And if you did what class grade/year would it had happened? What decade (if your comfortable sharing)?
I am wondering how many people actually did this and from what locations/ages/years it would have happened. For my education (American elementary-college years 2000’s-2010’s) I never had to do that. I feel like I had to be common enough that it is referenced in movies and tv shows.
Yep. USian public school, middle school in the early 90’s. I think I was… 12 or 13. Never managed it because I had zero upper arm strength so I couldn’t even get my feet onto the knot on the bottom.
Sure did, I think it was part of a bunch of tests we had to do for the… Presidential Fitness Award or something?
It was done in Elementary school, so Fall 87->Spring 93? I have no idea if they’re still doing any of that crap now though.
I do remember it being the neatest dang thing because our school had like this entire wall of collapsible gym equipment that folded out like a playground with like 2 or 3 story monkeybars and gigantic poofy mats at the bottom, and you better believe some kids fell off.
The more I think about it, the more I suspect they don’t let them do that anymore
I’m probably five years younger than you. We had rope climbing but it wasn’t part of the Presidential Physical Fitness Award (which I am seemingly deeply proud of actually having managed in the third grade, despite being crap at pull ups, and I was even worse at rope climbing).
ELEMENTARY! I feel like that is wild.
Haha yeah it sounds like a crazy fun playground filled with danger.
No, I always thought it seemed stupidly dangerous. What happens if a kid falls and cracks their noggin. seems like an unnecessary liability
Yup. Canada, early 90s. Up to the gymnasium ceiling and big jump to the crash mats. Only once it twice though. I found it extremely difficult and struggled all the way. Some of my classmates were able to do it no sweat.
As for age. Under 11. So, maybe 9 o 10?
That’s wild to imagine! Any recollection of how high up those ceilings might have been? The gyms I remember in the US had ceilings that were something like 2 or 3 stories high, if I had to guess. That strikes me as quite the height to jump for a fitness test. Just for the height factor alone I can’t picture myself having the guts back then to do it. Dunno if I’d even have 'em now 😨.
We climbed rope in elementary school in the early 90s.
