My friends and I did the sock thing...but not to do real damage. We would roll up one long sock into a tight ball, put it down in the toe of the other long sock, and use the resulting hand weapons, which we called "K'bops", to battle each other with. This was a lot of fun, and required speed, stamina, and agility. If you got hit solidly in the leg, then you had a "wounded leg" and had to limp. If your disengaged arm got hit, you had a wounded arm. The ultimate objective was to nail the other guy in the head, of course, but it usually wasn't too easy. I was the guy who came up with the K'bop idea, and it remained popular with me and my friends for many years afterwards.

- LH