Thank God They Didn't Have Ritalin Back When I Was A Kid...

[SteyrAUG]

The most unique part of the GD forum for me is the fact that I know exactly which threads are yours from the titles because it's all the same stuff I always did or read.

Yep, it's like many of us are part of some bizarre cloning experiment (The Boys from Brazil / Village of the Damned) that somehow involves Jivaro blowguns, switchblades and nunchaku.

[sewvacman]

I remember we used to play war with BB guns. The "one pump" rule would get violated every so often. Or dirt clod fights. Ahh good times. The things us "latchkey" kids got away with.

Now let me see my son/daughter do that shit and social services will need to be called.

[Phillygunguy]

might be a little off topic But not only did we not have Ritalin, when I was a kid in the 70s, we were told to stick up for ourselves. If some punk ass kid or bully hit you, your parents ( at least my dad) told me to hit them back. The playground my mom took me to, was all concrete and steel. if you fell, you skinned your knees, got a little bloody and if you had any sense you knew not to do it again. None of this astro turf or rubber crap to soften your fall.

[jmoore]

Doing that now and the neighbors would call the cops and you'd both being drug to jail for domestic violence or children's protective services. :(

And I remember cruising the open fields of the neighborhood with either my BB gun or pellet rifle - no grasshopper or dragonfly was safe! Nowadays that would certainly require a SWAT rollout, and mom & dad would likely be charged the resulting bill!!!!!! john

[ramairthree]

Hell yeah you grew up right.

[J-Dub]

And I remember cruising the open fields of the neighborhood with either my BB gun or pellet rifle - no grasshopper or dragonfly was safe! Nowadays that would certainly require a SWAT rollout, and mom & dad would likely be charged the resulting bill!!!!!! john

Where in the hell do you people live????????

[montanadave]

Where in the hell do you people live????????

Yeah, I think it's more a function of population density.

I saw a couple of kids ride by the front gate yesterday on a dirt bike, shorts, no helmets, and carrying a rifle. No idea where they were headed but I just waved.

[jmp45]

BB gun fights here too in the 60s, was all fun and games til someone cryed.. Had many days blowing stuff up with m80s and cherry bombs. I don't recall Ritalin being available back then. It may have been normal for young boys having the monkeys running recklessly through their heads.

Steyr, I ran 'The Raid 2' yesterday, it's just been released. I wondered if the stunt guys grew up like you in Indonesia. I can't see how they could make that film like the first Raid without sending dozens to the hospital. Pretty over the top.

[fixit69]

Steyr, back then it was called being a boy/kid.

. Along with the BB gun and bottle rocket wars etc... We also carved our own staves, made nunchuks(? We beat the shit out ourselves more than each other) and wooden swords. Metal was not much of an option because Jackson, MS did not have much of a selection and our parents were not going to add to the mayhem we were already unleashing. There were a few classes to take but we were having a ball, what's a few bloody knuckles, noses and lips. We hand gloves and a steep learning curve.

It was another 8 years before I got into bjj and judo in 88/89. I missed a lot, but I was playing guitar and working as much as I could in the family business. Your posts and pics really take me back. You had great gear back in the day

[Outlander Systems]

Steyr, back then it was called being a boy/kid.

. Along with the BB gun and bottle rocket wars etc... We also carved our own staves, made nunchuks(? We beat the shit out ourselves more than each other) and wooden swords. Metal was not much of an option because Jackson, MS did not have much of a selection and our parents were not going to add to the mayhem we were already unleashing. There were a few classes to take but we were having a ball, what's a few bloody knuckles, noses and lips. We hand gloves and a steep learning curve.

It was another 8 years before I got into bjj and judo in 88/89. I missed a lot, but I was playing guitar and working as much as I could in the family business. Your posts and pics really take me back. You had great gear back in the day

I had homemade nunchaku coming out of my eyeballs. When I finally got a real set, with the ball bearings, I was on cloud 9.

The trick to the homemade sword was finding a steel pipe and crimping it with a hammer to flatten one end of the tube out.

My big hobby as a youth was leather working. I never had a weapon without a homemade leather holster. Nunchaku holster, staff carrying strap, sword sheath, BB Gun holster...

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Two words...

WAX LIPS!