Backblast! The Battlefield - Weekly Beatdown Series
DATE: 2026-02-17
AO: The Battlefield
Q: @86,
PAX: @Ray gun @Riggs @Fansville @86
FNGs: None
COUNT: 4
WARMUP: Weed Pickers Arm Circles Hairy Rockets SSH THE THANG: WHAT: F3 Baseball Timed Event 30 mins Partner up and see how many runs you get. Each team starts at a base. 1st Base 100 BBSU, -> Lounges 2nd Base 100 Merkins, -> Broad Jump 3rd Base 100 Squats -> Reverse Run Home Base 100 Curls and Planks -> Sprint to 1st Finisher ATMs All done in order, with no rest, without leaving plank position. 10 Alternating Shoulder Touches In Cadence (4-count), 10 Tempo Merkins (down on the 1-2-3, up on 4), 10 fast Merkins. That's 1 complete round. AMRAP MARY: ANNOUNCEMENTS: COT: Shield Lock The HIM, because he’s turned Pro, treats his Shield Lock like every other essential Guardrail in his life, by Bricklaying to increase Preparedness. To get ready for the expected and be ready for the unexpected, the HIM accelerates his Shield Lock. This starts by viewing the Shield Lock as a Team rather than a club. They are two vastly different organisms that only look similar from the outside. The Shield Lock is a Team, not a Club. Happiness, the transitory positive feeling governed by mere external circumstance, is the province of the Amateur who is un-Prepared for the Flux. The Pro, through Preparedness, gets ready for the Flux because it is expected, and he also stays ready for its unexpected aspect: timing–he never knows precisely when to expect the next peak or valley. Periodic is the final element of the 3P. The Shield Lock must come together periodically to be Effective. For the HIM, this is a form of preventive maintenance. The Amateur waits until the needle is on empty before he stops for gas, but the Pro fills his tank periodically–regardless of where his needle is pointing at any given moment. By meeting periodically, the Members of the Shield Lock recognize each other’s incipient valleys and proactively initiate the fight against the Flux as a Team. In this way, the Shield Lock parcels out the pain felt by the man in the valley and bears it together as a team. Pain is finite. The more it is parceled, the easier it is to bear.