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Clydesdale Media Roundtable - What a Wild Ride the Week has Been in CrossFit · Clydesdale Media Podcast

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What is going on, everybody?
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Welcome to Class Domini Roundtable.
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We've already got Kenneth
0:34
and Corey and Jake in the chat.
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Good to see you all.
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And Kat's with us.
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She is.
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I am surprised, surprised.
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Yeah, it didn't last very long, so.
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Oh,
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you actually had your meeting and it's
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already over?
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I did and it was over, yeah.
0:52
You never really know.
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Yeah.
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So I, I mean,
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you're speaking my language right there.
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Same.
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That's my favorite color.
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I'm rewatching breaking bad right now.
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And yeah,
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Marie Marie purple is her favorite color.
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Yeah.
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Every time they cut to her.
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I love it.
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I did some research about that.
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Oh yeah.
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Was there some hidden meaning?
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I think that there could be
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because it's loyalty.
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Purple is a loyal color.
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Okay.
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So, but yeah, everything was purple.
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Purple and yellow and
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accessorized with yellow.
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Yeah.
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What a great series.
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I miss that show.
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It's so good.
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It's funny too.
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I saw it when it originally came out,
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I guess.
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I think I binge watched it
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like once it was almost over.
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But I don't remember everything.
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I mean, I remember big chunks,
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but I'm still at the edge
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of my seat every time.
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I'm always like, Oh,
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what's going to happen?
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So it's kind of fun to watch again.
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Cause I,
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it's like I've watched it for
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watching it for the first time.
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Yeah.
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Julie,
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Julie didn't watch it with me the
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last time she wants to watch it now.
3:03
So I think we're going to go
3:04
through it again.
3:04
So we're going to call Saul.
3:07
No, never watched some of it.
3:10
You have to get through the
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first two seasons and then
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it's as good as breaking bad.
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Is it really?
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Yeah.
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Okay, good.
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Good, good, good.
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So it's been a crazy week.
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I want to start off with some good news.
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I don't know if you guys saw this,
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but friends of the show,
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Dan and Alex Bailey,
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Alex had their twins.
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And I put the picture up
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just to confirm it doesn't have a mullet.
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They weren't fitted for a frame t-shirts.
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Danny bro flex that gene
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must not have been passed on.
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No.
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But super excited for them.
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I guess it was not an easy labor, but she,
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Alex hung in there and gave
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birth late last week to
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Hayden and Addison Bailey.
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So congrats to them.
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um I haven't got your your
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guys's perspective why does
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it go back to that when I i
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don't know yeah uh well I
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haven't got your
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perspective on the
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penalties well I watched
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dave's week in review that
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was did you watch it to see
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him talking about it I did okay
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So that's interesting.
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Um, I,
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I can hear what he's saying and that
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already sounds like they're
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making changes for next year.
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Yeah, I don't.
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Yeah, sure.
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But I know in our text string,
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one of the things I was
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talking about was I was
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curious about what does
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that review process look like?
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Like when when they're watching the videos,
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do they just watch it straight through?
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Do they slow it down?
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Do they freeze it?
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Do they go back?
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Because that to me is
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completely different versus, you know,
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being in.
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live competition.
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You can't go back and re-watch footage,
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at least in this sport.
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Different, obviously, in other sports.
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So that is kind of bothersome to me.
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And if they just do watch it through,
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then cool.
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But it seems like, wait, did I see that?
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Was that a no rep or not?
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I'm curious what those
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standards are for them on reviewing.
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Kat,
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I think you're probably best qualified to
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Yeah.
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I mean,
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I can only speak to how video
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review for CrossFit has
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been done in the past.
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I have no idea.
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It could be a thousand
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percent different this year.
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Um, and I,
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and it's been several years
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since I was on that team
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reviewing videos.
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Um,
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but the way it worked back then was
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you'd get assigned, um, an age group or a,
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you know, open or men or, you know,
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50 to 54 males, whatever it was.
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Um,
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And we would all, and when I say we,
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I mean, you know,
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the same batch of people
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that are judging at
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semifinals and at the games
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and probably lesser
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qualified judges as well,
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not just those sort of higher level folks,
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but because, you know,
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you need a lot of resources.
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We would go through the videos and
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from my perspective,
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I would go through like a,
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just a perfunctory review, you know,
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did they say all the things,
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did they get the measurements right?
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Did they do all the, you know,
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they do the workout in the
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right order kind of a thing.
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Um,
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and oftentimes that would be done like
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at a faster speed just
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because we had so many to get through.
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Um, but if there was,
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if there were things that
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were chronic that you would
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notice that weren't happening,
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once you get back to the
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beginning and do it on, you know,
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real time and you start
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counting reps and things.
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And if you see stuff that's weird,
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you know,
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you can flag it as needs
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additional review and then
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write your notes about what
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you thought was wrong with
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the workout or the performance,
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if you will.
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And then at that point in time,
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it would get reviewed by a
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second level of person.
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And I actually complained
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the one year that I did it
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because I saw major
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penalties that I would
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report that never got reported.
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You know,
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I remember one time like talking
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to or reviewing
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remember that workout with
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the dumbbells where you
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were like right under the
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rig and it was like
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dumbbell somethings and
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then toe to bar and jump rope.
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And it was like a, you know, an AMRAP.
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And I remember somebody's,
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somebody's boyfriend was
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like moving their dumbbells
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every time after their rounds.
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And I got so mad, like,
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cause you're not allowed to have help,
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you know, during the, during the workout.
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And I had reported that and
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nothing happened.
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Like that person didn't get
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a penalty or whatever.
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So,
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I think it depends on who's reviewing,
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you know, how how strict they're being.
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But I would imagine that
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there are some folks, at least,
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like I said, back when I did it,
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there were people that
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could have had major penalties.
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But if that first line
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review didn't catch it,
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nobody else would be looking at it.
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Right.
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And you could sort of go through and flat,
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you know, and say, yep, approved,
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approved, approved.
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I don't know what the
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quality control was on the
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back end for someone to go back and say,
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okay, well,
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Kat approved all of her things.
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Do we really know that she
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did a good job approving those or not?
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Who knows?
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And, you know,
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you get some people that are
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in that role that are super
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nitpicky and they want
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every single one of their
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videos to get reviewed by
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someone else because this
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isn't right or that isn't right.
