Why is skipping un(-professional, -dignified, etc.)?

[abcdefz]

Just curious.

Went downstairs to snag our mail and there was this little girl skipping down the hallway. Very cool.

...at what point do we stop that shit? I don't even know if I ever skipped, but I assume I did. But then we get all self-conscious and peers or parents or siblings admonish us to "stop acting like a kid!!!"

What's the harm?

Personally, I think it'd be kind of cool if we were all liberated enough that, ona daily basis, you'd see buildings and streets of people skipping along, making up rhymes trying to step on no cracks, hopscotching to work, tagging each other "you're it!" and whoever's "It" at the end of the day brings in pastries for next Friday.

I dunno. Skipping just seemed way too cool for a minute.

[cookiepuss]

skipping is COOL. it's actually a much better way to travel than walking and I find it's way easier than jogging. I don't know why we stop.


Sometimes I still skip. to my lou. my darling.

[milleson]

I don't skip, but I do frolic. Quite often, actually.

[Otis Driftwood]

trying to step on no cracks
I had a compulsive disorder (?) about not doing this with my right foot for years. Not fun.

[Jitters]

I never skip, it would look too bizarre.

[roosta]

i enjoy a skip now and then

[hpdrifter]

Actually, skipping is pretty good exercise. Maybe I should work it back in somehow.

[HEIRESS]

skipping isnt easy. one can quite easily spiral out of control and lose all skip-rhythm.

[Frank Black]

if i can't smoke in public, people definitely shouldn't be able to s k i p

[Schmeltz]

How come? Does skipping also produce a nauseatingly foul stew of airborne poison that instantly ruins the day of anyone unlucky enough to be subjected to it?

[b-grrrlie]

I don't skip, but I do frolic. Quite often, actually.
Me too! :D

And sometimes I try to step on the paving stones in rhythm (don't really care about the cracks tho), and of course trying to make all the man-holes marked with K (http://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/K-brunn) ! (http://lenjangel.webblogg.se/images/brunnar_1138811220.png) :D (K = kärlek = love)

Sometimes I skip with kids at work, but I don't have the condition to do that for a long time... I really would like to jump some twist (http://livingbyw.blogg.se/images/lillifee_twist_200_1145129406.jpg) some time! Now that's been a while!

[Bob]

one time i was running, and this guy was running towards me in the opposite direction. when he gets to within a few feet of me, he starts leaping really high in the air, it's like this really exaggerated skip. i thought he was making fun of me, like maybe my form is funny, so i wait a few seconds and i turn around, and he's still doing it. i guess it's actually a way to run. looks fruity, though

[roosta]

I find with skipping you need a long enough distance, it doesnt seem to work over short range travelling, you need to get a groove going.

[b-grrrlie]

one time i was running, and this guy was running towards me in the opposite direction. when he gets to within a few feet of me, he starts leaping really high in the air, it's like this really exaggerated skip. i thought he was making fun of me, like maybe my form is funny, so i wait a few seconds and i turn around, and he's still doing it. i guess it's actually a way to run. looks fruity, though
Yeah it's good for some muscles (http://www.brianmac.demon.co.uk/tecdrill.htm). I don't know which ones tho, but a friend of mine does a lot of running and he says it's good to vary the styles.

[GreenEarthAl]

In gym class in grade school we had a gym teacher that would have us do relays. Walk a lap, jog a lap, skip a lap, and sideways gallop for a lap. At the end of the year he told us that it was in order of efficiency or something like that. Highest rate of speed per lowest energy output. So sometimes when I'm in a rush to get places and I don't have my bike with me I will sideways gallop.

People look at me funny.

Then I look at them funny back. Oh, the absurdity of it all.

[Randetica]

i have no clue what this thread is all about

well skipping yeah but what does it mean?

[befsquire]

i was taking a smoke break at work a few weeks ago with one of my friends, and we saw this little girl about 6 years old, wearing a huge pair of angel wings. and we both decided that it'd be pretty awesome to be going through our closets and decide "i think i'll wear my wings today." but it's just not something we can do without someone thinking we're insane.

