What Traits Do You Think The EAR Expressed In High School?
Mar 18, 2018 12:13:08 GMT
via mobile
TheBelt likes this
Post by jthou on Mar 18, 2018 12:13:08 GMT
I rather disagree. Lifelong tomboy here, born and raised in NoCal- first in San Mateo County then in San Francisco County. Prior: Open Water Diver (Asia, Mendocino). Certified Expert Riflesman (Sequoia). Camp Counselor (Sequoia). Equestrian English (Sequoia) + Western. Gymnast (Sequoia). All Star Baseball Player (Burlingame/Santa Clara). Vaulter (Sequoia) Outstanding Skier (Water and Snow) (Clearlake, Lake Tahoe).
Never learned/had occasion to learn how to climb 6 foot fences fluently. Never even heard that discussed. Never had anyone I knew admit they did, either. I am plenty athletic (President's Award in H.S.) but never got up to no good. This is a juvenile delinquent and truant or ex military kid. What is the impetus to do this absent such? Something necessitated this skill.
Considering that many on here agree that this is common behavior for young boys it is safe to say you are in the minority here. Maybe your neighborhood didn’t have as many of that style fence or the boys in your neighborhood never thought of it. Nothing criminal necessitates this behavior. My earliest memories - and I may have learned it even earlier, I don’t remember exactly when I first started doing it - of learning to do vault fences came from two places. One, several of my friends and my backyard all connected. Why walk around the block to the house behind me when I could simply jump the fence. Our fences were wood and had the planks on both sides so there was nowhere to place your feet. As we got older and bigger our grabbing the top and pulling ourselves over turned into vaults. A step or two, hands on top, a good jump and over. This skill was also useful for getting into the always locked baseball fields. Chain link fencing with wind screen on it. Again, nowhere to place your feet, you had to vault it to get over. These same scenarios and I’m sure there’s countless others played themselves out and still do to this day in neighborhoods all over.