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Sunday Night CrossFit Talk on a Monday - Qualifiers Everywhere!!! · Clydesdale Media Podcast

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what is up we are back and better
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than ever back on sunday night crossfit
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talk on a
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what is going on everybody we're here on
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sunday sunday sunday night crossfit talk
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on a monday what a wild schedule we've
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got going on lately we missed last sunday
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we're missing this sunday and we're going
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to miss next sunday because it's super
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bowl we're not going to compete against
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the super bowl so i think we're going
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to do sunday on a tuesday next week
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But stay tuned for that.
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We'll be back at you.
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But we're not going to compete against the
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Super Bowl.
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That's just silliness.
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So, yeah.
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Tonight we thought we'd hop on,
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get caught up.
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We're only planning on being here for an
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hour.
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I know WOD Prep comes on at eight
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thirty.
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So we'll try to be off by the
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time they start.
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And we'll just give be like the little
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amuse bouche to WOD Prep.
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Nice.
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So how are you guys doing?
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Not bad.
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I'm doing much better than on Sunday.
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I got like food poisoning.
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Oh,
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last week that's why i couldn't go like
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get to the show i was feeling great
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and then so i played a hockey tournament
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last week and on the way home i
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stopped like at a place to get a
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breakfast sandwich and i got it like
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middle of the afternoon like one thirty
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one one forty five maybe i bet like
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i'm not that's just my guess i think
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it must have been sitting out all morning
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so i was not in good um it's
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not good that whole night and then like
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took the next couple days off too just
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to recover
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I saw you laced them up again.
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What was that like?
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It was fun.
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I hadn't played hockey in two and a
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half years, maybe.
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So this was just like a senior A
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woman's hockey tournament.
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I joined with a couple of girls that
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I knew from high school that I used
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to play with in like a provincial league
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back then.
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It was fun.
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Most of the girls played either Canadian
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or like American university,
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but like also haven't played in many
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years.
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So they're not like most of them freshly
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out of university.
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So it was decent hockey.
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It was good.
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We ended up winning the tournament.
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Nice.
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I'd expect nothing less.
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Yeah.
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I couldn't come back and lose.
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Come on now.
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Right.
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When you get asked to come back,
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do you look at the team and say,
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do we have a shot or not?
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Or do you say, like, if you don't,
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you're like, well, no,
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I'll pass this time.
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No, it was more like,
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how many players do we have?
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And then we didn't have that many.
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And I was like, great.
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I don't want many players.
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I want to play.
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Okay.
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Cool.
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That was like my only question.
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I was like, okay,
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where and how many players?
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Awesome.
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It was fun, though.
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Well, Vicky is asking how I'm healing.
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I'm healing very, very well.
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The surgery went super well.
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I have not been on the air since.
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I could not have been on the air
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before tonight.
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It has been a little bit of a
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struggle over the weekend,
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but everything is great.
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When she got in there,
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it actually took her three and a half
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hours to get everything they needed to
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get.
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Yeah.
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It turns out that the scar tissue from
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past stuff was so bad it was actually
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blocking the infection from getting out.
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So there was like a pool of infection
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in both sinuses trapped behind a wall of
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scar tissue.
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So she got rid of all of that
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scar tissue, opened it all up.
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The only thing was on the right side
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up above my eye.
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She could only get part of it because
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there was so much scar tissue.
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It was bleeding and she couldn't see.
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So she could only get about three quarters
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of the infection.
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But at least it's open now and antibiotics
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can get in there to flush out the
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rest.
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And she's confident that'll happen soon.
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But it gets really close to the brain
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up there.
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So you have to be...
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If you can't see,
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you can't go in blind.
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It's just too risky.
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So today I went in and had these
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massive silicone and sponge stints pulled
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out of my nose.
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And it felt like the biggest relief in
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the world.
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Like just a whoosh of pressure coming out
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of my nose.
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And I would...
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would be feeling awesome if i could just
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blow my nose tonight if i could was
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just allowed to blow my nose i would
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feel incredible i can do it lightly on
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thursday okay and then i can't do like
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a full blow until a week from thursday
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okay wow so all i can do now
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is like neti pot rinses
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which I've been doing and they help a
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lot, but it's like a temporary thing.
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So Vicki says, I already sound better.
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So glad it is so much like the
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pressure behind my eyes is gone.
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Like,
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and I've had that for years where like
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gook would come out of my eyes like
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all the time.
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I'm not having any of that anymore.
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So it's been really, really cool.
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I have a follow-up in three weeks.
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And then now I've got to reschedule the
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biopsy that got canceled because of the
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weather earlier in the week, last week.
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That was crazy weather, though.
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It really was.
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My doctor called me Sunday afternoon and
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said, listen, we're canceling.
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There's just no way you're going to make
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it.
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And I don't want you to stay up
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all night waiting to see what the level
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of emergency was.
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So that was really cool of him.
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And he wanted to see how this surgery
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went.
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And then I'm supposed to call him like
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tomorrow or Wednesday to reschedule the
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next thing.
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And he said that his schedule is pretty
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open.
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We can get in within the next week
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or so.
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So,
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but he only does Mondays and president's
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day is in like two weeks.
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So it's either like next week or I
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have to wait a couple of weeks.
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So, so we'll have to see.
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But yeah, anything going on with you,
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Jamie?
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No.
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You didn't play hockey?
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Nope.
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You didn't have any surgeries?
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No new surgeries.
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Saw you squatting.
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Was it today in your story?
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What's that?
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I squatted.
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No, that was Saturday.
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So, like,
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are you going to be good for the
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Open a little bit?
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Like,
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is there still a chance for your season?
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I feel like.
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I mean,
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so it'll totally depend on the movements.
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I feel like if there's nothing crazy
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heavy.
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I mean,
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I feel like I should be fine for
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the Open.
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Typically, I mean.
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But even to make it into the semifinals
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and by yourself a little bit.
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When is the Masters semifinals?
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Like May, like, yeah.
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Yeah.
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Yeah, that'd be, that's the question,
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right?
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Is how heavy are they going to make
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quarterfinals?
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Cause that's kind of quick.
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That's like March, six or something.
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So if you, if we have like a,
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one of those like progressing ones that
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gets up heavy,
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like they've done with like the snatches
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or anything.
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Yeah.
