Apparently, it's a HUGE kickball league, with something like forty teams. And it's part of a national kickball association. For reals.
I just can't get my head wrapped around it. In fourth grade, the whole idea of kickball was very, very clear to me, though I was not a particularly savvy youth. Kickball was invented by P.E. teachers. It was invented so that clumsy, unathletic children (read: me) who had absolutely no prayer of hitting a small ball in flight with a narrow piece of wood, could at least learn (unwillingly and with no enthusiasm) the basic concepts of sportsmanship and team play. I remember squatting in the outfield, looking for four-leaf clovers amongst the school-yard weeds and hoping one of the big boys didn't kick a ball in my general direction. I seem to recall that my nickname was "Easy Out." These aren't good memories.
So this whole notion of 20-somethings gathering in large groups to play competitive kickball is just boggling my noggin a little.
(I should point out though, that following the games on Kickball Night, there is a very large happy hour at a local bar, attended by hundreds of young single folks. So maybe I DO get it...but I don't see why they couldn't just have the happy hour and skip the kickball part.)
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Kickball was much better than dodgeball, where the boys could and would with no repercussions- throw the ball hard enough to knock you off your feet. In fact, kickball and folk dancing were way above gymnastics, softball, basketball and general fitness crap. I loathed PE. Did any one else do warm up to a 78 record of "Chicken Fat" ? Go you chicken fat- go away!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EFofqe26t-4
my son and daughter in law participate in this also. i guess it is a fun way to get some excercise. i was very competitive in my younger days and i LOVED dodge ball. i could take out an eighth grade boy with no problem. mostly because i was taller than 90 percent of them. not good for getting dates, but good for kicking some ass. ;)
Sheila and Spidey, you both made me LOL! Gawd, I hated PE, and I'd blocked out the horrible memories of having to play dodgeball with boys. And gymnastics was all about the short people. Tall, knobby-kneed gangly types like me couldn't even manage a decent cartwheel!
I remember that during folk dancing, we'd tear up tiny strips of paper and each hold one end of the paper so we wouldn't have to actually hold hands with our boy dance partner.
Bet kids don't do that kind of thing any more. I mean, if they're up to blow jobs in junior high, I don't want to speculate about what goes on in elementary school.
(P.S. WV- "co moisti." that's what was produced on the tiny strips of paper by our sticky pre-adolescent hands.)
i am so happy I didn't have to wear the one-piece polyester jumpsuit from hell that they made girls wear in the 1970s.
I HATED regular gym, but loved weight training and took it for several years in high school and in college. We'd get our work-out sheet, go off on our own and lift the weights prescribed to us that day and then go home. regular gym was horrible though. When I started "running" I explained to my friends that the last time I ran was when I was mugged, and before THAT the last time I ran was when my high school gym teacher said "you'd better run on else." I think I would have liked gym if it was really meant to get people to like physical activity instead of participating in the culture of hate that is teenage life.
Although, now that I'm an adult and in the know about this junk, I realize that even in college, the weight training activities weren't set up for "this is a male workout" and "this is a female workout." men and women aren't supposed to lift weights the same because we're NOT THE SAME. no wonder I never really got anything out of it physically. You'd think that people with advanced degrees in that junk would have taken the time to make 2 sets of workout sheets. Sure, they offered "aerobics" that girls were "supposed" to take, but aerobics was full of MEAN, HUNGRY, SKINNY bitches. There's no way I was going to take that.
hehe my word veri is "throbbi" and that's how I felt after gym....
Several people I work with play in a kickball league and my realtor tried to get me to participate in a local one. Problem was, it's too hard to get back here from the city in time.
I hear it's fun.
I love kickball--growing up we played in every day in the summer. First base was a porch step. Second base was a telephone pole third place was a tree by the sidewalk and home was a gigantic maple tree that I loved
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