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

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"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.
Small Thing Big Idea, a TED original series, celebrates the lasting genius of everyday objects so perfectly designed that they changed the world around them. Check out more here: go.ted.com/STBI
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2 ноя 2018

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@venko6 Год назад

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

@melodieanderson1698 3 года назад

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

@lucasaaron5195 5 лет назад

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

@willemvandebeek 5 лет назад

Yes! This was fascinating! :)

@edsantosIsMusic 5 лет назад

*their, not there

@krufty47 5 лет назад

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

@lucasaaron5195 5 лет назад

Deemz 47 but I’m talking about my self.

@krufty47 5 лет назад

L yeah you better be

@giqwaju3691 2 года назад

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

@T.image79 3 года назад

"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 года назад

That’s was a hand game not a rope game

@rachelle_banks 3 года назад

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.

@SarahFloria 5 лет назад

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.

@christinedenise7844 Год назад

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

@Gr95dc 5 лет назад

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

@katerinaprokopiou2217 5 лет назад

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.

@Afrinaturality 5 лет назад

Enjoyed this.

@tarikkaramehmedovic8608 5 лет назад

The series should have been called Small Thing Big Think.

@gigglysamentz2021 5 лет назад

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

@Korgon2013 Год назад

This was very interesting. Cheers from across the world.

@microstar81 Год назад

This is so fascinating

@JuaniqueVerde 5 лет назад

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

@RushAthleticsTV 4 года назад

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

@carprincess 5 лет назад

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

@ujiya922 5 лет назад

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

@MarcRock76 5 лет назад

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

@adrivigo74 5 лет назад

Super video!

@gigglysamentz2021 5 лет назад

These are so good!

@julitasari7088 5 лет назад

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

@platoquemado 5 лет назад

Love learning things like this

@zak87 4 месяца назад

She needs to be an audiobook narrator

@idaslapter5987 11 месяцев назад

thank you.

@SibylleLeon 5 лет назад

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.

@mascara1777 5 лет назад

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.

@robertbarclay4673 2 года назад

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?

@belindaedenfield883 5 лет назад

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. ♡

@kyraocity Год назад

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

@LaVieestunSportMerveilleux 5 лет назад

Very interesting!

@aluisafigueiredo 5 лет назад

Omg, that's amazing!

@fitwithafrenchaccent7079 5 лет назад

Very cool video. Thank you!

@94bhea 5 лет назад

I love this series

@hazelbotedapgonzalez6172 2 года назад

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

@vsilligirlbestie3973 5 лет назад

I can't do jump rope 😟😒

@fitwithafrenchaccent7079 5 лет назад

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

@sandiashvrR 3 года назад

Quality 👍🏻

@creatinotionchannel2680 5 лет назад

This is great!

@msmorningstar2116 5 лет назад

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

@jimwertel6599 5 лет назад

So nice, thanks !

@MeyerWerner 5 лет назад

that is so cool 😎😀😉👍

@Robersora 5 лет назад

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

@blankness8 5 лет назад

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

@DungeonBricks 5 лет назад

At 30 I quit trying

@nazrulislam1611 5 лет назад

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.

@carlosbrinkmann5670 3 года назад

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..!

@breadsnake4960 5 лет назад

im here

@TS-tv2ik 5 лет назад

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

@mrorange90 4 года назад

Me too

@phoebebaker1575 5 лет назад

Overcoming that fear, so you can jump right in.

@Jayman5281 5 лет назад

🤙❤️

@Mykasan 5 лет назад

great episode

@aldenwang1813 4 года назад

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

@bdell519 2 года назад

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

@Blannkss 5 лет назад

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 лет назад

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

@marklewis4793 5 лет назад

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

@amit.deshmukh 5 лет назад

10th

@juliansolomone7442 5 лет назад

SEcond

@isolegendary1577 4 года назад

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

@soosoofrosty4231 5 лет назад

First

@tushargupta1999 5 лет назад

Is this the origin of rap music ???

@rachelle_banks 3 года назад

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.

@user-ic7py7sj9x 5 лет назад

מי שפה ממשרד החינוך שימו לייק

@microjem1250 5 лет назад

נודר

@Leotique 5 лет назад

This video could have been made by VOX or Genius Deconstructed

@guitarscholar 5 лет назад

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-vy9co8rt3p 4 года назад

당신은 한국인을 찾고 있습니다

@Gdonutjam 5 лет назад

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

@juliansolomone7442 5 лет назад

It's a children's toy.