Football (the round kind) Fest

Football (the round kind) Fest

34 Dads and 2.0s came out to have fun and get some exercise at the F3Dads Saturday workout at the Ballantyne Bulls.  This week was a soccer style workout that included a warm-up, some games with and without the ball, COT, and a short dads and kids scrimmage.

The THANG:

• Warm-up led by RoadRunner (2.0, Age 14) that included some of the exercises seen here – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HXYkaXOARr8 :
  • Open the Gate, Close the Gate
  • Side Lunge Groin Stretch
  • Straight Leg Raise
  • Duck Walk (straight front leg and sweep hands down past foot while moving forward)
  • Back Quad stretch and Front Quad stretch
  • Carioca
  • Front and Back shuttle
• 4 corners game
  • Split into three groups and use 3 of the 4 corner squares on the big grid (about 15 yards x 15 yards).  When Q calls “1”, group 1 runs to the empty corner.  When Q calls “2”, group 2 runs to the empty corner (which is where group 1 was).  Keep going calling out 1, 2, and 3.
  • Now, get the kids a soccer ball and have them dribble the ball to each corner in the same way as before.  Call out numbers more quickly so that there is hopefully some confusion, having to pay attention, and having to move to quickly get out of the way.
  • Water break.
• Flip the cones game
  • All types of cones are scattered around the area.  Dads run around trying to put the cones “face up”, and kids are coming behind them trying to flip the cones to “bottom up”
  • First time through without balls.  About 1 minute time length. Pretty sure Dads lost.
  • Second time through the kids have balls for about 2 minutes.  They must knock taller cones over with a ball, or have your ball close in possession to use your hand to flip over the smaller disc cones.  Dads can do whatever they want. Pretty sure Dads win.
  • Third time through Dads have the balls and have to do similar to what kids did in Round 2.  Kids have to do a merkin before putting larger orange cones back up.  Smaller cones can be flipped without a merkin.  Too many cones to count winner.
  • Fourth time through kids have the balls and Dads have to do a burpee before flipping over tall cones.  Tired Dads don’t do too many burpees.  Kids probably won.
  • Water break.
• Get that trash out
  • Kids are with their dad, and entire group splits into 2 teams.  Half on one side of the field, and half on the other side.
  • Objective is to get all of the trash (the balls) onto the other team’s half of the field.
  • Round 1 can use hands or feet.  at least two 2.0 casualties getting it to the face.
  • Round 2 can use feet only.  Dads request ball on the ground only, but Q doesn’t think there will be too many air balls, so still no rules.  Dads, protect your kids.  Q’s kid (Fearless) is in the clear open and gets wind knocked out by a Mongol sniper.  Probably more casualties, and PaperJam remarks Bratwurst is nearing a record for more casualties at a F3 Dads workout.
  • Round 3 can still use feet only, but it’s now Dads versus kids.  It becomes obvious that some Dads don’t want to lose and are sending balls high and deep.  Some line drives by the kids are stopped by dads (who aren’t supposed to be using hands, but sometimes you just gotta protect yourself).  Not sure if there was payback.
  • Water break
• Dribble around cone and pass relay race
  • Split into 6 groups – Dads with their kids.  About 5 for each line.
  • First person in line dribbles with ball around cone and passes (or dribbles) back to next person in line.
  • Continue until there have been 15 total turns per team.  Sit down when done.
• COT and Bratwurst took us out.
• For those that wanted to stick around, we played a mixed small sided 10 minute scrimmage.  Baguette showed off his moves (and is now actively being recruited for the Soccer Arms Cup), Sparky switched teams 3 times trying to get on the winning side, but the game was mostly played between the 2.0s including RoadRunner, Spark, Strad, Howie, WeaverBee, and TheJudge.  Sparkles and Butterfly? were active fans sometimes jumping into the action.

Moleskin:

• We are a soccer family and have fun playing and watching each other, but we rarely get to have everyone participate.  This was a fun way in the summer to get everyone involved and pre-sweat out the calories of the fast food breakfast treat that followed.
• Even if you are not inclined to soccer, it was hopefully a fun way to get some energy out.  I know my kids have appreciated the past couple hours of some hard earned screen time before hitting the pool for the afternoon.
• The Q for F3Dads is open for at least the next 2 weeks.  Contact HoneyBee to sign-up.