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Postby willeyeam » Tue Jun 04, 2019 10:09 pm

Depends on the ball used imo

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Postby AuthorTony » Tue Jun 04, 2019 10:12 pm

The 4 gym teachers I had were completely checked out.

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Postby tifosi77 » Tue Jun 04, 2019 10:49 pm

Gym class dodgeball is competition in the same sense that the black convertible used in the first couple seasons of 'Miami Vice' was a Ferrari. Sure, it's skinned with all the cursory trappings - there are teams, a score, etc. But at the end, you strip that away and it's really just an organized way to have 15 minutes of school-supervised abuse of the gangly and fat kids, just like underneath the body kit Crockett was tooling around in a C4 Corvette playing make believe.

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Postby tifosi77 » Tue Jun 04, 2019 10:51 pm

I'm aware that's not the first time I've invoked the Cor-arri example. But that's aping my all time favorite car, so it definitely won't be the last time.

Also, one of my gym teachers was in his 70s.

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Postby Lemon Berry Lobster » Tue Jun 04, 2019 10:59 pm

I'm the closest to anything Ferrari around these parts.

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Postby NTP66 » Wed Jun 05, 2019 7:24 am

We played kickball every Friday in gym class in elementary school, and everyone loved it - even the kids who generally hated sports.

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Postby Kane » Wed Jun 05, 2019 7:36 am

All beef dogs are worse than the mixed crap.
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Postby robbiestoupe » Wed Jun 05, 2019 8:08 am

Gym class dodgeball is competition in the same sense that the black convertible used in the first couple seasons of 'Miami Vice' was a Ferrari. Sure, it's skinned with all the cursory trappings - there are teams, a score, etc. But at the end, you strip that away and it's really just an organized way to have 15 minutes of school-supervised abuse of the gangly and fat kids, just like underneath the body kit Crockett was tooling around in a C4 Corvette playing make believe.
In your neck of the woods (Newport Beach area), I witnessed a middle school (?) dodge ball game at recess where the object of the game was to hit the other team's cones that were spread out within their half of the court. At this point, why even have teams? Just line the kids up in single file, and give each a chance to hit one of the cones.

That's mostly a friendly jab at you tif, as I generally agree that dodge ball in and of itself is not a great sport. Kids should be given the choice to opt out of the game, because it can and does turn into a "who can wail at the fat kid first" competition. Make the other kids run laps or jump rope or some other aerobic activity.

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Postby MrKennethTKangaroo » Wed Jun 05, 2019 8:24 am

talk about a nation of wusses

just because a few jagoffs abused dodgeball doesn't mean it is a bad sport.

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Postby tifosi77 » Wed Jun 05, 2019 9:30 am

All beef dogs are worse than the mixed crap.
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Postby Jim » Wed Jun 05, 2019 11:03 am

talk about a nation of wusses

just because a few jagoffs abused dodgeball doesn't mean it is a bad sport.

Give everyone a trophy so that when they get older and adversity happens... they &#*$(*@ die.

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Postby LeopardLetang » Wed Jun 05, 2019 11:19 am

All beef dogs are worse than the mixed crap.
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i thought it would be courteous to skip the middle man

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Postby AuthorTony » Wed Jun 05, 2019 12:11 pm

We played kickball every Friday in gym class in elementary school, and everyone loved it - even the kids who generally hated sports.
Kickball and wiffle ball were my faves.

Back to dodgeball for the last time. As I mentioned, in my HS they used basketballs and we all played on half the court (the other half was girl's gym). Out gym classes consisted of 10th-12th graders. One of the seniors had serious rage issues and his #1 goal was hitting people in the face with the basketball as hard as possible. Our gym teacher, a former Army guy, was fine with this... until the senior lost his sh*t and threw the ball at the teacher's face for some reason I cannot recall. Then he got suspended. But wailing it at classmates was completely acceptable both before and after this.

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Postby dodint » Wed Jun 05, 2019 12:12 pm

I don't know man. As a kid who never fit in and had few friends, dodgeball definitely carried a different kind of trepidation that I never felt playing flag football, basketball, soccer, kickball, etc. in school. It's literally the only "sport" where the kids who hate you get to chuck objects at your face with no repercussions.

My thoughts on this matter might also be skewed because my rural school didn't have actual dodgeballs and used basketballs instead.
I read this as you being a giant ***** right up until the bolded part. :lol:

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Postby AuthorTony » Wed Jun 05, 2019 12:19 pm

I read this as you being a giant ***** right up until the bolded part. :lol:
I didn't even know dodge balls were a real thing until the movie came out. I thought everyone used basketballs.

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Postby Jim » Wed Jun 05, 2019 12:26 pm

We played kickball every Friday in gym class in elementary school, and everyone loved it - even the kids who generally hated sports.
Kickball and wiffle ball were my faves.

Back to dodgeball for the last time. As I mentioned, in my HS they used basketballs and we all played on half the court (the other half was girl's gym). Out gym classes consisted of 10th-12th graders. One of the seniors had serious rage issues and his #1 goal was hitting people in the face with the basketball as hard as possible. Our gym teacher, a former Army guy, was fine with this... until the senior lost his sh*t and threw the ball at the teacher's face for some reason I cannot recall. Then he got suspended. But wailing it at classmates was completely acceptable both before and after this.
Sounds like you just had a bunch of uncoordinated oddballs in your class. A basketball, while harder, is also heavier. That means that it would come at you slower. Slower would make it easier to dodger, and definitely easier to get a hand up to block from the face.

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Postby count2infinity » Wed Jun 05, 2019 12:30 pm

Even if you got a hand up to block it, guess where the hand and basketball is going if it’s chucked hard...

Your face.

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Postby NTP66 » Wed Jun 05, 2019 12:31 pm

I hereby volunteer to kick a basketball at Jim's face.

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Postby AuthorTony » Wed Jun 05, 2019 12:32 pm

uncoordinated oddballs
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Postby Jim » Wed Jun 05, 2019 12:41 pm

I hereby volunteer to kick a basketball at Jim's face.

Bring it dodint!

:mrgreen: <- waiting...

(That auto correct is something...)

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Postby dodint » Wed Jun 05, 2019 3:38 pm

Even if you got a hand up to block it, guess where the hand and basketball is going if it’s chucked hard...

Your face.
My first thought was that slow-motion video of the guy who tried to hit a two-liter bottle of soda that was pitched to him. The bottle barely moved but the bat came back and plunked him in the head.

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Postby Morkle » Wed Jun 05, 2019 9:51 pm

I'm having flashbacks here... @Morkle , was it you that had that person at a Pirates game that was eating a jar of miracle whip?
Yes, and it was sour cream. Straight up spoonfuls of Sour Cream. Was the second game of the opening series of like 2014/2015 against the Dodgers.

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Postby willeyeam » Wed Jun 05, 2019 9:54 pm

Wtf

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Postby Morkle » Wed Jun 05, 2019 10:04 pm

So, I'm convinced the person had a various handicap, but it was hands down the grossest thing I've ever seen.

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Postby willeyeam » Wed Jun 05, 2019 10:49 pm

Oh I read that as you were the one doing it lol

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