A good beatdown can originate from many sources. Some days we sharpen iron, others we honor feasts. Sometimes a theme may be in order or maybe just a hodgepodge of track induced pain (yea Goose , we still salty).
A few days ago after YHCc’s 3rd lifetime Mardi Gras parade, so many F3 worthy songs were heard that there remained only one course of action. A text to my DJ DOD counter part that it was time for volume 3. The supply of Mardi Gras jamz was high and the pax demand for fun on Fat Tuesday even higher. If only we had a professor of marketing (who is also a self proclaimed traditional NOLA Mardi Gras expert ) to guide us. Well maybe one day, I guess it’s next man up. So we dusted off the deck of death and two north La rednecks shouldered the burden of what became Fat Tuesday Tuff.
Pit Boss Ronnie set the tone early with a pair of seizure shades and several parade props to distribute amongst the Pax. 4 more pax saddled up and we let the good times roll! ( it’s a traditional Nola greeting , look it up )
Duke ! Get the bean footage!
Warmup
Ronnie led standard warmup
While YHCc was adding increasing burpees between each warmup. Goose saw the tactic immediately and looked like he smelled a dead animal carcass in the bayou while Cuz begged for more than 1 each round because he wore his scuba shorts for extra sweat.
The Twerkin Mile
A twist on a TT classic to get the core fully activated.
Standard Merkin mile course with four stops for :
20 leg raises
40 big boys
60 gas pumps
80 flutter kicks (2:1)
This is where the chatter picked up and we were introduced to an entire new segment called the Tana Tumbler. Here’s how it works . During a group run you introduce a topic to Tana and he will run with it while introducing new topics on top of it until we are all in stitches. In this very manner we covered Scientology , The great hot sauce debate, what the Superman move actually means and even post BD he couldn’t be stopped and gave us a history of pre-ATT devices. We have our beatdown fact checkers working overtime and will give a full report on percent accuracy of the Tana Tumbler claims.
Back to the flag for some DJ DOD
Song #1
Mardi Gras Day
Boat hold into Superman on all “mardi gras days”
YHCc kept feeling like a beached whale and in retrospect we might need to do this in the grass or maybe never again.
DOD
Special Mardi gras edition
Ronnie will throw the cards up in the air and if you catch multiple you get to pick which exercise .
Goose started with a great strategy to “breadbasket “ the cards and gifted us 100 calf raises
Wet Tap gave us 14 Carolina dry docks and several excuses as to why he wasn’t a wide receiver.
Song 2
YHCc stressed again that we would stick to Traditional NOLA Mardi Gras music so we went for an old timer classic…
Silentos “Whip and Nae Nae “ -hold plank
Whip -merkins
Nae Nae -side reach
Stanky leg -lift leg
Break yo leg – MC
Still not sure I wanna know what a Superman is.
DOD
Tana brought us 9 ranger merkins and Cuz caught some high flutter kicks that were particularly nasty .
Song 3
Saints go marching in
Bearcrawl /crawlBear to first picnic table
Dolphin hop on Saints
Silence followed by grumbling, ahhhh sweet music to my ears.
DOD
YHCc caught zero cards , blamed the wind and we did 60 2 is 1 Freddy mercuries. Lil Cuz has not fully learned to translate YHCc’s slurred speech and began to dutifully pound out 60 Freddy Merkins. Love that attitude cuz. Bonus Merkins with a smile will always get T claps at F3 thib.
Ronnie was last, caught two cards with his hands and one on with his chest sweat (like a real man) and we rounded out with 20 low and slow squats.
Song 4
Carnival Time Finisher
Burpees on carnival , SSH on rest
COT and Wet Tap prayed us out .
Had an absolute blast out there in the gloom today fellas. Special thanks to Ronnie for all the props and for willingly looking like a crazy person with me.
SYITG
DJ Texaco Cat
