Worst PE activity.

[Ultimo Gallos]

Oct 25, 2023 9:00:59 GMT -5 Duke Cameron said:

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?

1979-1992 gulf coast Mississippi area.

Asked a few class mates and it was 5th grade they attempted to do square dancing.

We never had to climb a rope,until jr high I didnt attend a school that had a gym.

Never had shirts vs skins. Hell once you hit 9th grade and had to have a PE/Band/Choir credit on your transcript,the PE teachers were decent with the fat kids. All you had to do was show up,change into your gym clothes and at least attempt to do whatever we were doing that day and you got a 95 for the week.

Even then we had a few kids that just refused to change out clothes or attempt to do volleyball or four square.

[darbus alan]

I've never heard of shirts vs skins in PE class. That sounds like a lawsuit waiting to happen.

[Cranjis McBasketball]

Oct 25, 2023 9:00:59 GMT -5 Duke Cameron said:

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?

I think TV is where they went to gym.

I always liked PE. Though I wasn't much for basketball, volleyball, kickball, badminton...then it was laugh at Cole because I wasn't very good...finally floor hockey would come around and it would be mad at Cole because I was much better than everyone else with a hockey stick and a foam puck and was taking advantage.

Can't win, don't try.

[A Platypus Rave is Correct]

Oct 25, 2023 21:59:21 GMT -5 Cranjis McBasketball said:

Oct 25, 2023 9:00:59 GMT -5 Duke Cameron said:

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?

I think TV is where they went to gym.

I always liked PE. Though I wasn't much for basketball, volleyball, kickball, badminton...then it was laugh at Cole because I wasn't very good...finally floor hockey would come around and it would be mad at Cole because I was much better than everyone else with a hockey stick and a foam puck and was taking advantage.

Can't win, don't try.

they absolutely tried to get us to climb the rope like once a year in Gym class... everyone hated it.

[darbus alan]

The few times we did floor hockey in middle school PE class were my favorite because it was not only fun, but I was surprisingly good at it. Shame I could never do ice hockey because I have no sense of balance on skates.

In high school, I really liked going to the weight room when we could. Teachers pretty much just let us do whatever in there as long as it was something.

We never did the rope climb or if we did I wasn't there for it. We did some line dancing in either elementary or middle school (shit like the Electric Slide) but not square dancing. That sounds like a distinctly regional thing.

[Cranjis McBasketball]

Oct 25, 2023 22:09:59 GMT -5 A Platypus Rave is Correct said:

Oct 25, 2023 21:59:21 GMT -5 Cranjis McBasketball said:

I think TV is where they went to gym.

I always liked PE. Though I wasn't much for basketball, volleyball, kickball, badminton...then it was laugh at Cole because I wasn't very good...finally floor hockey would come around and it would be mad at Cole because I was much better than everyone else with a hockey stick and a foam puck and was taking advantage.

Can't win, don't try.

they absolutely tried to get us to climb the rope like once a year in Gym class... everyone hated it.

Square dancing and rope climbing, how exactly did your country become a super power?

[A Platypus Rave is Correct]

Oct 25, 2023 22:12:30 GMT -5 Cranjis McBasketball said:

Oct 25, 2023 22:09:59 GMT -5 A Platypus Rave is Correct said:

they absolutely tried to get us to climb the rope like once a year in Gym class... everyone hated it.

Square dancing and rope climbing, how exactly did your country become a super power?

they never made us square dance in New York.

[Cranjis McBasketball]

Oct 25, 2023 22:11:48 GMT -5 darbus alan said:

The few times we did floor hockey in middle school PE class were my favorite because it was not only fun, but I was surprisingly good at it. Shame I could never do ice hockey because I have no sense of balance on skates.

In high school, I really liked going to the weight room when we could. Teachers pretty much just let us do whatever in there as long as it was something.

We never did the rope climb or if we did I wasn't there for it. We did some line dancing in either elementary or middle school (shit like the Electric Slide) but not square dancing. That sounds like a distinctly regional thing.

I started school like 1988, we had this weird "floor hockey" thing where the stick was a giant foam head and a ball. So maybe more like hurley? If I knew exactly what that was...but that's not my point, a stick with a giant foam head and it's 1988-90ish...I imagine they scrapped that the second American Gladiators hit because it was just asking for trouble, even back then.

[saneiac]

Oct 25, 2023 9:00:59 GMT -5 Duke Cameron said:

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?

1980s Wisconsin. We did square dancing as well as ribbon dancing, which I just saw called Rhythmic Gymnastics at the last summer Olympics. You hold a 5 meter long ribbon and dance around on a mat, spinning it in loops and swirls and looking like a jackass.

Any of you other old folks have to do aerobics along with the Chicken Fat record?

[Duke Cameron]

Oct 25, 2023 22:20:08 GMT -5 saneiac said:

Oct 25, 2023 9:00:59 GMT -5 Duke Cameron said:

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?

1980s Wisconsin. We did square dancing as well as ribbon dancing, which I just saw called Rhythmic Gymnastics at the last summer Olympics. You hold a 5 meter long ribbon and dance around on a mat, spinning it in loops and swirls and looking like a jackass.

Any of you other old folks have to do aerobics along with the Chicken Fat record?

Yeah, I went to school in late ‘80s and ‘90s New Jersey. I just never heard of dancing being a part of Gym class.

[Cranjis McBasketball]

I never really understood people's hatred of gym or even how you failed. As long as you showed up and maintained a body temperature somewhere roughly around 98.6 degrees, it was an easy A+.

