Month: February 2024 (Page 8 of 16)

Its that time of year again! Welcome back to Folsom Raceway home of the 3rd Annual Folsom Winter Nationals! We had a great turn out with almost all the rock pushing teams and their members accounted for (except for Suess’s team left him high and dry🤷‍♂️).

We all gathered at the lower parking lot. I took role call and had a quick Draft for the teams there were missing people. There were some pretty good draft picks, as the winning team picked up a Kotter that was the difference at the end IMO. After a Quick Disclaimer, 3Fs and Core Principles (for our FNG–good Job Tricycle!) we moseyed across the field to the staging lanes.

Our 2 rangers were waiting on us as I gave instruction on how this was going to go. Double elimination bracket, loose twice you are out. 1 driver 3 pushers, flashlight start, chase is a race, no bumping and no WHINNING!! Special thanks to Montross and Pappy for basically running the program. I was just the announcer 📢.

If your team is not racing, we had busy work to do. Super Dora, with favorites such as burpees, squats, merkins, etc.. AND Block Work as well, curls, thrusters, WW3, etc… Lap around the parking lot between rounds!
Good Job Leppard!!

Each team got seated on a ladder based on the rankings for the Rock Pushing Challange. First pair up LETS GO!!!

New Addition to this years activates was Kisha, if you lost you got to play with Kisha, all 450 lbs of her, until the next losing team tagged you out.

When the dust settled we had crowned a champion! Roscoe, Maybelline, Tube and Ratrod won the final round in commanding fashion.

Congratulations Guys!

We Gathered around, counted off 53 HIM! We named Maytag and as always we end in a COT.

Announcements:
2nd F lunch 21st at Pita Wheel Belmont NOON
Q School March 2nd at Gashouse

Prayers:
Turtle Man
Huck
AnchorMan
Hall Family
Purple Haze Family
all Pax on IR
all Pax traveling

Thank you to Montross and Pappy for running the race. Thank you to Stogie who made an awesome trophy! Thank you to my Folsom men that helped set up. Ponyboy, GearWrench, Westside. And thank everyone that came out to push some trucks! AYE!!

SYITG

Ball Joint

OH! I almost forgot.
A PSA from our very own BEAVER AGITATOR!!

2 ran and 2 rucked at our official FRC today. We are still awaiting one of our founding members..Buckeye..to join us. All are welcome.

4:30 is early but, as Sargento said, there is less traffic.. as well as scenic views from the cemetery.

Thankful for you guys,

Seuss

Disclaimer

Warm-up

Today is block day, go locate the blocks and then carry back to the parking lot.

The Thang:

PAX divides into four groups, with each group bringing their coupon to their designated corner. They perform the below specified exercises 10 times at each corner before proceeding to the next one. However, before moving on to the next corner, they must bring their coupon to the center for 2 burpees, and then they can proceed to the next corner. Rinse and repeat five times!

Corner 1

• O/H press
• Bend over rows

Corner 2

• Curls
• Squats

Corner 3

• Chest Presses
• Flutter Kicks

Corner 4

• Swings
• Tricep ext

Center x2 blockees

Put blocks away and then back to the shovel flag for the Pledge.

COT

Announcements

Prayer Requests

YHC closed us in prayer.

Breaker Breaker

Lot’s of HIM are showing up these days, especially for those extra double post points. On this day at Midoriyama, it was a confluence of significant days (to some), Fat Tuesday and Valentines Day eve and we would celebrate them all! This is what happened…

Disclaimer even though the PAX were well seasoned. Warmup of Goofballs and the Patented Right Over Left. In preparation for the spectacle, YHC did some research about Mardi Gras.

• When was the first Mardi Gras parade? 1837
• When were beads first used? 1872
• How many pounds of beads are used each year? 1000 tons!

First exercise is the Slaughter Starter. That’s right, 2nd workout in a row that YHC calls for significant burpees.

Because a bunch of us are heading down to Austin, TX for a race (this backblast is being written from CLT waiting for our plane) we did the brief Bat Wings routine because Austin is known for it’s bats that fly out from under the bridges at dusk.

From there, we lined up single file and the trusty JBL was kicked on with some Mardi Gras music for effect. In recognition of Mardi Gras, we would do a parade, which some there called an Indian Run. Either way, the person in the back ran to the front and would take the “baton”, the JBL. We ended up at the small soccer field and circled up in the middle for a new routine.

The Fleur de Lis is the state symbol of Louisiana so that’s what this is called. In a circle, from plank position, we took turns doing 5 Pickle Pounders (practice for the lucky ones on Valentines Day). Needless to say, the enthusiasm and creativity was plentiful. Then we did another parade around the area for celebrations sake.

After that we did the Fleur de Lis with Monkey Humpers (get it?).

After that we did another parade, this time a bear crawl slalom. Whining happened but we finished strong with two rounds for each PAX.

Next up, the long-lost Tunnel of Love! There was moaning from some and questions of what the Tunnel was. I guess it’s been so long that many PAX have never done it before. Initiations were handed out!

We took another parade lap and finished up with a Fleur de Lis with Baby Makers. If this stuff didn’t get the men ready for their significant other, nothing will.

Line up again for one last parade back to the start where we did about 10 minutes of Mary. It was great for the abs. Then we did the Pledge of Allegiance to wrap up. Thanks for the opportunity to lead men!

Announcements – 2nd F lunch this Wednesday, Q school March 2nd, Tobacco Road relay April 27th

Prayers – Slaw’s M’s back, Stuart Cramer teacher with cancer, Wirenut’s granddaughter and mom

Tesla with another DR post at Cannonball in Lake Wylie Tuesday!

