11 PAX posted on a cool, damp grass morning at the site of Walter Elisha Park in Fort Mill.  Exactly 2 years ago, this was the last weekend that WEP did NOT have a F3 workout going on there on a Saturday.  On the 27th of September that changed in 2012 when Dredd, Swamp Fox, OBT, and a few others helped launch The Fort.

My FNG posted today.  1 of my 2 definite maybe’s for the week.  A neighbor who has been commuting literally from Columbus Ohio to Fort Mill every week for 2 years while he helped transition his wife into a successful business.  Tclaps for that brother.  I did not have his cell phone, but stopped by his house on the way home last night for the official headlock.  Knocking on the door, his wife answered.  I said is “Call him FNG nameless” here?  She said yes, he was sitting on the couch playing with his daughter.

The pure beauty men of this tactic is they have no time for excuses.  It is a full on bumrush, home invasion headlock.  I do not recommend this; however, sometimes you have to just go old school and do a little outside your comfort zone cold calling headlocking.  Again, enter all homes with permission and hopefully at least some working knowledge of said FNG.

After a few stutters, stammer, and an attempt to use the sister in law’s cousins, aunt visiting something IKEA, he said, yes, I’ll be there.   Low and behold he posted this morning and seemed downright eager to be there.  Rocked the workout, and I think might actually come back.

During the pre work and telling this story to everyone there, we already had settled on the name for the FNG.  Simple, Elegant, with respect to the process by which he was inducted into F3.  If he would have had one, I think he would have used it………….

“Panic Room”

We then did a workout with 4 stations each one bearing the focus and direction around I.A.T.A.

We broke down the Individual Initiative, Accountability, Teamwork, and Attention to detail.  Inspired by a great story this week on F3Nation about accountability.  Shadowman reappeared with an ode to burpees, dry docks, and some flutter kicks.  I was blacking out.

Men, this is a simple process.  Reach out, bring them in, grow, develop, repeat.

Tclaps to the PAX for a hard workout today.