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What were your PE lessons at school like?
Posted: Mon Dec 10, 2012 8:46 am
by Lotus
The BBC are doing a feature this morning on how to get more women/girls into sport. If anyone's interested, some of the stats are:
12% of 14-year-old girls do the recommended amount of physical activity of any kind
51% of girls say PE in school puts them off sport for life
45% of girls says sport is just too competitive
Anyway, it made me think back to PE lessons at my school. They were pretty shitty in all honesty. Limited range of sports, only a couple of decent teachers, not being allowed to do certain sports because they were 'girls sports', etc (and vice versa for the girls). It was annoying, 'cause I was pretty enthusiastic about it all, but trying to play with banana splitish classmates and with barely any time in the lesson made it difficult.
How about you guys? Did you have PE lessons and games lessons? Did it put you off sport? Did you love/hate it? Particularly interested if you did any more obscure sports or whether you found a sport that you excelled in and went on to do pretty well in.
Go!
Re: What were your PE lessons at school like?
Posted: Mon Dec 10, 2012 8:50 am
by Errkal
THe school I was at was big on sports (we had Sport College Status) so we did alot of it, I used to like athletics running, Discus that sort of thing, we had a full professional type running track etc.
I dont do much now and I lost interest later on in my school carrer but certainly had the best chance to get into it.
Re: What were your PE lessons at school like?
Posted: Mon Dec 10, 2012 8:50 am
by Skarjo
We had PE and Games as two separate lessons.
PE was indoor sports like Basketball and stuff, or we could use the weights room. Games was basically football and Rugby.
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.
Re: What were your PE lessons at school like?
Posted: Mon Dec 10, 2012 8:55 am
by Harry Bizzle
PE was generally great. Awesome teachers.
Sadly I never got a good grade for the sports, which I think was partly due to not being that good but also partly because standing in the middle of two hockey fields trying to give everyone on both fields a mark isn't a very accurate way of doing things.
Athletics was all graded objectively, though, and I did well in that.
Re: What were your PE lessons at school like?
Posted: Mon Dec 10, 2012 9:05 am
by Fatal Exception
At primary school it was OK. But back when I was a lad we did PE in our pants. Our hall kind of folded out into some kind of circuit training thing with ropes, climbing walls, benches and the like. We'd have to drag all the foam mats out before the lesson. Sometimes there were games like quick cricket, rounders or that game where your throw beanbags as hard as you can at someone. Once a week we would also go swimming at a pool near the school.
I moved secondary schools, at the first one it was very traditional - Rugby, Tennis, Track and Field, Basketball and cross country in the sleet. The second school was a bit more cushy - Swimming, rock climbing (indoor and out), kayaking, cycling, caving, and dry slope skiing.
Re: What were your PE lessons at school like?
Posted: Mon Dec 10, 2012 9:15 am
by Lime
Father Exmas wrote:and cross country in the sleet.
It's a long time ago now but I'm pretty sure that this is what all my PE lessons consisted of, through summer and winter.
Re: What were your PE lessons at school like?
Posted: Mon Dec 10, 2012 9:17 am
by aayl1
All the kids at my school did Judo for their PE lesson today. Stereotypes GO!
I remember quite liking PE back at school, despite being a fatty. The cross countries were hell on earth, but I loved rugby and hockey.
Re: What were your PE lessons at school like?
Posted: Mon Dec 10, 2012 9:20 am
by Poser
PE was great. Loved every bit of it, but I was always fastest at every distance, which helped.
I used to come in before school, aged 10, to do cross-country practice. The fact we had a teacher prepared to come in and do that spoke volumes, and it sparked my love of running.
Secondary school was different, but still good. We were only allowed to play rugby, which I would never have considered playing otherwise, but I had a knack for it and went on to make a lot of friends.
If/when I have kids, I really hope they're sporty - not to make a living from, just that it can help you makes you such a rounded person.
Re: What were your PE lessons at school like?
Posted: Mon Dec 10, 2012 9:22 am
by Dowbocop
We were the only boys secondary school that had a sports field in our borough, so PE lessons were a pretty big deal (as were the fundraising nights to pay for it
). We also developed a couple of professional footballers (Joe Cole's the most famous, but we also had Gary Breen and Ismail Yakubu (played for Barnet and AFC Wimbledon, currently at Newport, and is the Everton Yakubu's nephew)).
I really liked PE/games generally. Most of the kids in our year did as well. The only sport I hated was cross country, which, because we had a massive field, was a nightmare. The kids and the teachers came to an understanding by the end though - we run round the field twice and they let us play football for the rest of the lesson
). I quite liked the individual sports lessons as well, getting to try out new sports was always great fun. In year 11 we got to go out to the local gyms and tennis clubs and do our sessions there, that was really good fun.
I wish I'd done PE GCSE to be honest, it would've been more interesting than Geography and I'd have smashed the exam.
Re: What were your PE lessons at school like?
