Brown Girls Can Jump

A favorite game for the girls is a version of Chinese jump rope.  They take rubber bands and link them together to form a long chain.  Two girls will hold the "rope" taught.  They start with it low, and slowly raise it a little higher each round.  Sometimes they hold the rope wide and sometimes narrow. 

The other girls take turns trying to jump over the rope.  There are no rules on how to jump over it, so the girls use various methods, often depending on how high the rope is.  Half  the time, they would probably make it over, but their skirts get stuck on it.  I don't know if they are too modest to just lift us their skirts a little or what. 

I've included an instructional video that shows the basics of traditional Chinese jump rope.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gJuELrFOyXU