Poll: Is Kickball too Dangerous?

[BlackMageBob]

red rover is MEANT to hurt... Kickball, not so much. YOu have to be a failign dumbass piece of shit to get hurt in kickball.
Kids are getting fucking retarded from all this babying.

Dunno how you played red rover. We played a game that was essentially touch rugby with no ball. Everyone lines up on one side of a field, with one kid in the middle, he calls out one kid who then has to get the other side without being tipped (tagged, touched) and then all the other kids run across.

British bulldog was the same but where you had to take them to the ground.

According to the State of New York it is.

EDIT2: I never said that people wanted to get rid of the above playground games. Just asked if people thought they were "too dangerous" which is the crux of the whole matter.

What's kickball? Is that a funny US way of saying Football (Soccer)?

Also, what's freeze tag?

And what the fuck is Wiffle Ball?

Kickball is baseball without bats or gloves, and a huge air-filled rubber ball. Pitcher throws, kicker kicks from the batter position, run the bases.

Freeze, just like tag, but with large groups of kids. Once tagged, you stand still. Tagger has to get everyone, some version have methods of unfreezing players, or multiple taggers who work as a team. Usually the last to get tagged are the taggers next round.

Baseball with a cheap plastic bat and a hollow ball. The ball is also made of cheap plastic, and half of the ball has a set pattern of holes that make it real easy to do trick throws.

Yeah, so fucking dangerous. I've seen kids hit in the face with a kickball and barely notice.

 

[Custard_Angel]

SNIP

Hear! Hear! Well said, when I was a kid one of our favourite games was to go into the woods and get sticks to sword-fight with and to throw at each other as javelins. It was fucking sweet, and of course it was dangerous, so's life.

Also gravel fights on the school playground

One of the games I played was called shin kickers. The goal was to be the last man standing.

What were the rules you ask?

1. The only form of offence allowable is a shin kick.
2. You may kick as hard as you like.
3. No punching, shoving, body checking, spitting etc. is allowed.
4. No tree climbing.
5. If you fall down, you aren't allowed to join back in.
6. No kicking people when they fall.

Failure to adhere to the rules was punished with a free shin kick from the person who was offended against.

I kicked. I was kicked. I won games. I lost games.

Memories were had.

 

[game-lover]

I read this thread and was like: What??

Freeze Tag? You just run and touch each other!

Kickball? Dodgeball maybe but kickball? It's no dangerous than baseball, less even.

*sighs*

 

[II2none]

Who cares a lot sports have a danger factor what else is new?

 

[emeraldrafael]

According to the State of New York it is.

EDIT2: I never said that people wanted to get rid of the above playground games. Just asked if people thought they were "too dangerous" which is the crux of the whole matter.

What's kickball? Is that a funny US way of saying Football (Soccer)?

Also, what's freeze tag?

And what the fuck is Wiffle Ball?

Jesus, People call Americans lazy and we're playing gmaes no one else in the world even knows about. What a bunch of slackers all you are.

Anyway, Freeze tag is tag where if you're tagged, you remain frozen until someone being chased tags you and frees you.

Wiffle ball is baseball, only hte ball has these sections of it missing, making it go faster and able to make a perfect something. I think a curve ball. Point is, its made to hurt much more then a regular baseball.

Kickball is soccer mixed with baseball. you kick a rubber dodgeball and then run the bases. so its basically baseball, only you're kicking a rubber dodgeball, isntead of hitting a ball with a bat.

 

[StBishop]

According to the State of New York it is.

EDIT2: I never said that people wanted to get rid of the above playground games. Just asked if people thought they were "too dangerous" which is the crux of the whole matter.

What's kickball? Is that a funny US way of saying Football (Soccer)?

Also, what's freeze tag?

And what the fuck is Wiffle Ball?

Jesus, People call Americans lazy and we're playing gmaes no one else in the world even knows about. What a bunch of slackers all you are.

Anyway, Freeze tag is tag where if you're tagged, you remain frozen until someone being chased tags you and frees you.

Wiffle ball is baseball, only hte ball has these sections of it missing, making it go faster and able to make a perfect something. I think a curve ball. Point is, its made to hurt much more then a regular baseball.

Kickball is soccer mixed with baseball. you kick a rubber dodgeball and then run the bases. so its basically baseball, only you're kicking a rubber dodgeball, isntead of hitting a ball with a bat.

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.

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.

 

[DustyDrB]

I thought you meant to say Dodgeball, but no...people are afraid of kickball.

Dodgeball I can kind of get. I was a third basemen in baseball and had an abnormally strong throwing arm while I was young (until a shoulder injury changed that). I was also a mean little shit and aimed for faces in dodgeball and threw with force.

Kickball? It's no more dangerous than any other sport. Football and baseball are worse. I'll never forget the time a friend of mine (as a pitcher) took a line drive to the face. He was all right (I think he got a bit of his glove up in time), but that scenario has killed and seriously injured a large number of people.

 

[Shanecooper]

When I was a kid, we'd play games that involved running as fast as we could, into a brick wall.
And it was awesome.
But, I guess safty is more important then fun, these days.
Christ, I'm starting to sound like an old man.

 

[emeraldrafael]

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.

 

[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.