From push-ups to handstands, the girls are masters of jumping between two rapidly twirling ropes. Black Girls Jump teaches students at Horace Mann Elementary School how to double Dutch. "The goal is ...

OK, you don't need any special tech for this sport. Double Dutch, a daily activity of my childhood, is enjoying a comeback. I did not know it ever left. But reporter Leslie Eiler Thompson heads to ...

An Atlanta couple turned a childhood pastime into the world's first Double Dutch aerobics studio, teaching more than 100,000 people in 30 cities the joy of jumping rope. ATLANTA — A fun pastime that's ...

Jah-nyah Chambers is hesitating. The 6-year-old is looking for an opening in the helix of polypropylene rope made by Rodney Hogan’s hands. It is a quarter after 6 p.m. on a Wednesday evening and Hogan ...

If you ask Joy Jones what excites her about jumping rope, she'll tell you “double dutch incites joy, when people start jumping.” That was her mission when she started DC Retro Jumpers back in 2004, “I ...