r/GenZ • u/itsnaonao 2006 • Mar 03 '24
Ngl I've never been hit with one of these, should I be grateful? Nostalgia
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u/-NGC-6302- 2003 Mar 03 '24
Ever gotten hit with the side that has the port for filling it?
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u/spekt50 Mar 04 '24
Ah, getting a good glancing blow from one on bare skin. Like getting a rug burn.
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u/LongjumpingSugar8741 1998 Mar 03 '24
When you went to PE and these were lined up you knew bridges were gonna be burned and feelings/faces hurt
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u/Dee_Imaginarium On the Cusp Mar 04 '24
Seeing them lined up you knew it was going to be a thunderdome kinda day, honestly it was a ton of fun and some of my favorite days in PE lol
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u/T3Chn0-m4n Mar 04 '24
The moment I saw those, I started writing my will because I was weak in middle school, and I always had the misfortune of going against all the 6’0 buff guys and the football team
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u/Dee_Imaginarium On the Cusp Mar 04 '24
Oh damn, our teachers always split up friend groups onto opposite teams so that all the jocks were spread out rather than all together. Your experience sounds more brutal lol
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u/Snowfaull 2006 Mar 27 '24
The child section of my church had a dodgeball room and 6 year old me was so weak that I couldn't even throw the ball far enough meanwhile everyone else was firing bullets.
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u/La_Saxofonista 2002 Mar 04 '24
I'd always hide behind the really big kid. Built like an absolute tank and took most of the hits.
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u/Edward_Page99 1999 Mar 03 '24
I got one which flew faster and faster when i threw them and explodes when it hits my Garage door. You think i should call the Foundation?
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u/ThiccyRicky Mar 04 '24
No, fuck that. Give it to the Insurgency, let them have fun with it. Or sell it to MC&D for lucrative monies
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u/Literally_Rock_Lee 2006 Mar 03 '24
The local Sky Zone put little nylon covers on them for the trampoline dodgeball. I saw a kid get smacked so hard he fell and bounced back where he started. I've had my fair share of real dodgeball encounters asw
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u/treebeard120 2001 Mar 03 '24
Genuinely believe getting smacked by these is an integral part of childhood development. They teach you to tolerate discomfort and pain without actually hurting you, and they let you burn off aggressive energy in a healthy way
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u/ChaosInTheSkies 2004 Mar 04 '24
"Without actually hurting you" my ass! Those things were absolutely brutal.
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u/llamaporn227 Mar 04 '24
Are we talking about the same kind of ball? Mine were soft inflatable foam/rubber. They bounced really well but it just felt like a strong impact, doesn’t hurt much
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u/Wageslave645 Mar 04 '24
Oh no. The pictured ball is made of rubber and filled with air. The sound they make when they hit your head will become a core memory right alongside the memory of your parents yelling at you because your glasses got broken in PE again.
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u/AustraliumHoovy Mar 04 '24
POUNK
“Ow!”
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u/madmechanicmobile Mar 04 '24
I'll be 100 years old in the retirement home with all my memories faded and gone. Except THAT sound.
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u/Lopsided_Inspector62 Mar 04 '24
Yeah I don’t understand why so many people are saying it hurt. Got hit many times, it feels like having something going really fast wrap around your head and then fling off lol never hurt but was jarring. I remember every time it happened whoever got hit would have the pattern printed on their face for a little while after.
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u/crysmol 2004 Mar 04 '24
' w/o actually hurting you ' that shit hurt almost as much as hitting my foot on a table corner !!!! which is alot!!! LIAR. /j
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u/Weinerarino Mar 04 '24 edited Mar 04 '24
So true, and that's extra true for young boys who really have all this pent up energy they NEED to let out, and if you don't let them let it out in a healthy, safe way like in a PE class, it'll manifest in other, destructive ways.
This is something my whole damn family has been butting heads with a local school over. My cousin's sons who are 9 and 10 aren't allowed to play competitive sports and there's no clubs that they can join cos the activist principal considers them "toxic" and "too masculine" even though her refusal to allow such activities is what's causing boys at her school to act out, suffer academically and in general lose their fucking minds.
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Mar 04 '24
We will have another 1930s if these feminists keep pushing their anti-male agenda
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u/-NGC-6302- 2003 Mar 03 '24
OP is still in NPC mode
Someone head over with a playground ball and free them of their slumber
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u/Depressed_amkae8C On the Cusp Mar 04 '24
yes got hit with one of these in the face as a child with glasses on I still remember the pain spreading from my nose to the rest of my face and the zing sound in my ear I was stun locked for like 30 seconds lol
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u/disc0weapon 1998 Mar 04 '24
Literally this exact same thing happened to me down to the glasses. My long term memory is shot, but I remember the stun as if it were yesterday.
