Tag: Timberwolf

  • And-1 Tour

    7 HIMs put on some baggy shorts and high tops and hit the blacktop for some knockout and 3v4. According to the shirtless and chiseled man running the track at 5am, here’s what happened…

    Mosey around the school and back to the courts, circled up gave F3 message and did a series of stretches to stretch the ligaments.

    started off with a game of knockout. If knocked out go do a suicide on other court, 5 SSH each time you reach the baseline. If game is still going when finished, hop back in. After a series of returning players, we upped it to 20 SSH. Classic game, Swoop prevailed.

    next 3v4 half court. 3 man team held their own but fell 5-3. Round of merkins for everyone.

    next mixed up teams and did 3v4 full court. Skip to my Lou Swoop had a bunch of fast break points. Hot Sauce Rudy hit some big shots out there. Professor Warby put that low center of gravity to work with some nice handles. Escalade Matlock showed how performance enhancing drugs can improve a mid range jumper. Helicopter Flyboy had a memorable 3 that’s still in the air somewhere. Bone Collector Teddy KGB owned the paint on both sides of the court. Main Event Crabgrass needs some chicken to go with his Shake N’ Bake. Team with 4 prevailed but everyone was a winner today as we had a great time and shared some laughs along the way.

    Battlers Rudy and Warby. Fandango has relinquished his 4 point lead and it’s any man’s game for Boys of Summer trophy!

    Announcements – Homegrown Half 8/16. CSAUP Ruck 9/26 8pm-12am. Details to be announced closer to September

  • Playground or Jungle?

    “Every morning in Africa, a gazelle wakes up, it knows it must outrun the fastest lion or it will be killed. Every morning in Africa, a lion wakes up. It knows it must run faster than the slowest gazelle, or it will starve. It doesn’t matter whether you’re the lion or a gazelle-when the sun comes up, you’d better be running.” -Christopher McDougall

    This morning, 8 men returned to simpler times and took on some playground staples to start the day the day. But what started as innocent fun quickly turned into a battle for survival.

    After a quick mosey, the PAX warmed up with side straddle hops, deadman hangs, and cherry pickers before getting to work.

    Playground Game #1: Duck, Duck, Goose.

    You’re familiar with the rules. Form a circle, one man (“The Picker”) goes around declaring each member of the circle a duck or a goose. Once a goose is declared, the race is on. If the Picker beats the goose back to his spot, the goose becomes the Picker. If the goose prevails, the Picker seeks his next victim. For an added challenge, each member of the circle held a plank while the Picker chose his prey. Each Picker-Goose race proved exciting, with tight cornering on a wet surface making each race more unpredictable than the last. We also witnessed history as Flyboy won his first Picker-Goose race in 29 years.

    Playground Game #2: Tag

    Following the excitement of Duck, Duck, Goose, we moved to our Upper Elementary School recess days to play some Tag. The Rules were modified for an added challenge. Two men were It and the first person tagged by either It could avoid becoming It if he completed 6 burpees before a second person was tagged.

    With two Its, pack hunting mentality took over. Like lions hunting gazelle, the Its identified prey and attempted to run them down for an easy kill. While this proved effective, the Not Its devised herd movement tactics to protect themselves and wear the hunters out. It was truly a battle for survival with incredible demonstrations of athleticism as both Its and Not Its dove, pivoted, cut back, and rolled to tag or avoid tagging.

    COT: Boys of Summer Points awarded to Flyboy for breaking his 29 year slump and Warby for an incredible dive/slide to avoid a tag. Announcements: Family Friendly Workout this Saturday, Homegrown Half August 16, CSAUP in late September. Details for all can be found in Slack.

  • TWOLF Dodgeball

    10 HIMs wanted to throw some s*** at each other, a healthy way to release some energy. What’s in the bag was up for debate – wrenches, dodgeballs…who knows! 5:30, let’s mosey.

    Halfway around the track YHC stopped for some stretching. Rudy pondered why we only ran half the track. Arm circles, middle school stretches, and Roscoe’s mom got us ready for the event ahead. YHC decided to do a schoolyard pick, first two to sprint across the field were captains.

    YHC got off the line clean and was a powerhouse flying down the field. I could hear Rudy’s teeth chattering as he declared he was going to catch me, but there were no footsteps to be heard today folks. Topping out at a blistering 17.4 MPH, YHC left Rudy and Tzatziki in the dust and earned first pick.

    Team 1 – Crabgrass, Wildcat, Cookie, Matlock, Rosie
    Team 2 – Rudy, Festivus, EF Hutton, Fandango, Tzatziki

    Rules are simple – get hit, run to other side of tennis courts and do 5 burpees to earn your way back in the game. Get hit a 2nd time, 10 burpees. Get hit a 3rd time, lap around the track. 4th time, go have a seat.

