Six String SCREAMER!

Over a year and a half into my F3 journey and ole DaVinci finally stepped up to his V-Q.  Thank the Sky-Q for Bandit on the Co-Q as I am usually winded at about the 2 minute mark.

Warmup — Bandit started us with some old favorites.  SSH IC x 20, Moroccan Night Club IC x 30 (maybe 50?), lots of others quick and hard.  Plenty of mumblechatter especially from FNG (Gilligan) who was flabbergasted by our Exicon. Counterama = 11 then we moseyed to the flag for pledge.  Wallsit, donkey kicks, hip slappers. Mosey to top of the hill and Bandit handed over the Q to me.  A brief interlude of Monkey Humpers ICx10 to entertain Garrison Blvd, then mosey down to the Grier MS track.

The Thang — SIX STRING SCREAMER;  Being a guitarist and knowing that is part of why I got my F3 name (creativity = multi-instrumentalist = renaissance man = DaVinci) I split up the track using the six strings of a guitar (actually duct tape lines) and handed out slips to each pax with an exercise.  Each exercise is either partner or group to emphasize teamwork, like in a rock band, an organization like F3 or many other aspects of life. After choosing partners, pax run AYG to next “string” and winner calls his exercise.  Can’t remember exact order, but the band rocked it out with:  Modern-Day-Warrior Lunges (lunges performed with arms out parallel to ground and alternate legs on each lunge so that your arms swing about as if slashing your enemies with swords), 100 combined w/ partner; Tunnel Of Love ; Partner Derkins 20 combined; Railroad Tracks; LBC 100 combined; Alabama Ass-Kickers, 40 combined; Squerkins, 10 each position; DuckWalk as a group to next string; American Hammer, 100 combined; Hello Dolly, 50 combined; Princess Tea Party, consisting of 10 (or so) Partner Merkins and 30 second Partner Wallsit (back to back).  At some point, Whoopie nearly gave us an Irish Goodbye, but did acknowledge he had to bolt.  After everyone had called their exercise, YHC gave a little pep talk about how I’m always the 6, but I’m never the last man in as there’s always 2-3 bros who circle back and encourage me. No man left behind. Iron sharpens iron. I am third.  Find the last, lost and least and get out of your comfort zone to be sure they are taken care of.  The greatest love you can show is sacrifice.  With that we moseyed back up the hill, pausing for Crab Humpers IC x 10, again to entertain the drivers on Garrison. We had about 6 minutes left so Bandit took over again for some Mary….

6MOM —  Posting this too long afterwards so can’t recall all, but included some burpees, Dying Cockroaches and some form of Merkins.

COT — announcements: BRR coming up, remember our bros participating; need Q for third F next 3 weeks.  Prayer requests: friend of Stroganoff’s, Bill, who had a tragic death in the fam; friend of DaVinci’s, Shawn, also had a tragic death in the fam;  TSquare and his fam

BOM — DaVinci led the prayer

Coffeeteria — Stronganoff, Bandit, Yo Adrian and DaVinci

Just a few quick comments on my V-Q.  I was afraid I had designed too much and the pax would say “we’re not gonna take it” and I thought personally I would feel shot through the heart, but once we got started we all felt like we were runnin with the devil on our tails and I could sense the general feeling was “I want action”.  Round and round the track, these guys weren’t F-F-F-Foolin, although in that second turn, the overgrown bushes were nearly a welcome to the jungle and we had to jump out of the way. Once the final countdown was over, my water bottle made me open up and say …ahhh and we all agreed it was nothin but a good time!

Peace! — DaVinci