How the jump rope got its rhythm | Small Thing Big Idea, a TED series

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5 жыл бұрын

"Down down, baby, down down the roller coaster..." Hip-hop owes a lot to the queens of double dutch. Ethnomusicologist Kyra Gaunt takes us on a tour of the fascinating history of the jump rope.
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@venko6 Жыл бұрын

5 years after this video was published I still go back and watch it, it is so well made and fascinating.

@melodieanderson1698 2 жыл бұрын

‘The simplest objects can make the most creative uses” -that’s a keeper

@lucasaaron5195 5 жыл бұрын

I like these. Small things I never think about are so interesting when you dive into there history.

@willemvandebeek 5 жыл бұрын

Yes! This was fascinating! :)

@edsantosIsMusic 5 жыл бұрын

*their, not there

@krufty47 5 жыл бұрын

You mean small things YOU never think about. Not me. I always think about jump rope. Every single day. Check yourself

@lucasaaron5195 5 жыл бұрын

Deemz 47 but I’m talking about my self.

@krufty47 5 жыл бұрын

L yeah you better be

@T.image79 3 жыл бұрын

"Down down baby, down down the rollercoaster, sweet sweet baby I will never let you go." No pimp/player can beat them lyrics kid!! 😁😄😁👊🏿.

@rossiethomas 3 жыл бұрын

That’s was a hand game not a rope game

@giqwaju3691 2 жыл бұрын

I miss seeing double dutch going on in the neighborhood. It was still going strong in the early 80's.

@christinedenise7844 Жыл бұрын

I could listen to you speak all day. Your voice is so soothing!

@tarikkaramehmedovic8608 5 жыл бұрын

The series should have been called Small Thing Big Think.

@Gr95dc 5 жыл бұрын

I loved jumping rope when I was a kid, this video brought good memories ❤

@rachelle_banks 3 жыл бұрын

I really really like this. I never learned double dutch but we did jump rope quite a bit as children and all the fun little rhymes.

@katerinaprokopiou2217 5 жыл бұрын

What a great series! This video was eye opening for me, I didn’t know much about the jump rope - so interesting! I now have a newfound appreciation for the jump rope.

@SarahFloria 5 жыл бұрын

This is interesting and makes me love jump rope so much more. I was never great at it as a child, but that was also because it was the popular kids that would play jump rope. There were only so many ropes available to use at recess and the popular kids would hoard them. I never got the chance to become good at double dutch because I didn't have people to practice with. But I jumped rope solo all the time.

@Korgon2013 Жыл бұрын

This was very interesting. Cheers from across the world.

@microstar81 Жыл бұрын

This is so fascinating

@Afrinaturality 5 жыл бұрын

Enjoyed this.

@MarcRock76 5 жыл бұрын

It’s funny how we take these things for granted.

@gigglysamentz2021 5 жыл бұрын

The voice is very well made, it's really relaxing ^^

@JuaniqueVerde 5 жыл бұрын

👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾 loved this! I want to go play double Dutch now. 😊😇

@carprincess 5 жыл бұрын

I loved listening to the history of jump rope. I'm really excited about the next episode!

@adrivigo74 5 жыл бұрын

Super video!

@zak87 3 ай бұрын

She needs to be an audiobook narrator

@idaslapter5987 9 ай бұрын

thank you.

@robertbarclay4673 2 жыл бұрын

Hi! I love your skipping video - thanks for posting it! I am doing a music video of a song I have written about jumping rope. May I use parts of your video in my song?

@platoquemado 4 жыл бұрын

Love learning things like this

@gigglysamentz2021 5 жыл бұрын

These are so good!

@RushAthleticsTV 4 жыл бұрын

This is so cool! Amazing to see how powerful this small piece of plastic really is 🙏🏽💛🖤 #TheyRunWeFly

@ujiya922 5 жыл бұрын

It’s interesting to know the history of the jump rope

@julitasari7088 5 жыл бұрын

When i children, I'm and my friends everyday play jump rope. I hope can play jump rope again🤔. Miss memories 💕

@fitwithafrenchaccent7079 5 жыл бұрын

Very cool video. Thank you!

@LaVieestunSportMerveilleux 5 жыл бұрын

Very interesting!

@hazelbotedapgonzalez6172 2 жыл бұрын

Looking for the jump rope song “travel t” Chicago area double Dutch !!!! Help

@sandiashvrR 3 жыл бұрын

Quality 👍🏻

@aluisafigueiredo 5 жыл бұрын

Omg, that's amazing!