    Game 1 was a back and forth seesaw. Team 2 had the advantage until Wildcat pulled off a back-to-back catch. What was a 3-v-1 became a 1-v-3 as two of Wildcat’s teammates returned from burpees. Last man standing was cornered eventually fell. Team 2 lap around the track.

    Game 2 was even more contentious. Nobody wanted to give in, risks were taken only with cautious consideration and the teams went back and forth. Many players hit their 3rd time out and were able to make it around the track and get back in the game, a true battle of wills! With 4 minutes left YHC called an audible. Players who were out could now throw dodgeballs from the second tennis court. This created a unique crossfire, if your head wasn’t on a swivel you were done for. Festivus fought valiantly until the end, squatting in the corner ready to take on any balls coming his way. But alas, even the mighty fall at times…Team 2, 5 burpees and BTTF.

    Glad to have some summer tourists stop by for our Boys of Summer fun we have at Timberwolf! My watch says I only ran 1.25 miles today, but I was GASSED out there today. Ton of fun, hope to do it again sometime soon.

    Announcements – Bridge Saturday; Family Fun @ Rock n Roll 7/27, Homegrown half 8/16, RUCK CSAUP 9/26 @ 8pm (save the date). Prayers for Fandango’s friend who recently lost a mother and wife.

  • Not the size of the balls, but how they are used

    Numbers were low at Timberwolf this morning, but 3 all stars showed up for a friendly game of knockout….or rather 26 games of knockout. With jr sized basketballs in hand, here’s what went down.

    Started off with a suicide run and some light stretching. Its game time! Knockout battles were fierce! We need to question how good of a lawyer Matlock is, based on his superb shooting accuracy. Flyboy continued to battle and never let his foot off the gas. After 26 rounds, 4 wins for Flyboy, 9 wins for Matlock, 13 wins for YHC.

    After a short breath catching, the next game was PIG, with exercise penalties for each letter. Matlock was victorious.

    Next was 2 rounds of a 3 point contest. 5 shots each, Matlock and YHC split in the win column.

    Lastly, was a timed event. Start at the first hoop, make a basket, run to the next hoop make a basket and so on until all 4 hoops were completed.

    Time called, numbers, names, PR, announcements, COT. Always an honor to lead you gents!

  • Its a (odd) numbers game

    7 F3 studs made their way to Timberwolf for a solid morning of Ultimate Frisbee. Looking for even numbers, the PAX found themselves at odds. No problem for this crew.

    Mosey to the field and loosened up with a handful of stretches. YHC broke the ritual of SSHs first which may have confused a few. Teams were selected and we were off. 10 merkin penalties per touchdown against.

    The game was fierce as well as ear piercing as Flyboy attempted to disrupt passes with, what sounded like a helicopter impersonation or a cat caught in a helicopter???? Whatever it was it had its effects on few. Team 1: Flyboy, Rudy, Fandango, Warby Team 2: Crabgrass, Festivius, Merman Wow, this proved to be a very even battle. Team 2 was all over the field and didnt have a hard time putting a few past the goal line. YHC switched teams mid game. Still the battle was well matched.

    Time was called and headed back to the flag. Numbers, names, PR, announcements, COT.

    Please keep Fandangos son and family as DAX is going in for eye surgery today.

    Points awarded: Best offensive catch- Festivus who despite 2 defenders closing in, stood tall and took a touchdown in. Best defensive play- Fandango who broke the stereotype that white men cant jump but going up into the stratosphere to make a great interception. Gritty play- Merman was all over the field on both sides of the disc disrupting and catching. Flyboy for the bursts of energy that had the defenders guessing and on their toes, and heels, and toes, and oh wait heels.

    Great day gents!!!! Always an honor to lead.

  • A REAL Numbers Game

    the PAX arrived at Timberwolf bright and early for a day of fun and punishment. The game today was Ultimate Golf, aka All Sports Driving Range With Consequences, aka A REAL Numbers Game. Due to the frankly absurdly complicated rules, YHC will spare you from a description of the horribly convoluted and half baked game. The important details are as follows:

    • It turns out Fandango is some strange gecko-human abomination and he can’t drop a ball
    • Flyboy is not as good as he claims at golf
    • Nerf footballs are harder to catch than I remember
    • probably should have brought a scoreboard

    we started the day out with SSH, Don Quijotes (dialed in the cadence as we went), dead man hang, and the merkin. After that YHC couldn’t think of anything else to do so we moved right along.

