Recently having to miss the last two reportedly epic beatdowns around Thanksgiving, including the highly contested Turkey bowl, YHC was ready to get back to action. Lately the Thibodaux PAX have had quite a few VQs including Wilford Montana, Goats in the Machine, and a report of an upcoming Lil’ Cuz VQ. YHC was reminiscing on his own first. In review of the laminated sheet (yes there was at least some prep), it was established that the new(er) PAX have been much more impressive in their creativity, preparation, understanding of timing of when exercises should be completed, understanding of generally how this should work, etc.… The thought blossomed to re-create the VQ for a replay to show how far we have come.
Pulling up in the gloom to the empty parking lot at 5:25, the stage was set. As it turns out, YHCs original VQ ended up being a solo beatdown, meaning no one actually showed up. Therefore, the true VQ had to be rescheduled to a time where one other PAX was in attendance via an EH at 6:15 the morning of, on a brother-in-law, Headcheese. 6:30 rolled around and the stage remained empty of other attendees. Still confident of a late, and somewhat usual arrival of Goats, solo side straddle hops began the warmup. Just as these were completed, the headlights of not one, but two speeding minivans stormed on the scene. The minivan brigade barreled in the parking lot revealing Goats and Yankee Joe in perfect fashion to bring back memories of the VQ. After some mumble chatter on 2.0s and other reasons for the late arrival the explanation of what was coming began.
YHC described the tale from his VQ and how in reading back through the beatdown and the realization of just how utterly stupid it was, it was perfect for a replay. The full intent of this was to demonstrate how impressive the recent VQ activities have been.
PAX: Enron, Yankee Joe, Goats in the Machine
Warmup:
Abe Vigoda’s
SSH (again for the late arrivals)
Derrick’s – The stupidity of why these were ever placed into a warmup we will never know. Although, Yankee Joe seemed to enjoy the difficulty of them so early in the beatdown
Nolan Ryans – Why would you put these in the warmup? You may ask. – because it’s a VQ and YHC didn’t know what he was doing
Alarm Clocks – First on the Lexicon so naturally had to throw these in
Bumper mosey
Thang 1:
“Yeah” by Joe Nicholls – played on only an iPhone, to bring back the simplicity of times before the infamous Thibodaux speaker debacle. JBL Proud®©™
Plank for the duration
Plank jack on “Yeah”
Mountain climber on “She”
Thang 2:
The Cindy Crawford (for the perfect beach body)
In each corner and then the middle of the stage, mosey between stations – 4 rounds of the following were completed:
5- Merkins
10- Moroccan Night clubs – why? You may ask – because it was a VQ and YHC didn’t know what they were
15- Squats
20- LBCs
25- Calf Raises (or toe raises as they were strangely titled on the previously mentioned laminated page)
Thang 3: Deck of Death
It wouldn’t be an Enron Q without the DoD, although the VQ came before YHC had access to the F3 deck. Each PAX drew approximately 6-8 cards each from a regular deck of cards until it was 6:10
Hearts: Merkins with face cards being hand release merkins
Clubs: Squats with face cards being jump squats
Diamonds: LBCs with face cards being Big boy sit-ups
Spades: Burpees with face cards being SSHs
Aces: bear crawl to end of field (30 yards) – mosey back
Mary:
Freddie Mercury’s
Arm Circles – Why are we doing a warmup at the end? You may ask. Because it was a VQ and YHC didn’t know what he was doing
Abe Vigoda- Why are we doing a warmup at the end? You may ask. Because it was a VQ and YHC didn’t know what he was doing
Heals to Heaven
Mountain Climbers
COT and prayed us out. Thanks, guys, for the laughs to go along with this one, it was a nice way to ease back into it after the holiday.
