Welcome to Neighborhood Watch and I am your Q for this week! In my opinion…This is the best new AO in the area. For those that dont know the history of this…Sir Posse was the brainchild behind this. One weekend afternoon back around labor day weekend while both him and I were helping out a Millbridge resident in need with moving, while walking a mattress on top of our heads to Shop Dogs garage, he says to me hey TB, I was thinking about starting a new Sunday morning walk, what do you think? What do I think…I think thats a great idea. Lets start next Sunday! He didnt expect me to jump on it like I did…so there you have it…Neighborhood Watch was born. We started out just him and I and its now grown to at least 5+ guys every Sunday morning plus dogs and children. Our Sunday morning walk gives you an opportunity to get all three F’s in at once with your F3 brothers. It also gives you bonding time opportunities with your dog or child(ren) should you choose to bring them along. I ask all of you to get out and give it shot…at least once. Its kind of like with your kids when they tell you that they dont want to eat something, you ask them just to give it a try once, if they like it, they get more. If they dont like it, they dont have to eat. They tried it once. I promise you that is all you will need to become a regular…just try it once. Every Sunday morning 7:30am to 8:30am at a development near you. Please check out www.f3waxhaw.com for each weeks location.
This week I chose Carolina Reserve in Indian Land for our walk.
We completed a 3.05 mile walk around Carolina Reserve and the Carolina Reserve Shopping Center.
Today was Slege O Matics first time out to Neighborhood Watch – Welcome buddy! Hope to see you out more.
During our morning walk we found things out such as Posse has to celebrate Valentines Day and his wife’s birthday one week apart and is not allowed to combine gifts. He has to celebrate both separately. Come to find out later on in the morning, he doesnt have it so bad…Ghosted’s wife is actually born on Valentines Day. Poor guy has to pull double duty. Posse asks that you dont take away his self pity.
We also discovered that Chicken Little, Sledge, Hollywood and Gerber are all connected through their occupations but on different sides of the fence.
Chicken Little discussed that during the early days of Covid that his wife came out to the neighborhood workouts and O-69 gave her the nickname of Alice…as in from the Brady Bunch. Got a good little chuckle out of that story.
Posse and Dynamite discussed what could be Dynamite’s next entrepreneurship that he could pursue. For those that dont…Dynamite is quite the entrepreneur and has a lot of insight for those looking to venture down this avenue.
Dynamite also expressed interest in Mash…so Mashers…make sure you keep on top of him to get him out there.
I had a little hiccup in my journey, so some of the fellas discussed with me how to get over it. Professor Posse is always good with his words of wisdom with me. Glad to have him as one of my mentor’s.
Chicken Little and Posse are the best two guys to have at Neighborhood Watch. They always have so much to offer and discuss. Thanks fellas!
NEXT SUNDAY: NEIGHBORHOOD WATCH WILL BE AT BENT CREEK IN INDIAN LAND, SC. 7:30AM. HOPE TO SEE YOU ALL THERE!
I was asked to be a last minute Q at Diesel and this was only my second time Qing and both have come in the past several weeks. I am still going through some growing pains being a Q…but with time and getting more experience under my belt, I will eventually get there.
Warmup:
Side Straddle Hops, Imperial Walkers, Moroccan Nightclubs. Called out a person to lead each warm up.
The Thang:
Gathered into a group and did Squats, Bent Over Rows, Overhead Press, Curls and Kettlebell Swings while the timer person completed 25 reps of Merkins, Speed Skaters, Plank Jacks and Step Ups on the Five Stones Fire Pit.
Once completed we did another round of these exercises in a group circle.
We then walked around the parking lot and around Mount Chiseled holding the coupon above our head. Stopped at different light fixtures and completed reps with coupons.
Returned to COT and was short on my weinke so we went around in a circle and everyone chose an exercise for the group to complete.
Moleskin:
Thanks to Penalty Box for introducing us to a new Canadian workout. Everyone put in hard work as usual. Proud to see Mayhem stepping up his game in F3. We missed two of our regulars Brutus (who was home nursing a sore back) and Centerfold (who was on vacation).
