The Honey Badger is here to stay! After a couple weeks of a soft launch, today was the day that made it official. 11 PAX made the hard work over the past few weeks for Happy Gilmore and I worth it when they met us under the flag at Durham City Hall this morning for the hard launch.
The first day at the new AO went like this…
Warm Up
SSH x 20
IW x 20
Hillbillies x 20
WMH x 20
Move to the covered area for some musical encouragement.
To the tune of Gonna Fly Now (John X Remix), Rocky Balboas x 40
Chinooks x 20
Seal Clap x 20
At the conclusion of Gonna Fly Now, it was time for YHC’s favorite excercise, Bring Sally Up!
The Thang
The Q passed the torch for a moment to Happy Gilmore (h/t HG) to put away gear, he led them through Erkins x 10, and the People’s Chair for a Ring of Fire 10 count
Follow the leader mosey to Durham Public Schools (DPS) via First Baptist Church (FBC). This was a recon run in preparation for the next activity. We included at least 8 flights of stairs in a serpentine style across their grand entrance. and backwards running up the hill. We finished our run at the DPS Admin building.
At DPS, we got into teams of 3 (one team of two) for a Triple Check. The Triple Check has PAX 1 on each team in the People’s Chair, PAX 2 in the plank, PAX 3 made a run around FBC, upon return of runner, PAX cycled through positions. Everyone did each exercise twice.
Everyone then found a curb or tire stop that they liked and got personal with the Wheel of Merkins. Start facing south x 10 Erkins, rotate to west x 10 Merkins with left hand on the curb, rotate to north for Derkins x 10, rotate to east x 10 Merkins with right hand on the curb, rotate to the south for incline plank jacks x 10. All OYO. This morning’s PAX were bad ass, like the honey badger, and finished too fast, so we had extra time.
We did the same rotation but instead of 10 of each, we did 5.
Mosey to the City Hall Annex Plaza, for dips x 25. YHC got a little vocal at the end of these, it was a good burn.
Mosey back to the City Hall Flag.
Mary
Makhtar N’Diayes x 20
Hundreds x 100 (legs up at 45 degrees, head and shoulders lifted off the ground, palms on ground. Lift palms 6″ off ground) I considered calling it here, but heard some mumblechatter, so…
Superman Ring of Fire x 12 count
Tanks were emptied.
COT
The Bull – Saturday, April 14, 0700-1100.
Check the Durham 2nd F channel for a 2nd F lunch on 3/19 at 1200 at Bull City Burger.
No Prayer Requests, YHC took us out.
NMS
Thank you to the PAX that came out to the Honey Badger’s hard launch. It is great to see the numbers so high for a new AO. I appreciate working with Happy Gilmore to get this going, and look forward to continuing to lead together. If you’ve not read “Freed To Lead” by Dredd and OBT, I highly recommend it. There are some great lessons on group leadership, and pushing to lead within your community in that book. This morning was my opportunity to lead within my F3 community. I encourage you to figure out which communities you are a part of, and step out of your comfort zone and lead where you can. Lead your household, lead your neighborhood, lead your team, lead your city; start an AO, lead your F3 brothers. What ever it is find a way to lead. SYITG, Aye.