That was great. I wouldnt be able to keep my composure had I seen that live. I would have been cracking up.

hahahahhaha thats awesome

that's funny, lol. Chris Rock is great.

haha thats a pretty good one

With those knee bads and that stance, he deserved it.

We had huge volley ball tournaments when I was in High School. Pretty much the biggest event when we had gym class. It was a lot of fun. Anyway, they always randomly put the teams together. Nothing was worse than when you got the most unathletic geeky kid or uninterested "rebel" chick on your team. What's worse, is when you try to get the ball, since they're not even going to try and hit it, and then they get mad at you for doing so.

I've seen many a nerdy kid get hit in the face. Be it on a simple volley or spikage. haha. I hated when these kids always carried the ball also, not knowing what they were doing. You try and help them and then they start screaming at you. In my experience at least. grrr. They didnt want any part of a "jock" helping them. Patience wore thin.

Gym class volleyball was one of my top memories of high school....loved it. I've always had a pretty bad leg that I had surgery on when I was 12, so sports that involved a lot of running weren't my favorites, but I could get around well enough in volleyball to be good at it.

We weren't allowed to serve it overhand, so I got real good at aiming underhand serves...I'd always pick out that nerdy kid or really unathletic chick and just kept serving it to them. I'd run up 10 or 12 straight points without them even getting it back over the net, lol.

On the other side, you had the alpha-males that had to do a jump-serve/spike as hard as they possibly can that no one could return it. Honestly they pissed me off more than the nerds. The un-interested goth/emo girls like you said pissed me off the most though. At least attempt to hit it over the net.

UH-OH!

Anyone who seemed completely uninterested got served to when I played volleyball, but we could serve overhand, so that was my source of entertainment when we had volleyball in gym class. There were a few games where I'd score the last 15 or so point just serving at the uninterested kids. But the "jocks" that took things too far made our school come up with an "advanced gym" class. A lot of guys I know took it, but I felt no need, haha.

The worst game to play in gym with the uninterested types is ultimate frisbee. You have people like me who actually try, and at times too hard (and have to realize I'm in gym, lol), and relax a bit, and you try to help out that kid who is having a hard time, and they **** up anyway, then get pissed at you because you involved them, when no one else would.

For me, halfway through my senior year of gym, our teacher actually split our gym class up into the ones who were interested, and the group that wasn't. We got to have fun and play games, they would have to run or ride the stationary bikes. I'd much rather play a game than do any of that **** anyway.

Advanced gym sounds terrible. For their sake, I hope this was an all-boys school. I understand if you want to be competitive, I certainly tried to an extent, but you just can't take it too seriously.
Luckily, I almost always had gym at the end of the day. Even if you're barely trying, that's a massive plus come springtime.

lars looks into it. James has that Why The **** is this guy touching me look

No, I was co-ed, but there were only a very few girls that signed up for advanced gym, i.e. some of the girls who played varsity sports.

We just called it elective gym.
All the fun of gym class, none of the crap.
No timed mile. No timed anything.

Just dodgeball, kick ball, pickleball, softball, a little lacrosse and a whole lot of sitting in the bleachers watching freshman run the mile.

That is a completely different story, advanced gym, for our school, was for the ones who wanted to compete, but they also had the timed mile, and the pacer, all of which were part of the grade. The difference was the games could be full contact and people went all out, which is why not many girls signed up for advanced gym.

That reminds me of the non-swimmers aquatics classes my school had. They did everything except swim, it seems, in that class. It was pointless calling it aquatics. Apparently, they only spent a total of two weeks in the pool. That class was made fun of so bad because it was the kids who were afraid to swim, or couldn't/wouldn't learn how to.

We were supposed to, but our teacher just didnt give a **** since it was all senior football players mostly and during the fall semester he wasnt gonna make us run right before practice.

It is my understanding that these guys just do not understand what gym class is about.

We never had to do any of this timed mile stuff.

Who is that in the middle? Ricky Martin?

I can see that. It makes a little more sense if that is the case.
Its not the students choice, in my school, EVERYONE had to do a timed mile, as well as a pacer (which, if you never had one, SUCKS BALLS [it is a test that you run about 90 feet as many times as possible, but the time restriction get less and less as you get further along]) We did these twice each gym at the beginning of the semester, and at the end, to gauge how we improved (like gym would really improve anyone's physique, lmao). Also in these tests were how many situps, pushups, how high you could do your trunk lift, and your BMI calculations.

My school district is the one that caught all that media attention for sending out the "Fat Letters", if anyone remembers that.

"Gym" was optional for my last two years at school(all boys for what it is worth). Was certainly better once you let all the drop kicks who didn't want to be there get out. Can't see the point of forcing physical activity on those that don't want it, just brings everyone else down.

I also most likely fit squarely into that "dickish" alpha male that was mentioned, I love competing and don't really see the point of playing a sport if you aren't interested in at least trying to be the best or win.

I used to hate volleyball though, just was never that fun outside of serving as I just couldn't influence the game enough, especially as a short ass when it comes to volleyball. Not a sport for people under 6'3 at the very least. Sort of let me know how others feel when they went up against me in any contact sport ;)

That pacer thing is so awful. I have shin splints in both my legs, which means I can't run long distances, but I was always too proud to quit on that thing before the others, so I always ended up still doing 10 to 13 minutes of that ****, and not being able to walk for like an hour after.