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And it's very subjective, right?
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I mean,
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I've been no repping people forever
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on air squats,
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for not fully extending at
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the top of an air squat, you know,
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you're sort of like your
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legs are straight and your,
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and your hips are kind of open,
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but you're like leaning forward, right?
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You're not standing all the way up.
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Your shoulders aren't
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stacked with your hips.
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I've done that in person too.
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And it hasn't really been upheld.
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So I see that sort of like
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the step up full extension types issue.
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And I know I've done step
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ups before where I have felt in my head,
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That I am standing all the
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way up and I've seen video
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of myself and I am nowhere
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near standing up like with
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my hips not completely open.
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So I understand, you know,
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how that could happen.
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I didn't review videos this year.
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No,
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I think probably 19 or 20 was the last
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time I reviewed videos for the games.
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Yeah, and she prefaced this, Jeff,
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with... Yeah, like I said,
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don't know how it's done now.
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Today's policy is,
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this is what she did when
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she was doing it in 19 or 20.
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But I could see other people's review.
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And, you know, there would be people on...
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on the staff that you knew
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they were going to flag
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every single one of their videos.
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And I don't know if it's
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because they needed to like
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prove their worth that they
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were actually looking at stuff and like,
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Hey, I found this and Hey, I found that.
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Or what?
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And so I don't know if you
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got 50 judges first round
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this time around that were
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like that person that
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wanted to check everything.
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And they all of a sudden had
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all this stuff to review and they thought,
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Hmm,
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maybe we should be looking at this a
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little more closely or what,
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but things escalated quickly.
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I get the not extending on top of the box,
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like with your knees, hips and all that,
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but what's the thought
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process about the neck or head?
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So I think that that's fake news.
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Okay.
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Okay.
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Every video I've seen that got dinged.
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Yeah.
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Had nothing to do with the
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neck and the head.
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Okay.
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Okay.
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So where did that even come from?
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So I'm going to share my screen,
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get with the programming
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posted this on IgE today.
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Um, and it,
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and it's a big question I have.
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Um,
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if athletes really think they're
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getting screwed,
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why aren't they making
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their videos public for everyone to see?
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Hmm.
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So as long as we can't see them,
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they can say whatever about it.
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That they said my head
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wasn't in line or my whatever.
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Everybody who has made theirs public,
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it's been soft knees or
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they were bent over at the top.
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And it's like I said,
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it's just a it's a thing.
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It's super common.
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I see it all the time in in
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in-person competitions, too.
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And we as judges don't
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always hold the standard for that.
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I've seen it before or I've
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called it on everybody and everyone that,
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you know,
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no one wants my lane because I'm
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the only one that's calling it.
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Right.
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Right.
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If you look at Pat Vellner's video,
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who I think is a great mover.
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his non-working leg so the
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is soft on almost every rep
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yeah and I would have
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called it like I don't I
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don't think it was like on
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the line it was pretty
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obvious that he did not
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extend that leg yeah and
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when and if you're in
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person you know you're no
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wrapping that once and then
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you're fixing it
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And it's probably not
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impacting your time or your
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score if you had to keep the standard.
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You know what I mean?
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Like Pat's not going that
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much slower or any slower
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at all if he's doing the
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full range of motion.
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Yeah, it's not saving him time to do that.
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Yeah.
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Which is why, you know,
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it's not like he's trying to cheat.
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And I will say, though,
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also on the snatches, I mean,
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I see that all the time on
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a regular basis.
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People start bending their arms.
12:45
Or just even on like if
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you're doing hang cleans or something,
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I see people start bringing
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it back down before they've
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come up to full extension.
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I remember at Granite Games,
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Ben Smith was yelling at me
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because I was no repping
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him on his muscle ups
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because he was like
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re-gripping before he would press out.
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And you weren't allowed to do that.
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It was super slight,
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but he couldn't stand me that day.
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And it's Ben Smith.
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You know we can do it right.
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So after all this noise,
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I keep going through to make sure,
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but I think there's only
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four former games athletes
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that are not going to
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semifinals because of this.
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It seems like because the
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numbers are so huge.
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Yeah, it's a handful.
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Yeah.
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Right, but it's Paige Powers, Nick Matthew,
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Sam Stewart, and Sidney Wells.
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And Paige is the only person
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to ever finish in the top 10.
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Nick Matthew's highest finish was 15th.
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And Sidney was like 28th,
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and Sam Stewart was 37th.
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So maybe, is it possible that...
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that these judging decisions
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were correct and the right
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people did make it through.
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Yeah, I hope so.
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I just hope that there
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aren't people out there
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from 30th place to 40th
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place that are getting in
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that also maybe should have
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gotten penalized that didn't.
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Yeah.
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I don't, you know, from what I heard,
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they did that.
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If you ever were in the top 60 or 80,
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it's one of those numbers.
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Yeah.
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Right.
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But again, you know,
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if there were tears to how
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things were judged,
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did somebody get a judge
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that just sort of approved everything?
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you know,
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cause when you're doing these
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video reviews,
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like you're sitting in front of the TV,
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you got your box of pretzels,
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you got your earphones.
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You don't know if the dog's running around,
14:47
if the kids are bugging you,
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like there's lots going on.
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It's not just, and you know,
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I'm not saying that people
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aren't taking it seriously
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and doing their jobs,
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but you could have gotten a
14:57
judge or two that looked
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through the video review
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and was just like, yep, yep, we're good.
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And then,
15:02
and then no one's doing any QC behind it.
15:04
And again, don't know if that's the case.
15:06
I could be completely wrong, but
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Yeah.
15:09
Like what's the review
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process for the reviewers?
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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And,
15:14
and the fact that there's no transparency,
15:16
I think is the problem.
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Like I think if everyone
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understood what the process
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was and who the people were
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and what their credentials
15:23
were and things like that,
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I think they'd have a
15:24
little more faith in the system,
15:26
but because it's not
15:28
publicized for whatever reason.
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Cause you know,
15:33
cause people would complain
15:33
about it and criticize it
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and poke holes in it and
15:35
say it's terrible or whatever,
15:36
but it would be great if at least,
15:38
We knew what it was.
