Author: Tesla (Page 9 of 17)

So YHC and 16 pax showed to know in downtown Belmont in the humid gloom for a push to dink the buttermilk promised for breakfast. It id not disappoint. Went like this:

Form up by the park and mosey down behind Sammy’s for a COP warmup:

SSH X 20

IW X 20

Cotton Pickers X 20

Nolan Ryans X 10 each side.

Grapevine stretch

Mosey over to the now named Hamburger Hill at Hawthorne for some serious Dora – Hill work

Partner up!

Dora 1-2-3

HR Merkins – 100

Big Boy situps – 200

Squats  – 300

P1 – Up to the top of Hamburger hill and back.

P2 – Called exercise

Flapjack.

Got us to 7:30

Mosey back toward the AO.

Burpee suicides coming back.

Lunge two parking spaces forward. Nur back one. Drop down a burpee. Rinse and repeat until the end of the parking spots which was @ 10.

Got us to 7:40.

Mosey on over to the Field of Dreams for the 4th Quarter. Bear time! Bear Bryant. Bear Crawls.  Getting tougher when it’s late in the game, your tired and behind. Make the push!

New version of Bear Crawl Slalom. With 16-17 pax, it was time to make it competitive! And thus we did. Count off by twos. YHC took the 1s. Tiger the 2s. Goal was end of the field which meant at least three rolls per pax.  Three exhausting rolls. Loser gets 10 burpees. Winner gets to watch. It was as spirited and tough a 5 or so minute F3 experience YHC has ever had much less led. Saw real guts on display as the effort was fast and furious. So Q at the end called an Omaha. No losers. But 5 burpees for all. Seemed the right thing to do at the time. Sure was too!

Mosey over to Hearbreak Hill for a set of half pipes.

Top – 5 plank jacks

Pad – 5 merkins

Main street – 5 butt to the street Monkey Humpers.

2 sets. gets us to 7:55.

Reassmeble on the pad for pax led Mary. 1 pax calls move. Does 5 burpees while pax does called move. Went around the horn of 16 to finish it off. Had a little OT. Well worth it!

Pledge.

NMM:

Probably about as good as YHC can do for a lead. Most def a buttermilk day. Everyone got pounded pretty good. Again, it’s really all a lead up to the 4th quarter because that’s where you win or lose it, it being life itself. Just keep pushing it and making it happen. Bear Bryant said to his 1957 Texas A&M team (aka the Junction Boys) that winning wasn’t imperative. But getting tougher in the 4th quarter is. And that’s where we find ourselves today. So the question is do we fold and hope for better or push and make the present time an opportunity instead of a problem. It’s up to you. I find the times rather exciting myself. And living in interesting times is a gift. Newsflash: This is just the beginning. So do we lead and make it great or cower and let it overcome us. I choose leadership! Hope you do too. Make it happen! We’re here to help.

Tesla

As we have done these past three years that YHC has been ’round these parts the July 4th edition of The Fighting Yank was made do one thing and that was to observe and honor the public declaration of Independence from the crown by the founding fathers under pain of death from the world’s superpower of the time.To say it was a huge risk is an understatement but no great reward comes without great risk.

That said, these was work to be done before our ceremony yo honor that effort. That went like this:

COP:

Arm Stretches

Grapevine Stretches

Mosey to the Field of Dreams:

SSH X 20

Burpees X 2

IW X 20

Burpees X 4

Copperhead Squats X 20

Burpees X 6

Mtn. Climbers X 20

Burpees X 8

LBCs X 20

Burpees X 10

Lap @ the field.

line up for some Tesla approved half pipes! The City of Belmont has made this ideal so time to use the asset as deployed!

Top Of Heartbreak Hill: 5 plank jacks.

Bottom at pad: 5 HR Merkins

Top of bank on Main Street: 5 Monkey Humpers

Repeat 3 X

Take another lap around the Field of Dreams.

Up to the Corner of Knowledge for some bench work:

10X, 15X, 20X

Dips

Step ups

Dirkins

Line up on the walkway:

Broad jump to the middle

Frog hops to the end (these are tough!)

Mike Tysons X 10 in cadence

Big Boy sit ups (double count) x 10

Lt. Dans back to the mid point

Karoke to the end.

10X 20X

Inclined merkins

Inclined big boy situps

mosey to the field of dreams for a Tesla hallmark now that everyone is gassed!

Bear Crawl slalom time at The Fighting Yank!

This time since we had @ 16 pax we split the group and let Orangeman run the “2s” and YHC ran the “1s”. Everyone got three rolls.

By this time we were running OUT of time so it was by Q’s call time to do 2 more halfpipes to finish the workout up.

7:59. Mosey to the Yank statue and the pledge.

