too - get low,
get the rhythm, pat your feet or bounce with the beat, and sing the double
Dutch songs, if course."
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Discussion thread #4
From https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wI46rsQR83k 38th Annual Double Dutch Championships, published by Theitemdotcom, Jun 17, 2011
Lazy Belphegore, 2020
"Looks to me like the rope turning is just as important as
the person jumping. The jumpers have to
keep off the ground at a set rhythm but the turners have to make sure the ropes
are always coming at the same time. And I never realized that the ropes were
going in opposite directions! There is no way I could do that! Much talent displayed here."
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Discussion thread #5
From https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P5eMHAFmPQ4 Black Magic - Those Magnificent Double Dutch Girls, published by David Hoffman (no date given, but almost all of the comments are from 2019)
1. Tai J, 2019
"In recess the popular girls double dutched and only some
people got the honor of turning... I used to go home and practice turning with
the fence nd the day I got to turn.. was such a rush I got to turn for 5 days
straight!!!!"
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2. ManScoutsofAmerica, 2019
"Double Dutch is tough. My sisters and their friend would do
it and it was the eighties so jump rope was an actual class in gym. I’ve tried
both positions and I think the rope swingers have the tougher of the two
jobs. I could jump as a kid but not
swing. I was always messing it up."
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"Swing" here means "to dance while jumping inside a single rope or double ropes that are turned by two other people (turners; enders).
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Discussion thread #6:
From https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VoghGYc8ok8 Double Dutch Practice Day 2 (LIVE), published by Toya Johnson, Jan 29, 2020
T parker, 2019
"I use to see people jump with long cable cords as ropes back
in the days and double handed turners was a no go😁"
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Discussion thread #7
From https://www.lipstickalley.com/threads/any-ladues-grew-up-knowing-how-to-double-dutch.1306957/ "Any Ladues Grew Up Knowing How to Double Dutch?"WNDRLST, Nov
2, 2017
1. bimchiq, Nov. 2, 2017
"I tried I really did, but I'm double handed"
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2. hopeful1, Nov 2, 2017
"Yes! Some of my sisters were saying we should bring a rope
to the next get-together. My arthritic knee says hell no. I was never on a team
but we played at recess and after school. You would have problems if you were
double handed and messed up someone's turn."
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3. KeeblerJoinz
bimchiq said
"I tried I really did, but I'm double handed"
me too sis. I'm left handed and when folks found out they
didn't want me to turn anymore :(
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Discussion thread #8
From https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XVx4ea4GauY Double Dutch Team MUST Win to Get to Nationals - Jump! (S1,
E1) | Full Episode | Lifetime, Lifetime, Jun 4, 2021
1. r light, 2021
"I sucked at jumping double dutch as a kid. I was always
afraid of jumping in...lol"
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2. Iris Esq., 2021
"Same and I cldnt turn. Was always told that I was double
handed."
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3. Fearnot NYC, 2021
"I can admit as a kid I was double handed....so I stuck to
single 🤣‼️"
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Discussion thread #9
From https://www.lipstickalley.com/threads/dbl-dutch.323634/ Dbl Dutch
Boss Leroux, April 12, 2011
"I remember we would go ask the girls down the street
"y'all wanna play competition?"
& my lil sis was "double handed" lol"
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Discussion thread #10
From https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fK9hK82r-AM Frankie Smith - Double Dutch Bus (Official Music Video) UnidiscMusic, May 17, 2011
Queenofthebricks, 2021
"I was about 7 when this song came out just learning to jump
double dutch, had to turn first to earn your jump if you were new or from
another neighborhood asking for a jump. You couldn't be double handed, if so,
they would let you know and weren't nice about it. Just drop the rope and get
out of here! This song blew my mind as
a child cause I couldn't relate double dutch with a bus and his voice was weird but intriguing. Gimme a ho! if you
gotcha funky bus fair! Lol and ho! to stop the ice cream truck. Those were the
days- Trenton N.J plus he said my name!
he- he!
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"Fair" is a typo for "fare" (money to ride the bus)
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