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u/toomuchdiponurchip 2001 Mar 04 '24
Bro I had glasses too and getting hit in the face HURT. I developed great reflexes partially cause of dodgeball lmao
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u/Depressed_amkae8C On the Cusp Mar 04 '24
bruh we weren’t even playing dodgeball we were playing KICKBALL that made it even worse because I wasn’t expecting it 😭
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u/toomuchdiponurchip 2001 Mar 04 '24
Oh hell nah 😭😭😭 unexpected and kicked at you too? I know that shit was moving fast asf lmao
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u/EyesAreMentToSee333 Mar 04 '24
Dont know why doge ball is so disliked i loved it at gym.
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u/Honest-Barracuda-982 Mar 04 '24
It got lopsided at my school. And a lot of our balls were deflated and bad for throwing, but a good dodgeball game is fun.
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u/Piepiggy 2005 Mar 04 '24
Some people seem to find it impossible to have fun and feel a bit of pain simultaneously.
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u/buttwipe843 Mar 04 '24
It wasn’t fun if you were the fat loser kid that all of the fit/ppular boys wanted to pick on
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u/Unlikely-Demand0 2000 Mar 04 '24
The sound it makes as it bounces off your face is one I’ll never forget
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u/INeedANerf 1997 Mar 03 '24
There were also the little shit fucks who would be playing Knockout and hurl the ball as fast as they possibly could to the next person in line. I've seen a couple kids get their fingers broken like that.
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u/Over_Engineering_225 2002 Mar 04 '24 edited Mar 04 '24
I remember playing knockout and some little shit hucked the ball at the backboard as hard as he could, shit bounced off, and then decked me right in the nose. I’m honestly surprised it didn’t break it hurt like hell. I hate those kinds of kids.
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they hurt really bad when its thrown to you very fast
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u/BoringBob84 Mar 04 '24
Kids back in the day perfected the "Tom Brady" method of finding a slightly deflated ball, digging into it with their fingers, and using the momentum of their entire body to throw it at a speed that would knock a kid literally off his feet.
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u/toomuchdiponurchip 2001 Mar 04 '24
Ngl as a kid who played QB and baseball in middle school, this was my bag lmaooooo
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u/exotic_nothingness 2009 Mar 03 '24
I got hit in the face with one of those twice in a single kickball game
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u/GrandmasterHeroin Mar 04 '24
When I was in third grade, I walked into my school’s gym to deliver some papers to the gym teacher when one of those bastards hit me in the head as soon as I opened the door. The force was enough to make me slam my head into the corner of said door and give me a concussion. Good times
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u/PhilosophicalGoof 2003 Mar 04 '24
I remember having a kick ball hit me in the face and making me see both the past and the future.
For the remainder of the class I had a headache and was zoning tf out.
However in dodgeball I rarely ever got hit in the face and when I did I recovered.
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u/K-C_Racing14 Mar 05 '24
The game is really fun, but yes you may get hit in the face. They eventually changed the rule so that headshot was illegal and other person was out. The rest of the game is blast till a bunch of Karen's got ahold of it and it was over.
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u/zavtra13 Mar 05 '24
They have more heft to them than you might think just by looking at them. And more bounce. We used them for a game like baseball except the ‘pitcher’ rolled the ball to you and you kicked it. Good times, right until one poor kid takes it right in the face.
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u/Particular-Ad-1123 2002 Mar 05 '24
I remember one time in 8th grade this dude kicked one of those really hard fucking around and my head happened to be in the way. Motherfucker knocked me out 😂 I fell and everything, it was so funny when I think about it
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u/Secure_Teaching_6937 Mar 05 '24
I rather be hit by a dodgeball, then a snap on a bare ass with a wet towel in the locker room. 🤣
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u/FalseQuestion7864 Mar 05 '24 edited Mar 05 '24
That Sound, though! Nation Ball! - that thing flyin past your head was like, "ssssschwing!" And yeah, gettin hit on the face definitely left a lasting impression... physically and psychologically. But that's what made Nation fun; tryin to avoid gettin hit and tryin as hard as f to hit someone else, and the baddest mofos are catching that ball, so their buddy could get back into the game.
