Backblast: March 12th 2026
AO: The Armory – Waterville LIbrary – Waterville, OH
PAX:
Photon – Q
Doubtfire
Fat Amy
Lullaby
Manchester
Polaroid
Vespa
Workout: Curling For Girl…ing? Rev. 2
FNG’s: N/A
Mission and Principles:
F3: Fitness, Fellowship, Faith
Mission: To plant, grow and serve small workout groups for men for the invigoration of male community leadership.
The core principles of F3 are that it is always:
1. Free of charge
2. Open to all men
3. Held outdoors, rain or shine, heat or cold
4. Led by men who participate in the workout in a rotating fashion, with no training or certification necessary. You versus you. Modify or stop an exercise if you need to. The most important thing is that nobody gets hurt.
5. Ends with a Circle of Trust
Credo: Leave no man behind but leave no man where you find him
Warm-up: In Cadence
SSH (2 is 1): 53 while we waited for Manchester
The “Thang”:
PAX participated in America’s favorite winter past-time: curling; F3 style. The sheet was setup in the parking lot as follows. Hog Line was 21m from the button. The House was standard dimensions with a 2ft, 4ft, 8ft, and 12ft circle. Button was illuminated with a lit cone. There was no backline or hack.
PAX split up into two teams of three and YHC was a floater. The progression of the game was as follows.
Offensive team decided who was taking which role on the throw.
“The Stone” estimated how many “reps” of the round’s MOT he wanted to put on the throw.
“The Stone” would aim, close his eyes, and take the pre-estimated number of reps of the round’s MOT, and wherever he ended, he placed his dot.
During the shot, the “sweeper” would perform an alternative non-blinded MOT next to the stone as it traversed the sheet.
During the shot, the “thrower” would perform curls until the MOT ended for that shot.
Non-throwing team would perform 15 burpees per person as a timer for the offensive team.
Each team alternated roles over the course of 4 throws per round. Scores were tallied at the end of each round and were pointless.
Two rounds were played. Exercises were as follows:
Round Stone MOT Sweep MOT
1 Bear Crawl Broad Jump
2 Bear Crawl Broad Jump
Ended with:
Count-O-Rama: 7
Name-O-Rama
The Six – Polaroid
LDP3
Ball of Man
Spreadsheets from the Gloom: Figured I’d try this again with some new implementations from the initial run’s learnings. First of all, we stuck to just bear crawls for the blind MOTs…for both rounds. They are controlled, they are hard to cheat, and repeating them for both games made the second game a lot more competitive because everyone’s accuracy was much better. In a similar fashion, we ran the same “sweep” MOT for both rounds: broad jumps. The landings of the broad jumps do help the blind stone aim if they follow the sound, but I still like the idea of explosive movements for the sweepers.
The non-throwing team was still an issue. The loose 50 reps of the queue exercise were replaced with 15 burpees per person, but a number of PAX simply didn’t push themselves to complete them. Part of it might just be that they want to watch the throwing team. Perhaps an EMOM timer could be implemented to encourage keeping time/pace.
All that said, running this at The Armory was awesome. The lit parking lot was perfect for not one, but two complete house setups.
Playlist remained the same, because it was on point:
“In The Stone” – Earth, Wind & Fire
“Push” – Matchbox Twenty
“Push It” – Salt-N-Pepa
“Slide” – Goo Goo Dolls
“The Sweep” – Westside
“Slide” – Slave
“Stop The Rock” – Apollo 440
“Like A Stone” – Audioslave
This is a really fun beatdown. I wish there was a good way to make it more challenging while keeping it fun, but the format makes it a bit challenging. Maybe someone will take bits and pieces of the idea and come up with something a lot better. Until then, we’ll probably keep this as a winter special. Not every beatdown has to be hard. Being fun is okay too.