The Warmup:
1. Good Mornings IC (10)
2. Windmills IC (10)
3. Knee to Opposite Shoulder Stretch, 30 secs each leg
4. Forward Pigeon Pose, 30 secs each leg
5. SSH IC (20)
6. Skaters/Apollo Ono (10)
The Thang:
1) Mosey to hill by Hardees, stopping along the way for some fun
a. At the side street wall, People's chair while YHC educated the PAX on the origins of Electricity in the USA. On this day in history, 1883 Thomas Edison built the 1st electric lighting system using overhead wires in Roselle NJ. This location is near where YHC grew up and attended Thomas Edison Tech High.
b. That bit of knowledge imparted, we continued to the corner where we did 20 squats IC & squat imperial walkers IC (20)
c. Continued to the intersection by Hardees where we used the short wall to do some step-ups (20)
d. Crossed the street onto the bottom of the hill where in honor of the year (83) of this electrical achievement we did 8 Squats at the bottom of the hill, BernieSanders up the hill for 3 Pop-Squats. Used any mode of travel down the hill (PAX choice). We continued incrementing/decrementing until the count was reversed to 3-8.
2. We then moseyed behind Hardees to the next parking lot where we planked while YHC continued Edison’s story: A short definition of AC/DC power followed by how Tesla an engineer working for Edison wanted to bring DC power to the people while Edison wanted to use AC, so a battled ensued. Edison was a better salesman and had the right connections to make AC the lighting standard for homes & industry. Tesla's ideas didn’t just go away though as DC power has been used throughout the automotive and electronics industries. Anyways, all this AC/DC talk reminded the Q of the band AC/DC and their song Highway-to-Hell, but since we are about positivity at TheEarl, we did 18 Heels-to-Heaven to celebrate the century when Electricity was invented.
3. We continued to the courthouse steps to do the Electric Slide and found it roped off due to ICE, we trespassed and did the slide anyways. Again, in celebration of the momentous event in 1883 we would do 8 burpees at the bottom slide up the stairs and do 3 burpees at the top. We were running out of time, so we cut it short after three trips up the stairs.
4. We moseyed back to the AO, and on the way YHC talked about how social media was used even back then to spread misinformation, as an example I mentioned drawings published in newspapers of people dropping dead from electrocution because of the AC power being proposed by Edison.
The Mary:
1) Squats (18)
COT:
1) Announcement, schedule for the coming QRs
2) name-o-rama
3) The wife had given me several inspirational things to say, but I forgot them all, so I just encouraged the PAX to be vigilant of Covid and if gathering with groups do so outdoors. And as always be good people!