Posted: Mon Dec 10, 2012 9:25 am
by Archaeon
I hated it. I had the body of a little fairy and the physical resistance of wet paper. I had no coordination. I was the kid who would always get picked last at any kind of team game. I'm so glad I don't have to do it anymore, because I still suck at anything physical.
Re: What were your PE lessons at school like?
Posted: Mon Dec 10, 2012 9:26 am
by Fatal Exception
Archaeon Gabriel wrote:I hated it. I had the body of a little fairy and the physical resistance of wet paper. I had no coordination. I was the kid who would always get picked last at any kind of team game. I'm so glad I don't have to do it anymore, because I still suck at anything physical.
Do you even lift?
Re: What were your PE lessons at school like?
Posted: Mon Dec 10, 2012 9:26 am
by Poser
Archaeon Gabriel wrote:I still suck at anything physical.
Ladies, form an orderly queue.
Re: What were your PE lessons at school like?
Posted: Mon Dec 10, 2012 9:32 am
by Jam-Master Jay
Athletics, Tennis and Trampolining in the summer. Rest of the year it was Rugby and Football.
It was shite, but the teachers were a laugh.
Re: What were your PE lessons at school like?
Posted: Mon Dec 10, 2012 9:39 am
by Lotus
Did you all get put into sets for PE? We all had to do a shitty 'assessment' of the most basic things you can imagine, involving hand/eye coordination and the like, and the results determined which set you were in. I didn't even realise what we were doing, just went through it pissing about, and ended up in the bottom set.
Worked out well though, as instead of being made to do rugby/football every week like the top and middle sets, we did table tennis, badminton, basketball, trampolining and, er, rounders. Much preferred those to the alrernatives.
Re: What were your PE lessons at school like?
Posted: Mon Dec 10, 2012 9:43 am
by Return_of_the_STAR
My only memory of PE is the following as I have wiped all the others from my memory. We had a leisure centre near our school and in year 11 we went there to play squash. The changing rooms were locked so the teachers got us to change including the girls in the hallway outside the squash courts. They did t even separate us.
Best moment of school ever! Seriously if this has happened now I'm sure teachers would have been sacked and it would be all over the papers or at least dailymail online
Re: What were your PE lessons at school like?
Posted: Mon Dec 10, 2012 9:45 am
by Albert
My Mate Mike got a hole in his PE Shorts, and he then proceeded to take part in the entire lesson with just his balls hanging out.
I laughed so much I wee'd myself.
Re: What were your PE lessons at school like?
Posted: Mon Dec 10, 2012 9:46 am
by Lotus
Return_of_the_STAR wrote:My only memory of PE is the following as I have wiped all the others from my memory. We had a leisure centre near our school and in year 11 we went there to play squash. The changing rooms were locked so the teachers got us to change including the girls in the hallway outside the squash courts. They did t even separate us.
Best moment of school ever! Seriously if this has happened now I'm sure teachers would have been sacked and it would be all over the papers or at least dailymail online
Ah, seeing the girl you had a crush on in her obscenely short PE skirt and tight top. Those were the days.
Re: What were your PE lessons at school like?
Posted: Mon Dec 10, 2012 10:00 am
by Superking
My old PE teacher was a bit of a throwback. Once had us playing full contact rugby on a frozen field
He also invented a game which was sort of a baseball/ cricket hybrid thing which involved hitting a ball with a bat and running down the field and back. To get someone out you had to lob a tennis ball at them as hard as you could whilst they ran to the base
Re: What were your PE lessons at school like?
Posted: Mon Dec 10, 2012 10:11 am
by Igor
Superking wrote:My old PE teacher was a bit of a throwback. Once had us playing full contact rugby on a frozen field
He also invented a game which was sort of a baseball/ cricket hybrid thing which involved hitting a ball with a bat and running down the field and back. To get someone out you had to lob a tennis ball at them as hard as you could whilst they ran to the base
That's Danish longball. Great game.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danish_longball
Re: What were your PE lessons at school like?
Posted: Mon Dec 10, 2012 10:25 am
by Qikz
I've never been interested in many sporting activities. I pretty much only enjoyed playing Table Tennis/Tennis which throughout school we rarely ever did. I played Squash quite a lot when I'd finished school with my Dad, I got pretty good at it until my Dad went off to Israel and I stopped playing as I had no way of getting to the courts.
Oh there was another one which was hocky, I loved the violence I could inflict and it'd be legal, but once again my sets in PE hated it and our teacher at the time (we had a gooseberry fool one that year) always used to give in to the whining and forced us to do Cross Country.
Infact, the teacher that year is why I was ill so much that year at school. It was freezing cold, wet, windy and he'd make us do cross country in whatever kit we had at the time which most of the time was a T-Shirt and Shorts. One year we had a great teacher who knew why we were the bottom set and rather make us do gooseberry fool us criminally unfit kids couldn't do, he gave us stuff like Baseball to play all the time which was a hell of a lot of fun.