    After taking 23 minutes to explain the game and get teams, we got to it. Not much interesting to report until around round 3 when YHC realized that the burpee count was getting too high and we backed that off a bit. Then Fan-Gecko managed to snag two racquetballs IN A ROW (may not sound hard but those things are tough to catch when they are covered with dew) and team 1 ended up with a lot of consequences. Following round team 1 gave it back, catching 3 balls and letting 2 go out of bounds. Later on Team 2 didn’t seem to understand how out of bounds worked (understandable… the game was impossible to understand) so everyone’s favorite mvp, Rudy helped team 1 by stopping their ball before it rolled out and earning his team 4 extra merkins.

    Original plan was to give Boys of summer points to most catches and most points. It was quickly clear that keeping track of those stats was entirely impractical and points ended up going to the Flyboy choice award for best catch(es) which went to Fan-Gecko and best drive which went to The Duke with Bru coming in an unofficial runner up spot.

    thanks to those who came out to my VQ and humored me with this unique and admittedly overengineered game.

    Announcements for July 4 convergence, and rucking event in September. Prayers for Mr. Brady and his family and Fandango and his son who is having surgery this coming week. Also shout out to the green mile boys who kept it alive long enough for us to get to the new AO and see so many FNGs yesterday!

    Flyboy, signing off.

  • Everybody loves a comeback story… THIS AIN’T IT!

    On a beautiful Thursday morning, 13 gridiron gents made their way to the football field to display unbelievable feats of glory and dynamic bursts of speed that would put professionals to shame. Warby wearing an authentic Brady jersey as he quests for more points to win the Summer Cup… Crabby wearing a Taylor Swift shirt of some type to inspire everyone to hate the Chiefs even more… and Rudy… um… Rudy using his ND football namesake… to … um… inspire hope… that just wasn’t there… again.

    Led the Pax to the track where we warmed up with ole’ Side Straddle Hops, leg stretches, arm circles, and a NEW EXERCISE (which became our punishment when the other team scores) called “Donkey Clappers” – a sit up with a clap under your leg as you come up; alternating legs.

    Teams were divided evenly 6 on 6 and the charitable team took on an extra player; the injured Cookie who broke both his fingers saving orphans from a fire or some story like that. Team 1: Fandango, Warby, Crabgrass, McGruff, Festivus, Flyboy, and Cookie vs. Team 2: Rudy, Orby, The Duke, Buckshot, Merman, and Bru.

    The team punishment for the other team’s TD was 6 “Donkey Clappers” in honor of the 6 pts a TD is worth. Flyboy disputed this number and said let’s make it any number. We had to educate him on what TDs were actually worth in football without the extra point. He continued to “fly” off the topic and discuss more numbers and shape discrepancies.

    Immediately, Team 1 was on the offensive attack scoring 5 TDs and Rudy’s team had 0. It was unprecedented from the numbers they were putting up. Warby and McGruff were overpowering the defense and scoring TDs like crazy. Fandango’s throws were surgeon-like and precise, Crabgrass was a technician finding open receivers left and right, moving the balls to the right location, Festivus used his elusiveness to get open constantly, Flyboy and Cookie had locked down defense across the middle and on deep threats. Team 2 tried… it was cute… they tried.

    Team 1 gathered together and collectively decided that since we were in the spirit of GIVING (a whoopin’ to Team 2) that we should give up a player to help. Rudy didn’t WANT a player, but we know what Rudy NEEDS sometimes and Crabgrass decided he would help lift Rudy up and went over to Team 2. Not only did we, Team 1, take on an injured player from the start, but we charitably gave a rocket of an arm and a hell of a tactician to Team 2.

    Team 2 now marched up and down the field, cutting up Team 1 with passes from The Duke, to Merman, to Orby, to Buckshot, to Bru and to the endzone. Rudy was pretty contained for the most part with triple coverage. Soon, the score was 5-1, then 5-2, 5-3, 5-4, … it was looking like a game finally. Maybe… just maybe… they could comeback and raise Rudy up on their shoulders in a GAME WINNING TOUCHDOWN AND COMEBACK FOR THE AGES …

    But … nah… this ain’t that kinda a story, bruv!

    But then, the heroes of Team 1 gathered up their strength and said “Don’t break tradition! Rudy’s gotta lose!” This mantra, like lava festering in a volcano waiting to explode, erupted onto the field and Team 1 using their unbelievable strategy of dink, dunk, fake right, fake left, LONG BOMB to our open man, scored to make it 6-4. Then, with insult to injury, scored again to make the final score 7 – 4… The heroes of the game… the charitable team that took on an injured player… that kicked off first… that gave up a player to help… that LET the other team score to feel good about themselves… THAT TEAM won the game!

