The parachute in elementary school gym

[jabberja]

What was the point of that thing?

[jabberja]

http://blog.lib.umn.edu/icd/labschool/assets_c/2009/11/DSC03868-thumb-500x374-20626.jpg

[Hawk4Life94]

For children that young, it's a good way to work deltoid, trap, and forearm muscles.

[Match34]

I don't think there's much of a point in anything in elementary school gym.

[boneshawk]

Scooters and dodgeball were my favorites.

....and climbing the rope ;)

[jabberja]

I don't think there's much of a point in anything in elementary school gym.

I don't know about that. We used to run laps around the gym while listening to "We Built this City on Rock and Roll."

[Hawk4Life94]

Scooters and dodgeball were my favorites.

....and climbing the rope ;)

Scooters were hard on the fingers.

[jabberja]

http://blog.lib.umn.edu/icd/labschool/assets_c/2009/11/DSC03868-thumb-500x374-20626.jpg

With the exception of being Asian, I think that I was like that Asian kid. WTF are we doing here?

[boneshawk]

Scooters and dodgeball were my favorites.

....and climbing the rope ;)

Scooters were hard on the fingers.

fact

[Match34]

Scooters and dodgeball were my favorites.

....and climbing the rope ;)

Scooters were hard on the fingers.

I was always really excited when we got to the gym and the scooters were there. Then I'd run over my fingers a couple times and I wasn't as excited anymore.

[hawkchick79]

Scooters and dodgeball were my favorites.

....and climbing the rope ;)

Scooters were hard on the fingers.

fact

What were the scooters?

[Hawk4Life94]

I've answered what their purpose is, for those of you that continue to ask.

[jabberja]

Scooters were hard on the fingers.

fact

What were the scooters?

I'm stumped by that one too. I'll assume that my school didn't have money for scooters.

[Match34]

http://onceuponawin.files.wordpress.com/2009/07/21126-340x340.jpg

[jabberja]

http://onceuponawin.files.wordpress.com/2009/07/21126-340x340.jpg

Oh, okay. We had those things. I forgot all about them.

[hawkchick79]

http://onceuponawin.files.wordpress.com/2009/07/21126-340x340.jpg

Ahhhhhh...wow, I'd forgotten about those. I think ours were made out of wood.

[MikeyJoe]

http://onceuponawin.files.wordpress.com/2009/07/21126-340x340.jpg

Ahhhhhh...wow, I'd forgotten about those. I think ours were made out of wood.
Ours too. I think you were supposed to scoot around on them, but we used them like deadly skateboards.

[jabberja]

The sit-and-reach always kept me from winning fitness awards. In 4th grade, I remember complaining about it to a classmate. I asked why we needed even needed to be flexible. He said that it was needed for sex.

[hawkchick79]

The sit-and-reach always kept me from winning fitness awards. In 4th grade, I remember complaining about it to a classmate. I asked why we needed even needed to be flexible. He said that it was needed for sex.

Ha.

The sit-and-reach was always the one thing that I was better at than everybody else.

[jabberja]

The sit-and-reach always kept me from winning fitness awards. In 4th grade, I remember complaining about it to a classmate. I asked why we needed even needed to be flexible. He said that it was needed for sex.

Ha.

The sit-and-reach was always the one thing that I was better at than everybody else.

Even the morbidly obese students would destroy me in sit-and-reach.

[PlannedSickDays]

while we are rehashing old school gym class...

I would pwn you all at tinikling

[Match34]

while we are rehashing old school gym class...

I would pwn you all at tinikling

Talk about stupid activities...

[ISUFan98]

I always loved the unit where we'd roll around in giant foam wheels and hit each other with those foam bopper things.

[hawkchick79]

while we are rehashing old school gym class...

I would pwn you all at tinikling

Oh no you di-in't.

[Mrs. G]

The sit-and-reach always kept me from winning fitness awards. In 4th grade, I remember complaining about it to a classmate. I asked why we needed even needed to be flexible. He said that it was needed for sex.

