# Do you remember how to skip? Prove it! **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [December 6, 2023, 2:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-remember-how-to-skip-prove-it/994179 "2023-12-06T14:05:25Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![DSeid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dseid/32/20194_2.png) [@DSeid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DSeid)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2023, 10:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-remember-how-to-skip-prove-it/994179/41 "2023-12-07T22:54:39Z")
A relevant article included mainly for its inclusion of a video of Armstrong skipping on the moon. > **[My Experiment in Skipping—Literally, Skipping—Through New York City](https://slate.com/technology/2014/12/skipping-as-an-adult-great-exercise-and-a-lot-of-fun-for-grown-ups-and-kids.html)** > > Pedestrians in New York City are eclectic: You’ll regularly spot walkers and amblers, dashers and sprinters, trundlers and joggers. But you’ve likely... ---
**Author:** ![vbob](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/vbob/32/4439_2.png) [@vbob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vbob)\ **Post date:** [December 7, 2023, 11:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-remember-how-to-skip-prove-it/994179/42 "2023-12-07T23:01:19Z")
Yes - and as soon as I increase my insurance I’ll prove it. Fifty years ago in high school our posse of nerds made a nuisance of ourselves skipping in the hallways - it IS actually possible to skip backwards, but stopping is difficult. Skipping down a ramp while carrying a film projector in each hand allows gaining more altitude than is comfortable to land from, and stopping is more than just difficult. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2023, 3:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-remember-how-to-skip-prove-it/994179/43 "2023-12-08T03:56:55Z")
I skip brushing my teeth. ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2023, 12:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-remember-how-to-skip-prove-it/994179/44 "2023-12-08T12:36:59Z")
Sure you can skip, but can you skip to my lou? @puzzlegal ? > **[Skip to My Lou](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skip_to_My_Lou)** > > "Skip to My (The) Lou" is a popular American partner-stealing dance from the 1840s. > Poet and Abraham Lincoln biographer Carl Sandburg writes that "Skip-to-my-Lou" was a popular party game in US President Abraham Lincoln's youth in southern Indiana, with verses such as "Hurry up slow poke, do oh do", "I'll get her back in spite of you", "Gone again, what shall I do", and "I'll get another girl sweeter than you". > John A. and Alan Lomax wrote that "Skip to My Lou" was a simple game of stealing par... ---
**Author:** ![iiandyiiii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/iiandyiiii/32/7924_2.png) [@iiandyiiii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iiandyiiii)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2023, 12:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-remember-how-to-skip-prove-it/994179/45 "2023-12-08T12:48:23Z")
I tried and was perfect from the first step. I stopped when it became clear that the clatter of my 230+ lbs on our wood floors would not be kind to our basement tenants. ---
**Author:** ![puzzlegal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/puzzlegal/32/3827_2.png) [@puzzlegal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/puzzlegal)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2023, 12:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-remember-how-to-skip-prove-it/994179/46 "2023-12-08T12:59:27Z")
I assume the connection is square dancers changing partners? Yeah, we do that. ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2023, 1:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-remember-how-to-skip-prove-it/994179/47 "2023-12-08T13:10:09Z")
Yes, square dancing made me think of you. ---
**Author:** ![TruCelt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/trucelt/32/523_2.png) [@TruCelt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TruCelt)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2023, 1:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-remember-how-to-skip-prove-it/994179/48 "2023-12-08T13:22:47Z")
> [@TruCelt](#): > > and I will probably pay dearly for that tomorrow morning. Happy to report today is not as bad as I expected. Pain level is pretty normal. 😀 ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2023, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-remember-how-to-skip-prove-it/994179/49 "2023-12-08T19:45:50Z")
> [@Hari\_Seldon](#): > > Skipping is one the three natural gaits for a human. You don’t have to learn how. Suuuure. I tried just now, and after a few false starts, I was able to skip, rather clumsily. At first I thought my legs had so totally forgotten how that I wasn’t going to be able to, but it seems they remembered, with some nudging. ---
**Author:** ![puzzlegal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/puzzlegal/32/3827_2.png) [@puzzlegal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/puzzlegal)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2023, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-remember-how-to-skip-prove-it/994179/50 "2023-12-08T20:31:50Z")
I haven’t skipped in decades. But, reading this thread… I had to try. Hey, easy peasy. It is not something i forgot how to do, and it didn’t even hurt anything to try it. I confess I’m a little surprised by that. (Early 60s.) ---
**Author:** ![Nars\_Glinley](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nars_glinley/32/8177_2.png) [@Nars\_Glinley](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nars_Glinley)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2023, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-remember-how-to-skip-prove-it/994179/51 "2023-12-08T20:34:56Z")
I’ll be 61 in January and I’m happy to report that I skipped all the way across the living room and back and suffered no major injuries. ---
**Author:** ![InternetLegend](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/internetlegend/32/13154_2.png) [@InternetLegend](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/InternetLegend)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2023, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-remember-how-to-skip-prove-it/994179/52 "2023-12-14T20:14:36Z")
Turns out my physical therapist is 100% on board with me trying to skip - or try doing any kind of physical activity, within reason! And the answer is no, I don’t remember how. ---
**Author:** ![Dr\_Paprika](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr_paprika/32/3042_2.png) [@Dr\_Paprika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr_Paprika)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2023, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-remember-how-to-skip-prove-it/994179/53 "2023-12-14T20:41:07Z")
There are lots of different ways to skip and some of them are really challenging (at least for me). > **[Jumping Rope: From Beginner to Boxer](https://www.t-nation.com/training/jumping-rope-from-beginner-to-boxer/)** > > Skipping rope torches fat and builds supreme conditioning. Here's how to master everything from the basic boxer skip to crossed double-unders. ---
**Author:** ![romansperson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/romansperson/32/17100_2.png) [@romansperson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/romansperson)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2023, 2:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-remember-how-to-skip-prove-it/994179/54 "2023-12-15T02:53:45Z")
> [@Dinsdale](#): > > Next question - anyone gallop recently? 😉 No, but I can galumph like an mf-er. ---
**Author:** ![Nars\_Glinley](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nars_glinley/32/8177_2.png) [@Nars\_Glinley](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nars_Glinley)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2024, 4:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-remember-how-to-skip-prove-it/994179/55 "2024-01-16T04:37:33Z")
I am known far and wide for my [harumph.](https://youtu.be/jLO7VrRij_M) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-remember-how-to-skip-prove-it/994179.md?page=2)