Phys. Ed.

ocarinagirl · 06-30-2004, 05:46 PM

Love it or hate it, it's been an integral part in the educational system. Was it fun for you? Is it required for all four years of high school? Did the fitness testing suck balls? Was dodgeball an ever present threat?

At HHS, Phys. Ed. is only required for 2 years. But there are other P.E classes to get into after that (Weights, Life Sports, etc.). I didn't take them because I wanted to get into more Arts classes.

Freshman P.E was interesting, since it was divided up into Weights, Sports, and Health. Meaning that we'd weight lift for a few weeks, then move on to Sports, etc...

I liked the sports part. It was pretty fun and the teacher really liked me, since I actually participated in the sports (and PWNED) instead of standing around like a dumbass like the other girls...

Weights was okay...not really hard, just...meh.

Health was pretty bad. I had to sit around and look at slides of crotch rot and then listen about how OMG TEH DRUGZ R BAAD!!!11 Not that riveting...

Thoughts? Personal experiences? Childhood trauma?

[ June 30, 2004, 10:08 PM: Message edited by: Bad Andi ]

Brandon2390 · 06-30-2004, 06:27 PM

I like it. Gives me a chance to run around and get some blood pumpin in the old brain at the beginning of the day.

Sim Kid · 06-30-2004, 08:29 PM

Aren't you talking about Natural Studies in Contemporary State Sponsored Violence?

ocarinagirl · 06-30-2004, 09:41 PM

^Someone had a bad dodgeball experience. [img]tongue.gif[/img]

Parrakarry · 06-30-2004, 10:43 PM

Man, I love dodgeball. I smack people with the balls so hard they don't see it coming... only way to tell is the sonic boom.

Once, it was me against 7 people, cuz my team sucked... I wittled them down to two people, but one of the girls who always just sits there actually threw a ball and got a lucky hit... so I lost.

War-Prince 9 2.0 · 06-30-2004, 10:58 PM

I avoided any High school gym classes in favor of ROTC classes. Those were easy, spend most the class asleep, wake up to take a test or two and were uniforms once a week. All the standing at attention was annoying, but it was better then gym.

My last gym class was in middle school, the coach would make us do exercises then they'd bring out some basketballs and leave. I spent the whole class sitting around half asleep and got a B.

But I do miss dodgeball. Was there a better concept then a school sponsered event were you attack your fellow students? Really, if they had had a little more dodgeball in school I might not have gotten in so many fights.

ocarinagirl · 06-30-2004, 11:09 PM

^*hits with dodgeball and runs*

Hmmm...you know, there are adult dodgeball leagues popping up all over the country.

...I should join! That would kick so much ASS!

[img]graemlins/lol.gif[/img]

[sage] · 07-01-2004, 12:02 AM

We only have to do a half of year of P.E and a half of year of health. I did mine freshmen year

***CaptHayfever*** · 07-01-2004, 12:05 AM

I loved dodgeball. I don't throw well, and I'm not particularly fast, but I react extremely quickly, and that's all you really need.

Of course, it helps to have teammates who know better than to crowd around you & thus totally eliminate all possible escape routes.

And remember, "I'm-a Luigi, number one!"

Brandon2390 · 07-01-2004, 01:06 AM

I was nasty at dodgeball in like 5th grade. I lost some of that skill now, but I used to dodge everything coming at me. 4 balls at once one time.

***Cosmonautical*** · 07-01-2004, 09:05 AM

Dodgeball and kickball both own. The rest of P.E. can go to hell.

***CaptHayfever*** · 07-01-2004, 11:01 AM

Kickball > You.
I might actually have a Kickball class in college, if they ever process my schedule.

And remember, "I'm-a Luigi, number one!"

Princess Zelda of Hyrule · 07-01-2004, 11:43 AM

Badminton is fun. As is ultimate frisbee. But I'm not a P.E. person. I take gym over the summer with all the lousy athletes.

Sim Kid · 07-02-2004, 01:56 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by Bad Andi:
^Someone had a bad dodgeball experience. [img]tongue.gif[/img]

Of course, most of my bad experiences were based around the fact our tax dollars are going to be paying for the Prison Cells and Welfare checks of 65% of my fellow student body.

I could go on for hours about how I've been attacked during Pain Education throughout my school career and how they've gotten away with it and how many pairs of glasses I had to go through.

Though I really loved Tennis, Volleyball, and Swimming.

