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Ode to Nairobi

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WARMUP: usuals
THE THANG: started off by discussing the brief history of our connection with F3 Nairobi and Safari (Phelix), shared the mission of bringing clean water to Homabay Africa, Safaris home and how it was divine intervention perhaps that brought Jonathan Fraufenhaur (F3 Mapquest) into F3 where he learned of F3 Nairobi. Our plans to raise 50,000 to fund the project over there led by Living Waters International of which Jonathan is an executive, and the involvement of the Fort.

I brought a Jerry Can to represent the cans that the people of that part of the world have to use to get water every day walking 3-4 miles to get to water sources that are not even clean!

The goal was to keep the can in the air the whole 45 minutes while we travelled to several pain stations bringing the kettlebells with us to complete the exercises at the stations.

Station one:

One Pax holds Can while other pax rotate through 4 exercises 10x each exercise once the Pax complete the 4 exercises the Can gets passed to the next Pax- 7 minutes total then we move to the next station-

There were 3 stations, actually 4 but we missed one because YHC forgot about it :man-facepalming:

Station 1
Press
Squats
Twists
Swings

Station 2
Bent over rows
Lunges
Clean to press
Plank drags

Station 3
10 Kettlebell Bent-Over Rows
• 10 Kettlebell Swings
• 10 Kettlebell Deadlifts
• 10 Kettlebell Sumo High Pulls

After this we walked back to COT, we held plank while PAX carried YJC to end of lot and back, then next Pax went to end of lot and back while we all did exercise called by the last pax that got back. Did this for 8 minutes

MARY:
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
COT: https://fundraise.water.cc/give/f5969080/#!/donation/checkout

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13 YR Anniversary Convergence

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WARMUP:
THE THANG:
Here is my weinke – Assassin

We had about 12 runners and 6 ruckers tackle the tundra of the paved loop around the schools.

Starting at the front door we headed around the back, past the shop, past the ROTC HQ, down to the elementary playground, back by the stadium, out to Jones Road and back to the front.

All enjoyed. Thanks to Sasquatch and Spectre for the preview lap and suggestions.

Convergence bootcamp Q- Backdraft

Warmup- SSH, windmills, cherry pickers, mtn. Climbers, Moroccan night clubs

The thang-
Count off for groups of 3s
Mosey to pull up bars
Group 1 wall sits
Group 2 merkins

Group 3 13 pull ups 13 burpees

Stay in groups Dora on the hill
Bottom 300 CDDs top 300 squat jumps mosey from top to bottom

Line up in parking lot for 43 seconds of following exercises followed by bear crawls in-between
Exercises were as follows
Merkins, air squats, flutters, alt. Shoulder taps, jump squats, lbc’s, Carolina’s dry docks, alt lunges, burpees,

Mosey back to COT in original 3 man groups

KB workout- Boogie Nights

Ladder of pain- it sucked

MARY:
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
COT:

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Always a crowd pleaser…

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WARMUP: Mosey’d around the parking lots and picked up Sugar Bug so he got a chance to run. Back at COT we did: windmills, cherry pickers, low slow squats, merkins, Peter Parker’s, Parker Peter’s.
THE THANG: Everyone’s favorite- the deck of cards.

Do what the cards say based on suit and #.

– Diamonds: 2-7 was merkin with a bell lat pull; 8-ace was man makers (everyone loved these!)
– Clubs: 2-7 was flutter with a press; 8-ace was American hammers
– Spades: 2-7 was lunge with bell pass through leg; 8-ace was squat with should press
– Hearts: 2-7 was single arm curl; 8-ace was kb swings
– Joker was 50 SSH and 10 bomb jacks
– After every 6 cards, we did a farmers carry in 1 arm about 100 yards, then switched hands for the walk back

MARY: did about 4 rounds
ANNOUNCEMENTS: hog and coyote
COT: complete!

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2025 – SLT Disruption

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WARMUP: full crew in cadence
65ish SSH for the 65 dudes that were in the circle
Imperial Walkers
Hillbilly Walkers
Peter Parker

Split to boot camp and kettlebells
THE THANG:
Bootcamp:
– Buy-in: 20 bomb jacks, 20 donkey kicks.
– Bear crawl the length of parking lot / whistle = 10 merkins
– Lunge walk parking lot / whistle = 10 jump squats
Kettlebell
– 20 swings
– 5 merkins
– 5 goblet squats
– count down the merkins and squats keep the 20 swings
– Swing progression
– Squat Swings
– Swings
– American Swings
– Rack bell
– slow step back reverse lunge
– press when returning the back leg
– Clean Progression
– Row
– Clean
– Swing
– Snatch

Unbeknownst to the PAX we switched modalities about halfway through. This was to represent the foundation 1 from Q-Source: https://f3nation.com/disruption.

“Because it induces movement, leadership causes Disruption”

PAX were disrupted from their planned morning workout to make sure both Qs saw all the PAX and to push them outside the complacency zone of their established routines. With the leadership, we should expect disruption and embrace it.

Leaders influence movement towards advantage. Disruption is a solid technique to induce movement.

“If a man calls himself a leader but does not cause Disruption by initiating movement, then he is not practicing leadership. He might be doing something else, like managing or governing, but he is not leading.”

It is not the goal of the new SLT members is not to manage or govern. It should not be the goal of the Site Qs to manage or govern. Let’s lead!

F3 is not an organization with leaders, but an organization OF leaders. Each man is freed to lead. The particulars of Site Qs and the SLT structure is nice, but let us not be afraid to disrupt when we have a vision for advantage.

Kermit handed 2nd F Q off to Liberty Bibberty
Band Camp handed the Weasel Shaker off to Poppins
Esso handed the Nantan Flag off to Band Camp

It is an honor to be considered a leader in the Fort. But be mindful every member of the PAX is A LEADER. Let’s all be about the business of leading.

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