Post by bobgoodman on Sept 16, 2009 22:52:00 GMT -6
Tue. I was working as a chairman of election inspectors at a low turnout Democratic primary at a public school a couple blocks from me -- a copy of the bldg. of the school I went to 50 yrs. ago. To get some air I opened the back door of the auditorium I was in onto the school yard and saw an after school program under the auspices (according to the banner on the fence) of the Foundation for Sports and Art in Schools. The instructor had a little over 20 kids who I was told were in grades 2-5, slightly more boys than girls, and I paid att'n to get tips on how to command the att'n of kids that age. Apparently it was their 1st meeting.
First thing he did with them in a circle was ask them to introduce themselves and say what sports they wanted to play. 1st answer he got was kickball, which he answered, "Kickball is not a sport."
From other answers I heard, basketball, soccer, football, and baseball were "sports". I related this to the other inspector at my machine at the time, and she observed that kickball is not in the Olympics, so....
The instructor then warmed them up by jogging them around the track marked in the asphalt, insisting that none of them get ahead of him. Then he introduced a game that I know is not in the Olympics. He named the west fence "1", the east fence "2", and the wall of the school "3", and starting them all from one of those positions, call out a number and the last to reach that position was out. Those who were getting some "alone time" because of talking during the previous introduction were already out. He managed to cross them up a couple times by calling out the number of the station they were already at, causing some to mistakenly abandon a non-out position and run several steps away before realizing their error -- a mean trick like drawing the defense offside in what I'd mistakenly thought to be a purely athletic contest.
I admired his command of the situation, and the kids seemed to enjoy it. I gathered he was also a phys. ed. teacher at the school. It's not football, it's not even in the Olympics, but I hope I learned a little.
First thing he did with them in a circle was ask them to introduce themselves and say what sports they wanted to play. 1st answer he got was kickball, which he answered, "Kickball is not a sport."
From other answers I heard, basketball, soccer, football, and baseball were "sports". I related this to the other inspector at my machine at the time, and she observed that kickball is not in the Olympics, so....The instructor then warmed them up by jogging them around the track marked in the asphalt, insisting that none of them get ahead of him. Then he introduced a game that I know is not in the Olympics. He named the west fence "1", the east fence "2", and the wall of the school "3", and starting them all from one of those positions, call out a number and the last to reach that position was out. Those who were getting some "alone time" because of talking during the previous introduction were already out. He managed to cross them up a couple times by calling out the number of the station they were already at, causing some to mistakenly abandon a non-out position and run several steps away before realizing their error -- a mean trick like drawing the defense offside in what I'd mistakenly thought to be a purely athletic contest.
I admired his command of the situation, and the kids seemed to enjoy it. I gathered he was also a phys. ed. teacher at the school. It's not football, it's not even in the Olympics, but I hope I learned a little.
Wow, I can't imagine why that relationship didn't work out ... she sounds like a real keeper - how did you let her slip away??? 
...just can't decide on the rules?.....I wanna allow "cut blocking" anywhere on the course but others say, to limit this to the greens and tee's?....Then, I say, a "head slap" should be legal (anywhere, anytime, vs a particularly smug opponent), but others want to limit this to the 18th green area, and then only after a set amount of beer consumption and in the final 2 minutes of the contest? 