F3 New Orleans

Tag: Mothership

  • 8 years and more to come – from Bongo

    Don’t know where to start from this morning, but overall a fun beatdown. Too much mumble chatter, mostly instigated through Bogey and Frac almost to point of harassment. But the Q moves on and stays focused on the job at hand as a leader. My exact (8) year anniversary is 1/30/2016, but was volunteered last week by Catfish for this week’s mothership so we’ll celebrate a week (or two early).

    The main theme, unknown until final COT was to go back to my first beatdown as an FNG and recreate that, or as close as I could get. Here is the former Workout, https://www.f3nola.com/2016/01/30/no-hawg-no-flag-but-time-for-tyson/. Another point, temperature was < 32 F which I think is one of the coldest mornings in the gloom I can recall. Despite this, (12) pax showed up ready and willing which any Q, as I am, would be thankful for today. Here we go: Boys got together – and we took off for the Peristyle. Circled up for our WARMUP COP. SSH x 25, Slow Squats x 10, Mountain Climbers x 25, and Imperial Walkers x 25 Arm circles X 10 each way. Circle Back up to visit our boy – Jack Webb. Push Ups/Air Press starting at 1, then 2, then 3, then 4 to 10 over at the great. Still way too cold and time to start moseying to NOMA pond. IC Dips x 20, Left leg step up x 2, Incline Mercans X 15, Right leg step up x 20, Dips x 20, Decline Mercans X 15 Box Jumps x 1… OYO with former story from my past I ain’t telling again…., no one is getting hurt under my watch! Long Mosey over the Football Field of Practice Track Eleven across the football field with running in middle, Burpees on one end, big boy sit ups on other. You know the math as I don’t need to explain. 5 rounds with Tyson. Sprint to the 50 yrd line do an exercise, then the goal line do an exercise, then back to the 50 and finish at the Goal line with a 4 set of the exercise. Rd 1 Burpees x 5, Rd 2 Jump Squats x 10, Rd 3 Peter Parkers x 15 each leg, Rd 4 Dying Roaches -x 20 total to keep it easy and finished Rd 5 Burpees X 5. Long mosey back to great lawn with quick stop at calf raise stand of stadium, Heisenburg counted us in. Great Lawn minimal Mary: Flutter Kicks X 20 and Hello Dolly X 20, arriving back to flag at 07:29:58. What a way for Q to keep us on time. COT went back through a reflection of my appreciation of what F3 has done form me in the last (8) years and how the (3) Fs (in whatever order) continue to bring me back. Many thanks for the opportunity to lead as always as I need to do it more. Here is to many years to come! See you on the radio.

  • Folsom Prison Blues – from Rudy

    21 PAX gathered in the gloom – 1 DR visitor from Katy TX (Happy Meals) and 2 more of the Chips brood – welcome Chip and Dale, his 9 year old identical twins! (also joining were the other 2 Chips boys – Frito Lay and Knucklehead. What a name — “Knucklehead”!!!)

    6:30 strikes and after a disclaimer we were off to the rocks. Limber up with some stretches and low impact activities (Imperial Walkers, Hillbillies), then some SSH. We had to restart that after explaining to Maytag how a “cadence” works. Oh, thanks for joining late Mahatma and DAX.

    Non-stop chatter from Heisenberg and Vagabond earned a quick 5 burpee penalty. Then go grab a rock.

    YHC grabbed a rock that proved to be way too big. But we’ll get to that.

    Deck-o-Death: start plowing through the deck with Overhead Press, Curl, Row and Squat. One variant – doing 2, 3 or 4 of any suit barely seems worth the trouble. So when those cards were flipped, we’d do 10 burpees, 20 Peter Parkers or 30 LBS instead. FracSac accused YHC of planting the deck with multiple King of Spades. WRONG. Half way through, Hawgcycle noticed that YHC was struggling – so he snuck in to replace my rock with a mere pebble that he’d been using. Shamed, but thankful…

    7:00am – time to call the deck off (half way through give or take) and mosey to the Mini to gather up some bricks. Didn’t quite have enough for everyone – figure it out.

    Partner up on the Great Lawn for a Dora-Ish thing. 3 rounds. PAX 1 (timer) runs back and forth with the rock while PAX 2 exercises. Flip. Rinse and Repeat. First round: PAX 2 does Brick-pees. Second round: PAX 2 does FLoyd Mayweathers (with brick). Third round: PAX 2 does Sit Ups. Rounds change on a timer, not on a count – so everyone just keeps going.

    7:20 – time for the last item. 56 Years ago today, Johnny Cash recorded Folsom Prison Blues live at the Folsom Prison. So to honor the man in black, we’ll do Ring of Fire while listening to Cocaine Blues, Dirty Old Egg-Suckin’ Dog and other hits. First round with Merkins, Second round with Squats, Third round with Leg lifts.

    And that got us to 7:30. Back to the flag for a COT. Naming of Chip and Dale might have been the FASTEST FNG naming I’ve ever been associated with. “I like Disney Land” said one of ’em. And that was that.