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I don't,
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I don't see why it has to be so
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secretive.
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So Sunday night,
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Carolyn said like she did that workout,
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looked at the video herself and said,
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that doesn't look right.
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And said, I need to redo it.
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So you do have that option too.
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This is videoed.
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You have,
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I'm sure you have people in your
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camp that are willing to
16:02
look at your video and say, Hey,
16:04
that looks good.
16:04
Or it doesn't look good.
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Go ahead and submit.
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Yeah.
16:08
Right.
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And to Jeff's question, again,
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if it's organized the way
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it's been organized in the past,
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you get a certain group
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that's looking at a certain region.
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And so if we're talking
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subjectivity and you're talking about,
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you know,
16:21
somebody that is really looking
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at things more closely than
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others and flagging more
16:27
videos than others,
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you could have different
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regions being judged differently.
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So it's kind of like the luck of the draw.
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Who did you get?
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And yes,
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there have been times that I have
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slowed down videos to like
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the millisecond,
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to the frame by frame by
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frame to see what's going on for sure.
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Yeah.
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I still think that a bigger
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deal was made of this than
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probably it actually was.
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But I think,
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and we talked about this the other night,
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like Kelly Stone,
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she shared her email from
17:05
CrossFit that they
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explained to her her appeal
17:09
and why it was denied and said,
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go to rep six.
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That's what we're looking for.
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Well, on her Instagram,
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the only rep she showed to
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prove that she was good was rep six.
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You can hear her judge yell six.
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Got it.
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So how do I know that what
17:33
you're using is evidence to
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say that CrossFit did you wrong?
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You're using the rep they said was good.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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And nobody's making their videos public.
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But let's celebrate the
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positive that we talked about.
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Who did make it through?
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As safe?
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Annika.
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Oh, I know.
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Thank God.
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Annika.
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She and I were going back
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and forth yesterday on Instagram.
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I sent her a DM and I was like,
18:08
are you officially good to go?
18:10
Like final, final.
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And she's like, Oh my God, what did,
18:13
did you hear something?
18:14
She thought I was like
18:15
trying to warn her that
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something was wrong.
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I'm like, no, no.
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I just, before I congratulate you,
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I wanted to make sure.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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So something funny happened
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to me last night.
18:23
I get, I,
18:25
I reposted CrossFit's thread that
18:29
said leaderboard is closed.
18:32
Yeah.
18:33
Whatever.
18:34
I get a text from Emily Rolfe.
18:37
Is it really?
18:38
Because I still have a video
18:39
that's not been validated.
18:41
I am not an official from CrossFit HQ.
18:46
I cannot verify that.
18:50
But I'm assuming if it's closed,
18:52
they're done reviewing.
18:53
Yeah.
18:56
And what I've kind of heard
18:57
through the grapevine today
18:58
is that CrossFit didn't
19:01
review all of three and four,
19:03
and you may have one that's
19:04
not validated because they
19:05
didn't review it.
19:12
Oh, so there's still a appeal,
19:17
but it's been finalized?
19:20
Well, Rosecott just got dinged on Sunday.
19:23
Okay.
19:23
Okay.
19:24
And a pretty major penalty.
19:26
So,
19:29
and I don't know where she is in the
19:30
appeal process.
19:31
I would just be guessing, but it has been,
19:37
I do believe in the past
19:38
CrossFit has said
19:39
leaderboards closed and
19:40
then made a decision after.
19:41
It's never really,
19:44
it's never really close.
19:45
Just when everyone gets to the venue,
19:49
then we know it's official.
19:50
you know, I mean, we,
19:52
this season has been so wild.
19:54
We don't know.
19:54
There could be a wild card.
20:01
Charlie, I'm going to invite you.
20:06
So, so talk about judging cat.
20:08
You received an email yesterday.
20:10
I did.
20:10
Yeah.
20:11
It was kind of, kind of like an invite.
20:13
Um,
20:16
it looks like they're only
20:17
taking 30 volunteer judges
20:19
for the CrossFit games this year,
20:22
as opposed to, uh,
20:25
the very lots and lots that
20:26
they had before.
20:27
So traditionally, um,
20:29
we'll call us civilian
20:31
judges or non seminar staff judges,
20:33
volunteer judges, um,
20:35
typically did in years past.
20:37
Let's talking like from like
20:39
27 prior to 2019 when they
20:42
had 8,000 people from every country come,
20:44
um,
20:46
We,
20:46
the volunteer judges would just do
20:48
teams and age groups, mostly age groups.
20:51
And then like the higher
20:53
echelon of those volunteer
20:54
judges would get to do
20:55
teams and never individual.
20:58
And then once the field grew
21:01
that one year when we
21:02
brought all the national
21:03
champions and things like that,
21:04
there were a group of
21:06
volunteer judges that got
21:07
to do individual.
21:09
And then there'd be a group for team.
21:11
I was on the group for team.
21:12
And then there was a group for age groups.
21:14
And it was, I don't know the numbers,
21:16
but I gotta say it's like,
21:18
it was in the 50, 60, 70 range,
21:20
like a lot of people volunteering.
21:24
And then as you know, this year,
21:26
we saw a bunch of very high
21:29
level volunteer judges or a
21:30
lot of like the directors
21:32
and things like that,
21:34
that were doing individual judging.
21:36
And then most of the, most of the
21:39
Again,
21:39
I think that's just a resource issue.
21:41
I don't think there are a
21:41
ton of seminar staff
21:43
members that we're judging
21:44
this past year.
21:46
So yeah,
21:47
so we got an email saying that
21:48
there were going to be 30.
21:49
It was from a guy,
21:51
a seminar staff person that runs Rogue.
21:55
So he sent it to like the
21:56
folks that I guess have
21:57
done the games before,
21:58
been on his team or whoever, and said,
22:00
if you're interested,
22:01
reply to this email and let
22:02
me know ASAP because we're going to
22:05
create a group out of this.
22:06
I think they're going to
22:07
take 30 confirmed and then
22:08
keep 10 as alternates.
22:10
And those volunteers will
22:12
only be needed for Thursday and Friday.
22:15
They won't be needed for
22:16
Saturday and Sunday.
22:17
So it sounds like they'll be on teams,
22:20
I'm assuming,
22:21
or not a bunch of the stuff
22:23
that's going to be
22:23
highlighted over the weekend.
