Ultimo Gallos
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Post by Ultimo Gallos on Oct 24, 2023 18:49:41 GMT -5
Thinking having PE class with most of the class being on the basketball team is part of why PE for me was fun.
It was just a looser form of practice. Or us goofing off in Volleyball.
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Post by floundertime on Oct 24, 2023 19:49:30 GMT -5
The worst? It has to be the rope climbing that was done when I was young. Let’s attach ropes to the top of the gym ceiling and then have kids climb them. No worries on if they would fall.
I can understand square dancing, but I look back at that and realize it wasn’t about the physical activity it was probably about taking awkward kids and have them interact with the opposite sex.
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Post by King Devitt and the Woke Mob on Oct 24, 2023 20:09:10 GMT -5
Anything that involved us having to break into groups of "shirts vs. skins".
I was super self-conscious about my body, and hated when I was on the side that had to take their shirt off.
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Post by Fade on Oct 24, 2023 20:16:37 GMT -5
Running. It would ruin my entire day. My fat ass little self regularly wouldn’t even run, me and other fat/lazy kids would just walk the whole thing. But when I had to I just couldn’t. It sucked.
And now i run an hour minimum every day. Irony.
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Post by The Legend of Groose on Oct 24, 2023 20:33:50 GMT -5
The FitnessGram Pacer Test is a multistage aerobic capacity test that progressively gets more difficult as it continues. Students begin at the starting line. Once the test begins, the running speed starts slowly, but gets faster each minute after you hear the signal (beep).
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Post by A Platypus Rave is Correct on Oct 24, 2023 20:36:23 GMT -5
Probably Dodgeball... or rope climb... I'll go with Dodgeball since it was more often.
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Post by Push R Truth on Oct 24, 2023 20:41:52 GMT -5
Anything that involved us having to break into groups of "shirts vs. skins". I was super self-conscious about my body, and hated when I was on the side that had to take their shirt off. Shirts vs Skins was basically "lets make fun of the fat kid". Zero times did the fat kid end up on the shirts team. I should know. I was the fat kid.
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Post by Ryback on a Pole! on Oct 24, 2023 20:57:29 GMT -5
Cross country -- just a complete waste of time. I learnt absolutely zero skills, it didn't keep me healthy because once I was out of sight of the teacher, me and my friends just walked.
I enjoyed PE because at my school, we basically just played football--either a 2 hour large match, or if the teacher could be arsed to put in effort, a 5 aside tournament.
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Post by King Devitt and the Woke Mob on Oct 24, 2023 20:58:39 GMT -5
Anything that involved us having to break into groups of "shirts vs. skins". I was super self-conscious about my body, and hated when I was on the side that had to take their shirt off. Shirts vs Skins was basically "lets make fun of the fat kid". Zero times did the fat kid end up on the shirts team. I should know. I was the fat kid. Yeah, exactly. I wasn't fat, but I have a weird kind of pigeon chest due to a birth defect. It's not like a deformity, I've seen a lot worse in my studies, but I didn't look like all the other kids, and as we both know kids aren't shy about letting you know that.
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Post by Hit Girl on Oct 24, 2023 22:13:38 GMT -5
I hated all of it except five a side indoor soccer.
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Post by rainandlava on Oct 24, 2023 22:23:37 GMT -5
I guess weight lifting for me, since it took a long time for me to do ten of each.
At least my teacher was very patient man and helpful.
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Post by Rave on Oct 24, 2023 23:40:12 GMT -5
The Mile. I'm asthmatic and that shit was pure hell. Still convinced my middle school PE teacher was a sadist for inflicting that on kids every year.
Also hated flag football, the stupid flag belts never fit right.
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Post by The Gallus Mark on Oct 25, 2023 0:56:30 GMT -5
PE Teacher here
It’s the PACER test, but I’ve noticed a lot of kids don’t like team activities if they don’t really play sports. It’s usually because the athletes either don’t include them or don’t handle them not being as good.
