playing elastics at school

[crisgal]

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!!

[Lil O'lady]

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....

[crisgal]

that's it french skipping. And as you completed the complicated manouvres, you moved the "lazzy" upwards. We had a friend who could do underarms. She went on to a successful gymnast!

[Lil O'lady]

It always seemed to coincide with wearing socks not woolly tights. I can remember the elastics would pluck out my leg hairs painfully!

[crisgal]

ha ha that's true! If you had buckles it was a nightmare. I remember screaming "It was me shoe!" and going off in a huff!

[crisgal]

lol. you've reminded me about shouting "first ender!" so that you got the next go.

[jojojojoanne]

prefer pogs and slammers and nearest to the wall the original polly pockets were cute though had a whole purse full!

[crisgal]

ooh, jojo, pogs and slammers are practically futuristic to me!
I did have some klackers though!

[saxy_jag]

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.

[gossipgirl]

omg that takes me back!
england, ireland, scotland, wales
inside outside inside out ...................lol did you used to do that? also can you remember playing stuck in the mud and kiss chase?

[crisgal]

i don't recognise the line one, but we loved "two-sy ball" I still have a go now. My little girl is learning at the mo. It's a shame the playground isn't full of kids playing these games now. I work in a school and watch them all - just wandering around all playtime.

[Lil O'lady]

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.

[monty0703]

When we played them in school, we used to call them Chinese ropes. Stil don't have a clue why though. Hee hee, I forgot about tucking my skirt into my pants! Ah the memories...

[hc4361]

It IS called Chinese Skipping.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OCDT-iQWXT8
I don't know why either.

[hc4361]

And Chinese Ropes.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WimvdaXOfEM