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Message: <blockquote data-quote="PaulR" data-source="post: 946064" data-attributes="member: 176256">At my secondary school the PE teacher had a punishment pump (a kind of plimsoll).  When dishing out the punishment he would offer it with or without anaesthetic.  With anaesthetic involved an extra swift strike at the buttocks which would numb the area to the following strikes.He was tough teacher and left our school to become the UK national boxing coach for the Mexico Olympics.  I found a quote from him after a brief search today "In the old routine you met on the plane and if the boy was five pounds overweight you sawed a leg off. Under Len, we learnt that the old sweats who were coaching were the salt of the earth but their methods were archaic. You need more than a bent nose, scar tissue and a towel to be a trainer."</blockquote>