Cumberland
House Reserve School - 1981
page
two
This
page is intended for the students there today, in your modern new
school. Our school then had two classrooms,
with students in grades one to nine.
As you might guess though, it wasn't all work and no play...
We
had no gym like you do today, but we had mats ...
Handstands
aren't all that hard to do ...
See
those girls in the lineup ... Wonder if they can still do a
handspring :=)
They
might if they had the same reliable spotter as in the third photo
...
Here
we are lined up awaiting our turn ...
"Our
those really our mothers doing headstands", I hear someone saying ...
"Yep, and I'll bet they can still do it now, twenty-six
years later
... "
"How
come I ended up on my seat?"
Nothing
to it ... See
how easy it is with a good spotter ...
(But be sure and try to track down the same spotter, if possible
...)
The
white upright being studied so closely was part of our homemade bench
for barbell workouts. It seemed to work okay ...
Training
hard for the 1981 "Ms Cumberland House Cree Nation Reserve" competition
... Which lifter would you vote for? Maybe we could have a replay in
2008 ...
(Just kidding, we didn't really have
that contest ... )
Wow!
This bench press looks like serious power lifting ...
"Flit
like a butterfly, sting like a bee"- (Mohammed
Ali)
Good thing we used big soft 16-ounce gloves, or my goodness, we might
have witnessed a "Million Dollar Baby" tragedy like in the film that
came along twenty years after our women warriors had hung up their
gloves!!!!
Note: The photos will all print out at
roughly the size of the large ones on these pages. If you want larger
copies, e-mail me at lmattson928@hotmail.com
and I might take it on as a winter project.
These two pages contain about half the photos on
hand. Most of the rest can be posted after I've
put up a page for Red Earth, where, thanks to H.H., I got the encouragement to do online
pages of recent
school history.
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