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Island Throwdown

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By Danny Pham

Last Friday, April 26, 2024, marked the last day of the 2nd Annual Island Throwdown, three rigorous cross-fit challenges set by Mr. Brewster for Dalat students to compete in a fun competition; this let students show off the improvement that they had made in the past year in their fitness journeys testing their newfound athletic capabilities and skills.

All the workouts were programmed so that students of varying skill levels would be able to do the workouts in their category without having to scale it, meaning that it was open to everyone, whether you were just a beginner or a dedicated athlete.

Over the course of two weeks, these students gave their blood, sweat, and tears in order to complete the three brutal workouts, pushing past what they previously thought were their athletic limits. Afterward, students would submit their scores to the websites to see how they compared to peers in their category for each workout on the leaderboards.

The competition started out with an AMRAP workout, meaning that athletes would try to complete as many reps as they possibly could in the given timeframe, followed by a wall-ball workout the next day where athletes would try to complete 100 wall-balls as fast as they possibly could. Finally, the competition ended with a chipper workout in which athletes had to complete many various movements in order to try to finish within the ten-minute time frame.

Nate Johnson (11), a competitor in the Island Throwdown said, “It was a great experience being able to challenge myself to do as best as possible in all the workouts really pushing myself to my limits.”

With the final workout complete the winners were announced with Josh Morrison (12), David Rinkenburger (9), Aiden Boyd (10), Chelsea Tan (9), and Yuan Tee (11) winning in their respective age and gender categories.

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