[GreenEarthAl]

You can miss out on a lot of fun in life trying to avoid people thinking you're insane.

[Bob]

i was taking a smoke break at work a few weeks ago with one of my friends, and we saw this little girl about 6 years old, wearing a huge pair of angel wings. and we both decided that it'd be pretty awesome to be going through our closets and decide "i think i'll wear my wings today." but it's just not something we can do without someone thinking we're insane.

i dunno, try it in court. what kind of juror's gonna vote against an angel? not no christian juror, i'll tell you what

and what's the prosecution gonna do about it? object to you being an angel? ain't no rule against that that i'm aware of

[befsquire]

my boss does say we're on the side of god.

wonder if he'd spring for some designer wings.

[abcdefz]

I had a compulsive disorder (?) about not doing this with my right foot for years. Not fun.



That sucks. Sorry, dude.

[abcdefz]

i was taking a smoke break at work a few weeks ago with one of my friends, and we saw this little girl about 6 years old, wearing a huge pair of angel wings. and we both decided that it'd be pretty awesome to be going through our closets and decide "i think i'll wear my wings today." but it's just not something we can do without someone thinking we're insane.



YES YES EXACTLY


That's the sort of thing I mean. I mean -- why not?

When I was visiting Bard College many moons ago, there was this couple who were wearing vampire capes and stuff, and I asked why. The guidance dude told me that was just how they dressed.

Weird, yeah, but, really -- why not? Bef is in a position where she probably wouldn't want to show up for professional duty every day with wings, yeah, but, other than that? Seems like it's so harmless to live your own little eccentricities...

I think about how, when I was a kid, there was a lot of bolting up/down stairs, making hopping games to get from point A to point B, and for no reason, except just energy and tiny adventure/amusement and whatever. But as we grow up, we learn 'cool," and it seems like, often enough, "cool" is pretty uncool.

[abcdefz]

i dunno, try it in court. what kind of juror's gonna vote against an angel? not no christian juror, i'll tell you what

and what's the prosecution gonna do about it? object to you being an angel? ain't no rule against that that i'm aware of




Bob, I'm holding you in contempt of Board.

[paul jones]

Rocky Balboa was good at it in Rocky 2(y)

[venusvenus123]

i was taking a smoke break at work a few weeks ago with one of my friends, and we saw this little girl about 6 years old, wearing a huge pair of angel wings. and we both decided that it'd be pretty awesome to be going through our closets and decide "i think i'll wear my wings today." but it's just not something we can do without someone thinking we're insane.
go to glastonbury one year and you'll be able to wear angel wings all weekend and no one will bat an eyelid.

and az, i thought you meant skipping with a rope. now that is good exercise.

this is a good reason to have a kid because you find yourself doing kid things, like tagging your kid or your spouse/sister/friend and saying "you're it"... :confused:

You can miss out on a lot of fun in life trying to avoid people thinking you're insane.
so true.

[marsdaddy]

wonder if he'd spring for some designer wings.Wouldn't the "designer" part take the kid out of it?
this is a good reason to have a kid because you find yourself doing kid things, like tagging your kid or your spouse/sister/friend and saying "you're it"... :confused:One of the many good reasons. I had forgotten how much I enjoy galloping up a hill.

[insertnamehere]

i have no clue what this thread is all about

well skipping yeah but what does it mean?


skipping is sort of kinda like a bouncy jog where each foot hits the ground twice instead of once before the other foot hits. i was trying to find a video to demonstrate, so far this is the only one ive found that does a good job of showing skipping. that lady sure doesnt move much vertically though, i always thought it was more fun to go real high. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q7TskwWceD8

[Randetica]

finally someone who has me not on ignore

well thanks (y)

skip it to the beat!

[BangkokB]

Rod Serling once told me this if you play kick the can at any age it's the fountain of youth