I'm pretty good at Tennis, when we were doing Tennis, I more or less whooped most of the other students because they didn't know how to play, and I can't tell you how many Service Aces I got because the other player ducked or jumped out of the way. I did beam a person in the chest with a serve 3 times-And he was one of the students who had turned Dodgeball into pure terrorism for the girls and people with career potentials above food-service in 4th grade. Sweet revenge. And when we were learning lob shots...Aw man, that was funny because they went EVERYWHERE. Quite a bit of them went into the nearby Parking lot, and one ball even sailed through an open window. [img]graemlins/lol.gif[/img] (I think that was someone's math class) Quite a bit of them landed on the roof-I wonder how many Tennis Balls, Bottle Rockets, and Model rockets are up there. (Of course this was only a 2 story school)

...And unfortunatley, we didn't have a Tennis court nor could we go to any public ones so we just had to stand up a few boards for the net and chalk for the courts and in the middle of a parking lot.

I loved Kickball-I really sent that ball sailing and got dodgeball revenge on a person by accident.

Another time in Dodgeball, I threw a Dogeball at someone, it hit them on the head, bounced off and hit someone else on the head A great double-play.

And swimming...Well, a guy who'll most likely be on America's Most wanted tried to drown me and held my head underwater. If I hadn't splashed up a storm and if some people didn't tell the lifeguards that someone was holding my head underwater then they would have succeeded in drowning me. And of course, Branden Bastard assaulted me with a Kickboard. Couldn't do any Karate moves because it's really hard to kick someone in 3 feet of water. But otherwise it was ungodly fun.

Erdawn Il Deus · 07-02-2004, 03:47 AM

^Wow. I'd take phys-ed every day just to pump up and be able to break every bone in the body of those jackasses.

Anywho,

Excluding Dodgeball and Kickball, I think the sheer concept of a class teaching kids to do sports is a waste of time. Phys-Ed should be done like... once ever day, 30-40 minutes in the morning. Sure, it'd be a ***** to wake up to, but exercising has a way of refreshing the body, and it would keep you in very good shape.

Katyrna · 07-02-2004, 01:07 PM

P.E.... Definitely not my fave class. I completely agree it's a good idea to have, but I'm no fan of our once-a-week Fitness Run/Walks, where by the end of the year, to get an A, you have to do 3 miles. Try THAT outside on a hot day, and if you're not a top athlete (like me

), you'll have just as much fun as I did!! Being inside for those makes a heck of a lot of difference.

My school has required Health and Driver's Ed. But you see, I'm lucky enough to live in the one and ONLY state...

...where you have six semesters of required P.E. Three years. And you have to do it to graduate. There's about 10 other classes I'd rather be taking in place of that. I don't think that's quite fair with how restricted mine and others' schedules are.

And we don't play Dodgeball in High School. *Waaah!* Dodgeball ruled...

Princess Zelda of Hyrule · 07-02-2004, 04:19 PM

P.E. is the most degrading form of torture ever. It exposes the flaws in a teenager's most intimate, senstive area: Her body. Especially when they make us swim in the pool, and put on bathing suits in front of everyone. In all of those movies about the miserable lives of people with bizarre deformities, they always show a scene in high school at the swimming pool...

[ July 02, 2004, 04:22 PM: Message edited by: Princess Zelda of Hyrule: God Bless ]

Katyrna · 07-02-2004, 04:37 PM

I understand where you're coming from. I'm sincerely sorry that you have a swimming portion. We don't have a pool.

ZeldaGirl · 07-02-2004, 07:02 PM

I only had to take P.E. for one year in high school(actually only 3 quarters... 4th quarter was health).

I loved P.E., since I'm very athletic... but, I was one of the few athletic girls in the class. There were only 10 girls in a class of 40 who actually were athletic... so it was very hard. Girls actually got made at me during dodgeball.

"You throw too hard! Stop! Ahhh!"

Or in volleyball...

"You hit too hard! Stop! Ahhh!"

In basketball...

"Stop scoring! It's not fair! Ahhh!"

Okay, I think I'm done ranting for now!

[img]tongue.gif[/img]

Sim Kid · 07-02-2004, 09:45 PM

We don't have a pool in our school either so we instead went to a public pool.

