PE

[demondude]

Physical education, PE, whatever you want to call it. What PE were you best at and did you enjoy it?

I used to be the man at trampolining. In fact I did some trampolining earlier (on a rubbish garden trampoline) and I remembered how fun it used to be, which is why I made this thread. My cousin also whines like a little bitch about PE and I'm like, is it that bad? Dodgeball used to be fun too.

[Rebellious Eagle]

I actually enjoy PE! We're not doing trampolining any time soon, I don't think, but that does sound like fun. xD
So far I think I'm either best at basketball or volleyball, probably because of prior experience.

[Merk]

I was pretty fantastic at dodgeball.

[Chloe.]

I've never been a fan of PE, I used to enjoy a few things that we did (Badmiton comes to mind) but I just hated having to get changed into my PE kit and then be forced to do some stupid sport that I didn't like. I was so happy when I finished Year 11 and moved onto Sixth Form, no more PE!

Trampolining was always horrible at my school. We have two trampolines and we would like put them next to each other and have mats around them and then everyone else would stand around on the mats ready to catch the two people if they fell off. I hated it because I wasn't particularly good and everyone had to watch you. :/

[demondude]

Exactly what we had to do, but there were three trampolines.

[Iceglow]

Trampolining was always horrible at my school. We have two trampolines and we would like put them next to each other and have mats around them and then everyone else would stand around on the mats ready to catch the two people if they fell off. I hated it because I wasn't particularly good and everyone had to watch you. :/

Yeah we done similar, except there was 4 trampolines (3 good ones, one crap one) and we used to be in groups of like 10. Only major difference is, if you fell off in my school. No one ever caught you they just pointed and laughed at you. Thankfully I never fell off the trampoline but I didn't do it so much because I used to spend most PE classes doing other things (I didn't bunk the lesson I just looked at my teacher and said, "I've just spent an hour at lunch playing Basketball, I aint doing PE now, I cbf" which generally got me an "ok fine go sit over there and do nothing" to which I usually just ignored and either read a book or did homework during PE class.

I used to be pretty damn good with a javelin, the indoor foam javelin's were pathetic but funny, our gym hall was like 120m long, I used to compete with the other great javelin thrower in our year to see if we could hit the ceiling apex, a theoretical throw in perfect conditions of just under 240m. This is why you don't give javelin throwers 2oz foam things, we like to break the rules of probability and reality with them.

I also was good at badminton, in junior school I was part of the school badminton team for 3 years running so when I went to high school I had an edge over most of the kids there who'd never even played the sport. Funny how things work out but the other guy who could throw javelins well, he went to my junior school with me and we were both on the badminton team. I remember in year 11 a former student who had gone semi-pro in the sport came back and me and this guy ended up playing a very vicious game against her and our PE teacher Ms Milford who coached the girl for several years. They won but it was sure as hell close.

Though the best PE lessons were always swimming classes, lets face it in junior and infants school my school had it's own swimming pool which was awesome, in high school we got bussed to the local swimming pool for lessons I wish in a way I had kept swimming up because I was quite a strong swimmer (though nowhere near the strongest in our school but I was still respectable as a strong non-competition swimmer) these days I still know what to do in the water but I don't feel as confident or as strong in how I move now.

[Zeldy]

I used to LOOOOVE doing fitness xD or like, the bleep test or any of the other stamina-based ones. I have no stamina like, so I was always rubbish but I enjoyed how fast-paced it was. I loved dodgeball too, but I was rubbish at that too. Since being at college and PE is not compulsory, I do like nothing now boo!

[Bunny]

Wait. I didn't get to jump on a trampoline for PE credit. What kind of backwards fascist commie nation do you people live in?

I liked PE because I was generally athletic in high school. Football, baseball and badminton were some of my favorite sports. I enjoyed tennis as well although other people didn't enjoy playing against me. I would get bored and start messing around, which made them angry. One time I beamed a girl in her crotch with a tennis ball. I felt really bad because she had a crush on me and was cute.

[demondude]

Seems like it's just a UK thing.

[Jess]

I hated PE at school. In the summer it was cool, but in the winter, standing outside in the rain in shorts and a polo shirt was not my idea of fun. I used to do everything I could to get out of PE if it was winter and we were supposed to be outside instead of inside in the warm gym!

I'm too clumsy for trambopolining. I once fell face first on the edge of the trampoline where the metal is. Broke my nose! That wasn't so fun.

[Bastian]

No trampolines in my West Coast USA school. That would have been rad! Lucky Brits.

My obsession with fitness and sports didn't come until well after high school, so I hated PE and my friend and I would show up for role call and then skip! Sh! Don't tell anyone! We did get caught once though.

[Breine]

I always kinda enjoyed gym class, or well.. most of the time anyway. I didn't care much for soccer, since it's never been my strong point. But things like badminton, volleyball, track and field athletics etc. were always rather enjoyable. Gym class in high school was particularly good.

Also, I remember that this one teacher in elementary school invented a real-life version of the Stratego board game, which was perhaps the best gym class activity ever! So much fun.

[Aerith's Knight]

I was best at Basketball (of the class) and hockey (of the entire year, oh yeah). The rest I was just calling it in.


Also, is there someone who remembers the elementary school PE game: Monkey cage?

[Psychotic]

PE depends on the sport. When it was rugby in a freezing cold field, or if it was smurfing basketball, it sucked because those sports suck. (sorry Dennis)

But football, tennis, rounders, athletics, badminton, squash, they were all fun.

Although we never had a trampoline like the rest of my countrymen apparently did.

[bipper]

I thought it was the physics class for challenged kids.