22:25
And that those volunteers
22:26
will have access to the venue,
22:27
limited access to the venue
22:29
after the fact,
22:30
so on Saturday and Sunday.
22:32
You know,
22:32
not like butts in seats necessarily,
22:35
but some general admission
22:36
access to the event, which is nice.
22:40
And they'll get their swag
22:40
and all that kind of stuff,
22:41
but a much smaller group
22:42
than they've used in the past.
22:44
Just to let you know,
22:45
because you weren't at the
22:45
games last year,
22:46
that same person was head
22:47
of the logistics of the
22:49
judging last year.
22:50
Okay, yeah.
22:51
At the games as well.
22:53
So he did get that job.
22:55
I don't think,
22:56
he was never on the floor like Boz was.
22:59
Yeah, I mean,
22:59
he's always been part of the games too,
23:01
like running teams and things like that.
23:05
What I find fascinating is
23:06
this used to be an open call.
23:09
Yeah.
23:09
Now it's invite only.
23:11
And people with the tinfoil hats,
23:14
there were people that believed that
23:16
Athletes got judged a
23:18
certain way if they had an
23:20
AFJ judge or not.
23:23
Oh yeah.
23:24
And it looks like this, like,
23:27
let's be honest, Kat,
23:28
you have not judged in a
23:29
couple of years and you're
23:32
on this invite to, to go to the games.
23:37
Do you think that they are
23:39
trying not to have certain people on?
23:42
No,
23:42
I think it's probably just an
23:44
administrative error on the
23:45
part of the person that
23:46
didn't realize that I've
23:48
been out of the game for quite some time.
23:49
Um, but, uh, no, I think, you know,
23:52
I think at one point in time,
23:54
I was part of that core group that,
23:56
that eventually became the AFJ.
23:58
Um, I am not part of the AFJ, um,
24:00
nor was I ever asked to be on the AFJ.
24:03
Um,
24:03
not to say that I would or wouldn't have,
24:05
if I had been asked, but, um,
24:07
Yeah, I don't know.
24:08
That's a good question.
24:09
I'm pretty sure that, you know,
24:10
like all the usual suspects
24:11
and all the folks that I
24:12
judged rogue at rogue with
24:14
are probably on that list.
24:17
It's true.
24:18
Corey.
24:19
Yes.
24:19
Have you heard from people?
24:20
Because I am really curious to know that.
24:24
I haven't.
24:24
I did.
24:25
I did see something.
24:26
Somebody posted something in
24:28
one of the Facebook groups that said like,
24:30
Hey guys,
24:30
I looked on the games website
24:32
for volunteers and judges
24:33
isn't an option.
24:34
And then someone was kind of coy and wrote,
24:37
hey,
24:38
they're doing it differently this year.
24:39
Stay close to your email.
24:41
So the person that posted
24:42
that obviously didn't get
24:42
the email and the original
24:45
post and the person that
24:45
probably sent that
24:46
suggestion probably did get the email.
24:48
And that person,
24:49
I didn't recognize that person's name.
24:51
So who knows?
24:54
And I'd be very surprised if
24:56
I was selected to go to the
24:58
games just based on my
24:59
tenure and what I do now
25:01
and everything else.
25:01
But
25:02
I put my hat in the ring anyway,
25:03
cause I would love to go.
25:05
In Dave's week in review,
25:07
he said that they needed to
25:08
do something about having
25:10
more standardized judging at the semi,
25:12
at the quarterfinal level.
25:16
But he, in that statement, he said,
25:17
not like an organization, just.
25:19
Oh yeah.
25:22
So I don't know.
25:23
I haven't talked to like
25:24
Jules or anybody to see if
25:25
those guys are part of it.
25:26
I can't imagine that they
25:27
would cut those people out though.
25:31
I'd be surprised.
25:32
I'd be, I'd be shocked if they did.
25:33
Uh,
25:35
it's not the first time CrossFit is
25:37
entered into a pissing
25:38
contest with a group.
25:40
I mean, I was,
25:41
I was kind of hoping that
25:42
this whole thing, you know,
25:44
I feel bad for the AFJ folks that were,
25:47
you know, at these camps and, you know,
25:50
thinking they were doing a
25:51
great job of holding the
25:51
standard when in fact
25:53
CrossFit came back and said, Oh,
25:54
actually no.
25:55
Um,
25:56
That kind of sucks for them.
25:58
I feel bad.
25:59
It feels like a slap in the
26:00
face from CrossFit,
26:01
which I hope is just a
26:03
coincidence and not an actual thing.
26:07
Yeah,
26:07
there has been speculation that it
26:09
wasn't coincidence.
26:11
And I don't know that.
26:15
I mean,
26:15
it's all speculation at this point.
26:18
Yeah,
26:18
now I'm afraid to reach out to anybody.
26:20
Oh, no.
26:25
I guess we'll see soon enough.
26:27
Yeah,
26:27
and that's one of the things Dave was
26:28
talking about, about the standardized,
26:30
like saying like maybe not
26:31
having your husband judge
26:32
you or like maybe going to...
26:37
different and the problem
26:40
too with the you know that
26:41
group of judges it's so
26:42
small and they they are
26:43
really really good but they
26:45
definitely have like
26:46
personal relationships with
26:48
the athletes just because
26:50
it's such a small sport and
26:51
they've been doing it for
26:52
so long and um you know
26:55
kudos to them for staying
26:56
impartial because that's
26:57
not the easiest thing to do
27:00
I could not judge anymore I could not
27:03
Yeah.
27:03
See, I totally could.
27:06
Yeah.
27:06
But you're hard.
27:07
I'm not.
27:10
I like to hold the standard for sure.
27:11
I remember the, the,
27:13
the person I remember being
27:15
the best mover of anyone
27:16
that I've ever judged.
27:19
I'll throw some tea now.
27:21
Brent Fikowski, the best, the best.
27:24
And I even said to him afterwards,
27:25
I was like, you were so easy to judge.
27:27
And he's like, well,
27:27
I want your job to be easy too.
27:29
Like, I don't want to get in a rut.
27:31
I've never had to give him a no rep.
27:33
And I will tell you that
27:36
who's the French guy?
