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Every year hundred  of young athletes gather from around the world at Apollo Theater in Harlem to compete in the Dutch Holiday classic (life) .in  double  dutch  two people turn ropes in opposite direction while a third person jumps doing tricks and stunts. The  game came over from Europe  with Dutch settlers in the 1600s and became a popular street game in cities especially New York city police Detective named David a. Walker helped develop it into a competitive team sport in 1973.Today there are national and international event with about 100,000 girls and boy competing. mostly middle- schoolers. Double ducts  jumpers compete  in standard compulsory and freestyle event  freestyle  accompanied by music is called fusion some of the coolest  Double   dutch stunts look like gymnastics or break  -dancing the criss-cross the pop-up the 360 the hand plant the backflip the  high-step and the push-up. competitive jumpers are rated on technical difficulty artistic quality accuracy and other standards lean more about Double Dutch at www. .http://worldjumprope.org