Category: Ring of Fire

2015 Children’s Attention Home Angle Tree

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THE THANG:

We are partnering with CAH to give the PAX an opportunity to give back to the community in a small way. We are participating in an Angel tree for the Children’s Attention Home.

This Angel tree works a little differently than other tree’s you may have participated in the past. You are taking an Angel to purchase a gift for a general need rather than a specific child. These needs may be satisfied specifically during the Christmas season or throughout the year as new Children arrive or leave CAH.

We have volunteered to provide for the needs in three areas for the kids:

  1. Scooters, Skateboards, Ripsticks, Rollerblades, Helmets, Knee Pads  – All Sizes
  2. Card Games –  Go Fish, Old Maid, Uno, Phase 10, Skip Bo, Flash Cards, Playing cards
  3. Art Kits & Acrylic Paint – Jewelry Making, Beading, Scrapbooking, Origami Kits, etc.

** Note: CAH houses children from ages 18 months to 18+ years so you don’t necessarily need to just buy for the younger children.

Please bring your unwrapped gifts to any AO site Q (see weekly e-mail for Site Q list) through December 19th or to the Christmas Party on December 19th and they will funnel them back to me, Chicken Hawk.

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A few steps shy of 10,000

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  • QIC: Chicken Hawk
  • When: 10/21/2015
  • Pax: Rocky top, Lego land, Rebel, Geronimo, Seventh Heaven, Skate or die, Ginsu, Mission Impossible, Cross-check, Elmer, McGyver
  • Posted In: Ring of Fire

12 men met in the gloom at the Coop for some “significant” pain!  Although a brisk morning that was quickly forgotten before warm up was over.  My goal was 10,000 steps and we got to about 4,200 so slightly short.  Meeting this goal was of no consequence to the Special call out to Rebel for his 50th Birthday! #Respect

The Word

Success is about yourself and personal achievements.  The reality is he more we chase success and the more we have of it the more we want.  Success is fleeting and dies when we do.  Instead pursue significance which is about helping others achieve.  Those that are significant leave a legacy and help encourage, enable and elevate others beyond what they would have achieved ileithout someone helping them.  Significance does not die with the person rather it persists ongoing.

The thang:

Mosey to the play ground for a warm up on true basketball court.  While exercising two pax ran a circle around the circle in opposite directions.

  • exercises included SSH, merlons, mountain climbers, CCD, mountain climbers, sumo squats

Mosey to the wall of the building for a long Colombian suede squat walk around the wall with a burpee at each post.

Split into 3s and spread out around the circle.  One person sprinting got the other then continuing with a lunge walk until the pax come around.  Repeat for three laps.

Indian run to the top of the hill to the pull up bars.  Run starts with a bear crawl, crab walk followed by a plank walk.

FIinish with groups of 3 again with partner 1 doing 15 pull-ups , 2 doing backwards run up the hill and 3 doing squats.

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Get out of the Boat and Out of Your Comfort Zone!!!

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  • QIC: Rebel
  • When: 10/14/15
  • Pax: C3PO, Freeon, Peabody, Ginsu, Skate or Die, Cake Boss, Macgyver, Rocky Top, Cheeda, Cross Check, Mission Impossible, Solid State, Chaser, Bounty Hunter, CSPAN, Chicken Hawk, Double D, Sir Topham Hat, Geronimo, Deacon, Stang, Huckleberry, Snare, Lego Land, Socrates, Patton, Package, Rebel
  • Posted In: Ring of Fire

28 Pax showed up this cool morning for YHC led workout.  With one week left in the forties there was a lot of work around the number forty.  Early comments were thrown that several showed today, expecially the over 45 crowd since they knew they would not be the oldest posting today at the Coop.

No FNGs and all Pax are experienced so off we went for a mosey to the elementary school.  Around the side parking lot with high knees, butt kickers and side shuffle, then mosey to the end of school to circle up.  Warm up

  •  20 SSH IC
  • 15 Imperial Walkers IC
  • 15 Mountain Climbers IC
  • 10 Merkins with hold to 6″ IC
  • 20 Morrocan Nightclubs IC

The Thang:

Mosey to the hill leading up to ROTC building.  10 merkins at bottom, backwards run up the hill, 5 pull-ups.  Repeat 4x.

Mosey to AO Jones entrance to NAFO and pick up a coupon.  Bring coupon to the large parking lot.  YHC talked about moving out of our “comfort zones” and into action.  Putting our faith in action can create fear within us and as Peter stepped out of the boat to go to Jesus, fear entered his mind as he felt the wind and began to sink.  Jesus was there to reach out a hand.  So many times we can feel the calling to act out our faith in our home, community or world and yet don’t act because of fear / excuses.  Remember that if God is calling you to it, He will see you through it!!  Next exercise with coupon……4 light poles across parking lot.

