Tag: Batteau

Forest Hill Park

  • Fastest growing sport, pickleball = fastest growing AO (Week 4)

    Fastest growing sport, pickleball = fastest growing AO (Week 4)

    Seven picklers with the paddles greeted YHC for the pickleball practice/game.

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

    Played double and single.

    YHC often found Bodos lying on a court and heard sound of cheers across the courts.

    Bleeder still undefeated and YHC think it would be great if Bleeder and Splinter match.

    Wilson, Honeymoon, and Nancy Lopez were supposed to show up and play pickleball, but maybe next week.

    Craggle (YHC’s son) took us out.

  • Pickleball

    Week 3. 15 picklers.

    Daville drew first blood.

    Splinter and Prime Time have played a game or 2.

    Bleeder still undefeated.

  • Pickleball

    15 picklers ready for some action. Welcome to the Pickledome boys!

    WARMARAMA: Lap around the courts, DQ, Helicopters.

    THE THANG:
    Hitchhiker goes over some rules. Apparently, there are no street rules in Pickleball.

    BTTF:
    NUMBERAMA:NAMARAMA

    NMS: Great morning for #SOJ takeover and some Pickleball. With 15 on the courts, we were able to have singles and a few doubles which made for a great morning. Well done boys! Look out for the #bigdata spreadsheet from Hitchhiker later on Slack. Pickleball every Monday at Batteau through the end of August.

    YHC: Took us out!

    Oyster


  • Full Contact Pickleball

    Blood was spilled, sweat was poured, tears maybe.  Today marked the first Monday of the Inaugural First Annual F3RVA Pickleball league.  Here’s how it went down.

    Mosey down to the pickleball courts.

    COP (IC)

    • Run a lap around courts
    • SSHs
    • Ukranian Soldiers
    • Helicopters
    • Jazzercises
    • Dead Man Hang
    • Merkins

    Hitch explained the rules, some listened, some did not.

    Pair off, winner stays, loser moves to another court.

    1st Round

    EF vs. Handshake

    Honeydo vs. UpChuck

    Oyster vs. Bleeder

    McEnroe vs. Bodos

    Hitchhiker bye

    Repeato vs. new opponents x 4

    Numberama

    Nameorama

    COT

    Pickleball is every bit as fun as they say.  Also more dangerous than they say, at least for YHC.  Scrapes and blood to prove it.  YHC encourages the PAX of RVA to give it a try.  Someone has to step up and give Bleeder and McEnroe a real opponent.  YHC was thrilled to win one.

    ANNOUNCEMENTS

    • 2nd Monday of Pickleball is next Monday at Batteau

  • Batteau Batteau Batteau

    3 men enter the Batteau. It will not sink.

    Warmarama: YHC with the warmup.
    Mosey up the hill to the Forest Hill parking lot. SSH, Helicopters, DQ, Copperhead Squats, Merkins, LBC, Rosalita’s or Hello Dolly’s PAX choice.

    The Thang:
    Oyster: Triple Check
    Shelter1: P1: Dips. P2: Stepups. P3: Run to the end and back. Switch, Repeat 3x.

    Wedding Singer: ILPs??
    20 Imperials Walkers, 20 Lunges, 20 Polar Bears. Repeat 3x
    Mosey to the Circle
    Triple Check: P1: Merkins. P2: Heels to Heaven. P3: Run around the circle. Switch, Repeat 3x.
    BTTF for a ring of Fire.

    Wedding Singer took us out.

    Numberama, Namerama

    NMS: 70 and Sunny as usual at Batteau. See you in the gloom.

    Oyster

  • Batt-OH!

    If two is a pair, and three is a crowd, then five must be a PAX.  Flatline planted the flag.  Here’s how it went down.

    Mosey down to the near left patio area.

    COP (IC)

    • Helicopters
    • Dead Man Hang
    • Sky Reach
    • Ukranian Soldiers
    • Copperhead Squats
    • Inverted Scorpion Kicks
    • Suzanne Somers L/R
    • Freddie Mercurys
    • Merkins
    • SSHs

    Mosey down to the Lake

    DORA 1-2-3

    • P1 – Run to the 2nd Street Light up the hill and back
    • P2 – Exercise
      • 100 HRMs
      • 200 Reverse Crunches
      • 300 Monkey Humpers

    Lindsay

    • Mosey about 10 feet to the picnic tables
    • 30 Dips/ 10 Imperial Squats
    • Mosey to Lake Pavilion
    • 25 Dips/ 15 Imperial Squats
    • Mosey up the Stone Stairs to the rock pile
    • 20 Dips/ 20 Imperial Squats
    • Mosey past the Tennis Courts
    • 15 Dips/ 25 Imperial Squats
    • Mosey to the picnic tables near the Stone House
    • 10 Dips/ 30 Imperial Squats

    Conveyor Belt

    • P1 – Incline Merkins
    • P2 – WWIIs with feet on picnic table
    • P3 – Bench Kicks
    • P4 – Regular A$$ Squats
    • P5 – Run the Loop

    Mosey to the SF

    Mary

    • Cross Leg Lifts R/L
    • American Hammers

    Ring of Fire

    Numberama

    Nameorama

    COT

    Senor Frog commented that this was the best AO he’s seen so far and today barely scratched the surface, well except for those god-awful stone stairs.  Fortunately, he found the meeting spot, no thanks to the F3RVA location map.  The only thing Batteau lacks is people.  YHC highly encourages everyone to make the trek to this AO and enjoy its splendor at some point.  Oyster can parallel park is butt off when there’s 100 feet of space in front and back. 

