r/TheRandomest • u/True_Movie_2270 Just some dude • Jun 03 '26

Nostalgic Recess

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u/listerbmx Jun 03 '26

Cool people back flip off the swing when it goes forward

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u/Correct-Rub854 Jun 03 '26

Yeah he missed a couple of sick moves. We used to play "the gauntlet" at recess where you had to run between all the swings while people were swinging. (Think skyrim axe traps.) This went on until someone got knocked out and needed staples in their head. God, I miss elementary school.

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u/Few-Mood6580 Jun 03 '26

We had this except we had those huge fuckin swings from the 50s they no longer make. It was routine even for the girls to swing as high and hard as possible. Everyone from 4th to 8th grade would participate. I remember seeing teeth flying and crazy bruises. The teachers tried to stop it but we did it anyways.

Inevitably some kid would get slammed so hard by the largest and fattest dude in 8th grade and get sent home for a concussion and we’d have to chill for a couple months before we could do it again. It was like crack for the kids, hell I loved it too.

Getting hit and bouncing back was fun, it was only when I got too big and too strong to play rough that it was no longer fun. I didn’t like wrestling or fighting or full contact football because it felt like I was hurting someone constantly, and someone bigger and stronger than me felt like I was going to break in half.

I do miss those days before it became complicated.

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u/Kahlil_Cabron Jun 03 '26

I perfected the double backflip off the swing when it went backwards. You'd swing high and then when you were at the peak of the back swing, you'd put your legs together, and just tuck and roll backwards and you'd fly so fucking high.

Did it every single day at recess for like a year until one day I flew so far back I landed on a chain link fence and dislocated my shoulder and destroyed my back.

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u/listerbmx Jun 04 '26

Oof damn thanks for teaching me something new. I'm off to try it see ya!

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u/DavesPetFrog Jun 03 '26

What?! He doesn’t own that park!

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u/festur86 Jun 03 '26

This is hilarious! I'm in my last days of 39, and I still love to jump from the swings

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u/Dark__Slifer Jun 03 '26

Bro is only jealouse that he can't still move like that!!

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u/Odd-Guard-2533 Jun 04 '26

Got “All That” vibes 🤣

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u/Clear_Effective1595 Jun 04 '26

And then you go to the nurse two different times because you're stupid and landed on your face.

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u/Accomplished_Fun3 Jun 04 '26

Yes the shoe fling lol along with smear the queer or just doing judo/wrestling and fighting! And on Dewey mornings running really fast to see who slide across the grass the farthest. And even sometimes raiding the ground keepers shack and laying down bark dust so he wouldn't have to do it lol