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I mean,
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I think that's going to hurt me,
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but I don't know.
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I, yeah, there's some,
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but it's doing well.
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Yeah.
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I've done.
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We do like open repeat workouts on
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Fridays.
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Um, and I've done,
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I think I've done better in every single
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one that I've done.
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So.
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Fitter with age, fitter with age.
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Um, yeah,
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like redid a twenty two point two,
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which I did not want to do because
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I hate that workout,
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the deadlift bar facing burpee.
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And I, I did.
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Yeah, you did great in that one.
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But I beat my time on that and
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I wasn't sure that I would be able
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to, um,
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Redid eighteen point three.
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The one with so many double unders.
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Yep.
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Hundred double unders like dumbbell snatch
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and overhead squats and bar muscle ups.
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So overhead squat is the one thing I
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have not been able to really do.
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Oh.
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And I was like warming up.
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Have you played with your width of like
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squatting?
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Yeah, a little bit.
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It's honestly my shoulder that is hurting
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me.
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Yeah.
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but uh yeah i'm like nervous to like
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squat snatch i haven't squat snatched and
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and then friday when i was warming up
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i i just stepped out of the bar
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and squat snatched it and i was like
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oh that's the first squat snatch i've done
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i was like we're not gonna do that
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again so i just did it the one
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time um but yeah i don't know overhead
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squat not great squat snatch no uh
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Other than that,
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I feel pretty good about things.
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I just haven't really gotten, like,
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I think I squatted like one.
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That's that's about all I, I don't know.
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Scared to go super heavy.
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Uh, Fergie weekly question, Jamie,
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would you rather do a version of Chad
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with thrusters or cover all of Carol's
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parent teacher meetings this semester?
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Holy smokes.
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So would that be like a thousand
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thrusters?
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Chad.
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That's disgusting.
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I hate thrusters.
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I like this.
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With a passion.
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That'd be horrible.
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Come cover my meetings.
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Come on.
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Yeah, I'd almost rather do that.
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It's not bad.
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Yeah,
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I'm sure your parent-teacher meetings
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aren't bad.
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You probably have some parents you want to
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talk to to get some things aired.
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A lot of times, though,
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the parents that come are from the
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students that are the very highly
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achieving students.
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Of course.
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And the ones I want to see more.
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right are ones that don't come which i
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mean also you that's when you also
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understand that maybe the support at home
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isn't as much or they have a busy
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life working after school they just
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couldn't make it and stuff yeah yeah i
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can see that plenty plenty of reasons why
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they couldn't but uh do you have any
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of your students do in the open
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thing that's tough with schools is is it's
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always during march break yep so um i
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just started a new semester this semester
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like today was the first day of second
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semester for us um in the past i've
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done it but like they missed a week
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and then they just did like week one
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and three yep um
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if it was a different time of the
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year,
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it's also tough because some of them,
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like we're going to be not even a
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month into the class.
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They're not going to know.
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Like if that,
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I don't trust them to go into a,
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like anywhere and just be like, Oh,
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go do this workout that has, you know,
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a snatch.
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Like they don't know what they're doing.
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Um, so like,
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cause I'll like scale it significantly for
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them,
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especially if there would be like a
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Olympic lifting movement or, um,
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something like that.
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So, um,
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No, probably not,
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but depending on what they are,
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we might do versions of stuff.
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We'll see.
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Yeah, just talk about the March break.
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I was just talking to somebody about this.
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I really wish CrossFit would reconsider
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the timing of the Open because... I mean,
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not that that's a huge group of people,
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but you have a huge Masters crowd or
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age group in general, and the parents...
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need to do spring break with their kid
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or, or like,
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you don't want to take that away from
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your child.
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Cause you're like, well,
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we got to do the open this weekend.
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Can't I just,
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and for these quarterfinals or semifinals,
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if, if the open was moved up,
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you'd have a leaderboard to go off of
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instead of doing these invites and all
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this crazy stuff.
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Like if you just move the open up,
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you'd want it.
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What?
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Like in January.
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Yeah.
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I think like, honestly, I think right now,
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like right after MLK the week after,
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Or even like, I mean, yeah,
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I probably would avoid them.
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Okay.
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So I'd probably do it that week after
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maybe two weeks after I do it.
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Like now you're, you're done in,
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you're done next week maybe.
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And then we can.
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But then when are all the,
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when are all the semifinal qualifier
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workouts going to be before the open
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starts?
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They'll start in December during
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Christmas.
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So it makes more damn sense.
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You can be starting.
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Well, NorCal's done.
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There's what?
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There's two of them that already went.
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There's Cope de Sur is happening right
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now.
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There's like three or four.
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I think there's one in Europe, right?
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French Throwdown.
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French Throwdown.
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Yeah.
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Like how many qualifiers are going to be
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done before the season even technically
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starts?
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Like that's crazy.
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It is crazy.
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Almost half of the qualifiers, and Mayhem,
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it's also mostly all invite,
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so almost half of the semifinals,
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their leaderboard are going to be pretty
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close to finalized before the Open even
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starts.
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Well,
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Jamie had a good segue into the season,
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kind of.
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So basically what Jamie was talking about
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is the season structure.
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And this showed up on my Instagram right
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before we went live.
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It is a clip from Dave's week in
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review.
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I want to play it and get your
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reaction because...
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I'm not sure I completely understand it,
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but I think I do.
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And this was actually clipped by the
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barbell spin.
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So to give him credit for this,
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but it's from days we can review clipped
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by the barbell spin.
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And it is right here.
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And, and I even think now there's,
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there's this split of the games that can
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exist that enables the games to, to, um,
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to kind of reach its full potential,
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let's just say,
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that someone should entertain.
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It could have happened under Greg.
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It can't happen now.
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I don't know if it'll happen,
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but I think the games being independent of
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CrossFit,
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but yet still closely aligned with
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CrossFit, could be a good thing for all.
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And it doesn't,
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and I don't even mean that in terms
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of,
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I mean that in terms more of
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functionality from a practical sense for
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the execution of it and the running of
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it okay so my pencil pen or sharpie
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is and i did not put these in
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the thing tonight so we're just going to
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go with audio only uh pencil pen or
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sharpie the games can be run by and
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separate from crossfit as a whole
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Just that just the games can be.
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Yeah.
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Sharpie.