Announcements:
Save the date: Turnbuckle and Rudy are organizing the next blood drive on Saturday, October 17th (9am to 1:30pm). Location to be determined.
Happy Friday everyone!!!
Four months later and I finally have this monkey off my back. I attended Q School led by Posse earlier this year and quickly jumped on getting myself scheduled for two future Diesel dates. Well…it turned out that my first Q was the week that F3 Waxhaw shutdown due to Covid-19 and wiped me off the Q schedule. After that, I had lost my confidence to want to Q. After seeing a lot of new PAX from 2020 starting to do their VQ’s and not feeling like I am being a good team member, going into the garage wood shop over at Shop Dog’s and getting a lot of life guidance from him (he really has a great EH for those that need guidance) plus add on top of that getting guidance from my accountability team of Fuse Box and Posse. I finally broke down and had a talk with Chastain about getting myself on the Q schedule for Diesel.
Arrived around 5am and set up some signs around Five Stones parking lot I made (well my wife made them really) that had each locations workout on it. Spoke with Chastain and Brutus prior to other PAX showing up to make sure I was ready to do this.
I made some small rookie mistakes…but that’s what life and F3 is about…learning from our mistakes and improving ourselves so that we dont make the same mistake twice. Making ourselves better men and better leaders.
1: DICCS given
2: WARM UP: (10 each)
A: Forward and reverse arm circles (10 each way)
B: Imperial Walkers
C: Side straddle hops
THE THANG
Broke into two separate groups
Group 1 is to complete the following workouts:
Complete 25 of each…
1: Squats
2: Bent over rows
3: Overhead press
4: Calf Raises on the curb or coupon
5: Curls
6: Merkins
7: Hammer Curls (25 each arm)
8: Shoulder Flies
9: Triceps Extension
10: 21’s
11: Dumbbell Kickback
12: Weighted Shoulder Shrugs
Group 2 is to complete the following :
Walk around the parking lot islands: Complete 25 of each at each island
Zombie walk with coupon to each island. When you get to:
Island 1: Lay down chest press
Island 2: Speed Skaters (each side is 1)
Island 3: Plank Jacks
Island 4: Captain Morgan Squats (left foot on coupon)
Island 5: Captain Morgan Squats (right foot on coupon)
Island 6: Invisible Wall Sit holding coupon for 25 seconds
When group 2 returns , Group 1 heads off to Zombie walk to each island and complete the workouts. We did this twice. Afterwards we decided to merge into one group and complete a round of the first set of workouts together. That brought us right to the finish line.
Moleskin:
Great seeing everyone sweat and work hard this morning. Diesel is a great site. Everyone should attend a Diesel workout at least once. In my opinion, its one of the better sites F3 Waxhaw has to offer. Brutus, Chastain and the regulars all add to the fun times that can always be had at Diesel. Loved to see Legalized out there working hard even though he is on crutches. Sledge-O-Matic…this guy is a beast to work out with and he gives 150% every time. I have never seen him do a lazy workout. When you can ring out your shirt and leave a puddle of sweat, you know you worked your ass off. Proud of you my man! Keep up the hard work. Great to see Drop Thrill come out from Fort Mill to make a guest appearance at Diesel. Centerfold was his usual late self…lol…but he is a great leader, works hard and brings the fun banter to each of the workout groups. Mayhem is always there working hard and his love of life is just infectious. Bunyan is someone who I just met this morning for the first time. From what I was able to see, he really worked hard today and was the first done in my group each time.
ANNOUNCEMENTS
Discussed 100 PAX Challenge with Centerfold. We are almost at goal. For further details please contact Centerfold or any other 100 Pax Challenge team members.
Discussed Bloood Drive with Fuse Box. We currently have 64 signed up and sign ups end on Wednesday. Please push hard to recruit others over the next several days to fill our goal of filling the 100 slots.
Q School / Site Q School coming up the next 2 weekends. Please speak with Chastain for further details.
