by "DC3 LS, will be perpetually replacing cars until the end of time" (dc3ls-)
Published 09/11/2017 at 01:17
by "DC3 LS, will be perpetually replacing cars until the end of time" (dc3ls-)
Published 09/11/2017 at 01:17
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I never said it was going to be a good story. I’m basically just trying to make up for the lack of HBG’s.
So anyway. I used to play football in middle and high school. During the off-season (of all sports, since we had an “athletics” class for everyone who played any sport. We used to play this game that went like this.
They’d take us (In t-shirts and shorts, no pads) and line us up biggest to smallest. Then they’d go down the line numbering us 1 or 2, indicating the team we were on. Then they’d put 3 medicine balls at the fifty yard line and say.
“The goal of the game is to put as many medicine balls into the other teams endzone as you can. The only rules are; no face and no nuts.”
Needless to say, shit got intense. Their’d inevitably be a dog pile at some point and people would run in just smashing peoples fingers, or you’d make a break with and hauling ass with the ball and someone would just grap you by the shirt and horse collar you.
It was a lot of fun. And looking back, it’s kind of surprising they allowed that shit in school in a year beginning with 2. Anyway, what I’m trying to say is that sometime I think people are too cautious in letting their kids engage in relatively violent sports/activities. I think it’s good for kids in a lot of ways, because one it teaches you emotional regulation. Despite the lack of rules, no one ever got seriously hurt, because people had to learn what was acceptable on their own. Sure you experienced pain and got mad, but you still had to restrain yourself from actually hurting other people. Another thing is that I think it teaches self confidence. Because theirs a lot of satisfaction and pride in accomplishing something despite physical obstacles from pain to people trying to fuck you up and stop you from what your trying to do.
Idk. I just think sometimes people take the “safety first” thing a little to far.
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Link ‘Cause you know it’ll get Kinja’d.
"AestheticsInMotion" (aestheticsinmotion)
09/11/2017 at 01:39, STARS: 3
Couldn’t agree more. Had a similar game, but played on a tennis court sized indoor area (with floor mats) where there were 3v3 matches. Had to stay on your knees—crawl running—the goal being to get a massive medicine ball (about 25 pounds) into a garbage can on the opponents side before they scored on you. Half wrestling match, half real-time strategy game. Kids got mad, there were occasionally minor injuries, but all in all I think all of us ended up better for it. It was always the most popular game in junior high PE/weight training/sports medicine/etc.
That’s not even touching on the fact that the state of physical education as a whole is just appalling, and as the years go by the issue is just getting worse, but that’s a rant for another day...
"19JRC99" (19jrc99)
09/11/2017 at 03:02, STARS: 1
That link infuriates me. My buddies and I wrestled as kids, we played tag, we never wore helmets on our bikes, shit, I even took an electric scooter to the head once (fun story there). I also vividly remember sledding down a hill (Deadman’s in Hines, for Metro Detroit Oppos), coming off the saucer, and having the damn think knock me on the head three times! And I was a crybaby as a kid, but I got up and I was laughing my ass off!
And kids will never know how much fun it was to injure yourself (to an extent). They’ll never have fun stories to tell, either. And most would consider me sheltered!
"jimz" (jimz)
09/11/2017 at 05:39, STARS: 0
So you think organized bullying is a good thing?
Christ. Every day which takes me one small step further away from my school days is a good day. What a shit time of life that was.
"DC3 LS, will be perpetually replacing cars until the end of time" (dc3ls-)
09/11/2017 at 12:31, STARS: 0
It’s not bullying, because it’s a two way thing. Basically just a less organized or technical martial arts.