Backblast: December 15th, 2024
AO: The Pump Station – Hood Park – Perrysburg, OH
PAX:
Photon – Q
Carmen Sandiego
Coconut
Crawdad
Geppetto
Guardian
Huckleberry
Manchester
Meatloaf
Phat Thor
Piggly Wiggly
Shepherd
Tarnished
Ukulele
Yoshi
Workout: Imposter Syndrome
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: N/A
The “Thang”:
After splitting into two teams, PAX played a friendly team game of Name That Tune. Order of operation was as follows:
1. One team wages a number of imposter burpees (surfer get-ups) that is representative of the number of seconds of music they require in order to properly guess whether the upcoming song is the original version or the sampled version, AND the name of the sampled track. Both teams would then perform that number of surfer get-ups before the song in question began to play.
2. Song began to play and the waging team made their guess. If correct, waging team was able to choose whether to perform the “Best Of” workout or the “Worst Of” workout for the duration of that particular song. The other team was required to do the workout that the waging team did not choose. If the waging team guessed incorrectly, the opposing team had an opportunity to guess.
3. If the opposing team guessed correctly, they were able to choose whether to perform the “Best Of” workout or the “Worst Of” workout for the duration of that particular song. The waging team was then required to do the workout that the opposing team did not choose.
4. In the event that neither team guessed the correct answer, both teams were required to perform imposter burpees (surfer get-ups) for the entirety of that song.
5. When the song ended, the opposing team became the waging team and the process repeated.
6. Repeato until time.
“Best Of” Workout:
10 Curls
10 Man-Makers
30 yard Bear Crawl
Repeato until end of the song.
“Worst Of” Workout:
10 Absolutions
10 Thrusters
30 yard Murder Bunny
Repeato until end of the song.
Ended with:
Count-O-Rama: 15
Name-O-Rama
The Six – Manchester
LDP3
Ball of Man
Spreadsheets from the Gloom: 33 and raining, with a windchill cold enough to cause ice formation and force us into the grass. This beatdown was a simple case of good idea, poor execution. First challenge was how complicated it was once it came to explain it. The rules need to be simplified a bit, and a good first step would be to eliminate the need to properly guess the name of the cover song. The rule for pass/fail should strictly be whether it’s the original or the cover. Layered rules were confusing and a good number of the songs weren’t identified by the PAX anyway. The other confusing aspect was the mulitiple workout choices. If it could be simplified, that would make the whole thing run more smoothly. Maybe just have one workout that everyone does? Maybe eliminate the all surfer get-ups penalty? It needs at least one other tweak, it’s just hard to say what that should be to ensure the heart of the beatdown stays intact.
Another problem was space. It was too crowded in the small patch of grass for the two different workouts (forced to the grass because of ice). A larger area would help a lot. More time would as well. This would be a good beatdown for The Fortress.
Overall, the theme was good, the buy-in idea was good, and the track listing was good. Would prefer to refresh the track-listing on subsequent runs, but it may prove difficult. Speaking of track listing:
“And The Beat Goes On” – The Whispers
“I Want’a Do Something Freaky To You” – Leon Haywood
“Release The Beast” – Breakwater
“The Next Episode” – Dr. Dre, Snoop Dogg
“I Got The…” – Labi Siffre
“The Last Time” – Andrew Oldham Orchestra
“Are You My Woman (Tell Me So)” – The Chi-Lites
It’s always a bummer when the beatdown doesn’t pan out as you had envisioned, but at the end of the day, taking risks can mean the difference between coming up with a good beatdown and a great beatdown. I foresee this one hitting the Swamp again in the future with some tweaks. Regardless, it was a pleasure to have so many guys make it out despite the absolutely terrible weather.