Its this kind of intiative that pleases me, but there'll always be some naysayer who doubt it'll work.

Forget that lame guy Nick. I'd like to see that sucker play Wii Boxing for an hour, and tell me it doesn't give you a good work out. On my first go I was sweating buckets, perhaps a sign I need more exercise, lol.

In short this Wii idea is good. Its an exercise worthy extention of what some school in the USA have previously done with DDR machines. Its about giving kids something to do that's fun and engaging, but also letting them exercise, without the boredom that can come with knowing you are doing exercise.

The very reason I gave up going to the gym as an adult was due to this boredom and repetitive nature of exercise. Eliminate that and kids will be competing all over the schools Wii's. I'll be keeping a close eye on progress of this.

Nick Seaton, you dumb ass. Try seeing it in action and talk to the kids, you tosser. Its about them, not you.

Mr Seaton hails, I believe, from York... basically as Dickensian a setting as you can get from a production design point of view. Whenever I wander down the Shambles, I expect a first floor window to be cast open, and a gentleman to hand me £20 and beseech me to fetch for him the largest turkey in all of Yorkshire.

Whatever Mr Seaton's qualities (and I bet voting Tory is one of them), this is a particularly reactionary response. Here is a perfectly good idea, designed specifically to stop people being "physically idle", yet because it involves new-fangled technology, luddites like Seaton (who still refers to the three Rs) immediately condemn it.

Critics Schmitics!

People have got to look out for their own job security though; it's all about the Benjamins.

I hated P.E. in my school though. Too much emphasis on football, not enough on rugby... hell, not enough on anything else really. Indoor sports never had the stuff I wanted to play, despite us apparently having a 'choice'... and the teachers were right bastards to boot.

Happy days.

Sounds just like my PE days. I was one of the few soccer players, and I remember one year we just skipped it. Played about a month of football, but those that didn't want to play could run the track. So, I spent a month sleeping in the bleachers with the other soccer players...

But about this whole Wii and fitness business...all naysayers will be silenced when Wii Fit hits store shelves.