PAX: Safety Valve, Goose, Wet Tap, Popeye, Honeysuckle, TeraVanilli, Yankee Jeaux, America’s Best

AO: Tuesday Tuff, 06/10/2025

By: America’s Best

“The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury.” -Marcus Aurelius

“Don’t get mad . . . Get better.” -Mike Laskofski

About a month ago, YHC visited a foreign AO. The venue was beautiful, the PAX seemed pleasant, and it seemed familiar enough (they had a Goose, a Gecko, and even a guy who insisted on stretching his calves during arm circles). It was a Saturday morning hour-long beatdown, and seemed enough of a burner that it could easily be plagiarized for my next Saturday Q.
Then I saw their backblast… in which some C who didn’t seem very H described YHC’s adopted hometown as “some God-forsaken hellhole in Louisisana.”
Whoa, Hoss. Thems fightin’ words.
Now we have something to prove. Nothing too complicated. Just that we are better than they are.
And so, while the beatdown would be the same, I wouldn’t be saving it for a Saturday. No– The Vendetta Posse that showed up this morning would do in less than 45 minutes what took “Lowcountry” an hour to complete.

Warmarama, while Yankee Jeaux Presented the Colors:

SSH, windmills, Imperial Walkers, Tie Fighters, Cherry-pickers, self-love, Lafayette Night Clubs, mountain climbers, slow and low Boston butt kicks.

The Thang:

Count off into two groups 1 & 2

Group 1 does 25 Burpees, 50 Merkins, 75 Step-ups (2:1), and 100 BBS, running a lap between exercises;

Group 2 does 100 Curls, 75 Air Squats, 50 Chest Press, and 25 OHP, running a lap between exercises.

When done with your 4 sets, swap and do the other 4 sets

According to their backblast, Lowcountry completed this in 55 minutes.

Thibodaux F3 completed it in a cool 31 minutes, with Wet Tap standing around with an “Is that all?” look on his face.

And while we could mike-drop it here, there was still time for…

Burpeepalooza:

We listened to almost 10 songs during the beatdown, but in the afterglow of that beautiful performance, YHC only counted 7, so assigned 7 burpees plus however many artists and songs could not be identified. I did offer that if anyone could tell me the commonalities (one objective and one subjective) of the songs played, some mercy would be allowed, but nobody spoke up. The PAX nailed most of the songs and artists, so we only ended up doing 14 burpees.
(The answer: all the songs were from 1999, and all were better than any Creed song from that year.) And so then we did more burpees “until I say.”

(It should be noted here as well that instead of a Burpeepalooza, Lowcountry did some stretching and flutter kicks)

Thanks for coming out and putting the work in. I think we proved our point.

STYIG,

AB