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[halls-otb] Cause a RUCKUS!

February 2, 2026 BackBlasts

AO: halls-otb
Q: Spellcheck
PAX: Otis, Spellcheck
FNGs: None
COUNT: 2
WARMUP:
Left, right, left…

THE THANG:
RUCKING AROUND

MARY:
Nope

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
The Spillway Flag Planting this Wednesday
In Norris 5:15am
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COT:
Causing Disruption within your own mind…

PREPAREDNESS…
Getting Ready For The Expected While Being Ready For The Unexpected

The process of Preparedness is deliberate and sequential

He could have the heart of a lion and still fail for lack of a critical ingredient, and that is love. If he does not love the people he leads more than he loves himself he cannot put their interests above his own.

Action without vision is only passing time, vision without action is merely daydreaming, but vision with action can change the world.
Nelson Mandela

“The will to prepare has to be greater than the will to win.”
-Bobby Knight

[crossroads-vls] F4 LDP and F5 Preparedness

February 1, 2026 BackBlasts

AO: crossroads-vls
Q: Otis
PAX: Spellcheck, Floppy Disc, Otis
FNGs: None
COUNT: 3
WARMUP: Opening prayer, order food and coffee(water for Floppy)
THE THANG: Leadership Development Process
Statement: The process employed by a group to develop new leaders.

Socratic:
*Is a Leader born or made?
*Are there common elements to leadership development?
*Should the leadership development process be controlled from the top of an Organization?
Spur:
*Great Leaders develop new Leaders
*The LDP has 4 steps: Schooling, Apprenticeship, Opportunity and Failure
*The LDP depends upon decentralized execution to central purpose

We spent some time discussing “Is a leader born or made”. General consensus was that they are made, although certain people are born with favorable qualities that give them a good head start.

The 4 common components of an LDP; Schooling, Apprenticeship, Opportunity and Failure are not necessarily a staged process. These can happen simultaneously and often should. The kicker mainly being the intentionality of the Leader to plan and construct this process.

Floppy Disc helped us understand the last Spur, pointing out that many good organizations have decentralized execution to a central purpose. There may be a leader at the top but most have many other leaders executing the mission in the best way for their team.

MARY: Discuss making positive habits from our monthly focus of the Get Right Qpoints. Finishing up the Daily Red Pill and hopefully it provided the habit to focus on the good, right thing daily. Prayer
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
COT: the whole thing

[halls-otb] Slow and Steady Ruck

January 26, 2026 BackBlasts

AO: halls-otb
Q: Otis
PAX: Mic Drop(Sam), Otis
FNGs: None
COUNT: 2
WARMUP: Contemplate walking down the parking lot or grass. Fall, then move to the grass.

THE THANG: Ruck the Marco’s, Food City and Rural King loop

MARY: Stick to the grass

ANNOUNCEMENTS: Convergence this Saturday!

COT: “His brothers also came and fell down before him and said, “Behold, we are your servants.” But Joseph said to them, “Do not fear, for am I in the place of God? As for you, you meant evil against me, but God meant it for good, to bring it about that many people should be kept alive, as they are today. So do not fear; I will provide for you and your little ones.” Thus he comforted them and spoke kindly to them.”
‭‭Genesis‬ ‭50‬:‭18‬-‭21‬ ‭ESV‬‬

We talked about the character of Daniel on our walk and then Joseph in the COT.
– staying focused on God in a foreign land
– being obedient and strong against temptations
– forgiving and being content with God’s plan
– humility before God and others

I wanna ruck

January 23, 2026 BackBlasts

AO: thequacken
Q: Mountain Ice
PAX: vanilla, Otis, DoorKicker (Jud), Hobie
FNGs: None
COUNT: 5
WARMUP:
Ruck’d tha loop

THE THANG:
Step off into the cool morning air and see where the roads take us. 2.63 miles later we arrived back at the AO

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
– Upcoming Knoxville starfish convergence 1/31
– AO launch: The Spillway in Norris is planting the flag for the first time. 2/4
– Goruck event coming in April. Weekend of the 24th.
– Campus/downtown 2nd F lunch next Wednesday! 1/28

COT:
‘To come back to the question, the wise man, self-sufficient as he is, still desires to have a friend if only for the purpose of practising friendship and ensuring that those talents are not idle. Not, as Epicurus put it in the same letter, ‘for the purpose of having someone to come and sit beside his bed when he is ill or come to his rescue when he is hard up or thrown into chains’, but so that on the contrary he may have someone by whose sickbed he himself may sit or whom he may himself release when that person is held prisoner by hostile hands. Anyone thinking of his own interests and seeking out friendship with this in view is making a great mistake.’

-Seneca, Letter IX On Friendship

[f3knoxvillemain] Morningside OTB

January 23, 2026 BackBlasts

AO: f3knoxvillemain
Q: Doppelgänger (Chase Hively) , vanilla
PAX: Bobsled (Jerome Johnson Sr), Otis, Magic Mic (Jarrett Woodall), Doppelgänger (Chase Hively), vanilla, BTU, Pillow case, Swanson, Grouch (Danni Lupisella), Commish, Stutter Step, Ghost, Double Dribble, Donkey Kong. Air Drummer, Sunshine, JD Jackson
FNGs: 6 Stutter Step, Ghost, Double Dribble, Donkey Kong. Air Drummer, Sunshine, JD Jackson
COUNT: 17
WARMUP:
SSH x 25
Cherry Pickers x 5
TN Rocking Chair x 15
Little o This, Little o That
LBACs x 10
Imperial Walkers x 10

5 penalty burpees for BTU’s Tardiness

THE THANG:
DORA!
PAX partner up
P1 – Runs a lap around small Gazebo
P2 – Completes AMRAP of
– 100 Blockees
– 200 American Hammers
– 300 Bobby Hurleys
When Partner 1 returns from the run, switch places and pick up where Partner 2 left off.

MARY:
Air Squats to “Bring Sally Up”

ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Come to Big Ball tomorrow at 7AM!
2nd F Fellowship at Kerns on Wednesday at noon.

COT:
Faith in Action – Doppelgänger
Fellowship in Action – Vanilla

James 2:26 CSB [26] For just as the body without the spirit is dead, so also faith without works is dead.