    Intentions for sick and suffering F3 PAX and friends – Bongo’s wife, Mayhem’s friends the Schaff family in particular (but not alone).

    YHC took us home with a reflection about Romans 7. Then off to coffee!

  • Frisbee and Burpees – from Fracsac

    The Mothership happened today with a visit by Goose from Thibodaux. Ballast, Heisenberg, Revit, Catfish, Bongo, Dax, Tool, Kennah Brah, Squints, and YHC brought us to 11.

    Disclaimer made, then mosey.

    Warmup at the peristyle with some regular stuff and included TIE Fighters. #IYKYK
    Ended warmup with a mental challenge. Count to 16 SSH in cadence than to 22 in silence. Penalty for non compliance was 10 burpees. Spoiler alert: we did 10 burpees.

    Move to great lawn for variation of BLIMPS to recognize NDSU in FCS playoffs. 5 more burpees ‘cause the pax called their mascot a buffalo.
    1 cone in the middle with 5 cones on the outside. Start with 5 burpees in the middle and then bear crawl to an outside cone to do next exercise. Always return to middle cone for 5 burpees.
    10 Lunges, 15 IW, 20 ‘mericans, 25 PJ, 30 squats.

    Mosey for a while with a Bison run. Last man sprints to front of column and tosses frisbee to last man, continue until all get a shot.

    Ring of fire in front of sculpture garden entrance. ‘Mericans, squats and then monkey humpers (just as a nun was walking by – not my best day).

    Mosey and pass the frisbee across at least 4 pax. 5 burpees for the one drop.

    11s at the bridge behind Cafe du Monde. Jump squats on one side and V-ups on the other side.

    Some frisbee practice at Pops band stand with SSH.

    Finish with some Mary then back to the flag.

    55 burpees total. #ironsharpensiron

    CoT

    SYITG

  • Casino Royale and The Gettysburg Address – from Triple Shift

    If you don’t write a backblast quickly, you will forget the details. I’m doing this for the Pax Miner so everyone gets credit.

    I brought all my toys (dumbbells, kettlebells, and sandbags) and borrowed a couple from Frac and Heisenberg’s 80lb sand ball. I provided a disclaimer and the pax picked up all the coupons and headed to the front steps of NOMA to play a few rounds of blackjack.
    Diamonds – Thrusters/Squats
    Hearts – No Cheat Merkins/Bench
    Clubs – Patti Cake Big Boi Sit-ups
    Spades – Body Row/Upright Row
    Joker – Farmer Carry/Run around NOMA
    A’s – 10 of suit and then Bear Crawl to one side where the slate ends.
    K’s – 10 of suit and then Lunge Walk to one side where the slate ends.
    Q-s – 10 of suit and then Monkey Walk to one side where the slate ends.
    J’s – 10 of suit and then Duck Walk to one side where the slate ends.

    For the game of Blackjack, the loser or if a draw happens, performs 10 burpees. The winner does one (1) burpee, and a bust (going over 21) must do the number of burpees of the bust. My kids came up with that diabolical choice as in the Prisoner’s dilemma scenario.

    We finish up by carrying all the weight back to the virtual flag. For the COT, I shared with Pax that the next day (November 19, 1863), Abraham Lincoln gave his famous Gettysburg Address where some 51,000 men were either killed, wounded or went missing / captured in the three day battle. With that, I closed out with reading President Lincoln’s speech.

    Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
    Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.

    But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate — we can not consecrate — we can not hallow — this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us — that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion — that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain — that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom — and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.
    Abraham Lincoln
    November 19, 1863

  • 10 things 10 times, for 10 rounds – from Kenna Brah

    Since the activity involves warmups, we headed for the fountain for some appropriate rocks.

    Circled up and distributed the mission to each Pax.

    Me – set 1-2 10 4ct SSH + 10 Curls, and for set 9-10 10 Slow Squat ( no rock ) + 10 front raise
    Smooth Set 3-4 LBC + 10 Chest Press
    Bogey Set 5-6 Mountai Climbers + 10 Over Head Press
    Frac Set 7-8 – 10 Freddy Mercs + 10 Pullovers

    I discovered that I, indeed, have NOT overcome some latent ADD symptoms and that I peaked too soon in life.
    After 7 rds Sua Sponte manifested itself and Frac led with some Burpee/Man maker alternatives, the fever spread and pretty soon Sua was Spontenating all over the place, for a great laugh and an effective beatdown. Leadership was shared, 2ndF accelerated.
    Head back to the flag for Harry Rockets as a finish ( See video on Slack. )
    COT

  • 10 things 10 times, for 10 rounds – from Kenna Brah

    Since the activity involves warmups, we headed for the fountain for some appropriate rocks.

    Circled up and distributed the mission to each Pax.

