Physical Education, Thursday, May 17, 2018

[heroic_jawline]

Today's PE class was on a part of the beach designated for swimming. They were greeted by Steve and Tony in swimtrunks. "Hello, everyone," Steve began. "I hope you were less rainbow colored than I was after I finished up the rowboat competition yesterday."

"Though there was some concern about people's ability to swim," Tony said with a smile that said he knew well enough why people wanted Steve to rescue them. "So, today we'll be working on the basics."

Steve nodded seriously, totally not knowing why people wanted him to rescue them. "So grab a kickboard and we'll start with leg drills, and progress from there, okay?"

"But first, let's watch a PSA on water safety." Tony went through the effort of bringing one of those terribly old fashioned school TVs to the beach. All for this moment.

"You didn't," Steve hissed. "Did you borrow them from Hardison?"

"You make it sound like I can't procure them on my own," Tony said while on the TV, Captain America sat backwards on a chair to show how hip he was.

"So, you want to learn to swim--" TV Cap said in a hearty voice while Steve just shook his head and blushed.

And Tony was bust trying his very best not to laugh at poor Steve. "We can do our introductions in the water."

"Heaven forbid we interrupt the video," Steve muttered while Cap continued to talk in that same boisterous tone about the virtues of knowing how to swim.

Comments

Swim!

[heroic_jawline]

Today's laps are swimming instead of running, but don't get used to it. Kick drills, then arm drills, then laps of freestyle, backstroke, and breaststroke!

Oh, you lucky kids.

Re: Swim!

[midichlorianfail]

Mysteriously, Theron was a much better swimmer today than he'd been yesterday.

Mysteriously.

Re: Swim!

[white_oleander]

Astrid didn't mind the drills. They gave her something to focus on, she liked being told what to do, and no one was questioning her for going to a class to do what was expected of her and actually doing it.

Her performance might have faltered a little bit and she may have struggled with the more demanding drills, but it had more to do with the fact that she had nearly no athleticism or stamina than anything else.

Re: Swim!

[thatsweirdright]

Oh yeah, this was easy. Jason had no trouble with any of it-

Until his bad knee gave out mid breaststroke-kick, that is. Still, he was stubborn and was going to push through and finish. Just with a dolphin-kick instead, now.

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[always_someone]

Oh, wow. Okay. Norman hadn't been swimming in too long, and it wasn't like he could even ride a bike around the island, given all the stairs. He was fortunate that he could float just fine, because his legs were seriously feeling like noodles about halfway through.

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[thegreatmanfredo]

Manfred kind of sucked at the backstroke but he was passable at everything, so whatever.

At least they didn't have to do butterfly.