Backblasts

DATE: 2021-11-03
AO: Patriot
Q: Maguire
PAX: Big Short, Fish Fry, Wedding Singer, Lucius, CableGuy, Jenner FNGs: None
COUNT: 7
WARMUP: SSH. Hillbillies. Windmills. WMH. Cherry Pickers. DD
THE THANG: lots of ring fires so every couple of minutes throughout circle up and 4 push ups a person while PAX planks. Run to front of school and series of step ups, dips, wall sits and derkins while doing laps and push ups in between each exercise. Lunge and bear crawls to get to the basketball courts. Suicides and Joe Louis and Squats for a bit. MARY: flutterkicks. LBC and Wedding Singer stretches.
ANNOUNCEMENTS: grunt. Ruck. Nov 6. Chad #1000 Nov 20
COT: it’s getting chilly and a time of the year when people need a hello, a greeting and a checking in on you. Do that. Make the extra call to family, friends, peers and neighbors.

DATE: 2021-11-02
AO: General
Q: Booking
PAX: 2 percent, Trolley, petro, Lazlo, Traveler
FNGs: Liability
COUNT: 7
WARMUP: SSH, Imperial Walkers, Cherry Pickers, Arm Circles, Michael Phelps, Windmills
THE THANG: Deck of cards split in quarters with a stack left at each corner of the field. PAX drew a card at each corner doing the following exercises: Spades = burpees, Clubs = Big boy sit ups, Diamonds = Merkins, Heart = Bodyweight Squats. PAX ran the sideline between corners and did various other exercises to travel the goal lines including duck walk, bear crawls, reverse running, sprints, crab walks, etc MARY: flutter kicks, LBC
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Welcome FNG Liability. Grunt this Saturday. Chad 1000 later this month at Olympus.
COT: “Never let the fear of striking out keep you from playing the game.” Babe Ruth- Be open minded and willing to try new things.

DATE: 2021-11-02
AO: Freestate
Q: Horshack
PAX: Deagle, Winston, CashOnly, ShowMe
FNGs: None
COUNT: 5
WARMUP:
· Side Straddle Hops-x 25 IC
· Alarm Clocks x 10 IC
· Carolina Dry Docks x 10 IC
· Michael Phelps x 15 IC
· Two laps – Karaoke
· Willie Mays Hayes x 10 IC
· Walk Out to Sun Salutation x 5 IC
· El Capitan-x 15 each way
· Cherry Pickers-x 15 IC

THE THANG – Grab a Coupon for the Escalator
· Burpees-5 OYO +
· Add Coupon Curl-10 IC +
· Add Alternating Side Lunges -15 +
One Lap
· Add Overhead Press-20 IC +
· Add Chest Press-25 IC +
Two Laps
· Add Jump Overs -30 IC +
· Add Mountain Climbers – 35 IC
One Lap

MARY:
· Reverse Crunch -15 IC Holding Coupon
· Windshield Wipers-15 IC
· Side Crunches-10 IC Each Side (feet in coupon)
· 15 Big Boi Sit ups (feet in coupon)
· X Factors x 10 IC
· Box Cutters x 15 IC Each way

Announcements:
– The Grunt at 0700 on Saturday

COT: Remembrance and Legacy

This past spring, Deagle shared his faith and personal thoughts about Yom HaShoah, the Jewish Day of Remembrance for the six million Jews lost in during the Holocaust and those who fought to resist the Nazis. During Yom Kippur, the Jewish day of atonement a few weeks ago, it is also traditional to recite remembrance prayers and light Yizkor candles in memory of deceased loved ones.

In the Catholic faith, November is a month of remembrance of family members and other loved ones we’ve lost. It begins today with All Souls Day. In Mexico, it’s called the Day of the Dead when household altars are decorated by family members with physical items and messages that bring back the essence of the deceased.

Five years ago this month, I lost my mom to Alzheimers. The obituary my brothers and sisters wrote together tried the best we could to document her legacy with certain facts and events. When I was down in North Carolina last month for the F3 10 year, I was thinking about my mom and my grandparents who were from North Carolina.

At the F3 event, there was a lot of discussion about legacy. As David Redding the founder of F3 said, “a man’s Legacy is not comprised simply of what he happens to say and do during his lifetime. That stuff is often forgotten more quickly than we’d want to believe.

Rather, Legacy is constructed through the people – and groups of people – a man has intentionally served and influenced during his life and the worthy problems that he deliberately set out to solve–all compounded by his love and generosity of heart.”

I mentioned I saw our friend McFly and was reminded by his service to the severely disabled community and his ongoing commitment he makes to raise crazy money for Ainsley’s Angels.

There were several community service events all over Cape Fear – each one either started or sustained by F3 men. I was impressed by the commitment the F3 leadership made to support the missions – the big and worthy problems – that men brought forward and asked for support.

My greatest hope for this AO is that we can do the same for each other. So if you have something you want to take on, a problem you want to solve, an issue you care about, a kid or a relative who needs help, please share it. I’m confident that everyone here at FreeState would do you anything we could to support you.

DATE: 2021-11-01
AO: Horizon-Ao
Q: Magoo
PAX: Kodiak, Disco, 3 mile, Booking
FNGs: attaché
COUNT: 6
WARMUP: WMHs, SSH, Al Gore roll-ups, Quick Feet, High Knees, Butt Kickers THE THANG:
Timer: 2 PAX medicine ball pass across the field in the dark Remaining PAX pick from:
-Kettle Bell Swing
-Alternating dumbbell rows
-dumbell side raises or flies
-ruck-weighted front squat
-saggy bag burpees

MARY: protractor, scissor kicks, Supermans, single leg body saw ANNOUNCEMENTS: Grunt Saturday
COT: Pain is a warning sign, not a damage indicator. Meditation on the distinction during Frog Pose hip opener.

DATE: 2021-11-01
AO: Patriot
Q: Lazlo
PAX: Bone, CableGuy, Lucius, Maj. Payne, Wedding Singer, My Space FNGs: None
COUNT: 7
They say variety is the spice of life, so I guess this Q was sort of the baking soda. But I know everyone wanted to get a head start on the 100 blockies a day monthly challenge and felt like I should oblige.

WARMUP: SSH, Imperial Walkers, hillbillies, cherry pickers, LBACs, Michael Phelps, Ricky Bobby lap at an uncomfortably fast pace

THE THANG:
It’s complicated but see if you can follow. Get a coupon. Bear crawl with it to the 5. Do a blockie. Another 5, and 2 blockies. Continue pattern to the 50 where you’ll do 10 blockies. Turn around. Go 5 yards and do 9 blockies and work your way back. When you get to the goal line and realize that the exercise would be zero blockies, which just feels wrong, do 3 burpees.

Part 2: To spice things up, we did something new.
Round of 10: murder bunny to the 10. Do 10 kettlebells
10 coupon squats
10 derkins
10 thrusters
Rifle carry back

Round of 20: murder bunny to the 20
20 each of the same exercises
Rifle carry back

Decide that a round of 30 is a bad idea. Repeat round of 10.

Wrap up with a 100 yd rifle carry, and another 100 yd rifle carry.

MARY: 10x WWIs, 10x toy soldiers
Repeato x3

ANNOUNCEMENTS: grunt, Chad 1000, turkey trot, 2nd F

COT: the Q has been staying up a lot watching the Braves and knew that the fart sack was going to have a strong pull today. So signing up to lead this fine group was a strategy to make sure I started the week the right way. Very much appreciate this group for giving me that opportunity and holding me accountable.