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19298836 No.19298836 [Reply] [Original]

What's the point of these bars? Just to injure kids?

>> No.19298919

>>19298836
To give very nice viewing angles.

>> No.19300428
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Do boys ever do them? Or do kids have to do them as part of PE? Or do they really seem to be more important than they are due to media using them to show off girls? I don't think I've seen them in the west, though they certainly probably exist since playgrounds were basically just various pieces of metal pipes when I was younger, but they're featured like all the time beside swings.

>> No.19300522

>>19298836
How can anyone hurt himself in one of those? Are kids nowadays really stupid or are they just a bunch of wimps?

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>>19300522
They're used to do flips and usually portrayed as being hard for the kids to do. None of them ever fell off upside down and landed on their head?

>> No.19301809

>>19300428
Don't know where you live, but in the city and surrounding area of where I live, and the other city where I study metal bars like these are a standard part of a playground. Often they are integrated into one big structure with a slide, some "tower", perhaps some rope activities. As for what they are used for... I can't really ever remember what we did with them as kids.

>> No.19303503

I used to do pull ups on em
Hard when you’re using the short bars. Even harder on the taller ones

Used to pull myself up and sit on em. Tall ones too. Cracked my nuts too much to count.

One time I hung upside down. Problem is I hung from the short bars and my head fell upon sand. Had dandruff for weeks.

>> No.19304650

>>19303503
>Had dandruff for weeks.
Did you mean... "sandruff?"

>> No.19304658

>>19298836
it's called an inclined pull up

>> No.19305777

>>19304658
Why not a rotating pull up?

>> No.19305797

>>19305777
You dont rotate when you go up
If you do it properly that is

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>>19305797
Mostly I've seen Japanese & anime characters trying to flip over the bar using a combination of pulling and their legs. The OP girl is trying to do that too and failing.

>> No.19306705

From what I've seen, it's just something you do to show you're fit, or just to show skill, like monkey bars.
I don't know if linking with time works here, but on 5:54 of this you have an example of the stuff kids do on them:
https://youtu.be/-6QJhT7J1-o?t=5m54s
There was a Knight Scoop (I think) video where they go around asking 30 year olds if they think they could still do those athletic stuff they did as kids, and most of them were pretty confident on being able to complete at least one spin on those bars. Only one or two of them made it.

>> No.19312365

So any ideas on why they're such a big symbol of playgrounds in Japan, or is it just >>19298919

>> No.19312409

>>19312365
They're common where I live, too. I don't think anyone particularly likes them but they're probably one of the cheapest pieces of playground equipment you can install since they're just three poles.

>> No.19313321

>>19298836
Her shoulders are wider than her hips. Disgusting.

>> No.19314260

>>19313321
Isn't that typical of japanese girls?

>> No.19315001

>>19304650
heh

>> No.19316364

>>19300428
as a kid, I'd swing off of 'em
mostly around the outer pole rather than the top poles though, since it was easier

>> No.19321245

>>19312409
So you're saying they're just more common than I think? To restate, I'm asking why those and swings are used all the time when a playground is being referenced. I think of more slides and jungle gym in western stuff. If I look it up (like "playground drawing") I get slides, swings, seesaws, and sandboxes. Looking up Japanese stuff, swings are of course as common, but they feature those bars and those riding on animal springy things. Thus, I was wondering why the bars make such a big impression on them.

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>>19301809
American urban areas no longer have gym equipment. You have to bring your own.

>> No.19321704

>>19321245
Because getting to do this >>19306352 is part of their PE curriculum sometimes, and just something you'd do as a kid to impress others. It's something you have to practice and get right, which some people never can, which is why it leaves an impression.
Just watch more Japanese media and you'll get it. Lurk moar, essentially.

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>>19300428
>5th grade
>playing tag on playground
>I was a god at tag, would always outmaneuver everyone else and do whatever it took to not get caught
>could run like a motherfucker too
>guy who's it is chasing me
>look behind me to see where he is
>he's really far back
>start lmaoing @ his life
>BANG
>do a flip, land on the ground, can't hear shit
>ran full speed into one of those godforsaken poles
>the whole playground goes dead, everyone heard the ringing of bone on metal
>teachers that were across the parking lot heard it
>dazed for a few seconds
>guy who was it asks if I'm ok
>he reaches out his hand to help me up
>not falling for it
>take off to the other side of the playground
>was totally fine, no concussions, just a small bruise on my forehead

still, fuck those bars

>> No.19321890

>>19321772
tg;dr

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