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Yeah.
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Well, yeah.
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I mean, say I'd say Sharpie.
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It totally could be like,
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you could get a T a group that
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like puts on like a loud and live.
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Like you can find a group to run
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events.
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Yeah.
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Someone that wants to invest, run it.
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And should it be, I don't know.
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That's a completely different question,
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but can it be,
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and would they do a better job?
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Uh, Fergie says,
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why is Dave speaking in R two D
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two?
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It wasn't that bad.
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I thought it was bad.
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I love Dave, but man,
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he's trying to hem-haw around what he's
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trying to say so he doesn't say too
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much.
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And so it made it vague,
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and then you're left to this
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interpretation as to what he's saying.
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Now, in all fairness,
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I tried to watch Dave's Week in Review
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before we went live.
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I ran out of time,
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so I did not get the full context
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of this.
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All I have is that Instagram video.
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But I think there's not much more context
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that he gave, though.
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Like he says,
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not necessarily like entirely separated
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from CrossFit,
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but just basically run by or like a.
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So Fergie saying sell it to IMG.
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And that's not what I was getting from
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what Dave was saying.
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What's IMG?
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IMG is a,
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they're a big sports conglomerate.
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They were agents.
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They run like high schools now that train
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like athletes to be like division one
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athletes.
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They're it's.
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And they're all there.
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They have their hand in everything.
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Is it like IMG Academy?
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Yeah.
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That's the entity.
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Yes.
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Okay.
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Okay.
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Okay.
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But they're sports agents.
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They're like five million things all in
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one conglomerate.
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I believe that what he's trying to say
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is don't sell it off.
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Contract it out.
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Well, that's the thing.
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I don't think CrossFit will ever give up
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that faction of CrossFit.
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And I don't know that anybody in their
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right mind would want to buy it or
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contract it out and not
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don't i just i wouldn't take that on
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if it wasn't something i could buy and
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grow like i don't want to be handcuffed
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by anybody if i'm going to be that
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person so like if you're gonna let's say
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purchase the crossfit games and make the
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sport of the fittest on earth you don't
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want to get handcuffed by like okay we're
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running the open we're running this we're
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taking the money from this but you guys
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just do the final product
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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I mean, it makes sense.
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Find the venue set at like, yeah.
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Like, I mean, I, I get,
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you're trying to maybe outsource all that
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work, but I don't, again,
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who in their right mind just wants to
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take on that.
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Dear, dear, dear, dear Bill and Katie.
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Kind of like that idea for a chance
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to grow.
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Here's the problem.
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I've always thought that they should in
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some way split sport from methodology.
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Like the PGA does,
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where the PGA gives the pro golfers the
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rights to their name to be able to
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call it the PGA Tour,
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but the PGA is something different.
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But with the Open, you can't.
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And if you take away the open,
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do you have a season?
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You do,
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but does it mean as much anymore?
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And how much is lost by giving that
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piece of it up?
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A lot.
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The open is the piece that you,
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you cannot.
20:10
It's the, it's the merge.
20:12
Right.
20:13
I understand people always say the open
20:16
doesn't matter because,
20:18
But I feel like the Open matters.
20:20
And there are people who it matters to.
20:22
And it darn well should.
20:23
I mean, it's always mattered to me.
20:25
It should.
20:26
I try to do my best in the
20:27
Open every single year.
20:30
It matters to a lot of people.
20:31
That's why so many people are passionate
20:33
about it when they talk about it.
20:35
Yes.
20:36
It matters to a lot of people.
20:39
And when I first got into this CrossFit
20:41
thing and I saw this avenue where even
20:45
though I was not an elite athlete,
20:46
I could compete at stage one with every
20:50
athlete in the field.
20:52
And then you're like, wow,
20:53
I did this workout.
20:54
Look how fast they went here and look
20:56
how strong they are.
20:59
No other sport gives you that opportunity.
21:03
And so when you rip...
21:06
It's like Siamese twins connected at the
21:09
open.
21:12
And the problem is that's the heart.
21:16
And you can't split it.
21:19
And so you have to pick which direction
21:21
that goes.
21:22
And then I think the other one dies.
21:28
And that's where the crux of everything is
21:32
when you talk about splitting is.
21:35
Yeah, you can split the games off.
21:36
That's a piece of cake.
21:38
Semifinals, quarterfinals,
21:40
all of that you can split off.
21:42
When you get to the Open, no way.
21:45
I just never thought I would hear Dave
21:48
say that.
21:49
I know.
21:50
Because you always talk about,
21:52
or just people in CrossFit,
21:54
how the CrossFit Games is the showcase for
21:59
people to see what the peak of it
22:01
is, but then coming to our affiliates,
22:03
and it helps both teams
22:05
affiliates and the games like help each
22:07
other out i just never thought i would
22:09
hear dave say that like it's a good
22:11
idea to essentially separate the sport
22:14
from i mean i don't know again it
22:16
wasn't super clear but the idea of it
22:19
being run let's say by an external company
22:25
Well,
22:25
I think the more and more that they
22:27
run,
22:27
the semifinals are run by third parties.
22:29
Like, let's be honest, last year,
22:32
every fabric of the season,
22:34
other than the open and the games,
22:36
were run by a third party.
22:39
And the more and more that happens,
22:41
the more it seems realistic that you could
22:44
split off a little more and maybe a
22:46
little more.
22:47
But I think, again,
22:48
we come down to the fact that there's
22:50
one piece you cannot break off.
22:53
and still make it make sense for the
22:59
mass population that are in what we do
23:02
today.
23:06
Because if you make it part of the
23:07
season, then that's fine.
23:11
The season flourishes.
23:14
What does that do to the affiliates?
23:15
That's the one marketing thing that
23:19
CrossFit gave the affiliates.
23:23
And now you're taking that away.
23:25
Okay.
23:25
So WFP.
23:32
I'm taking over the season.
23:37
Their qualifiers, their, their tour,
23:38
their championship.
23:41
What's the difference besides like that,
23:43
that would basically be what it would be.
23:45
Right.
23:46
And right now we don't have anything that
23:48
shows that that's been a success.