27:38
Willie George was very mean
27:42
to me at Rogue when I was
27:43
no repping him on his front
27:45
rack position for kettlebell thrusters.
27:47
He was not nice at all.
27:49
And that was in 2019.
27:51
And I have not gotten over that yet.
27:53
I still don't like him.
27:55
Just saying.
27:56
Yeah,
27:57
the best mover I ever judged was Saxon.
27:59
Yeah, I would imagine he's good.
28:01
And then I got in a really
28:02
big fight almost with Joey Toto.
28:04
I think I've told this story
28:05
before at Granite Games
28:06
where he was on a team and
28:08
one of his teammates...
28:09
had to drop the sandbag and
28:10
like go to the end of the thing.
28:11
But I stopped her in the
28:13
middle of the run and made
28:14
like to make her move the sandbag,
28:15
but she didn't really have
28:16
to move the sandbag.
28:17
So it was kind of my fault.
28:18
And then everyone was
28:20
screaming and yelling at me
28:21
and it didn't make a
28:21
difference because they won
28:22
and they went to the games anyway.
28:23
But that was a tenuous
28:26
moment for all of us.
28:28
He was very apologetic afterwards,
28:29
but I understand how mad he was.
28:32
I know repped 20 wall balls.
28:37
on the quarterfinal workout just recently.
28:40
Oh no.
28:41
I had to, I had to no rep.
28:43
Yeah.
28:44
It wasn't depth either.
28:45
It was like hitting it on
28:47
the way up versus, you know, you know,
28:51
who does that a lot?
28:52
Um, Noah Olson, he'll,
28:53
he'll admit that wall balls,
28:54
at least as of 2019,
28:55
it was not a strength of his.
28:57
And he,
28:57
I had him at rogue on that wall
28:59
ball rowing box, jump over workout.
29:01
And, um,
29:03
know started out with like
29:04
50 wall balls and I think
29:05
he probably did 60 wall
29:06
balls felt really bad oh
29:09
holly said I've only judged
29:11
little local things but
29:12
it's so fun ha I judged
29:14
stacy tovar once forever
29:15
ago and she's lovely and
29:17
you know why I had to share
29:18
that comment scott's jealous
29:21
but Holly is our stats and data girl.
29:25
And she's the one that does
29:26
all of our chaptering now.
29:27
And I am so appreciative of her.
29:28
Anytime I can tout her,
29:30
she's been killing it these
29:31
last couple of weeks with
29:32
stats and stuff.
29:35
Love, love what she's doing for us.
29:37
I have to hop off,
29:38
but I was going to tell you
29:39
one thing real quick about one,
29:41
the workout I coached today
29:44
was called the wrath of con.
29:49
Oh, no way.
29:52
But it's what Star Trek
29:55
stuff on there anyways.
29:57
But it was,
29:58
it was funny because even the
29:59
athletes were like, Amy,
30:00
this one was meant for you to come.
30:03
It does kind of seem like it
30:04
because it was accumulate a
30:07
hundred air bike calories
30:09
and then accumulate a
30:10
hundred ski calories and
30:11
you can mix it up however you want to.
30:12
So it was very endurance-y like that.
30:16
See, Justin, you did that like that.
30:19
Mayhem, yeah.
30:20
But I'm calling it the wrath
30:22
of Con Porter because I couldn't.
30:24
Con is awesome on the machines.
30:28
Right.
30:28
That's what I'm saying.
30:29
It just worked out.
30:31
Yep.
30:33
All right.
30:34
I saw a workout the other
30:35
day called Star Trek.
30:36
Peace out.
30:37
Bye, Amy.
30:38
Bye, Amy.
30:40
Back here, someone asked about IF3.
30:42
I am familiar with that.
30:43
It's the International
30:44
Federation of Fitness...
30:48
something or other, but it, um,
30:51
it's the thing that like, uh,
30:52
Norway wins all of the stuff.
30:56
Cause they have national like athletes,
30:57
right.
30:58
That trained for that and
30:59
they get paid to do it.
31:00
Um, Mattel Garness has won it.
31:02
Um,
31:03
Kristen Holta has won it a couple of
31:04
times.
31:06
Um, is the,
31:07
like the U S poster girl for it
31:09
or has been in the past, I think.
31:11
And I think Justin Kotler
31:12
has something to do with it
31:13
as well here in the States.
31:16
But it's grown in those
31:18
countries where fitnessing
31:21
is a national sport.
31:23
They do really well because
31:24
they're actually funded to do it.
31:28
But it is a set regimen.
31:31
It is not unknown and unknowable.
31:33
It is very set in what they do.
31:36
And they have a judging group.
31:40
I did hear that they were
31:41
trying to form a judge.
31:43
They have very standard movements too.
31:44
I think their movements are
31:45
super standardized.
31:47
And so it's like a plug and play.
31:48
There's no, there,
31:49
there isn't much variation in, um,
31:52
in their movements and things.
31:53
So I think that's what they
31:54
were talking about.
31:55
Yeah.
31:55
They have a pretty, I think, um,
31:57
Andrew Sten knows a little bit about it,
31:58
I think.
32:00
Yeah.
32:02
He says they have a judging level system.
32:05
That should be done.
32:07
You get graded as a judge
32:08
and the better you are,
32:09
the higher level judge you are.
32:11
That happens in pro sports
32:13
all over the place.
32:14
And you screw up and you get demoted.
32:16
Right.
32:17
Or you do really well and
32:18
you get to go to the games or, you know,
32:21
in the NFL, if you're,
32:22
if you get graded out as a good referee,
32:23
you're the one doing the Superbowl.
32:27
Yeah.
32:27
So, um, yeah.
32:31
So the one thing on my list
32:33
that we haven't talked
32:34
about is I'm going to be on
32:37
Around the Whiteboard tomorrow.
32:39
Oh, yeah?
32:40
Yeah, I just found out last night.
32:43
Cool.
32:44
I think.
32:45
And so I got to represent
32:48
Clydesdale Media and hopefully win.
32:52
I'm going up against Harriet
32:54
Roberts and Adam Klink.
32:59
Oh, okay.
33:02
So I've, they've never been on the show,
33:05
so I have no,
33:08
I'm just going to be brutal
33:09
and sarcastic and take them out.
