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Post by Zaq "That Guy" Buzzkill on Oct 26, 2023 11:14:11 GMT -5
I was always hated the 'throw balls at the small skinny kid with a funny accent' game the other kids played. PE teacher didn't seem to mind when they did that.
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Post by schma on Oct 26, 2023 20:56:58 GMT -5
Up here in Ontario we had to do square dancing at one point in middle school. I think there was also some country line dancing and other stuff. Our high school gym had showers but almost no one used them, there wasn't any time alloted for it. Don't think I ever had to climb a rope.
I would participate but I wasn't in great shape until probably grade 11. I will say though, one of the things that appealed to me about Rugby was that it was an actual team sport. So many team sports, one person who was really good at it could pretty much do it all on their own. In rugby you had to rely on your teammates.
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Post by Cranjis McBasketball on Oct 26, 2023 21:34:43 GMT -5
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!” One time we played baseball in gym. I don't know how to explain the ball exactly, it looked exactly like a baseball, but less hard. Somewhere in between a regulation baseball and a rubber ball. Anyway, my best friend was heading home when the 3rd baseball threw the ball, short armed it and hit my friend directly in the back of the head, who then splayed out face first like a cartoon character. I'm cackling just typing this, recalling the memory. He was fine, settle down. Apparently my school experience was very, very, very, very different than all yours. The principal was out playing tackle football with us over lunch hour in his dress shoes, knocking kids down. Our one legged teacher thought nothing of body checking us to ground playing floor hockey. It wasn't a traumatic experience, it was fun. Edited to say, for whatever reason, in a school that was K-9, my class was all the teachers pets. We were the favorite group of kids the whole way through. Within the class, obviously we still had the dynamics of every group of kids, but the teachers were hanging out with us playing football or floor hockey or baseball, not any of the others. I remember being fairly young, like maybe grade 4 and my mom event commenting on how we were clearly the favorite class in the entire school.
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Post by Ultimo Gallos on Oct 26, 2023 22:07:26 GMT -5
My high school track and basketball coach also taught drivers' ed.
You knew if you were in the car and it was a Wednesday odds are Coach Russell is going to ask you to drive to his home. It was trash day and he would always forget to put it out.
Then on the drive back to the school he would have ya stop at a gas station so he could run in get a can of Skoal.
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Post by A Platypus Rave is Correct on Oct 27, 2023 0:13:25 GMT -5
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. I got lucky once in High school and my PE was last period... so I could just go home afterwards... I was always hated the 'throw balls at the small skinny kid with a funny accent' game the other kids played. PE teacher didn't seem to mind when they did that. I hated it too... and the PE teacher got mad at my technique of hiding behind the bleacher wall to avoid the balls that people were winging at my face.
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Post by Error on Oct 27, 2023 9:08:21 GMT -5
I got lucky that my mom was one of the PE teachers so I got to have a bit of input into what we did so it could be funny for at least my class period. Worst we had was line dancing (it was a coordination thing required by the state), Jump Rope for Heart week, and a game we had called Steal the Bacon.
In Steal the Bacon they'd divide the class in half, one half on one side of the court, half on the other and give us each a number. The teacher would pull a number out of a hat and the two people with that number would race to center court to grab an item and return to their side without the other catching them. It sounds simple and innocent until you realize it is two kids running full blast at each other, head first. Not a game day went by without at least 3 head to head collisions and one bloody nose. It was "retired" when I got to 5th grade and a kid slid knee first into another one's face and messed him up bad.
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Post by Sephiroth on Oct 27, 2023 9:56:18 GMT -5
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!” One time we played baseball in gym. I don't know how to explain the ball exactly, it looked exactly like a baseball, but less hard. Somewhere in between a regulation baseball and a rubber ball. Anyway, my best friend was heading home when the 3rd baseball threw the ball, short armed it and hit my friend directly in the back of the head, who then splayed out face first like a cartoon character. I'm cackling just typing this, recalling the memory. He was fine, settle down. Apparently my school experience was very, very, very, very different than all yours. The principal was out playing tackle football with us over lunch hour in his dress shoes, knocking kids down. Our one legged teacher thought nothing of body checking us to ground playing floor hockey. It wasn't a traumatic experience, it was fun. Edited to say, for whatever reason, in a school that was K-9, my class was all the teachers pets. We were the favorite group of kids the whole way through. Within the class, obviously we still had the dynamics of every group of kids, but the teachers were hanging out with us playing football or floor hockey or baseball, not any of the others. I remember being fairly young, like maybe grade 4 and my mom event commenting on how we were clearly the favorite class in the entire school. My high school principal would have had to stand on a box, the man was four-foot five at best. Four-foot six if you counted his Afro. In high school in particular, pe was just boring as hell to me. Ive never had an interest in sports, so already it wasn’t something I cared much about, every fall it was the state physical exams (run a mile, do sit ups, do chin ups, etc), all winter it was basketball and volleyball, and every spring it was softball. I was one of those that when I was up at bat, you could see the catchers in the outfield move in closer, snd when I was a catcher I went as far outfield as I could and largely just watched.
