Writer's Block: Physical Education
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My particular nemesis was DODGE BALL. B|
We played a version called "Chinese Dodge Ball" (I have no idea why and strongly suspect the reason is fairly un-PC) wherein there are multiple balls in play and everyone throws at everyone else. If you get hit, you're out. If you're out, you sit down. If, while sitting down, you get your hands on a ball and manage to hit someone who's still up, you're no longer out. If you're out and you toss a ball to someone else who is out -- without it touching the ground! -- and they hit someone who is up, you are both back in. The only official room for teamwork was in making chains of people sitting down and hoping the person who threw the ball had good aim. However, sometimes people who were in would gang up on other people in loose coalitions -- usually the jock guys -- and sometimes they'd even throw the ball to a friend who was out so they could get back in. There was also some strategy possible involving getting hit in the first place such that you could sit in an inconvenient or out-of-the-way place (you sat where you were when you were hit, but if you took a dramatic enough fall, it wasn't necessarily where your feet were).
Now, overall, I didn't hate the game. Honestly, it was a lot more fun than the traditional kind, and it's probably better training for games where you might have to scrimmage on the field. My problem was that occasionally I would get targeted by bullies. :(
As for my favourite, I'm not really sure. There were a lot of things I wasn't so much adverse to as just fairly bad at. I think people who only met me in high school would be surprised to know that when I was little, I wanted to be a professional baseball player. (It didn't occur to me at the time that none of the Blue Jays were women. ^^;) I wasn't terrible at it, and my hopes were further buoyed by the fact that my mom played in a softball league -- but then puberty happened. As soon as I had boobs, my swing suffered terribly. Actually, my entire sense of balance was shot (I used to do gymnastics and skate, but that all ended).
I still have pretty good aim with a ball, as I've proven in various snowball fights. ;3
Games/sports I usually played with my friends and/or family and/or large family pets for fun include badminton, volleyball (and zany variations thereof), and tug-of-war. I also love to swim. I've wound up needing CPR more than once, but I still get in the water. (Lesson for those following at home: don't stay in so long that you get too tired to keep swimming and drown. Drowning really blows!)
My particular nemesis was DODGE BALL. B|
We played a version called "Chinese Dodge Ball" (I have no idea why and strongly suspect the reason is fairly un-PC) wherein there are multiple balls in play and everyone throws at everyone else. If you get hit, you're out. If you're out, you sit down. If, while sitting down, you get your hands on a ball and manage to hit someone who's still up, you're no longer out. If you're out and you toss a ball to someone else who is out -- without it touching the ground! -- and they hit someone who is up, you are both back in. The only official room for teamwork was in making chains of people sitting down and hoping the person who threw the ball had good aim. However, sometimes people who were in would gang up on other people in loose coalitions -- usually the jock guys -- and sometimes they'd even throw the ball to a friend who was out so they could get back in. There was also some strategy possible involving getting hit in the first place such that you could sit in an inconvenient or out-of-the-way place (you sat where you were when you were hit, but if you took a dramatic enough fall, it wasn't necessarily where your feet were).
Now, overall, I didn't hate the game. Honestly, it was a lot more fun than the traditional kind, and it's probably better training for games where you might have to scrimmage on the field. My problem was that occasionally I would get targeted by bullies. :(
As for my favourite, I'm not really sure. There were a lot of things I wasn't so much adverse to as just fairly bad at. I think people who only met me in high school would be surprised to know that when I was little, I wanted to be a professional baseball player. (It didn't occur to me at the time that none of the Blue Jays were women. ^^;) I wasn't terrible at it, and my hopes were further buoyed by the fact that my mom played in a softball league -- but then puberty happened. As soon as I had boobs, my swing suffered terribly. Actually, my entire sense of balance was shot (I used to do gymnastics and skate, but that all ended).
I still have pretty good aim with a ball, as I've proven in various snowball fights. ;3
Games/sports I usually played with my friends and/or family and/or large family pets for fun include badminton, volleyball (and zany variations thereof), and tug-of-war. I also love to swim. I've wound up needing CPR more than once, but I still get in the water. (Lesson for those following at home: don't stay in so long that you get too tired to keep swimming and drown. Drowning really blows!)
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Date: 2008-12-03 03:04 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2008-12-03 03:27 am (UTC)And that thing where the gym teacher said you shouldn't move your upper body at all, except your arms! That never made sense to me.
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Date: 2008-12-03 03:58 am (UTC)No flatfish, this time.
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Date: 2008-12-03 04:08 am (UTC)Little buggers can burrow right under the sand, which they are already the colour of. At the Museum of Natural History, they could never be sure how many of them were still in the tide tank and how many the other critters had eaten.
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Date: 2008-12-03 04:00 am (UTC)Kiffies are a mode of transport.
Vrum!
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