    Me – set 1-2 10 4ct SSH + 10 Curls, and for set 9-10 10 Slow Squat ( no rock ) + 10 front raise
    Smooth Set 3-4 LBC + 10 Chest Press
    Bogey Set 5-6 Mountai Climbers + 10 Over Head Press
    Frac Set 7-8 – 10 Freddy Mercs + 10 Pullovers

    I discovered that I, indeed, have NOT overcome some latent ADD symptoms and that I peaked too soon in life.
    After 7 rds Sua Sponte manifested itself and Frac led with some Burpee/Man maker alternatives, the fever spread and pretty soon Sua was Spontenating all over the place, for a great laugh and an effective beatdown. Leadership was shared, 2ndF accelerated.
    Head back to the flag for Harry Rockets as a finish ( See video on Slack. )
    COT

  • Veterans Day 2023 – from Fracsac

    13 Pax showed up to better themselves at the Mothership. We had Mathlete from the Northshore and Crawdad a little further north, Toledo if you must know.

    3 ran away for fear that YHC might hurt them. I get it. The rest were part of a Veterans Day beat down celebration including a little trivia sprinkled in.

    Warmup with regular stuff at the peristyle.

    The thang:

    10 minutes of 11 WW2 sit-ups and 11 squats followed by 200 meter run. Increase by 11 reps followed by the run until time runs out.

    5 minutes of step ups to commemorate fallen veterans to suicide, based on Chad Wilkinson and Chad 1000x.

    BLIMPS

    All in cadence with a 400 m run between exercises.

    COT

    Thanks to all veterans for their service.

    SYITG

  • Casino games – from Fracsac

    8 pax showed up and got stronger at the Mothership. Here’s what went down:

    Mosey to the peristyle for a warmup consisting of regular stuff.

    Mosey to the great lawn for some BLIMPS using the corners as the markers. Mosey and lung walks were MoT.

    Partner up and play some casino games. Run to opposite corner, 5 burpees, then back to middle. Share a card number selected with non partner to keep in honest. Add cards together and team closest to 21 w/o going over wins the round and chooses an exercise. 4 rounds total.

    Ring of Fire with squats and ‘mericans

    Finish off with 21s doing LBCs and jump squats.

    CoT

    Coffeteria

    SYITG

  • Saders Beat Jesuit 15-3 … Rummel beat John Curtis in Overtime – from Hokie

    October 7th 7 of Diamonds

    Temperature in the 60’s greeted one FNG (Cabin Boy) , one down range (Face Plant from F3 Orlando) poster and 8 NOLA Pax

    After brief disclaimer we moseyed to Peristyle for warmups of

    15 SSH
    3 burpees
    27 hillbillies … the rumbles from Pax were heard “insinuating” to FNG the Q forgot to utilize voice inflection to stop at 20 or 25 and thus inflected to stop at 27

    Mosey to benches for
    21 four count step ups

    After YHC instructed Pax to report to 1st corner shelter of great lawn, the Q “educated said Pax” the validity of the 15-3 and 27-21 counts honoring the Two football big games last night

    BM beat Jesuit 15-3

    Rummel beat Curtis 27-21 in overtime

    The Thang …
    7 of diamonds with 4 corners of great lawn

    Mode of transportation between corners

    Mosey long right side of great lawn
    Lunge short side by Storyland
    Backwards mosey long side by City Putt
    Backwards lunge short side by peristyle

    Step ups at benches waiting on 6 to finish each round so we all would start & finish each round together

    Round 1 – 7 Burpees in each corner

    Round 2 – 14 HR Honest Shoulder Tap Merkins each corner

    Round 3 – 21 four count Star Toe Taps each corner

    Round 4 – in honor of Jesuit’s 3 points 28 three move honest big boys with left leg to chest, right leg to chest and then big Boi sit up

    Mosey back to flag for COT

    Thanks for allowing YHC the opportunity to Q

    Hokie
    Cabin Boy (FNG- lives in Pensacola)
    Face Plant (F3 Orlando)

    Bogey
    Catfish
    FracSac
    Heisenberg
    Thighs
    Tool
    Triple Shift

  • PYDHY – from Vagabond

    Warmup

    Circle up – challenge to see how far we can push ourselves beyond mental limits

    PYDHY – “Push yourself don’t hurt yourself”
    do as many as you can side straddle hops facing outward so you can see other pax – stop when you get tired (not speed but total number)
    do as many as you can shoulder taps – stop when you can’t do any more

    When done turn around LBCs in your own
    Was the number surprising to you?
    We’ll do again another time – remember your number

    Partner up

    throw frisbee, kick ball to each other back and forth 10x each
    frisbee touches or ball bounced ground, 5 burpees/3 8 cts

    Peristyle benches 15 reps
    Squats while waiting

    Dips
    Derkins
    Irkins
    R leg step ups
    L leg step ups
    R Hungarian split squat
    L Hungarian split squat
    Incline wife pleaser
    Plank walk up/downs

    Ring of fire
    Bonnie Blairs
    Al Gore

    Mary

    Great lawn – soccer