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Post by darbus alan on Oct 27, 2023 13:25:24 GMT -5
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. I got lucky once in High school and my PE was last period... so I could just go home afterwards... I was always hated the 'throw balls at the small skinny kid with a funny accent' game the other kids played. PE teacher didn't seem to mind when they did that. I hated it too... and the PE teacher got mad at my technique of hiding behind the bleacher wall to avoid the balls that people were winging at my face. I had gym last period in junior year. That was nice in terms of time, though it absolutely sucked in the hotter months because my HS didn't have any air conditioning in the gym, locker rooms, or weight room. And by last period is when we really felt the heat of the day.
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Post by Ultimo Gallos on Oct 27, 2023 14:57:15 GMT -5
I got lucky once in High school and my PE was last period... so I could just go home afterwards... I hated it too... and the PE teacher got mad at my technique of hiding behind the bleacher wall to avoid the balls that people were winging at my face. I had gym last period in junior year. That was nice in terms of time, though it absolutely sucked in the hotter months because my HS didn't have any air conditioning in the gym, locker rooms, or weight room. And by last period is when we really felt the heat of the day. I never saw a schiool gym with A/C until a few years ago. But then until 5th grade there was no AC in the schools where I went. So humid and hot. Would have loved to had access to a weight room back then.
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Post by Ishmeal Loves BBL Bayley on Oct 27, 2023 21:20:04 GMT -5
Any sort of running. In elementary and middle school it was the Challenge Run, where we’d run the perimeter of the school grounds. High School it was the mile. f*** all that.
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Post by schma on Oct 27, 2023 22:19:51 GMT -5
Even up here in Ontario, June was basically a write off once it got hot with the heat and humidity. I can only imagine how much worse it was for those of you south of the border.
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Post by Malcolm on Oct 27, 2023 22:30:53 GMT -5
All of the them.
ALL OF THEM!!!
ALL OF THEM!!!
f*** P.E.!!!
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Post by Rubix Cube Johnny on Oct 28, 2023 4:22:16 GMT -5
I thought the purpose of PE was to get kids to exercise. So why did they insist on so much shit that was in no way fun?
Generally anything with generic purposeless running. I was a bit of a fat kid but I loved rugby and basketball. Even football I liked even though I wasn't very good at that. Plus we had cricket, softball, badminton, lacrosse etc Like if it was a game, with scores and teams and shit, I loved that and would run all day. But anything with just running around a track, or to one end of the gym and back. I HATED.
If I ever see my old PE teacher IRL I am going to rugby tackle him through a drywall.
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Post by BayleyTiffyCodyCenaJudyHopps on Oct 28, 2023 9:04:29 GMT -5
Whenever the kickball had no air and instead of getting a good line drive kick with a properly inflated ball, you wound up popping out all of your kicks.
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Post by darbus alan on Oct 28, 2023 9:41:50 GMT -5
I had gym last period in junior year. That was nice in terms of time, though it absolutely sucked in the hotter months because my HS didn't have any air conditioning in the gym, locker rooms, or weight room. And by last period is when we really felt the heat of the day. I never saw a schiool gym with A/C until a few years ago. But then until 5th grade there was no AC in the schools where I went. So humid and hot. Would have loved to had access to a weight room back then. Yeah I think my old school got A/C throughout the entire building a few years ago. When I went the only parts of the building that had it were the offices, teachers' lounge, library, the wing with all the technology classrooms, and nurse's office.
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Post by Ultimo Gallos on Oct 28, 2023 9:59:52 GMT -5
I never saw a schiool gym with A/C until a few years ago. But then until 5th grade there was no AC in the schools where I went. So humid and hot. Would have loved to had access to a weight room back then. Yeah I think my old school got A/C throughout the entire building a few years ago. When I went the only parts of the building that had it were the offices, teachers' lounge, library, the wing with all the technology classrooms, and nurse's office. We only got AC in schools cause it was the year they added kindergarten to the public schools. Also why that year we got no spring break and had to go till the middle of June. The crew was suppose to start building hte kindergarten rooms and adding AC to the school the day school let out end of May. They started 3rd week of August. When we went back to school there was AC,but no rooms for the kindergarten. So 1st or 2nd grade got moved into the cafeteria and Kindergarten got their rooms. Also it was a tiny school. K-6th grade there was at most 300 kids. Finally 10 or so years ago the school was closed. Was maybe 60 kids total that last year. Sat abandoned for years. Then burnt down in 2019.
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Post by Renslayer on Oct 28, 2023 12:16:25 GMT -5
The Pacer test was never a good time lol
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Post by ERON on Oct 28, 2023 16:00:24 GMT -5
I don't get the line/square dancing in PE thing. We did that in music class.
Elementary school PE was fun except for rainy days when we just did push-ups and jumping jacks in the cafeteria all period.
Middle school PE was absolute hell. Bullying was not only encouraged, it was allowed. Not a day went by that I didn't get pantsed, wedgied, kicked in the junk, someone else's junk rubbed in my face, called every slur in the book, hit in the face with a dodgeball, something stolen out of my backpack, etc. And neither the coach nor the principal gave a shit. Both were miserable human beings; within a few years, the principal resigned in disgrace after being caught in an affair with his assistant, and the coach ended up shooting himself after a bad divorce. The whole experience put me off of PE so badly that I took marching band in high school just to avoid having to take PE even though I hated marching band and was never good at it. If you couldn't tell, I'm still bitter about it all.
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