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Message: [QUOTE="EdSaid, post: 4026152, member: 10651"] Barrel Jumping [URL unfurl="true"]http://www.mountainlifemag.ca/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/w-Nick-jumping.jpg[/URL] Long jumping on skates was an informal sport in nineteenth-century Holland. It grew out of obstacle races in which speed skaters jumped fences, walls, and man-made barriers. During the 1920s and ’30s, barrels were often placed to mark the boundaries of a course. Skaters amused themselves and spectators before and after races by laying the barrels on their sides and jumping them. [/QUOTE]