Did you (do you) suck in gym?

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D. was upset after school today because the other kids yelled at him in gym class. It seems he couldn't get the volleyball over the net. I don't think I ever did. I also couldn't hit the tennis ball with the racket and when I released the string on the bow the arrow just fell straight down. The only thing I was remotely good at was gymnastics. Were you a klutz in gym class?

Yes I did...

and it was mainly because we were constantly playing sports that I was bad at.

In elementary school, we would always play basketball but I got a little better at it with time.

However it started to suck in middle school. In seventh grade we would ALWAYS play kickball as if there werent other sports we could be trying. I was already confused as hell as to determining if I should run to the next base. I couldnt kick a ball for the life of me.

And then in 8th grade it was the same thing of playing the same sport EVERY SINGLE DAY. Except instead of kickball...it was volleyball. I cant make the proper fist for serving a ball (or get it over the net for the life at me). The other kids would yell at me too.

Those were horrible years to be in gym at my catholic schools at cause they were hardly diverse as to activities. I guess our teachers were just lazy and didnt bother making up a curriculum. At least in high school gym class, we were doing something different about every two weeks.

I suck at tennis cuz the same way I sucked at Volleyball...only to find the structure of both sports are pretty similar, which pretty much explained it.

And I was dissappointed to learn that I would suck at archery.

Best gym class I ever took: aerobics in college! No dumb balls, no grading on how we do our positions, just show up to class

Hahahaha

I sucked in sports but luckily kids didn't get mad at me. Instead they acted like I was a little kid because they say "Come on Beth you can do it" and then give me special treatment by giving me do overs until I did it right and then cheer when I finally do it. I also sucked in warm ups and I felt clumsy in them. But no one got on my back about how I did warm ups. If I had to multi task such as running as I wave my arms in the air (that was one of the warm ups) I had to concentrate on it to keep doing it. I found it difficult to do but I still did it. That's when I realized I still had issues with balance or whatsoever. And my mom said I outgrew my dyspraxia. But overall I still think my balance is good for an aspie. I'm not real clumsy like lot of aspies.

I could always hit a ball with a tennis racket thank god.

I hated gym. I was always picked on in gym class....and being overweight didn't really help either.

But body type aside, I didn't have a good idea of where my body was in space (if that makes sense). I'm still that way. You have to physically manipulate my body and put me in front of a mirror in order for me to learn how to do a particular movement.....eg swinging a golf club. Forget about formal dancing Hehe!

I stick to jogging and lifting weights....neither of which are extremely complex movements. LOL!

I remember in middle school the whole class rooting for me to get the ball over the net. They had a sense of humor about it-too bad the guys can't cut my son the same slack.

Well, I wouldn't exactly phrase it that way...but I was a horrible klutz and so self-conscious about my awkwardness in gym it was a literal Hell on Earth for me. In the first High School I went to, they only required 2 credits in PE, so I got those out of the way and felt sooo relieved to have it behind me - then we moved to Another state, where it was required every year no matter what. AAUuUUuUUuGgGHHhH!! !

When I was 32, I was introduced to weight training and fell in love with it because it requires only minimal dexterity and you can pursue it in utter solitude. I only wish some coach in High School had shown me to the weight room and said "Here ya go, kid, knock yourself out" instead of forcing me to play Dodge Ball with a roomful of macho yahoos.

I would still have been a klutz, but I'd have been such a massive klutz the bullies would have steered clear of me.

I still have a problem I know because I did water aerobics once and I couldn't translate what the instructor was doing into mirror movements of my own. I also once tripped over my own feet doing jazzercise. There is a procipiatory(?) sense that tells you where your body is. This came up in my son's O.T. session. He will not bend his head completely down-I mentioned he won't do this when I'm trying to wash his hair in the sink. The therapist is doing exercises to help him overcome his sense of unbalance.

Yep; I sucked. I sucked big time.

Always the last person to be chosen for any team game in gym class. To this day, I prefer walking or running for exercise precisely because I sucked so much. I doubt that I'll ever play a team sport again now that I no longer have to do so as part of Phys. Ed.

I was so horrible that the teacher sorta gave up and let me sit on the sidelines by myself during recess and read most of the time. I was only good at activities that I could do by myself and at my own pace, like shooting hoops by myself....Later, I figured out that I was good at swimming....I am pretty sure I had dyspraxia, also, my feet and legs were really messed up from my toe-walking. I could not run at all..
In kickball, I could never kick the ball...I didn't know what foot to use..I am cross-dominant...in soft ball I didn't know what my batting arm was...
When I got older, I was able to be excused from Gym on account of my messed up feet.
I really did like weight training though...and yoga...

I think Bill Watterson said it best

I think I was worse of in the locker room then anything else...

Why do people feel the need to socialize with you while your pants are down?

I remember there was a badminton evaluation we did and we had some type of points system for aiming the birdie into a hoola-hoop put on the ground. I couldn't get any birdies into the hoola-hoop so I got a zero on the evaluation.

Were you living in a small town then and now you're in a big city?


Small towns and big cities make a difference. There seems to be nicer people in town and they leave you be if you're different and there are less bullies in the school. But in the city, things are different.

I sucked aasssssssssss! I avoided participation whenever possible. On the off I decided to participate in anything I would get yelled at for getting in people's way. I was very awkward, clumsy, uncoordinated, you name it. If only they had ballet in gym class...I would have been a STAR...oh well. It's actually weird, for some reason I'm coordinated in ballet but not anything else.

I really think that they should evaluate kids physical education strengths and weaknesses when they are in school and create programs for them that are based on their strengths.
Imagine if instead of suffering and being teased and sitting out during team sports and whatnot, the awkward and motor clumsy kids had stuff that would help them physically integrate better, like yoga and whatnots....That would certainly make the PE system more effective.

YES!! ! God I was terrible. Luckily for me, people never said much of anything about it. But I didn't and still don't agree with public schools' view on P.E. While it may be nothing for most kids, it's a big deal for those who are not as physically fit or capable. Not only are they not allowed to do alternate activities, but they have to endure abuse/bullying from their peers when they can't perform the task. Prescription bullying. Doesn't sit well with me, especially since schools tout this "anti-bullying" crap which they don't enforce.

I was in the same boat, and I will never understand this either.