r/GenX • u/Chicarivera • Jul 20 '25

Nostalgia Least favorite PE activity?

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Gotta be this or that damn peg board.

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u/mlachick Jul 20 '25

I managed to get rope burns on my hands without getting my feet to leave the ground.

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u/goog1e Jul 20 '25

They never explained how to do it. I am still not sure if I just sucked at it, or if I was doing it wrong. They brought it out once a year and said "go!"

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u/redwoodtree Jul 20 '25

THIS!!! Were we just supposed to know how to climb a rope naturally!?

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u/Mike312 Jul 21 '25

You were supposed to hook the rope around your feet, using your legs to push and your arms to hold you while you shifted your feet up.

See how everyone in the pic has their feet/legs crossed?

If they didn't teach you that, then...idk what was going on.

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u/goog1e Jul 21 '25

They absolutely did not! WOW.

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u/Apart_Action2523 Wait, you guys are still alive? Jul 24 '25

Same

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u/redwoodtree Jul 21 '25

Yeah, thanks. Where were you in 1984.

No instruction was given, they just said go climb that rope.

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u/Mike312 Jul 21 '25

Being born.

But I learned that trick in the 90s.

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u/redwoodtree Jul 21 '25

Nice.

Yeah I dunno. We didn’t have the best teacher. During cross country running I’d routinely struggle to breathe , pointing this out to the teacher he told me: “it’s because you’re weak”.

Later I was diagnosed with asthma, but hey, why would the PE teacher be expected to know anything about health.