    But it’s not about the game… it’s about waking up in the morning and going out with a bunch of like minded souls to play like our childhood selves… because one day, one day will be the last day we will ever be able to run again… catch a football in full sprint again… laugh with the boys on a field of battle again… Today … we all won in the game of life (bumper sticker). Today, we all put the player who we think we are up on our teams shoulders and carried him off the field… to fight another day. Well done, men.

    Points given out today:

    Deadly Combo : Warby + McGruff (1pt each)

    Defensive Juggernaut: Crabgrass = played defense for BOTH TEAMS (1pt)

    Best Dressed: Warby = Wore an actual Tom Brady Jersey to the game; females ripped it off his chiseled body before the game was played (1pt)

    Ended with COT; discussed VQ week next week : The Duke -Monday, Festivus – Tuesday, Flyboy – Thursday, Matlock – Friday

  • Disc Golf

    Rudy spoke fondly of his memories playing disc golf as a young lad on a nice easy stroll through the park, enjoying the sunshine, libations, and barely breaking a sweat. Not at F3, and certainly not at Timberwolf Boys of Summer – we crank it up!

    Stroll through the woods to mix it up and to replicate the Remember the Titans training camp scene at the civil war battlefield (nailed it). Light warmup and got to work.

    YHC pointed out where the goal was located and simple rules:
    Number of strokes = burpees
    If you intercept a disc, thrower does 6 burpees
    If you try to intercept but drop it, 2 burpees

    pAX came out the gates hot, running to get their disc and an attempt at an interception. Rudy set the tone with his distance, and Merman was always lurking for an INT.

    Hole 8 mixed it up. This was the longest hole, so YHC gave a chance to earn points for Boys of Summer. Throwing the disc left handed, if you scored with 5 shots or less you get a point. Wildcat and McGruff played better with their left handed today that’s for sure!

    Next twist, defenders!? PAX chose offense or defense. Defenders committed to 6 burpees, but if they intercepted a disc then the thrower would have to do 12 burpees (6 for getting intercepted, 6 inherited from the defender). This certainly made things interested and a few of us had to do 12 burpees!

    In total, each guy played 15 holes, ran 2 miles, and did 70-80 burpees – good work fellas!

    prayers for Wildcats co-worker and continued prayers for Fandangos Dad

    Battlers were McGruff and Merman

  • Ultimate Burpee Football

    Warm-up

    Ultimate football: every turnover was one burpee for the team that committed the turnover, 5 burpees for team scored on

    Team 1: Boberry, Rudy, Cookie, TSG, Nancy Lopez, Blacktop, Switch, Wildcat

    Team 2: Woodsman, Tzatziki, Bru, Fandango, Crabgrass, Matlock, Mcgruff

    Team 3: Doozie (ran around track during game)

    Score 7-6, bad guys won

    Points for boyz of summer: 1 point to Matlock and Rudy for best catches, 1 point to Boberry for MVP (had a hat trick)

    Ecclesiastes 4:9-12: “Two are better than one, because they have a good return for their labor. If either of them falls down, one can help the other up. But woe to the one who falls and has no one to help them up. Also, if two lie down together, they will keep warm. But how can one keep warm alone? Though a single person can be defeated, two can stand their ground, and a threefold cord is not easily broken.” 

  • Hot Dog Style

    9 grown-boys kicked off The Boys of Summer competition this morning at Timberwolf. Ultimate FOOTBALL was the sport of choice this morning and here’s what went down.

    Moseyed down to the track. Explained The Boys of Summer point system, gave the F3 mission and got into it. Stretched, broke into teams and split the field “hot-dog style” using cones.

    Team #1 – Rudy, Matlock, Bru, Bobsled, McGruff

    Team #2 – Fandango, Warby, Crabgrass, Fly Boy

    Result: Team #1 (2 scores), Team #2 (7 scores)

    Lessons learned:

    • Fandango prefers hamburger style
    • Warby is yoked these days!
    • Crabgrass is a 5-tool guy
    • Fly Boy is a bit pessimistic
    • Matlock can’t be a ninja wearing orange
    • Bru wants to tackle people
    • Bobsled is a saint
    • McGruff is ALIVE!
    • YHC may eat his words and look into buying cleats

    POINTS AWARDED

    • The PAX each get (1) for showing up
    • YHC (Rudy) (1)
    • YHC Prop (Warby) (1) for sweetest catch
    • Battle Points: McGruff for making an appearance and Bru for his consistency as of late (2 each)

    ANNOUNCEMENTS

    • The Boys of Summer continues every Thursday through the Summer

    PRAYERS

    • WIN: Warby has made some off-the-field changes and thanks F3 for the impact
    • WIN: Matlock and his M are celebrating their 10-year dating anniversary.
    • PRAYER: Fandango’s father had a heart attack last night.