CHICAGO (WLS) -- Two Chicago women are sharing their love of Double Dutch with a new generation. During the pandemic, a local mom and a grandmother pulled out their jump ropes. What was supposed to be ...

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 ...

There's jump rope, and then there's double Dutch jump rope. "It's jump rope and instead of one single rope, we're jumping in the middle of 2 jump ropes," LaDonna Reed said. "It's a 1-2 beat, so they ...

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 ...

About 500 women ages 40 and above met over the weekend in Chicago to have some fun while reliving childhood memories at the same time: by jumping double Dutch. It was part of a meetup of the 40+ ...

On a patch of concrete in Cow Meadow Park in Freeport, an intense game of double Dutch is in motion. Two jump ropes twirl so fast that the sound of them whipping in circles fills the air. But these ...

David Fisher has wielded jump ropes to wow presidents, break world records, dazzle millions of students and even create a super hero. But he had never used them to save a life. In mid-December, he got ...