Fitness, Fellowship, Faith
Fitness, Fellowship, Faith
While you may feel embarrassed searching for this term on your work computer, it’s harmless. Unless you can’t do it well. Welly Wanging is the British niche sport of throwing a rubber boot as far as you can — perfect backyard sport for the backwoods of Union County. This redneck-type sport is not allowed within The Village of Marvin (high class), so YHC has not been allowed to use it at one of the Marvinite workouts, but in the ‘Haw, it’s all good. (If we get a Mineral Springs AO, this will be a regular workout.)
The idea is to throw a single boot as far as you can, and we did some 1v1 competition with the loser doing a punishment burpee. The rest of the PAX would all travel to the tossed boots via some fun method — sprints, bear crawls, lunge walks, karaoke, etc — and retrieve the boots and return back to the throwing line the same way. Loads of fun.
After about 15 minutes, we headed to the patio for Bulgarian split squats, merkins and other fun before returning for a last face-off between the strongest competitors of the morning, Chatterbox and Schneider.
At this point, Schneider proved his strength and intestinal fortitude with a toss worthy of a champion. Chicken Little mocked him when we got back to COT, but Chicken needs to stop clucking about what he doesn’t understand. And just imagine what Schneider could do with a couple of Busch Lights in him!
As we began to head back, Ice9 wanted a shot at redemption. He lined up, took aim, and again it went a bit sideways and not the distance of a champion. We headed back to COT speechless. The man can harness his Ginger Power for amazing feats of strength, for coordinating fantastic clothing drives and giveaways, for inspiring others to do what they thought they couldn’t do. But he needs to work on throwing a rubber boot because you never know when that talent will be needed in life.