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Post by azbob643 on Aug 4, 2024 12:04:35 GMT -5
Yea, this was the 90s. I'm 41. We shared a gym with the girls. Half court basketball, etc.. Our junior high basketball court was separated at half-court by a heavy curtain...boys on one side, girls the other. |
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Post by inger on Aug 4, 2024 12:06:06 GMT -5
I hated the rope climb, as I think most guys did except for the handful who would go up like orangutans and then do chinups on the rafters. I could do it, but my hands got bloody and I had no faith at all in the so-called spotters who were paying no attention at all as you held on precariously forty feet above the gym floor. On the other hand at home we would happily use a "Tarzan Swing" over a back road and fall into a thicket of sticker bushes or crash into oak trees and laugh about it, so there wasn't much logic involved. I've long felt that it's a miracle that most boys aren't either killed or imprisoned for things they do in adolescence. Oh man if you heard all the shenanigans I did in my adolescence you would be shocked. Like you said I'm lucky to be alive and not in jail. One year we had gym class the final period of the day. A few times I just circumvented the school yard in my gym clothes and walked (we lived in town) home in my gym clothes. Of course my mother would screech at me like a banshee because she didn’t “get” that toy “good clothes” were safe in my gym locker and I could go there and put my “good shoes” on the next morning, bringing the good clothes back the next day. I think I only did it twice because it wasn’t worth the hullabaloo… “I spent good money on those clothes and those shoes and yakyakityyakyakyak…”… |
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Post by azbob643 on Aug 4, 2024 12:08:50 GMT -5
...I just circumvented the school yard in my gym clothes and walked (we lived in town) home in my gym clothes. White shorts, white t-shirt, white socks, white sneakers... |
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Post by rizzuto on Aug 4, 2024 12:09:35 GMT -5
Yea, this was the 90s. I'm 41. Wow, I didn't know they had unisex gym classes even in the 90s. I remember one time we had a joint boy/girl gym activity of hold-hands kickball where each couple operated as a unit. Now that I liked. When I was a freshman in high school, our physical education classes were combined boy/girl. Before that it was separated. This would have been 1980, eight years after the passage of Title IX. Our PE teacher was a female that year, and we first met in the girls' locker rooms to review the syllabus. Their locker rooms were spacious, with doors and stalls in the bathrooms and individual showers with a changing area. We were flabbergasted. The boys' locker rooms had no doors on the bathroom stalls, and we had community showers comprised of five poles, each with six nozzles/shower heads. I always surmised that this not only saved money facility-wise, but it also prepared young men for possible armed service should the draft be reinstated. After all, all boys had to register for the selective service during your senior year, just prior to turning 18 years old. Now, boys are registered automatically for the selective service - isn't technology wonderful? |
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Post by inger on Aug 4, 2024 12:10:24 GMT -5
We shared a gym with the girls. Half court basketball, etc.. Our junior high basketball court was separated at half-court by a heavy curtain...boys on one side, girls the other. No curtain for us. Probably a budgetary issue… |
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Post by azbob643 on Aug 4, 2024 12:12:16 GMT -5
When I was a freshman in high school, our physical education classes were combined boy/girl. What year did "gym class" become "phys ed"? |
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Post by inger on Aug 4, 2024 12:15:24 GMT -5
When I was a freshman in high school, our physical education classes were combined boy/girl. What year did "gym class" become "phys ed"? We were phys ed. in 1967… so before that?… |
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Post by rizzuto on Aug 4, 2024 12:21:50 GMT -5
When I was a freshman in high school, our physical education classes were combined boy/girl. What year did "gym class" become "phys ed"? No idea, but we were seldom in the gymnasium per se. Our PE classes were mainly outside, unless it was raining or cold, which wasn't very often in south Louisiana. We changed in the locker rooms, then had to run to the football field house, track, or the various fields to play flag football, softball, kickball, etc. During the winter months or rainy days, we would be in the gym for basketball or volleyball. One six weeks was a health class, where you learned CPR, First Aid, fitness, etc. There was no rope climbing, likely due to insurance restrictions. |
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Post by inger on Aug 4, 2024 12:31:44 GMT -5
What year did "gym class" become "phys ed"? No idea, but we were seldom in the gymnasium per se. Our PE classes were mainly outside, unless it was raining or cold, which wasn't very often in south Louisiana. We changed in the locker rooms, then had to run to the football field house, track, or the various fields to play flag football, softball, kickball, etc. During the winter months or rainy days, we would be in the gym for basketball or volleyball. One six weeks was a health class, where you learned CPR, First Aid, fitness, etc. There was no rope climbing, likely due to insurance restrictions. I forget wrestling, which I didn’t mind. I wasn’t technically trained but was a tough opponent. I fought and lost to enough of the “stars” in close matches that the others avoided me. The non-trained avoided me because I could be a bit rough and wild, meaning I only got to wrestle a select number of guys. One thing I noticed was that no coach ever offered me training in anything. I almost always got a C no matter what I did… one coach had two sons in the program that got constant attention as “stars”. Kinda sucked, honestly. We had the first black coach in the county which was a bit controversial… |
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Post by chiyankee on Aug 4, 2024 13:19:58 GMT -5
I occasionally forget and call my hiking shoes sneakers as if they were old US Keds. But I think I've only done it in front of my wife. I'd always assumed they were called sneakers because they were so quiet you could "sneak" around in them. Also called "tennis shoes" by some. I guess it depends on what part of the country you in. In northeast a lot of people say sneakers, in Pittsburgh they say tennis shoes. Out here in Chicago sneakers are gym shoes. |
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Post by azbob643 on Aug 4, 2024 13:29:06 GMT -5
I'd always assumed they were called sneakers because they were so quiet you could "sneak" around in them. Also called "tennis shoes" by some. I guess it depends on what part of the country you in. In northeast a lot of people say sneakers, in Pittsburgh they say tennis shoes. Out here in Chicago sneakers are gym shoes. Explains why my wife, who's from Chicago, still calls them gym shoes. |
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Post by chiyankee on Aug 4, 2024 13:33:00 GMT -5
I guess it depends on what part of the country you in. In northeast a lot of people say sneakers, in Pittsburgh they say tennis shoes. Out here in Chicago sneakers are gym shoes. Explains why my wife, who's from Chicago, still calls them gym shoes. And I've lived in the Chicago area for almost 30 years and still call them sneakers.  The rest of my family call them gym shoes, like your wife. |
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Post by inger on Aug 4, 2024 14:12:21 GMT -5
Boy, do we need Stanton to come through here…
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Post by inger on Aug 4, 2024 14:15:58 GMT -5
Ugly. Uh-Ga-Leee…
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Post by inger on Aug 4, 2024 14:24:47 GMT -5
At least Cole kept us in this after the ragged 2nd inning…
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