Did you enjoy PE at school?

zcorpian88

Hated PE in school, primary consisted of playing hurling on fine dry days, hated it, I just don't have the co-ordination for it plus the PE teacher was a culchie gimp barking at us from the sideline. It was always the 2 sportiest kids in the class that got to pick the teams too and I was one of the people to be picked last. It was humiliating.

Also got the impression in primary school that the sporty kids were favoured better than the non-sporty kids. They got away with murder compared to anyone not representing the school for sporting events. Think I was the only one to notice it.

If I had to say a game I liked in primary school, it was this game called benchball, we played it in what was known as the GP room on wet and miserable days. The goalie stands on benches laid at each side of the room, and you pass a light football around, and get the ball passed the goalie and hit the wall behind him its like the ball you would play football with on astroturf, like a large tennis ball. I was brilliant at that and it was fun and everyone was included rather than outdoor field games where you watch the sporty kids only pass to each other!

Secondary school was the same deal, always had to play football. Players only passed to players that were in clubs. More often than not dossed PE in favour of a lay in or an early lunch, only got caught once. Came into school at 10:20 while my class were coming in off the tarmac after football, "Where were you for the class?" "I was at the dentist miss" "Where's your note?" "I'll bring it in tomorrow" then just avoid the teacher for the next few days, nothing came of it. On wet days we played badminton which was alright.

In 5th and 6th year they let us use a nearby gym for 8 weeks out of the year which I loved though, when the 8 weeks ended I was like "We're going back to football after that?? NOOOOOOO!"

cold case

Hated it on so many levels.
Two best hockey players got to pick the teams, I was nearly always last. Teacher used to stay in her car reading the paper.
Told us to run around the pitch a few times, we used to hide in the grass and join in for the last lap.
Used to be one of the backs and could sit in the goal with the goalkeeper, in our coats, and share a cigarette.
We used to keep a casual watch on the "game", to see if one of us should stand up if anyone came too near the goal. Sure who was keeping score anyway!
What a complete waste of time, and it used to bug the hell out of us that the teacher was being paid for that!

Temptamperu

I always forgot my gear.

flutterflye

Didn't like it in primary. Didn't like it in secondary. Don't like sports at all now either.
The fun things like water sports or adventure type sports like abseiling etc... They're fun alright. And swimming can be nice and relaxing.
But run of the mill sports are my idea of a nightmare.
I go to the gym when I need to lose weight, but I hate every minute of it.
I don't attribute my dislike of all sports/exercise to our school's substandard physical education programme - I just happen to not like sport is all.

FGR

In primary school it was fun as there was variety. The exception to this was hurling/football/soccer when the best players were the captains and chose their club mates. Secondary school it was mandatory until 5th year when I went to the study hall.

Hated every minute of it. Would have enjoyed it if the teachers had known what they were doing and encouraged the lads who weren't as good as other players. IMO it ruined whatever interest I may have had in team sports.

Running/Tennis/Cycling/1 vs 1 sports ftw! :pac:

cloud493

I did enjoy it. I did PE as one of my GSCE's as a matter of fact.

Holsten

I loved it and I wasn't that sporty. I liked it better when we would do other things than football, but yeah it was great craic.

Femme_Fatale

No, hated it. Just said I was on the blob every week to get out of it.

maguic24

Femme_Fatale wrote: »

No, hated it. Just said I was on the blob every week to get out of it.

I never understood that excuse. When I get my period, I run til I can't run anymore. Exercise, especially cardio really helps.....

Ruu

I can't remember it being very structured in primary school, we played the odd game of rounders, handball or football. Secondary school we played basketball, indoor soccer, football but it was mostly used as way to size up lads or lassies for the school team(s).

Femme_Fatale

maguic24 wrote: »

I never understood that excuse. When I get my period, I run til I can't run anymore. Exercise, especially cardio really helps.....

Women who get ill due to really painful periods can barely get out of the bed, let alone exercise.
Not that I'm one of them, but the PE teacher obviously took it that I was. :pac:

maguic24

Femme_Fatale wrote: »

Women who get ill due to really painful periods can barely get out of the bed, let alone exercise.
Not that I'm one of them, but the PE teacher obviously took it that I was. :pac:

Sometimes I forget that everyone is not a beast like me. :P (I joke). Yeah mine aren't that bad.

Pumpkinseeds

Nope, I hated it.

Pang

It totally lacked structure in my place. It was basketball or nothing for the first three years which was dire. We just walked around the court.

Then luckily, it got really interesting in fifth and sixth year and we used to head off and play golf in the local club and badminton in the sports centre. It was great fun then. Pity it wasn't like that from the beginning.

blackbox

Hated it. Cold, rough and got shouted at.

Luckily I was good at mitching it.

I enjoy some games and productive activities like chopping logs, but I hate exercise for it's own sake - what a bore and a waste of effort and time when you could be doing something useful!

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zcorpian88

If I could have played anything for PE I would have loved to have tried tennis, bit posh for my dump of a school but I think there is more camaraderie in the sport. I'm not a sporty person at all but tennis looks great.

FizzleSticks

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Xenji

Indoor Soccer for 4 years straight, can't complain about that, great times.

