Jump. SwooshSlap. Jump.

Not too many bffs when I was growing up because my family moved too much. But for some reason I remember playing jacks and jumping rope with lots of girls wherever we were. 

Those games gave me a chance to be friends with American girls after my family returned from France. I  wasn't used to them (the American girls), although I doubt teenage American girls are much different from teenage girls around the world. Full of hormones and itching to be bitchy.

Anyway. Jumping rope at recess was a respite. Any girl was allowed. There would be two rope turners and the jumper would stand in the middle of either one.

Here's the posture: Jumper stands, knees bent, perpendicular to the rope turners (sound: rope makes a windy swoosh, then slap as it hits surface. SwooshSlap). Jumper lowers right shoulder, slightly swaying arms at sides. Jumper sways into and out of the rhythm of the turning rope, right shoulder leaning in. You have to pick your moment.

After about 5 to 10 seconds of standing/swaying/leaning, jumper hops in, right leg first, drawn up, left leg following same way.  As the rope whirs under the feet, you draw up both feet to your knees.

Then feet come down, split secondly, then back up as the rope whirs underneath again.

That gives you the rhythm (Having made it under the rope successfully to begin with).

Then it's nice to keep going:

Jump. minijump
SwooshSlap.
Jump. minijump

And jump until it's time to sway out and let the next girl in.

All this by way of saying, this is awesome:

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