A book on Chinese Jump Rope, by Klutz.
He said it caught his eye as he was walking past a store in the airport and he knew how much I loved playing this as a child. I was so excited to get this! Leafing through teh pages, all those moves done a gazillion million times so many years ago, came flooding back. I played this game ALL THE TIME. I was neighborhood champ. And having a mom working in a clothing manufacture, I always had quite a few sets of elastics. I played till it got dark out,every day. If we didn't have enough players, we would improvise and use a chair or a reticent grown-up or a lamppost. Talk about being in shape, pure aerobics ;)
I am so glad someone thought of immortalizing this game in a book. And with spring now in the air, I can't wait to introduce this to my girls!
1 comment:
I love it! I used to play that a lot as a kid, funny how the stuff we used to find fun is now considered aerobics or excercise.
I often wonder if our couch was higer up would I have abs of steel like J does from all the climbing up and down. We were at the park a while ago and I thought I would show J how to go accross the monkey bars. Apparently my arms and body forgot how to do it, like I used to... can't swing for more than two! It is terrible really.
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