Mop Handles and Mumble Chatter

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Great group out at Ground Pou… I mean, Sheepdog, this morning. Some strong mumble chatter was in play. I won’t go into details but there was talk of an F3 South Wake calendar and there was some discussion about a mop handle. Been a long week for many of us and so I was looking to bring a little different variety. Ironic thing is, I ended up taking pieces of the previous day Fram-led beatdown. It was that memorable that I just figured I wanted to keep doing it. Several in play for EC, gotta love that later start at the end of a long week.

FNGs: Nope
Warm Up: Long jog around to back of school, circled up for variety of exercises. This was second time this week I included Good Mornings ICx20. Guys are always asking for it, so what’s wrong with a little extra time to stretch?
The Workout: Lined up along the side of the school. Kept it simple. We would run down the length of the road and do a plank hold together on a 30 count, then run back. When we returned we did SSH ICx100. Kept this pattern but on the return we changed it up each time and did LBCs ICx75, Mt Climbers ICx0, Low Slow Flutter ICx25, and American Hammer ICx10. Good mix of jog/plank/core work. Then we circled up and Shredder led a 10-min lesson on some self-defense moves. If you have ever been to Sheepdog, this is something you are missing out on. Shredder walks the PAX through some basic techniques, provides demo, and you practice. Look, nobody is gonna become an expert in 10 mins, but this is a great addition to a workout and you get to learn a few things along the way. T Claps to Shredder for sharing his knowledge with the PAX.
Mary: Mosey back to flag and a Sprinkler/Redenbacher 2-man jailbreak broke out. Circled up for a couple quick rounds of LBC, 6 hold, Low Slow Flutter and Homer to Marge. Then we did a 5-min arms and shoulder stretch routine. Figured after some of the workouts this week we could use a little extra. This is when the mumble chatter reached Ground Pounder status. It was almost like Dauber was there.
Announcements: CSAUP, others check Slack
T-Claps (Recognition): Lots this morning. Great to see Mr. T back in the gloom. Red for piling up points and running strong. Maybelline putting in the work too. Shredder showing great leadership during the challenge. I could go on but you get the point.
Prayer: Unspoken, YHC took us out.

Sheepdog VS Kung Pow

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YHC hasn’t been to Sheepdog in a while and as I thought through my pre-blast I landed on my typical adversarial AO messaging to stoke some fires and get a little attention.  In my mind, it was only natural to pit Sheepdog (a martial arts founded AO) against the oriental-sounding Kung Pow AO.  I fired off a spicy pre-blast, got the side-eye from Deadbolt and a shot from POTS (the scheduled Q of the one-day/UTI nominated nemesis of Sheepdog.)  SUCCESS!!! Now, POTS fired back/commented/assumed if there was to be a martial arts Q by YHC, Shredder would need to be on hand to lead the PAX.  An often forgotten (by me) and seldom shared fact about YHC is that I am a 3rd Degree Brown Belt in Tae Kwon Do.  Granted, my last practice of this craft would have been 25 years ago.  Oh well, this will be fun – let’s see what I can shake out of my head from the past\movies\tv.

FNGs: ani

Warm Up:

PAX circled up in the parking lot at the front of the school

  • The Bow aka Good Mornings
  • On / Wax Off aka Fazio Arm Circles (Forward and Back)
  • The “Crain” aka Balance on one leg (Left and Right)
  • Kicking Practice aka Frankensteins
  • Stacking Zen Stones aka Potato Pickers
  • Carioca (Left and Right)
  • High Knees
  • Run in Reverse
  • Fast Feet (one curb then the other alternating sides)

The Workout:

East (literally and figuratively)

  • Overhead Blocks (left and right arm)
  • Punching from Ready Position (left and right arm)
  • Front Facing Kick aka Lunge Walk with a kick from one parking lot island to the next
  • Front Facing Punch aka Lunge Walk with a punch from one parking lot island to the next
  • Front Facing Combo aka Lunge Walk with a kick followed by a punch from one parking lot island to the next
  • Front Facing Combo aka Lunge Walk with a kick followed by a punch from one parking lot island to the next
  • Kick from Side Stance – kick and rotate around into side stance moving from one island to the next
  • Cobra Run aka Indian Run to the back of the school – West
    • Awesome move by BeerPressure over the gate

West (literally and figuratively)

  • Cobra Run continued around the loop behind the school and finished at the brick half walls
  • PAX partnered up, One PAX ran while the other one did an exercise below.  On return they switched off.  This continued until YHC said stop
    • Box Jumps
    • Erkins
    • Derkins
    • Dips
  • PAX gathered together to do Box Jumps together.  We got to 25, YHC was keeping count but no one was counting out loud so we just kept going until someone gave me a number.
  • Cobra Run back to the EAST – not to be outdone, LED showed his skills as he cleared the gate on the way back.

