Were you any good at PE in school?

efb

I was useless. Like Frasier or Niles Craine.

Couldn't do the horse and hated the trampoline... and the rope- wtf!!!!

So AHers were ye any good at PE in school?

Canis Lupus

I could sort of do basketball. Hated GAA but no I'm not a sports orientated person.

If only PE class was pc gaming though I'd rule.

Littlekittylou

not really ...fun though

wardy2

Hated PE usually I tryed to skip them or not bring in my PE gear

Sunnyisland

When I was going to school PE was standing in the corner having a smoke...

mrkiscool2

I always loved PE. So much so in fact that I was the one everyone roared at saying "It's just a game". To be fair, she wasclear through on goal, I had to hack her down, 4 ft 2 or not!

kneemos

BOMBARDMENT.

Antar Bolaeisk

Used to skip PE all the time to study an extra subject.

dmc17

realies wrote: »

When I was going to school PE was standing in the corner having a smoke...

Hah, we were allowed to sit down to have our smoke for PE!

zcorpian88

Thought it was fun in primary when we weren't playing conventional games like football or hurling. We played this game called benchball on wet days in a large hall in school, don't know if anyone played it in other schools, was basically like volleyball while two goal keepers stand on benches at either side and you get the ball passed them, was great craic. Also a game called unihawk, well at least that's what the teachers called it, was just hockey on tarmack, could use a puck or a ball, also great fun I loved it. Never liked the other times when we played hurling, wouldn't have the same coordination and I was useless.

Once I went to secondary it was ALWAYS football and I hated that so I dossed it most of the time and stayed in bed if PE was first thing in the morning and I'd wander into school and pray I don't get caught by the PE teacher bringing the rest of the class in off the pitch. Was like a Ninja coming into school timing it to a tee so she didn't bust me on the corridor legging it to class like I didn't miss a class at all.

If it wasn't on in the morning I'd still doss and sneak out and go downtown for an early lunch or sweettalk my way into the library, the librarian was sometimes very accommodating towards my hatred of football for PE.
We did go to a hotel gym for PE when I was in 5th year with the same teacher, loved that and I showed up every week. For me it depends on the activity.

Pherekydes

efb wrote: »

Couldn't do the horse and hated the trampoline... and the rope- wtf!!!!

Well, didn't you go to a fancy school?

We had to run around a field. I wasn't much into combat sports, like GAA or Soccer. :rolleyes: Running was what I was best at, and I wasn't much good at that. I was a scrawny wretch.

willmunny1990

Never did it, I used to have double P.E before lunch and I always used to go home for lunch early, nobody ever noticed as the P.E teacher never took roll or anything.

MRnotlob606

PE in my school consisted of Soccer every week. Totally unfair.

Lau2976

I was sh1te at P.EIt was nearly always bloody laps or dancing too. Got out of it to study an 8th subject for my leaving cert in fifth year so ir was pretty handy!

zcorpian88

Lau2976 wrote: »

I was sh1te at P.EIt was nearly always bloody laps or dancing too. Got out of it to study an 8th subject for my leaving cert in fifth year so ir was pretty handy!

Wish I could have had that option for mine, the joys of a vocational school, I had to settle for the options of studying in the library, an early lunch, heading home early or staying in bed an extra hour, all depending on what time the class was on at. I guess it had it's own perks but if they let me do another subject that interested me I'd have done it.

qo2cj1dsne8y4k

Bounced off the trampoline and broke fingers, that yoke you had to leap across? Couldn't do that, had this really high swing too that I liked, but those monkey bar things that you had to come down the opposite side on? Nightmare. Hated swimming and basketball and stupid rounders

The_Valeyard

Every child should be made do PE.

ZiabR

I liked it and I was decent enough at it!

cloud493

No I was the fat kid who was picked last for every team.

Esterhase

PE was great for me on the rare occasions that we did step aerobics or a run around the field. Otherwise the class was spent half-assedly doing drills for, learning the rules of, and then playing/watching a 5-10 min match of various team sports. Feck all physical activity, and deeply boring.
I have hated participating in and been absolutely shíte at every team sport that I have ever tried. Except maybe rounders in primary school. I almost always hit the ball and was a quick wee runner. Those were the days.

Aglomerado

cloud493 wrote: »

No I was the fat kid who was picked last for every team.

I wasn't even fat and I was still picked last!!

kidneyfan

I liked it except for non violent sports which were complete humiliation.

Sam Mac

wardy2 wrote: »

Hated PE usually I tryed to skip them or not bring in my PE gear

This. Every time!

