Dodgeball, where art thou?

Pickleball is fucking LAME! Just wanted to say that, and it has no bearing on anything else in this blog.



I remember when we had State Dodgeball championships. Now you can't even play dodgeball in schools because it "promotes unhealthy competition" and "promotes bullying the weak" know what I say to that? If you're weak, get stronger! That was the point of Dodgeball! It built character! I was the fat kid on the team, and I was the biggest target, but I turned that weakness into an advantage. You see, in our school, we had a "Catch-in" rule, where if you caught the ball, you not only got the guy on the other team out, but you got to call somebody back in on your team. More often than not, I was the last person standing on my team, and I caught-in most of my team back into the game, and came back to win from the goddamn grave. I found my advantage. I was the big target, thus I had more body room to cushion a catch.

A kid can't even get a scraped knee without their parents suing the goddamn school. All I'm saying is kids these days are having their hands held way too much.

And another thing...

Boohoo, life isnt fair, and everyone is trying to keep the little man down. Bullshit! A kid hits you in school, you fight back. Don't blow your brains out while listening to screamo in your pitch-black bedroom, because "your life sucks". You got rejected by the hot girl in class, when you asked her to the dance. big whoop. You honestly don't think you were the only kid that asked her, do you? There are other girls there that would want to go with you. broaden your horizons. Its just a dance, not marriage. Suck it up. You tried out for the Basketball team, and you didn't make it. woo freakin hoo. That means you have time for other shit like Band, and Drama, Football, Choir, Art, etc... Don't limit yourself.

You make your own destiny. Don't let other people make it for you. When God gives you lemons....GET A NEW GOD

Oh, and Get off my lawn, and all that jazz.

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[quote name='dudeonline' post='2616972' date='Feb 23 2010, 04:56 PM']Now you can't even play dodgeball in schools because it "promotes unhealthy competition" and "promotes bullying the weak"[/quote]
Hear that American elementary schools?
Even Canadian elementary schools make you guys look like pussies.
 
Good thing I was born just in time. I got to join a dodgeball club back in Elementary and Middle School, it was fun.
 
From a person who hated dodgeball in high school:

I was the fat kid of the bunch too. But the fact is the guys would whip the ball at practically mach speed and hurt people. I still played because it was awesome to see how good you were at it, and how surprising it was to see the "fat kid" playing as well as the skinny people.

But in high school, they ended up separating the sexes, especially for hockey and dodgeball for that precise reason. The worse part of that was the fact that all the girls couldn't play for shit - and it made me mad.

Competition is healthy especially in games - this is the problem with this generation, everyone's coddled to death.
 
Man, I love dodgeball. Our local variant is called "border guard." You play with one ball, and the game begins with one member of each team behind the opponents' zone. Once you're hit, you join the player behind the opponent zone. The team without the ball is sandwiched in a crossfire until someone manages to catch it. I used to love it, and i was a scrawny, gangling kid at the time.

I don't know about "unhealthy competition," but you can get good at this game either by being good at hitting or being good at dodging. If you can't do either, it wouldn't kill you to try and improve. And unless you have a physical disability, there is no excuse for avoiding physical activity.
 
We had a version of dodgeball, it was called killer ball. though it was more "put students on a basketball court, give them volleyballs, get them to peg the ball at the other team until you hit their goalpost". you could block with your arms and not get out, anywhere else was out. if you were caught you were out. you can't go past the middle line, until one of the teachers announced you could. it was 10m increments. until you eventually hit the 3 point line. we played it religiously until some kid got knocked unconscious. and then it was banned.
 
[quote name='.Radiant' post='2617905' date='Feb 24 2010, 08:50 PM']We had a version of dodgeball, it was called killer ball. though it was more "put students on a basketball court, give them volleyballs, get them to peg the ball at the other team until you hit their goalpost". you could block with your arms and not get out, anywhere else was out. if you were caught you were out. you can't go past the middle line, until one of the teachers announced you could. it was 10m increments. until you eventually hit the 3 point line. we played it religiously until some kid got knocked unconscious. and then it was banned.[/quote]
:D We still play dodgeball except we call it bombardmant, exactly the same game just a different name, my favourite part was dodging al the balls cos it made me feel like a ninja :ph34r:
 

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