The BackBlast:

AO:

clinic

Pax Names:

Good Hands, Hand Hill, Sgt Slaughter, Westside, Spock, Stopwatch, Grylls, Hooch, Trust Fall, Chops, Fleetwood, Dog Leg, Doddy, Odd Job, Diez, Red Rider, Trill, Gut Check

Number of Pax:

18

FNG Names:

Number of FNGs:

0

Intro:

Surprise: YHC actually planned the beatdown.
Surprise: YHC planned a great surprise for the beat down.
Surprise: It was 10 degrees colder than it was supposed to be when I checked the weather last
No Surprise: The All Star team showed up in full force!

Warm-o-Rama:

Mosey to the back lot
10x Imperial Walkers
10x Hillbillies (Go Vols!)
6x Weed pickers
Mosey to Hooch's truck for a surprise! Hooch must have gotten these BRICKS on the clearance aisle, because they were full of holes. Surprise! We'll have to work extra hard.
25x SSH with BRICKS
10x Law Dogs with BRICKS (What's a Laaaawwww Doooogggg?)
Sun Gods OYO with BRICKS

The Thang:

Abstract mosey up the stairs to the PURE parking lot. Curls with BRICKS at crossing lights.

Diego with BRICKS:
– 100 Merkins
– 150 Overhead press
– 200 LBCs
– 250 Curls
– 300 Squats
Partners run with BRICKS to crosswalk, run backwards to partner.
(Leave it to Westside to assist YHC with the "audible of pain!"–shortened run means more work)
Continue runs till 6 is in.

Twin Towers of Trust:
– PAX Bear Crawl with BRICKS thru towers of standing men holding BRICKS at 90 degrees.
– After completing first pass, PAX Bear Crawl with BRICKS thru towers of kneeling men holding BRICKS at 90 degrees. (2x)

Thor Captains:
– 1 left/right American Hammer with BRICKS + 4 Big Boy Sit Ups
– 2 left/right American Hammer with BRICKS + 8 Big Boy Sit Ups
– 3 left/right American Hammer with BRICKS + 12 Big Boy Sit Ups
– 4 left/right American Hammer with BRICKS + 16 Big Boy Sit Ups
– 5 left/right American Hammer with BRICKS + 20 Big Boy Sit Ups
(SURPRISE)
– 20 left/right American Hammer with BRICKS + 5 Big Boy Sit Ups
Time… Mosey with BRICKS back to the flag.

COT:

Stopwatch is the 6th man. Told us about his family, his implant to help him sleep, and his prior career as a software engineer. He times races for a living now.
Prayers for Stopwatch's daughter, Diez's shoulder (we need some supernatural healing here!), and (as Hank Hill reminded us) our marriages and families.

Naked Man Moleskin:

Quotes of the day (as interpreted incorrectly by YHC):
– "I won't need leg day now!" – Fleetwood (Respect), a day after his 50th B'day Q. He almost said 49 in the COT.
– "I hate you, Gut Check!" – Hank Hill. YHC strives to get at least one of these per beatdown. Today it came courtesy of unshutuppable Hank Hill.
(He also is the Mater of running backwards!)
– "Loving the ab work today!" – Trill, in his best Jane Fonda voice mid-BBS.

We didn't even get to the best SURPRISE of all. YHC had a couple hidden nuggets in downtown Woodstock for the PAX, but we ran out of time. I'll save those surprises for my next Q.

Men, there is a SURPRISE waiting around every corner in life. Sometimes it's a blessing, and sometimes it's pain, and sometimes it's a brother of the Gloom lifting your spirits when you need it the most. YHC was extremely frustrated last night as he tried EH'ing some guys (FNG, Regulars, and Kotters alike) to join us in the gloom. I don't like to hear NO.

Today, my spirits were lifted by 17 other HIMs who did the hard thing today!