The Origin of Jumping Rubber Bands

Rubber band jumping, also known as monkey jumping. It is one of the girls' favorite games, popular from the 1950s to the 1970s. This game only need to prepare a pair of long rubber bands, rubber bands from the rubber or waste bicycle inner tube cut into thin strips, can also be used to some small rubber bands connected to the circle and become.

Play: three to five people can play together, can also be divided into two groups of competition, dancing and singing is very interesting. First by two people each take one end to stretch the band, others take turns to jump, according to the prescribed action, the completion of the winner, halfway through the jump wrong or did not hook a good band, another person to jump. Jumping method is the height of the leather band from the ankle to the knee, to the waist to the chest to the shoulders, and then to the top of the ear, and then lift the "small lift", "big lift", the difficulty is getting bigger and bigger, the jumpers with feet? Points are not allowed to use the hand? Snow to hook the leather band while dancing and singing a self-made song. I remember that the girls used to sing songs such as: "Learn from Li Xiangyang, determined not to surrender, the enemy came to arrest me, I jumped the high wall, the high wall is not useful, I will drill holes in the ground, holes in the ground to shoot guns, blow up the little Japanese." "A red flower red and red, sister Liu Hulan is a hero, from childhood is a bitter child, grew up to be a heroine" and so on. The children learned the noble qualities and revolutionary ideas of the heroes and martyrs through the songs they wrote and sang.