What were your PE lessons at school like?

Father Exmas wrote:Fat parents having fat kids isn't just genetics. It isn't genetics feeding them pizza and chips every night.

Schools cannot form the sole foundation for a child's life; they can only educate. Would you accept that a school cannot force a child not to "[eat] pizza and chips [at home] every night"? Our education system can surely only teach a child why doing so is a bad idea. There's an argument - and I could even, given a little time to research it, probably get behind it - that such knowledge should be transferred earlier than it is currently. It is however certainly included somewhere in the Science syllabus, or was when I went through it.

A focus on academia does not mean a complete lack of regard for personal development: a solid academic education is probably the single most powerful tool for informing a young person's life decisions.

Karlprof wrote:
Father Exmas wrote:Fat parents having fat kids isn't just genetics. It isn't genetics feeding them pizza and chips every night.

Schools cannot form the sole foundation for a child's life; they can only educate. Would you accept that a school cannot force a child not to "[eat] pizza and chips [at home] every night"? Our education system can surely only teach a child why doing so is a bad idea. There's an argument - and I could even, given a little time to research it, probably get behind it - that such knowledge should be transferred earlier than it is currently. It is however certainly included somewhere in the Science syllabus, or was when I went through it.

A focus on academia does not mean a complete lack of regard for personal development: a solid academic education is probably the single most powerful tool for informing a young person's life decisions.

I still disagree. Children spend most of their waking life as a child in a school. The school therefore has a responsibility to that child. Part of that responsibility is to ensure children are 'active' enough and to ensure that they are taught things like teamwork and that being active is actually fun.

I certainty wouldn't want my kids going to schools without physical education. China has it right, kids have to do PE even in Uni 8-)

I used to do cross country running extra-curricular through the school when I was just still in primary, but once I got in to secondary school, puberty and hormones took over, I got mega self conscious, realised I wasn't as good as other people at sports, so decided I didn't want to do them, and became part of that group in PE who would avoid doing anything wherever possible. You know the bleep test? I remember one year our teacher telling us he expected everyone to at least get past a certain level, so everyone ran to that level, then once we'd reached it, just chose to drop out and go and sit down. I'd managed to work myself into the kind of mindset that sport and exercise was for other people and it didn't matter, because I was still skinny anyway, so I didn't need to exercise. Whilst a large part of this feeling was certainly my own mindset, I never found PE lessons especially inspiring. One hour a week, and you'd spend a few weeks on a particular sport or whatever, then move on to something else. There was never enough time dedicated to a particular sport, and so long as it wasn't football or tennis, you could tell most of rest of the class weren't bothered. I remember when we did rugby, I was really looking forward to it, but most of the other guys just weren't interested, so spent the hour making jokes about how gay it was, and not playing properly. Then three weeks later, rugby was done for the year, and normal service resumed.

It's only in the last couple of years I've really managed to get out of that mindset, and now I lift things up and put them down again (lift weights).

I really don't think state schools can support and interest in sport, though. They don't have the time or resources available to get kids in to it. They can just about stretch to the mandated minimum amount of time required a week to be teaching a physical activity, and that's usually going to be limited to the least equipment demanding sports. Getting kids active probably needs to start at home, but without active parents, I never had that kind of input. I went to football club on Saturday mornings, but I didn't really care about football, so I just felt like I was going because I was supposed to.

I agree, more sports for the children!
Schools can't just be about the book learning, you need team and confidence building that sport can provide. If a child doesn't get those experiences from home, then schools have to provide.

The ones I went to were traumatic. So when we moved to another town (and I, of course, went to another school), I skipped all of them. For some reason, I got away with it.

Now I'm unfit and overweight and lazy and I have no self-discipline.

Little Drummer Knoy wrote:There was never enough time dedicated to a particular sport, and so long as it wasn't football or tennis, you could tell most of rest of the class weren't bothered. I remember when we did rugby, I was really looking forward to it, but most of the other guys just weren't interested, so spent the hour making jokes about how gay it was, and not playing properly. Then three weeks later, rugby was done for the year, and normal service resumed.

