Os Sbaik Cheng (Drag the shoe)

Friday night, also known at the Ruppel house as “Family Fun Night,” we learned an authentic Cambodian game. “Os Sbaik Cheng” or “Drag the Shoe” is played with a jump rope made out of rubber bands. We were both very slow at making the rope. Sopiep and Blake finished their rope in no time! It is fastest to hook the rubber bands on your toes while you construct the rope. When the jump rope is long enough, you tie it off and place a flip-flop on the rope. There are many different variations of games to play with the Os Sbaik Cheng, but the one we enjoyed the most included jumping over in sets of five. If you messed up, you were the one who had to twirl the rope. Cambodian girls are able to jump extremely high over the rope. Mrs. Ruppel told us that they even put flip-flops on their hands so that they can land on their hands after jumping over. Although we didn’t jump quite that high, Mr. Ruppel got close!

This is harder than it looks!

Sopiep, Stephanie, Rhadee, and Rebekah with the rubber-band rope

This is how it's done!