sharlag
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Post by sharlag on Aug 20, 2014 20:16:47 GMT
which was about chest-high.
Reaching under to grab my foot, then spinning around the bar, with my knee holding me in place.
I preferred using my coat under my knee, to cushion the friction on the bar.
It was quite daring for someone like me to do in grade school.
Do you remember that playground trick?
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scorpeao
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Post by scorpeao on Aug 20, 2014 20:20:01 GMT
Yep! I also used to do what we called "dead man's drop." Did you have that one? I loved the bars! I had calluses behind my knees, and I always wore shorts under my dresses.
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sharlag
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Post by sharlag on Aug 20, 2014 20:23:40 GMT
Yep! I also used to do what we called "dead man's drop." Did you have that one? I loved the bars! I had calluses behind my knees, and I always wore shorts under my dresses. Describe the "dead man's drop"! I was quite the tender little thing who wouldn't do anything rough enough to form calluses. |
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scorpeao
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Post by scorpeao on Aug 20, 2014 20:28:11 GMT
You were sitting up on top of the bar and you flipped off of it backwards. Let's see if I can describe it....you let your butt drop down so the bar was behind your knees while at the same time flipping your shins up so you spun off the bar. It was great fun, and I'm surprised I never got hurt. Based on my bar skill as a child I think I would have been an awesome gymnast!
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Post by mimima on Aug 20, 2014 20:29:39 GMT
Yep! I also used to do what we called "dead man's drop." Did you have that one? I loved the bars! I had calluses behind my knees, and I always wore shorts under my dresses. I remember the Dead Man's drop too. I don't think I did it, but I remember seeing others |
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scorpeao
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Post by scorpeao on Aug 20, 2014 20:31:03 GMT
This cherry drop is similar. Instead of starting in hanging position and gaining momentum while swinging you'd start sitting on the bar and drop down using that momentum to flip. |
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Post by Dictionary on Aug 20, 2014 20:38:41 GMT
Ah those were the days, did them all. Must wear shorts under the dresses though..otherwise the boys were relentless.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 20, 2014 20:50:44 GMT
I just remember swinging from my knees upside down....no drops for me!
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Post by octoberbeauty on Aug 20, 2014 21:03:10 GMT
I loved the bars! We had a tall one and a short one. They were so much fun. It was so easy to flip yourself backwards from the ground and end up on top of the bar back in the day. I can't even do that forwards now. LOL
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Post by sbartist on Aug 20, 2014 21:11:16 GMT
I remember the bars being cemented in concrete with absolutely no padding underneath.
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Post by BSnyder on Aug 20, 2014 21:26:28 GMT
You were sitting up on top of the bar and you flipped off of it backwards. Let's see if I can describe it....you let your butt drop down so the bar was behind your knees while at the same time flipping your shins up so you spun off the bar. It was great fun, and I'm surprised I never got hurt. Based on my bar skill as a child I think I would have been an awesome gymnast! We used to call it a Penny Drop. I broke my shoulder and upper arm in 3rd graded doing it. Someone walked too close as I was dismounting into the flip. I under rotated and landed on my shoulder on tbe concrete, instead of my feet. I went through school for another 2 hours until my mom was finally called. The school nurse thought it was just a sprain, but it turned out to be broken in two places. My mom didn't even blink an eye. It never occurred to her to be mad or upset at the school. She just saw it as one of those childhood things that happens.
We used to do the one legged pinwheel around the bar the OP described, both forward and backward. I have no idea what it was called!? 
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Post by bbkeef on Aug 20, 2014 21:27:53 GMT
We called it a "penny flip" instead of a cherry drop. Oh we did all kinds of crazy things on the school playground bars. I would practice at home on our clothesline poles which were much thicker and not as much fun. I remember my mom used to almost have heart attacks over our gymnastics!
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Post by jenr on Aug 20, 2014 21:30:45 GMT
I remember all of those - we called them Penny Drops too!
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Post by jackib on Aug 21, 2014 0:11:21 GMT
I was just telling DD about this the other day. She couldn't believe dear old mom could do that.
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Post by dulcemama on Aug 21, 2014 0:22:53 GMT
I remember other kids doing those but I could never manage to get up on the bar. Serious coordination issues. I did do similar hang-by-your-knees tricks on the monkey bars though.
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scorpeao
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Post by scorpeao on Aug 21, 2014 0:36:03 GMT
We also did another one where you would hang onto the end of your pants while hanging upside down and then spin around the bar. If I saw a kid doing any of these today I would shit bricks. I have no idea how I survived to adulthood.
We did that pinwheel thing too.
All this makes me want to find a playground with bars and try it out. I'm 41...it probably wouldn't end well.
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ginacivey
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Post by ginacivey on Aug 21, 2014 0:44:33 GMT
cherry drop and dead man's drop
now....if i saw a kid doing it...i'd probably have a stroke
gina
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Post by Tamhugh on Aug 21, 2014 1:08:15 GMT
I just went to Youtube and watched videos to see if I really knew what you meant. We did all of these and "skin the cat". I don't know how I never broke anything other than my nose.