06-30-2004, 05:46 PM	#1
ocarinagirl Senior Member Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Ehhh? What? Where am I?! Gender: Posts: 3,010 Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts	Love it or hate it, it's been an integral part in the educational system. Was it fun for you? Is it required for all four years of high school? Did the fitness testing suck balls? Was dodgeball an ever present threat? At HHS, Phys. Ed. is only required for 2 years. But there are other P.E classes to get into after that (Weights, Life Sports, etc.). I didn't take them because I wanted to get into more Arts classes. Freshman P.E was interesting, since it was divided up into Weights, Sports, and Health. Meaning that we'd weight lift for a few weeks, then move on to Sports, etc... I liked the sports part. It was pretty fun and the teacher really liked me, since I actually participated in the sports (and PWNED) instead of standing around like a dumbass like the other girls... Weights was okay...not really hard, just...meh. Health was pretty bad. I had to sit around and look at slides of crotch rot and then listen about how OMG TEH DRUGZ R BAAD!!!11 Not that riveting... Thoughts? Personal experiences? Childhood trauma? [ June 30, 2004, 10:08 PM: Message edited by: Bad Andi ]

06-30-2004, 06:27 PM	#2
Brandon2390 Veteran Member Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: Connecticut Posts: 10,519 Thanks: 7 Thanked 30 Times in 22 Posts	I like it. Gives me a chance to run around and get some blood pumpin in the old brain at the beginning of the day.

06-30-2004, 08:29 PM	#3
Sim Kid Senior Member Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: The state of Denial Gender: Posts: 8,884 Thanks: 80 Thanked 198 Times in 122 Posts	Aren't you talking about Natural Studies in Contemporary State Sponsored Violence?

06-30-2004, 09:41 PM	#4
ocarinagirl Senior Member Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Ehhh? What? Where am I?! Gender: Posts: 3,010 Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts	^Someone had a bad dodgeball experience. [img]tongue.gif[/img]

06-30-2004, 10:43 PM	#5
Parrakarry Veteran Member Join Date: Apr 2001 Posts: 10,685 Thanks: 0 Thanked 1 Time in 1 Post	Man, I love dodgeball. I smack people with the balls so hard they don't see it coming... only way to tell is the sonic boom. Once, it was me against 7 people, cuz my team sucked... I wittled them down to two people, but one of the girls who always just sits there actually threw a ball and got a lucky hit... so I lost.

06-30-2004, 10:58 PM	#6
War-Prince 9 2.0 Junior Member Join Date: Sep 2003 Location: Louisiana Posts: 166 Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts	I avoided any High school gym classes in favor of ROTC classes. Those were easy, spend most the class asleep, wake up to take a test or two and were uniforms once a week. All the standing at attention was annoying, but it was better then gym. My last gym class was in middle school, the coach would make us do exercises then they'd bring out some basketballs and leave. I spent the whole class sitting around half asleep and got a B. But I do miss dodgeball. Was there a better concept then a school sponsered event were you attack your fellow students? Really, if they had had a little more dodgeball in school I might not have gotten in so many fights.

06-30-2004, 11:09 PM	#7
ocarinagirl Senior Member Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Ehhh? What? Where am I?! Gender: Posts: 3,010 Thanks: 0 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts	^hits with dodgeball and runs Hmmm...you know, there are adult dodgeball leagues popping up all over the country. ...I should join! That would kick so much ASS! [img]graemlins/lol.gif[/img]

07-01-2004, 12:02 AM	#8
[sage] Veteran Member Join Date: Dec 2000 Location: Florida Gender: Posts: 18,304 Thanks: 1 Thanked 13 Times in 10 Posts	We only have to do a half of year of P.E and a half of year of health. I did mine freshmen year

07-01-2004, 12:05 AM	#9
*CaptHayfever* Smash SuperMod Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: (n) - the place where I am Gender: Posts: 27,661 Thanks: 1,991 Thanked 2,486 Times in 1,513 Posts	I loved dodgeball. I don't throw well, and I'm not particularly fast, but I react extremely quickly, and that's all you really need. Of course, it helps to have teammates who know better than to crowd around you & thus totally eliminate all possible escape routes. And remember, "I'm-a Luigi, number one!"

07-01-2004, 01:06 AM	#10
Brandon2390 Veteran Member Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: Connecticut Posts: 10,519 Thanks: 7 Thanked 30 Times in 22 Posts	I was nasty at dodgeball in like 5th grade. I lost some of that skill now, but I used to dodge everything coming at me. 4 balls at once one time.

07-01-2004, 09:05 AM	#11
*Cosmonautical* Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: I rub my tilde all over your asterisk Gender: Posts: 28,100 Thanks: 2,156 Thanked 5,338 Times in 2,433 Posts	Dodgeball and kickball both own. The rest of P.E. can go to hell.

