Post: #1

One of my friends posted this on FB today and I thought it was pretty interesting.

Apparently this is a promo video for a group that is trying to make a video to bring quality PE class back to schools. I doubt that will ever happen, but the concept is interesting.

Being a younger guy I had no idea that stuff like this really existed back in the day. The kids in this video are training harder than almost everyone I have seen in my gym, and they all look to be in pretty good shape.

Another thing I found interesting was this Kennedy Quote they included in the video:

"I hope that we will not find a day in the United States when all of us are spectators except for a few who are out on the field, I hope all Americans will be on the field." President John F. Kennedy

Kind of ironic given the amount of spectators we have in America today.

Post: #2

Just goes to show how radically different society can be once it is looked at through a different lens or changed. Makes me think of the some of the pronouncement that we can never escape the current feminist hellhole that is poisoning our society. Yes we can change it and escape its fate.

Post: #3

This program would be great and should be government mandated. I'm sure this program alone would help with all the healthcare and obesity issues more than throwing medication and surgery at it.

Although its needed I doubt it will be initiated, especially on a large scale. The current education system wouldn't allow it to. It's too difficult and requires discipline.

I was able to hear how things were changing first hand because both of my parents are/were public school teachers(My father just retired). I remember them hating every part of it and it was part of the reason my father retired. Neither of them would recommend teaching as a career now.

Post: #4

(03-25-2015 09:56 AM)realologist Wrote:  This program would be great and should be government mandated. I'm sure this program alone would help with all the healthcare and obesity issues more than throwing medication and surgery at it.

Although its needed I doubt it will be initiated, especially on a large scale. The current education system wouldn't allow it to. It's too difficult and requires discipline.

I was able to hear how things were changing first hand because both of my parents are/were public school teachers(My father just retired). I remember them hating every part of it and it was part of the reason my father retired. Neither of them would recommend teaching as a career now.

When I was in middle school our PE Gym, a giant butch lesbian, had a PE program that actually focused on physical education. Sure it sucked, I went from playing fun games every day in PE to running a mile and doing pushups and situps 3x a week. Off days were spent stretching, learning about how the body works, and an occasional game to make things fun. Oh yeah, our grades reflected how much we improved from our start run time and pushup/situp count compared to our end of the term count.

I didn't think much of it other than wanting the old cool PE teacher back. But a couple months later I was out running around a field with a friend. I think we were playing knights and dragons or some shit, I remember having a plunger as a sword and a trash can lid as a shield. After a bit I remember my friend, that went to another school, panting and having to rest.

He asked me:

"Anti, how are you not tired? I'm running just as much as you and you are carrying that shit in your hands"

I wasn't tired, a little winded maybe, but still ready to keep playing. He had to take a knee.

Structured PE works. It should be brought back. Fat Shame should be brought back. Damn shame any politician that attempts to make a push at it will face the sharp edge of the politcial fatty acceptance brigade.

Post: #5

On the indiegogo campaign (they are raising money for this project) it said.

Quote:Warning: This video contains teenagers who achieved great things with discipline and self-respect.

That is awesome. But also makes me laugh that such a trigger warning is needed.

Also, there was not one fat fuck in the video. So I don't know if this was some Nazis program and they selected the most fit, or you can't really blame genes that much.

Post: #6

Yeah this is great. And there is still plenty of hope.

Also, this thread. /thread-16361.html

Post: #7

(03-25-2015 09:24 PM)Laner Wrote:  Yeah this is great. And there is still plenty of hope.

Also, this thread. /thread-16361.html

The Soft American was a neat read. It makes me think about the way that people used to live before everyone became sedentary.

The Theodore Roosevelt quotes are pretty fitting as well. I have a copy of the Strenuous Life on my bookshelf. "Live not a life of ignoble ease" I think it goes.

Post: #8

(03-25-2015 08:34 PM)AntiTrace Wrote:  

(03-25-2015 09:56 AM)realologist Wrote:  This program would be great and should be government mandated. I'm sure this program alone would help with all the healthcare and obesity issues more than throwing medication and surgery at it.

Although its needed I doubt it will be initiated, especially on a large scale. The current education system wouldn't allow it to. It's too difficult and requires discipline.

I was able to hear how things were changing first hand because both of my parents are/were public school teachers(My father just retired). I remember them hating every part of it and it was part of the reason my father retired. Neither of them would recommend teaching as a career now.

When I was in middle school our PE Gym, a giant butch lesbian, had a PE program that actually focused on physical education. Sure it sucked, I went from playing fun games every day in PE to running a mile and doing pushups and situps 3x a week. Off days were spent stretching, learning about how the body works, and an occasional game to make things fun. Oh yeah, our grades reflected how much we improved from our start run time and pushup/situp count compared to our end of the term count.

I didn't think much of it other than wanting the old cool PE teacher back. But a couple months later I was out running around a field with a friend. I think we were playing knights and dragons or some shit, I remember having a plunger as a sword and a trash can lid as a shield. After a bit I remember my friend, that went to another school, panting and having to rest.

He asked me:

"Anti, how are you not tired? I'm running just as much as you and you are carrying that shit in your hands"

I wasn't tired, a little winded maybe, but still ready to keep playing. He had to take a knee.

Structured PE works. It should be brought back. Fat Shame should be brought back. Damn shame any politician that attempts to make a push at it will face the sharp edge of the politcial fatty acceptance brigade.