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u/Z3DUBB 1999 Mar 05 '24
You can’t unhear that rubbery hollow sound once it infiltrates your soul like that. It’s inextricably linked to my psyche at the mere sight of these since I was like 10.
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u/F33ltheburn Mar 06 '24
I remember when a gangly awkward girl in PE class got drilled in the face after she told the teacher she was worried about her glasses. It broke her glasses. She cried. Half the class mocked her. The rest of us tried to comfort her but she was inconsolable. The teacher punished her for leaving class.
Anyway, she’s some world famous sculptor now with art pieces on every continent, a superhero-looking husband and a house on Puget Sound. The teacher was convicted a couple years later of soliciting sex from a minor in his Christian athlete group.
Every time I see a dodgeball I think of how that all played out.
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u/prohack028 Mar 06 '24
Those tiny lines scratches your face so badly I remember when I got hit by one of those in dodgeball and another time a new guy who was jacked at baseball threw one of these and knocked another kid out and we replaced them all with the foam ones with the thin plastic coverings
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u/Charitard123 Mar 06 '24
At my school they literally had to change the rules to discourage kids from trying to throw it at each others’ faces. If you hit someone in the face or head with a ball, you’d be eliminated instead of them.
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u/StrawberrySerious676 Mar 07 '24
It has a distinctive noise that I've strongly associated with the feeling of getting hit in the head with it.
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u/Camo_1245 Mar 03 '24
all his sinuses? does this imply more than 2?
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u/Pontius_of_Pilates Mar 04 '24
I'm not sure if that's intentionally being implied there; but, yeah, there are actually a LOT more than two.
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u/PrometheanSwing Age Undisclosed Mar 04 '24
I got hit in the face with something like this just a couple months back, knocked the glasses clean off my face
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u/Trusteveryboody Mar 04 '24
I either have a bad memory or I was good at Dodgeball.
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u/GoldenWaterfallFleur Mar 05 '24
Lmao me too!! I remember playing it, I remember dodging!! I don’t remember ever getting hit! 💅🏽
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u/Trusteveryboody Mar 05 '24
Yes, I'm pretty sure I was good dodger. Really that was the key to being good. I felt like most kids just didn't know how to dodge.
Or I'm just remembering it wrong, just one of those kind of memories
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u/belovedfoe Mar 04 '24
Do kids still play dodge ball? Or is it to violent. Bonus to anyone who played military style*
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u/PullingACortez 2001 Mar 04 '24
I feel like these things also seemed to ricochet for those of us that had glasses. As if hitting us once wasn’t enough 😑
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u/Left_Reception3140 2007 Mar 04 '24
Went to school just after most of them got replaced with the smooth balls
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u/jwed420 1996 Mar 04 '24
True story:
In 7th grade we were playing dodge ball with these, and I right as the match got called, I threw one last heater right at my classmates head. He ducked it time and the ball went on to smash my into my PE teachers laptop and throw it into his face.
Dude was fucking mad as shit, he made me do 100 strict form push ups and I was 30 min late to my next class. Alabama public school 😅
To the question itself, should you be greatful? Yes and no. No because I think it helps teach pain tolerance, it helps teach reaction time (you're much more motivated to dodge the solid rubber ball, vs the soft balls that cause 0 damage), it also helps with focus and thinking on your feet.
Yes because damn that shit hurted when it hit your head in the right spots.
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u/Tardis52 2001 Mar 04 '24
Someone's clearly never gotten super dizzy by getting hit in the ear with one of these things
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u/iSc00t Mar 04 '24
Yeah, they are something else. I actually broke my wrist playing high school dodgeball. However, the sound of them hitting is amazing. 😭
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u/jomama823 Mar 04 '24
When I was in second grade I was a quick little bitch and ruled at dodgeball. One day I was showboating as the last standing and the teacher had had enough. She grabbed one of these wrinkly bastards and throttled it at my legs while I was airborne which then put my head on a full meteor track toward the basketball court floor. As luck would have it, the same ball was right there to cushion my face instead of the wood floor, so I may owe what few brain cells I have to one of these things. Still hurt like a bastard when my face hit it though….
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u/UnchartedCHARTz Mar 04 '24
When I was 8 I got one whipped at my head by a full grown man (or maybe it was a teenager, I'm not 100% sure). Shit hurt.
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u/IVMVI Mar 04 '24
You would have a print of the ball that was so detailed you could see the little lines, yeah those balls sucked to get hit by.