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Post by ~KellyAnn~ on Aug 21, 2014 1:18:44 GMT
Oh heck, no. I could get up there and hang by my knees, but there was no swinging or dismounts. I was an uncoordinated chicken!
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sharlag
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Post by sharlag on Aug 21, 2014 2:44:26 GMT
Oh heck, no. I could get up there and hang by my knees, but there was no swinging or dismounts. I was an uncoordinated chicken! Me too! I can't believe I did this but I did.... |
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Post by BuckeyeSandy on Aug 21, 2014 3:07:41 GMT
I was just telling DD about this the other day. She couldn't believe dear old mom could do that. By any chance, did we all go to school together? I remember all of this too. |
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Post by tracylynn on Aug 21, 2014 4:21:47 GMT
I remember all of those and more. We'd sit on top of the short bar, hands between our legs on the bar and swing backwards (and forwards) around the bar, switching our hands from inside to outside as we went. Crazy.
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Post by happyOCgirl on Aug 21, 2014 5:20:11 GMT
I loved cherry drops and dead man's drops! I got second and third degree burns on my hands from going across the long metal monkey bars on a 105 degree day. Couldn't use my hands for months. First thing I did when the skin healed...cherry drops. I am an elementary teacher and we have one bar on the playground. It has wood chips under it. The kids aren't allowed to do anything except hang on it. We call it the boring bar!  |
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Post by SAHM wannabe on Aug 21, 2014 5:48:57 GMT
Cherry drops, dead man's drop, and twirling! Did them all! Remember peeling the skin off the blisters that formed and exposing the raw skin underneath? Ouch! Once they healed and calluses formed, we were good to go again!
I'm an elementary teacher and girls still sneak in those same tricks. The playground equipment also has vertical poles. I kid you not, many girls do some amazing stripper pole tricks on them!
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Post by rockymtnpea on Aug 21, 2014 5:56:27 GMT
Sharlag...I do remember swinging on the bar like that and I have the scar in the middle of my forehead to prove it...when I was in 2nd grade I was playing with my freind Roy who happened to have a buck tooth. (truly) I started swinging on the bar like you described when Roy decided he needed to tell me something. Roy leaned down to talk just as I was on the upward swing and his tooth went right in to my forehead. He pulled his head back and it popped out.
I screamed the teacher came running and sent me to the nurses office. This was back in the day when we actually had nurses in the school the entire day. This was also during the time that you really didn't go to the doctor unless your arm was hanging on by a tendon. I joke with my kids that we were given Robitussin for every aliment. Anyway, the nurse put a butterfly bandage on my forehead and that was that. I don't even remember them calling my mom...if they did I am sure when I got home she gave me Robitussin and sent me to lay on the couch. lol
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Post by tincin on Aug 21, 2014 8:12:30 GMT
If you went fast enough you could twirl with no hands but you had to spin fast. Good times. Oh we didn't use the monkey bars , we used the handrail in front of the school. Mounted in and on cement. The boys had control of the monkey bars which is why we used the handrails.
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Post by The Birdhouse Lady on Aug 21, 2014 18:29:45 GMT
Sharlag...I do remember swinging on the bar like that and I have the scar in the middle of my forehead to prove it...when I was in 2nd grade I was playing with my freind Roy who happened to have a buck tooth. (truly) I started swinging on the bar like you described when Roy decided he needed to tell me something. Roy leaned down to talk just as I was on the upward swing and his tooth went right in to my forehead. He pulled his head back and it popped out. I screamed the teacher came running and sent me to the nurses office. This was back in the day when we actually had nurses in the school the entire day. This was also during the time that you really didn't go to the doctor unless your arm was hanging on by a tendon. I joke with my kids that we were given Robitussin for every aliment. Anyway, the nurse put a butterfly bandage on my forehead and that was that. I don't even remember them calling my mom...if they did I am sure when I got home she gave me Robitussin and sent me to lay on the couch. lol I choked on my water while reading this! Cracks me up, Roy and his buck tooth! HA ha!! |
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Post by smartypants71 on Aug 21, 2014 18:35:08 GMT
I remember the bars being cemented in concrete with absolutely no padding underneath. No kidding. I have a scar on my forehead from doing these. I want to say that we called them windmills though, I could be mistaken. It was over 30 years ago! |
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Post by chickenb00 on Aug 21, 2014 18:35:59 GMT
I remember all the other girls doing this flips on the bar, but I wasn't very good at it. I stuck to the monkey bars and the rings.
Do they even have those bars at school anymore?
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Post by Mary W on Aug 21, 2014 18:47:41 GMT
My friend's father was the boy's PE teacher at our high school. When I was in elementary school, I'd go to her house to play where they had bars and rings in their barn. We would spend hours doing all kinds of hanging, spinning, twirling on those things! Our playground also had jungle gyms with bars (over concrete) that we did all kinds of things on. I don't remember that we had names for them though. We just called them flips!
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