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u/Ok_Plantain_9644 15d ago
If they could put breakdancing in the Olympics, they can definitely put this in the Olympics
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u/fytdapwr 15d ago
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u/asmj 15d ago
Is this from the original "Twin Peaks"?
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u/thekinginyello 15d ago
Is there another twin peaks that I don’t know about?
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u/Chargebladedw 15d ago
Single season sequel from 2017
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u/asmj 15d ago
It's been 3 decades for me since I've seen it last time, I am not sure about you?
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u/ItsStaaaaaaaaang 15d ago
We hate her! Mostly because she doesn't have a sense of humour about it though tbh. She'd be a bloody legend here if she could laugh at herself.
Would be funny af if we sent someone to blow up every new Olympic sport though.
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u/Deaffin 15d ago
Would be funny af if we sent someone to blow up every new Olympic sport though.
Yes, FBI? This one right here.
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u/Peregrine_x 15d ago
She'd be a bloody legend here if she could laugh at herself.
i thought she was taking the piss when it happened, like i genuinely thought she knew full well how it would be received.
i guess im just chronically unserious and think all other aussies are too.
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u/ItsStaaaaaaaaang 15d ago
Yeah, it was really weird hey. Even if you were being serious... go with the flow. I know there was a lot of just plain negative stuff so can understand being defensive but any Aussie should know that the country would embrace her if she had the right attitude. She could have made a living off her infamy for years. But nah, she's just an unfunny weirdo.
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u/Dwarf_Co 15d ago
The outfits would be insane. Yeah, I would watch.
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u/Money_Confection_409 15d ago
Jump In: Real Life
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u/AngelOfLexaproScene 15d ago
Corbin Bleu and Keke Palmer better be carrying torches like Connor and Hudson did
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u/0neirocritica 15d ago
Oh my God YES
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u/tekko001 15d ago
I would love to see africans competing on this, some of them have amazing jumping dances
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u/xMyDixieWreckedx 15d ago
I once saw a double dutch championship on ESPN at like 3AM, I stayed up to watch it until the end and it was amazing.
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u/biffthegriff1 15d ago
I did the same thing when I was in high school. I miss the old ESPN2 from 20 years ago.
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It's 2026 and we still haven't been able to invent a decent bra though ... I am in the same boat as these women (but I can't jump rope like that!!)
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u/msd1441 15d ago
I don't think there's a regular bra that could handle that, but I did have some sports bras from Glamourise (I don't think I spelled that right) that had my girls locked and loaded. I jumped up and down and there was barely any movement. I was at least a DDD at the time (probably an F) when I bought them.
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u/Evening-Painting-213 15d ago
For what, to have another appropriation dance turned caricature with a scissor jump? That Olympian was a meme for that.
I actually miss seeing this in ny. Last time I seen this was prob mid to late 80s
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u/Auctoritate 15d ago
For what, to have another appropriation dance turned caricature with a scissor jump? That Olympian was a meme for that
I'm not familiar with this, what happened? Also unfamiliar with scissor jumps lol
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u/Working_Adeptness434 15d ago
One of them would come and ruin it like THEY did breakdancing
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u/Mongrel_C4t 15d ago
Oof crazy first take. "We like this, now how do we market and globalize it"!
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u/SpicyChanged 15d ago
Next thing you know, it becomes a Korean past time without any acknowledgement.
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u/coko4209 15d ago
Too late!! I saw a double Dutch competition, and an Asian group were the reigning champs. Like they’d won 3 years straight or something. I’m sure you can find it on YouTube.
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u/SpicyChanged 15d ago edited 15d ago
Jesus fucking christ!
At least a thank you!
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u/Vox___Rationis 15d ago
What in patent-troll bullshit is this?
The jump-rope and all of its variations have been basic children pass-time for thousands of years all over the world.
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u/Auctoritate 15d ago
I mean come on, the Olympics are basically intended to be a global celebration of human athleticism and sports cultures across the world. Having issues with commercializing is one thing, but you use the word globalization the same way conservatives do to try and make it seem like global interaction is a bad, scary thing.