  • 1st pole – 10 burpees – carry rock to 2nd pole
  • 2nd pole – 20 curls – drop rock run back to 1st pole for 10 burpees
  • 3rd pole – pick up rock at 2nd pole carry to 3rd and 30 tricep ext.  drop rock and run back for 10 burpees.
  • 4th pole – pick up rock at 3rd & carry to 4th for 40 squats.  Run with rock back to 1st pole 10 burpees.

Partner Up – with partner run to light pole 10 plank hops each partner(crowd fav) 10 merkin slaps.  Rinse & Repeat.  With time still remaining 1 more round – change to bear crawl half way, lunge walk half, sprint back.

Circle up for some Mary:

  • 40 LBCs
  • 20 Freddie Mercury
  • 10 Hello Dolly
  • 15 Russian Twist

Mosey back to COT:

Announcements – read the newsletter for upcoming events.  Sign up for Christmas Party!!!

Several Prayers and praises were lifted up for healing, medical issues for family and PAX.  Continued prayers for those impacted by the floods and the rebuilding process they will be in for months to come.

Thanks Chick Hawk for the opportunity to Q.  Always a pleasure to push each other and be a part of a great group of men!!!

In His Grip,

Rebel

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Loaves and Fishes… PAX please keep helping Columbia.

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Loads, nay, tons of support has been poured out on the Columbia PAX, but we are far from out of the woods. Spiderman is trying to garner support for a Columbus day trip to help folks start the clean up process. There will be A LOT to do. If you’ve been following the news, twitter, etc., then you’ve seen the devastation. It’s not widespread like Katrina, but for those folks affected, it’s close to that level of devastation. We are also still taking donations.

SO DONATE! Bring supplies to your AOs tomorrow and the rest of the week: Dry food, water (LOTS OF WATER), toiletries, clothes, and especially blankets or other bedding. EVERYTHING and anything helps. If you can’t make that, then drop supplies by my house: 7183 Meyer Rd. (near The Coop) We will be taking more loads down tomorrow and all week long.

Thank you for your generosity thus far. Let’s keep it going.

Someone tonight as they were dropping supplies by said, “It’s not much, but it’s what we could do.” I said that a lot of “not muches” makes a whole pile of “somethings”.

It made me think of the stories of Christ feeding the 5,000; or the account of the Widow’s Mite. Men, let’s cast in what we have, add it to the growing stacks, and make a dent in the suffering of another human being. The little we can do WILL MAKE A HUGE DIFFERENCE. We are promised it is so…

Additionally, if you have the means and are so inclined, here’s the link to the GoFundMe site: http://gofundme.com/9x5mxfv8

Helmet out…

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Columbus Day in Columbia

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Gentlemen,

As you know Columbia was hit very hard over the past weekend by severe weather.  Many of our F3 brothers, their families, and friends have been impacted.  Daily trips are already in motion to deliver water and other necessary items.  As the waters subside the clean up will begin.  Let’s converge on Columbia to help our brothers dig out and clean up.

Details:

Plan to cut limbs, shovel mud, carry furniture, etc.  We will coordinate with those in Columbia and refine the details as we get closer.

When: Columbus Day, Monday, October 12th.

  • Meet at 6:00 – 7:00 to collect donations
  • Depart 7:30am

Where:  Lowes by Baxter Parking Lot (Slo Burn)

  • 1640 Highway 160 West, Fort Mill, SC 29708

What to bring:

  • At least one case of water
  • Sawzall (battery powered)
  • trash bags
  • Face mask
  • Chainsaws
  • Loppers
  • Gloves
  • Rope
  • Hacksaws
  • Water
  • Shovels – (snow shovels and regular)

What to wear:

  • Solid Shoes or Boots
  • Jeans
  • F3 shirt
  • Gloves – I know you have some smelly ones somewhere that have seen their day in the gloom

BEFORE YOU GO:

A tetanus shot is highly advised for cleaning up a flood area.  You can get this taken care of at a CVS or Walgreens so please get this done.  Get this done in NC so you can complete it without a prescription.  Check your insurance coverage, I was able to get this done at no charge.

Please help us make an impact!

Count so far:

HC:

  • Spider-Man
  • Dark Helmet
  • Chicken Hawk
  • Deacon
  • Cerrano
  • Jekyll
  • Barry Manilow
  • Fish Sticks
  • Senator Tressel
  • Rebel
  • Smuggler
  • Boeheim
  • Jennifer Cameron – BAC
  • Hank Chou – BAC

 

Thank you!