33:12
I love it.
33:14
That'll be really fun.
33:16
Yeah.
33:18
We get the questions like a
33:19
little bit ahead of time.
33:20
Okay.
33:22
So I just got them and it's
33:26
going to be interesting.
33:28
Two of them I have like a
33:31
stream of consciousness of
33:32
things I want to say.
33:33
Now I got to get down to 60 seconds.
33:35
The other one,
33:36
like I have no idea where I'm going.
33:39
Oh boy.
33:41
So got to figure that out
33:42
before tomorrow at 3 p.m.
33:44
Eastern time.
33:45
Fun.
33:47
That's super fun.
33:48
Speaking of competition,
33:49
how are you feeling about the draft?
33:51
How are your bears doing?
33:54
All reports,
33:55
people love what the Bears
33:56
have done in the draft.
33:57
They got a good grade?
34:00
Yeah, A-plus from Yahoo.
34:04
They drafted a punter,
34:05
so some people gave him a ding on that,
34:06
but whatever.
34:12
I wanted to talk about,
34:13
have you been able to see Kill Taylor?
34:19
A little bit of it.
34:22
I've listened to Seb on some
34:23
of his podcasts,
34:24
but is Kill Taylor like a
34:25
separate series?
34:27
Yeah.
34:28
So it just started last week.
34:30
Coming off of Taylor versus the world.
34:33
Now they're doing Kill
34:34
Taylor where he comes up with a workout.
34:38
He does it.
34:40
And then you can call in and get a link.
34:44
Sevan sends you the link and
34:46
then you can try to beat Taylor's score.
34:49
If you do, you win $500.
34:55
Now last week, nobody won it.
34:57
So that 500 rolls over.
34:59
So this week it'll be a thousand dollars.
35:02
Okay.
35:02
Does he pick the workouts?
35:04
He does.
35:05
Okay.
35:06
So they're like in his
35:06
wheelhouse for the most part.
35:08
Right.
35:08
Because you want to be a challenge.
35:11
Right.
35:13
Um, is he going to semifinals?
35:15
He does.
35:16
Okay.
35:17
Like he's training for semifinals.
35:18
He needs to chill out.
35:21
Well,
35:22
like this workout he did the other
35:23
day was his time was two 50, two minutes.
35:27
So it's, well, yeah,
35:28
I guess for a viewing value too,
35:30
you can't have like a 20
35:31
minute something or other.
35:33
Yeah,
35:33
so the first workout was 10 rope climbs,
35:39
30 kettlebell clean and jerks.
35:42
Hmm, okay.
35:48
Is there a female scaled
35:50
equivalent to beat or do
35:51
you have to actually beat this time?
35:53
Yeah, they do put out a scaled.
35:54
Oh, they do?
35:56
They tried to get Alex Kazan to jump on.
35:58
Mm-hmm.
36:01
Jason Hopper was in the chat
36:04
saying that he was going to
36:05
wait till the money got
36:06
high enough to make it worth it.
36:09
So it'd be really cool if
36:12
like games athletes show showed up.
36:15
Jamie was Jamie was tempted
36:18
to jump on and do it last week.
36:20
She did not.
36:22
I'm I'm sad because she's
36:24
really good at rope climbs.
36:26
It would have been
36:26
kettlebell clean jerks for
36:28
her to get through that.
36:30
Um,
36:31
the one guy came really close and at
36:33
like rep 26 of the clean and jerk,
36:36
he just died and dropped the kettlebells.
36:38
Oh no.
36:40
But it was so fun to watch.
36:42
That's cool.
36:42
Yeah.
36:42
I'll have to look at that.
36:43
Watch.
36:45
Um, and they're doing it this Saturday.
36:47
Okay.
36:49
Um, I think it's like 10 Pacific,
36:51
10 or 10 30 Pacific.
36:53
So what's that?
36:55
Three hours,
36:55
one o'clock in the afternoon on Saturday.
36:57
Okay.
37:00
There is no max ceiling.
37:04
It's just going to keep
37:05
going and going until somebody beats him.
37:13
And, and,
37:13
and Corey's kind of bringing up
37:15
Taylor is mic'd up while
37:16
the other people are going.
37:18
And so he's commentary.
37:20
Yeah.
37:21
And then when the guy was
37:22
really close to beating him,
37:23
he was losing his mind.
37:26
So that's,
37:27
that's the entertainment value of it.
37:30
Yeah, Taylor's entertaining for sure.
37:31
Yeah.
37:33
He looks really good too.
37:34
He's looking lean and mean.
37:35
Yeah,
37:38
I think the pressure of taking on
37:41
Hopper and Colton and
37:43
Dallin really got him in
37:45
the best shape he's ever been.
37:49
It's going to be interesting
37:50
to see how he does at semis.
37:55
Because three of his workouts were top 10.
37:58
Yeah.
38:00
And then the one where he
38:02
blacked out and fell off the box.
38:05
But he's willing to go there.
38:06
That was a freak accident too, though.
38:08
I mean, he would have, you know,
38:10
had that not happened,
38:11
he would have been fine.
38:13
I said, what I think happened is, right,
38:16
he doesn't have the natural
38:17
skill set of Jason Hopper
38:19
or Dallin Pepper.
38:21
But his work ethic is so crazy.
38:23
Mm-hmm.
38:24
And he's willing to push
38:25
himself to that dark spot.
38:27
Yeah.
38:27
He can get there and stay there.
38:28
Three workouts of doing that
38:30
to compete with them.
38:32
His body was just done on workout four.
38:36
So it'll be interesting in
38:37
the semifinals when it's
38:38
not like a head to head ish thing.
38:41
And he just has to kind of
38:42
find his pace through the weekend.
38:44
Can he do that?
38:46
And it'd be, it'd be cool if he,
38:50
he made it to the games.
38:51
So cool.
38:53
because he has made it to
38:54
last chance qualifier
38:55
before he's been really close.
38:59
Well,
38:59
and he would argue that he's probably
39:00
fitter now than he's been ever been.
39:02
So, yeah.
39:04
And I've,
39:05
and him and Colton are willing to
39:07
go to places most athletes
39:08
aren't willing to go to.
39:09
Yeah.
39:10
And it's fun watching that.
