#SOB Dads – Ninja Edition

#SOB Dads – Ninja Edition

On Saturday, approximately 50 Dads and 2.0’s took to the fields and playgrounds of Harrisburg Elementary school just southeast of Ballantyne. This week was a different meeting place for the #SOB’s but all seemed to find it ok.

One could ask why the location was changed from the picturesque and fun field of the bulls. The reason became evident about half way through the workout. Read on…

The thang:
First, there was a quick disclaimer telling the kids they don’t have to do what a guy named Honey Bee says. In fact, it is probably better if they didn’t. Then we circled up on the basketball court for a quick warmup. Side straddle hop, toy soldiers, mtn climbers, and the crowd favorite daddy elevators got the blood pumping.

Then we moved just off the pavement and lined up shortest to tallest for leapfrog. The ground was surprisingly rocky here and the kids didn’t want to stay down low. Leap frog sounded much better in YHC’s head than it went down. Oh well. Off to the next idea.

After everyone was through, we ran over to the little kid’s fenced in playground and handed out 3 pool noodles to play freeze tag. After two rule iterations, we still had a hard time getting everyone frozen. There were some fast folks out there!

Next up was the main event, the Ninja Warrior course which has just been installed here at Harrisburg Elementary. Why did my school never have anything this cool? It is a legit ninja style obstacle coarse next to an already very cool playground. Just awesome. We had the 2.0’s go through once to get used to it and then the dads timed them for a few rounds. Everyone was fast but Spidey came in first with 0:33 seconds followed by a tie for second by Chase and Wolfpack at 0:36 seconds. A few dads couldn’t resist giving the course a run too. It was seriously challenging even for the dads.

Once everyone had given the course a few tries, we moved over to a grassy knoll where there was a conspicuous cooler sitting in the middle. There were a lot of guesses what may be inside. Bottled waters? Gatorade? Juice boxes? Nope. All that was in there was a big cup and a bunch of ice cold water. We then circled up for some drip, drip, drop to cool off. Played like duck duck goose except with dripping water for ducks and a gush of freezing water on the head for goose. It was a lot of fun. The kids got the biggest kick out of dousing the dads with cold water and it actually felt good after the initial shock wore off. One niner almost caught Favra in a foot race with a child in hand. Impressive!

Due to poor timing by YHC, we were officially out of time at the end of the drip, drip, drop, however, everyone decided to stay around for one more event that had been set up. In the grassy area across the driveway, someone had sprinkled a bunch of trinkets (dollar store toys left over from the winter F3 Dads event). The kids were allowed to search the area until all the trinkets were collected. We then had a BOP (ball of people) before telling everyone goodbye.

Sorry that we were over time and there was not an official name gathering (or official count). #bigQfail Everyone had a good time though and that is what counts.

Thank you for letting YHC lead. On this Father’s Day weekend, it means a lot for you men to be spending this quality time with your kids. F3 has many good parts, but F3 Dads is one of the most meaningful to me. The kids simply love having fun with their dads. We get to have this fun while showing them some leadership in action. That is good stuff.