compulsion
after reading through our blog, i realize that sometimes my titles have no relation to the stuff inside the post.
sorry about the moment of irrelevance there. what i am actually here to blog about is the new, ingenious ways the army has come up with to make you do PT.
the SMS game!
take any phrase. for us we got the phrase "Passing Out Parade is in one month". then, do one pushup for A, one for B, one for C, until P, because P is the first letter you need to spell the phrase. then one pushup for A, the second letter in the phrase. Then one for A, one for B, one for C, one for D until S, the next letter in the phrase, and so on. Creative cruelty at its finest!
This can be varied by making people do a certain number of pushups, say twenty. and you do a pushup for o, a pushup for n, a pushup for e, a pushup for one, and so on until twenty.
the dips game!
assuming everyone knows what a dip is, and how tiring it is to hold a dip in position, if you don't know what a dip is, I suggest you ask any canoeist that you may know.
so, you have about 20 recruits holding the dip position, and your officer says, "I want all of you to spell out your JC/poly/uni name!" so while we are all holding the dip position, the first guy starts, and we only recover when the last guy ends. amazing how many people dont know how to spell junior college. variations of this can be tried, like "I want all of you to spell diarrhoea, BACKWARDS". also, any mistake in the spelling means you get to start all over again.
the stand by bed/area game.
i am still firmly convinced that a stand by bed/area is nothing more then an excuse for the commanders to make you do some PT. there is a standard template for how each bunk and cupboard and the area should look like, and a stand by area means your cupboard is closed, they just want to inspect the cleanliness of the bunk area, and a stand by bed means you open your cupboard for them to check the inside as well. any mistake, depending on your commander, you get some kind of punishment, ranging from 5 pushups to 15 pushups with 15 crunches. and there is always some kind of mistake, ranging from wrong shoe arrangement to unpolished boots to dust on the joints of the cupboard or stains on the window or a bird flying into your bunk when all of you are standing outside and shitting on the floor (no joke, true story).
anyway, I'm really tired now, so byebyes!
but before i leave, i need to comment on the tagboard.
nikia:
shifu:
hihi nikia, I accept hugs only if you're a girl, goodlooking, and know how to spell. you fail the third criteria, but I'm still willing to give you a chance and accept hugs still if your second attribute is overwhelmingly outstanding. don't ever say that i'm an unreasonable person. =)
and to my dear co-author, i am not in need of any advertising right now.
sorry about the moment of irrelevance there. what i am actually here to blog about is the new, ingenious ways the army has come up with to make you do PT.
the SMS game!
take any phrase. for us we got the phrase "Passing Out Parade is in one month". then, do one pushup for A, one for B, one for C, until P, because P is the first letter you need to spell the phrase. then one pushup for A, the second letter in the phrase. Then one for A, one for B, one for C, one for D until S, the next letter in the phrase, and so on. Creative cruelty at its finest!
This can be varied by making people do a certain number of pushups, say twenty. and you do a pushup for o, a pushup for n, a pushup for e, a pushup for one, and so on until twenty.
the dips game!
assuming everyone knows what a dip is, and how tiring it is to hold a dip in position, if you don't know what a dip is, I suggest you ask any canoeist that you may know.
so, you have about 20 recruits holding the dip position, and your officer says, "I want all of you to spell out your JC/poly/uni name!" so while we are all holding the dip position, the first guy starts, and we only recover when the last guy ends. amazing how many people dont know how to spell junior college. variations of this can be tried, like "I want all of you to spell diarrhoea, BACKWARDS". also, any mistake in the spelling means you get to start all over again.
the stand by bed/area game.
i am still firmly convinced that a stand by bed/area is nothing more then an excuse for the commanders to make you do some PT. there is a standard template for how each bunk and cupboard and the area should look like, and a stand by area means your cupboard is closed, they just want to inspect the cleanliness of the bunk area, and a stand by bed means you open your cupboard for them to check the inside as well. any mistake, depending on your commander, you get some kind of punishment, ranging from 5 pushups to 15 pushups with 15 crunches. and there is always some kind of mistake, ranging from wrong shoe arrangement to unpolished boots to dust on the joints of the cupboard or stains on the window or a bird flying into your bunk when all of you are standing outside and shitting on the floor (no joke, true story).
anyway, I'm really tired now, so byebyes!
but before i leave, i need to comment on the tagboard.
nikia:
shifu:
hihi nikia, I accept hugs only if you're a girl, goodlooking, and know how to spell. you fail the third criteria, but I'm still willing to give you a chance and accept hugs still if your second attribute is overwhelmingly outstanding. don't ever say that i'm an unreasonable person. =)
and to my dear co-author, i am not in need of any advertising right now.
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