remember a game played with two long bamboo poles with a person on each end

[Tuesday Afternoon]

clapping them down to the ground twice and then together once and a person would jump in while the poles were clapping the ground and out when the poles were clapped together otherwise your foot would get clapped by the poles and you were out and the next person jumped in ...
did it originate in Jamaica or Africa, maybe

yeah, that game.

remember it?

what is it called?

thanks.

[dembotoz]

1. it was called damn that hurts

remember it
never played it
it required coordination--which i still do not have

[Arugula Latte]

13. Also known as "Ow! Shit! My toe!"

[LeftofObama]

2. I remember it, but I don't know what it's called.

It always reminded me of double dutch jump rope which I could never do either.

[Tuesday Afternoon]

4. it did have a jump rope rhythm to it, seems like they went faster as time went on, too.

maybe it was called ankle getter ...

[pinboy3niner]

3. Philippine National dance - Tinikling!

http://www.likha.org/galleries/tinikling.asp

[Tuesday Afternoon]

7. that is it, thanks for the link.

[cyberswede]

5. Tininkling

We used to do it as kids - funny we were just talking about that last weekend at my mom's birthday.

[Tuesday Afternoon]

8. I heard a song on the radio today that had

that sound and the same beat and it reminded me of playing that game as a child.

[mimi85]

9. Wow!

I had never seen this - absolutely amazing! It's hard to imagine how much practice this must take and how young one must be to even start! They don't even look down at their feet - I am truly impressed by their dexterity.
Cyberswede, how old we're you when you did this? As Rachel would say, this is the best new thing in the world today(even though it's not new).

[cyberswede]

11. We were just dinging around back then...

I was probably 7 or 8, and my sisters were 13 or 14.

We would just tap on the ground twice, then clap them together twice, over and over - no fancy rhythms or anything. Whoever was "dancing" would mostly just jump on one foot or both feet between or outside the sticks - and we definitely watched our feet!

[Moondog]

6. I've seen it. But never heard a name associated with it.

[olddots]

10. thats going way back

I saw it played and it seemed like a game of skill and bruised ankles .

[Duer 157099]

12. Man! I was just thinking of that on Sunday!

During the Amazing Race, in Vietnam, they did that and then I remembered we did that in school back in the day, it was very popular and then POOF! it just vanished and I never thought about it until Sunday.

I don't know what it is called but I was very good at it. We grew bamboo just so we could play that.

[TVannie]

14. Summer Bible School

We learned to play this game in Summer Bible School in my hometown on Lake Superior. I remember it because I got my leg clobbered by one of the bamboo sticks. I started to cry and ran inside the church to my classroom so no one could see me cry. My teacher came and put Bactine on my leg. It was scraped from my knee to my ankle and it really hurt. Then she gave me red Kool Aid and a sugar cookie, which cures just about anything and I was able to get ahold of myself. I was just a little girl, but I was very embarrassed about getting hurt and crying. I also remember we sang "Kumbayah" many times that summer.

[Tuesday Afternoon]

16. Welcome to DU, TVannie!!

Red Kool Aid but, sugar cookies have magic powers

[arcane1]

15. I never played it(?), and now I'm racking my brain trying to remember why I am familiar with it

Must've been a tv show... but I remember it being associated with sore ankles!

[Tuesday Afternoon]

17. yes, if your ankles got caught in the poles, it Hurt

owie!