They always show people having to climb the rope in gym class on tv shows or movies but we never had to that in any grade or any gym class where l went to school. We did not even have a rope or a place where it would have been attached. Did anyone actually ever have to do this where you went to school?

absolutely. we had two ropes, one with knots and one without. you were considered pretty cool if you could get to the roof of the gym on the no-knot rope.

In elementary school we would have these ''fun days'' where the class would get split up into groups and move around to different activites. One of them was rope climbing.

Yes. The rope ran from the floor to the ceiling of the gym. l could actually climb from floor to ceiling and back without using my legs or feet. About 20 ft. l lifted a lot of weights in high school.

Oh yes. Back in the 50's, when l was in school. If you did not have upper body strength you were pretty much out of luck.

Yeah we got to do it in elementary school back in the 80 is when l went to school. It made you feel kind of funny..

in my elementary school we did once in gymnastics class, that was back in the early 90 is at Woodland Classical Greek Magnet school in KC, MO.

yea l did that & l got to the very top. When l came back down my gym teacher started screaming at me because we were'nt supposed to go to the top. Also when other people were climbing it we used to shake the rope at the bottom so they fell onto the mat. Good times Good Times. oh yea, & we used to swing on them like monkeys. There were three ropes, so we would swing to the first one, then grab on to the second one, then the third. You'd have lot is of fun when the teacher is not looking.

yes, i've had to do that, but l was really strong and could get myself up without using my legs! l didn;t have a bad experiance with it