I want to see eye to eye on something. What's your favorite gym class game to teach?
Hey Tom Paris
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If it isn't kickball or the parachute then all hope is lost.
I have fond memories of the parachute thing
The parachute? I am disgusted by you
Kickball is a reasonable answer. Dodgeball is a lot of fun but it is very antisocial. I liked "I didn't come up with a lesson plan so dick around in the gym" days because that was some of the only pickup basketball in Parkersburg outside of summer shootarounds
I don't think we ever played this game by any name in gym class. We played it by several names at recess and in boy scouts
Did they smear you a lot?
If it isn’t dodgeball (with volleyballs) I’m out!
We had big red rubber balls my man. They hurt people good.
So we did it differently. We called it “Pin guard”. This is rules:
- played in the wresting room so you can duck or dodge without hurting yourself
- played with volleyballs not the red rubber balls like you’re talking about
- same rules as dodgeball, throwers caught ball is out
- 2 bowling pins are at the back of the room on both sides (object of the game is to protect the pins. Knock your opponents two pins down and the game is over)
- we could play about 5 games in a period (played during high school)
As someone who taught PE for several years I can easily say that every PE teacher has the same number one goal.
“Don’t get sued by the little girl's family, who gets hit in the face by a dodgeball thrown by the varsity catcher.”
“Don’t get sued by the little girl's family, who gets hit in the face by a dodgeball thrown by the varsity catcher.”
The parachute was usually rainbow colored. Liberal indoctrination at its most diabolical.
Between rainbow parachutes, Bert and Ernie, and fluoride in the tap water. We never had a chance.
The scout leader was always the full-time queer in my scouts.
Shit man, you are gay also?
Nttatwwt, just this board has to be an absolute statistical outlier of society.
Head shots counted as well. And were encouraged. Had and gave a few bloody noses over the years at East
We had dodgeball in HS with the maroon rubber balls. Glasses were smashed, bullet throws to kids heads. If you threw a double head shot (ball hits head, head hits wall) you were legend for the hour.
We had the stereotypical old school gym teacher. He did nothing, absolutely nothing. For a full year, we’d walk in, he’d roll the balls out and we’d dodgeball the period. This teacher took two kids, probably 14 or 15 and known to run their mouths at each other…and they got into a scrape during a match. He took them and threw them into the storage closet and in his words “so the two idiots can fight it out”.
Hey! Coach Magee said whatever happens under the tent stays under the tent and doesn’t count!
We played a version of cage ball when I was in high school. The class was all male, and our wrestling coach/PE teacher basically let us have at it. Things got pretty intense. Ultimately the game got shut down when someone dislocated their shoulder on the huge ball. Great workouts for a while though.
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Confirmation Pastor.
Came out right after retiring. Had a wife and kid I believe. Didn’t get busted for solicitation until he was in his 70’s
Our PE teacher was also the wrestling coach we called “Sarge”. He would join the game and play with us. He was pretty intense, but I was fine with it.
Looking back, maybe something not so great is he would let the special ed kids play. Well, since we don’t believe in disabilities he treated them just like everyone else. They got lit up too.
In my first grade photo I have a scarred nose from falling off one of these. The teacher had just warned us not kneel on them. I thought: SHOOOOT ... only a dumbass could fall off one of these! Hit a crack and boom. Tragic
In middle school our gym teacher was absolutely jacked & looked like Shaft. He would grab a rack of rock hard, over inflated volleyballs. He was the only person allowed to throw. I would try to avoid his glare until he drilled about 8 kids & then quietly join them on the sidelines. Those frickin things hurt like hell lol.
Bloodlust…. of PE competition…
Just thinking about lighting a poor SOB up with those overinflated volleyballs…
