Tag: Batteau

Forest Hill Park

  • Perfection

    perfect numbers, perfect weather, perfect morning.

    Welcome FNG Patches O’Houlihan!

    Get a partner and sign up for the 8/17 tourney.

  • Tell me more about double hits

    6 slicing and dicing beasts took over the courts at Batteau on this beautiful Monday morning!! Let’s Go!!!

    Warmarama: Just get it over the net.

    The Thang:
    Several games were played. Some doubles and singles.

    Big News: Pickleball Tournament will be August 17th.
    Sign up: 2nd F3RVA Pickleball Tournament Participation Sheet – Google Sheets


  • Preblast – 2nd F3RVA Pickleball Tournament (8/17/2024)

    Preblast – 2nd F3RVA Pickleball Tournament (8/17/2024)

    1st F3RVA Pickleball Tournament was a huge success. 29 of the best Pickleball players in RVA gathered for the 1st F3 RVA Pickleball Tournament.

    Champion: Team Tapering, Lockjaw and DaVinci and 2nd Place: Breakn’ Ankles, Splinter and Primetime.

    If you want to challenge the champs, please come to 2nd F3RVA Pickleball Tournament.

    We will play doubles.

  • F3RVA FREEDOM FIELD DAY

    The HIM’s from every corner of F3RVA came out in FORCE (73 TOTAL!) to celebrate Independence Day with their brothers. Flatline brought an FNG and a solid band of 2.0’s were also in attendance. For today’s WOD the PAX enjoyed Field Day Games instead of burpees. Here’s how these heroes bled Red White Blue and Black for their teams:

    The THANG: 

    WARMERAMA: 

    • Mosey run around the field and return to circle up at the Stone House
    • Welcome & Disclaimer
    • Variable IC Reps to get the muscles warm top to bottom

    FORM TEAMS:

    • Count off 1-2-3-4 around the circle
    • x4 Teams gather and have a few minutes to identify their oldest PAX who will be team   captain and come up with a team name
    • Teams also given team colors (strips of cut DTH t-shirts) to wear as headbands
    • Team 1 – “Wrongway RED”
    • Team 2 – “WHITE Castle”
    • Team 3 – “BLUE Crabs”
    • Team 4 – “BLACK Attack”

    EVENT #1 – CRAB SOCCER TOURNAMENT

    • Team 1 vs Team 2, Team 3 vs Team 4
    • 5 Minute Games
    • Winners play winners for 1st and 2nd place
    • Losers play losers for 3rd and 4th place
    • 1st Place = 3 points 
    • 2nd Place = 2 points
    • 3rd Place = 1 point
    • 4th Place = Zero
    • BLACK ATTACK FOR THE W!

    EVENT #2 – TUG OF WAR

    • Same team play and scoring as above
    • WHITE CASTLE FOR THE W!

    EVENT #3 – BEAR CRAWL RELAY RACE

    • Teams line up behind their respective cones
    • Bear crawl 30 yards, around your shovel flag, and back 30 yards to your team to trigger the next team member
    • BLUE CRABS FOR THE W!

    EVENT #4 – WATER BALOON TOSS

    • Partner up with a team mate
    • All PAX line up in two facing lines, a couple yards apart
    • Toss water ballon to partner – if it doesn’t break, progress to next round
    • Remaining teams take a pace backwards and throw again
    • Repeato, increasing distance between throws, until the final four pairs compete for placings
    • WRONGWAY RED FOR THE W!

    ***FINAL SCORES***

    • 1st Place – WHITE CASTLE
    • 2nd Place – BLACK ATTACK
    • 3rd Place – WRONGWAY RED
    • 4th Place – BLUE CRABS
    • (***Interesting to note that while each team won one of the four events, it was their placing in 2nd or 3rd for other events which produced the final results)

    REWARDS & PENALTIES:

    • 1st Place – Victory Lap around Stone House
    • 2nd Place – x25 Squats
    • 3rd Place – x50 Monkey Humpers
    • 4th Place – x10 Pencil Rolls

    FINAL COP = DORA OF THE HILLS

    • Mosey over to the grassy hills/valley and partner up for a classic Dora
    • x100 Merkins
    • x200 Squats
    • x300 LBC’s (cut short for time call)

    Mosey BTTF for COT:

    • Counterama # 73 !!!
    • Namerama
    • YHC took the PAX out in Prayer
    • AWESOME 2nd F Hang Time with a variety of drinks, cookies, cakes and watermelon! 

    T-CLAPS & THANK YOU’s

    • WARBY coming through with a second set of goals! (And a drinks cooler!)
    • RODEO CLOWN with delicious watermelon!
    • PIEROGI, PIGSKIN, PINTO, FLORENCE and HUTTON with cooler of waters and Gatorades
    • HOUSE PARTY & MEATBALL with yummy cookies/cakes
    • POSH with some fireworks! 
    • And my dear M Rachel for keeping score!

    !!! HAPPY BIRTHDAY CHAPLAIN !!!

