Forgot the other rule, if a ball off the wall touched you and then hit the floor, you had to run and tag the wall before someone could pick the ball up and throw it to the wall. If you beat the throw, you didn't have to "assume the position". However instead of throwing to the wall, you could opt to peg the dude running to the wall before he got there.

So, we gonna play some wall ball at the tailgate?

SK790 wrote:I hated suicide, but I was fairly good at it.

You're only good at it once.

Think I have poison ivy.

wheres batman when you need him

Wife quit her job today. I've known for three years she was going to, as we took turns taking sabbaticals followed by her full-year maternity leave this year. We got a good taste of how things would go (financially) this year, and we didn't have to change our lifestyle at all. It has to be hard for her after undergrad, a master's degree, and basically 15 years of teaching (in one of the best districts in the area) to just not go back, but I know people do it all the time. Now I just have to be careful not to drink any of the water so many male teachers in my district have in recent years.

Bill McNeal wrote:Forgot the other rule, if a ball off the wall touched you and then hit the floor, you had to run and tag the wall before someone could pick the ball up and throw it to the wall. If you beat the throw, you didn't have to "assume the position". However instead of throwing to the wall, you could opt to peg the dude running to the wall before he got there.

Yea, had that rule too, and if you swatted the ball away to avoid getting pegged, it was automatic firing squad time

PrattRules wrote:Think I have poison ivy.

I'm not allergic (is that what it is called?) to poison ivy. feels good man.

PrattRules wrote:

Bill McNeal wrote:

The Dude wrote:we played you got thrown at every time your ball was caught on the fly

Same, and you also got thrown at if your throw to the wall didn't get there on the fly. Since no one wanted their throw caught on the fly everyone threw low, so this was a nice added degree of difficulty. We'd play before track practice in an old wrestling room where half the padding was torn up. So many injuries, I remember one kid knocking out a bunch of teeth, lots of cuts and bruises, I remember sliding on the wood floor and catching a nail in the calf.

I forgot about throwing to the wall on the fly. Yeah, some kids I used to play with had a relay rule where you could throw it to them and they would hit the wall. It was a novel idea at the time and seemed to serve a purpose. But people quickly made backroom deals making the relay rule as stupid as it sounds.

i hated these fuckers

Wheels Tupay wrote:

PrattRules wrote:Think I have poison ivy.

I'm not allergic (is that what it is called?) to poison ivy. feels good man.

I didn't think this was even possible.

I used to play sui and enjoy it, but we also played a wallball type game called a racist name that I liked even more. you had a set order of people and slapped the ball (PIP) against the ground and wall then the next person had to repeat before it bounced twice. there was a lot of strategy because you didn't know if the person before you was gonna go hard or soft (PIP)

Did anyone else ever hear of a gym game called "Pin Dodge"? It was a real highlight of my youth.

You play it on a basketball court and set a bowling pin on the middle of each foul line. From there, it's basically like dodgeball with two balls in play, but you could win the game immediately by knocking the other team's pin over. It was pretty fun and brought in strategy in terms of guarding the pin and teammates throwing balls simultaneously from varied speeds and angles

Houshphandzadeh wrote:I used to play sui and enjoy it, but we also played a wallball type game called a racist name that I liked even more. you had a set order of people and slapped the ball (PIP) against the ground and wall then the next person had to repeat before it bounced twice. there was a lot of strategy because you didn't know if the person before you was gonna go hard or soft (PIP)

oh yeah, and the specific type of play where the ball hit exactly where the ground and wall met was the term for a "(racist thing)", hence the name of the game. I think they now refer to the game as "Joe's".

I was the champ of "Joe's" in 2000. My title spanned a six block radius.

my mom played that and tried to teach me, but it was ineffective as a one-on-one game

what we called "wall ball" was a one-on-one baseball simulation, basic throw and catch. if the ball hit the ground you earned a base for every bounce before the other player retrieved it. catches on the fly were outs

The 10-yr old girl in Philly that needed a new lung? GOT UM

Played a ton of suicide. Also, played a game called "Chink". Guess I'm not the only one.

http://medigan.net/2007/04/18/chink/

yeah that's what we were just talking about

Barry Jive wrote:my mom played that and tried to teach me, but it was ineffective as a one-on-one game

what we called "wall ball" was a one-on-one baseball simulation, basic throw and catch. if the ball hit the ground you earned a base for every bounce before the other player retrieved it. catches on the fly were outs

We called this game "Outs". The ball had to hit the ground before it hit the wall and then you would have set distances for a single, double triple or HR if the ball cleared the distance on the fly. Catch it on the fly and it is an out (obviously).

Barry Jive wrote:yeah that's what we were just talking about

I should read better