Hated my idiot teacher but otherwise loved PE and sports in general. Was good at some things, not so good at others (I'm looking at you, gymnastics).

Still love physical activity.

The_Valeyard

Aglomerado wrote: »

I wasn't even fat and I was still picked last!!

Ahhhhh, the dodgy leg kicker?

zl1whqvjs75cdy

I enjoyed it but was not so great at it. Hated GAA though, always ended up as the school team versus us pleps. Never bothered actually playing when it worked out like that as I'd just get flattened every time I got the ball. Didn't help that the PE teacher was a raging alco who spent the entire class drinking Irish coffee like it was going out of fashion. Refereeing was not his strong suit.

PandaPoo

I was probably the best at sports out of the girls. I enjoyed it, hated the bleep test twice a year, that was grim

Aglomerado

The_Valeyard wrote: »

Ahhhhh, the dodgy leg kicker?

Nah, just rubbish hand-eye co-ordination! :cool:

The Peanut

PE in my school was like a big social cliché. One gang of lads went out and kicked/hurled/threw a ball around and the other gang went and sat in the library doing their homework. GAA was the only option - didn't mind, I loved exercising and sports - but no other option was provided for lads who didn't like GAA or sports in general.

Menas

I went to a sporty school where there was a lot of pride in sporting prowess.
But I was absolutely pants at sports. I used to love taking part and all that, but was always the last boy picked for any team.
Shure didnt it toughen me up!

Pherekydes

The Peanut wrote: »

PE in my school was like a big social cliché. One gang of lads went out and kicked/hurled/threw a ball around and the other gang went and sat in the library doing their homework. GAA was the only option - didn't mind, I loved exercising and sports - but no other option was provided for lads who didn't like GAA or sports in general.

Fairly similar here. The boys had a choice between soccer and GAA; the girls had a choice between Cross country and a crafts club (i.e. knitting etc). The utterly lame, like myself, could choose Chess if they couldn't hack ball games. In second year I opted for XC, even though it technically was only for girls, and a bunch of other guys followed suit. The first competition we entered we finished 1, 4, 5, 7, and 9 (me). I don't know why there wasn't a bigger emphasis on athletics, because a lot of the kids were of farming stock and naturally tough and fit. (Not me, though. I was a scrawny city slicker)

super_furry

Liked playing football, was never really bothered with anything else.

Desolation Of Smug

PE was the only thing that made school bearable. I loved it.

iDave

Used to love it as was an excuse to get out of class. In the later years though it was just used as an excuse by the scumbags to show off what hard men they were.

Greenmachine

Was never especially sporty. However I did do well in a couple of PE sports in primary school. We used to play street hockey on the tarmac and handball in the sport hall. I would consistently score go in both any time we played them. In secondary school we still did P.E for the junior cycle, only thing I did really well in was the bleep test, 3 longest endurance out of a class of about 30, myself and then 2 that ran longer than me were all smokers.
We played other sport too like basketball, but wasn't any good at any of them. I was /am especially bad when it comes to flexibility. I have the flexibility of an iron post, touch my toes, try my knees. Alway been stiff like that.

Aongus Von Bismarck

Looking back I found the pe class to be a frustrating experience in that it had people of widely differing physical abilities doing the same exercises. The teaching itself was very dated.

So I was forced to participate in a class that didn't meet the needs of those of us who were athletic and already participated in a wide range of sports within the school - I was a keen hurler and cross-country runner, and represented the school at the highest levels in both. It can't have been much fun for those who didn't have such sporting prowess. It certainly didn't help sell the message that any exercise is better than no exercise.

AndyBoBandy

I went to a GAA school, so the entire year in PE class was spent playing GAA, bar 6 weeks or soccer & 6 weeks of rugby.

wasn't good at GAA
wasn't good at soccer
was fairly decent (for decent, read hefty) at rugby.

Would have liked to have played more rugby, I was big, but fast.

I could have been a contender....

Ososlo

I was the kid with the black eyeliner and a sour puss sitting on the bench or outside smoking every Friday for five years in Secondary school. PE was just sooooo not cool. I managed to forge a note every single week and they either didn't cop or more likely just gave up on me.
Now I run about 60 miles a week

leahyl

I absolutely hated P.E. yet I always just brought in my gear and did it cos I knew it was "compulsory"- never mind that there were others that were far better at P.E. than me who used to bring a "note" from home saying they were sick and couldn't partake. I never did that once, I was so naïve....

Larianne

The Peanut wrote: »

PE in my school was like a big social cliché. One gang of lads went out and kicked/hurled/threw a ball around and the other gang went and sat in the library doing their homework. GAA was the only option - didn't mind, I loved exercising and sports - but no other option was provided for lads who didn't like GAA or sports in general.

