The gym teacher wasn’t impressed. He thought we should join the gymnastics club. I told him I wasn’t interested and he asked why not. I told him because girls are much better at gymnastics at our age. They are more flexible. That’s when he laid down his clipboard and laid his hands on the floor behind him, so he looked like an arch. Then he stood up and asked if he was flexible. I told him “Seems you are.”wow... 6.4 is a BIG guy... no wonder you loved the vaulting horse in Gym....lol....
us littlies hated it for the same reason you loved it....
My generation were Brave compare to now
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We didn't have a rope climp or a peg board but we had frickin Hugh Kriever.
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He instituted "Fun Day" for PE class every Friday where he would run the class like it was Marine Corp Boot Camp PT. He had been a Marine. I guess that meant he was still a Marine because like the saying goes "Once a Marine always a Marine." He would start us off with calisthenics with the emphasis on his favorites which were push ups and squat thrusts (they call them burpees now) all to his count.
And if they weren't done in good form he wouldn't count them. "I don't want to see any Saturday night push ups!" Then came the really bad part. After calisthenics the rest of the period was wind sprints. Wind sprints until you thought you were going to die. Usually by the end several guys would be throwing up.
And you couldn't avoid it. PE wasn't an elective back then, It was required.
He was also the head Football coach. He had played football for the Marines. From what the guys on the team said at the beginning of Fall practice he would have "Let's find out who the quitters are" where he would make "Fun Day" look like a day at the park by trying to get guys to quit.
Hugh Kriever - Veterans Funeral Care
He instituted "Fun Day" for PE class every Friday where he would run the class like it was Marine Corp Boot Camp PT. He had been a Marine. I guess that meant he was still a Marine because like the saying goes "Once a Marine always a Marine." He would start us off with calisthenics with the emphasis on his favorites which were push ups and squat thrusts (they call them burpees now) all to his count.
And if they weren't done in good form he wouldn't count them. "I don't want to see any Saturday night push ups!" Then came the really bad part. After calisthenics the rest of the period was wind sprints. Wind sprints until you thought you were going to die. Usually by the end several guys would be throwing up.
And you couldn't avoid it. PE wasn't an elective back then, It was required.
He was also the head Football coach. He had played football for the Marines. From what the guys on the team said at the beginning of Fall practice he would have "Let's find out who the quitters are" where he would make "Fun Day" look like a day at the park by trying to get guys to quit.
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I can personally confirm that the Marine physical training course is a real bear. By the end of the third day, I thought I was going to die. I couldn’t wait to get back inside the barracks, hit the showers, get some food and get in my bunk. I was at the Island in July-August. It was like in the 90’s. A few guys didn’t make it through the course.
I don't think we see it in schools as much as years ago.
But I have seen some skate boarders, BMX long distance bike riders, and bike obstacle course racing and really young surfers
doing amazing things I never saw when I was young. As life is, it's different now in many ways.
But I have seen some skate boarders, BMX long distance bike riders, and bike obstacle course racing and really young surfers
doing amazing things I never saw when I was young. As life is, it's different now in many ways.
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hmm...all i see is a broken image @hollydolly
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Broken image where ?
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on your original postBroken image where ?
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this is what i'm seeing...
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that's my signature lol
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there's a little green broken image square up above your signature where the pic was supposed to be.
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I was never strong enough to do those things in PE class. LOLOk it must have been this one...
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Yes I don't know why the link wasbroken, but I found a little picture of what was the original larger picture..posted it above ^^
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Oh we had no choice, the only person who wasn't expected to do it was a girl in my class who had literally no knees... everybody else had to do it regardless
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i would've failed. not enough upper body strength. lol
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mine didn't either. hell i could barely manage the monkey bars. lol
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Yup, some of us weren't cut out for athletic stuff!!
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really ?... all of ours had ropes...
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Nope, no ropes.
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In grade and high school we had gym. Grade school was ok but I only attended one gym class all through HS. I hated sports and gym. Hated it. I would sit in the locker roomand do homework or study. The one gym class I attended was Meditation and it was great!! Set the basis for meditation for the rest of my life.
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we were not permitted to miss a gym class... lots of girls wanted to, and they'd even bring a note from their mothers, but as far as our PE teachers were concerned if you could walk without help and breathe on your own you could do gym
Same with showers, so many people didn't want to take showers...
I loved to take them because we had just a bath at home with 6 of us , and only one tank of water heated at a time, so a hot shower was bliss for me..
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We were required to participate. Failing to do so would bring us a failing grade.
I remember in 6th. grade gym us boys were required to wear jock straps and the gym teacher would line us up before class and check by having us flip the front of our shorts down. That was the only year we were checked though, not sure why.
Can you imagine that happening in this day?
There were always stories floating around about that gym teacher and what went on in his office, no idea if there was any truth to the rumors, he certainly had a long career at that school. I can testify first hand that he gave some of the hardest swats I ever had, that's the only reason he ever took me into his office.
Can you imagine that happening in this day?
There were always stories floating around about that gym teacher and what went on in his office, no idea if there was any truth to the rumors, he certainly had a long career at that school. I can testify first hand that he gave some of the hardest swats I ever had, that's the only reason he ever took me into his office.
We did, too, all of us practicing custody of the eyes as best we could. Our gym teacher would stand at the end of the showers and hand us towels as we headed back to the lockers, always with a warm smile on her face that I thought was kindness for our shyness. I found out years later that she was probably enjoying it more than we guessed.