23:51
yet no it's too early it's too it's
23:52
too well they're trying to be separate
23:55
that's the problem yeah one thing but
23:58
let's say cross it let go of the
23:59
whole sport side and just focus on the
24:02
education the nutrition a little bit more
24:05
the edge like education part and let i
24:09
guess wfp run the crossfit even though
24:13
they don't call it cross it but we
24:14
all know it's crossfit
24:17
Well,
24:17
for it to split off and be successful,
24:18
they're going to have to let the people
24:20
who take it use the name CrossFit.
24:21
Correct.
24:23
You'd have to.
24:25
And Fergie, correct,
24:27
it's the PGA of America are the club
24:30
coaches,
24:31
and they lease the name PGA to the
24:33
tour so that they can use that to
24:40
advertise their tour.
24:44
Um, Vicki says agreed.
24:46
The open may not matter to people out
24:48
of people.
24:48
I, uh, that says a lot.
24:52
Yeah.
24:56
Uh,
24:56
Fergie says IMG is very good at TV
24:58
rights deals and running competitions,
25:01
which would be huge getting back proper TV
25:05
rights.
25:08
It's part of what we're missing.
25:12
Yeah.
25:12
It'd be nice to get to a point
25:13
where people were seeking CrossFit to fill
25:16
out their schedule as opposed to schedule
25:19
it's CrossFit seeking out a TV entity to
25:22
carry them.
25:22
Yeah.
25:23
Right.
25:25
Those are two big differences in
25:28
successful sports.
25:32
So I just saw that.
25:34
I thought it was a good discussion topic.
25:35
I wanted to have that real quick.
25:38
Um,
25:40
And hopefully we'll get more clarification
25:41
from Dave as we go on.
25:44
I am going to skip ahead because the
25:46
other thing he talked about and was talked
25:48
about on the Savant show with James Hobart
25:50
today was the level four is going live
25:53
this week.
25:54
The level four is going live to HQ
25:57
and staff members on Wednesday with a
26:00
limited amount available to them.
26:02
And then on Thursday,
26:04
wide open for people to sign up for
26:06
the level four.
26:09
It's like a virtual,
26:10
like basically you're going to zoom your,
26:14
like a class that you would coach and
26:16
then you'd get like evaluated and
26:18
feedback.
26:19
And I don't know that I don't remember
26:21
everything else that was a part of it,
26:22
but it wasn't a zoom.
26:25
You actually record the whole class.
26:28
You do it.
26:29
You send that off to your mentor.
26:31
You're assigned a mentor.
26:33
You send it off to your mentor.
26:35
They give you feedback.
26:36
You then do it again and see how
26:40
much you improve the second time.
26:42
And then you get judged on that second
26:45
attempt.
26:50
Yeah, because like the initial one,
26:51
they could only do it in certain locations
26:53
that they needed their staff.
26:54
So it just wasn't.
26:56
scalable to like worldwide getting a bunch
26:59
of people to have their level fours.
27:00
So I think that's a great use of
27:03
technology.
27:05
Um, and to,
27:06
to assess a full class in the comfort
27:08
of your gym with real live people,
27:12
I think is really awesome.
27:15
Just could be, I mean,
27:16
depending on the layout of, of a gym,
27:18
like maybe they need someone to actually
27:20
like go around and filming versus just a
27:22
stationary camera.
27:24
Yeah.
27:25
Agreed.
27:26
I'm sure they're going to have to knock
27:28
that rust off as they move forward.
27:33
So, um, Carol, go ahead.
27:37
Do you know if like they send you
27:40
a workout that you need to coach or
27:42
is it like,
27:43
whatever you just do your Tuesday program,
27:44
whatever it was.
27:47
Probably just your affiliate programming.
27:50
Do you think it has to be cap?
27:52
I don't know.
27:53
Like you're like,
27:53
just like your regular class.
27:55
I feel like that's,
27:58
There's no requirement that you do cap.
28:00
I mean, I don't, I understand that,
28:01
but like you could pick the most cherry
28:06
workout to like,
28:08
if you picked a cherry workout and there
28:11
may be some stipulations,
28:12
like there has to be instruction.
28:14
There has to be certain things.
28:17
You have to have a weightlifting movement.
28:19
You have to have these elements involved
28:22
in it so that we can test everything.
28:23
Yeah.
28:30
Yeah, I don't know that.
28:33
I mean,
28:33
do you have to have more than six
28:35
people in the class?
28:36
I mean, some people's class, you know,
28:38
if you were planning on doing it at
28:40
like I sometimes like my four p.m.,
28:41
somebody has two people.
28:43
And that what if that was the one
28:44
I was planning on doing?
28:46
Again,
28:46
I think that they've been this has been
28:49
they've been trying to release this for so
28:51
long.
28:52
Maybe it's at a point like we get
28:54
it out and we correct that stuff as
28:56
we go.
28:58
Because if one person shows up to the
29:00
class, that shouldn't be judged.
29:02
Right.
29:02
I agree.
29:03
Right.
29:04
Like it just shouldn't,
29:04
but I'm sure those are probably details
29:07
that weren't announced in this quick
29:10
thing.
29:11
So I have another, well, no,
29:16
we have TFX results.
29:18
Okay.
29:19
The pro men and pro women,
29:21
they were won by Bill Leahy and Caitlin
29:24
Sanders.
29:25
Nice.
29:27
They both won TFX.
29:29
We had a photographer there, Joe Valens.
29:33
Huge shout out to him.
29:34
Huge thank you for giving us a presence
29:37
at TFX.
29:38
Great shots.
29:39
Some really cool golden hour stuff with
29:42
the sun that you got to check out.
29:44
He did a great job.
29:45
His feedback to me was that Bill Leahy
29:48
was dominant over the weekend and
29:52
Now this is not the most elite group
29:55
of athletes out there,
29:57
but it's coming off of that Achilles
30:00
injury.
30:00
It's got to give him a lot of
30:02
confidence going forward into the season.
30:07
Yeah.
30:07
Who was second?
30:10
Traven, Traven Benton.
30:11
Yeah.
30:11
Yeah.
30:14
It's Traven like Raven.
30:16
It is.
30:17
Yeah.
30:17
He corrects me every time.
30:18
Really?
30:19
Yeah.
30:20
Traven.
30:20
Okay.
30:22
Traven Benton.
30:24
And that's how he says it.
30:25
He says it's Traven like Raven.
30:26
Good to know.
30:31
Yeah.
