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The Get Right VOL. 1 ISSUE 1 • APRIL 2020 THE GET RIGHT The Official Newsletter of F3JAX, F-L-A The mission of F3 is to plant, grow and serve small workout groups for men for the invigoration of male community leadership. The F3 Credo: Leave no man behind, but This issue: leave no man where you find him. Words from our Nantan PAGE 02 Fitness in the time of COVID Core Value of the Month PAGE 03 CSAUP CONCEPT: GROUP IS STRONGER THAN PAGE 04-05 INDIVIDUAL AO Updates PHRASE: WE LOCK SHIELDS TO PAGE 06-08 STRENGTHEN THE WHOLE, TO Value of the Q Source PROTECT THE INJURED, AND TO PAGE 09 WATCH OUR FLANKS; GUARDING AGAINST A WORLD INTENT ON JAX PAX of the Month ATTACK. PAGE 10-11 Core Value QUOTE: "UNITED WE STAND, DIVIDED PAGE 12-13 WE FALL." PATRICK HENRY The SIX Words from the Nantan BY HEISENBERG “Have you tried to perform a hard reset?” The woman at the helpless desk asked as I was informing her my iPad wouldn’t "If you fell connect to the VPN. It’s always the first suggestion they provide when you are desperate enough to call. It might apply to our current situation right now. As your down Nantan, making the call to shut down all AO’s was a most difficult decision for many reasons. First of all, I like so many yesterday, others, didn’t want to admit that this was as dire as the media portrayed. Second, I realized how much my routine would be altered. And third, I love everything about F3 and stand up what it means to me every day. But after a few weeks, I believe that the SkyQ has revealed to me a few things. I today." value my comfort, routine, happiness, and space way too much! Quarantine will expose what makes you happy or unhappy rather quickly. It has been a RESET for me in many H.G. WELLS ways and I hope for you too. How do I engage my M, my 2.0’s my neighbors, cashiers, bag boys, restaurant servers, and of course teachers, now that I value what they do more than ever? We talk about being ready and getting better for times like this. Are you? Is this revealing something in you that needs a reset? More time/effort here, less over there? PAX, we are not out of the woods yet, and our community needs HIMs who are focused and ready. Where can you step up or out to meet a need? Deliver groceries to a neighbor, donate to a food bank, tip a to-go order >20%. I’m using some of my extra time to walk my neighborhood and pick up trash. It allows me to engage with my community, ask for needs, exercise(ruck) and get right in my head when the “home office” is cramped. I can’t wait to hear what you are doing in your house, hood, or community. Let’s Get Right and Get After It! Aye! THE GET RIGHT PAGE 02 1ST F Fitness in the Time of COVID Words and phrases of the month in the world- 'unprecedented' and 'flatten the curve.' Words of the month in F3JAX- 'adapt and overcome.' The AOs are officially closed to support our community leaders and slow the spread, but F3 fitness goes on. Running groups randomly meeting up in the gloom, ruckers socially distant on the beach, and best of all- virtual Qs. Big T Claps to Flo and Saigon Sam for kicking off JAX Zoom workouts and all those who have stepped up to Q and to post. Great to see PAX from across our region getting after it together. T CLAPS THE GET RIGHT PAGE 03 Completely Stupid and Utterly Pointless T CLAPS The first Annual F3 JAX endurance challenge CSAUP went down on January 18th, 2020 as Aquaman released the Kraken. Nearly 60 PAX from every JAX AO completed the event through varioPuHsO TmO eB Ya nMsA RoTfI Nl oRc. oS MmI ToHtion including rucking, running and biking from JAX Beach to Mickler’s Landing and back (~16.5 miles). The event promoted F3 JAX's mission to plant, grow and serve small workout groups for the invigoration of male community leadership. And over $1300 was raised for the Trinity Rescue Mission. Trinity's mission is to meet the physical, material, and spiritual needs of the over 1,800 homeless men, women, and children in Northeast Florida with the love and compassion of the gospel of Jesus Christ. Thanks to the M’s and 2.0’s that came out to cheer and (wo)man the power stations. Huge T-Claps to Aquaman for being a HIM and making it happen. Be ready for next year. THE GET RIGHT PAGE 04 Completely Stupid and Utterly Pointless Things Completed Q1 Kracken Donna Full