Anti, that must have been nice. I don't know how old you are but I'm sure you're from a different generation. I'm only 25 that would have pretty much been impossible with the changes in schools. We were lucky enough to play dodge ball before it was banned in schools.

The only way fitness was specifically focused on was taking a advanced weight training class in high school which had an old school male teacher that was also one of the football and track coaches.

Post: #9

(03-27-2015 07:04 PM)realologist Wrote:  

(03-25-2015 08:34 PM)AntiTrace Wrote:  

(03-25-2015 09:56 AM)realologist Wrote:  This program would be great and should be government mandated. I'm sure this program alone would help with all the healthcare and obesity issues more than throwing medication and surgery at it.

Although its needed I doubt it will be initiated, especially on a large scale. The current education system wouldn't allow it to. It's too difficult and requires discipline.

I was able to hear how things were changing first hand because both of my parents are/were public school teachers(My father just retired). I remember them hating every part of it and it was part of the reason my father retired. Neither of them would recommend teaching as a career now.

When I was in middle school our PE Gym, a giant butch lesbian, had a PE program that actually focused on physical education. Sure it sucked, I went from playing fun games every day in PE to running a mile and doing pushups and situps 3x a week. Off days were spent stretching, learning about how the body works, and an occasional game to make things fun. Oh yeah, our grades reflected how much we improved from our start run time and pushup/situp count compared to our end of the term count.

I didn't think much of it other than wanting the old cool PE teacher back. But a couple months later I was out running around a field with a friend. I think we were playing knights and dragons or some shit, I remember having a plunger as a sword and a trash can lid as a shield. After a bit I remember my friend, that went to another school, panting and having to rest.

He asked me:

"Anti, how are you not tired? I'm running just as much as you and you are carrying that shit in your hands"

I wasn't tired, a little winded maybe, but still ready to keep playing. He had to take a knee.

Structured PE works. It should be brought back. Fat Shame should be brought back. Damn shame any politician that attempts to make a push at it will face the sharp edge of the politcial fatty acceptance brigade.

Anti, that must have been nice. I don't know how old you are but I'm sure you're from a different generation. I'm only 25 that would have pretty much been impossible with the changes in schools. We were lucky enough to play dodge ball before it was banned in schools.

The only way fitness was specifically focused on was taking a advanced weight training class in high school which had an old school male teacher that was also one of the football and track coaches.

Dodgeball got banned? That is all we ever did in gym class when I went through.

Post: #10

^^^^
It was banned after I left high school. My little sister was in high school after I was and they couldn't play then. When I was in highschool they changed to small foam balls instead of rubber balls so less people got hurt. We learned how to throw those just as hard though.

Post: #11

(03-29-2015 06:51 AM)realologist Wrote:  ^^^^
It was banned after I left high school. My little sister was in high school after I was and they couldn't play then. When I was in highschool they changed to small foam balls instead of rubber balls so less people got hurt. We learned how to throw those just as hard though.

Yeah nothing like the booming sound of a foam ball hammering into the kidneys of an opponent.

And dodgeball is still around at schools here. I just watched a high school game last fall when I was walking by the gym.

Everybody loves dodgeball.

Post: #12

Post: #13

A New Hope for the next generation of kids.

PE at school for me was all over the place as the teachers I had for PE were rubbish, but they let us play and do whatever we wanted. I remember being weak as piss, but trying really hard to get my pushup count up. We had to do 10 with supposedly strict form, and I managed 12 then tried all I could to cheat and get to 17 to beat my best mate who got 15. The fittest boy at my school managed 57.... bastard.

I visited my sister recently, who has 3 kids. She was worried about her 10 year old boy in particular, that his grades are falling despite being in an elite private school for boys. I thought he was just bored, but I was by far more alarmed when he talked about his PE class one day.

Me: what did you do today?
Him: Pushups
Me: how many?
Him: 7 was the standard
Me: how many did you do?
Him: 7
Me: that's ok for your age. What was the max in your class?
Him: 7, that's what everyone did (he looked rather confused)
Me: wait, nobody tried to beat the standard or their friends?
Him: no, why? We only had to do 7?
.... and a few more questions from me just to double check I heard correctly....

They managed to beat the natural physical competitiveness out of young boys, yes they did.

My sister, being a woman, wasn't even raising an eye brow over it, and thought it might just make him less potentially "violent". On the other hand, she loved it when I taught my niece how to do push up and how competitive that little 8 year old girl was.

Post: #14

I live about two miles away from LA Sirrra, which is now shut down and used (as far as I know) just for adult ed and Little League baseball. That video had images of equipment they had at my middle school. They had those crazy orange monkey bars and dip bars which were incredibly difficult on campus when I was in middle school, but they were never used for P.E. The only use they got was from kids at lunch challenging each other and the occasional adult after hours who would work out on them. We were always confused why they didn't use them for P.E. since they looked challenging and fun.

The high school I attended was part of the LA Sierra fitness program at one time as well. There was a pegboard, those zigzag bars, a really high pole, pull-up bars, etc. By time I got into highschool in 2003, they had torn up all that equipment and used that space for the football team. I remember seeing the equipment as a kid and looking forward to using it (the pegboard especially). It's another depressing reminder of how far we've fallen as a nation.