Ha.

The sit-and-reach was always the one thing that I was better at than everybody else.

Even the morbidly obese students would destroy me in sit-and-reach.

I was "the" fat kid in grade school, always last to be picked on teams in gym class, etc. I couldn't hardly do anything in gym and hated gym class.

I hit puberty and dropped about 30 pounds the summer between grade school and junior high. I'll never forget the first day of gym class in junior high when we had to run a mile and I came in 4th place out of 100+ girls. Several of them grabbed me afterward and b*tched me out for passing them multiple times on the 1/8th mile track, as if I, as the historical fat girl, somehow wasn't allowed to pass other kids.

Puberty is a weird thing. Gym was much more fun after that. I was particularly good at stealing when we played basketball. I enjoyed softball too, one of the girls in my class had these long fake fingernails and I'd make it a point to throw the ball to her and bust one of them off. :D Good times.

[jabberja]

Ha.

The sit-and-reach was always the one thing that I was better at than everybody else.

Even the morbidly obese students would destroy me in sit-and-reach.

I was "the" fat kid in grade school, always last to be picked on teams in gym class, etc. I couldn't hardly do anything in gym and hated gym class.

I hit puberty and dropped about 30 pounds the summer between grade school and junior high. I'll never forget the first day of gym class in junior high when we had to run a mile and I came in 4th place out of 100+ girls. Several of them grabbed me afterward and b*tched me out for passing them multiple times on the 1/8th mile track, as if I, as the historical fat girl, somehow wasn't allowed to pass other kids.

Puberty is a weird thing. Gym was much more fun after that. I was particularly good at stealing when we played basketball. I enjoyed softball too, one of the girls in my class had these long fake fingernails and I'd make it a point to throw the ball to her and bust one of them off. :D Good times.

I had to see the principal one time because a girl claimed that I intentionally aimed for her when playing kickball. That was good strategy, by the way.

[Jimmie Dimmick]

while we are rehashing old school gym class...

I would pwn you all at tinikling

you'd better watch what you say, i was the master

scooter dodgeball was fun

[Match34]

I always loved the unit where we'd roll around in giant foam wheels and hit each other with those foam bopper things.

We called those "shapes." I don't know why, but it was by far the most popular activity of the year. Kids loved those things.

[jabberja]

while we are rehashing old school gym class...

I would pwn you all at tinikling

Yet another thing that I had completely forgotten...

http://www.stmargcs.ca/tinikling/images/tinikling1.gif

[The Incredible Hawk]

Floor hockey!

[Gushawk]

I am likely among the most dominant scooter polo/speedball players in Iowa history. Also probably a Top 50 pickleball HoFer.

[TH1974]

Floor hockey!

This.

Gym hockey was probably the only thing I ever tried at in gym class.

[Lime]

I like that we're now stretching the false nostalgic glory days to elementary school.

[Mrs. G]

I like that we're now stretching the false nostalgic glory days to elementary school.

Mr. Hawk is conspicuously absent from this thread.

[funnelcake]

steal the bacon and floor hockey......hand curve your own stick for max lift

[Serenity]

I absolutely hated that Red Rover game :P I was usually one of the smallest in the class and so everyone would try to break through the chain where I was at and then think it was really fun to "send me right over". Who comes up with these stupid games?

[jabberja]

I absolutely hated that Red Rover game :P I was usually one of the smallest in the class and so everyone would try to break through the chain where I was at and then think it was really fun to "send me right over". Who comes up with these stupid games?

The same people that are responsible for Taylor Swift and High School Musical. Girls.

[Jimmie Dimmick]

Floor hockey!

This.

Gym hockey was probably the only thing I ever tried at in gym class.

Gym hockey was canceled at my school after two kids got into it, and one partially severed an ear off the other one with a hockey stick.

[TH1974]

Floor hockey!

This.

Gym hockey was probably the only thing I ever tried at in gym class.