Prayed for the wives of Goodfella and Centerfold and the daughter of Shop Dog to recover from their ailments.
Discussed recruiting new PAX to join F3 Waxhaw. Discussed how the F3 program has a lot of success stories here in Waxhaw. Turnbuckle, O-69 and Sledge-O-Matic have lost a combined 150+ pounds. So put those emotional headlocks on those that need it and discuss the results PAX are seeing in their lifestyles.
I took us cradle to grave.
Have a great and blessed weekend!
Tonights folding party was 1 hour and 15 minutes. It was my first unofficial/official F3 Q.
We got started a little late tonight due to being locked out and tracking down someone to let us in.
We had my daughter and her two friends volunteer for community service hours for Cuthbertson Middle School Beta Club.
We had the families of Boitano and Lazy Boy in attendance as well.
Great having so many come out and help tonight. Kurt and Butch stopped in and were happy so many people were there helping out tonight.
Welcome to Saturday morning Q School with Principal Posse and Coach Goodfella!
Location: Cuthbertson Middle School Campus
The Warm Up
We started off with a quick mosey around the side parking lot. When we returned from our mosey, we began doing a warm up with Posse who was leading us in warm ups by being a class clown. Come to find out later that it was done intentional as a way of showing us what not to do and what is the correct way of doing it.
Each Pax was then given the opportunity to practice leading a warm up exercise. Each Pax was given constructive criticism on what we were doing right and wrong during our tryout.
The Thang
After we concluded our warm up, Goodfella took off running to the front of the middle school and had us follow him after he had gained some distance from us. Once we all got to the front entrance of the school it was once again explained to us that this is not the proper way of leading the group. He then explained to us that not only is it important to make sure that there is a leader in the front of the pack, but that there is a leader in the back of the pack staying with people such as myself who fall behind the rest.
We were given examples of why staying with the group is important due to some recent tragic events where people had been hit or died and were found because they were off on their own and not with the group.
The group was then instructed to break into pairs. After pairing up, we were then given the workout of doing (50) dips, (50) step ups and doing a half run around the front island of the school parking lot. Once completed, we then moseyed to the bus stop. There, we completed bear crawls and broad jumps to the other end of the columns.
After we completed this, Principal Posse then got stern with the group, as the Pax waited for everyone to complete the workout, they were standing around talking when they should have been doing some other forms of exercise.
We were then instructed to mosey to the shed. But as we get to each light pole, we were to complete 5 burpees. Once we got to the shed, the group completed another exercise waiting for the rest of the Pax to catch up. We were then instructed to grab lifting rocks and circle up in the parking lot. After completing the first exercise we then found out we wouldn’t be staying in the same spot and were to shuffle left. This left some Pax with the difficulty of working out with a heavier rock then they had picked. A few Pax led different exercises such as curls, bent over rows along with a few others.
We then returned the rocks to the pile and met back at the shed and did a time check. We had 10-15 minutes left to get back to the side parking lot where we had began.
The next workout instructed was to do a run back to the side parking lot but stopping at each light pole where we would complete (5) Bobby Hurley exercises. Half of the group returned to pick up TB who was behind while the others returned to the side parking lot and completed some additional exercises.
Once all were back at the side parking lot we circled up and completed some demo exercises we can do to fill up any remaining time.
Posse led us out and explained to us all of the different ways that we can take the group out. He led us out using a quote that he had pulled up and saved on his phone.
Moleskin
We all worked together as a team today. We were educated and shown that there is more to Qing a workout then just what we see when we all show up to site each day. There is a lot of prep work that goes into it. If we are Qing a site, we should arrive early and inspect the site to make sure that its up to safety standards to host the workout.
Best of luck to everyone who attended Q school today. For those who havent Q’d yet, I wish you all the best and that its everything you sought out to do.
COT/Announcements:
For the month of March, no one is to Q more then once.
Everyone is getting together this morning to help move Shop Dog from his apartment to Millbridge.
CLASS DISMISSED!