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Should Dodgeball be Banned

Should dodgeball be banned?

  • Yes, absolutely, our children are too precious to risk injury!

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • It should be banned only for certain age groups

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • It should be regulated. Only approved dodgeball equipment should be used!

    Votes: 2 5.6%
  • It should be allowed.

    Votes: 4 11.1%
  • What a ridiculous idea. Our culture has gone soft!

    Votes: 30 83.3%

  • Total voters
    36

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View the video and vote. Is the schoolyard game of dodgeball too dangerous for our children?

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Dodgeball should be mandatory at all grade levels, and we should use those hard-surfaced balls that hurt a lot, like they had when I was a kid. It should be a middle school and high school sport with national rankings and Bowl games. Your team should lose points if anyone on your team cries because they got their nose broken.

In fact, we should make it mandatory in college too. Need something to counteract all that leftist wussification they get from the Prof's...
 
I'm in P.E. right now for high school. We play Dodgeball pretty much every day. Never has anyone been injured playing. That man's cries of horror as, god forbid, teenagers lob cushioned balls at one another, were laughable. Now probably soccer balls were not a good choice, but that is a bad decision made by the instructor, not an indictment of the game worldwide. America has become a nation of ******s. No other way to say it.

Just look at this *****! He has every right to be in pain. This is a rock hard object screaming 90 miles an hour at his face. Dodgeball? Not so much...

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Dodgeball should be mandatory at all grade levels, and we should use those hard-surfaced balls that hurt a lot, like they had when I was a kid. It should be a middle school and high school sport with national rankings and Bowl games. Your team should lose points if anyone on your team cries because they got their nose broken.

In fact, we should make it mandatory in college too. Need something to counteract all that leftist wussification they get from the Prof's...

Finally someone with at least an iota of commonsense! :rofl
 
No doubt that we are becoming softer.
But, is this a good thing or not ?
Have we been too hard in the past ?
If, no real injuries, and the children want it, then it must continue.
Many so-called adults can go soak their swelled heads.
 
I'm in P.E. right now for high school. We play Dodgeball pretty much every day. Never has anyone been injured playing. That man's cries of horror as, god forbid, teenagers lob cushioned balls at one another, were laughable. Now probably soccer balls were not a good choice, but that is a bad decision made by the instructor, not an indictment of the game worldwide. America has become a nation of ******s. No other way to say it.

Just look at this *****! He has every right to be in pain. This is a rock hard object screaming 90 miles an hour at his face. Dodgeball? Not so much...

Phillies_in_the_Face.jpeg
Wow we have some pretty damn good photographers.
 
When I was in elementary school, dodgeball was banned when someone got their arm broken playing it. I can see the rationale behind that decision, but I still think it was stupid. Note that the boy involved went on to get an arm broken twice more within the next two years.
 
They should let the geeks and nerds opt out of games like this. It would be a shame to lose the next Einstein to a dodgeball accident.
 
I do not need to see a video to know that banning dodge ball is stupid and that only ***** little bitches want to ban it.
 
Kids have died playing football. Don't see why dodgeball is singled out as aggressive
 
I grew up playing dodgeball and loved it. And my wife and I work with the youth in our church and one of their favorite games is guess what ... dodgeball! Anyone who watched that clip of a dodgeball game and didn't see good clean fun is lame beyond words.
 
Everyone knows that dodgeball's for ******s

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We will officially have become a nation of ******s if dodgeball is banned. What are we? France?
 
During the 6 years my son was in elementary school, the school removed the following:

swings
monkey bars
merry go round

Their reasoning? Children might get injured playing on these sorts of equipment.

I fully expect that within the next 20 years, bubble wrap and helmets will be mandatory equipment for the standard elementary school playground. :roll:
 
So we should ban dodgeball in highschool but not football, baseball, weight lifting, soccer, etc? Whatever that guy was smoking when he made that vid, I'd love to get me some of it. What a faggot.
 
Dodgeball should be mandatory at all grade levels, and we should use those hard-surfaced balls that hurt a lot, like they had when I was a kid. It should be a middle school and high school sport with national rankings and Bowl games. Your team should lose points if anyone on your team cries because they got their nose broken.

In fact, we should make it mandatory in college too. Need something to counteract all that leftist wussification they get from the Prof's...

We should also let teachers take kids out back to fight out their differences. All this *****footing around trying to avoid conflicts is what's brewing all the hatred in schools. I know it worked for my Great Uncle when he was Principal. :lol:


But srsly, let kids hurt each other. It's how the important lessons are learned.
 
Ban dodgeball

Teach them kendo.
In Germany, some private colleges and prep schools have an "academic fencing" sport called mensur. The students swipe at each other's faces with a real fencing sword and try to endure the cut without flinching or showing any pain.

Modern academic fencing, the "mensur," is neither a duel nor a sport. It is a traditional way of training and educating character and personality; thus, in a mensur bout, there is neither winner nor loser. In comparison to sport fencing, the participants stand their ground at a fixed distance. At the beginning of the tradition, duelers wore only their normal clothing (as duels sometimes would arise spontaneously) or light-cloth armor on arm, torso, and throat. In recent years, fencers are protected by a chain mail shirt, chain mail gauntlets, padding on the throat and right arm, and steel goggles with a nose guard. They fence at arm's length and stand more or less in one place, while attempting to hit the unprotected areas of their opponent's face and head. Flinching or dodging is not allowed, the goal being less to avoid injury than to endure it stoically. Two physicians are present (one for each opponent) to attend to injuries and stop the fight if necessary.
 
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When I was in elementary school, dodgeball was banned when someone got their arm broken playing it. I can see the rationale behind that decision, but I still think it was stupid. Note that the boy involved went on to get an arm broken twice more within the next two years.


He wasn't well liked, apparently.

Perhaps he was the inspiration for Samual Jackson's role in the movie "Unbreakable"?
 
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We should also let teachers take kids out back to fight out their differences. All this *****footing around trying to avoid conflicts is what's brewing all the hatred in schools. I know it worked for my Great Uncle when he was Principal. :lol:


But srsly, let kids hurt each other. It's how the important lessons are learned.

Actually the coaches, at least, used to do that when I was in school. They'd find two teenage boys posturing and puffing and throw them in the equipment cage and make them fight it out...loser got three wacks from the coach's paddle. :mrgreen:

The coaches monitored the fighting and made sure it didn't get out of hand. To my knowlege no one was seriously injured.

What we have nowadays is a bunch of loudmouth kids who think they can say/do anything and nobody will kick their ass for it. Stress builds up with no outlet until some kid can't take anymore and comes to school with a gun.

Sometimes I think we had more real common sense when we were less "sophisticated and intellectual."
 
In 10th grade our gym teacher was an 80 year old who didn't like to walk all the way outside. About half of that year was spent playing free-for-all dodgeball in the wrestling room (small room with padded walls and floor). Best gym class ever
 
When I was in elementary school, dodgeball was banned when someone got their arm broken playing it. I can see the rationale behind that decision, but I still think it was stupid. Note that the boy involved went on to get an arm broken twice more within the next two years.
In this case though, the school district is considering banning dodgeball for everyone, just because a kid got hurt when some kids used soccer balls without permission instead of normal rubber dodge balls.
 
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