Did you (do you) suck in gym?

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I was lucky in the early years, and good thing because school was sort of terrifying anyway. I didn't know I was bad at sports then, because the school seemed to discourage competitive games and encourage getting along more than who was best. I even had some fun in those years. But in 6th grade, at age 10, I changed schools, and all the kids there were into sports and ultra competitive. I was quickly recognized as fairly incapable of helping any team win. So the teacher had to pressure others to give me a turn or have me on their team. They already thought I was a teacher's pet and that didn't help.

Then the icing on the cake, in junior high and high school, was the silly bloomers and having to undress and shower in a big room full of other girls. That was torture.

The one gym class I aced was archery.

I was really bad in gym. About no coordination and physicaly weak. The worst been the team sports. I was just running, not doing anything...

I was pretty bad at sports in school. On the plus side I did get to play softball in elementary school because everyone got an equal chance to play. I hit a couple of balls over the course of the year or two I played, so I wasn't a complete loss.

In highschool our homeschool group formed a basketball team and I played center. I was kinda tall for my age and didn't have the manual or foot dexterity to play any other position. I got to play because there were so few players that everyone had to play. I enjoyed playing even though I knew I wasn't good. The other players never made fun of me, at least not to my face.

I still cannot do a layup though. Never have been able to. I am sort of ok at free throws though.

I am good at ping pong somehow. Took to it like a fish to water.

I sucked at gym as well, I don't have the right hand\eye cordination for a lot of the sports we played, I wasn't good at push ups and senior year of high school I told my gym teacher that I wasn't doing any push ups and I didn't. The only time gym class was actually fun was when we got to swim, because I was really good at that but that is about it. I was never good at volley ball either, I was always put way in the back out of the ball's range and when we played softball I was always put really far back in the outfield because I'm not good at catching the ball. And I was never able to do rope climbing either.

Wow. That brings back horrible memories. Always being picked on and picked last. It was a seriously crappy class. Towards the end of high school, the teachers would just let me go off running by myself. That was nice.

I had a problem with breathlessness in my early teens which meant I couldn't sprint more than about 10 yards.

I didn't like this so I decided to do something about it.

It was hard work but by the time I was 17, I was running 3 miles in 14 minutes.

I never had any interest in team sports but found plenty of variety with swimming, cycling and weight training to allow me to pursue a lifelong asocial personal fitness program.

I had a health problem as a child that kept me from taking gym. Unfortunately, in middle school the doctor gave me the all clear so I could show everybody day in and day out just how useless I was in any game that required a ball or running.

I actually turned out to be a very good batter, but always let everyone down because I was so slow running the bases.

The only thing I really excelled at was prison dodgeball and floor exercises, because I am naturally very flexible, but we didn't do them often.

I don't suck in gym. I prefer using the free weights and treadmills.

ruveyn

I mean in school.
(or maybe you were being "tongue in cheek"

So was I, didn't seem to understand that it was my turn to go after a ball while their were other people there too. Often I didn't see a ball comming and I would miss it so the other team scored another point. Was I stupid, blind or on another planet? Or was I just not interested in the game? When I went after a ball I usually bumped into one of my own team players, who tha said," get away you're in the way." So what can you do?

You'd better tell your kid to tough up and stand up to these people. If he's getting upset he's turning it in on himself which is not healthy in the slightest; it's therapeutic to fight back.

I myself never fought back in gym and it's something I regretted, because a little fitness might have taken the edge off the year of intensive exercise it took to reduce my weight.

Also make sure to check whether or not this is bullying. It's possible your kid is actually being bullied and it goes beyond gym, and if he doesn't stand up for himself he will undoubtedly be bullied.

I agree. I told him guys ride each other all the time and it's kind of a test to see if he can take it. He's picked on at school elsewhere too. He finally got tired of it and punched a guy back that had punched him and got suspended for a day for his trouble.

In PE classes i was not very good,


I hope that the kids stop picking on your kid now.

I didn't participate in gym in grade school through my church's youth organization programs as I expected to be teased and torment as was almost always the case during classes. I refused to pick up balls or bats or even touch them and slowly but surely pilled back to a corner of the gym so I could sit down and read. My father, an avid baseballer tried to force me into little league but I did nothing to catch balls and even on the one time I hit the ball some distance I just stood there while everybody yelled at me to run until I dropped the bad and just walked away home. I attended a swimming class at the YMCA at my father's insistance, but almost everybody was naked by the pool. I felt so embarassed being there sitting by the side of the pool for lessons that I bent my head down and would not look at anybody. When the class ended I got up still looking down and walked quickly to the locker room where I put my civilian clothes on over my wet swim trunks and resolved to never return. And indeed to my father's frustration I never did.

In high school I refused to participate in gym classes and was told to sit or stand in a deep little nook in the room facing the backs of the student's who were exercising. This continued until my junior year when I was permanently exempted from participating in gym.

When I went to community college I was advised that I had to complete two credit hours in a phys ed sport of my choice. I tried bowling and tennis but I was so self-conscious about my body that I withdrew before completing these classes and refused to participate any further. After interviewing me, the school permanently exempted me from gym class.

I never liked sports and rarely participate in them.

However, I enjoy watching women's gymnastics and ice scating.

And for exercise when I lived for seven years in Manhattan in New York City I walked alone in large crowds at least seven miles every day and usually I felt very safe.

Sincerely,
Rich

I didn't participate in gym in grade school through my church's youth organization programs as I expected to be teased and torment as was almost always the case during classes. I refused to pick up balls or bats or even touch them and slowly but surely pilled back to a corner of the gym so I could sit down and read. My father, an avid baseballer tried to force me into little league but I did nothing to catch balls and even on the one time I hit the ball some distance I just stood there while everybody yelled at me to run until I dropped the bad and just walked away home. I attended a swimming class at the YMCA at my father's insistance, but almost everybody was naked by the pool. I felt so embarassed being there sitting by the side of the pool for lessons that I bent my head down and would not look at anybody. When the class ended I got up still looking down and walked quickly to the locker room where I put my civilian clothes on over my wet swim trunks and resolved to never return. And indeed to my father's frustration I never did.

In high school I refused to participate in gym classes and was told to sit or stand in a deep little nook in the room facing the backs of the student's who were exercising. This continued until my junior year when I was permanently exempted from participating in gym.

When I went to community college I was advised that I had to complete two credit hours in a phys ed sport of my choice. I tried bowling and tennis but I was so self-conscious about my body that I withdrew before completing these classes and refused to participate any further. After interviewing me, the school permanently exempted me from gym class.

I never liked sports and rarely participate in them.

However, I enjoy watching women's gymnastics and ice scating.

And for exercise when I lived for seven years in Manhattan in New York City I walked alone in large crowds at least seven miles every day and usually I felt very safe.

Sincerely,
Rich

A little off topic but when I look back at my school days I kinda regret not getting a detention or a suspension once (I mean a worthy kind like beating up a kid who is giving me sh*t). I think it's a scare tactic when they say it will hurt you future educational prospects but given where I am now, I think it doesnt matter anyway. In the K-12 system, you are rarely rewarded for not getting detntions or suspensions. It's more about the punishment than it is about the reward and since you dont get rewarded anything really, you might as well go nuts!