Mary:

  • Flutter Kicks aka Low Slow Flutters
  • Bruce Lee Abs – LBCs
  • Shredder helped us take the moves from the “EAST” portion of our workout and apply some practical execution around actually using those moves against an opponent. We practiced a kick to the abdomen followed by a punch to the nose.

Announcements:  Tequila Sunrise is open tomorrow.  No Q points but points for showing up, EC and a new AO if you haven’t been yet

T-Claps (Recognition):

  • Martini for pushing through and coming out today.  If you have an excuse for not being out here, it’s probably not as good as Martini’s and he showed up!
  • Thanks to Shredder for putting some instruction and some labels on my workout today

Prayer:

  • Shredder for his upcoming belt exam
  • Deuce for his recovery
  • Martini for his recovery

Sheepdawgpound

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EC: Dawgpound, Emeril, Yoshi, Dumbo, Shredder, Lipstick, Yogurt, Big Ditch, Norm,
FNGs: Nope
Warm Up:

Ran around the parking lot and circled up.
Will the Pax bounce I did a terrible job explaining the main event.
We did some other warm up excessive. Everyone felt froggy.

The Workout:

At each light pole was a stop. 2 x 36# and 2 x 22# kettlebells where carried to each pole and back to the start. The Pax was doing build them up suicides. This means at Pole 1 they did Break Dancers (Side kicks). At the start they only did break dancers. At Pole 2 they did 5 Prisoner Squat Get Up Squat Jumps. At the start line they did 3 break dancers and 5 Prisoner Squat Get Up Squat Jumps. We kept going until we learned how to defend ourselves.

Exercises:
Pole 1: 3 Break Dancers
Pole 2: 5 Prisoner Squat Get Up Squat Jumps
Pole 3: 10 Carolina Dry Docks
Pole 4: 20 in cadence LBCs

Mary:

Modified Onnit 6 minute abs

Plank Hold
Peter Parkers
Mountain Climbers
Big Boy Situps
Bicycle
Russian Twist
Bowl

Announcements:
T-Claps (Recognition):
Prayer:
Martini
Yogurt’s Mom

Sheepdog – TKD Conditioning.

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4 HIM brought it this morning while working through some high intensity TKD Olympic training drills.

All 4 Hit the road for extra credit. Norm busted in with an 8:00 minute mile (before he knew what was on the menu.

Warm Up:

Light warm up lap

Side straddle hop

Sir Fozio Arm Circles (f&b)

Michael Phelps

Frankenstein

Good Mornings

Willie Mays Hayes

The Workout:

Pax started with a couple of light drills designed to loosen the hips with modified suicides. 1st round; knew raises down and then run back (each line). 2nd round; Front high lifts down to each line and run back. 3rd round; front kicks down to each line and run back.

Then Pax hit the curb and Traveled around the island

Next, we picked an intersection of two parking lot lines. Pick a + parking lot line. TKD stance jacks, with switching sides.

Curb travel, reverse.

Switch side, front kick drills.

4 corners, from kick drill.  Basically Pax fires a front kick, turns 90 deg. and kicks, 90, kick, etc, to each direction in rapid succession. 

Mary:

1 min. of LBCs.

Announcements:

May challenge. 3rd F opportunities, etc.

Prayer: Families, country, Mayor Sears health.

Sheepdog-All Valley Tournament

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3 Pax showed up to compete in the All Valley Tournament. The competition was fierce as HIM went head to head with themselves to see if they could overcome their doubts and fatigue and win the championship.

Warm ups started with a light jog around the school. Then SSH, SFAC (f&b), Moroccan Night Clubs, neck stretches, hip rotations, knee rotation, Frankensteins, Good Mornings, & Willie Mays Hayes.

In preparation for the tournament we went into training which included staggered squats x10, dips x10, staggered squats x10, erkins x10, and squats x10. After that we moved to focusing on technique and balance as we found a curb and got into a squat hold position with only the balls of our feet on the curb forcing us to route and then ran wax on, wax off drills in cadence. The burn in both shoulders and legs were starting to sit in after several rounds. Once our training was complete we were ready to head to the tournament.

