Where were you picked in Gym Class?

[inkman]

I,unfortunatly, was a Gym Class Hero. That was my time to shine, even though I couldn't really hang with the real athletes.

[carpandean]

I was pretty good at every sport that we played (be it indoor soccer, dodge ball, basketball, etc.), though never the #1 guy, so I was usually a top-five pick. It helps that I went to a small school, too. Of course, in high school, you were exempt from gym if you were playing a varsity sport at the time. As a three-letter winner, that meant that I never had to go to gym. We usually went down and joined in (took over) when they played indoor soccer, because that was a blast ... for us, anyway.

[Bmwolf21]

I was between the Top 5 and the Gym Class hero. I was usually a solid late-first round/early second-round pick but I played in outside leagues and for high school teams and whatnot through HS and into JUCO, so I could play. I just wasn't part of the real "popular/jackass jocks'" crowd, so I was usually picked after they picked all their buddies.

[Ohiofan]

For us girls back in the day it was different. You picked your friends, period. No one cared about the game we were playing. Gym was a total goof-off.

 

If I was in gym with todays girls and the athleticism that has evolved since the seventies, I would still be sitting there waiting to be picked :(

[LabattBlue]

I was somewhere in the bottom half and it was always a moment of pride not being picked last. :D

[nobody]

I do remember long ago for a few weeks we got to play floor hockey in gym. First time I was pick near last. Near the end of that game the guy in class that was on our school hockey team took a swing at me. Next time I was picked first!

[rbochan]

Though not DFL, I rode the short bus, but I was 100+ lbs heavier back then too.

[R_Dudley]

Middle to end. Mainly because I was considered a freak(long haired Hippie), was never a full Jock but displayed my wildman tendencies when time presented and won enough respect to not get too picked on by the full time jocks except when there was 5-6 of them and only one of me. Helped that I knew and hung with all the older long hair but true crazy's from the school at the time(crazy as defined by fights and jail at the time).

[Eric in Akron]

I was DFL 90% of the time but of course, I weighed much less than now. I was a late bloomer and after joining the military, I found my athletic side.

[Stoner]

I always had my monthly visitor when it came time to play those silly games.

[Two or less]

In soccer, usually 1st. Other sports, top 5.

[Kristian]

Pretty much top 5 in everything that I ever cared to play, which I do admit was fairly limited, and in sports I was completely crap at, I'd usually get picked top 5 anyway since people would assume I knew how to play.

 

Should've been DFL in those.

[thesportsbuff]

I went to a ridiculously small school (enrollment of about 400 in 7-12). I've always been a hockey fanatic, but my highschool didn't have a team, so I didn't really play any sports besides a year of modified soccer. When gym class came around, I was never the first pick, usually not even top 5. But I was friends with everybody, and was at least average at the sports we played. I was usually the first pick AFTER all the "jocks" (I hesitate to use that word. You'd have to have gone to my school to understand completely, but there were very few legit "athletes" and the "jocks" were mostly just undersized kids who went out and got dominated on the football field every saturday.) were taken..

 

but in early spring when floor hockey rolled around, ooh boy. They were in for a show. I was always taken first during gym-class-hockey-season, and rightfully so. While most of these kids ran around with the school provided wooden sticks with plastic flimsy blades, I would dominate everybody with RBK Snakegrip or whatever it was called. In my senior year we decided to keep track of goals -- 47 in around 10 classes. I liked to show off, too. I'd do the between the legs, deking all over, max style type of stuff. It was a good time.

 

so now that i wrote a novel for you guys, i'm out.

[wonderbread]

usually around 5th or 6th of course I was held back 3 times so I was 21 when i graduated.

[darksabre]

Super Gym Class hero, especially in gym classes with any of the jocks. I always got along well with them despite being a band kid, mainly because I was in pretty decent shape.

 

Man, other gym classes never wanted to play us. We were way too serious.

[Chief Enabler]

For us girls back in the day it was different. You picked your friends, period. No one cared about the game we were playing. Gym was a total goof-off.

 

If I was in gym with todays girls and the athleticism that has evolved since the seventies, I would still be sitting there waiting to be picked :(

Story of my life here: (why the response is toward Ohiofan)

 

My family moved from Cheektowaga to Ashland Ohio in 1986. I was in the 6th grade @ Montgomery Elementary on Rt 250 & I-71. I was the "only" new kid of the year. I actually got along really well with the Gym coach probably because I wore alot of hockey shirts and an Oilers jersey back then. (It is actually waiting for my son to fit into now). Anyway, they played broomball, a slanted version of hockey.Fortunetely, (for them) I was drafted as a captain; so I got to draft my team. Long story short, I absolutely DOMINATED for that portion of the school year. I think I had 5-10 goals per game in a 10 minute span. The gym coach actually kept stats for goals and wins. These Ohio kids had no clue about hockey before I came along :D

 

Meanwhile back in Cheektowaga; I would be getting slammed by teenagers into snowbanks (with the goalies wearing the plastic/foam goalie pads sliding on blacktop).

 

Basketball, on the other hand was completely foreign to me. I dont think I ever picked one up before moving there.