30:31
So, um, he finished second, um, third,
30:35
I had it up.
30:38
So the top three women were Caitlin
30:40
Sanders, Natalie Thompson,
30:42
and Olivia Geishart.
30:44
Yep.
30:46
The top three men were Bill Leahy,
30:50
Traven Benton, and Ilya Moskalenko.
30:54
The really heavy lifter.
30:56
Yeah.
30:56
Yep.
30:57
The one who lifted more than he was
30:58
supposed to at NorCal.
30:59
Yeah.
31:01
That's good.
31:02
That started the whole thing.
31:05
Yeah, exactly.
31:05
It's a decent field.
31:06
Yeah.
31:08
Good old Travis Williams came in fifth.
31:10
Wow.
31:13
He's lost a lot of weight.
31:14
Oh, has he trimmed back up?
31:16
Dude,
31:17
that guy goes up and down more than
31:19
a roller coaster at the amusement park.
31:24
I can relate a lot to him.
31:28
Love Travis.
31:31
So those were your podium finishers.
31:34
Of note, Chase took third,
31:38
second in the forty to forty four.
31:40
Yep.
31:41
Um, so yeah,
31:42
I know like John Young had a team.
31:44
Jenny was there with like her gym had
31:47
eight or nine teams at TF.
31:50
That's what an,
31:52
what a participation from a gym.
31:54
Yeah.
31:55
That's really cool that they get from
31:57
Texas area.
31:58
Yeah, they are.
31:59
Yeah.
31:59
Yeah.
32:00
CrossFit overtake.
32:01
So where, um, I can't, yeah.
32:05
Yeah.
32:10
Uh, yeah.
32:11
So they had a ton.
32:12
Then they're,
32:13
they had a teenager when the team
32:15
division, they were, they were on fire.
32:18
That's cool.
32:19
And I loved,
32:20
I loved the obstacle course with the big
32:22
circle hay bales.
32:25
I don't know if anybody saw it.
32:26
I didn't see it.
32:26
You know,
32:27
with the circle hay bales you see in
32:28
the field,
32:29
they roll it instead of square it.
32:32
They had them on their side, three high.
32:36
Like a pyramid.
32:37
And you had to jump the first one
32:39
to the second one to the third one
32:40
and then down the other side.
32:42
Oh, wow.
32:42
During the obstacle course.
32:45
Wow.
32:45
And they had a lot of, like,
32:46
wooden obstacles as well, reminiscent of,
32:50
uh, seventeen and eighteen at the games.
32:52
Oh, cool.
32:55
I heard it was kind of chilly there.
32:58
Uh, it was really cold.
33:00
Really cold from every,
33:02
everybody I talked to.
33:03
Yeah, the year I went,
33:04
it was cold and there was stuff outside
33:05
like that too.
33:07
It was cold when I went and it
33:08
was sixty,
33:09
but the wind is so bad there.
33:13
And it was not sixty,
33:14
it was like twenty-eight, thirty.
33:16
Alright, next pencil, pen, or sharpie.
33:24
Pencil, pen, or sharpie,
33:25
James Hobart should be the media voice for
33:28
CrossFit HQ.
33:32
as opposed to who would be that voice
33:34
right now would it be denise i don't
33:37
know tell me or would you say it'd
33:40
be like chase or like who do you
33:42
feel like it is right now that's i
33:45
i would say i don't know i mean
33:55
I don't know, maybe Penn.
33:56
I really like James.
33:58
I enjoy listening to him talk.
34:00
I think he's great.
34:05
I don't know.
34:05
I don't know who would be better.
34:08
What part of the affiliate side,
34:12
like the CrossFit stuff,
34:13
or are you talking about the sports side?
34:15
Because I think that in the sports side,
34:18
there's other voices that I guess I'm more
34:20
used to.
34:22
So I would say pencil on the sports
34:23
side, even though he's crossing.
34:26
I'm leaving it open on purpose for you
34:29
to say how you feel.
34:30
I enjoy watching his podcast,
34:32
like the CrossFit one.
34:34
I watch it quite often.
34:37
Yeah,
34:37
I feel like Dave is kind of the
34:41
sports side media voice.
34:43
I don't know that he should be.
34:47
I don't know that James would be the
34:50
person for that, though.
34:55
Here's why I asked the question.
34:57
So he was on Savant today.
34:59
He is very measured in the way he
35:00
talks.
35:01
He's very, very articulate,
35:03
very calm the whole time he talks.
35:08
Truly,
35:09
that should be who is speaking for like
35:12
a big entity like CrossFit.
35:14
And I'm not saying he should be the
35:15
only one,
35:16
but he should be considered to be one
35:18
of the faces of CrossFit that speak.
35:21
Here's my problem with the way it exists
35:23
now, is there is nobody.
35:25
It's just scattershot of whoever has the
35:29
mic at the time.
35:30
And Dave, who runs and programs the games,
35:34
probably should not be,
35:35
in addition to that,
35:36
the voice of
35:37
Right.
35:38
Because he can't be measured because a lot
35:40
of the things talked about are about his
35:42
programming or the way he ran something.
35:46
Right.
35:47
And he probably shouldn't be the,
35:48
there should be somebody talking about the
35:51
bigger picture instead of the finite
35:54
detail of everything.
35:57
And I'm not saying James should be the
35:58
only one.
35:59
I'm saying there are probably other ones
36:01
that are very good at that as well.
36:03
But right now, they have nobody.
36:05
They have nobody designated to kind of
36:07
just be that calm voice that comes out
36:09
and says...
36:11
I understand what you're saying about two
36:13
thousand thirteen.
36:14
I was there.
36:15
But we're in twenty twenty two and we
36:17
can't do it that way anymore.
36:18
Right.
36:18
Like James has that breadth of experience
36:23
and knowledge to be able to speak to
36:26
the entire history of CrossFit in a way
36:30
that people will understand both new and
36:33
old.
36:36
Yeah, I mean,
36:37
I don't I you know this.
36:39
I haven't really ever loved hearing Don
36:41
Paul speak.
36:42
I don't like corporate speak.
36:43
I don't want somebody like that who's
36:44
going to lead us.
36:47
And in that sense,
36:48
I don't think James is that per se,
36:51
but he is for my liking for like
36:55
the sport side.
36:56
I think he's too measured.