@94bhea 5 жыл бұрын

I love this series

@creatinotionchannel2680 5 жыл бұрын

This is great!

@jimwertel6599 5 жыл бұрын

So nice, thanks !

@SibylleLeon 5 жыл бұрын

It was totally different where I grew up; would be nice if videos specific to a certain country/culture were labelled as that. It's just as interesting for me to learn about how things developed in America, but I'd like to know that's what the video is about by its title.

@kyraocity Жыл бұрын

2:37 Down down baby and ends at 3:35

@msmorningstar2116 5 жыл бұрын

Growing up our entire street would jump rope. It was a blast.

@mascara1777 5 жыл бұрын

I grew up also learning chinese jump rope since I grew up in Flushing, Queens. There were always urban legends told about a girl who could do Chinese jump rope when the 2 girls who were holding the rope held it over their heads.

@chris8456 5 жыл бұрын

🤙❤️

@belindaedenfield883 5 жыл бұрын

I grew up in inner city Philadelphia... I'm white American and truly loved jumping double Dutch back in the day. One of the benefits of being bused in the 60's. Yes I was bused. ♡

@MeyerWerner 5 жыл бұрын

that is so cool 😎😀😉👍

@TS-tv2ik 5 жыл бұрын

I love Black culture!! Miss my jump roping days!

@mrorange90 4 жыл бұрын

Me too

@Mykasan 5 жыл бұрын

great episode

@Robersora 5 жыл бұрын

Oh wow, I'm a white European so I wasn't aware about anything I've learnt! Cool stuff!

@vsilligirlbestie3973 5 жыл бұрын

I can't do jump rope 😟😒

@fitwithafrenchaccent7079 5 жыл бұрын

I have a very simple video for beginners in 3 easy steps :)

@carlosbrinkmann5670 3 жыл бұрын

Se que no tiene mucho que ver con el thema pero ella esta contando como saltar ala cuerda llego a ellos en su tiempo y asu bario de amarica del norte por via de las personas de piel clara entonces ellos combirtieron este juego en lo que es hoy dia. es decir danos oro y haremos diamantes de ello..!

@blankness8 5 жыл бұрын

Nearly sixteen and still can't figure out how to jump rope.

@DungeonBricks 5 жыл бұрын

At 30 I quit trying

@nazrulislam1611 5 жыл бұрын

I learned when I was sixteen and half and now I am nearly nineteen. The trick is to not to bend the knees and the hips.

@breadsnake4960 5 жыл бұрын

im here

@phoebebaker1575 5 жыл бұрын

Overcoming that fear, so you can jump right in.

@aldenwang1813 4 жыл бұрын

Why do they always start this with a zoomed in footage of a person

@Blannkss 5 жыл бұрын

As a kid if we couldn’t find or get a jump rope we had to pull out the cable cords n call it a day. Or make some out of shoe strings.

@DadSkool 5 жыл бұрын

The girls in Australia played elastics, sort of the same way

@marklewis4793 5 жыл бұрын

..thats popular in SouthAfrica,..panty-'lastic is like 'training wheels'for a skip-rope.

@bdell519 2 жыл бұрын

I'm a fair skinned white woman but, omg my gf's and I loved this!!!

@juliansolomone7442 5 жыл бұрын

SEcond

@amit.deshmukh 5 жыл бұрын

10th

@Leotique 5 жыл бұрын

This video could have been made by VOX or Genius Deconstructed

@isolegendary1577 4 жыл бұрын

I disagree because it can change speed or power and I does not go tic, tic, ... Tic .. tic ..... Tic ......... Tic

@soosoofrosty4231 5 жыл бұрын

First

@tushargupta1999 5 жыл бұрын

Is this the origin of rap music ???

@rachelle_banks 3 жыл бұрын

No. But Rhythm has been a constant throughout Black Culture. Bebop was an off branch of a type of jazz. But well before that was rhythmic poetry even in Africa. So everything feeds into everything else.

@guitarscholar 5 жыл бұрын

Why do people always assume a thing is invented in one place and propagated around the world? Very simple things could be independently thought of in many places.

@user-ic7py7sj9x 5 жыл бұрын

מי שפה ממשרד החינוך שימו לייק

@microjem1250 5 жыл бұрын

נודר

@user-vy9co8rt3p 4 жыл бұрын

당신은 한국인을 찾고 있습니다

@Gdonutjam 5 жыл бұрын

The camera focus on this lady's interview is terrible. The whole time I'm looking at the side of her mouth rather than her eyes. Just stop it down man, no one needs a 1.0