When I was growing up, it was things like Jump Rope for Heart or anything else that was used for counting and not for overall activity.
I also currently don’t like the sit-ups that go along with the PACER, mostly because I had to hold a kid’s feet and he ripped a massive fart when I was doing so. That was obviously embarrassing for him, but me eating beef stew from him was pretty bad too.
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Post by saneiac on Oct 25, 2023 1:26:40 GMT -5
My high school had a cinder track, which is basically the same as a gravel road, only black. We were running hurdles on it and I tripped and cut up my knee pretty bad. The PE teacher didn't let me go to the nurse and told me to suck it up and get back to running. It's more than 30 years later now and you can still see black rocks stuck in my knee under the skin.
Also, in grade school every year, we all had to do an individual jump rope routine. Put on a song you like and do a variety of different jumps to the music. My problem there wasn't that I was bad at jumping rope. I mean, I was bad, but that wasn't the issue. My problem was that I didn't know anything about modern popular music. It was the 1980s, and I listened to 1950s and 1960s early rock and roll. I was too embarrassed to play the music I liked in front of the whole class, so I never did a routine and got an F for that quarter every year.
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Post by Kalmia on Oct 25, 2023 8:52:05 GMT -5
I hated PE 90% of the time but the worst was dodgeball. It was fun the first couple of times, but it became the go-to stand-in for days when outdoor sports were planned but it was raining too hard. And it rained a lot.
I started out loving judo until I got thrown and instead of landing on the mats, I cracked my head off the solid floor. The PE teacher was supposed to be watching out for people getting too close to the edges of the mats but he missed that one.
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Post by Allie Kitsune on Oct 25, 2023 8:57:13 GMT -5
Square Dancing.
Everyone tried to get out of it, but nobody ever managed to.
Strangely, about 75% of the class would be really into it by the end of the unit.
I could never get over the absolute cringe.
Also : Crab Soccer. I think that just existed so the teacher could laugh at kids getting constantly hit in the face with an indoor soccer ball.
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Post by Duke Cameron on Oct 25, 2023 9:00:59 GMT -5
I want to know where people went to school. The most we ever did in Gym were things like Dodgeball, sit-ups/push-ups, occasional jogging/racing, etc. No rope climb or things like that ever. Also, since when do they teach line/square dancing in Gym?
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Post by Push R Truth on Oct 25, 2023 9:10:46 GMT -5
Also, since when do they teach line/square dancing in Gym? I can only speak for 80's/early 90's Iowa, but there was a shit ton of square dancing being taught because a bunch of 70+ year olds thought it would "fix those damn kids with their rock music".
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Post by Allie Kitsune on Oct 25, 2023 9:23:40 GMT -5
Also, since when do they teach line/square dancing in Gym? I can only speak for 80's/early 90's Iowa, but there was a shit ton of square dancing being taught because a bunch of 70+ year olds thought it would "fix those damn kids with their rock music". Good God. The Gym teachers in my school weren't that old. They probably are _now_. As for why? One of them flat out said "I like humiliating you all and laughing at you. You are here for my amusement."
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Post by An Dog On An Skateboard on Oct 25, 2023 9:45:24 GMT -5
I was so tempted to say cross country, because I absolutely hate running and I especially hate running through some woods when it's cold and wet and damp as it always was. But often I used to just doss at the back with my mates who also hated running.
But actually, I think the worst thing was "athletics". In my primary school it was football (soccer) from the school year starting in September until Easter break, and then you got a term spring/summer sports; the second half was always cricket, which I was sort of not completely terrible at and quite enjoyed, but to get to that point you had to endure seven or eight weeks of what basically amounted to running and variations on running, relay and hurdles and stuff, which was a f***ing nightmare for a short, unathletic and probably slightly dyspraxic kid like me. And then once a year as part of this some absolute psycho would make you do the bleep test, which was like actual torture. And all I wanted was to hit and throw some balls.
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