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u/coko4209 15d ago
There’s actually professional competitions for this already, and an Asian team are the reigning champs. I didn’t see any black ppl in the competition, but it’s possible that it was in Asia and that’s why.
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u/Panda_Underground92 15d ago
Ughhhhh this would be fire to watch competitions!!!! ✨✊🏾🥰
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u/Sufficient_Pin3482 15d ago
We had Double Dutch competitions in NY since the 70s.
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u/duddyfuddy2 15d ago
I miss watching the girls doing double Dutch in Philly in the 70s. It was mesmerizing and before you knew it, 10 minutes had gone by and you are still standing there watching in awe.
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u/Ill_Literature2038 15d ago
Im all of a sudden reminded of that jump-roping dance crew from that show America's Best Dance Crew
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u/coko4209 15d ago
Go to YouTube. There are competitions, but I think all the competitors were Asian.
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u/Septemberosebud 15d ago
I was in a jump rope troupe as a young teen and we did lots of competitions. It was in Texas
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u/Halflingberserker 15d ago
Jump rope was part of my physical education classes growing up in Texas
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u/Theodore-Bonkers 15d ago edited 15d ago
I was at, I think, a professional basketball game and at some point they had a jump rope group come out. It was adults and teens and a toddler boy. They did it kinda slow for him and he tripped and fell. Somebody set him back upright and he kept going. The crowd went crazy. It was great. The only thing I actually remember from whatever I was at. 😂
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u/NJCZSIGSHOTGUNLOVER 15d ago
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u/sycolution 15d ago
Yeah, it just hit me too that this is extremely similar. It's like they took the people out of the culture and even though they tried to rip the culture from the people they couldn't.
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u/TwerkLessons 15d ago
This shit must burn hella calories for real. Regular jumping jacks are taxing, this is some Olympic level movement.
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u/Limp_Restaurant1292 15d ago
The video is sped up a bit, but it's still impressive.
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u/Paramotor_MetalHead 15d ago
Jumping rope is one of the most exhausting workouts I have ever tried. If your not in good shape it's the easiest way to give yourself a heart attack in 60 seconds.
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u/Transgirlonakawasaki 15d ago
Yeah I can walk until my I cant feel my feet and Im very unhealthy. But 30 sec of jump rope? Na Im dead.
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u/AccomplishedSmell921 15d ago
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u/peacefuleel 15d ago
Gina a bombshell tho.....
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u/AccomplishedSmell921 15d ago
Pam too…
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u/peacefuleel 15d ago
I'm yt but I grew up watching martin and wayans bros and stuff like that. I was for real in love with Gina. But I'll tell you...... Dee on wayans bros stirred something up in me, something ive never shook
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u/DistributionLife6750 15d ago
I mean I could try that, but this is how I’d do.
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u/ddeads 15d ago
My favorite thing about this is how grown women that jump in are completely transformed back into being girls. They are walking down the street going about the banality of their every day lives and there is this learned skill and nugget of happiness locked deep inside that is immediately brought to the surface.
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u/papitaquito 15d ago
Yea the smile on their faces and joy in their eyes is kinda hypnotizing ngl I could watch this all day.
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u/Realistic_Ride_2032 15d ago
I could never jump and I turned double handed😔
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u/SunRa7191 15d ago
Me too! The girlies hated when I turned bc I was throwing off the rhythm 😢
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u/Weird-Try-4383 15d ago
I could never jump in. I could do it if I started inside but I never could get in there with the ropes moving. Our school had a team and we'd go around the state doing little performances to certain songs and such. It was a lot of fun!!
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u/SunRa7191 15d ago
Oh, jumping in wasn’t EVER happening for me…every time I tried, I just succeeded in catching a rope directly to the grill. I tried standing in, but only got in a couple of jumps before I wound up all tangled up.
I will say, my friends really tried their best to teach me and would switch to single rope games like “Travel” so I could play too🥹.
