F3 New Orleans

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  • Pax on a rope – from Mahatma

    A cool crisp Autumn morning along the lake front of NOLA where 10 pax (none in yoga pants) showed up for a beatdown. Disclaimer given

    Head towards the field in front fountain
    Warm up
    X 10
    Mnt Man Poopers
    X 20
    SSH
    X5
    AbVagoda
    Grassgrabbers
    X5
    Fwd
    Back
    Arm Circle
    X10
    Good mornings

    YHC brought just enough rope for 10 pax – holding with 2 hands overhead we started at a walking pace then with a level of confidence picked it up to a slow mosey as we ascended the levee transitioning to an Indian run towards our destination that only YHC knew.

    Once arrived we dropped the rope and descended the levee lining up along the bottom.
    1771 – 1+7 up and over 7+1 up and over repeat with numbers ascending and descending now 2+6 up and over 6+2 continuing until there is a reverse order 7117 yet always added the total number of reps = 8
    V-Ups and Jump Squats
    So 1 VU + 7 JS then up and over 7 VP + 1 JS (or you could do 1JS + 7VU same thing). The reps change as outlined above always = 8
    When pax finished we did Mary until the 6 joined and finished through the reps YHC had on his mind.

    Then line up with the rope Indian run to the starting spot of the “H8”. 2 teams of 5 – race – as a group pax complete 5 hand release merkins run to the top of the levee cross over to center bear crawl across run down the other side to opposite side corner 5 more hand release merkins (these will be done at all corners) back up cross over bear crawl across the middle back down finishing HS merkins at the corners.

    YHC had planned for a looser punishment yet it was skipped (some may say b/c YHC was on the loosing team yet there was a plan).

    Align at the base of the levee – “7”
    6 merkins 1 double under then 5 merkins 2 double under so on.

    Now grab the rope for overhead mosey to the “house of pain” (this was our recovery)

    Partner up – YHC did a bad job of assigning a rotation yet we seemed to figure it out.
    Pull Ups
    Dips
    Incline Merkins
    Timer – run to top of levee 2 burpees run down

    Looking at the time YHC put in an old school “Okwata rite” – Quadrophilia! We only went 2 rounds which brought about some sad protest that YHC didn’t plan well enough for the full 4 minute effect…..this will be adjusted as arm circles won’t ever make a future beatdown of this YHC!

    COT – be aware as to “lost sheep”. Are we in the 99 who should be encouraging and praying for the 1 or are we at times the 1?

  • The return of the Yippee Bag – from Rudy

    The birthday tradition is back! Finally! Reasons outside of YHC’s control kept the Yippee Bag from its traditional August date, but better late than never. 12 PAX got to experience the joys and sorrows of The Yippee Bag ™ this fine morning. That included one DR visitor (Extinguisher from JAX), one second-timer (welcome back Igor!) and one FNG (thanks Igor and Triple Shift).

    Disclaimer given, mosey to the Big Lawn. Quick review of The Yippee Bag ™ Rules: Basically, there are none. Pick from the bag, the card provides instructions for what happens. Exercises 4 U. Exercises 4 the PAX. Exercises 4 the Q. Fun and Games. Its a crapshoot!

    Circle Up for the warmup. Catfish kicks us off by pulling “20 Merkins for Someone”, and of course – he selects YHC. Its gonna be that kind of day. So the warm up continued in a very disjointed manner, as War Eagle also reached into the bag. In between Situps, 8 counts, Burpees – the PAX managed to get in a bit of a warmup.

    Thing 1: Bear Crawl (maybe 25 yards), then 7 burpees. Crab Walk, 14 merkins, Bear Crawl, 21 Squats, Walk Crab, 28 BBSU. In between, we had LOTS of cards drawn. Everyone’s in on the game. Bogey pulls out the Bear Crawl Relay. Mahatma draws Crab Walk Red Light/Blue Light, and more and everyone is pulling out more Burpees. War Eagle has to go to the MINI to rifle carry the ANDY block.