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The rope climb not only sucked but in our gym had a high ass ceiling. I don't care how many pads you put down, the kids who actually made it to the top and back down were risking looking like f***ing Shane McMahon... I just flat out refused to do it lol

[Sephiroth]

My high school PE teacher gave me the creeps. For one, he was a total robot. Every class we had to do the warm ups and he’d instruct in the most monotone voice, “Close groupers, diamonds if you’re strong! Into the crane, hitch kick through!” But worse-he looked exactly like my Jr high pe teacher. Which made me think about my grade school pe teacher and say “If you shaved off the beard…is there a machine churning these guys out???”

[Sephiroth]

Oct 26, 2023 6:59:50 GMT -5 Sephiroth said:

My high school PE teacher gave me the creeps. For one, he was a total robot. Every class we had to do the warm ups and he’d instruct in the most monotone voice, “Close groupers, diamonds if you’re strong! Into the crane, hitch kick through!” But worse-he looked exactly like my Jr high pe teacher. Which made me think about my grade school pe teacher and say “If you shaved off the beard…is there a machine churning these guys out???”

Might add that to this day I loathe volleyball. Every winter the gym had basketball on one side, volleyball on the other. Seven freaking years of it.

[Push R Truth]

In middle school we had a PE teacher that stood in the shower after class to make sure everybody used it or you'd get your grade docked.


In retrospect...what the f#@$#@

[Sephiroth]

Oct 25, 2023 22:26:57 GMT -5 Cranjis McBasketball said:

I never really understood people's hatred of gym or even how you failed. As long as you showed up and maintained a body temperature somewhere roughly around 98.6 degrees, it was an easy A+.

For some reason I kept getting PE first class the day. I don’t know about you, but I love nothing better than running around a freezing gym first thing in the morning, feeling like a total jackass as I do whatever weird warmups the teacher had in mind that day.

[Ultimo Gallos]

Oct 26, 2023 8:06:52 GMT -5 Sephiroth said:

Oct 25, 2023 22:26:57 GMT -5 Cranjis McBasketball said:

I never really understood people's hatred of gym or even how you failed. As long as you showed up and maintained a body temperature somewhere roughly around 98.6 degrees, it was an easy A+.

For some reason I kept getting PE first class the day. I don’t know about you, but I love nothing better than running around a freezing gym first thing in the morning, feeling like a total jackass as I do whatever weird warmups the teacher had in mind that day.

I had it middle of the day 9th grade. So either did an hour of PE then off to lunch,where you had 10 minutes to eat then had to go stand outside and smell the paper mill next to the school,or you had 30 minutes of PE then lunch then 30 more minutes of PE. Or best case lunch then full house PE.

And for some reason the showers in gym were shut off during school hours. First day after PE class I head to shower to wash up fast. No water. Get told no showers. Get to walk aroound the rest of the school day stinking.

Oddly the showers were on for after school practice and games for the basketball,baseball,track and football teams.

Like I said we had good coaches for PE. As long as you changed into your gym clothes and at least tried you got a A. And most days there would be a handful of the kids playing four square or something while most of the class was doing whatever activity Coach Lett pickedd out that day.

Only odd thing was first day of class,after Coach Phil asked if I played basketball then told me I was on the team,was same coach asked me "so how many times you been held back." I was only 14,but 6 foot tall and shaving every day. He thought I was much older and had just failedd a few times. Once he learned I was one of the youngest people int hat grade he apologized and I got why he thought I was older.

Thinking about it the worst PE activity to me was Softball. Baseball we played every spring in the field near my house. You would think hitting the softball would be easy. I couldn't my contact with that thing. After 2 days of it I gave up and went and just did laps around the track.

[Sephiroth]

Oct 26, 2023 9:46:14 GMT -5 Ultimo Gallos said:

Oct 26, 2023 8:06:52 GMT -5 Sephiroth said:

For some reason I kept getting PE first class the day. I don’t know about you, but I love nothing better than running around a freezing gym first thing in the morning, feeling like a total jackass as I do whatever weird warmups the teacher had in mind that day.

I had it middle of the day 9th grade. So either did an hour of PE then off to lunch,where you had 10 minutes to eat then had to go stand outside and smell the paper mill next to the school,or you had 30 minutes of PE then lunch then 30 more minutes of PE. Or best case lunch then full house PE.

And for some reason the showers in gym were shut off during school hours. First day after PE class I head to shower to wash up fast. No water. Get told no showers. Get to walk aroound the rest of the school day stinking.

Oddly the showers were on for after school practice and games for the basketball,baseball,track and football teams.

Like I said we had good coaches for PE. As long as you changed into your gym clothes and at least tried you got a A. And most days there would be a handful of the kids playing four square or something while most of the class was doing whatever activity Coach Lett pickedd out that day.

Only odd thing was first day of class,after Coach Phil asked if I played basketball then told me I was on the team,was same coach asked me "so how many times you been held back." I was only 14,but 6 foot tall and shaving every day. He thought I was much older and had just failedd a few times. Once he learned I was one of the youngest people int hat grade he apologized and I got why he thought I was older.

Thinking about it the worst PE activity to me was Softball. Baseball we played every spring in the field near my house. You would think hitting the softball would be easy. I couldn't my contact with that thing. After 2 days of it I gave up and went and just did laps around the track.

I got nailed in the arm with a softball in pe. Went to the nurse for an ice pack. First thing she did was stuck the thermometer in my ear and tel me I had no temperature. Took a lot not to say “What a ******* surprise!”

[darbus alan]

One year in high school I had gym second period. That was like 8:30 in the morning and I don't know how I did it.

[Fade]

yeah we had to do the rope climb and line dancing thing too. I don’t get the criteria on “dancing” and how it fits into curriculum. I know some schools rn that are teaching salsa dancing.