Pledge, names, ceremony.

NMM:

Our ceremony that has become a Fighting Yank Tradition was the following:

Read the Declaration of Independence aloud at the base of The Fighting Yank Statue. YHC broke the doc into 10 parts and we had 10 readers. My charge was this: Read Loudly! We have nothing to hide here. And in fact, like our forefathers, should be proud to say that we defend the ideas in this document.

Moment of silence following the reading to honor the effort of those who brought it about.

Reverend Sam Warner of First Presbyterian of Belmont gave an invocation that talked about how the ideas in the Declaration should be something we all agree on because it applies to all. And I think we can all agree on that reality. As it ends, the Declaration’s signers, many of whom lost life and fortune in the ensuing war pledged their lives, fortunes, and sacred honor to the ideals in that document and the nation it was birthing. It was not perfect. It still is not perfect. It will never be perfect. But it is as Lincoln said “The last best hope for Mankind” which in a broken world is all we can ask for and gives us something- in fact a lot – to continue to build on.

Special thanks to Iced Tea, Quasimodo, and Radar from Lake Wylie today and Skoal Bandit from Metro (Core) who came over today. You guys mean a lot to me and I appreciate the effort to be here today.

Tesla

Three years ago YHC thought that a special edition of The Yank would be good to recognize the efforts of our founders in 1776 to put forth the personal risk and effort to create a free nation that has over the last century especially saved the world from tyranny at least three times and continues to provide the one gate everyone in the planet wants to get through. Which is a pretty solid confirmation of those first principles that go back to Athens almost 3,000 years ago. We’ve refined and improved them since then to the point of Jefferson’s sentence declaring our Natural Rights that are God Given and perfect, not conditional privileges from a fallen government of man.

That idea is under attack. It is always under attack. And to properly defend and expand them getting back to them from time to time is vital to get back to them. As such tomorrow’s Fighting Yank will include the following activities:

*A Tesla McBadass buttermilk beatdown from 7-8 am.

*A reading aloud of the Declaration of Independence by the pax at the statue of The Fighting Yank.

*A short message from the Reverend Sam Warner of First Presbyterian Church, Belmont

This ceremony should take @ 20 minutes. I think it will be one of the best observances of the day in this part of NC and SC because it will be real and very heartfelt at a time when these values are questioned.

Look forward to seeing you there.

Tesla

A less humid awesome Saturday morning in Belmont saw a goodly number of pax assemble for a voyage into the unknown and beyond. So, as sailors of old on frigates with sails reminiscent of names like Cook and Nelson gathered for the journey east the following activities took place:

COP:

Arm stretches

SSH X 20

IW X 20

Cherry Pickers X 20

Mosey into the unknown regions of East Belmont, a place only spoken of but never accessed by F3 until this morning.

Mosey @ 1.0 mile to the East Belmont soccer fields, a virtual Shangri la of mowed grass, boundary lines, and social distancing. Time for the main event to commence!

Partner assisted Suicides, aka Jack Kevorkians!

Partner 1 – Stay at home and do the called move.

Partner 2 – Sprint to halfway and do X of the called move. Continue to the other end and do X and full return back.

Flapjack Partner 1 and 2.

Set 1: Hand release merkins

Halfway: 5

End: 5

Set 2: Jump Squats

Halfway: 10

End: 20

Set 3: Big Boy situps

Halfway: 10

End; 20

Set 4: Merkins

Halfway: 10

End; 20

Form up on the end line for some four corners work:

Corner 1: SSH x 20

Corner 2: Werkins  X 10

Corner 3: Turkish getups X 10

Corner 4: LBCs X 25

Form up again for a crowd and YHC fav, the bear crawl slalom on new ground! Sort of like planting the flag of conquest.

Everyone got two runs here. Pretty much blew the pax out. Now, we enter our favorite part of the game – the 4th Quarter! Where getting tougher is imperative.

Begin to mosey back to The Yank.

1/3 mile: Stop and drop for bigboys and merkins, 10X each.

2/3 mile: Stop and drop for Mike Tysons X 10

Last 1/3: Karoke right and left, finish OYO

Repeat as follows:

dips, elevated Situps, dirkins, 10X, 15X

Fence squats, 15X

Journey complete!

NMM:

Pretty long and tough buttermilk style workout today. Glad to get it done! Yes, the journey to and from the soccer fields was a long and difficult one. But it had to be done. Why? Because it was there! And the pax, came, saw, and conquered! So it is now in the books as known territory. Mission accomplished.

Many other missions to get done and now is time to do them. Most notably providing the male community leadership that is in my estimation the cause of our present day internal difficulty. So we must ne about the mission statement of F3. And now is time boys! No greater opportunity has presented itself.

Tesla