21 PAX showed up for the Tequila Sunrise. No FNG’s. A few late stragglers but started on time. No sign of pool boy (AKA: Orangeman)

Warm up: Pledge first. There was a coupon passed around for some curls while the PAX warmed up. SSH, Weed Pickers, Abe Vigodas, Arm Circles, Hillbillies, and threw in some some stretching.

Mosey to the playground for some pull ups and some Merkins for some additional warm ups. Then ran to the Tennis courts…bringing the coupon of course.

The Thang – Field of Dreams

7 Elbow Plank jacks at each of the 4 bases

14 Big Boy Sit ups with 2-4 Hammers at each base

21 Lieutenant Dans at each base

28 SSH at each base

21 Merkins at each base

14 CDD’s at each base

7 Burpees when we got back to the AO to finish the sequence…along with the coupon of course.

Good job men…was an honor to lead.

We ran, we rucked.

BOS lost a bet, and had to become a SF 49ers fan.

We talked about Preparedness at QSource.

My sermon notes didn’t hold together really well in the rain and I couldn’t get the iPad out to share specifically what I wanted to share during 3rd F. Notes were from City Church’s sermon on 2/11 (Pastor Spargo). The focus was on leadership. Lead at home. Lead at work. Lead in our community.

The Encouraging Word:

“Stop Following and Start Leading” Ephesians 4:17-20

2 Reasons We Need Godly Leaders:

1. Everything rises and falls on leadership. (Provers 11:14)
2. There is a shortage of servant leadership today. (Romans 6:13)

4 Things a Leader must know:

1. You must know your identity. (Hebrews 11:24)
   • Success is being who God made you to be. (John 8:14)
2. You must accept responsibility. (Proverbs 22:13; Hebrews 11:25)
   • Two Facts about Responsibility (Romans 14:12):
     • I can’t blame others for the direction of my life.
     • I can’t live off of other’s spiritual commitment to Christ.
3. You must set priorities. (Job 34:4; Hebrews 11:26; 1 Corinthians 10:23)
4. You must focus on eternity. (Colossians 3:1-2; Hebrews 11:27; Hebrews 12:2)

Good times out there this morning with most of the jokes coming at Orangeman’s expense.  After all, during the warm up he did say, “I float better with a ‘pool boy’ between my legs.”  Nuff said.

As the jokes continued we did some bear crawls, nur, and Lt. Dan’s up the hill with dips, step ups and derkins or inclined merkins as our reward for getting to the top of the hill.  Moseyed, stopped for 100 squats and 100 LBC, moseyed to the bridge wall for wall-sits and dirty hookups.  Continued to mosey to the basketball courts for another 100 squats and 100 LBCs.  Back to the flag for 5 minutes of stretching.

Bubba Sparxxx and Montana coming back strong from their respective surgeries, well done men!

Reminder about Q school on March 2nd and the 2nd F lunch being moved to Pita Wheel in Belmont.

Prayers for Bubba Sparxxx, Montana, Jane Fonda, Breaker’s aunt Gainelle, Virus’ father-in-law, Orangeman’s three friends, PAX who we haven’t seen lately…..reach out to them and encourage them to come back out.

~I’m Anchorman, you stay classy Gastonia.

Orangeman’s “Pool Boy”…..AKA “Pull Buoy”

Welp, it’s happened again! Tesla stole another Q! In this case, it was a legit emergency and YHC stood up and took it. Hot Corner where were you today? So, when he didn’t show YHC just took it up and took it to the dirt field, not the pavement.  Being is it was Ash Wednesday it was time to get in the dirt because we came from dirt and will become that in our physical sense! So, there was a definite symbolism to what we did. Here’s how it went:

COP

SS-burpees X 5

IWs X 20

Dirt pickers X 20

Tesla Stretches

Mtn. Climbers X 20

4 corners from the middle

Middle: 2 burpees

1st corner: 10 HR merkins

2nd corner: 10 HR merkins + 10 squats

3rd corner: 10 HR merkins + 10 squats + 10 CDDs

4th Corner: 10 HR merkins + 10 squats +10 CDDs + 10 Big boys

Return to the middle after each corner and do the 2 burpees.

Down to the end of the field:

1st pole, middle, end of field sprints/suicides

1st set: Merkins, 5X, 10X, 15X, Skip back

2nd set: Jump squats, 5X, 10X, 15X, skip back

3rd set: Mike Tysons, 5X, 10X, 15X

Over to the benches:

Dips, step-ups, dirkins, inclined big boys

1st set: 10X each, run a hot lap

2nd set: 15X each, burpee broad jump across the field, mosey back halfway and do a 5X chop-chop burpees

Bear Crawl Slalom! Across the field. Had a first timer here. He learned the ropes!

10 SSH

Back to the center for more chop-chops!

Over to the benches to finish up.

Last act: 3 minute plank: Symbol of the Passion of the Christ at the end of Lent.

NMM:

We had mostly a group of veterans but one newbie that had never done BCS. Got everyone on the dirt today to the point we tracked a bunch of mud and dirt into Floyd and Blackies. They probably thought about kicking us out.

I like the dirt. Grew up hands in the dirt. Its natural. And its where came from and where we will return to. Lent teaches us that. The last 3 act was all about what Christ went through to save us from ourselves. Which in a way is what F3 does for us all.

We’re all better in the group, the team, the movement. If we’re OYO, we just get picked off eventually and return to our lowest common denominator. Let’s stick together guys. We can accomplish a lot if we do that.

Tesla