Watching that video really made me feel sorry for the youth of today. So much has been stolen from them

Yeah, me too. I don't know that I ever did marbles, but British bulldog and red rover were staples. Yeah, the girls did elastics (I never knew what it was called, just that they did it). Handball, yep. Tiggy, but I do recall the variations. One was where if you got tigged, you had to stand still, with your legs in an upside down V, feet apart. If someone still alive could crawl between your legs, you were freed and could run again.

Brandy, yep. With a tennis ball usually.

We also played one like handball but up against the wall, two players or four players.

This short doco totally hits the mark, emphasizing the very real, critical skills and experiences all these games gave to us. And, so much of that lore is now lost.

But, if we ever decide to lift the lid and give kids their freedom back, they'll come up with stuff again.

Something to work towards for us, I suppose.

Re: barefeet: my kids spent about a year at school in Vanuatu. There, everyone just wore thongs, if anything at all, and left them by the door and played barefeet at lunch time. So happy about that.