Hi Alison - when I was a little kid in Detroit, girls skipped rope, moving their two feet separately. Boys, when they swallowed their pride and did it, jumped - with both feet together. But we kept our mouths shut and didn't say any of those cute little sissy chants, since they were for girls.

By the way, I was able to find a link to the Jumprope Hypertext Archive. It's back in a nifty hypertext form at a university in Florida. I advise anybody who's interested to skip right over and check this site.

-Joe Offer-