Posted on 09/17/2010 6:51:20 AM PDT by AccuracyAcademia
In a safety-obsessed society that bans dodge ball and tag for elementary school kids, perhaps it’s predictable that one of the newest fads on college campuses is something called Prison Ball, according to the Student Free Press Association.
Described as “fast-paced” and “crazy” by University of Kansas student player Mike Pitt, the game resembles basic dodge ball, but with a difference. If a player gets hit, he’s not out of the game. Instead he goes to a “jail” near the opponent’s goal. “The way to get out of jail is to catch a ball thrown from the far side of the court by a teammate. The tweaks in the rules make it a quicker game.” (Daily Kansan)
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Cannonball with a twist. BFD.
If a player goes to 'jail' and can be broken out again, how does this "speed up" the play? Since in traditional dodge ball one side wins when all of the other side have been put "out," letting players rejoin their team would in my estimation prolong the game, not shorten it.
Hopefully, journalism 101 is part of Accuracy Academia's curriculum.
So?
I went to high school in the mid to late 80s. Whenever we were rained out of a scheduled outdoor activity, the gym teachers would set up a “prison escape” game. We would all be on top of the bleachers with two of the gym teachers in their “sniper towers” with baskets of dodge balls. The third teacher would use a spot light and swing it back and forth across the mats. We had tunnels and mats set up to cross the gym floor to the stage on the other side of the gym. (If you made it onto the stage, you are safe.)
If you were hit with a dodgeball or lit up with the spot light (we had most of the lights out in the gym) you were out. You were also out if you touched the raw gym floor off of the mats. Those who made it to safety would run it again in the next phase. It was rocking!
Don’t blame AIA; the comments were in quotes. I think what he means are there are tweaks in the game to speed it up, so it doesn’t take so long due to the “jail breaks.”
Don’t blame AIA; the comments were in quotes. I think what he means are there are tweaks in the game to speed it up, so it doesn’t take so long due to the “jail breaks.”
Journalists don't seem to see language as a tool of explanation anymore. They just put words up on the screen and expect people to figure it all out.
... you could have one game last a whole gym period.
I suppose I shouldn't blame AIA, since in the last sentence there is "(Daily Kansan)." So the root problem is with the Daily Kansan reporter.
But since on the AIA website there was no hotlink to the Daily Kansan original story, I must again gently, mildly, and slightly chide AIA for that omission.
In our Brooklyn public school afterschool program (long since ended because of leftwing PC) the loudspeaker would blare and like Muzzies called for afternoon prayer the much anticipated dodgeball game would commence.
30-40 kids per side, half dozen dodgeballs and all that separated us was a line at halfcourt. When you got hit you were out of the game. If you didn’t make it off the court and got hit again you were out for the next game.
I would come home from school bruised, battered and loving every minute of it. It was like paintball, without the paint or the guns.
It didn’t matter if you were a boy or a girl, if you went to the gym at the sound of the loudspeaker and if you got on the court, you were fair game. Everyone knew the deal and everyone joined in the fun. No one was forced to go and every parent knew what went on since one Friday a month they were invited to come play in the student vs parent/teacher game.
As I understood the story from one of my old teachers, one day, the son of the local liberal politician joined in the game and got whumped, but good. The father complained to the school board, the principal, the gym teachers and whoever else would listen. They told him to pound sand.
Mysteriously, the next year, dodgeball was outlawed at the school as well as schoolyard games such as punchball, kickball and our favorite, a$$es up. Not mysteriously, the year after that, the pol got whumped in his reelection bid and dodgeball came back for a few years.
It’s really not “prison ball” anymore since the wussies on the school board made them stop the part where you could drag your opponent into the showers and gang rape them.
It’s only really “prison ball” ever when the ACLU lawyers on the school board make them start at the part where the gays drag your opponent into the showers and gang rape them.
lol!
Prison ball is what I played as a kid.
The rule “No Bean Balls!”. Got into a fight over that.
We’d pump the basketballs up until they were so hard they’d ping when you bounced them. Those bean balls hurt!
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