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Thread #35850   Message #4174414
Posted By: meself
12-Jun-23 - 02:40 PM
Thread Name: Help with playing 'Chinese Jump Rope'
Subject: RE: Help with playing 'Chinese Jump Rope'
I've been trying to figure out if 'Yogi' and 'Chinese jump rope' are the same thing - I don't think they are, based on on what I see in the linked videos. As I recall Yogi in the 1960s in Ontario, two girls would put the long elastic around their ankles, then one girl would do the in-and-out and over and back - taking a foot out then catching the elastic on the inside of the ankle and carrying it overtop the other side of the elastic - in various combinations. One or both girls would chant in time, although I can't remember any of the rhymes. A girl could play it by herself by stretching the one end of the elastic around, for example, chair legs.