Day: July 22, 2023

IYWTYWK

Warm up—————————-

The Thang————————–

Mosey to school parking lot for:
Relay race with excercises
Suicides
Kid carry up hill
11s
Rock Paper Scissors & Burpees

COT———————————-

Naming of the FNG kids:
Hit Stick    (Orville’s 2.0)
Space Cadet   (Orville’s 2.0)
Dice Wizard  (Hunchback’s 2.0)

Announcements:
Pita wheel 2nd F lunch

TAPs
Eh Y’all  MIL. healing
Balljoint’s aunt – recovery
Tesla – Sister in law – Dementia
Blueprint’s daughter, “Space Cadet – Starting college a GA Tech for BioMed Eng
Ratchet’ s son Jason Hall – remission
Turtle man – cancer treatment coming back
F3 pax – our parents
Boudin family trip to Africa

9 PAX put in work with blocks, some with no gloves, others fresh faces, but none backed down.  Here’s what I remember:

Game time.  Many PAX out on vacation.  Some others decided to show up  to fill in the gaps.  Hokie’s been a regular lately, and it’s been good to see him out.  Hunchback and his 2.0, Pizza the Hut, made rare appearances in the summer sun at Midoriyama.  Hot Corner made up for an AM fartsack by getting in a late one.  Add in regulars Blart, Pockets, Montross and Happy Trees and there you have it.  A full ball team.

• 10 x SSH (IC)
• 10 x Don Quixotes (IC)
• 10 x Hillbilly Walkers (IC)
• Tesla Stretches
• 10 x Mountain Climbers (IC)
• 10 x Overhead Claps (IC)

Meander to get blocks.  No running til the hill work.  Once everyone had their blocks, we carried them down the road, around the turn, and to the turd shack at the top of the hill to the lake near the picnic shelter.  As we traveled, we stopped at each light pole on the route for

• 1 x Blockee (OYO)

We’re at about the midpoint between the early summer and late summer rounds of the PT tests.  Time to check on progress.  Today’s progress check was all about Thunder.  To recap:

• 12 x Thrusters
• 12 x Curls
• 12 x American Hamers (w/coupon, count right side only)
• 12 x Swings
• 12 x Bent Over Rows
• 12 x Big Boys (no coupon)
• 12 x Heels to Heaven (no coupon)
• 12 x Burpees (no coupon)

In Thunder, you repeat it for time.  As this is a bootcamp, we’re gonna take a break to run.

• Mosey down the hill to the water and back up at the end of every round

You’re welcome

Timing worked out pretty well.  The long walk over trimmed down the time to where we really didn’t have too much more time than the 25 minutes that’s allotted for Thunder.  Adding in the running sucked, and it was a sweatfest for those 25 minutes.  Most PAX got through 3 rounds, with some more and some less.

Shortcut back, stopping for

• 1 x Blockee (OYO)

at every pole.  We probably got about 15 in total.  Not significant, but not nothing.  It broke up the carrying.

By the time all PAX were back, blocks put up and we met back at the circle, we were 1 minute past time.  YHC cranked out his 10 burpee penalty for each minute late as COT got started.

Prayers for Norwood, Turtleman, Montross’s Mom, Balljoint’s Aunt & others.

Just because it’s simple, doesn’t mean it’s easy.  These 9 put it out there and left a lot of sweat on the field.  Strong work by all.

There’s nothing like July at Midoriyama.  Grateful for the opportunity to lead.

Yabba Dabba Doo

Part bootcamp, part angleball, 100% good time.

Angleball notes:

1. Brutus can run down a ball faster than anyone.
2. Tooth Fairy may be running for mayor of Belmont, but he’ll take you out if you get in the way.
3. Not one of us has a good shot but that’s ok, see #1.

Watt’s Up said to read the other back blasts for the latest announcements.

Prayer requests:

• Norwood, surgery Friday.
• Turtleman, treatment every Monday & Thursday.
• Tiger’s Mom, ongoing cancer treatment.
• Brutus’ brother, Steve, just had a heart attack but doing ok.
• Tesla’s sister and ex-wife.
• Sargento’s middle one turning 16……and will be out driving on his own.

You stay classy Gastonia.

~Anchorman