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(56,912 posts) Wed Mar 20, 2013, 05:00 PM Mar 2013

remember a game played with two long bamboo poles with a person on each end [View all]

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.

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remember a game played with two long bamboo poles with a person on each end [View all] Tuesday Afternoon Mar 2013 OP

it was called damn that hurts dembotoz Mar 2013 #1

Also known as "Ow! Shit! My toe!" Arugula Latte Mar 2013 #13

I remember it, but I don't know what it's called. LeftofObama Mar 2013 #2

it did have a jump rope rhythm to it, seems like they went faster as time went on, too. Tuesday Afternoon Mar 2013 #4

Philippine National dance - Tinikling! pinboy3niner Mar 2013 #3

that is it, thanks for the link. Tuesday Afternoon Mar 2013 #7

Tininkling cyberswede Mar 2013 #5

I heard a song on the radio today that had Tuesday Afternoon Mar 2013 #8

Wow! mimi85 Mar 2013 #9

We were just dinging around back then... cyberswede Mar 2013 #11

I've seen it. But never heard a name associated with it. Moondog Mar 2013 #6

thats going way back olddots Mar 2013 #10

Man! I was just thinking of that on Sunday! Duer 157099 Mar 2013 #12

Summer Bible School TVannie Jun 2014 #14

Welcome to DU, TVannie!! Tuesday Afternoon Jun 2014 #16

I never played it(?), and now I'm racking my brain trying to remember why I am familiar with it arcane1 Jun 2014 #15

yes, if your ankles got caught in the poles, it Hurt Tuesday Afternoon Jun 2014 #17