My generation were Brave compare to now

hollydolly said:
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.... :ROFLMAO:
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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.”
 

We didn't have a rope climp or a peg board but we had frickin Hugh Kriever.

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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Trade said:
We didn't have a rope climp or a peg board but we had frickin Hugh Kriever.

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.
 
MarciKS said:
on your original post
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Ok it must have been this one...

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