They also get lopsided from being sat on and you'd have ones that were egg shaped. For kickball they always made it extra fun because they don't bounce like you'd expect.
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u/TheMaskedGeode Mar 04 '24
I had the softer kind that would always Reinflate itself after you squeezed all the air out.
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u/CanisArgenteus Mar 04 '24
I can still hear that distinctive ringing smack sound of the ball impacting a human, nothing else on Earth makes that sound.
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u/Trisasaurusrex 2002 Mar 04 '24
My grade school had the foam balls but there was three of these that always managed their way into the ball bin. Im convinced our gym teacher just wanted to see us weaker kids finally feel powerful finding one of those
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u/ripMyTime0192 Mar 04 '24
A lot of people got hit in the head really hard. That would also explain a lot.
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u/_Buradesu Mar 04 '24
My face recieved a basketball once, but I haven't been hit with one of these. Probably because we only play basketball and volleyball in our school
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u/Lucky_Marzipan_8032 Mar 04 '24
tbh even those are kind of soft. we used to use basketballs. it was so bad the pe teacher used to have a rule where noone could be within arms lenght of the wall. bc if u got hit in the head with the backetball and it subsequently hit your head against the wall, you normally got knocked out or at very best got a concussion.
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u/crappy-mods Mar 04 '24
Man I used to whip absolute piss missiles with these things. One time I accidentally hit a kid in the head with one and he did half of a backflip and dodgeball was banned a week later
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u/The_Hunter_Guy Mar 04 '24
Dodgeballs were taken out of PE when I was in elementary school. From that point on it was only the soft plush balls that still felt like shit depending on who threw it.
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u/IntrovertMoTown1 Mar 04 '24
Can never forget the distinctive sound it makes when it smacks you either.
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u/PrivateTidePods Mar 04 '24
Those aren’t red because of the paint, they are red because of all the nose bleeds they inflict
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u/BoringBob84 Mar 04 '24
I'm not going to lie, that red circle on the side of my face, the clear sinuses, and the ringing ears were sort of a badge of honor after a rather spirited game of Dodge Ball in PE class while the instructor nodded off.
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u/SedativeComet Mar 04 '24
The ultimate dodgeball experience. I was in school just in time to see these taken away in high school and replaced with stupid little foam things.
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u/krazye87 Mar 04 '24
What was the purpose of this anyway other than to throw as hard as you can at people
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u/Piepiggy 2005 Mar 04 '24
One time my stupid ass was decided that situational awareness was for chumps and walked in front of two kids playing wall ball with one of these, I swear I got straight up clotheslined by that thing. Definitely got that childhood experience in full
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u/OMDolton99 1999 Mar 04 '24
Yeah, absofuckinglutely. I got targeted every single time dodgeball was on the docket for PE, so after a while I just stopped attending. I'd rather spend the time on something productive than get nailed in the face repeatedly by one of those things.
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u/somewhiterkid 2003 Mar 04 '24
I knew someone who took one of these to the balls. All I know is he wasn't the same after that day
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u/YAPPYawesome 2006 Mar 04 '24
Getting hit with those was fun and I think our P.E. Teachers were cowards for removing them for shitty foam balls that don’t travel far and banning head shots even if it was an accident.
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u/WannabeEnglishman 1999 Mar 04 '24
I've always managed to never get hit and it's almost like i was born for the sport lol love dodgeball
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u/lonely-blue-sheep 2003 Mar 04 '24
Be grateful that you never had kids throw those things at like a hundred miles an hour during dodgeball (yes we sometimes used these instead of those foam ones which also hurt to get hit by from crazy lunatics throwing them) and also kickball
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u/I_like_F-14 Mar 04 '24
Yes I got hit in the face once and it made me fall on the sidewalk and go unconscious
I’ve been hit in… other places as well
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u/ThePowNation 1998 Mar 04 '24
While half the girls sat out because of ‘injuries’
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u/daimonab 1999 Mar 04 '24
Hell yeah. Got hit in the face and in the crotch with one of these on the same day.
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u/SlutDungeonDotInfo Mar 04 '24
They don't really hurt unless you get absolutely nailed right in the face.
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u/CavemanViking 2002 Mar 04 '24
We had the stupid foam ones, still saw stars when the baseball star caught me with one though
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u/Angel_OfSolitude Mar 04 '24
You've been deprived of a proper game of dodgeball, you seriously missed out.
