Taken from Wikipedia
While enlisting for subjects this coming semester, I decided to check on the list of PE subjects offered. PE subjects are free in UP and you can take more than the prescribed number, which is four. I noticed there are some activities they didn’t offer a few years ago and there are those that they don’t offer anymore.
Listing down the demand from last Thursday, the top ten PEs are:
1. Yoga - 575
2. Sports Climbing - 545
3. Duck Pin Bowling - 465
4. Cheerleading - 293
5. Walking for Fitness - 287
6. Arnis - 260
7. Striptease Aerobics (Women) - 237
8. Table Tennis - 227
9. Team Building - 212
10. Belly Dancing (Women) - 206
(Complete list at the bottom)
I can’t remember them offering Striptease Aerobics, Team Building, and Belly Dancing before. And I wouldn’t have guessed Yoga would be the most popular PE. The first PE I took was Stretching. My teacher described it as Yoga without the spiritual mumbo jumbo. After having taken it for one sem, I don’t think that description’s accurate. I think a better comparison would be that thing that you’re supposed to do while warming up for real sports like Judo. That’s what we do in Stretching - without proceeding to the actual sports part.
Back then, I thought it was pretty unusual as a PE. Scrabble and chess were even in the selection at one point. It seems PE in UP has gotten even more unusual these days with the addition of activities like Jiu-Jitsu and Mahjong.
Here’s the the full list of PEs with their respective demands. Most freshmen have already enlisted, so the demand shown here most likely does not include the sizable freshie demand.
1. Yoga - 575
2. Sports Climbing - 545
3. Duck Pin Bowling - 465
4. Cheerleading - 293
5. Walking for Fitness - 287
6. Arnis - 260
7. Striptease Aerobics (Women) - 237
8. Table Tennis - 227
9. Team Building - 212
10. Belly Dancing (Women) - 206
11. Archery - 203
12. Badminton - 192
13. PE 1 - 180
14. Basketball (Men) - 169
15. Jiu-Jitsu - 166
16. Modern Jazz - 165
17. Lawn Tennis - 165
18. Scuba Diving - 163
19. Aerobic Dance - 156
20. Social Dance - 156
21. Basketball (Women) - 137
22. Futsal - 134
23. Line Dance - 109
24. Weight Training (Men) - 96
25. Mahjong - 89
26. Wrestling - 88
27. Judo - 83
28. Philippine Folk Dance - 80
29. Non-Impact Aerobics - 76
30. Band and Ball - 74
31. Fin Swimming - 56
32. Tap Dance - 34
33. Bridge - 15
So Raymond, what PE classes did you take back in college?
Stretching, Table Tennis, Social Dance, Philippine Folk Dance, and Judo
Striptease Aerobics. What up?! XD
Also, I LOLed at Stretching. Although, in hindsight, not to knock on Yoga or anything, but your prof did kind of have a point. :))
haha nakakatawa naman yung mga PE ngayon sa Unibersidad ng Pilipinas. Kung top school natin sa Pinas ganiyan yung PE paano pa kaya yung supportado lang ng City Government tulad ng sa makati? Pakitingnan na lang po!
Who was your teacher for Stretching? My friend actually teaches the belly dance pe class. I believe (as a belly dancer myself) that it’s a legit PE course. We actually just came back from a workshop in Malaysia.
Wala nang Philippine Games?
I’ve always wanted to join that.
I took up Marksmanship in UP, so sad they don’t offer that anymore. Also Cheerdancing and Scrabble. Well at least they now have Mah Jong to replace.