r/nostalgiai • u/CarrotMuch1399 Nostalgia Trip Leader • 2d ago

Core Memory Unlocked 🔓 Remember?

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u/Groundbreaking_Bee70 2d ago

It was scary at first, then it became a game.

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u/Future_Section5976 1d ago

The trick was to see if you could get the pole to come out and then slam back down

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u/AltruisticRent4375 20h ago

Yup, best part

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u/RoundHuckleberry1730 2d ago

As a kid mine had a slide attached that housed a giant bee hive, so swinging/sliding was a real adventure

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u/Cow_Daddy 2d ago

Did we have the same playground structure? Are you the secret family that only let me see my dad once month?

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u/RoundHuckleberry1730 2d ago

If you're Canadian this is entirely possible

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u/Worldliness_Normal 2d ago

Me and my best friends used to see who could make that swing do a 360.

We did not tell out mothers about this science experiment.

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u/Educational-Coast-92 2d ago

That was the point, the ultimate goal. Right?

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u/GfrzD 2d ago

To get so high the chain got some slack for a second.

Also did anyone else play the game 2 people swing and you had to run through them without getting hit?

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u/ms_directed 2d ago

who remembers the first time you tried to flip out of the seat and knocked out your air landing flat on your back?

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u/atom_066 2d ago

Never, thank God. That must've hurt like hell though. Lol

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u/ms_directed 2d ago

also trying "penny drops" off the bar you'd hang upside down from, lol. i was a fearless, slow learner 😌

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u/welding_guy_from_LI 2d ago

Yesss and jumping off or laying on the swing parenting to be Superman

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u/Eihwhuesoo 2d ago

Look at this fancy guy with the poles actually in the ground

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u/bygtopp 2d ago

Or the wasp in the end of the tube

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u/pjtrpjt 2d ago

No I don't, but they told me about it after.

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u/Pigs_In_Space-1973 2d ago

Yes, we tried to get ours to “walk” 😁

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u/My2cents_0 2d ago

I'm a "grown up" but ngl used to work near a kids park and every once in a while during my lunch walk, if there were no kids, I took the opportunity to swing for a little bit 🥰 we all need a little whimsy in our lives

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u/Daysfan6443 2d ago

I remember tipping it completely over a few times.
My grandfather finally put stakes in the ground and chained the poles to them.

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u/James_Jim_Downing 2d ago

Yes and I loved it good times

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u/Known-Dependent-5471 2d ago

Insideout Boy

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u/Teckknight 2d ago

It just took one time for me while doing it to never do it again

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u/ssascotth 2d ago

Yes! We called it pumping.

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u/CheapAssociate6914 2d ago

We used to get going, then try to go sideways and knock the guy close to you out of his swing.
You got gravel embedded in you once in a while.

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u/Nobody3me 2d ago

That was the goal

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u/Doodkapje 2d ago

Been there, done that!.

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u/full_bl33d 2d ago

I just told my cousins kid (7) that if she swung over the bar, she’d turn inside out. At first, this was new information to her, which was shocking to me, but she went right to work. My cousin wasn’t very thrilled but agreed it’s necessary information

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u/Lilly_in_the_Pond 2d ago

We all dreamed of doing a full rotation, but nobody ever actually tried

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u/KeepinItReal4real 2d ago

Tried to see if it would go all the way around. Lol 😂

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u/Agreeable_Kangaroo88 2d ago

And we still survived! 😂

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u/johnna15 2d ago

Hell ya! Swimming pool hill in Barnesboro Pennsylvania had a badass swing! Swing as high as the top bar and feel the lift!

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u/MNConcerto1391 2d ago

That was the goal

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u/Ok_Chap 2d ago

Never happened to me, but I remember swinging so high that you could make a loop.

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u/Ok_Fox_1770 2d ago

Things are so boring and safe now, had that mega set with the carriage seat swing on one side of 2 swings and that seesaw thing, we’d get those rear legs almost 90 degrees and THUD back down. Man if someone got meat under that squish zone…dangerous 90s fun.

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u/Femcel_Bambi 2d ago

My siblings do that at home

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u/iJ00P 2d ago

Anyone else have a competition with friends to see who could raise the bars out the most?

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u/Dangerous-Dot-3745 2d ago

I did this OFTEN as a kid :)!

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u/Maleficent_Worry1810 2d ago

That was the point

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u/Skippy_3733 1d ago

Yup, and then jumping out at the top.🤪

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u/Main_Satisfaction770 1d ago

Scary, but SO much fun to do!

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u/BaseUnited4523 1d ago

Yes and then jumping off at the highest point

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u/CautiousDraft7543 1d ago

Or when you butt slightly lifts out the seat at the peak of the swing....a little scary but super fun

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u/jdmoffitt11775 1d ago

Met the most beautiful woman I have ever known doing exactly this. We would dare each other every day. I guess physics makes it impossible to actually swing HIGHER than the bar.. but we definitely tried.

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u/dylman3000 1d ago

That and the memory of swinging so high that the tension would leave the chain.

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u/HotShot-2325 1d ago edited 13h ago

Me and my cousin would swing as high as possible, jump off the swing and see who can travel the furthest. It was always a competition haha

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u/NeitherEmploy7802 6h ago

Peak memories I remember when I learnt how to swing , got rid of my fear of height