Well in my neck of the woods, we played a game with linked elastic bands but it was nothing like what is recorded here. We would like tham together making one long strand. Then standing apart, the two 'ends' (those holding the elastics) would put it at different levels for the others to jump. Starting at ground, then ankle, knee, hip, waist, underarm, shoulder, ear, top of head and high sky. You could as the 'yogi' (what we called the band) touch it and bring it down some, but you had to run at the line and jump, not stand and bring it down. When you couldn't get over, you bacame the end and not the jumpsey.