This was one of my pet hates. You'd find a sport you enjoyed, but everyone around you couldn't be arsed, and then the chance would go. I knew I was too gooseberry fool at basketball to do join any kind of club outside of school, but in school I was okay, and enjoyed playing it. Nobody else in my class did though, so they wouldn't try and it was scoring at will all lesson. :lol:

blackoutHOHO wrote:snip

The media shouldn't be allowed to run this kind of gooseberry fool. Women who work out are awesome. One of the best things about going to the gym. :datass:

Meep wrote:
blackoutHOHO wrote:snip

The media shouldn't be allowed to run this kind of gooseberry fool. Women who work out are awesome. One of the best things about going to the gym.

Depends which ones. The hot ones in the skin tight leggings workout out like they really mean it, or the rotund whales in skin tight leggings, lifting the lowest weight dumbbell (even though their bingo wings weigh about 10X it) with a face like a smacked arse.

What's wrong with athletic looking women?

I was lazy as strawberry float at school, managed to get out of it literally every week. In hindsight perhaps the school should have looked at things I could do. I hated track and athletics and when I was at school it was either that or rarely football. Set up a punchbag or a rugby team and I'd have been a beast in school.

There was a kid at my school who used to say he had an illness that meant his leg could fall off if he did physical activity. I remember a few of us being in tears when we first heard that. :lol:

She's all pumped and sweaty from a race, and that pose doesn't help matters. If you don't find Jessica Ennis attractive you must be gay.

Loved and hated PE I had a passion for trying to out do myself and get better at everything but at the same time I hated the bullying in the changing rooms and the attitude of banana splits sticking together and putting down anyone they didn't like.

Hated them.

Outdoor sports like Football, Rugby and Hockey in the winter so freezing and wet.
Then indoor sports like basketball, trampoline and badmminton in the summer so completely boiling and sweaty.

Lucien wrote:
smyrrhphy wrote:She's all pumped and sweaty from a race, and that pose doesn't help matters. If you don't find Jessica Ennis attractive you must be gay.

The people at the gym are pumped and sweaty too. Her abs and the shoulders/arms are the bits I'm talking about anyway, not her face. She has a really pretty face and she looks nice in clothes. No way she could turn me on out of them.

Just imagine licking the sweat from between her abs, though...

Over the course of 5 years it was fine. Very rugby orientated. If it was too wet outside we'd go in the sports hall and play 5-a-side, which was great for my ego because I'm superb in goals. On the whole it was good.

I loved PE, in year 10 and 11 especially when the teachers didn't treat us like banana splits anymore and just let us play rugby or footy it was brilliant. Think the highlight was one of the lads had a prosthetic leg and our new teacher didn't know, as he had his footy socks pulled up to cover it (it wasn't like a Oscar Pistorius one, looked fairly real). We were playing rugby and someone went in and tackled him, whilst he was on the floor he turned his leg around so that his foot was pointing backwards and pretended he was injured. The teacher shat a brick when he saw, then the lad stood up and started walking again with his foot on backwards. Amazing scenes.

I liked badminton apart from that time I got a shuttlecock in the eye. [/Kenneth]

Skar-Hohoho wrote:
In sixth form, we managed to convince the teachers that bowling was a legitimate choice, and so we all just strawberry floated off to New Brighton for Wednesday afternoons. Sometimes, we even went bowling.

Those bowling "lessons" in the GCSE years were easily the best part of PE. Especially since the bowling alley had an arcade.

I loved PE. My friends would always try and get out of it and I could never understand why. It helped that I seemed to be naturally good at almost every sport. I loved playing almost anything: football, rugby, basketball, hockey, tennis etc. What I used to hate was athletics, and that's because I am gooseberry fool at all athletics (can't run fast, can't jump high/far). I suppose that's why most people hate PE - they're gooseberry fool at sport. For me at that age, there wasn't much more fun to be had than running around a freezing cold, muddy pitch in the rain, trying to put a ball in the opposition's net. Still rings true today, to be fair!

Was horrendous at sports so I always tolerated PE more than I enjoyed it.
Teachers were all wankers as well.
Hated being made to play football and other team games as I was rubbish at them all.

The only times I enjoyed it were the years we got to play Table Tennis and the year we could go to the local college and use the gym.

What were your PE lessons at school like?

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