07-01-2004, 11:01 AM	#12
*CaptHayfever* Smash SuperMod Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: (n) - the place where I am Gender: Posts: 27,661 Thanks: 1,991 Thanked 2,486 Times in 1,513 Posts	Kickball > You. I might actually have a Kickball class in college, if they ever process my schedule. And remember, "I'm-a Luigi, number one!"

07-01-2004, 11:43 AM	#13
Princess Zelda of Hyrule Senior Member Join Date: Jun 2000 Location: Hyrule Castle Gender: Posts: 6,128 Thanks: 35 Thanked 14 Times in 10 Posts	Badminton is fun. As is ultimate frisbee. But I'm not a P.E. person. I take gym over the summer with all the lousy athletes.

07-02-2004, 03:47 AM	#15
Erdawn Il Deus Senior Member Join Date: May 2003 Location: Threading the jeweled thrones of earth under my sandalled feet Gender: Posts: 3,056 Thanks: 4 Thanked 47 Times in 41 Posts	^Wow. I'd take phys-ed every day just to pump up and be able to break every bone in the body of those jackasses. Anywho, Excluding Dodgeball and Kickball, I think the sheer concept of a class teaching kids to do sports is a waste of time. Phys-Ed should be done like... once ever day, 30-40 minutes in the morning. Sure, it'd be a ***** to wake up to, but exercising has a way of refreshing the body, and it would keep you in very good shape.

07-02-2004, 01:07 PM	#16
Katyrna Junior Member Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Hiding in the band locker from the man with an air bazooka... Gender: Posts: 243 Thanks: 6 Thanked 4 Times in 4 Posts	P.E.... Definitely not my fave class. I completely agree it's a good idea to have, but I'm no fan of our once-a-week Fitness Run/Walks, where by the end of the year, to get an A, you have to do 3 miles. Try THAT outside on a hot day, and if you're not a top athlete (like me ), you'll have just as much fun as I did!! Being inside for those makes a heck of a lot of difference. My school has required Health and Driver's Ed. But you see, I'm lucky enough to live in the one and ONLY state... ...where you have six semesters of required P.E. Three years. And you have to do it to graduate. There's about 10 other classes I'd rather be taking in place of that. I don't think that's quite fair with how restricted mine and others' schedules are. And we don't play Dodgeball in High School. Waaah! Dodgeball ruled...

07-02-2004, 04:19 PM	#17
Princess Zelda of Hyrule Senior Member Join Date: Jun 2000 Location: Hyrule Castle Gender: Posts: 6,128 Thanks: 35 Thanked 14 Times in 10 Posts	P.E. is the most degrading form of torture ever. It exposes the flaws in a teenager's most intimate, senstive area: Her body. Especially when they make us swim in the pool, and put on bathing suits in front of everyone. In all of those movies about the miserable lives of people with bizarre deformities, they always show a scene in high school at the swimming pool... [ July 02, 2004, 04:22 PM: Message edited by: Princess Zelda of Hyrule: God Bless ]

07-02-2004, 04:37 PM	#18
Katyrna Junior Member Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Hiding in the band locker from the man with an air bazooka... Gender: Posts: 243 Thanks: 6 Thanked 4 Times in 4 Posts	I understand where you're coming from. I'm sincerely sorry that you have a swimming portion. We don't have a pool.

07-02-2004, 07:02 PM	#19
ZeldaGirl Awesome member Join Date: Jun 2001 Location: Why do YOU want to know...? Gender: Posts: 15,896 Thanks: 1,130 Thanked 1,919 Times in 1,046 Posts	I only had to take P.E. for one year in high school(actually only 3 quarters... 4th quarter was health). I loved P.E., since I'm very athletic... but, I was one of the few athletic girls in the class. There were only 10 girls in a class of 40 who actually were athletic... so it was very hard. Girls actually got made at me during dodgeball. "You throw too hard! Stop! Ahhh!" Or in volleyball... "You hit too hard! Stop! Ahhh!" In basketball... "Stop scoring! It's not fair! Ahhh!" Okay, I think I'm done ranting for now! [img]tongue.gif[/img]

07-02-2004, 09:45 PM	#20
Sim Kid Senior Member Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: The state of Denial Gender: Posts: 8,884 Thanks: 80 Thanked 198 Times in 122 Posts	We don't have a pool in our school either so we instead went to a public pool.