39:14
So, uh, and I heard you worked out today.
39:16
I did.
39:18
I worked out today at a CrossFit gym.
39:23
It was great.
39:24
Yeah.
39:25
So, um, I went back to the doctor,
39:26
I got an MRI on my hand.
39:28
There's everything's fine.
39:29
It's just, um,
39:30
I just had some stupid like
39:32
flare up in the joint where
39:34
I have that crystallization
39:35
that could happen at any time,
39:36
whenever they're treated the same way,
39:39
lots of, um, lots of prednisone.
39:41
And, um,
39:41
he finally gave me a cortisone shot, uh,
39:43
last Friday.
39:44
which helped immensely.
39:46
And while I was there,
39:47
I got my tennis elbow
39:49
cortisone shotted for the third time.
39:52
Um, third time's a charm.
39:54
What's that?
39:55
Shot it.
39:56
The technical term.
39:57
Yes.
39:57
Shot.
39:58
I did it.
39:58
He shot it.
39:59
Um,
40:01
what I was really thankful for was that
40:02
he didn't make me come back.
40:04
Right.
40:04
You go to the doctor for
40:05
like a hand thing and it's like, Oh,
40:06
by the way, my elbow,
40:08
So what I did was I knew,
40:09
I know he's like an upper
40:10
extremity doctor.
40:11
And I said, he said, you know,
40:12
you could have this,
40:13
he's calling it pseudo gout
40:15
is my diagnosis.
40:17
So it's like, it shows up like gout,
40:19
but it's not systemic like gout.
40:20
I don't need to go to a
40:21
rheumatologist or anything like that.
40:23
But he said,
40:24
whenever you have some kind of a flare up,
40:27
you know,
40:27
you're going to treat it like
40:28
gout and we're going to, you know,
40:29
give you some steroids or some prednisone,
40:31
whatever,
40:31
and hope it goes away and just
40:33
make sure that you regain
40:33
your range of motion, whatever.
40:36
excuse me and uh I said okay
40:38
well I've had this tennis
40:39
elbow for the last like
40:41
eight months is that my
40:43
pseudo gout or is that just
40:44
tennis elbow and he's like
40:45
well I don't know let's get
40:45
an x-ray so we took an
40:46
x-ray he said definitely
40:49
it's um he he said
40:52
definitely um it's tennis
40:53
elbow he said these are the
40:54
things you need to do um he
40:57
said something really
40:58
interesting to me he said
40:59
that we all operate with
41:00
our hands down like palms
41:02
down all the time um
41:06
when we type, when we're on our phone,
41:08
when we drive everything else, he said,
41:09
whenever you're around and
41:11
you can think about it,
41:12
go palm up or thumb up.
41:14
So like hold your hand like this.
41:15
He's like,
41:16
hold the steering wheel like this,
41:17
like do the things like
41:19
this instead of like that.
41:21
Um, and he said that that should help.
41:25
Um, but this, the injection,
41:26
I got like a little
41:27
reaction from the injection,
41:28
like really sore, really painful,
41:30
you know, for a couple of days, but, um,
41:32
I'm doing all the things now.
41:33
Anyway, long story short,
41:34
went to the gym this morning,
41:36
did a 20 minute AMRAP of 400
41:39
meter run and three rounds
41:40
of Cindy for 20 minutes.
41:43
I know.
41:44
We did Cindy yesterday.
41:45
It's like Murph prep.
41:46
We did yesterday with 200
41:49
meter run every four minutes.
41:52
Okay.
41:52
Yeah.
41:53
Kind of the same thing.
41:55
Yeah.
41:56
Kind of the same thing.
41:57
So, yeah.
41:57
And I hadn't,
41:58
I hadn't held onto a pull-up
41:59
bar in probably two months and
42:02
So, and I'm down in weight.
42:04
I'm like about 10 pounds
42:05
lighter than I was three months ago.
42:08
So you'd think it would have
42:09
been easier for me to do it.
42:10
It felt like I had a vest on.
42:12
It was so hard.
42:14
Brand new spiel bar,
42:15
like rip my hands with like
42:16
the first warmup set.
42:19
Um, and I was like dead last,
42:21
but whatever.
42:22
It was cool.
42:24
And I'm going to go four times a week now.
42:25
That's going to be my new thing.
42:26
Awesome.
42:29
Yeah, I'm on that train.
42:30
But we have some life things
42:33
happening right now where
42:35
my daughter actually has one of our cars.
42:37
Oh, no.
42:38
Okay.
42:38
So we're down to one car.
42:39
Garage workouts.
42:43
Yeah, but I mean,
42:44
Julie only works like a
42:45
mile and a half away.
42:46
I can really take her to
42:48
work and pick her up if I
42:50
don't have things scheduled
42:52
at those times.
42:54
Look who's here.
42:54
I know.
42:56
Hey, buddy.
42:58
Yeah, supinated for life.
42:59
Definitely.
43:00
It's I'm doing all the things.
43:01
The funny thing is,
43:02
I've been to like three
43:02
different doctors for tennis elbow.
43:04
And this is the first time
43:05
that the doctor told me
43:06
that particular thing,
43:08
which has been helpful.
43:09
And I've been consciously doing it.
43:11
And like,
43:11
I feel like it makes a difference.
43:12
Because when you think about it, you know,
43:15
he was like,
43:16
what you're doing your
43:16
workouts not hurting your elbow,
43:18
like you're not
43:19
you know, that's an hour a day.
43:20
And he's like,
43:21
it's another 23 hours of your day.
43:23
It's like making your elbow
43:24
all screwed up.
43:25
He said basically that
43:26
tennis elbows are right at
43:27
passage for 50 year olds.
43:28
So I mean, you're late.
43:31
I, you know,
43:31
I ripped the deck off my house
43:34
and all that were left were
43:35
the posts in the ground.
43:37
So I've been breaking those
43:39
up with a sledgehammer and
43:41
pulling them out the ground.
43:42
Okay.
43:43
And I have over half of them done,
43:45
but my elbow is on fire.
43:49
from swinging the sledgehammer.
43:51
Yeah.
43:52
And that's like a different
43:53
movement pattern.
43:54
In my mind,
43:54
I'm doing double banger from the front.
43:58
Were you cheating or not cheating?
