These were great games.

We played two games, the names of which I forget, that were possibly invented by Hitler.

One was crawling as fast as you could through the legs of a line of boys. And they could literally smash your ass with a belt. But only one shot! (Lucky us).

If the boy wasn’t terribly accurate the guy standing in front would end up with massive welts on his legs.
If done regularly it usually ended in fisticuffs cause obviously it was intentional! Lol 😂

When you got to the front, you tried to recover and wait your turn to go through again.

Delightful.

The other was flicking clay off the end of a whippy piece of reed. I forget what the best reed material was, but there was one.

Most boys had a prized flicking stick. You’d make a ball of clay and attach it to the end of a whippy reed and flick it.

The accuracy some boys achieved was remarkable. They could hit a “groovy” can of Soda 8/10 times from distance.

The downside was when the clay dried and basically they were hurling mini cannon balls at you. Usually 20 odd boys either side of the river. With ammunition (clay) in the middle.

The hardened clay took a few teeth out. But they are milk teeth so who was counting.

Crazy … when I think about it.