Poll: Is Kickball too Dangerous?

[William MacKay]

when i do something stupid, i can actually say i was dropped on my head. playing rugby. at school. no teachers did anything. the other guys told me to 'walk it off'. i did. i love scotland.
dodgeball can be dangerous when playing with certain people... who aim for the spine and drop you to the floor with one hit. plus there's one guy who gets hit in the glasses and has to sit out for most of the class.
kickball is...
luckily, my teacher does 'tactical dodgeball' which is like paintball but without the paint and with the rubber balls. obstacles and such.

 

[StBishop]

We played freeze tag too, except that we called it "Stuck in the Mud" and when you were tagged you had to spead your legs, for you to become "unstuck" someone had to crawl between your legs.
Much harder, by the sounds of things.

With todays world of America, i odnt think we could do that with the word gay flying around. Especially if Fox News caught it. But yeah, basically the same thing.

The reason we never played the others is because, as far as my friends and I were concerned, Baseball didn't even exist until I started watching American movies. My school didn't own a single baseball mit, or baseballs, or softballs, or badeball bats. TeeBall was introduced in about 1999 so they bought a bunch of softballs, baseball bats and gloves, but we all thought it was lame and went back to cricket, hit the bin, french cricket, mark up, and other modified games of things Austalian's care about.

That makes sense then. You variate cricket, we variate baseball. But it sounds like they could be the same, cause the two base sports are relatively the same.

Hit the bin is like if you put the batter on the pitchers mound with a bin get two balls and have people trying to hit the bin but they are only allowed to throw from the 4 bases. That's hit the bin.

French cricket is kinda silly, you just hold the bat upside down (if you point to something, then open your hand and put the bat with the handle up and the business end down) and have to keep your feet together, there's no runs, only stumps (like a strike if you don't know much about cricket), and the fielders are only allowed one handed catches. No idea if they play it anywhere else, but I went to about 12 primary schools and everyone knew what it was in each of those. What is it called in France I wonder.

Mark up is a variation of one aspect of Aussie Rules football. One kid kicks a ball to a group and they each try to mark the ball (catch it on the full, maintain control all the way to the ground and not have anyone else touch it.) If you make the mark you become a/the kicker. Some variations the kicker rejoins the group so it lasts longer, others the last kid to make a mark loses.

 

[Marowit]

It's what happens when we live in such a litigious society - if parents weren't over protective these kinds of guidelines wouldn't be put out.

 

[AbstractStream]

What the heck is this? I seriously can't believe this is an issue. No kickball is not too dangerous. Or freezetag. It's just...fun!

 

[ranyilliams]

The people who are making up these rules and saying they were unsafe are people who never played the games because they were to afraid...Seriously? like do these people think that getting hit with a dodgeball is bad for a kid? a little pain gives children the perspective of what pain is, that way they know not to do stupid shit in the real world...

 

[Korten12]

In NY we also can't play Dodgeball...

 

[superbatranger]

Kickball? Too dangerous? What kind of kickball do they even play? What, are there live tigers running around the field?

 

[teutonicman]

Kickball is only dangerous to wusses. I thought my childhood sucked when they would let us play on the snow mountains at school, this takes the cake though.

 

[Shanecooper]

Am I the only person that thinks 'Red rover' sounds a little bit dirty?

 

[Brandon237]

What? I do Karate and have had a tooth punched clean out, almost passed out from fatigue and been winded many times. Yet I still don't deem that too dangerous.

My school has Rugby, and while I am not the build or the crazy for that, I don't think that it should be stopped.

So why those should be considered dangerous is beyond me.