Run, Jump, Fly – What really happened at Joust?

Run, Jump, Fly – What really happened at Joust?

COP:

SSH – does the number actually matter? IC

IW – ditto IC

Burpees – 5 OYO

Main Event:

Mosey to lower parking lot with dynamic running: High knees, Butt kickers, Karaoke, Backwards, Regular

Count off into teams of 2 and each team grab a coupon (20 lbs – 45 lbs).  Mosey to near end zone.

Field Work #1 – The Grind

P1 carries coupon to 50 yd line and back

P2 Burpees

Flap Jack

Repeat until all teams complete 100 Burpees (help fellow PAX when finished)

Field Work #2 – Team Movement

Line up abreast on near goal line

Lunge Walk 50 yards.  Recover.

Bear Crawl 10 yards.

Crawl Bear 10 yards.

Crab Walk 10 yards.

Walk Crab 10 yards.

Broad Jump 10 yards.  Recover.

Partner Work

Partner carries to 50 yard line  100 yards (or sprint) switching as needed. (Pax favorite)

Recover.  Mosey to stairs.

Stair Work

Partner Wheel Barrel up the stairs and regroup

P1-called exercise

P2-Stairs

Flap Jack

Plank for six after each exercise

1. Dips – Crab Walk down and Bear Crawl up
2. Derkins – Run down and Hop up single steps both feet
3. People’s Chair + Air Presses – Run down, single foot double steps up
4. CDD – Run down, 2 foot hop double steps up

(Do not follow Q who stepped off the stairs in the dark and landed 4 steps down)

Field Work #3 – Herschel Walker

P1 WWII sit ups

P2 sprint across field and back

Flap Jack

100 50 sit ups per team

Field Work #4 – Home Stretch

Line up abreast mid field

Run 10 yards forwards, 5 yards backwards.  Repeat until in end zone.

(math lessons needed for Q and /or many PAX).

Carry coupons back to lower lot

Mosey back to upper lot

(Impromtu) 6 Minutes of Mary

Merkin plank o rama merry go round thingy

Pax called out exercises:

Heels to Heaven

Freddie Mercury

Scissors (SLOW flutter kicks)

Mountain Climbers

Protractor

COT:

Namorama

Announcements

Circle of Gratitude

Take Out – Thanks Header!

Moleskin:

Everyone was pushing hard today!  Lot’s of movement and very little recovery time.  The teamwork concept is a favorite of YHC.  It’s a great life skill that often takes practice – to be able to ask for help when needed and to give help when able – in all aspects of life.  And it’s great to feel a part of something greater than ourselves.  Appreciate the pax helping each other finishing the Burpees and encouraging each other throughout the work out.

YHC thought there would be refusniking or Q-jacking when the burpees were announced.  Other than some mumblchatter prior to the lauch, I didn’t hear much, other than some mumbling about merkins instead.  YHC was too busy trying to keep up with Smokey and keep count of our burpees to notice what others were doing.  There was much more dissent with the partner carries.  Eh, I get it.  However, it’s a skill that may come in handy one day.  Strong work guys!  Lot’s of changing locations and lot’s of different movements today and everyone seemed to cooperate and push hard.  There was no dry run of this weinke for time but YHC thought for sure we’d run late and I would have to eliminate 1 or 2 parts of it.  Instead these Larry Birds/seasoned vets/young and old alike were killing it out there and we finished quite early.  Never can go wrong with some Mary at the end – thanks for your willingness to partake.

The first birthday Q I remember posting at was Dora’s Q at Peak 51 last summer.  It’s a great concept.  What better way to celebrate one’s birthday than with service and with gratitude for others?  What better way to start the day than taking the Q and posting with my F3 brothers?  Thanks for indulging me.  Now, if I can just stay healthy enough to post 4 years from now I’ll get some R-E-S-P-E-C-T.  Grateful for another day and the start of another year.

While contemplating this BB, YHC began to contemplate how or why this AO got it’s name.  Surely one of the old-timers can answer that.  In the mean time, YHC reflected on the great arcade game – Joust.  Some not so deep research reminded me that this game was released in 1982.  ” While not the first game to feature two-player cooperative play, Joust was more successful than its predecessors and popularized the concept.”  What set the game apart was the different set of skills.  As opposed to the other early competing arcade games such as Defender and Asteroids, Joust required one to RUN, JUMP, FLY.  Hence the name of this BB.

We didn’t exactly do those things today, but we pulled from the tool box to use a variety of skills.  If you suspend your disbelief for a few moments, you could imagine being in the Joust game today.  One could imaging jumping up the stairs and flying on another’s back, depending on the degree of O2 deprivation.  Of course, YHC did fly down the stairs by accident at home point.  I was running towards the field and thinking how glad I was that nobody got hurt on the stairs when I totally missed the 4 stairs in front of me.  Good thing I was running as I landed on the landing.  I was just uncoordinated enough to fall down the stairs but just coordinated enough to land on my feet and keep going.  True humility – seeing me for who I am.  Anyway… The partner work fit the “two-player cooperative play” concept.

And, this is supposed to be fun too.  So, carrying the 1982 theme a little too far probably, YHC made a 1982 song list and had that playing from the rucksack for the duration of the workout.  So whomever was stuck with that “coupon” either loved it or hated it I suppose…  What?  Which bands were chosen?  Well, since you asked… Survivor, Steve Miller, Tommy Tutone, Rick Springfield, The Cars, Men at Work, Loverboy, Soft Cell, Dazz Band, The Go-Go’s, Asia, J. Geils Band, 38 Special, Flock of Seagulls, Jurney, Laura Branigan, John Cougar, Rod Stewart.  Many of those names would be good F3 names.  Enough of this line of thought…

T-Claps to Header and Chin Music for the pre-run.  And T-Claps to those I EH’d who went out of their way to post here today.  Much appreciated!

Thanks to site Q’s Yeti and Header for the opportunity to lead today.  I’m better for it.  Hope someone else is too.

SYITG

MAD