36:58
I want somebody a little more passionate.
37:01
I'm not saying only voice.
37:02
I'm saying like, yeah, yeah.
37:03
I don't want information.
37:05
Yeah.
37:06
Like you need someone measured.
37:08
You don't need someone that's going to get
37:10
all pissed off about this or that and
37:12
just get wrapped up in one element of
37:16
it.
37:16
Right.
37:16
You want a thirty thousand foot approach
37:20
that's measured and makes sense.
37:23
So we all understand it.
37:25
Then you can have other people talk about
37:27
the details at different times.
37:31
I just think right now we get so
37:32
wrapped up in a detail here or there
37:35
that we don't get the full picture of
37:39
the umbrella.
37:42
Yeah.
37:42
If that makes sense.
37:52
James has a weird job position to be
37:53
the voice of CrossFit.
37:54
Feels like his talent is being wasted,
37:56
PMing, training tech,
37:58
but maybe he loves it.
37:59
I don't know.
38:00
Right.
38:00
But a title,
38:01
you can switch a title if you think
38:03
that he should be.
38:04
Maybe you move him to a different job.
38:10
I like that he's getting out there more
38:11
and getting more of a public persona.
38:15
Him hearing today that people see him and
38:18
think he's the AI CrossFit guy,
38:21
that's hilarious.
38:22
I wish that wasn't the case.
38:23
I wish people heard him talk and saw
38:26
him on more platforms and knew who he
38:29
was.
38:34
um she ken's gym is de-affiliating i did
38:37
that's sad sorry to hear that ken um
38:43
anyway i just thought it was a discussion
38:46
point about the whole thing like i just
38:48
am
38:50
I think that CrossFit does a bad job
38:52
of releasing information.
38:54
The one thing that the World Fitness
38:55
Project actually does better is news
38:58
releases that come out.
39:00
Emails.
39:01
Yep.
39:01
You can read the whole context.
39:04
What's that?
39:05
That just comes to the media or to
39:07
everyone?
39:07
It does.
39:07
Media.
39:09
But they're using the third-party media to
39:11
then broadcast that out to everybody.
39:15
But you have the full picture and the
39:16
full story in a written document as
39:19
opposed to Dave on a week in review
39:22
that just is answering a question that
39:25
came in.
39:27
And how many questions go unanswered
39:28
because they're just not in that group
39:30
that come in that week or things like
39:32
that.
39:33
I just...
39:35
It's been a miss I've focused on for
39:38
a long time with CrossFit.
39:40
I think they've done a better job in
39:42
the last six to eight months,
39:44
but they're still not to where they need
39:45
to be.
39:50
I agree.
39:54
All right.
39:55
The next thing I want to talk about
39:57
is there's a big story this last week
39:59
about leaks in the French throwdown.
40:00
Yep.
40:02
And I want to give this some context
40:03
before we get into it.
40:05
We're always talking about leaks and how
40:07
leaks are awful for the sport.
40:09
And there's part of the unknown that gets
40:11
revealed when there are leaks.
40:13
Another story that came out in the last
40:15
five days has been that the Pro Football
40:18
Hall of Fame leaked who was getting in
40:20
and who was not getting in the Pro
40:22
Football Hall of Fame.
40:24
That's why we had the Bill Belichick story
40:26
last week.
40:27
That was not supposed to be revealed until
40:29
Super Bowl weekend.
40:31
That was leaked last week.
40:33
So are we...
40:37
Until I kind of put two and two
40:38
together, I was like,
40:39
CrossFit is terrible at leaks and other
40:41
sports are great at it.
40:43
Well, maybe they're not.
40:44
All these insiders have leaked information
40:47
left and right in every sport that we
40:49
watch.
40:52
Are we just part of this big systemic
40:55
issue that is much bigger than CrossFit
40:57
itself?
40:59
Yes.
41:01
Okay,
41:01
but our whole sport is on the unknown.
41:04
That's true.
41:06
Like,
41:08
to get a leak of someone that's getting
41:10
into the Hall of Fame is not the
41:11
same thing as the leak to a workout
41:13
for a qualification.
41:16
I don't think they're comparable.
41:17
Okay.
41:18
A leak that...
41:21
someone's getting traded from one team to
41:23
another for another individual before the
41:27
players are told that's a big problem.
41:29
That's a problem.
41:34
Yeah, it's a problem for sure.
41:36
And that happens too.
41:38
It would,
41:39
it was just the Belichick thing that kind
41:40
of triggered me to put this in the
41:42
rundown, but the leaks are frustrating.
41:51
They are frustrating.
41:52
And if you saw Lucy's story,
41:54
she went on about it.
41:55
Did you see her story on it?
41:59
I did.
41:59
Yeah, it's frustrating.
42:02
It's happening at every stage of the Open
42:06
have gone leaks, quarters, semifinals,
42:09
game workouts get leaked almost every
42:10
year.
42:12
And it's just, yeah, it's, it's not fair.
42:14
And the more that you have these,
42:16
you know,
42:17
training camp that are programming,
42:19
when you start having leaks like that,
42:20
when it comes from CrossFit,
42:23
it's different.
42:23
I think it hits even harder when it
42:26
comes from training camps that program,
42:27
because then it already doesn't look great
42:31
when a certain camp programs or workout.
42:33
But if there's leaks, then you're like,
42:34
well,
42:35
who knows it inside of their camp and
42:36
whether it's happening or not,
42:37
it's just the perception.
42:41
Yeah,
42:42
I can deal with it from the open
42:45
to through the quarterfinals for sure.
42:48
And maybe even a little bit at semis
42:50
because usually the workouts are released
42:52
ahead of time.
42:53
It's to some degree.
42:56
When it's at the games, it's awful.
42:59
See,
42:59
I think the semifinals is like one of
43:00
the more important ones because it's so
43:02
hard to make it to the games.
43:05
It's so competitive.
43:06
Getting that edge in front is huge.
43:12
Once you make it to the games,
43:13
I mean, for me anyways, big job's done.
43:19
Now it's like in my position at the
43:21
games.
43:21
I'm not going for a podium,
43:24
top ten even.
43:26
It's like making it so that semifinal is
43:30
very important that there's no leaks as
43:31
well.
43:32
Yeah.
43:35
So yeah, it's just frustrating.
