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.
I was supposed to sometime in Junior High- 7th or 8th grade- which would have been early 1980s. I decided I was getting my period that day because I knew I would not make it one inch up the rope, and that it would also involve my gym teacher screaming at me in front of everyone. I had already deal with years of humiliation during any task requiring arm strength. It was during the six-week period that we worked on gymnastics, which was a complete horrorshow for this dyspraxic. We learned forward roll (which I could just about do), cartwheels (failed), handovers (failed), rings (failed), rope (didn’t participate), and a few other floor moves that I don’t remember.
Thank heavens they let me sub marching band for my PE credits in high school. Though, I didn’t march either, I was sidelined because I could not stay in step. Dyspraxia is a bitch.
Yes, we did this in late elementary school (I want to say 5th grade, or 10-11ish years old?), but did not do it beyond that. There were two ropes–one standard rope and one with evenly spaced knots that you could use to climb with hand and footholds. This was in the '90s.
No, and I couldn’t have if I tried. I’ve always been bottom heavy: I was a runner and long-distance cyclist with some soccer in there, too. Wide birthing hips but not much in the way of arm and shoulder muscles. That began to change when I started lifting weights in college, but in high school? No way.
We climbed rope in elementary school in the early 90s.
Nope, never.