The tournament was slightly postponed as we contemplated he’s shiny object rocketing across the sky, later to find out that it was the SpaceX rocket. It was a pretty incredible site.


The Tournament:

match 1: pax each lined up on a parking space line and traveled from line to line throwing three kicks in between and then three Merkens at each line. On the way back we substituted merkins for three strike combos. Rinse and repeat two more times.

match 2: packs were feeling pretty good going into the second match which is where the montage kicked in. To the karate kid theme song we did squatted wax on wax off until the chorus shouted “your the best around…” each time this happened we executed a star jump Burpee. Farva, wanting to make sure he got on the cover of the brochure, made sure he had photo worthy star jumps. This continued for the remainder of the song.

match 3: YHC thought it was a good idea to stretch a little before going into the final match so we did some arm stretches and cotton pickers. The final match was against some chick named Sally from the valley. It did not take long to realize that this competitor was no joke. Pax did a Merkin challenge to “Bring Sally Up”. Every time Sally went up we pushed up, every time the song said bring Sally down we drop down into a merkin and hold 3 inches off the ground. This continued throughout the song for as long as we could push it. Once we hit our max we altered into chill cut plank hold to regular plank hold. This was no joke and as the song came to a close, pax were laid out on the ground.

Mary:
we finally rolled over and knocked out some LBCs and Homer to Marg. Then finished with Have a Nice Day.

Announcements: HS Classic runners and volunteers. Bed build postponed. Food delivery and other options
Prayer: upcoming travel.

Nice pot of Gumbo at Sheepdog

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FNGs: N/a
Warm Up: Mosey around the parking lot and circled up for side straddle hops, fozzy arm circles forward and reverse, good mornings, daisy pickers, imperial walkers, and hillbillies
The Workout: Took the Q last minute and decided to do some greatest hits around the AO.
Started with field of dreams: home plate was 10 burpees, 1st base was mountain climbers, 2nd base was WW1’s, and 3rd base was plank jacks.

Then moved on to the 12 days of F3 for: 12 Australian ass smacks, 11 wing chun combos, 10 10 count jump rope, 9 Scorpion dry docks, 8 stars a jumping, 7 Side hop moguls (in cadence), 6 boats a rowing (in cadence), 5 CRAAB CAAAAKES  (in cadence), 4 T-Stand kicks (in cadence), 3 prisoner squats, 2 box cutters, and Give me one man maker burpee.

Mosey around the side of the school and stop for 11’s of monkey humpers and goofballs

Continue to mosey to the back for a 3 minute AMRAP of 10 single leg squats, 20 hand release merkins, and 30 squat jumps. Take a lap around the track then head over to the circle.

Bear crawl Ring of Fu – we all Bear crawled around the circle, each pax called out a number and on their up we did that many wing chun strike combos.

Shredder finished us off with combatives, focusing on rooting and form for wing chun strikes.

Thanks as always for allowing me to lead and make sure to fill up that Q sheet before Thursday!

Circuits, Planks, and Muay Thai at Sheepdog

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Great group of Pax today for the workout. We had twins, Gumpalicious, Endo, and an “I accidentally clicked HC when trying to find out who HC’d.” Always a good time at Sheepdog!

FNGs:None

Warm Up: Pretty standard warmup with side straddle hops, fozzy arm circles forward/reverse/seal clap/overhead clap, good mornings, imperial walkers, and hillbillies.
The Workout: Mosey to under the shelter with the low wall sections for 10 merkins, irkens, dips, and derkins.

Mosey a lap around the parking lot and circle up for 10 AG front kicks, jumping lunges, and reverse kicks.

Mosey back to the first location for 9 of each. Take a lap around the parking lot for 9 of each, but substituted monkey humpers for jumping lunges moving forward.

Mosey back to the first location for 8 of each, but substituted planche merkins instead of derkins for just this round. Take a lap then 8 of each lower body exercise.

Mosey back to the first location for 7 of each, take a lap and 7 of each lower body exercise.

Mosey back to the first location for 20 merkins(Suprise!) and 15 dips. Some mumble chatter about a good lesson of never knowing what’s around the corner. Take a lap around the parking lot then 15 AG front kicks and 15 AG rear kicks.

Mary: Mosey back to the first location for Mary. 6 Rounds of Captain Thor’s followed by an embrace the suck plank hold (~5 minutes).