43:36
I don't know how to fix it because
43:38
you have people testing workouts.
43:40
You have people looking at people testing
43:42
workouts.
43:48
Yeah, it's... I don't know.
43:49
I don't know how to solve it besides
43:53
taking away the unknown.
43:54
Yeah,
43:55
I think it goes back to splitting off
43:56
into all these factions.
43:58
I think that's a problem.
44:00
I think one person needs to be in
44:02
charge of it.
44:03
They need to...
44:06
I hate the camps.
44:08
This is something I've thought about for a
44:10
while.
44:13
I feel like if we could get back
44:15
to a place where .com was the programming
44:20
that everyone did,
44:24
and it doesn't have to be .com, right?
44:26
That can happen, though.
44:27
I know,
44:28
but imagine there being a global
44:30
leaderboard year-round.
44:33
I think that would make the buy-in to
44:34
the Open even bigger.
44:38
Like,
44:38
if there was one thing that we all
44:39
had to follow,
44:40
and there was one person in charge of
44:42
programming,
44:43
and they programmed the whole season,
44:46
I mean,
44:46
of course it's going to have to get
44:47
out with, like,
44:48
you're going to have to tell somebody at
44:51
the venue and who sets up media-like
44:54
things.
44:54
So there's going to be leaks.
44:56
But I feel like when there's,
44:57
like Kaylin was saying,
44:57
when there's all these different –
45:00
camps and then this camp is programming
45:02
this one and this camp's programming this
45:03
one like things get out way more and
45:06
certain camps have more information yeah
45:12
yeah a leak for a leak it's just
45:14
you're never going to get rid of camps
45:15
you're never going to go back to the
45:16
dot-com days i know it sucks i think
45:19
it would i think it would propel the
45:21
sport i hate i've been doing affiliate
45:23
gathering anything you try to mandate to
45:25
an affiliate they're going to resist yeah
45:29
they bought that business to run it the
45:30
way they want to run it and to
45:33
be told what programming they use or what
45:36
some buy it,
45:38
some open an affiliate so they could
45:39
program themselves.
45:40
Like they don't want to,
45:42
to buy a program.
45:44
So to go back to that, it's ridiculous,
45:48
but in utopia, that'd be awesome.
45:53
Phil says,
45:54
is a leak for a qualifier that bad?
45:56
A semifinal I can understand,
45:57
but for a qualifier,
45:58
I don't see it being that bad.
46:01
I mean,
46:01
ask that to people trying to make it.
46:04
I think any leak at any level just
46:06
shouldn't happen.
46:11
People train all year to get to this
46:13
stage.
46:14
People train all year to be a quarterfinal
46:15
athlete.
46:15
People train all year to be a semifinal
46:17
athlete.
46:18
It's opportunities lost.
46:20
It's sponsorships lost for certain
46:22
athletes to say that they're a semifinal
46:24
athlete.
46:26
I do think it's important that there's no
46:29
leaks.
46:31
And then it's like, oh,
46:31
it's only one workout at the games that
46:33
got leaked.
46:35
When does that stop?
46:39
Eric Mackey says,
46:40
does the testing process need to change
46:42
too many leaks?
46:42
They're all bad, no integrity.
46:45
I think there was a discussion last Friday
46:47
night on the Friday Night CrossFit show
46:49
where JR was posed with the question,
46:53
should you just test elements and not the
46:57
entire workout?
46:58
So nobody knows what the entire workout
47:01
was.
47:02
And you could actually see him take a
47:03
pause like,
47:05
I can see where that would make sense.
47:07
But I also saw the other half of
47:09
him going,
47:10
but I want to know the full testing
47:11
results to make sure it's a good workout.
47:15
So as a programmer,
47:16
and I've never been a programmer,
47:17
so I can't answer this.
47:19
Can you understand that push and pull that
47:21
a programmer would have between those two
47:24
thought process?
47:27
I think they're good enough programmers
47:29
that they can see that.
47:34
You know what's being hit.
47:37
And quite honestly,
47:38
you know the fastest thing.
47:41
per second rate of double-unders and wall
47:43
balls and thrusters.
47:44
And, like, you just write it,
47:46
and this is the absolute fastest.
47:48
Let's add two, three minutes,
47:49
whatever the length... Like,
47:50
let's add for the cap.
47:52
And, like, I mean, I just...
47:54
Yeah.
47:54
People need to study more of the sport.
47:56
Maybe like know the athletes know what
47:58
they're able to do.
47:59
Go watch competitions.
48:00
Go look at how long certain movements take
48:02
them to do.
48:03
Like for the most part,
48:05
people can write a workout down and you
48:07
could predict if you have very good
48:10
experience in programming,
48:11
which a lot of people do,
48:12
how long it would be for the fastest
48:14
people and like around the moderate time
48:18
and then test it yourself.
48:20
Yeah.
48:21
Yeah.
48:22
Exactly.
48:23
In a secret place and not allow people
48:25
to be watching you test it.
48:28
I don't want to be the devil's advocate,
48:30
but haven't we argued on this show that
48:33
there's not enough women testers to make
48:36
sure that the women workouts are as
48:40
programmed as well as the men's?
48:42
Yes,
48:42
but I think you don't necessarily need to
48:44
have a bunch of women test it.
48:45
You need to actually take a look and
48:48
study the woman's field and actually pay
48:49
attention when there's women's workout and
48:51
what they're capable of doing.
48:53
How many legless rope climbs are they able
48:54
to do to the men's field?
48:55
Realistically,
48:56
not just the top three or four girls
48:58
that, you know, most athletes,
49:01
you don't necessarily need to have a
49:03
female tester for every workout.
49:06
You just need to know the game better.
49:10
Like you need to do your study.
49:14
and stop saying that women need to be
49:16
heavier because that's where we keep
49:18
failing at programming all right i think
49:24
we covered all that and i covered what
49:26
they said in the comments um next pencil
49:29
pen or sharpie are there too many online
49:32
qualifiers during the crossfit game season
49:36
yes yes sharpie sharpie
49:41
I would say pencil because they're all
49:43
before the CrossFit game season.
49:45
Oh, just kidding.
49:49
Yeah.
49:50
You have a little point there.
49:51
Yeah.
49:54
It's honestly so hard to know what the
49:56
hell's happening right now.
