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[Tiberious aka Sparkles]

I remember reading in a TIME magazine news blurb a couple of years back that dodgeball, that once faithful gym class standard where even unathletic kids can sometimes shine, was becoming banned in numerous American schools. Some bright minds decided that a game where the objective is to hit another child with a rubber bouncy ball leads to violence. Makes sense, I suppose. Ban dodgeball and that's the end of school shootings. Guns don't kill people, rubber balls do.

Anyway, everyone here is probably aware that dodgeball (pi-gu) is a staple of PE class in Korea. But are you aware that:

- they use a volley ball?

- if an opponent's ball is caught, without bouncing, by the opposing teams player, the thrower isn't "out"? (this is heresy, IMO)

- to date, there have been no school shootings in Korea. That's because you have a better chance here of tracking down a Honus Wagner rookie card than a gun, but, to my knowledge, there haven't been any pencil stabbings or kimchi poisonings related to dodgeball either.

Ultimate frisbee, though, is another kettle of fish. That's where the true danger lies.

Sparkles*_*

[mog]

I don't think banning is due to violence. It's due to there being unfair play. The popular kids want to hit the unpopular kids and that leads to depression. Plus, not everyone gets a chance to throw the ball. Because you know, everyone has to play and get an equal amount of chances, just like the real world.

[Bulsajo]

"If you can dodge a wrench, you can dodge a ball."

[Tiberious aka Sparkles]

[animalbirdfish]

As near as I can tell, dodgeball in Korea is only ever played with only one ball. What the hell? When I was in school, there were no fewer than 15 balls flying in all directions at one time. What kind of game can you have with one lousy ball? I tried using two balls once in Korea and the kids would have none of it (no jokes about keeping my balls away from kids, please).

Dodgeball must've been banned in the States because the kids don't have the attention span for it anymore, but perhaps they could reinstate it by using the one-ball Korean version. That way, none of the village idiots would have to worry about being blindsided.

[mog]

They don't care about you, Sparkles, they care about the .00000001 percent of kids that may be affected by such an experience.

[riverboy]

I'm strictly a one ball guy. Always have been. However I had a nasty incident in grade six where I dodged out of the way of a ball and ran smack into a fire esape knocking out my front tooth.
My days of being a pretty Riverboy just went down hill from there. A couple ofbroken noses from Bball, and Rugby, several stitches from the occasional scrap and now we have the ruggedly ugly version of Riverboy

[chiaa]

I have a chipped tooth from David Wilson sitting in my mouth because of his dodge ball throw. I am proud of my war wound and will be happy to show my dodge ball injury any day.

If the kids were not picked on in dodge ball, I am sure they pickers will find another time to pick on the pickies. Fact of life. Kids are mean.

[Demonicat]

acutall I was in the states when this got banned. The problem began when they discovered lower test scores in kids that played soccer (from heading the ball). The somewhat bizzare step for many school districts was to ban physical contact games (not including sponsored team sports soccer, football, baseball, etc.) This sounds incredibly ridiculous until you consider the sad fact that PE is on its way out of the curriculum throughout most of America. ARRRGGHHH!!! WE are becoming a nation of fat bast_a_rds and there is nothing being done!!! I mean we B&M on movies like Supersize me! and books like Fast Food nation yet we feed our fat faces, drop PE and recess, and encourage unhealthy body images through the media! Mierde! sorry...

[matko]

I went to Catholic private school.

The only balls i dodged were the white collared kind.

I became so adept at dodging balls, it's amazing that I became such an aesome Wide reciever in high school.

What's up with that?
This is so true it ain't funny bro!



Dodge ball in Japan is also way too complicated for me to understand.

Hit the guy and he is out, right?


Here, it makes chess look like checkers!

[Bunnymonster]

It got cut because the people who needed the exercise most (the fat geeky kids) get the least exercise as they are usually out first, those who are fit and agile will be in play for longer but need it less......

[The Man known as The Man]

Up until recently, I never played dball with more than one.


I hrew the ball hard at the gym teacher in eleven-we were going back and forth, running to the line, throwing it anc catching it-then, I just decided to get out of the way and it hit pretty Michelle Leger right in the boobs.


Adolescence. Got to love it

[sparkx]

"Go Balls Deep"


In elementary school my gym teacher singled me out and made a rule that I could only throw with my left hand during dodgeball. Of course, this rule came into effect after I had maimed half of the graduating class of grade 8.

Back then Dodgeball was the great equalizer. Even though i wasn't a dorky kid, I was still incredibly skinny which made me one of the many victims of the white trash, squirrel killing bullies at my school.

I'll never forget the joy I felt from hearing the sickening crack, and watching as Jamie Hughes's nose exploded from the volleyball I unloaded all over his ugly, pockmarked face.


F-you Jamie Hughes...F-you in the ear

[panthermodern]

[Tiberious aka Sparkles]