That's part of the problem. Schools may focus on one sport and presume all students will like or be good at it. A varied programme would be more appropriate. I played Olympic handball in 6th class and was good at it. At my secondary school, all that was promoted was GAA. I had to do sport outside school. Not every family can afford to pay for their kids to do extra curricular activities.

rainbow kirby

I enjoyed it, apart from badminton because my hand-eye coordination was crap! I was about the only one who was a bit annoyed in 6th year when they replaced our Thursday afternoon PE class with triple maths if you were doing honours...

Duggy747

I hated PE because all we did was play football, nothing else, and it was boring as shít.

I didn't mind playing it but there a room full of gear for other activities that was never used because the teacher wasn't arsed setting any of it up, plus he coached the football team so he got to get practice in with his players while he didn't care if the rest of us played or not.

Shenshen

I can't begin to describe how much I hated, despised and loathed PE. It accounts for some of the very worst memories I have of school.

A number of sucessive PE teachers had succeeded in convincing me that I was utterly useless at any kind of sport or excercise - and stupidly, I kept believing them until rather recently.

Now it turns out that I'm in fact a very good swimmer and not too bad on a bicycle - thank you, PE, for making me dread and hate excercise for nearly all my life.

Going Strong

Our principal was GAA mad and was almost like Principal Skinner in his determination that *this* year was the year that his school would win the championship but they never did while I was there. As a result, anyone on the football or hurling teams were treated like demi-gods and we were ordered to worship them. The daft thing is that other sports were treated like crap because they weren't GAA even though the school had a very good basketball team, a few good athletes and even a couple of swimmers who represented Ireland in European contests yet they never got a mention.

As for PE, I hated it because I was/am crap at any sports so never bothered with it. We came to an agreement with the PE coach that we'd stay out of the way during double PE and so we did our homework while the others ran about the place.

anncoates

Liked the sports side of it: I remember playing football, badminton, basketball etc but found a lot of it boring. Was always OK at it.

Conall Cernach

efb wrote: »

I was useless. Like Frasier or Niles Craine.

Couldn't do the horse and hated the trampoline... and the rope- wtf!!!!

So AHers were ye any good at PE in school?

Horse, trampoline, rope!!? I think the horse was out one day of my 5 years at secondary. We didn't see any other gymnastics equipment, it was indoor soccer or basketball for us. That was after the 3 laps of the playing fields of course. I remember we got one day on the Gaelic pitch but no instruction or anything like that. The school teams were made up of players who had attended a sports day thing a couple of days before term had started for first year. These teams continued throughout my 5 years there. In 5th and 6th year unless you were on one of the football teams then all PE was just spent hanging around the handball alleys having a laugh.

circadian

I was in the same class as a few lads who are now pro/semi pro soccer players so P.E was geared towards them or all the country lads who were good at gaelic football. Turns out I was a decent hurler but that's not a big thing in my neck of the woods.

Didn't get on to the athletics team due to a dispute with the head coach and my brother, coach was an absolute tw@t who would cut off his nose to spite his face.

I posted a 17.34 5k one day and he didn't encourage me at all. The local running clubs were great though.

Then 16/17 arrived with booze, weed and girls. Good times.

Buona Fortuna

Our PE teacher was into cross country. I used to hate it with a passion. In the early years I'd elect for any "unusual" sport that looked cushty e.g. fencing, sailing.

Senior years, a cross county run either meant a free period or a walk up the canal for a smoke.

CINCLANTFLT

Shenshen wrote: »

I can't begin to describe how much I hated, despised and loathed PE. It accounts for some of the very worst memories I have of school.

A number of sucessive PE teachers had succeeded in convincing me that I was utterly useless at any kind of sport or excercise - and stupidly, I kept believing them until rather recently.

Now it turns out that I'm in fact a very good swimmer and not too bad on a bicycle - thank you, PE, for making me dread and hate excercise for nearly all my life.

That was me as well... Every week was soccer... I was sociable and took part every week... I was picked last every week...

Later I took up running and other sports and found I was good at them

heroics

We didn't have PE class in secondary school. If you wanted to play sport you trained after school and rugby was the only option.

I would have loved the chance to do sports in school

In primary it varied from athletics, GAA, Basketball etc

Teyla Emmagan

PE? You mean hockey? Because it was either hockey or stuck on the sidelines as you were too useless to play hockey. The annoying thing was we had a gym full of great equipment, but no one was ever allowed near it. I think our PE teacher had just done the hockey certificate.