Could you climb the ropes in gym class ?

[Captain_Mego]

I could in school...but we had one on the farm too,,that was one of our fav. thigns to do for fun, the one on the farm was about 50 feet to the top...now it seems crazy but then it was great fun...lol butnow im the guy screeming get off that before you kill yourself...lol

[Megospidey]

Couldn't do rope climb or chin ups in middle school, could in high school and college.

[Duncan]

I remember climbing the rope in lower school (with feet) as part of an obstacle course (which was great fun), but I don't think we ever had to do it after that. Pretty sure I could have done it with feet through high school.

My toughest HS gym class was Red Cross life saving. The last part of my test (after swimming a 1/2 mile & doing a bunch of other stuff) was to sprint out & pull my teacher (220 lbs of muscle) off of the bottom of the pool, where he'd been laying with no air in his lungs (I'll give him credit for being a stud). I was so tired by then that I just scooped him up & surfaced, without immobilizing the neck. He still passed me, though; he knew what he'd been putting us through.

[HardyGirl]

I'm w/ you Mikey. I tried it once, and then after that, I just took the F. But thankfully in hi-school, I took Dance instead of Gym. No more ropes!

[rche]

We didn't do the rope climb. We had a board with holes in it mounted on a wall. The holes ran parallel strait up. You got two pegs that fit the holes and you climbed by pulling them out and then stuffing the peg into the next hole. No leg help on that one.

[torgospizza]

I played football, but in no way shape or form could I have completed a rope climb. We didn't even have one on campus. In junior high and high school, the pe classes were basically playing basketball. If you played a sport, you just reported to it for your final class and practiced. In off season, we'd lift weights 3 times a week and run and do agility drills and run the other two.

Everything you wrote is ditto for me. Even the seventh hour sports class. P.E. was usually buffalo ball (which was usually 3 on 3 and you could get away with a reasonable amount of fouls) or H-O-R-S-E.