topic Re: Remember it well in Sports

Remember it well

drizzellla — Mon, 21 Jul 2025 01:37:18 GMT

Re: Remember it well

Meowingkitty — Mon, 21 Jul 2025 02:16:58 GMT

Thank goodness I never had to do that. I hated PE.

Re: Remember it well

spiderw — Mon, 21 Jul 2025 02:21:21 GMT

I call that torture in gym class!!!! We had to do certain exercises which weren't always easy but climbing a rope, no and I am grateful for that!!!!

Re: Remember it well

kitcat51 — Mon, 21 Jul 2025 03:19:53 GMT

I hated climbing those ropes...also side jumps over a pummel horse, tumbling, flipping on a trampoline, swimming-diving, running outside in the heat and all those crazy gym teachers who expected you to be a world class athlete. In grade school I got bounced off a trampoline by a girl twice+ my size & broke my wrist. I can laugh about it now but gym class...ugh.

Re: Remember it well

catter70 — Mon, 21 Jul 2025 09:01:26 GMT

I remember it well. I was able to make it.

Re: Remember it well

on the bay — Mon, 21 Jul 2025 09:40:26 GMT

When you look at that now, it really is crazy and not such a safe thing that they made young kids do that!

Not everyone was training for the olympics!

Re: Remember it well

Meowingkitty — Mon, 21 Jul 2025 12:36:08 GMT

@kitcat51 wrote:
I hated climbing those ropes...also side jumps over a pummel horse, tumbling, flipping on a trampoline, swimming-diving, running outside in the heat and all those crazy gym teachers who expected you to be a world class athlete. In grade school I got bounced off a trampoline by a girl twice+ my size & broke my wrist. I can laugh about it now but gym class...ugh.

I agree with the gym teachers expecting everyone to be a world class athlete. I hated PE. Hated running in the heat, gymnastics was awful, and I couldn't throw a ball to save my life. I did kinda like volleyball and swimming. There wasn't one single sport I was even close to be good at. Fortunately my best friend had arthritis and was exempt from most PE activities and she managed to convince the teacher that her and I would be able to walk around the field for the hour and that would fulfill our PE requirement. We had great times walking that field.

Re: Remember it well

rockygems123 — Mon, 21 Jul 2025 12:58:44 GMT

@drizzellla

We never had to do that maybe because it was Catholic school.

It was just the nuns that tortured us ha.

Re: Remember it well

cindyNC — Mon, 21 Jul 2025 14:19:48 GMT

Ugh - hated that. and never could do it.

Re: Remember it well

JoePE — Mon, 21 Jul 2025 14:34:52 GMT

The children in your photograph are heroes. . .I could never even get off the ground! The stuff of nightmares. . .I remember it well.

Re: Remember it well

stevieb — Mon, 21 Jul 2025 14:35:41 GMT

Remember those awful annual 'presidential' fitness nighmares? How I despised them. I destested gym anyway. It was mandatory through tenth grade. I recall being relieved when I hit my junior year and no more gym for me.

Re: Remember it well

Elodie2 — Fri, 25 Jul 2025 09:17:02 GMT

My 9th grade gym teacher was like a drill sargeant. I mostly remember leg lifts where you slowly raised both legs straight up...hold...then lower as she slowly counted down from ten. Absolute torture. I also remember that menstrual cramps would give you a pass to sit out gym for the day. That got used often by many.

Re: Remember it well

willowbark — Sat, 02 Aug 2025 17:06:01 GMT

I remember having to do the bar hang, running around the field and also there was this balance bar we had to walk on although it was not that far off the ground which I could not do...fell off but what did they expect if one did not have gymnastic training from early childhood and no one I knew did. The rope climb was only for the boys. We probably had to do chin ups but I don't remember but probably would not have been able to do tt that either.

Why then at the end of the year did I get a certificate and patch for excellence in physical fitness back then there were no automatic awards. But, I remember my parents being proud of me when I got this bogus thing.