Spider-Man

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Be a #HIM and help out the Columbia Community

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Gentlemen:
As you may (or may not) be aware, Columbia has been hit hard be storms and has gotten over 2 FEET of rain in the last couple of days. It’s a pretty bad situation for a good number of folks have had to evacuate and some have lost homes and other property.

There isn’t a ton we can do from this end until it stops raining, but we are mobilizing to collect supplies to deliver to our F3 PAX down there, so they can help Red Cross and others distribute to those in need.

WHAT YOU CAN DO:
Bring the following to AO’s where you post tomorrow and Tuesday: Food (dry), water, clothes, blankets, toiletries. Anything you’d need if you were suddenly rendered homeless. We are asking Site Q’s and Q for the day to collect and I will be in touch to collect it all to take it down to Columbia. We’ve been in touch with folks down there and he and I will be working out the delivery of goods.

If you want to donate go here: http://gofundme.com/9x5mxfv8

Please step up and help.

Helmet, out.

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New Cover Artist for Johnny Cash

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  • QIC: Old Bay
  • When: 09/30/15
  • Pax: Opie, Rebel, Chicken Hawk, Destiny, Legoland, Crosscheck, Mission Impossible, Sasquatch
  • Posted In: Ring of Fire

This morning at The Coop, YHC led an “upgraded” rerun of the workout from The Yard this past weekend.  The Ring of Fire exercises seemed like so much fun, why not do it again, but without the “moderate” intensity?  The 9 pax were warned on the twitter machine that it could be awful, and that gloves where highly recommended.  Not sure who heeded the warning and headed to Clydesdales, but 100% followed the glove advice.

Main Thang

Mosey down to the Sugar Creek Elementary for COP Warmup

  • Windmills x10 (IC)
  • Imperial Walkers x20 (IC)
  • SSH x30 (IC)
  • Sealjacks x20 (IC)
  • Plankjacks x20 (IC)
  • Peter Parkers x20 (IC)
  • Low Slow Squats x10 (IC)

Mosey back up the hill to a pile of earth near entrance of stadium.  The contents of said “earth” in this pile used to include quarry rocks.  That no longer being the case (note for future workout Qs), so we moseyed straight across to AO Jones and found quarry rock there.  Each pax picked a coupon and we moseyed up toward the school building.  They were instructed to deposit their rocks in the center of a circle of cones.

Ring of Fire

12 cones set up in a circle (like a clock face) about 20 yards in diameter.  Each cone (still borrowed from Jekyll/Funhouse) had an exercise and rep count.  All pax started at the center and lunge walked out to a different cone and did the exercise (the cone they picked was their starting point).  Once done with the exercise on the cone, they bear crawled back to the center, picked up a rock, and performed 5 burpees with the rock.  Pax then ran out to the next cone (moving clockwise).  The exercises was done once all 12 cones had been completed by everyone.

The rocks were returned to their home, and the pax moseyed back near the shovel flag for a few minutes of mary, which consisted of Russian Twists and Chopsticks.

Nakeman Moleskin

Fortunately, no one reported having banged their head with their rock during the Ring of Fire.  In fact, all pax had the great fortune of being serenaded with the Johnny Cash song “Ring of Fire”.  I couldn’t say for absolute sure which pax it was, but since it makes sense that Destiny would have the best singing voice, I suspect it was him.

The pax did great today.  I especially enjoyed meeting Legoland, Crosscheck and Mission Impossible, and sweating it out in the gloom with them.  Excellent work by all!!!  Thanks for the opportunity to serve as Q.

AYE!

-old bay

 

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Pre-Blast for The Fort 2015 Christmas Party

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This is a long time coming, so here it is:  The Pre-Blast for The Fort 2015 Christmas Party!

Now this will be no ordinary Christmas party.  This party will be THE blowout of Fort Mill that people will be talking about for months, or at least hours….   There will be food, drinks, rap battles, break dancing, etc.  The typical PAX throw-down.  This is a BYOB event.  This is all you need to bring.  $65 a couple is a steal to hear DD drop the mic to an Eminen classic, “the Real Slim Shady” while Menthol throws down the cardboard to show us his old school break dancing moves….  This is something you don’t want to miss.