Marathon Donna Half Marathon Gate River Run Spartan Sprint Spartan Super THE GET RIGHT PAGE 05 AO NEWS Boondocks YHC will never forget a Twister Q where he led the pax THROUGH a lake… yes THROUGH, not around, not over… but THROUGH! While the lake was slightly above waste level for some, it was chest deep for others (including YHC). Of course, one of the best, and worst, moments at Boondocks thus far had to have been P H O T O B Y M A R T I N R . S M I T H being heckled by a 7 or 8-year-old kid sitting at the top of the jungle gym dome. I encourage all PAXof F3JAX to check us out at Boondocks. While you never know what part of the While Boondocks may be one of the park we will be using each Saturday, you youngest AOs in F3 Jacksonville (coming up can almost guarantee there’s a good on 2 years in June), it has a lot to offer, chance there will be “Fixit” burpees! especially in terms of real estate. We have four football/soccer fields, three grass and ThunderDome (Tuesday/boot camp) one turf field, two complete with goal posts Hurt Locker (Friday/ruck) (which have been used). We even have a Boondocks (Saturday/boot camp) baseball field and before the fence, had All at Julington Creek Plantation Park access to a basketball court. We have “Pusher” berms, a playground and benches, -FEUD and plenty of parking lots for some “Updraft” shuffles. In the past year, the Pax of Boondocks have developed into HIMs. They’re not just stepping up to Q, but they are pushing each other to come up with challenging beatdowns. Several of them (Doink and Extinguisher, I am talking about you- I do place myself in this category as well) call themselves non-runners but tend to incorporate a lot of running in their beatdowns. Doink has also stepped up to help on the IT side of things for F3JAX. Our very own Aquaman was the brainchild behind the first F3 Jacksonville CSAUP event- the Kraken! Then there’s Twister, the bad ass who had the gumption to bring F3 to Julington Creek Plantation Park. THE GET RIGHT PAGE 06 Downtown Poseidon Sure the parks are This month’s theme, United We Stand, closed. Locked tight Divided We Fall could not be more even. But you know appropriate. The healthiness of Poseidon what isn’t closed? The remains as we go through this transition indomitable spirit of F3. period and the addition of a Hard Nocs Q on Saturdays. While the Pax has been Just like the swallows of Capistrano always divided (Starfish I think), it still attracts return, Downtown Pax seem to find their between 8-15 Pax every Saturday. Because way back to an AO. (Keeping a 6-8’ of CSAUP’s, the rhythm of Saturday’s has separation of course!). Perhaps its habit, or been a bit interrupted, but it remains a could it be the desire to not return to the welcome respite for those who need an pre-F3 existence of the Sad-Clown? outlet. When we get back into full swing, we will commit to the principles and core Iron sharpens Iron values of the group so THE PAX and last week a understands what F3 is truly about as I group of brothers believe the dissemination of information oddly all showed up has not been as consistent as it could be. randomly at the same place at the Secondly, we will focus on more co-Q’s same time to help and new Q’s and may flirt with the idea of search for a missing item. The lost item assigning leadership once a month(in wasn’t found, but we did discover this out of advance), so the leadership piece of F3 place hairpiece. Was it a random tumble- can be experienced as it was meant to be. weave? Was it meant to be a hair transplant Also ask and receive information from but never found its new owner? We’ll never fellow Pax as how to get more FNG’s to know! post. Speaking of iron sharpening, - PAPA SMURF the Q Source is ongoing. After your virtual beatdown, log in to ZOOM every Thursday at 0630 and get your weekly dose of brotherly love. Bring your own coffee! - BOWZER THE GET RIGHT PAGE 06 HardNocs HardNocs AO was founded on Monday HardNocs on Mission September 9th, 2019 and meets Monday at 0530 and Saturday at 0700. The group YHC and Son of SAM (my son) had the spun off from Badlands to serve the privilege of attending F3 led Mission trip to growing number of PAX coming that live in Chimbote, Peru January 25th through Nocatee and improve accountability.
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