Ghana’s Independence Day at Purgatory

Ghana’s Independence Day at Purgatory

QIC: BAM

Date: 03/06/2021

PAX: Green Acres(WD), Lace, Leather(WB and FNG), Offsides, Rust Bucket, Bluto, Splash, Undertow, Burlap, Parkay, Sweat Tea, Singing Cowboy, Woodpecker, Spamalot, The Pony Express, Bulldog, Argyle, Air Ball, Total Recall, BAM

March 6th is Independence Day in Ghana, and since it was the first sub-Saharan African country to throw off the yoke of English colonialism, seemed like a worthy theme for the dashpax!  1957 is the year of said yoke throwing.

YHC is thankful for the prayers regarding his back this week.  It seemed to settle back into its normal feelings by the end of the week and hopefully was able to generate enough of a beatdown!

Since this was the first time we had properly celebrated such an auspicious day, YHC spent some extra time scouring the exicon to find just the right exercises.

Purgatory is known for welcoming #Respects and #RespectRespects.  This was true again, as YHC pulled in at 0655 to a pretty full parking lot. #oldpeopledontsleepmuch

Announcing the theme got Pony properly excited, so were were off!

Warmorama

Prior to Ghana being able to self-determine their own name, the country was known as the Gold Coast.  Gold is currently their 7th highest export.

• SSH
• Copperhead squats
• Mt. Climbers
• IW
• Abe Vigoda
• Merkins
• probably something else

Ghana means Warrior King – So, the Q came up with some of our fave warriors (or at least folks who have some loose connection to fighting)

Mike Tysons x 10 (renamed Gerry Cooneys by the end)

Joe Louis x 10

4 count exercise starting from a boxers stance (dominant hand side foot leading: right-handers lead with right foot)<br /> <br /> Count 1: Punch with the dominant hand<br /> Count 2: Punch with the non-dominant hand<br /> Count 3: Duck down to just above the waist level as if avoiding a punch<br /> Count 4: Recover to the boxer stance

Nolan Ryan x 10 (cause he punched the crap out of Robin Ventura)

People’s Chair with punches (No name, but we’ll go with Rocky Marcianos)

One Calls x 10 (renamed Sugar Ray Robinsons)

• it’s a hand release merkin with punches exercise

Currency – Cedi, a type of snail shell – early in the days, they used the actual shells for their currency

Snail Shell N’Diayes (he’s from Senegal, not Ghana, but forget it, the Q was rolling)

• these are eerily similar to Inchworm N’Diayes, painfully slow exercises, and loved by pax

Ferdi Ato Abobe holds World record for walking backwards – 100 meters in 13.6 seconds, 

Quarter Pounder

• Sprint to the 25 yards and Do 25 merkins, Run backwards to Goal 
• Sprint to the 50 and do 50 squats, Backwards to Goal Line
• sprint to the 75 and do 75 Mountain Climbers, Run backwards to the goal line
• sprint to the hundred and do 100 SSH. mix and match exercises for the reps.

And since Ferdi also holds the world record for the running backwards 100 meters at 12.7 seconds, pax repeated for a Double Quarter Pounder

Cocoa beans largest export product

• pax moseyed to the playground, no hot chocolate was waiting
• Ghanaian jumping bean x 10 (eerily similar to Mexican jumping beans, squat jump to a pull up)

English is the official language of Ghana, but there are 200 known dialects spoken throughout the country, so pax attempted 200 reps for Mary

Mary –  (all IC)

• LBC x20
• Peter Parker x 20
• Low Flutter x20
• Mutton Crunch x 10 for each leg
• Parker Peter x 20
  • Repeato, but ran out of time at low flutters

NMM

• A quality crowd all the way around, Air Ball posted for the 2nd time (he’s still talking with TR), and pretty sure Sweet Tea has posted every day for the last 10 days!  (much better than that Plunger character who ditched us)
• The Q made some inflammatory comments to kick things off about #BatFlippers from a recent blog post by a particular Nantan Emeritus
• During the Warrior King section, YHC made the comment One Calls were chosen to not honor Floyd Mayweather for his history of being abusive to women.  Our astute nantan pointed out “What about Mike Tysons?”  Doh!  Granted Mr. Tyson served his time for his crime, so there should be space for growth, but the Q renamed the exercise the Gerry Cooney for today.
• Little known fact, Bulldog was a Golden Gloves champ in 1983 and just missed the 84 Olympic team.  Be sure to ask him about it next time you see him.
• Pax LOVED the Snail Shell N’Diayes!  Splash in particular seemed to have some choice words for the Q.  Bluto didn’t complain and just got working!
• Splash continued to berate the Q, even asking Undertow if there was neurological condition that affected someone’s ability to gauge yardage during the Double Quarter Pounder.
• There was general acceptance that 100 SSH’s is a lot.  200 is even more
• Once pax understood that the Ghanaian jumping beans were really just how most pax cheat through pull ups anyway, all was good.
• Qfail by not properly celebrating all 200 dialects by running out of time and only getting 160 reps in.
• Took pax longer than it should have to name our new FNG, but landed on Leather to complement and finish the song of Lace’s naming.

Prayer requests

• Prayers for a couple families in town battling pancreatic cancer