Remember these ?

[Alex]

Gawd I used to hate gymnastics at school  !

[klondike]

I was never a sporty type. Mostly because I was pretty useless at any sport and hated to lose. 

I recall we had a sort of springy wooden ramp leading up to those but it didn't help at all and getting over it was next to impossible.

[Michael Rolls]

remember them well - instruments of torture!

[Raven]

remember them well - instruments of torture!

Not for me Mike, I loved all the gym classes and I was good at it. I found the equipment no problem at all. Today it would certainly be as you say.... An instrument of Torture. 

[Scrumpy]

We had them in the school gym.. I was rubbish..
I was never picked for the hockey or netball team.. Couldn't run fast either..
I threw the javelin and discus.. Not very far though.. 
 Later , I became reporter for school sports.. What a laugh..

[Alex]

I loved netball, but hockey I hated as I was always scared of getting a bash on the shins   

[Jacqueline]

As a shortie with short legs of 4ft 11 as an adult, I never managed that pommel horse, I was never any good at netball the tall girls would get in front of me, and my reactions if I had a ball thrown at me was to duck!  Dancing was my exercise and I loved swimming, but sports no! no! no! and I still hate all sport to this day.

[Raven]

I hate watching sports, but taking part was different, I enjoyed that. Jacqueline, we had a wee spring board thingy we used to run up to jump onto the big horse thing.

[Jacqueline]

That springboard thingy only got little old me up to sitting on the edge of the pommel horse, blooming great thing!

[Raven]

That springboard thingy only got little old me up to sitting on the edge of the pommel horse, blooming great thing!

Oh Dear, I can just see you.   

[JBR]

Oh, I remember that from when we broke out of a prison camp.  They even made a film about it.

[Michael Rolls]

The Wooden Horse I believe it was called

[Diasi]

I always hated gym & all sports & I had an unblemished school life of giving them a miss.

However good it would have been for me, so I was told at the time, I don't now need knee or hip replacements.