Newport NH - 03/05/10
March 5th, 2010What a great way to start Season 9 of Old School PE in Newport as 30 people came ready to play. We saw many familiar faces along with quite a few first timers. I got the call for the Commish duties to start the season off. I had several games planned unsure of the attendance we may have seen due to the many other activities going on that evening. But as always, we had a great turnout.
I started the evening off with a simple relay game of “Scooter Grab and Go”. 5 “teams” played, traveling down the gym on their scooters, picking up items and traveling back. Folks got pretty creative where they carried the items (Right Erin, you so crazy!). I thought I heard a couple of “you want us to ride on that”?
Then onto another mini team game. Not sure what to call this one, so if you have any suggestions, let me know. “Team Circle Race” is about what I have for now, so we’ll go with that. Quite fun to watch the teams work together to move the ball down the court and back. As the races went on, teams got a little more daring and well, many had to go and fetch the ball they were kicking.
And then we moved to backboard dodgeball. Always a fun game, and the new folks were definitely ready to play. With 15 players a side, people were moving in and out of the game quickly.
There were a few looks of confusion as I setup for the next game. I placed two boxing gloves on the center line of the gym so we can play “Steal the Glove”. It did seem however that some folks thought you were going to have to run to the middle of the gym, put on a glove and well you know the rest. Nope, sorry, we don’t promote that at Old School PE although I do see a lot of spouses thinking of it during dodgeball. Sending out 2 sets of runners to grab the gloves was great, 3 sets was hilarious.
It was now time for some floor hockey. Large net, dodgeball and 5 on 5 made for some fun play. Of course we finished the nite with a great game of SBasketball.
So Season 9 started off with a bang and we look forward to the next 7 nights of the spring season.
Next week’s Commish: Chris the Barrel.
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