• Post Type: Backblast
  • When: 02/03/2024
  • AO: Out of Region
  • QIC: N/A
  • FNG's:
  • PAX: Balljoint

I went to Orlando, all AOs were closed for a convergence/opening of a new AO/region about 60 miles from my location. Below is the back blast as written by @Swayze.

Give me my point😂

SYITG

Balljoint

THE HOLLOW LAUNCH!! Great turnout. The regulars at The Hollow, myself included, thank you for your support. Correct me if I’m wrong, but we saw support from The Bokey, The Roost, The Mount, The Rising. and one pax downrange from his AO in Gastonia, NC! YHC started with a brief history of F3 before giving the three Fs and asking the pax to recite the 5 core principles which they nailed without problem. Thang 1 Hey Ya Sandbag Shuffle! Divided pax into two teams with a line of sandbags in the middle. Each team lined up in their “endzone” and were instructed, once “Hey Ya” by Outkast starts playing, to run to the middle, grab any sandbag, carry it to the other team’s endzone and drop it. The opposing team needed to get rid of the sandbag by carrying it the other team’s endzone. For some added fun, every time Outkast sang “Hey Ya” all pax were required to perform a squat whether they were holding a sandbag or not. When the song ended, the shuffle ended. Thang 2 Pick Up The Six YHC explained that sometimes as men we don’t communicate well. We don’t want to do the hard things. We don’t want to ask for help and we don’t like asking someone if they need help. This evolution was designed to challenge that. 13 stations were setup around the AO. Each station required all pax to work together to complete a set number of reps for that exercise. The stations were: 500 – Jerry Can Deadlifts using two 55# jerry can sandbags 300 – WW3 BBSU using 20# sandbag 300 – Thrusters using 40# med ball 200 – Ground-to-Shoulder lift using 60# med ball 500 – Kettlebell swings using 26# KB 500 – Kettlebell presses using 26# KB 500 – Ball Slams using 20# slam ball 20 – Walks around the AO using 100# med ball and 100# tombstone 500 – Merkins 500 – Knuckletouch Squats 300 – 4ct – Mountain Climbers 200 – Burpees Total reps: 4,320 PLOT TWIST: Two stretcher were loaded with 135# each. Pax were instructed reps at the stations only count as long as the stretchers were overhead. (We modified to shoulder height.) This challenged the pax to communicate well, ask if someone needed help with the stretchers, ask to come off the stretchers, and jump into help with high rep counts. We completed the task in under 20 mins. Very impressed!! CoR, Named the FNG “NPC”, NoR, ANN, TAPs, PIC, OUT!!! (Afterward, some pax participated in “The Walk” by picking up and carrying heavy sandbags. Others tried to shoulder them. Lot of fun! Use the ‘New Backblast’ button to create a new backblast