PE did you love it or loathe it??

Swimming, cross country and lacrosse yes.
Anything else no.
Being a tennis failure was quite good though. We were sent to practise against walls. You could have a good squash type game with the other failures.
Showers were embarrassing, whether you were an early developer or not. The group saw it as another opportunity to bully.
I never saw how a cold run through them made you any cleaner.

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I enjoyed Hockey (played for the school teams for three years) and Tennis. Hated Gym and athletics, especially cross country.
Always liked swimming although the school didn't have a pool and we had to walk to the local public one for "lessons", which meant about half an hour in the water if you were lucky. Thankfully my Dad taught us to swim in the River Brue! Those were the days when you could happily get into the river water, wouldn't want to now.

Just seen a video of the local river on our local FB page, I nearly brought up my breakfast again.

Skill, dexterity, agility, co-orination, quick thinking and of course, team spirit.
Unless it's tennis, badminton etc. No team spirit in singles matches. 😃

As humans have been playing ball games for 3,000 years they must have some appeal!

Can someone who likes (or liked) ball games please tell me what they like/liked about them.
They seem so pointless to me!

Loved it ,some bits better than others, but overall to me it was all part of the experience of being at the Grammar school.
We very rarely had classes cancelled because of the weather. Even in the snow we had organised snowball fights and yes we did do it in the 6th form.Although I can remember our Latin teacher offering us Greek lessons if the class was cancelled in the 6th form.

I enjoyed Hockey (played for the school teams for three years) and Tennis. Hated Gym and athletics, especially cross country.
Always liked swimming although the school didn't have a pool and we had to walk to the local public one for "lessons", which meant about half an hour in the water if you were lucky. Thankfully my Dad taught us to swim in the River Brue! Those were the days when you could happily get into the river water, wouldn't want to now.

Our 'gym' teacher was clueless. She wore what we now call culottes, but was then a divided skirt. We could see, all too clearly, that she wore long knickers under it. I was a bit tubby (well, fat) in my early teens and never had the strength (or motivation) to pull myself up on a rope; half way up the wall bars was far enough and why bother anyway? When Christmas approached she would teach us how to dance in hold, in case we ever managed to find a boy to latch on to. I did enjoy the occasional hockey lesson which taught us nothing, but I got some exercise running after the ball. Eventually I reached the heights of the second XI though I was (audibly) cross not to be its captain!

I wear glasses and hated playing netball as I was afraid the ball would land on my face and smash them.
I was quite good at hockey and rounders.
The worst thing about sports was being part of a team and not wanting to let the others down. I was always last to be picked so I knew I wasn't really wanted.

Never particularly keen on sports although for some reason I was fair at the high jump even though I am small. Remember we did cross country once stopped for a quick smoke and went back a bit too early nearly got picked for the cross-country team.
Swimming was my thing was pretty good at this and swam for our local swimming club. Got my own back on giving those who took the mucky on the sports field a good ducking !
Was quite telling back in the 60s at primary school when we started school swimming lessons there was only two of us that could swim. Thankfully that has now changed

Our PE teachers were horrible they made us do PE in our navy knickers it was humiliating especially in our teens. I was quite shy and I didn’t like indoor PE the gym horse or rope climbing especially.
I didn’t mind outdoor sports high/long jump running rounders etc. We took a coach to a different college for Lacrosse I never saw the logic in it because our school had adequate sports grounds.

I never saw the point of ball games - kicking, chasing, catching, whacking with implements... I was quite good at volleyball, OK at rounders and good at long jump. I suppose I was an "ordinary" middle of the road girl in PE.

I loved trampoline and gymnastics was OK.

On the whole though it was all a pointless waste of time to me except trampoline (which was an after school activity anyway).

Some children just don't get it.

Sea swimming and horse riding I could have done all day.

Loathed it. Had an undiagnosed sight problem then (which was later corrected with glasses), so couldn't hit the ball. The showers were entirely communal, no cubicles. We refused to go in them. The games mistress couldn't see the problem! Flappergirl, you were so brave!

