Jan 26th, 2016, Detention was launched. Only a few short weeks before that, Ken Doll said to YHC, “I’m good with it. Gauge interest, and make it happen.” Like every other AO in the F3 Nation, it’s been responsible for changing lives of a solid group of men. YHC is proud to wake up and do stupid things with all of you men. Keep sharpening that iron – it’s our duty as brothers, and we’re all a little better from it.
Weather: 28*
COT / Disclaimer / Welcome FNGs
The Thang:
Mosey around parking lot doing the following:
High knees
Butt kicks
Karaoke
Stop at benches under breezeway
30 toe taps each leg
Mosey behind school to basketball court for COP
-SSH x 13
-Burpees x 5 OYO
-Smurf Jacks x 20
-Burpees x 5 OYO
-Imperial Walkers x 20
-Burpees x 7 OYO
-Squats x 10
Mosey to block pile, grab block, mosey over to The Principal
For reference, Oak Grove Elem, the school kind enough to host Detention, also has a birthday in Jan. This year, the ‘ol schoolhouse turns 202.
Partner up and do the following:
P1: Overhead press
P2: Bear crawl drag block up hill, mosey down
Rinse and repeat to 200
P1: Squats w/ block (must squat low enough to touch their 6 to the other block)
P2: backward run up hill, mosey down
Rinse and repeat to 200….or 85..
P1: Merkins
P2: Bear crawl drag block up hill, mosey down
Rinse and repeat to 200…or 120
The PAX as a collective were pretty gassed at this point. Anyone around Mac was LITERALLY gassed.
P1: LBCs
P2: backward run up hill, mosey down
Rinse and repeat to 200
Mosey over to pull-up bars
P1: as many pull-up as possible
P2: farmers carry both blocks around the track
Flapjack when P2 returns
Return the blocks to the pile, mosey back to the Shovel Flag
Count Off / Prayer
FNG Name chain:
FNG #1 – 3 girls, owns IT business, “wedding planner!”, owns 3 businesses, “TRUMP!”, “YUGE!”, “Bluescreen”, “Commodore!” Welcome, Commodore!
FNG #2 – Name is Zo (spelling?), video producer, runs Central Mission downtown, “Chef boy r dee!”, new daughter, lives next to DET, “Mr. Rogers!” Welcome, Mr. Rogers
Moleskin:
-Detention is a special place. The fellowship here is strong, so keep it up. It’s crazy how fast 2 years can fly by!
-Reach out to that brother you’ve been missing. Accountability is important and has been a topic of discussion among the PAX recently.
-Wingbat grunted this morning
-We had an FNG bring his medical insurance card with him today, which was hilarious, but pretty smart. Get a RoadID, men. $20 could save your life.
Announcements:
-1/26-28/18 GrowRuck http://f3nation.com/2017/10/25/growruck-08-sc-midlands-preblast/ ***MAKE SURE YOUR AO IS OPEN*** CONVERGE AT DREHER HS
-2/3 GoRuck Light Columbia—Sign UP
-2/2018 Dam to Dam relay race
-3/2018 P200
-7/14/2018 Reaper run/ruck Full and 1/2 marathon
Prayer Requests:
-Rumblestrip’s father who is home now and seems to be improving
-Eli, a young cancer patient who recently found out his cancer has returned
-Bray’s lumbar shot
Devo:
Credit goes to Cheech for reading this to us a while back –
Have you ever been so cold that your fingers and toes became numb? What is especially interesting is how the numbing process is so gradual. As the warm air is slowly replaced by the cold, we sit there oblivious to the change. Then all of a sudden, there’s a stinging pain. The stiffness makes it hard to regain comfort. We try to wiggle our toes, but they won’t move quickly enough. We blow warm air into our gloves to war off the throb, but by then, it’s too late. The damage is done
Many years ago I heard a story about an ancient tribe of Arctic dwellers. They used the numbing effect of ice to destroy the wolves that were coming into their camps and killing their valuable dogs and other animals.
The hunters would coat a knife blade with fresh blood of an animal, let it freeze, then repeat the same thing over and over until the sharp steel was concealed by a thick covering of frozen blood. Then they would stick it into the ground, handle down and blade exposed upward. When the wolf’s well trained nose would find the exciting, flavorful “Popsicle” trap it would begin to lick it. As the wolf’s tongue slowly numbed, the smell of the blood drove him to keep licking. By the time it licked down to the finely sharpened blade, its tongue would be so deadened by the ice that the wolf didn’t know the blade was slicing its tongue to shreds. Wounded, the predator would wander off into the woods and likely starve to death.
While this method of hunting is unusually cruel, it is effective. The way intense cold sneaks up and wrecks havoc is a good picture of spiritual truth. Through habitual sin, the “skin of our spirit,” can be numbed, which eventually can block our ability to feel the “godly sorrow that leads us to repentance” (2 Corinthians 7:10). How many of us have given in to the sordid hungers and were slowly numbed by them, so much so that we kept consuming until our “tongues” reached the blade of destruction – and sometimes continued until death.
Why don’t you stop for a moment in this bitterly cold world we live in and carefully consider what you’re consuming? Are you licking with a frenzy on any “Popsicles”? If so, ask God to help you now and renew your sensitivity to His leading.
-H4T