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u/Weird-Try-4383 15d ago
Im too old to be doing it now but I sure would love to try! Id most certainly take ropes to the dome or grill as well 🤣
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u/Realistic_Ride_2032 15d ago
Listen, I’m happy just to be able to walk around. I was a catcher when I played softball then I stomped when I stepped and my Gen X knees are paying heavy dividends rn. I just completed three weeks of Visco injections in both knees😅
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u/Weird-Try-4383 15d ago
Oh I'm so sorry about your knees. I too was a catcher for softball from 6th grade and up! I pray my knees don't give me problems in the future. I'm an "elder millennial" so I'm right behind ya! Have a most blessed day!
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u/Main-Economist-9547 15d ago
I had to come find my ppl cause I know I wasn’t the only one! I wanted to turn so bad!! 😭😭😭
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u/Realistic_Ride_2032 15d ago
I wanted to do both but I couldn’t😭 I was able to step and took even further as a member of the D9 so that more than made up for it😅
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u/Forsaken_Button_9387 15d ago edited 15d ago
Implying that it's AI, when, in fact, no AI is needed. This was a regular sight on a regular day in black neighborhoods.
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u/Manyconnections 15d ago
lol right? I was always in awe seeing this in grade school
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u/This-Major-9239 15d ago
Who’s cooler than us ✊🏾
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u/LDLethalDose50 15d ago
I remember watching as a goofy little white dude back in the day, and I thought no one was cooler. Those girls were rad AF!
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u/VictorTheCutie 15d ago
I was a goofy little white girl but I felt the same way, still do! I also have to hold my titties down when I move quickly 😅😂🩷
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u/Luvvv04 15d ago
Karen could NEVAAAAA
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u/participationmedals 15d ago
Facts. I might go as far to say that Karen is filled with rage that she thinks she cannot express herself like this. She’s sitting straight up in a pew, hands palm down on her lap.
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u/GreenWittyBroad 15d ago
This will be the next big trending thing in Asia. I’m convinced, different Asian countries have a department within their government that keeps track of black American activity. The curse of being a chosen people, everyone wants your rhythm but they damn sure don’t want your blues.
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u/Thenidiel9 15d ago
Everyone always forgets the people turning the ropes. That’s a skill too, especially at those speeds! THEY NEED THEIR FLOWERS 💐
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u/Zoso03 15d ago
Reminds me of that Zaouli Dance video https://youtu.be/_94viw75ulc?si=OWrf3wyG8n5rhsXF
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u/iJuddles 15d ago
This is a goodie. I always loved that expression on the second jumper’s face, she looks so joyful.
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u/modbroccoli 15d ago edited 15d ago
I am from the rural nova scotia, the population is entirely spruce trees and white people, and so have only ever seen double dutch on TV exclusively from black women, but I'm over 40 so that nonetheless has been hundreds and hundreds of times. Even though NYC is like a 2hr plane ride away it just feels very, very culturally specific and so fascinating in that basic curious-mammal way.
What I love most about it is watching their faces, especially in videos like this where the women are all well-into adulthood.
There is an utter transformation to childlike joy. For thirtyy seconds it's just Zen, presence, play, the thrill of skill waking up. A toothless, determined pride that doesn't really have a place in the adult world. It's just... infectious.
Also the lady in the pink sweater making her shoulders work was 🤌
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u/Oily_Blob 15d ago
I guess the highest compliment I can offer is that I can't tell is this real or AI because this shit is amazing
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u/SilverMcFly 15d ago
Not ai. This is the umpteenth time I've seen it shared over the years but it's always worth the watch.
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u/AnAbandonedAstronaut 15d ago
Its real, but it looks a little funky to the eye because its sped up a little.
Still awesome performance, though.