I enjoyed country dancing at primary school. At senior school, there were lots of different sports to try- we even had an outdoor unheated swimming pool ( freezing). I discovered I was hopeless at tennis. I quite liked hockey but rarely lasted a game - the combination of running about and cold air set off my asthma so I was sent in - with a ( hockey hating volunteer) class mate to keep an eye on eye on me.

I loathed and dreaded it. Not helped by the very unpleasant PE teacher. One morning she left the gym mid lesson to take a phone call and told us all to sit on the floor in complete silence till her return.

During her absence a few girls were bold enough to have a whispered chat. When the teacher returned she demanded to know who had spoken during her absence .

Nobody owned up so she told us all to line up along the wall with hands outstretched. Then made her way along the line and belted forty odd 13 year old girls. A cruel and sadistic teacher and sadly not the only one in our school.

I loathed it with every fibre of my being: very short-sighted, non-competitive by nature, poor balance. It was torture and put me off school.

Loathed it. Sadistic PE teachers and having to brave freezing hockey/lacrosse pitches in winter, in just those stupid little skirts. Changing rooms always stinking of BO from those girls (usually the ones who liked PE) who didn’t use deodorant.

Couldn’t wait to get to 6th form and be allowed to drop it. The favourite option then was sloping off to the 6th form common room (actually Upper 6th only) for a coffee and an illicit fag. 😂

I liked Netball and Rounders and loathed hockey and cross country

This obsession that some schools had with making pupils showers was rather “pervy”.

We had to shower after games. Six cold, stone clad cubicles next to the changing room. The PE teacher, Miss Alcock ( honestly) would run her hand down your back to check it was wet.

Dark brown PE knickers and beige T shirts and no skirts to cover us up
teanspieted to a field by coach for ritual humiliation.

Fortunately Miss Shea our games teacher had a sense of humour and my sense of humour appealed to her, so I could distract the lesson by making her laugh, so although I was a biggish girl I got through relatively unscathed, and actually enjoyed PE.

Maths was a different story ex rugby playing, part of sadistic boys gym teachers group of bullies might have the knowledge but lacked skill for teaching.

I hated - dreaded - it. I only once got picked for a team when I had miraculously put in a good performance at a netball session. As part of the team my fortunes reversed, we lost, and no-one spoke to me for the rest of the day!
I a very good cricketer, but girls, of course, were not allowed to play cricket!

Not that keen on PE, which involved climbing ropes, jumping over the ‘horse’, trampolining, athletics in the summer. I was no good at high jump, long jump, hurdles, anything like that.

Games however, was a different matter. Loved hockey in the winter, was right half, played in both the Under XV’s, Second X1 and First X1, and in the summer, swimming. Did all my bronze, silver, gold medals plus several lifesaving ones.

No good at tennis, and netball was for the ones who didn’t like hockey.

Not my happiest memories although we had lovely teachers who encouraged rather than bullied us.

I just remember being so cold, shivering on the muddy but frozen field where we played hockey and lacrosse. Never understood the rules and the whole thing was an ordeal.

Gymnastics was sometimes fun but always with the dreaded communal showers, a bunch of skinny girls trying to cover up our pubescent bodies whilst the teacher watched us to make sure nobody ducked out of it.

I liked rounders and tennis in summer although was never much good at either.

None of my four children were particularly athletic but all go to the gym nowadays. DGD is the athlete, she plays on two softball teams and is really good. I’m glad as it keeps her very busy so not as much time for social media.

I neither loved or hated it I used to look forward to it as a nice distraction in the day, we had a lovely (simple in those days) gymnasium on the premises We had climbing bars on the wall and ropes that pulled out and ‘horses’ I was very average
We played tennis in the summer and hockey in the winter we didn’t do any athletics
I was usually picked towards the end of the choosing situation too not quite last and it was horrible, holding your breathe and fingers crossed
We never did swimming and we never had showers or changing rooms just got dressed in the two bg changing rooms outside the gym
I didn’t like the PE/games teacher at all I thought she was strict and horrible obviously she wasn’t keen on me because I wasn’t one of the best ones
I just remember our blue mottled legs in the winter playing hockey

Hated it. Aertex shirts and navy knickers. I could never shin up the ropes or jump the horse. Games was just as bad and athletics awful. Who remembers the ‘Western Roll ‘ ?