Jump rope in PE??????

[Steve H.]

Didn't Rocky Balboa jump rope?

 

[disykat]

While I'm sure some of the girls have a grade advantage during jump roping if they spent their entire childhood doing it - you'd pretty much eliminate all sports if you tried to find one someone didn't have an advantage in for the same reason.

Between my own school, teaching, and now my boys school I've been in schools for 35 years - jump roping has been part of the curriculum in every school I've been at. One of the districts even had a jump rope team - coed and taught by a man - that traveled and performed.

 

[ChiTownZee]

Steve, I was just thinking the same thing! I remember all his training scenes which included jumping rope, definately not girly, especially when he starts whipping it with both hands together!

 

[suzannen]

My 8 year old DD's class has been coed-jumping since kindergarten. All of the kids love it and it helps develop coordination. It's a great exercise and like others, I'm sort of surprised his school hasn't done it until now.

 

[cinlee3]

The elementary schools here have had jump roping for quite awhile. The kids love it and they sometimes have groups come in and demonstrate.

Now the one activity I don't get for P.E. is "cup-stacking". They actually have a game and sold these stupid sets for it. What kinds of physical activity is that??????

 

[Pin Wizard]

Originally posted by caitycaity
i guess i must have missed where jump roping was girly.

Wow! I must be older than most of you. When I was a kid in the '60s, jumping rope was something girls did during recess on the playground, singing the songs that go with it. We didn't have PE until about the 7th or 8th grade back then. It was a private school. And I never had jump roping in high school in the '70s either. I picture the girls and 24 robbers knocking at my door. And I'm amazed so many know their kid's PE program. I haven't an inkling unless I ask DS what they did. All I know is that for each PE class, they start out with 2 laps around the playground, then usually some sport.