Polka_Dot

Hated it as I'm not a sporty person at all. I didn't mind just playing badminton or something with one of my friends but despised any kind of team sport as I was always crap and felt like I was letting everyone down. Still put up with it though. Sometimes would genuinely have to use the period excuse as I'd be in a lot of pain, PE teacher would just tell me that exercise helps and I should do it anyway. Fair enough it's true but if I was using the excuse I was in no fit state to do anything! Oh and another time I remembered my PE gear but forgot my runners, the teacher at the time made me get a spare pair from the gym but the only ones to be found were about two sizes too big. She insisted I wore them

Femme_Fatale

Oh yeh and we didn't have showers - just these tap things on the wall with a gutter kinda thing below; not even heated in the winter. Feck that!

People stank after PE in my school.

maguic24

Femme_Fatale wrote: »

Oh yeh and we didn't have showers - just these tap things on the wall with a gutter kinda thing below; not even heated in the winter. Feck that!

People stank after PE in my school.

Same in our school. No one ever dared used the shower. We were such a bunch of mingers, the lot of us.

dazberry

In 5th and 6th class in primary school we had an excellent teacher, albeit one that hated PE. The downside was that the head master would from time to time appear and take us for PE instead. One of his PE games was to get the boys (and girls in a separate line) to lie down in a line, and from the end roll over each other down to the other end. While I didn't know much about anything at that age, I just point blank refused to do it - just seemed weird. I reckon he was just getting his freak on - putting the RVERT into PE.

1st and 2nd year in secondary school were a horror. Generally you'd go and get changed, run a mile to the nearest pitches, possible get a few slaps if you were playing against (and getting the better of) any of the local school thugs, then get a few slaps running back to school from the non-school thugs hanging around, and then pray all your gear wasn't nicked by one of the aforementioned thugs. 3rd year I opted for study instead

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awec

zcorpian88 wrote: »

If I could have played anything for PE I would have loved to have tried tennis, bit posh for my dump of a school but I think there is more camaraderie in the sport. I'm not a sporty person at all but tennis looks great.

Tennis is actually rubbish unless you are pretty good at it. You will spend more time collecting the balls than you will playing.

Most people don't get past 2 or 3 returns before they hit the net / hit it out, and most people don't have the athleticism to cover the entire court.

Femme_Fatale wrote: »

Oh yeh and we didn't have showers - just these tap things on the wall with a gutter kinda thing below; not even heated in the winter. Feck that!

People stank after PE in my school.

PE was the last class of the day thankfully, didn't have the shower problem. Though you were not allowed to go home in your school PE kit and had to get changed back in to your uniform before going home. That used to fcuk me off.

Aineoil

I am the most unsporty person you could ever meet. But in fairness we had an excellent PE teacher who encouraged us all the time. We did gymnastics, basketball, hockey, badminton and tennis.

I was crap at all of those sports. I enjoyed them all to a point except for hockey.

But I do remember the way she encouraged us all to have a go. She always had something positive to say. This was in Ireland of the

80's, maybe she was ahead of her time, but her encouragement - "to have a go" no matter how bad you may be at something has still

stuck with me to this day. She never said I was bad at sport.......but I knew I was.

Trying to mitch in an all girls school run by nuns......are you joking me?

If the nuns didn't get you the other bitchy girls would do the work for them. Character building!

Menas

All boys school. Cold showers. Too much chlorine in the pool. Crap at sports.

Yip, I loved it.

languagenerd

Hated it most of the time. I made a bit of an effort in 1st and 2nd year (when it was divided into 4-week blocks - 4 wks basketball, 4 wks volleyball, 4 wks badminton, etc) but I was always crap at ball sports and it wrecks your self-esteem when you're forced to play anyway and no-one will ever pass to you!

5th and 6th year, no-one cared about sport (all-girls school) so they just did dancing, aerobics and skipping most of the time. It was torture. I hate all of the above and was just so self-concious. Thing was, I was training hard in Taekwon-do outside school and doing quite well at that (still at it now 5yrs later) so I coulda been ok at PE. But no: African Tribal Dancing and hiphop instead...

FGR

languagenerd wrote: »

Thing was, I was training hard in Taekwon-do outside school and doing quite well at that (still at it now 5yrs later) so I coulda been ok at PE. But no: African Tribal Dancing and hiphop instead...

If anything I'd say they were lucky you kept your cool and didn't introduce them to real sports by way of a flying kick ! :pac:

cruais

I used to come up with the trusty excuse & lie of "period pains" in order to avoid doing PE.

Dont get me wrong, I loved PE in primary school as it was fun.

Got to secondary school, and thats when it went south. Yes, when we did basketball/tennis/javlin etc, I really enjoyed it. However most weeks consisted of a 60 year old, tracksuited woman, screaming that we werent running fast enough on our 20 laps of the sportshall. To hell with that.

She did cop on then and unless you had a not excusing you from PE sorry (the slave camp), you had to do the whole class in your uniform as punishment.

nullzero

Our PE classes were highly structured. Football every week with a league table and eveything. Useless for those who didn't like football, various long term ailments were cited as reasons to avoid by those not interested.
Lazy approach from an English teacher who was only standing in as PE teacher for our class for Aimee reason or other.

metaoblivia

Eh. I was never one of the top athletes, very middle of the pack, so PE was just another class. We did a lot of running, baseball/kickball, basketball, two-hand touch American football, volleyball, and soccer. For "game days" we would play tetherball, four square and middleball. And we did one cycle of the only sport I ever really excelled at - archery. I even beat all the boys in our class!

High school PE was a lot better because I took the summer course, and that summer there was a huge brush fire, so the air was full of smoke, which meant they wouldn't take us onto the track. It's required in most American schools that kids run the mile to pass PE, but because we were never allowed on the track, high school PE for me was field trips to the bowling alley 3 times a week and indoor volleyball the other 2 days.