Trash Taste's Fondest Sports Day Memories

[@shannonl.6730]

Another reason why some children don't get taught how to swim is there economic situation. Because swim lessons or classes may cost money. Going to the local pool the pool might require a fee. Or if you a have to drive there or take public transit those things cost money. And time as well maybe the parents don't have the luxury of taking time of work to take their kids to the pool.

[@MajorMalfunction]

Swimming was my thing. I was a waterbaby. The local public pool was an easy bike ride and 10c all day. I spent nearly every summer day there.

[@galahadlance]

Garnt story was painful 😭

[@TheSlithice]

This felt like a 2020 TT Podcast discussion, good times!

[@MajorMalfunction]

I signed-up for nearly every sports event just because I liked trying different things, and had a lot more expendable energy back then.

[@tubsy.]

3:20 Did Garnt just say that his mom told him IF he wins she'll come over and give him a hug. Wow.

[@falx1975]

My dad got a pretty big bonus at work one year and decided to put a pool in when I was like 3 years old. Learned how to swim from there. Wasn't all smooth sailing though... I have a distinct memory of sitting in an otherwise empty pool with only the deepest end having some water... maybe like 2 feet deep? I was sitting at the edge playing with toy cars, driving through the water at the edge and I let go of one of them and naturally it rolled deeper into the water. I remember leaning forward and suddenly I was face down in the water. I don't remember anything after that but I spazzed out apparently and couldn't just stand up like a smart kid. Luckily my mom saw it happen from inside the house and ran to drag my dumb ass out of the water. My next memory is sitting on the steps of the pool wrapped in a towel drinking something sweet to calm me down. Somehow it didn't freak me out too much because I learned how to swim pretty normally over a year and graduated from needing floaties before I finished preschool.

[@requiemforameme1]

14:30 I wonder if Connor learned how to swim underwater before over. I remember learning proper technique, but used to dive to the bottom of pools and do backflips as a little kid.

[@MajorMalfunction]

Finding money at the bottom of the pool was my occupation.

[@fauzirahman3285]

My parents never took me swimming. I struggled to learn swimming in school and as an adult I'm a very poor swimmer, I'm just barely afloat.

[@leedee6114]

They talked about this exact same thing in another episode they even talked about the walkathon in that episode

[@ThatGuyWithAComment]

I’m American, what in the world is sports day? I just had practice after school 😂

[@boxhead6177]

Think school sports festivals in anime... or Quidditch in Harry Potter. They would use "houses" to break the school into four con0eting teams and make them do like full competition programs for swimming and athletics, maybe soccer too during the year. It was lame, forced to compete when you had State junior champions in your bracket

[@gildedarrows]

In my school (American) we would do field days which were just like homeroom against homeroom within the grades

[@TMC_TimeLine]

I'm Dutch so I don't know exactly what the boys did but I do know what we did. It's basically just a full day of sports, my school had like a sportpark rented out where we would do football(soccer), baseball, hockey, high jump, long jump, javelin throw, shot put and running. Your class would compete in all these things with the other classes and the best scoring class would win. My school had the sports day near the end of the year in may/june. And multiple other events over the year. We had a football, basketball and volleyball tournament also. So 4 big sporting events over the whole year

[@TheCreepypro]

my favorite day at school

[@katjosephperez8772]

lol, talkin bout the Fosbury flop for the high jump.it’s been decades. black-&-white-photos-of-it decades

[@z_zenith]

I was literally the deadlast in sports including all the girls and the disabled (which i didn't think too hard on the fact that I probably counted) kids. No stamina, short, not fast, and no coordination. PE was terrible, but sports days were a special kind of hell. I remember crying over those fucking participation medals that theyd give me, it felt so dehumanising to me. I'm so glad my HS made them optional and that I got to skip PE from S3 onwards. Thanks for bringing my trauma from HS back 😶

[@Gsjsjdhkslsls]

We only had Intramurals. We had sports competitions and other games. I hate physical activities so I had never competed. My only contribution was the class dance performance. 😅 The best part was that we practiced this dance for a week and there were no classes a few days before the event bc we had to practice all day and no assignments. 😁

[@Articuno1]

we played hockey for sports day

[@jacktailor3077]

Just under 5m is a school record??? I got 5.26m in the U16 long jump category and got second place in my sports carnival/day. I got wrecked by first place who got like 5.8m or something. And I’m from the weakest GPS school in Sydney

[@suntannedduck2388]

Hated them. Forced sports events, of nonsense house points and garbage coordination of the events let alone swimming and ofher sports as two separate sides of the year. The sports weren't even fun. Got to love pushing it so much when can't take the participation after a while because they suck so much of the sports offered or how boring they were. Sickness of that time of year too. The fact Japan got culture festivals to break things up and be more interesting even if sick of seeing them in manga but we get 2 sports festivals it sucked. Worst days ever. Always skipped both swimming and sports days later on I hated them or got sick.

[@boxhead6177]

The mandatory nature of it was bad, but also you has no hope of winning cause there would be always some try-hard school champion in you bracket. Everytime.

[@falx1975]

Same. I remember as a kid just sitting on the floor of our hall sick of the whole thing because our school was so obsessed with every little fucking trophy they had the whole school doing mandatory cheer song practice... one day we were all collectively just sick of this shit and barely participating. The teacher in charge flipped her shit and said if anyone doesn't show some team spirit they were going to the principal's office to get their ass beat. It made me hate watching sports because I thought people who get excited for it must be nuts, still kinda do.

[@ColonCommander]

Haha you sound so unathletic we didn’t have sport day but it would have been fun, mf you don’t speak for everyone just because you hate sports and most likely never played at competitive a competitive level.

[@lankeysob]

As someone who used to teach in Japan. If you don’t like mandatory sports/sports events you are in for a bad time. It runs in their veins over there.

[@FourFourTwo123]

@@boxhead6177 nah that’s a skill issue, just get good