The 12 Disciples come to The Distillery
QIC: Drama Queen
Date: 08/06/2020
PAX: Sour Mash, Schneider, Harden, 60 Minutes, Drama Queen
When The Distillery moved to Clemmons First Baptist Church (an AO oxymoron) YHC thought a good theme would be appropriate and was reminded of a song learned at Baptist VBS many years ago that has helped me remember the names of the 12 disciples. Thinking through the beginning of the song – Peter, Andrew, James, John – these would be easy to connect to an exercise and put together a workout. YHC had forgotten about Thaddeus and Bartholomew. Not to be deterred, YHC sat down and opened up the F3 exicon, put some creative thought into several names and just like turning some water into wine we had a workout.
There was a little pregame work required to map out some of the plan but well before time, a solid number of 4 loyal WeFoCo pax arrived – in fact it was pretty much the City Council of WeFoCo.
We began with a pretty standard Warmorama with nothing much out of the ordinary – except all were done IC to 12 (hint of theme). We did work merkins which are rarely used for warmorama because they were not in the disciple plan.
With that over, the theme was explained and with some awkward looks (“Oh no, here goes DQ again with some warped theme”) the pax seemed to buy in.
We went through the 12 like this:
PETER – Peter Parkers x 12 IC
ANDREW – Raggedy Andys x 12 IC
JAMES – James Bonds x 12 IC (kinda like an American Hammer with hands up like holding a gun)
JOHN – Johnny Roscoes – 12 up downs (no butt rolls)
PHILIP – Modified Quadraphilia – run/backpedal to top of incline with 12 squats 5x
THOMAS – Side Straddle Hops x 12 IC (Thomas put his hand in Jesus side after doubting)
MATTHEW – Bridges ( get shoulder off mat) 12 IC
JAMES –(aka James the Lesser) Lesser of two evils – pax choice 12 sprints (6x down and back) or burpees until sprinters are finished
THADDEUS- Team up (he teamed with Simon) and do LOST (patron saint of lost causes)
SIMON- Low Dollies, Overhead Claps, Squats, Turkish Get Ups (80,60,40,20)
JUDAS – Suicides x 2
BARTHOLOMEW- Bart Simpsons – combo of a brat and a skateboarder – Bobby Hurleys and Tony Hawks (180 degree spin) x 12
Finished up with just enough time to do some Mary (Magdalene) – LBCs, Low Flutters, and 60 Minutes called Mutton Crunches
NMM
Tclaps to all for bearing with me for another stretch of a theme that YHC thought would be easier to pull together
60 Minutes pushed us to do 12 Johnny Roscoes which led to most exercises having something to do with 12
Only 60 Minutes chose to do burpees while rest did 12 sprints for lesser of two evils – think he got in over 30 – strong work
Son of a minister Harden guessed Paul as the last disciple – good guess (as my old Geometry teacher used to say) you learned that in this class – but it’s wrong.
Sour Mash had his typical MC going until the sprints shut up him and everyone
Schneider was Larry Bird for most of the day
ANNOUNCEMENTS
The Shmed – YHC will pay $10 for each pax present at 2:00 AM workout. 60 Minutes plans to bring all 6 of his family whereupon at 2:05 the other 5 will mutiny against him and go back and sleep in the car
COT
Prayer request for 60 Minutes sister surgery, Plunger’s in-laws, all affected by COVID-19. YHC took us out
always an honor
DQ
Almost forgot – the words to the song sung to the tune of Bringing in the Sheaves (I said this was Baptist Bible School in WNC in the late 60s or early 70s)
There were twelve disciples Jesus called to help him Simon Peter, Andrew, James, his brother John. Phillip, Thomas, Matthew, James the son of Alpheus , Thaddeus, Simon, Judas, and Barholomew.