Gym hockey was canceled at my school after two kids got into it, and one partially severed an ear off the other one with a hockey stick.

Hockey sticks have nothing on Cedar Rapids trashcans when it comes to ear-severing potential.

[Grape Ape]

I swear climbing the rope was only for inducing boners

[TH1974]

I like that we're now stretching the false nostalgic glory days to elementary school.

Mr. Hawk is conspicuously absent from this thread.

Mr. H didn't have time for gym class, with all the college FB recruiting trips.

[boneshawk]

Quite sure some old farts on the board rocked the square dance unit.?.

[Southsidehawk]

Quite sure some old farts on the board rocked the square dance unit.?.

Us old farts didn't have any of that crap. We just had recess. You went outside whether is was raining, snowing or 100 degrees. Softball and dodgeball is the only things I remember. Of course there was the obligatory jungle gym. But no ghey scooters or parachutes. We would have set that crap on fire. Pussies!

[Monster]

My 8th grade dodgeball team could beat any ragtag group this board could put together. We were dominant.

I remember the first day of 8th grade. I go to homeroom, and am immediately happy to see my best buddy Brian there. Then another good friend Todd walks in. Then Charlie, Rod, Jerry, Gary, etc. All guys. 24 guys in one homeroom, no chicks. Then when our "homeroom teacher" walked in, and it was the asst principal, we realized we all got pwn3d. The put all the jackasses in one homeroom. We were good at sports though.

[01BizGrad]

I always loved the unit where we'd roll around in giant foam wheels and hit each other with those foam bopper things.
That unit was the best, and fantastically (sp?) dangerous. It would never fail that somebody would stack the donuts up, climb on top, then the thing would fall lay somebody out on the gym floor. Usually the stupid kid sitting on top of the donuts.

I also recall that the big fat kid (John), layed on top of Brian and beat the snot out of him on the donuts mat. Man that was funny. They gym teacher kept yelling for him to get off but the kid wouldn't listen.

[r4hawks]

http://onceuponawin.files.wordpress.com/2009/07/21126-340x340.jpg

Ahhhhhh...wow, I'd forgotten about those. I think ours were made out of wood.
Ours too. I think you were supposed to scoot around on them, but we used them like deadly skateboards.

Mine too, the wheels that is.


I'm fairly certain we didnt have scooters , or a parachute for that matter .

[newsbreaker]

I went to a shitty grade school. I think we only had about 5 "units."

Fall: Kiddie ball (that's what we called it, but I think that's not the right name) on the blacktop across from school.

Winter: Basketball, those scooters, and randomly running around the gym.

Spring: Track (read, running randomly around a large field); more kiddie ball.

[Crash Davis]

No mention of the 6 ft red medicine ball? We would combine that with scooters and kick it w/our feet.

In addition to the scooter finger pinch...

The half inflated, rock hard, playground teatherball to the side of head/nose. I think they left ours out year-round to make it nice and hard.

Scooter to the shin. There's always somebody that tries to surf/skateboard on one. They would run and try to jump on the scooter, but hit the edge and rocket it towards some random person not paying attention.

Old school, firing squad dodge ball (against the brick wall). Everyone lines up along the wall. It doesn't take long until someone gets hit and smacks their head against the wall.

[MikeyJoe]

No mention of the 6 ft red medicine ball? We would combine that with scooters and kick it w/our feet.
We played Crab Soccer.

[CUIHAWk]

The giant inflatable ball. It was 6ft tall and 4 ft wide and you would just push it around. Then someone would run into it and someone would bounce off the other side. Hockey was a great time and in hs we got the rubber roller blades and were able to play hockey in the gym, now that was dangerous.

[Matt inWDM]

This thread is bringing back some good memories. I loved those indoor gym days where they busted out all the foam stuff, ropes, nets, and so on.

Do they still have the climbing nets? Those things seemed pretty dangerous and went up pretty high. I always got scared when I had to switch over to the other side by climbing over the bar.

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