[Knightrider]

Unless it was football or hockey, I felt the same a LB... :ph34r:

[spndnchz]

For us girls back in the day it was different. You picked your friends, period. No one cared about the game we were playing. Gym was a total goof-off.

 

If I was in gym with todays girls and the athleticism that has evolved since the seventies, I would still be sitting there waiting to be picked :(

I always picked my friends and visaversa, we were the athletic ones.

 

I always had my monthly visitor when it came time to play those silly games.

Who? Your PO?

[Ohiofan]

Who? Your PO?

Now that was funny!

[Mark from Albany]

My selection was usually preceded by: "Okay... then I guess we get Mark."

[Claude Balls]

If it were floor hockey or kickball I always one of the first to go. Unfortunately those were the only gym class sports I enjoyed so during every other sport I was picked last because after everyone else was picked the teacher would come back to the locker room and tell me to put the cigarette out and get the f*ck out to the gym.

[macdaddy]

I always had my monthly visitor when it came time to play those silly games.

 

 

Parole officer?

[Guest Sloth]

If it were floor hockey or kickball I always one of the first to go. Unfortunately those were the only gym class sports I enjoyed so during every other sport I was picked last because after everyone else was picked the teacher would come back to the locker room and tell me to put the cigarette out and get the f*ck out to the gym.

 

It cracks me up on how P.E. "teachers" can treat students and athletes and how regular teachers cannot. If I were to tell a student to shut the phuck up, I'd be fired in a heart beat. Yet, P.E. "teachers" at my school get away w/ whatever they want, because they coach football. I'm a soccer coach, but I teach social studies. In a classroom, you don't have as much freedom. I would never treat a student poorly in the classroom or outsided the classroom, though. I want to make that clear. I respect all students and treaty them properly.

During a practice or a game, you can say whatever you want. I've been ejected from a few games for getting on to a ref too much. I only do it when I KNOW they were wrong in whatever choice they made. I really hate the fine, though...I don't use profanity towards my players. I'll yell and even break, on rare occasions, something, during halftime, if my team is playing like crap.

Let me say again, I'll never treat a student or athlete poorly. It just pisses me off that P.E. "teachers" can do whatever they want and get away w/ it. P.E. teachers are people who can't do or teach.

*Don't take this wrong way. I respect P.E. teachers who handle their job properly and show respect for their students. I have no respect for P.E. teachers who don't handle their job properly and don't show the proper amount of respect for a student. I, myself, have considered going into the physical education. I just enjoy discussing history, civics, etc...too much. Anyone in here a history buff?

Glad to get all of that off my chest.

[blugold43]

It cracks me up on how P.E. "teachers" can treat students and athletes and how regular teachers cannot. If I were to tell a student to shut the phuck up, I'd be fired in a heart beat. Yet, P.E. "teachers" at my school get away w/ whatever they want, because they coach football. I'm a soccer coach, but I teach social studies. In a classroom, you don't have as much freedom. I would never treat a student poorly in the classroom or outsided the classroom, though. I want to make that clear. I respect all students and treaty them properly.

During a practice or a game, you can say whatever you want. I've been ejected from a few games for getting on to a ref too much. I only do it when I KNOW they were wrong in whatever choice they made. I really hate the fine, though...I don't use profanity towards my players. I'll yell and even break, on rare occasions, something, during halftime, if my team is playing like crap.

Let me say again, I'll never treat a student or athlete poorly. It just pisses me off that P.E. "teachers" can do whatever they want and get away w/ it. P.E. teachers are people who can't do or teach.

*Don't take this wrong way. I respect P.E. teachers who handle their job properly and show respect for their students. I have no respect for P.E. teachers who don't handle their job properly and don't show the proper amount of respect for a student. I, myself, have considered going into the physical education. I just enjoy discussing history, civics, etc...too much. Anyone in here a history buff?

Glad to get all of that off my chest.

i am a phys ed teacher. you know what i hate? social studies teachers who don't handle their job properly and don't show the proper amount of respect for a student.

 

the worst bully teacher in the last building i worked in was a social studies teacher. oh- and he was also varsity football coach for 10 years.

 

maybe you ought to clarify what qualities you respect in a fellow educator before you implicate an entire subject area with such broad-brush criticism.

 

and ps...i am not in the gym anymore...i like the classroom better so i now teach a 100% classroom health schedule. but your claim that p.e. teachers do it because they don't know how to be real teachers makes you sound like a closed-minded jackass.

[Claude Balls]

i am a phys ed teacher. you know what i hate? social studies teachers who don't handle their job properly and don't show the proper amount of respect for a student.

 

the worst bully teacher in the last building i worked in was a social studies teacher. oh- and he was also varsity football coach for 10 years.

 

maybe you ought to clarify what qualities you respect in a fellow educator before you implicate an entire subject area with such broad-brush criticism.

 

and ps...i am not in the gym anymore...i like the classroom better so i now teach a 100% classroom health schedule. but your claim that p.e. teachers do it because they don't know how to be real teachers makes you sound like a closed-minded jackass.

Hey, is it true that all women P.E. teachers are bull-dykes or does it just seem that way?