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[virtuous-leadership-school] Whetstone – Vertical relationship between men

April 6, 2025 BackBlasts

AO: virtuous-leadership-school
Q: Borg
PAX: Mermaid, Otis, Spellcheck, Borg
FNGs: None
COUNT: 4
WARMUP: Coffee and stories of the week before.

THE THANG: Prayer, Everyone arrived prepared.
– Hard looks and straight talk get results.
– Passing on knowledge in love and service.
– Practice and humility are required for results.
– WAR – must be Willing, Ready and Able
– Shieldlock vs Whetstone purposes and setups
– Whetstone sharpens and Sharpening removes something – Stuff “gets on you”
– Helps you think outside of yourself, more and more.
– Taking advice and correction from another man takes practice.
– Some men are “way to ready to lead” – but they are not prepared.
– Mentor must understand the Mentee’s personality.
– Giving advice requires a history of exhorting properly and positively.
– Can your M be your whetstone? NO!
– From the F3Nation Qsource mtg: Don’t get OBE! (Overcome by events.)

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Hardship Hill
Forg3 Ascents Leadership School and CSAUP

COT: Prayer

[virtuous-leadership-school] Q1.7 Shieldlock – The Horizontal Relationship between Men

March 30, 2025 BackBlasts

AO: virtuous-leadership-school
Q: Borg
PAX: Otis, Spinner, Spellcheck, Borg
FNGs: None
COUNT: 4
WARMUP: Coffee, Prayer and Stories

THE THANG:
Men hunt best in a pack.
– But some things you need to do on your own.
– Watching others fail can provide optional approaches.
– Some can hear, some can watch, some must do to fail – Example of peeing on an electric fence – some people just have to do it to know not to. Lol.
– Persistence hunting is done as a team, the result is shared.
– Wolves hunt in a pack, but don’t share – pecking order.
Can you fight Adversity beforehand? You had better!
– Mechanic training technique – push apprentice more and more every day to their breaking point and learn from the reaction – rage or reason?
– Every man’s response is his responsibility.

Ties directly into the Whetstone discussion for next week. Sometimes you are a mentor without realizing it.

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Hardship Hill at end of May
Forg3 Ascents CSAUP at end of April

COT: Prayer

March Madness

March 15, 2025 BackBlasts

AO: brickyard
Q: Natty
PAX: Gordie, Spellcheck, Switchgrass (Stacy Clark), fast-n-easy (Nate Votta), Otis, Bail Bonds, Natty, Jim Norris, DoorKicker (Jud), Sugar Smacks
FNGs: None
COUNT: 10
WARMUP: Boogaloop, Good Morning Abbeys, shoulder taps, Moroccan night clubs, army cherry pickers, tempo sqts, Thai fighters, windmills, cherry pickers, 21’s with 10 penalty burpees

THE THANG: run to bank and do 25 mogul curb hops then bear crawl around ATM, mosey to coffee shop lot and perform 10 man makers IC, run to Norms Hill do 20 big boys at base, sprint to top do 25 mkns, repeat x 2 then squats at top of hill until 6 is up. Run to back high school lot and partner up. One grabs two bricks whilst the other grabs a basketball. Bball dude dribbles down the lot and back while the brick man does OH press, exchange until 400 oh presses complete. Then run to track and do one lap. Hit the end zone and bear crawl to the 50 yd line, then broad jump 25 yds and lunge the last 25 yds. 6 performs flutters, Bruce lees and Tuesday mornings until last man arrives. Mosey to bleachers and run them, go through tunnel and hit the wall for some Australian nut knockers. Return almost to AO and hop on top a bollard. Do 50 elevated monkey humpers, then 25 fast-n-easy (Nate Votta) cherry pickers, then do some elevated gas pumps. Hit the wall for a one min walk sit

MARY: captain thors, Bruce Lees, crawl up leg sit ups, flutter 8’s

ANNOUNCEMENTS:haw ridge on 3/28 sign up!

COT: Life is a one time offer, use it well

[lostpearls] Ruck and Work

March 14, 2025 BackBlasts

AO: lostpearls
Q: Bail Bonds
PAX: flyball, Natty, Otis, Squatch, Matt Slone, Bail Bonds, Sutton (Wild Thing) 2.0
FNGs: 1 Sutton (Wild Thing) 2.0
COUNT: 7
WARMUP:
Tempo Squats and Tempo Merkins

THE THANG:
Ruck to 1st Baptist Hill and do 2 count lunges at the top, run down. Merkins at the bottom, burnee up. Doing 7 repa top and bottom, working down to 1 rep.
Ruck to the gazebo for 11s of dips and cactus jump squats.
Ruck back to AO.

MARY:
None

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
3/28 Escape Haw Ridge, sign up now and let everyone know on here if you want to ruck or run.

COT:
Discipline equals freedom.
-Jocko

Life keeps moving forward. It doesn’t slow down. We’ll miss it if we aren’t intentional. Set goals. We are responsible for our decisions and how we spend our time. Do it wisely keep God in the center of it all.

James 4:13-16

365 days of F3

March 1, 2025 BackBlasts

AO: brickyard
Q: Bail Bonds
PAX: fast-n-easy (Nate Votta), Natty, Otis, Biohazard (Jay Shepherd), Herbie, Colonel (Alex Wallace), Bail Bonds, Madoff (SC)
FNGs: None
COUNT: 8
WARMUP:
SSH, OH Claps, Seal Claps, Tie Fighters, Tempo Squats, Mucho Legos, 23 Merkins, X-Factor

THE THANG:
365 yards of travel and 365 Merkins!!
Mosey to track for 27 merkins
Start at 35 yrd line. Run 5 yards, do 4 merkins to endzone. Squats to wait on 6.
Go back down field, lunge walk every 5 yards do 4 merkins. Flutter kicks for the 6.
Run a lap
Burnee every 5 yards do 4 merkins to endzone. LBCs for the 6.
Run a lap.
Run 5 yards do 4 merkins to endzone. BBs for the 6.
Run a lap.
Do 23 merkins.
Run a lap, incorporating running the bleachers on the final stretch.
Hold a plank for the 6.
Go to planters for 11’s of dips and Bonnie Blairs.

MARY:
Go to the flag for shoulder taps, cherry pickers, and some this and that, finishing with Phelps.

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
3/7 Launch of Lost Pearls AO
3/28 Escape Haw Ridge

COT:
Regret.
The feeling associated with doing wrong or missing an opportunity. Sometimes causing the.need for repentance.

II Corinthians 7:9-10 NKJV
[9] Now I rejoice, not that you were made sorry, but that your sorrow led to repentance. For you were made sorry in a godly manner, that you might suffer loss from us in nothing. [10] For godly sorrow produces repentance leading to salvation, not to be regretted; but the sorrow of the world produces death.

Ask for forgiveness when you’rewrong. Apologize. Don’t live with regret. Forgive others. Don’t miss opportunities. Put Christ firat, and let him be your guide.