Turned it over to Shredder for 10 minutes of Muay Thai training with blocking, elbow strikes, then a block/strike/knee combo.

Announcements: Run coming up, Shredder looking for volunteers for the next Ted Talk (how has F3 changed your life), special workout tomorrow at Brier Creek.
T-Claps (Recognition): Everyone that made it out and pushed through this morning. It’s always great seeing you brothers!
Prayer: I took us out

It’s Good to Be Back

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“It’s good to be back.” This was said by Kotter Mr. Terrific as we finished up today’s workout with COT. You know how sometimes you know someone only means something like 60 or so %…either way, Mr. Terrific was strong pushing through today’s workout. He was not weak…if so…he would’ve just fartsacked. We we’re glad to have this guy back! Today’s beatdown was designed to be very simple, yet effective.

FNG’s: No
Warm Up: SSH x 25 IC, Good Mornings x 10 IC, Frankenstein’s, Willie Mays Haze, Seal Claps, and Moroccan Night Clubs all x12 IC. Moseyed around the back of the school for the workout.
The Workout: Very simple. Each PAX would complete 100 Single Leg Bulgarian Squats, 200 Hand-Release Merkins, and 300 Squat Jumps. PAX worked for 3 minutes at a time. When the timer went off, we did and Indian Run around the back track. Each round we added a lap for the Indian Run, up until 3 laps. All PAX worked together toward the end to pick up the 6 and bang out final reps. This took us just about the entire time.
Mary: WW2 x 30, LSF’s x 20 IC, Pickle Pounders x 10 IC. SSH x 50 IC, Good Mornings x 10 IC. Have a nice day!
Announcements: Bed Build donations and project coming up at the end of the month. Thrift store work this weekend as per Gump. Look for both of these opportunities on the 3rd F Channel. New Monthly Challenge about to hit the street…Check Slack…it’s yoga and stretching…we all need it!
T-Claps (Recognition): Mr. Terrific fearless and unrelenting in getting back after it in the gloom today!
Prayer: Pikachu’s M, Sargeant Leach (retired HSPD) battling lung issues in need of transplant. YHC took us out…honored to lead today men!

I’ve Been Duped

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Scheduled Q said he was unable to make it so I reluctantly accepted the Q with the hopes that no one would show.  However, the Q conveniently showed up anyways, along with two other PAX .

Warm Up: High knees, Butt kickers, Fazio Arm Circles, Hillbillies
The Workout: We hit some old school Plyometrics with

  1. Jump Squats, Run stance squat,  Airborne Heisman and Swing Kick, repeat
  2. Irkins/ Wall Jumps, Step Up Kicks, Dips, repeat
  3. Monster Truck Tires, Double Airborne Heisman, Twist Combo, repeat
  4. Front Kicks, Side Kicks, Back Kicks, repeat

By this time, the Q was gassed.

Mary: Around the horn for one rounds and had a Good Day
Announcements: 3rd F opportunities this weekend and next. Check slack. Vicious Cycle is starting back up next Wednesday.
Prayer: Travel for the holidays, PAX and community that might be struggling.

It is always an honor.

 

Freestyle Dora Ring of Fire

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Another cool rainy Friday morning and the only thing I knew about this Q was that it’d be under the shelter. 
FNGs:N/a
Warm Up: Pretty standard warmup as I racked my brain for what would happen next. Dora is always a great option, but my mind flashed back to a Dovetail Q with the field of dreams rotation workout. I decided to combine both and see what happened.
The Workout: I spaced out the 6 Pax into stations and went around the circle asking what exercise they’d like to do using what was around them. I then told them the first station would be the only one involving counting and would be Dora style. 100 squats were needed for the first round total. All pax began their exercises, station 1 did 10 squats, then would bear crawl to station 2 to begin doing whatever exercise that pax was doing, as soon as they reached station 2 that pax would bear crawl to station 3, and so on until we had rotated enough to complete 100 squats total for station 1.

Round 2 was 200 merkins with duck walk in between stations and all new exercises at each station.

Round 3 was 300 LBCs with lunge walks between stations and all new exercises at each station.

Shredder took over for about 10 minutes of combatives focusing on rooting, front kicks, side kicks, and firing down to improve power with wing chun strikes.

Mary:We closed with 4 minutes of an embrace the suck hold.

Announcements: VQ at GP on Saturday
T-Claps (Recognition): All pax that posted on another rainy Friday
Prayer: We all took a knee and I took us out