[Yardstick]

Yeah, I remember when the touchy feely stuff started to creep in. Every now and then they’d pull us from dodge ball and have us do cooperative noncompetitive games. It’s funny because I can look back now and see what they were up to. Like there was there was a whole category of games involving a parachute. We’d all be holding onto the parachute and they’d throw some balls in the middle of it and we’d all raise our arms and loft the balls into the air. There were no winners or losers to this so no one got their feelings hurt, but our real enthusiasm was for dodgeball and that sort of thing. The people who were trying to sneak that stuff in in the 80s were in control by the 90s.

[Celtic Conservative]

I was a camp counselor during My summers off from college in the mid to late 80's.It was about then they started pushing "new games"e.g. non competitive, no winners or losers. The motto was "play hard, play fair, nobody gets hurt".The kids, of course hated them. We hated them too, so much so that some of us had t shirts made up that said "play hard, play fair, TAKE NO PRISONERS!". The new games initiative was quietly dropped shortly thereafter.

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[wac3rd]

The parachute stuff started in the 70’s. We did it on rainy days and it was a precursor to frisbee baaseball or dodgeball.