White Elephant Christmas Party

White Elephant Christmas Party

We began with a hasty mosey from the Vine to the top of the Ballantyne Village deck. At the top level, we scaled each pylon (watch out for the ice!).

20 Side straddle hops
20 Imperial walkers
25 Mountain climbers

Keeping with the Christmas theme, YHC hosted a nasty white elephant Christmas party. In a typical white elephant gift exchange, a person chooses a gift and unwraps it, the next person may choose to steal the opened gift or pick from the pile. If your gift is stolen, you may pick a different opened gift or go back to the pile. At our party, YHC prepared 50 “gifts,” or exercises on note cards. JRR Tolkien selected first – 1 min of balls to the wall. Each subsequent pax had the choice of choosing from the deck or “stealing” for a repeat of a previous exercise.

Exercises selected (not necessarily in the exact order)

• 1 minute balls to the wall (stolen once)
• 20 Maktar Jai
• 50 calf raises
• 10 deck squats
• 20 low slow squats
• 30 Dolly/30 Rosalita
• 1 minute elbow
• 10 in/out jump squats
• Run to the top of the deck and back to start (stolen 3 times)
• plank hurdles
• backwards bear crawl to top of one ramp
• 20 wide-arm merkins
• Burpee circle time bomb
• Tunnel of love (refused)

Moleskine
YHC was pleased to see a big group for the party. The crew was in good spirits and I didn’t hear any negative mumble-chatter. We did far more running than I expected, but that’s not a bad thing. Let’s hope the white elephant becomes a holiday tradition.

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