44:00
You can't hook these.
44:01
You have to hit them flush.
44:03
So, um, so yeah,
44:05
I'm trying to swing with
44:06
all my might to get those
44:07
posts to move and break up
44:08
the quick creep that
44:09
they're down in there.
44:11
And it's working.
44:12
It just, it, it is a really good workout.
44:16
But yeah, my elbow is feeling it for sure.
44:18
And I am 54 now, so.
44:21
There you go.
44:24
Christian, I ripped my hands a little bit,
44:26
like the palm of my hands.
44:28
Not completely ripped,
44:29
but the starting of some ripped.
44:34
That's what I am, Tex.
44:36
Walking encyclopedia of CrossFit crap.
44:42
I love it.
44:42
But anyway, so that was at,
44:44
I'll give a shout out to
44:44
CrossFit Equity in Elkton, Maryland.
44:46
That's going to be the gym
44:48
that I work out in now at for a while.
44:51
I still have my gym.
44:53
As of tomorrow,
44:54
it will no longer be a
44:55
CrossFit affiliate.
44:57
Very sad.
44:59
And so today I was on the
45:01
affiliate dashboard
45:02
screenshotting as much as I
45:03
could from the cat
45:05
programming and the
45:07
marketing instructions and
45:08
all that kind of stuff.
45:10
So we'll see how that goes.
45:12
I know.
45:13
Equity CrossFit.
45:14
CrossFit Equity.
45:16
So as an affiliate owner,
45:18
it's hard to get your
45:19
workouts in when you own a
45:20
gym at your gym.
45:22
Well,
45:22
it was easier when I didn't have a
45:24
full-time job because I
45:25
could hang out after class
45:27
and do my workouts.
45:28
But now as soon as class is over,
45:29
like as soon as class is over,
45:31
I got to get in the car and
45:32
come home and work.
45:34
So it makes it difficult.
45:37
Yeah.
45:38
How is the new job?
45:40
It's amazing.
45:41
I love it.
45:42
I would not, I would, you know,
45:44
I would not, um,
45:46
I would be homeless if it
45:47
wasn't for my job.
45:50
Like it's very lucrative and
45:51
it keeps me sane.
45:52
So, um,
45:56
and Christian wants to know why no
45:57
longer affiliated.
45:58
So my business has been
45:59
losing about $2,000 a month
46:00
since it started.
46:03
Um, and I used to have a lot of money, um,
46:06
and all that money's gone
46:07
now because I had to
46:08
subsidize the gym and the
46:10
gym is still underwater and
46:12
we couldn't afford the
46:12
$4,500 affiliate fee.
46:15
So it's a bummer.
46:18
Um, and the new job, um,
46:19
Barry is with a financial
46:21
institution that I don't want to name,
46:22
but, um, I do some governance with, um,
46:26
consumer savings accounts.
46:32
And you've worked in the
46:33
banking industry your whole
46:34
life other than the gym.
46:36
Correct.
46:37
Yeah.
46:38
I've been in banking and in
46:39
compliance and governance
46:41
and marketing for forever.
46:43
It's not V of a. Yeah.
46:48
I can't let my stalker know where I,
46:50
where I work.
46:51
So, so I'm not saying.
46:54
Yeah.
46:56
Well, cool.
46:57
So, um, you know, yes,
46:58
I'm going to get all the, uh,
47:01
you know,
47:02
all the criticism about how
47:03
you're still doing CrossFit
47:04
and nothing's changed and
47:05
you're basically stealing whatever.
47:07
I mean,
47:09
the people in my gym were not
47:12
CrossFitters.
47:13
Like that's not the,
47:14
that is not the badge that they wore.
47:16
Um, everybody is, you know,
47:20
trying to get fitter for longevity.
47:22
And so strength for
47:22
longevity is kind of like
47:24
our new tagline.
47:25
is what we're,
47:26
what we're trying to market to.
47:27
So my, my avatar client is, you know,
47:30
50 plus years old.
47:32
And some,
47:33
some of those people have never
47:34
worked out before.
47:36
So we're just trying to keep
47:38
them fit and going.
47:39
And they, you know,
47:40
when I announced to them
47:41
that we weren't going to be
47:42
an affiliate anymore, they were like,
47:44
I didn't even know we were an affiliate.
47:46
So, you know,
47:47
Catalyst Fitness has always
47:48
been the leading brand, thank goodness.
47:50
So nothing really changes.
47:51
There's a,
47:52
there's a mural I have to cover
47:53
up in the gym and that's about it.
47:56
so with that uh what's going
48:00
on this week is we have the
48:03
weight loss show this
48:03
afternoon 4 0 5 p.m eastern
48:06
time we have uh I'm on
48:10
around the whiteboard
48:11
tomorrow at three o'clock eastern time
48:14
Then Thursday, we have Gabby Spenced,
48:18
our first in the semifinal series,
48:21
and the one that I had
48:22
scheduled that didn't get a penalty.
48:24
So she remains on the docket.
48:27
And I'm in talks with
48:29
Tristan to maybe do another
48:31
chopping up with Tristan on
48:34
Thursday as well.
48:35
We are moving Thursday night
48:37
CrossFit talk to Sunday nights now.
48:39
nice um the crowd on sunday
48:42
night was so awesome and so
48:45
huge um we're gonna keep
48:47
trying to do that then and
48:49
see if that makes more
48:50
sense kind of gives allows
48:52
us to do a recap of the
48:53
week um stuff like that so
48:56
and then sometime this
48:59
afternoon I'm gonna start
49:00
scheduling semi-final
49:02
interviews because the
49:04
leaderboard is closed hopefully
49:09
Everybody but Gabby that I scheduled,
49:11
I had to call and say,
49:12
I guess we need to postpone
49:15
or whatever happens here.
49:16
So, yeah.
49:17
Crazy.
49:23
And then one huge last shout
49:27
out to Thick Boy for
49:29
sponsoring all of our shows.
49:32
He's doing a great job with that.
49:34
And can't wait to get our
49:35
merch out on his website.
49:38
He's making the screens this week,
49:39
so they should be coming soon.
49:42
With that,
49:44
we will talk to everybody next
49:45
time on the Clydesdale Media Roundtable.
49:48
See you guys.
49:50
Bye, guys.