How Times Have Changed: The 80s vs Now

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Play Dodgeball

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Somehow, kids these days have managed to kill dodgeball, a tradition that was played in Africa over two hundred years ago. Granted, dodgeball’s roots are much more violent as the game was played with large rocks and was used as an intense sort of war game, where each competitor would attempt to hit their opponent with rocks to injure or incapacitate them. Once a player was hit, the opposing team would try to stone the fallen soldier to death; it would be the responsibility of his team to defend him with their own rocks. It taught warriors to work together during skirmishes against other tribes, how to select weak opponents and exploit their weaknesses, and how to protect their own. It is no longer played in school today, even with the rubber balls that make that thwong! Sound when they hit you rather than rocks — because people felt it was just violent chaos and didn’t teach much of anything. They were wrong though — dodgeball taught you all about how to skip gym class.