How the jump rope got its rhythm | Small Thing Big Idea, a TED series

Translator: Krystian Aparta Reviewer: Camille Martínez

Translator: Krystian Aparta Reviewer: Qomariah Najmi

Kalau dilakukan dengan benar, bunyinya seperti ini:

TIK-tat, TIK-tat, TIK-tat...

Kalau salah, bunyinya seperti ini:

Tik-TAT, tik-TAT, tik-TAT.

[Hal kecil. Ide besar.]

If you do it right, it should sound like:

[Kyra Gaunt Bicara Soal Lompat Tali]

TICK-tat, TICK-tat, TICK-tat, TICK-tat, TICK-tat, TICK-tat.

Lompat tali adalah benda sederhana.

If you do it wrong, it sounds like:

Bisa terbuat dari tambang, tali jemuran, benang ikat.

Tick-TAT, tick-TAT, tick-TAT.

[Small thing. Big idea.]

Ada semacam puntirannya. (Tertawa)

[Kyra Gaunt on the Jump Rope]

Entah bagaimana menggambarkannya.

Yang terpenting, bobotnya pas,

The jump rope is such a simple object.

dan menciptakan bunyi lecutan.

It can be made out of rope, a clothesline, twine.

Asal-usul lompat tali tidak jelas.

It has, like, a twirl on it. (Laughs)

Ada beberapa bukti kalau lompat tali bermula dari bangsa Fenisia di Mesir,

I'm not sure how to describe that.

What's important is that it has a certain weight,

lalu kemungkinan besar dibawa ke Amerika Utara oleh pendatang Belanda.

and that they have that kind of whip sound.

It's not clear what the origin of the jump rope is.

Lompat tali menjadi populer ketika pakaian wanita semakin pas di badan

There's some evidence that it began in ancient Egypt, Phoenicia,

dan pantalon mulai dikenakan.

Maka, perempuan juga bisa bermain lompat tali,

and then it most likely traveled to North America with Dutch settlers.

karena rok mereka tidak akan terbelit tali.

The rope became a big thing when women's clothes became more fitted

Para pengasuh menggunakannya untuk melatih anak asuhnya lompat tali.

and the pantaloon came into being.

Bahkan dulu, anak-anak para budak Afrika di Antebellum selatan

And so, girls were able to jump rope

juga bermain lompat tali.

Pada tahun 1950-an, di Harlem, Bronx, Brooklyn, Queens,

because their skirts wouldn't catch the ropes.

Governesses used it to train their wards to jump rope.

Anda bisa lihat anak-anak perempuan bermain lompat tali di trotoar.

Even formerly enslaved African children in the antebellum South

Terkadang mereka memakai dua buah tali dan menggabungkannya jadi satu,

jumped rope, too.

In the 1950s, in Harlem, Bronx, Brooklyn, Queens,

tetapi tali itu bisa dipisah dan dijadikan dua gelombang.

you could see on the sidewalk, lots of girls playing with ropes.

Lompat tali mirip seperti linimasa yang stabil --

tik, tik, tik, tik --

Lalu bisa kita tambahkan lirik, irama, dan nyanyian.

Sometimes they would take two ropes and turn them as a single rope together,

but you could separate them and turn them in like an eggbeater on each other.

Tali itu menciptakan ruang

untuk kita bisa berkontribusi terhadap sesuatu

The skipping rope was like a steady timeline --

yang jauh lebih besar dari lingkungannya.

tick, tick, tick, tick --

Lompat tali Double Dutch tetap menjadi simbol kuat dari budaya dan identitas

upon which you can add rhymes and rhythms and chants.

bagi wanita kulit hitam.

Those ropes created a space

Dari tahun 1950-an sampai 1970-an,

where we were able to contribute to something

perempuan tidak boleh bermain olahraga.

Anak lelaki bermain bisbol, bola basket, dan bola kaki,

that was far greater than the neighborhood.

Double Dutch jump rope remains a powerful symbol of culture and identity

dan perempuan tidak boleh.

Sudah banyak yang berubah, tetapi pada masa itu,

for black women.

anak perempuan menguasai taman bermain.

Back from the 1950s to the 1970s,

Mereka memastikan anak laki-laki tak bisa bergabung.

girls weren't supposed to play sports.

Boys played baseball, basketball and football,

Itu ruang mereka, ruang bagi kekuatan perempuan.

Di sanalah mereka bisa berjaya.

and girls weren't allowed.

Namun itu juga bagi anak lelaki,

A lot has changed, but in that era,

karena mereka mendengarnya,

girls would rule the playground.

itulah mengapa, menurut saya, banyak artis hip-hop

They'd make sure that boys weren't a part of that.

mencomot dari nyanyian yang mereka dengar saat anak perempuan bermain.

It's their space, it's a girl-power space.

(Bernyanyi) ...susu kocok dingin, pura-pura kau bisa melenting.

It's where they get to shine.

But I also think it's for boys,

Burger ikan, burger besar, kentang goreng, susu kocok dingin,

because boys overheard those,

which is why, I think, so many hip-hop artists

pura-pura kau bisa melompat.

Single “Country Grammar” dari Nelly bisa memenangkan Grammy Award

sampled from things that they heard in black girls' game songs.

karena orang-orang sudah kenal

(Chanting) ... cold, thick shake, act like you know how to flip,

“Kita akan meluncur, sayang, di dekat rumahmu naik Range Rover...”

Filet-O-Fish, Quarter Pounder, french fries, ice cold, thick shake,

Itu awal dari lagu “Mari meluncur, sayang, naik halilintar,

act like you know how to jump.

Why "Country Grammar" by Nelly became a Grammy Award-winning single

kekasih hatiku, aku takkan melepaskanmu."

was because people already knew

Semua orang yang tumbuh di komunitas kulit hitam perkotaan

"We're going down down baby your street in a Range Rover ... "

pasti tahu lagu itu.

Maka, lagu itu sudah tenar sejak awal.

That's the beginning of "Down down, baby, down down the roller coaster,

Permainan lompat tali Double Dutch membantu melestarikan lagu-lagu ini

sweet, sweet baby, I'll never let you go."

All people who grew up in any black urban community

serta nyanyian dan gerak tubuh yang mengiringinya,

would know that music.

dan ini sangat alami, saya menyebutnya “oralitas kinetik”,

And so, it was a ready-made hit.

The Double Dutch rope playing helped maintain these songs

bahasa mulut dan tubuh.

Inilah hal-hal yang diwariskan di setiap generasi.

and helped maintain the chants and the gestures that go along with it,

Bisa dibilang, tali itu adalah yang bantu membawanya.

which is very natural to what I call "kinetic orality" --

Kita butuh benda untuk mengabadikan memori.

word of mouth and word of body.

Jadi, lompat tali, bisa kita gunakan untuk berbagai hal.

It's the thing that gets passed down over generations.

Lompat tali melintasi budaya.

In some ways, the rope is the thing that helps carry it.

Saya rasa lompat tali bisa awet karena kita butuh bergerak

You need some object to carry memory through.

dan kadang benda paling sederhana, bisa memiliki kegunaan paling kreatif.

So, a jump rope, you can use it for all different kinds of things.

It crosses cultures.

And I think it lasted because people need to move.

And I think sometimes the simplest objects can make the most creative uses.