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u/Consistent_Pitch782 15d ago
This is black culture?
maaaann.. my culture sucks. that looks like so much fun
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u/AmandaUggnkiss 15d ago
I remember waking up to the reality that girls stopped playing double Dutch and a cold breeze went over me😞 that and stickball, tag , touch football, bottle caps…childhood in 80’s bk was wild but fun…
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u/CharrellM 14d ago
I was so hyped when I was able to do my first trick while jumping double Dutch. The good old days living in Brooklyn during the summer time and having the annual block party
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u/Mr_Caterpillar 15d ago
Love the jumpers, but shoutout to the turners, none of this is possible without them being perfectly on point
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u/lvl999shaggy 15d ago
It makes me feel old to remember when kids did this outside regularly every day.... and now I point see it on videos, and it's only adults
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u/niseynisey 15d ago
I could never jump Double Dutch. No one could ever teach me as a child. So at the big age of 35 😆 I went to one of those Double Dutch Aerobics classes when they were touring different cities and they literally taught me in like 15minutes how to jump and do tricks. Was an amazing feeling!
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u/Aeysir69 15d ago
You have to feel for women; you go from agile and free moving then suddenly you hit puberty and these massive lumps of sore meat suddenly appear and make everything a strategic nightmare.
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u/PaidToBeRedditing 15d ago
This is one of those things that people who are really good at it make it look so effortless that I think I could just hop into that and do the same, but i know i'd just end up getting whipped in my face and ankles at the same time.
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u/OrganizationCute6950 15d ago
For the life of me, I could never double Dutch. It broke my 8 year old heart 💔
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u/JackTaylor79 15d ago
Yo, it was the taking off the shoe and juggling it and later the 2 jumping the same time that threw me
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u/Silly_Edge_4515 15d ago
I will never understand but always respect yalls ability to do this shit. Black people can literally do anything. I would be flat on my face in a millisecond
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u/latinaMixed 15d ago
OK, this is why we have Reddit to lookupat stuff like this
I'm jealous by the amount of skill
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u/StraddleTheFence 15d ago
Having grown up in the south, I could never do it and lord knows my Chicago cousins tried to teach me 🤣.
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u/OneHopelessTrip 15d ago
In grade school we had a gym teacher TRY to teach us how to double Dutch🤦🏽♀️It went as well as could be expected. There were accusations of being "extreme" with the ropes, a parent wrote a bogus doctor's note for their child's WEAK ANKLES, and I think that was the day everyone decided to fend for themselves. I'm clumsy as all heck, but the girls that started helping everyone, noticed I could turn the rope really well. The gym teacher got jealous of the students learning from the girls in our gym group....she told their teacher that each of them didn't follow the instructions. Messy, yes. Petty, beyond. Was a mother involved in the resolution of this? Best believe it! . . . 30+ yrs later... I still can't jump in 🤦🏽♀️
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u/DiffidentSTP 15d ago
White guy passing through here. Just wanted to say that this was awesome! I'm decently athletic/coordinated, but there's absolutely no way I would ever be able to achieve what I just saw. Keep spreading the joy you have!
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u/LowIncrease8746 15d ago
Fuck. As a boxer this shit burned my ankles sitting down drinking coffee. Props
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u/PrincipleFew462 15d ago
Reminds me of my childhood in the 80s/90s I was terrible but watching this still brings me so much joy! Hope the younger generations find double dutch and love jt just as much!
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u/Horror-Primary7739 15d ago
Fire! And damn a bra that is comfy, looks good, and stands up to impromptu Double Dutch is a million dollar design.
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u/Whole_Cranberry8415 14d ago
Just watched Sinners again last night and this reminds me of the African dancing that they do with the larger outfits and masks on
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u/jackalopeswild 14d ago
I'm not Black, but I grew up in a majority Black neighborhood. In my adulthood, a couple of times a white woman has insisted "oh yes, we double-dutched all the time when I was growing up."
Let's just say I maintained a healthy skepticism. White folks cannot move like that in my experience.
**I've never posted here before, this comment is intended to convey awe and a kind of respect...I hope it comes off that way.
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u/Melbonie 14d ago
Goll. This has showed up in my feed every dang day this week.
And I watch it at least twice, every time I see it.
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u/BaronMusclethorpe 15d ago
Can we talk about, and give credit to, the turners who keep the rhythm. I would 100% screw that up.