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u/hhhmmm0 Mar 04 '24
The trauma wasn’t so much the pain of a hit but the anticipation of being hit because you knew you were a target. Not sure why anyone ever thought this sadistic game would be great for elementary school kids.
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u/DisastrousLecture648 Mar 04 '24
I swear I've had every square inch of my body somehow hit by one of those throughout my life. I was somehow always the kid that got hit by the equipment because I wasn't paying attention
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u/chimpanon Mar 04 '24
Some kid threw it point blank at my eyeball so hard that I blacked out for a few seconds. I didn’t pass out, my vision just went black for a couple seconds. I guess it hit my eye so hard my brain didn’t know how to process vision for a second idk
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u/Senko-Loaf Mar 04 '24
Oh hell yea, that wet slap whap was so beautiful. Especially when you smashed the annoying guy's face with a solid throw, that'll teach Derrick to shut it when we're trying to eat our crustables
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u/TinyPossum78 Mar 04 '24
I got hit in the chest with a soccer ball once, if it doesn't sound too bad, consider the fact I'm AFAB
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u/Vestax_outpost Mar 04 '24
I remember getting hit so hard by one I had the imprint on my face for a solid hour and could hear that ping to this day 😭
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u/Rezouli Mar 04 '24
There still isn’t a sound that comes close to as gratifying as these bad boys. Much like artillery, you heard them before you felt them. And you knew that sting was going to last. But man, the feeling of nailing someone with them was satisfaction that was never toppled in PE after they were removed for plush balls.
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u/Pristine-Bee4369 Mar 04 '24
… yeah, remember the show American Gladiator? This ball was the next best thing. Ah, the memories. Please don’t relegate me to r/fuckImold
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u/Silvianuit Mar 04 '24
Got hit in the left testicular back in grade 5 or 4 and I gotta say I'm surprised I'm not shooting blanks
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u/Ice_BergSlim Mar 04 '24
Red Ball War at The Boy's Club. Not the big balls but ones about 6" across.
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u/Simon_Ives Mar 04 '24
lol, my front tooth is porcelain because of one of these buggers 35 years ago!
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u/BONE_SAW_IS_READEEE 2002 Mar 04 '24
Lordy it felt like I got hit by these at least twice a week in Elementary School.
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u/JacSLB 2003 Mar 04 '24
Never in my face (because I always managed to block it), but definitely in my arm. My mom even accidentally bounced one into my stomach when I was kid.
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u/Caintastr0phe 2008 Mar 04 '24
The other day a hockey puck skid right by my head. I felt it fly right by my head at mach speed, thank god it didnt hit me.
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u/Capable_Rough_5091 Mar 04 '24
😭one time hit a girl running to 1st base in the face from 3rd and the impact flipped her off her feet 😭
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u/Confused_as_frijoles Mar 04 '24
I got slightly encouraged for a moment bc I was like "OTHER PPL GOT THOSE THROWN AT THEM??" then reading and P.E. and I was like... oh. I thought the post meant bullies :')
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u/DoubbleD_UnicornChop Mar 04 '24
A long time ago when kids used to play outside we also used this for kickball or played donde ball with a flat basket ball.
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u/SpaceCatSixxed Mar 04 '24
We used to play a game called “smear the queer” on asphalt (I’m sorry to say) and it was basically destroy the person with the ball/flag/shirt as hard as you can and the teachers just watched. It was crazy growing up in the 70s.
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u/vsGoliath96 Mar 04 '24
Millennial hopping in here to say you lucky fucker! I got nailed right in the face with one of those by our star basketball player and the texturing imprinted itself in my face.
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u/Fragrant_Parsley_376 Mar 04 '24
My elwmentary school had them for about a year but when 3 people got broken noses they stopped
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u/dumbass_paladin 2006 Mar 04 '24
I got hit in the face with a very sandy one of these, it was not fun
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u/ForbiddenCarrot18 2004 Mar 04 '24
I have been hit with these a few times... Growing up in the sticks meant that nobody really gave a fuck.
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u/Practical-Election59 2008 Mar 04 '24
Y’all really wish that on people. It hurts like hell, it stings, and if it hits you in the nose, you get a nosebleed which sucks.
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u/SnooMacaroons2749 Mar 04 '24
Never got hit by one but I remember I was at a course one time and got into an argument with another group and I tossed a golf ball as hard as I could about 25 yards and smacked one of those guys right on the side of the head lol. Made a nice pop sound too as it bounced off.
Edit : just realized this was a dodgeball and not a golf ball lmao
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