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Post by Wycco on Feb 18, 2003 10:00:37 GMT -5
SG, Back in primary school we used to play a game, supposedly a big sport in India, called Kabbaddi (no clue if my spelling is even close). The basic premise being- two teams- each taking turns to send a team member into the other teams side. That player has to touch a member of the opposing team- and return back to their own side. The complication being- they had to do it on one breath, and they had to do it without being thrown to the floor by the opposing team. It was a heck of a lot of fun (although used to get pretty rough- we're talking black eyes and ripped clothes!- needless to say, not popular with the parents!!! LOL ;D) Is this really a big sport in India? Must say- it was a lot of fun... rough games always were when we were kids!!!  |
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Post by Cine_Man on Feb 18, 2003 11:57:13 GMT -5
Sounds like something we used to play which was variously called "Red Rover", or "British Bulldog"... lots of bruises, ripped clothes, chipped teeth, concussions...
Mostly what you'd call "assault" these days...
Cine_...
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Post by BrainFade on Feb 18, 2003 12:05:38 GMT -5
Yeah, Cine, I remember: "red rover, red rover, we call Timmy over!"
Then we kick Timmy's ass - hehehe
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Post by Wycco on Feb 18, 2003 12:58:52 GMT -5
We played British Bulldogs too- although ours must have been a less violent version- I take it, rather than just catch someone- you had to drag them to the ground in your version!
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Post by smokingun on Feb 20, 2003 3:15:12 GMT -5
The complication being- they had to do it on one breath, and they had to do it without being thrown to the floor by the opposing team. Wycco, you can be thrown to the ground as long as you can hold your breath, and then get up and make it back over the line. in that case you got all othe guys who threw you down in the first place. yeah kabadi was a great game, and i played it sometimes as a kid. it is not that rough, speed and reflexes are the most important as well as the ability to hold your breath and keep on repeating "kabaddi" that was a great post though and thank you for bringing back some great memories. smokingun |
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Post by glendo on Feb 20, 2003 4:03:44 GMT -5
red rover.. the aim was to pick someone, and try to plant them in the ground.. literally. ahh the old days of youth.. |
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Post by OT on Feb 20, 2003 5:07:19 GMT -5
We just use to form a gauntlet and the new kids had to try and make it through to the other end. If they made it, they could join the gauntlet....
....we use to call it - "Beat the shit out of the new kids".
;D
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Post by RacerX on Mar 3, 2003 17:47:02 GMT -5
OT..."Beat the shit out of the new kid." How creative...
roflmao...LOL!
Our favorite game was played indoors, at the gym. We'd lower all six basketball goals (the original two at each end, PLUS the four practice goals on each side of the court) give out ONE basketball. One team was "shirts", the other was "skins" and every other goal was labeled Shirts, Skins, Shirts, Skins, Shirts, etc, etc until all six goals were designated for one team, or the other. Then the coach would throw the ball up and ANYTHING goes.
If the ball went into a "Shirts" goal, it counted as one point for the shirts team. If it went into the "skins" goal, it counted one point for the skins team. you didn't have to dribble, but the ballsy guys would. You could even tackle your opponents as they drove to the basket. Great stuff, lots of fun...but sure enough, plenty of torn shorts, chipped teeth, etc, etc....not to mention endless bruises!
We'd play it in the "off season" (when Football season was over) and it was raining outside. Fun stuff. Wuff.
Thanks Wyc, I second Smokingun here; Good memories!
LOL,
RacerX
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Post by Cine_Man on Apr 10, 2003 20:06:25 GMT -5
question for pabs.
I know of a game called "crud" or something like that which is played by fighter pilots... it uses a billiard table, and I think the cues are in play... but after that its all a jumble. ever hear of it?
I don't think any females are involved. Well maybe sometimes....
Cine_...
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Post by sleepydani on Apr 11, 2003 5:37:15 GMT -5
Lol! Red rover! shit man, i had like the worst accident of my life playing red rover when i was 6 years old! I had a bad feeling about it and tried to get out of playing, but my teacher got mad and said I'd go to the principle if I refused to play (not that I was afraid of the principle, but it was more that I had been to see her so many times that she was really getting pissed off!lol!) so I stayed. my team was really stupid and decided to call our teacher over (who just happened to be this huge guy! and who also just happened to take the game way to seriously considering he was playing against a bunch of 6 year old girls!!!) he also decided to run to my area of the chain, the girl i was holding hands with refused to let go. the teacher started to drag us both across the room and i was screaming like "let go!let go!!" and trying desperately to free myself when i turned around to see this huge wooden box slam me right in my face!!! blood everywhere, half my baby teeth gone, 6 months of braces to hold my teeth in my mouth and some of my adult teeth barely making it out alive.
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Post by Topcontender on Apr 11, 2003 8:24:09 GMT -5
you can't play red rover in some schools anymore, the parents have deemed it degrading. man i loved pounding kids
Hell this almost reminds me of my other favorite game "smear the queer" aka dodgeball. this game too in not kosher in public schools.
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Post by dani on Apr 11, 2003 9:55:07 GMT -5
dodgeball was an awesome game! one of my favourites, that and kick the can!!! man I was brilliant at that!!! No one ever knew where i was,all the girls would hide in the dumbest place and get found and then I'd wait till they were all captured, and then go kick the can!lol! the person seeing was so pissed off all the time!LOL! ;D
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Post by rick1776 on Apr 13, 2003 7:44:22 GMT -5
Red rover all over. Very popular game in my primary school days. There was this kid called Domenic and he would have weighed 90kgs in grade seven (we would have been 1-12 years old). Anyway Domenic was the only one shaving in primary school. Needless to say he was always the last one left in Red rover. I can still still remember literally 6 to 8 kids hanging off his back trying to make him fall over and pin him. He was like Fat Albert, he didnt pick up a lot of speed but man it was like trying to stop a freight train. The only way to stop him was to have kids sacrifice their lives and get on all fours in front and back of him and then have 8 kids try and push him over and get him to trip on the kids on the ground. However when he did fall the kids on the ground would be squashed with Domenic weighing in at 90 Kgs plus 8 kids totalling another 200kgs.
Those were the days. Life was simple and man had not even pretended to have landed on the moon.
cheers
rick1776
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Post by JWK on Apr 15, 2003 10:00:16 GMT -5
Hmm- we used to play(and im sure we still do) Manhunt here- which was where about 10% of the kids would be the hunters, and the rest the hunted. There was no boundaries, as it was played at lunchtime the whole of the school grounds were the field. Pretty much the hunters caught you and pummelled you untill they felt like stopping.. but most of the injuries resulted in running madly away from the hunters; stupid things like running into walls while looking over your shoulder or slipping in a puddle or on a mat etc etc A couple of pretty serious injuries resulted from the frantic retreats, as well as a good deal of hunters being hurt in the chase. It was a massive game, sometimes up to 100 people playing. That was at high school- when i was about 14, but most people that played were about 15 or 16. I could out-run most of them pretty easily, unless they worked together. A game i played in primary was wall tiggie, or brandy, where people lined up against a wall and others threw tennis ball as hard as they could at them. The last one not hit by a tennis ball was the winner. It payed to be agile in those days |
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Post by BrainFade on Apr 15, 2003 15:00:20 GMT -5
ROFLMAO Rick!!! Very funny story....
JW, we also played "brandy" at school, but we called it something else which I can't remember. What a rush that was...
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