    NMS:  As always brothers, it is one of my deepest honors to be a part of this fine organization and have the opportunity to lead. We truly embody FREEDOM – for ourselves, our brotherhood, our communities, our country, and in our faith. Loved seeing so many PAX from all over RVA, and welcome NIGHTSTAND (Hayden Mulchin) – so nicknamed as he spends a lot of time as a caretaker for his elderly veteran grandfather. Looking back it was cool to see that each team won an event! Great effort everyone!!! Brothers, what we have in F3, truly EVERY man needs in his life, whether he knows it now or not. Be FEARLESS in your invitation to join you in F3, and together we will reach every community in RVA. Happy Independence Day brothers! Yours AYE! ~DTH

  • Should’ve Known

    With Oyster vacating and Hitchhiker a week removed from baby 3, YHC should’ve known pickleball was a long shot.  No lessons were learned from Bulkhead’s solo outing a week ago.  YHC did a workout deemed too hard for Iron Pax.  Trust me on that one.

  • Middle school Champ!

    4 champs arrived at Batteau ready to handle some business.

    Warmarama: A few dinks, a few long shots. We ready!

    The Thang:
    Meatball/Oyster (W), Hitchhiker/McRib (L)
    Hitchhiker/McRib (L), Meatball/Oyster (W)

    McRib/Oyster (W), Meatball, Hitchhiker (L)
    Meatball/Hitchhiker (W), McRib/Oyster (L)
    ** Hitchhiker refused to play the 3rd game to break the tie** May have had a good reason something about kids and early camp schedule. Or maybe he just wanted to enjoy the W. Next time buddy.

    NMS: Congrats to Bodo’s and his 1000 Post today. Sorry to have missed it, but Mondays are for Pickleball. Seriously though Congrats, 1000 posts and not 1 is from a Broga.

    Mondays are for Pickleball. Coming soon Tournament dates and Sign ups. Let’s Gooooo!!!

    Oyster

  • It’s Just So Juicy

    Eight came to whack the ball around in the latest edition of The Batteau, Summer Pickleball Edition. Temperatures were, once again, 70 and sunny. According to ESPN’s SportsCenter coverage, the following might have happened:

    COP. Mosey around the courts, watching for the occasional court drying equipment or ball barrier. Work in a few reps of shuffling side-to-side or Bernie Sanders to get the muscles loose.

    SSHs, Dead Man Hang, and a little bit of broga. Onto the Main Event.

    Doubles. Fun was had. Wind was a factor. Rain held off.

    Nice work, gentlemen. Great games today.

    Numbers, names, and YHC took us out.

    NMS: Whitesnake is susceptible to conversation during a match. Topics included the difference between les Blues and les Spurs.

    Announcements:

    TODAY: D-Day Anniversary Celebration Ruck (June 3). “Omaha” Meet at Palani Drive. 401 Libbie Avenue (across from Libbie Market). 5:45 launch. 5.6 mile route (aka, distance from Omaha Beach to Pointe du Hoc (look it up). Something to do with Rangers. Happy hour to follow.

    Thursday (Actual 80th Anniversary): Utah. 7:00 p.m. 9.3 miles, roughly Utah Beach to St. Mere Eglise. Meet at Palani Drive.

    June 22nd. (Skip the WWII Barbarossa reference). Goyne Park, Chester. Fully charge the battery on your EV and put in the extra distance to visit a new AO (and support your brothers with the launch!). See State Farm or Posh for details.

    Don’t sleep on the Summer Tour. Get out there and hit some new locations.

    And, don’t sleep on The Bridge. These guys need our help as they work back into society, learn some skills, and get themselves back on their feet. Get out there and help someone. See TYA for which weekends F3RVA has the Q.

    Find a challenge. Find a hard challenge. Take it on, and make an impact.

    UpChuck spits the bit.

  • Pickleball Is Back!

    Eight picklers with the paddles greeted YHC for the pickleball practice.

    COP: Mosey to the court, ran around the court, and deadman hang x 10, helicopter x 10, SSH x 25.

    YHC welcome a new FNG named Pepinillo (pickleball in Spanish) to F3RVA.

    Oyster took us out.

  • F3RVA Pickleball is making a comeback to Batteau starting May 20, 2024 on Mondays!!!!

    Come one, come all to the 2nd F3RVA Pickleball league practice!

    Our first practice day will be Monday, May 20, 2024 at 5:30am at the Forest Hill Park Pickleball Courts (41st and Forest Hill Ave, Richmond, VA 23235). We will meet and play on Mondays for the rest of the summer.

    All are welcome regardless of skill level! Please bring your paddles and balls if you have. Some of us may have extra paddles you can borrow if necessary.

    If you cannot make it on the 20th, that is fine. We will meet and practice every Mondays.

    Looking forward to playing pickleball with some of you!

    Hitchhiker & Oyster

  • Pickleball Monday… on a Tuesday

    After getting rained out Monday afternoon Oyster and Honeydo tried a repeato and found perfect weather on a Tuesday afternoon. Paired up with regulars Larry and Jose for many sets of matches. Hornydo tried to join up as a 4th with a threesome of college ladies looking for a 4th but Oyster insisted we keep playing with our group. Oyster is in his element on the courts, you should come out and experience it yourself if you play.