I still recall the mass blistering that would occur after a few races across the bars we had in my school, mid-summer'ish. Seems to me the #1 danger for us Aussies was the roasting we'd get on the bars until a few kids had gotten across first, cooling things down with their sweat/blood.

Nevertheless, when the playgrounds went away, we still had the bloody beatings known as Aussie-rules-footie .. good times, good times.