The Thang:

AO: The Diary Barn

Date: 12/19/2015

Time: 6:00pm – 10:00pm

Cost: $65 per couple – Pay here https://www.paypal.me/JoshuaSale  OR send check to Joshua Sale 1213 Whitetail Drive Fort Mill, SC 29708

Extras:  BYOB – If you would like to partake of a festive drink, please bring it and our bartender will be serving the PAX.

Remember that $65 now in September is easier to come by than in December.  Do this now and have a pre-paid date night for your M that will be loads of fun!

Let me know if you have any questions.

Funhouse

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Warming up with Jack Webb always keeps the workout to “Just the Facts”

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  • QIC: LugNut
  • When: 09/09/15
  • Pax: Rebel, Backdraft, SkateorDie, Snare, McGiver, Elmer, Knifeset, Huckleberry, Legoland, So-crates , LugNut (Q)
  • Posted In: Ring of Fire

11 #HIM answered the call this extremely humid morning. YHC did not know what to expect as several of the PAX are in Colombia (including the Site Q, Chicken Hawk) on a mission trip. And 36 Pax are tapering for BRR. However, the PAX this morning came ready to work and they put forth outstanding effort.

This is how it went:

Disclaimer

Mosey to Sugar Creek ES side parking lot for start of Warm ups:

50 SSH IC

25 IW iC

7 twelve count slow squats

Bear Crawl from island to island and lunge walk back (rinse and repeat)

Mosey to wall

Moroccan Nightclubs 25 IC

Jack Webb (1 merkin, 4 air presses) up to 10 merkins/40 air presses. (Brief explanation as new to some)

Moroccan Nightclubs 25 iC

Ball to the Wall

With the warm up over we were ready to get started. The warm-up itself was a real crowd pleaser.

Next up Crazy 8 (brief explanation as some had never done). At top of hill 8 reps of merkins and 8 LBC and bottom of hill 8 dips and 8 bombjacks. Run backward up hill and forward downhill. Do 8 rounds.

Next line up at the end of the rounds and run AYG to the dumpster by the stadium.

Then partner up and grab a rock. Partner 1 runs to the visitors entrance while Partner 2 does curls. Flip-flop.

3 minutes of Mary with Pax leading the exercises (Flutters, Gravediggers and Freddie Mercury)

Moleskin:

Great group of guys to morning. Several I had never met before. This is my fault as I have not been to the COOP as often normal as so many choices on Wed and so many new Pax. Thank you Chick Hawk for the invite.

The Pax pushed each other this morning.

Announcements: Check the Newsletter

Prayers: many for aging parents and grandparents along with So-crates son with a broken arms. Colombia trip. Also LEGOLAND’s sister.

Honor to serve!

Nut “cracked”

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9/2/2015 The Coop

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  • QIC: Backdraft
  • When: 09/02/2015
  • Pax: Chickenhawk, Socrates, Destiny, LEGOLAND, Altercation, SK8 or Die, Rockytop, Montelango, Uncle Si, Pebbles, McGyver, Corruption, Dark Helmet, Huckleberry
  • Posted In: Ring of Fire

15 tough minded men showed up this humid Wednesday morning to strengthen their minds and bodies with a beatdown from non other than Backdraft. I have been asking Chicken Hawk for a Q at The Coop since I came off the disabled list, it was even greater than I expected getting to lead these men in a great workout. It went something like this

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Mosey around parking lot with high knees, Karaoke, butt kickers.

Circle up for warm-ups- SSH x 20, Prisoner Squats x 20, peter parkers x 20, arm circles front and back x 20, Mountain climbers x 20.

Mosey down to elementary school and partner up at playground P1 does Swing ab crunches x 15 P2 continuous flutter kicks until partner 1 done swap and repeat for 3 sets.

Mosey to back of school for Jacobs ladder top of hill do 7 bomb jacks at bottom do 1 merkin. Once completed do LBCs until the six was in.

Mosey back around to front of school for peoples chair and Balls to wall.

Mosey to pull up bars Partner up do descending dead hang pulls up from 5 to 1 when not doing pull-ups you are doing LBCs.

Mosey to band practice grounds for sprints.

1st set go to 25 yard line 5 flying squirrels backwards run to end zone.

2nd set sprint to 50 4 flying squirrels backwards run to end zone.

3rd set sprint to 75 yard line 3 flying squirrels backwards run to end zone.

4th set sprint to other end zone line 2 flying squirrels backwards run to other end zone.

Mosey back to COT.

Announcements- read newsletter

Prayers- Men going on mission trip leaving Friday, LEGOLAND’s sister and her battle with cancer, Chickenhawks grandfather after he took a fall, Uncle Si nephew having surgery to restore his hearing.

It was awesome to lead these men.

Backdraft out

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