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Who else remembers having a dry orgasm whilst climbing these ropes in PE?
Massive rope burn down your thighs when your grip gave out and you slid down....
Who else remembers having a dry orgasm whilst climbing these ropes in PE?
Erm, no...
I never got more than 3ft off the ground - so err no! 🙂
I do remember our infant school had these massive climbing frame / stall bar things which swung out and clamped in the middle of the hall floor and then we all scaled them without a single mat in site and a lovely oak floor to land on....
These things...
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then we all scaled them without a single mat in site and a lovely oak floor to land on…
Amateur. Our school had spikes.
Yeah I used to love all that. Swinging your leg over the top of the frame and sitting on the top.
The ropes that came out from the wall ran adjacent to the stage.... Much Tarzan
no but I remember shinning up to the top in about three or four seconds.
I also remember some kid in our class at Junior school saying he could do 50 push ups and the teacher didn't believe him, so she made him do them on top of the desks in the middle of the class, which he duly did. Respect, pretty sure I couldn't have done a single one at that age....
Who else remembers having a dry orgasm whilst climbing these ropes in PE?
Nope. Couldn't do it anyway. By the sounds of it I was missing out.
A remember some sort of A Frame and bench arrangement that made a ramp and the class idiot who tried to do a somersault off it. He went in like a dart and the 2" thick evil smelling rubber and canvas mat offered him no protection.
P0rnHub clearly not hitting the spot for the OP...
@footflaps
AND the bench, with the hooky things at the end, to make a raised beam between teh bars!
Classic old school, erm, old skool
DrP
I remember some kind of pommel (?) which had the grippiest split leather top. I was only about 4'3" in junior school so I always got hung up on it unlike 'the taller kids'.
That's the ones!!!
DrP
Pretty sure those frames and benches are still used at our village primary
Who else remembers having a dry orgasm whilst climbing these ropes in PE?
That's pretty niche even by STW standards. Do you still get a twinge when you see a ball of string or does it have to be proper rope? Are you banned from local climbing shops and chandlers?
We still have all that kit at the primary I work at. Kids sit on the benches for assemblies. Well, the big ones do. A sign of being Y6.
no but I remember shinning up to the top in about three or four seconds.
I'm sure they were attached to the hall ceiling and we raced up them and slapped the roof! I mean it was probably only 8 ft but still....
Pretty sure those frames and benches are still used at our village primary
You're lucky, my infant / junior school was a beautiful Victorian building, recently levelled to make way for a pig ugly retirement complex - such is the change in demographics over the last 50 years....
As a kid we used to call those benches "Forms", was this a NornIrn thing or more widespread?
Also "forms" in Edinburgh.
my primary school had 1 and a half classrooms a portocabin and an outside lav, so no.
AND the bench, with the hooky things at the end, to make a raised beam between teh bars!
Yesssss... At *least* 3ft off the ground. Terrifying.