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What is fierljeppen?
What the Frisians call ‘fierljeppen’ and the Dutch call ‘polsstokverspringen’ is a sport in which people use a long pole to leap as far as they can across a stretch of water. Fierljeppen means ‘to leap far’. ‘Fier’ is the Frisian word for ‘far’ and ‘ljeppen’ means ‘to leap’. A person who practices the sport…
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History
In the wetland areas of the Netherlands, people have been using poles to leap across ditches for at least a century. Like any method of transport, it wasn’t long before people decided to hold competitions to see who could leap across the widest canals. When fierljeppen is pursued as a sport, people still use poles…
