Dodge Ball

[Waverley_Hills_Hiker]

,,,,I keep hearing about this "sport".

Supposedly popular in PE classes?

Well, I have never played it or even known about it till its being mentioned online.

Havinge went to PE classes in Kentucky in the 1970s (my jr high/high school years), we did alot of execrises....then rope climbing, and track stuff, and ALOT of basketball, and then we even tried this new game called soccer.

But we never did anything like dodge ball.

Just wondering if this is more common that I thought, or I had a particularly sheltered PE exeperience.

[DrWeird]

1. We called it "bombardment."

It was for those all-too-few days when it was too rainy to go outside and the PE instructor decided we'd just have one big day for having a fun game.

[AlCzervik]

3. That what we called it too

pretty sick game but i'm the gym teachers got a chuckle when they watched us play it. I'm looking forward to the Movie "Dodge Ball' with Ben stiller, looks funny as hell.

[mac56]

14. Another vote for "Bombardment".

I never was any good at it.

[scarlet_owl]

2. We had dodge ball.

And when we were older, we played "Bombardment". That's basically two groups of kids on opposite sides of the gym throwing balls at each other. I don't think they play either one in the school district now; too many complaints by parents I guess.

[gmoney]

4. Potentially funny movie coming out soon...

"Dodgeball" with Ben Stiller and Vince Vaughn

Sort of "BASEketball" meets Zoolander and/or Old School... looks like goofy fun.

http://www.apple.com/trailers/fox/dodgeball/

[tridim]

5. I loved dodgeball

but only because I was really good at it. I couldn't throw worth a damn, but I could dodge really well. Probably because I was a gymnast and could jump and move really fast.

[PragMantisT]

6. We called it Scramboli

very continental

[Ready4Change]

7. Are there two versions? Which did you play?

When I was in grade school the dodgeball we played was on a playground with a large circle painted on the pavement. Two people stand outside the circle, and everyone else is inside. The people outside throw the ball through the circle trying to hit the other people. Anyone hit goes outside the circle and joins in trying to "hit out" the people still inside. The object is the be the last person inside the circle.

But there seems to be a team version of this, which is what the movie is based on?

[tridim]

8. Our version was played on a basketball court

with one team on each side of the half-court line.

Get hit by the ball, your out.
Catch the ball, the thrower is out.
Get a half court basket and your entire team gets to come back in.

[tridim]

9. dupe delete

[Sandpiper]

11. The version I played in school

Went like this:

We divided up into two teams. All of the balls were placed in a row across the center court line. Each team went to one end of the gym. When the teacher blew the whistle, everyone would race for the balls. Once you got a ball, you had to run with it back to your end of the gym, and then you were free to start firing away.

The team that got all of their members put out first lost.

[lolly]

13. Slaughterball

At least that's what our school called your version.

I would assume they've changed the name by now.

Actually, the boys played slaughterball on rain-out days; the girls got stuck with an annoying game called "locker volleyball." We had to sit on the locker benches--couldn't get up or we'd be "side out"--and play volleyball using the lockers as the net. The "fun" part was supposed to be that we couldn't see where the ball was coming from and so were surprised each time it came over to our side. :eyes:

[amerikat]

12. we played the same version

[slinkerwink]

10. I played it, and it sucked because I'd always get hit by the ball

[markus]

15. My son plays "Doctor Dodgeball" at after school care

a rather complicated version with "doctors" who can put you back in the game periodically. I don't know if its so nobody's feelings get hurt by being put out early or if its to keep the largest possible mass of kids maximumly engaged so that the workers don't have to work (which is what I always though dodgeball was about).

[amerikat]

16. I hope they don't still play "DIZZY IZZY" dizzy is he?

We were forced to play this in high school.....line up by squads....first in squad leans over a baseball bat and rotates around it ten times( at this point you can't walk in a srtraight line)then try to and make it to the other end of the gym before the next squad member can start. first squad to get all members to the other end of the gym wins.

It was actually a very bloody sport( dizzy, disorriented kids bumping into each other.....and some kids vomited) which ended when some poor kid run into a water fountain and was taken away in an ambulance.