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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My four siblings and I survived childhood without ever having broken an arm or leg and we did some crazy (unsupervised) things.  I remember sitting on top of the monkey bars and hanging upside down and the hard smack that accompanied the impact when we fell onto the baked Texas ground below.[/quote]

[b]Penny drops and all[/b]....us too!  My brother and his friends used too build some crazy-ass ramps that they launched bikes and skateboards over...littler ones following on big wheels:)[/quote]

I was SHOCKED to find out recently that a group of teenage competitive gymnasts did not know what penny drops were. I'm sure kids have always broken their arms on monkey bars, but I wonder if it's more common now that playtime is so sanitized that kids don't get any practice doing "dangerous" things and learning how to fall properly.[/quote]

Ok....have to ask...what are 'penny drops'...never heard of it/them before.[/quote]

You hang upside down by your knees on a bar. Let go of the bar with your hands and swing back and forth until you have a little momentum, then you release the bar from your knees and land on your feet on the ground. This isn't usually a monkey bar activity, it's much better done on a single bar where you don't have to worry about your feet accidentally hitting another bar and stopping your rotation.[/quote]

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