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Phoozsays...The gym class technique is friggin' impossible! I hated rope climbing as a kid! I wish my small feeble mind could have comprehended this back then. Then again, they didn't bust it out in gym that much either but I always dreaded it!
SFOGuyThe gym class technique, in retrospect, is clearly designed to make anyone who isn't all upper body strength with no lower body successful and fail all the rest of us!
Maybe a good work out for your upper body---but if you actually wanted to CLIMB and DESCEND a rope, these two methods would work a lot better, right?!!!!
The gym class technique is friggin' impossible! I hated rope climbing as a kid! I wish my small feeble mind could have comprehended this back then. Then again, they didn't bust it out in gym that much either but I always dreaded it!
rebuilderJust one thing... Avoid doing this without full-length pants. You'd be surprised how easily you get rope burn doing this in shorts. I knew a guy who managed to get blood poisoning from it.
FlowersInHisHairFor me gym class (or PE as we called it!) wasn't about teaching anything, it was about humiliating me into feeling incapable of even trying to take part. If you weren't already good at sports, the teachers couldn't give a shit about you, happy to leave less-able students to flounder while paying all attention to the boys who could play well already. I was not taught how to play cricket, or football, or tennis, or hockey, or how to use exercise equipment; no ball skills or batting technique; it was assumed people knew how to play already and no instruction was given. The teacher's role was to be referee. Fucking hated it, and it's ruined sports/keep-fit for me for life.
The gym class technique, in retrospect, is clearly designed to make anyone who isn't all upper body strength with no lower body successful and fail all the rest of us!
Maybe a good work out for your upper body---but if you actually wanted to CLIMB and DESCEND a rope, these two methods would work a lot better, right?!!!!
SFOGuyit was long after getting out of school that I discovered fitness for its own sake.
And it's been a good journey; the first steps weren't fun, but now it's woven into my life; and fitness doesn't equal sports (although it can).
For me gym class (or PE as we called it!) wasn't about teaching anything, it was about humiliating me into feeling incapable of even trying to take part. If you weren't already good at sports, the teachers couldn't give a shit about you, happy to leave less-able students to flounder while paying all attention to the boys who could play well already. I was not taught how to play cricket, or football, or tennis, or hockey, or how to use exercise equipment; no ball skills or batting technique; it was assumed people knew how to play already and no instruction was given. The teacher's role was to be referee. Fucking hated it, and it's ruined sports/keep-fit for me for life.
FlowersInHisHairYeah I'm not entirely sedentary but when I exercise, it's a chore - something to be endured as a necessity rather than fun. I blame Mr Bamforth!
it was long after getting out of school that I discovered fitness for its own sake.
And it's been a good journey; the first steps weren't fun, but now it's woven into my life; and fitness doesn't equal sports (although it can).
ChaosEngineThis. I had pretty much the exact same experience.
It wasn't until well after I left school that I realised that the key is not exercising to keep fit, but exercising because you're doing something you enjoy.
For me gym class (or PE as we called it!) wasn't about teaching anything, it was about humiliating me into feeling incapable of even trying to take part. If you weren't already good at sports, the teachers couldn't give a shit about you, happy to leave less-able students to flounder while paying all attention to the boys who could play well already. I was not taught how to play cricket, or football, or tennis, or hockey, or how to use exercise equipment; no ball skills or batting technique; it was assumed people knew how to play already and no instruction was given. The teacher's role was to be referee. Fucking hated it, and it's ruined sports/keep-fit for me for life.
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