PE did you love it or loathe it??

Thanks Allira

I enjoyed netball, hated, hated hockey, can't remember whether I had the requisite shin pads, because I seem to remember being wacked around the lower legs and always caked in mud, the way my children and grandson have been from football. The actual gym I had mixed feelings about, sometimes a sense of achievement in getting over the horse in a reasonable fashion and doing whatever we were supposed to do on the wall bars, front rolls on the mat seemed to leave a lingering headache. Our gym mistress was somewhat decrepit and given to saying "orf side" and addressing us all with the collective noun of "gals"or requesting us to "do be naice gals" Old school manners, very Blytonesque!

I'd enjoyed rounders and badminton, but I hated P.E.
I damaged my arm weeks after starting secondary school .
It didn't heal as it should have and caused me a great deal of pain .
Everytime I got flu for years afterwards ot would ache .
I wasnt good at gym .
I wasn't good at sports .
I hated

Oops!
I hated being chosen last for teams .
For a time we had folk dancing instead and that was far more enjoyable.
My mother was super sporty and couldn't understand my lack of enthusiasm .
Neither of my girls are sporty, but my son is.
It illustrates just how different people are .

Shinamae

I hated it, the humiliation of never been picked first for netball always the last one when I had to go on somebody’s team
I hope they don’t do it that way now…
It stays with you that sort of humiliation..😣

Reading through these contributions, I feel very deprived..
No hockey, no tennis just netball and rounders
And definitely no showers ☹️

My husband was the youngest boy in his school to have won all his colours for all sports!
He was driven and competitive...
I couldn't have cared less!

I hated PE with a vengeance. I was never the sporty type (unless it involved horses!) and was always the last to be picked for a team. As someone else else, the humiliation of that sticks with you. Living in Scotland, our PE teachers always seemed to pick the coldest day of the year to make us go out and do cross-country. I remember being almost blue with the cold!

Allira

jusnoneed

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.

It's such a shame that the simple fun of river swimming is so risky now. Where we learnt near Glastonbury has been ruined, mainly because of some so called travellers being allowed to stay in caravans next to where it was safe. Hate to think what they chuck in there!

Was good at high jump because have long legs. Hopeless at all ball games.

Hated PE and games. Couldn’t do anything in the gym - climb ropes, vault a horse etc and wasn’t good at netball. I was good at tennis but couldn’t be in the team because I wasn’t in the netball team!

I was usually the second last to be picked for teams. The girl who was chosen last was also the one who deprived me of the bottom place in Maths.

(For the record, I was usually top in English, French and German. I was even fairly good at biology. But maths - ugh. Almost as bad as games.

No showers in my school. Compulsory swimming started the year after I left, or I’d have had to invent another set of excuses. I still can’t swim and have no desire to.

I am sure the PE teacher hated me. At my previous school I had been very good at gymnastics and running but as my new school only did team sports I became what my new PE teacher described as 'a waste of space'. She couldn't understand how I could be athletic yet hopeless at anything which involved a ball.

I was a good long distance swimmer so I became the weakest member of the swimming team which relied on speed rather than stamina.

When I left school at 16 I wanted to burn my hockey stick but I had a younger sister so passed it on to her. She later became the captain of the hockey team.

I hated PE. I didn't realise at the time, but my hand/eye coordination is poor, hence I was useless at any ball games. I was also scared of the high ropes and the horse in gym.

We all hated having to walk to the field for athletics past the boys school in our knickers. Showers were also awful. Why didn't the teachers accept that this embarrassed teenage girls?

I was good at academic subjects and wished we could just do those at school.

Hated it - hockey in particular. Was terrified of getting my ankles bashed with the sticks. Co - ed school and we had to play in navy blue knickers! What's was that all about!? Tee shirts even in winter. Teacher running about shouting at us , she was all cosy in her warm track suit. I resented that, couldn't leave school fast enough .

As for the showers , hated those too.School was certainly not the best days of my life ! Left at 15 but still managed to bag a 1st degree later on life!

I hated every moment of it....initially I did enjoy it but then I had an accident in one class.

The teacher accused me of lying when I tried to explain how painful my leg was and made me carry on, by the end of the day I could barely walk and had to be taken to the hospital that evening by my parents.
I had a stress fracture.
My father 'spoke' to the teacher the next day...I don't think it was a polite conversation.

I hated, hated PE and was useless at it. The PE teacher went out of her way to humiliate me and thought I tried at first, I got no encouragement from the teachers so gave up. My mother was sympathetic and said it wasn't important anyway. She was totally wrong, I know now, but all my school life it was torture until I rebelled in the 6 th form and went on strike, to everyone's shock ( and mine!)

did not mind in junior school as it was just if teacher could be bothered then only hoops or bean bags. there was walking to the youth club for music and movement but I always seem to have gone missing when it was time to go
when I got to secondary it was a nightmare do not know if it was the humiliating showers, the bullying by teacher and kids, the confusion I felt as I could not catch or hit things then I got into rounders even made the team then my school closed.
the new Comprehensive was a nightmare hardly went and certainly did not do PE. I joined the badminton club and was told if I did not do PE i had to miss the club! did not work I still turned up anyway and the lady running it did not know of this ruling.

Loathed everything about it - the navy-blue bloomers, the s/s aertex shirts that meant you froze half to death outside, the aimless running about, the COMPETITIVE SPIRIT (Lord, save me from ambitious sports people) and of course the PE teachers. I swear they were vetted for the slightest trace of empathy before being offered the job - definitely a warning sign against their suitability for building character in little girls!
Oh, and I forgot about the days of the month when girls need to be treated extra gently (which acted as a red rag to a bullish PT mistress).

I enjoyed athletics and was in the athletics team as a discus thrower. Apart from that I was not very good at games. I now know I have dyspraxia..

It never bothered me not being wanted in teams. I was generally seen as an oddball in all aspects of my education. I just shrugged and got on with what I wanted to do.

I was 14 before someone told me that as I only have sight in one eye I cannot judge distances. Apart from loathing anything involving balls I didn’t give a damn who won any game and PT was humiliating, stupid and a waste of energy.
I still find all sports incomprehensible.

I still find all sports incomprehensible

But so many people don't.

Lord, save me from ambitious sportspeople.
But without ambition and competitiveness they wouldn't actually achieve much, or reach the top of their game!

NonGrannyMoll

Loathed everything about it - the navy-blue bloomers, the s/s aertex shirts that meant you froze half to death outside, the aimless running about, the COMPETITIVE SPIRIT (Lord, save me from ambitious sports people) and of course the PE teachers. I swear they were vetted for the slightest trace of empathy before being offered the job - definitely a warning sign against their suitability for building character in little girls!
Oh, and I forgot about the days of the month when girls need to be treated extra gently (which acted as a red rag to a bullish PT mistress).

I wish you'd met our lovely PE teacher! We thought she was wonderful. The other one not so 😃

I was never very fond of PE or games. The exception was netball, which I quite enjoyed. I hated cross country running (though once out of sight of the school, resorted to walking - I detest running, always have, always will. Hockey was just an excuse for the bullies to thwack your ankles, ditto rounders, when the ball was frequently aimed towards the face. I was a victim of a ball hitting my teeth once. I wore a brace, too, but luckily, wasn’t badly injured. No, my memories of PE are not good ones, overall.
The showers were torture in themselves, too.