    ANNOUNCEMENTS

    • See Flatline, Gomer or Gypsy – 2 spots left for each day of CPR training
    • May 6th – CSAUP at Currahee 6am just show up
    • Prayers for M Oyster and family

  • Are We Going to Stand Directly Across from Each Other?

    Two avoided The Fart Sack in exchange for a crisp spring morning. Temperatures were 70 and sunny. According to the guy in the blue tron vest, the following quite likely happened:

    Mosey from the Stone House to Forest Hill Avenue, heading “off campus” through the stone gate, then back to the stone house for the COP.

    COP

    SSHs, DQs, IWs, Dead Man Hang, LBCs, flutters, WWIIs, HRMs.

    Mosey to the stone staircase. Grab a stone. Any stone. But, maybe find one without worms.

    First set: Carry the stone down the stairs. 10 overhead presses. Carry the stone to the top. 20 dips. Repeato x3 rounds.

    Second set: Carry the stone down the stairs. 10 curls. Carry the stone to the top. 20 four-count flutter kicks. Repeato x3 rounds.

    Third set: Carry the stone down the stairs. 10 squats. Carry the stone to the top. 10 snow angels. Repeato x3 rounds.

    Mosey to the tennis courts to do a Prostitute. Tastefully and slowly. For the uninitiated, said exercise involves “returning to the same corner” after each round.

    Round 1: 10 mercans, then back to the start for 1 burpee.

    Round 2: 10 mercans, then onto corner #2 for 20 LBCs, then back to corner #1 for 10 mercans, then back to the start for 1 burpee.

    Round 3: 10 mercans, then onto corner #2 for 20 LBCs, then onto corner #3 for 30 flutter kicks, then back to corner #2 for 20 LBCs, then back to corner #1 for 10 mercans, then back to the start for 1 burpee.

    Round 4: 10 mercans, then onto corner #2 for 20 LBCs, then onto corner #3 for 30 flutter kicks, then onto corner #4 for 40 side-straddle hops, then back to corner #3 for 30 flutter kicks, then back to corner #2 for 20 LBCs, then back to corner #1 for 10 mercans, then back to the start for 1 burpee.

    Mosey to the drop off circle(s?) for Street Light Lane. Stop at each light, do the called exercise.

    10 HRMs
    10 heels to Heaven
    20 squats
    30 invisible jump rope
    15 Carolina dry docks
    20 hello dollies
    20 reverse crunches
    10 oblique crunches, each side

    Two rounds. Completed all but the last 2 on the second round.

    BTTVSF. Numbers, names, and YHC took us out.

    Announcements: Breaking Bread, Gomer has a CSAUP of SOME SORT coming up. Swim, bike, run or Run, ruck, boot. Just show up and do it.

    NMS: It’s been a while since YHC has attended a 2-person beat down. Hutton raised an important issue: do we face each other directly, or stand off set? No matter. Good chatter throughout as we toured the AO.

  • Paula Abdul Theory

    Six old redwoods showed up on a Monday morning for some 70 and sunny type activities. Here’s how it went down:

    Mosey down steps to warm up – SSH, Don Q, Squats, merkins, flutters, LBCs

    Triple check – Irkins, Heals, run to top

    Mosey to lake.

    Paula Abdul 2 steps forward, one step back. Or in this case, run two lights forward then circle back one for increasing merkins. Rinse and repeat around entire lake for 30 minutes and 12 merkin count at its highest (12 light posts total).

    Mosey back up hill with exercises at each light post.

    Little Mary to finish it up.

    Great job fellas. Multitasking while on a call so I need cut the moleskin short. But Paula Abdul seemed to generate some comical conversation.

  • Sure doesn’t feel like Spring

    Five frosty faithful came out to Batteau for the first day of spring to find sub-freezing winter temps. Flatline planted the flag and off we went:

    COP: SSH, Don Qs, Imperial Walkers, Ukrainian Soliders, Merkins, and Reverse Crunches.

    Over to field bowl for 11s of Merkins and WWIIs. Run up and down between. Mosey over to lake path and do various exercises at each lamp post. Exercises of HRMs, Squats, LBCs, Burpees, etc. Make way back up hill to flag. 3 min of mary and 10 more burpees.

    NMS: Good to Q with a solid 5 pax. This morning felt Old School with all veteran pax. Congrats to Flatline for passing his Army APFT test. He was lapping dude half his age apparently. EF Hutton kept us moving by farting every time we were stationary an required a relocation. Plenty of mumblechatter about baskeball and brackets, congrats to the CNU Pirates for winning the D-III Championship.

  • What’s that noise??

    A party of 1 arrived at Batteau. Ready to take on the morning. No dog walkers or even a sketchy car idling on the side of the road to witness. No witnesses. Here’s what went down.

    WARMARAMA:
    SSH

    The Thang:
    Run down to the lake…. It’s dark, raining and YHC is solo. Seems like the intro to a True Crimes Podcast. Leave the lake and back to the top. What’s that noise, run faster.

    According to the Q sheet, today was going to be a Hot Potato. Let’s do it.

    Oyster starts the Hot Potato.
    Run a lap through the neighborhood.

    Oyster passes the Hot Potato to Oyster.
    Run a lap through the neighborhood.

    Oyster passes the Hot Potato to Oyster
    Run a lap through the neighborhood.

    BTTF
    NUMBERAMA:NAMERAMA

    Oyster took us out.

    NMS: 70 and Sunny at Batteau this morning.

    Oyster