    Thing 2: Head over to grab a rock. Meanwhile, YHC has to do 10 more 8 ct body builders. 10 Overhead, Rifle carry, 10 Curl, Rifle carry, 10 Row. Return to the tree. Repeat with 9. Then 8. More and more cards. FNG gets selected for 10 Bobby Hurleys – whoa, that guy can jump. Definitely on Team Pontiff for future Ultimate games. Quick game of SPUD (oh, *thats* what the football was for). This devolved into barely controlled chaos. Keep lifting rocks. Then its time to put the rocks away.

    Thing 3: Mosey to the MINI. Partner up for some Dora in the parking lot. PAX 1 – run (w/ bricks), 1 brick-pee, then return. 50 Hand-release merks, 100 Squats, 150 Situps. Klinger drew a “Sing Happy BDay to Q”. He did a great job (while YHC had to do more Burpees). Bogey won the “Hold Your Breath” contest (in his defense, YHC had just run a lap while everyone else was holding low plank).

    Time ran out nearly at the same time as the Yippee Bag ran out. Back to the (Virtual) flag.

    COT: Reviewed 5 principles for the FNG. Then we all know the drill. FNG named “Tesla” due to his South African background.

    Thank you all for humoring me again!

  • GNARLY NUTRIA #7 – from Reluctant Yankee

    Well …I found the results from the Gnarly Nutria and I thought it would be a shame to not have the results written for posterity. Sandbar was the q BUT Abandoned ship so he could do something with the family out of town. As always that was the RIGHT decision. I arrived from a 520 mile hike across Spain on Monday 7/18. I posted for my first F3 beatdown post hike in the AM. That evening I decided not to run bc I wasn’t ready yet. I watched on the sidelines with injured Wax on, Wax off. Wax on was kind enough to pick up the beer from Brown Bag which he was kind enough to DONATE! There were at least 4 beers per runner. 2022 WAS the worst attended Gnarly – I mostly blame myself since I was out of town. Then I blame everyone else except Brown Bag because he posted and DONATED the beer. You the man Brown Bag!

    Ok results:
    #1 Beiber- upt , #2 Gump – upt, #3 Couch – upt, #4 El Guapo – Wrd, #5 Tinkles – upt
    #6 So GO – wrd, #7 Rev SOX – wrld, #8 RUDY – wrd, #9 Baldy – World, #10, Pipeline – upt,
    #11 King Kong – – upt, #12 Katy – upt, #13 harry carry – upt, #14 Frac sac – world , #15 Almonaster – upt, #16 Sub prime upt #17 moby dick world

    No runners palced 18-20

    Chiquita, Brynn Johnson, (GUMPS M) #2 (Tinkles M) and Brown Bag both ran 2 laps
    Ruckers were BIG WILLIE +3, Strings, Triple Shift, Satchmo, Gabby, Tube Steak PVC, BOLT, War Eagle.

    Congrats to UPTOWN for another victory on your home turf.
    Forgot all of the mumblechatter since I am writing this in October and the event occured in July

    Peace-RY

  • God Save The Queen (and us) – from Tinkles

    Good idea, poor execution. We ventured away from higher learning and back to our playground roots. After a warm up we BLIMPED our way down St. Charles to Daneel playground. Partnered up for some Dora 1-2-3 with burpees, LBC, and squats. Noted on the corner was the house of one of our limey pax flying the Union Jack. A moment of silence was considered but we were short on time. Indian run back the flag with modification and chaos ensuing. Oh well. Count off and namorama with a welcome back to Poboy. Blessings for a great weekend.

  • Rocky Top – from Vagabond

    Warmup mid football field then onward to rock pile and then to hill where pax did 11s back and forth from bottom to top: not sure what you call it but squat down to pick up rock on ground and hand clean it above head, then back on the ground again (1 rep) and then bear crawl to top of hill and other exercise was bob-n-weave. After 11s bear crawl to other side of hill pushing rock. Death marched to gym with rocks. Circled up for pax choice rock exercise while rotating counter clockwise to use each others’ rocks. Return to rock pile and flag for COT.