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[palominocorn]

Just thinking about how middle and high school PE was like... the WORST way to get kids to be active.

I like doing sports! I like exercising! I like stretches! I like bouncing around the room like a roadrunner high on meth! (Now I'm sick and can't do it like I used to, but I still LIKE it.)

What I do not like is being forced to do physical activity on demand by authority figures who yell at me rather than explaining how to do things the right way.

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[redthedragon]

GOD yeah, PE put me off so many things i would've done for fun if I'd gotten there recreationally first.

[palominocorn]

I know, right?

It also put me off a few things (like badminton) that I did for fun by making the experience so unpleasant.

[stardust_rifle]

And they never even told you HOW to do things! Just "here's what a pull-up is, now do a pull-up". "here's what doing the splits looks like, now do the splits."

And then you get kids who are just now learning that exercise can be Not Terrible.

[palominocorn]

I had a teacher once who told us to do the splits. Okay, we did the splits. He then determined that we were not doing the splits wide enough and walked around the room shoving our legs with his foot to "fix" that.

Meanwhile if you'd shown me some gymnasts doing cool splits I would've learned to do them all on my own for fun.