I TA'd for Sarge for 3.5 years. Great way to earn a credit for washing towels and then watching sportscenter or playing whatever sport of the day rather than sitting in study hall.
Hey Tom Paris
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Yes, I did the exact same thing. On 9/11 I sat in the PE office and watched the news.
As a former PE teacher, dodgeball is the correct answer. And my classes played never-ending dodgeball where it wasn’t antisocial and it was a game of teamwork. 90% of the classes chose this on ‘choice’ day. Also, no one should be using the rubber playground balls anymore, we used gatorskin balls, firm enough to bounce like a basketball but I could throw it right at your head from 10 ft away and it wouldn’t even phase you.
Grow up in the quad cities? I remember moving to des moines and being surprised that they didn't play that here
What kind of sissy-boys play on wrestling mats? We played on the outdoor, asphalt basketball court. Same with the pins, bit used 3 of them. The marching band types got assigned to stand in front of the pins.
The greatest thing to do was stick your head through the hole and it was always the one thing you couldn't do...
As an adult on one occasion I had to supervise the parachute thing, and a kid stuck his head through the hole and I immediately thought 'crap he's going to break his neck!' But I REALLY wanted to let him stick his head there... I managed to half heartedly tell him to take his head out of the hole...
So you guys were just running after balls all over the place when playing outside? It works best when you can play in a confined area. I’ve played regular dodgeball on a bball court before as well.
Marching band types in front of the pins are just cannon ball fodder.
At the beginning of the game you end up chasing balls. Once you get some of the slow, non-athletic kids knocked out, they line up behind the court & get the balls that miss.
And yes, the marching band pin shields were cannonball fodder. Of course. But they generally preferred that to being closer to the center line - they'd usually have enough time to only take it to the top of the head instead of the face.
Best was when the teams had thinned out & you could roll one ball like a bowling ball, and when it got close fire the remaining balls, machine-gun style, at the pin shield.
In about Middle School the district switched to these shitty foam red balls that you had absolutely zero control of after it left your hand. I hit the same girl in the face three times and was forced to apologize to her.
Amateur hour. When we did "tinikling" the goal was to break ankles with those bamboo poles.