49:58
I'm like, oh,
49:58
Cope de Sur's on right now.
50:00
I had no idea.
50:01
And then I go look at who signed
50:02
up and there's a bunch of people,
50:04
but no one really of...
50:06
I think I saw Annika maybe on the
50:08
women's side.
50:09
That was a games athlete from last year,
50:11
but I didn't see anyone else.
50:12
I guess I haven't until the fourth,
50:13
but you just don't... There's qualifiers.
50:17
You have to be so in tune of
50:21
what's going on on social media and follow
50:23
all of the accounts too,
50:24
because if you're not following some of
50:25
them, you're missing out that...
50:28
Oh, this qualifier is happening right now.
50:30
It's just confusing.
50:31
It's so confusing.
50:33
My question is,
50:34
we just came off of a season where
50:36
everybody said they tried to all these
50:39
competitions to see how they could hold
50:41
up.
50:44
And we had double digit people withdraw
50:47
from the finals of one league because it
50:50
was too much.
50:53
And our answer coming back the next season
50:55
was, well,
50:56
let's all have our own individual online
50:59
qualifiers.
51:01
You work back to the same damn thing
51:02
we just left.
51:07
Yep.
51:07
Which again,
51:08
that's why we talked about pay the extra
51:11
twenty dollars in the open for that and
51:14
you and move the open up so that
51:17
we can get these scores out and we
51:18
can set up these
51:20
Yeah, and let's say these qualifiers,
51:22
you include open and the two weeks of
51:25
the quarter.
51:26
So they get five workouts because they
51:28
open.
51:28
So it's a more complete test.
51:30
You pay your, I don't know,
51:31
maybe it's fifty bucks that you pay for
51:33
your qualifier of you sign up for whatever
51:35
one during the open slash quarters.
51:38
And then you get to choose whether you
51:40
accept your semifinal spot to that spot
51:42
after.
51:44
Phil says you have to do the qualifier
51:45
before the qualifier,
51:46
the open before the other qualifier,
51:48
the quarters.
51:49
Mm hmm.
51:51
Yeah.
51:52
That's what I,
51:52
I don't even like these invites.
51:54
Like.
51:55
Hate them.
51:57
You gotta do one this year.
51:58
I got one to Del Mar, but like,
52:00
I don't feel like I like it's fair.
52:06
Yeah, it doesn't make sense.
52:07
Because if you didn't do well in quarters,
52:10
you probably don't deserve to be there.
52:12
So it should come out of quarters.
52:14
And just to explain to people, like, oh,
52:15
we do the open, then quarters, then semis.
52:18
Oh, but just kidding.
52:19
Your semifinal spot came from another
52:21
qualifier.
52:22
You don't actually, like, I mean,
52:23
you have to do them,
52:24
but you don't need to fall too,
52:25
too high.
52:26
And if you're really good and we like
52:28
you a lot, you just get invited.
52:30
Like, it's just so confusing.
52:32
You just get invited.
52:35
Sorry.
52:37
Like it would just make more sense.
52:38
You do the open and quarters.
52:40
And then from there,
52:41
you've entered different leaderboards that
52:44
you want to pay for.
52:46
They get their registration money.
52:47
If they want to do a separate one
52:49
for, you know,
52:50
masters or community things,
52:53
they can have their own thing there.
52:54
But for the actual elite path of the
52:58
season, no extra ones.
53:02
After all this,
53:03
let's go back and just have someone do
53:05
it separately now.
53:06
I'm on board for going separate now.
53:07
Yeah.
53:11
One thing I wanted to mention with
53:12
qualifiers, they're all happening now.
53:14
NorCal, a French throwdown.
53:19
All of them are going on now.
53:30
One thing that has stuck out and came
53:31
up in our chat with emphasis was a
53:37
ten K row in an online qualifier.
53:40
Insane.
53:42
When that was announced,
53:44
I thought Carolyn lost her mind.
53:49
And then she was right behind her.
53:51
Well,
53:52
so are they making you connect to the
53:53
rower and send that video in?
53:55
Because who the frick's watching this?
53:58
And like, and if you're not connected,
54:00
if your phone isn't Bluetooth connected to
54:02
see the pace and you could just,
54:06
I mean,
54:07
you can never really like see people
54:08
screen.
54:10
Nobody's watching forty minutes of this.
54:13
Okay, let's go down to the simplest.
54:16
What is this testing that an event needs
54:21
to know for you to qualify for their
54:23
event?
54:26
it's not testing anything that's going to
54:28
matter during that event.
54:29
Because most likely,
54:31
due to time and space,
54:32
they are not going to be able to
54:34
test anything that long in the
54:36
competition.
54:37
So it's not testing anything that matters
54:40
for that competition.
54:43
Yeah.
54:45
Yeah, insane.
54:47
Carolyn,
54:47
is your face just telling the story?
54:48
Well, it's just like, why a tenk?
54:53
Like, that's just so...
54:56
long for a qualifier,
54:59
just for a qualifier.
55:00
Like you could get your results in a
55:02
shorter, in a shorter, um, row.
55:07
And I don't like single modality tests
55:10
anyways.
55:10
Like I,
55:12
I think they had that they had, uh,
55:14
one or max deadlift am i thinking of
55:16
the right comp right now yeah there's
55:18
three single and then there was another
55:20
like event with just lifting it's like
55:23
half of the events were just single
55:25
modality which just is like and like i
55:28
love deadlifting but like a one or max
55:32
deadlift i'm like it's a specialty test
55:35
our crossfit says it's whittling down the
55:37
field i think that was my comment back
55:39
yeah nobody's going to sign up for this
55:41
because nobody wants to do a
55:47
Yep.
55:50
Judge our qualifiers, Hiller.
55:51
We dare you.
55:52
Yeah.
55:56
I think that's exactly... It's Far East.
55:58
Maybe they don't want anybody outside
56:00
their region doing the qualifier.
56:04
Maybe.
56:05
That's one way, I guess, because I feel...
56:07
Yeah.
56:09
All right.
56:09
We're down to four minutes.
56:10
All right.
56:11
Let's hit some quick hitters.
56:13
It looks like open signups are running at
56:15
double last year's numbers steadily as the
56:18
weeks go on.
56:19
So that is phenomenal.
56:21
That's great.
56:22
We're actually giving away a CrossFit open
56:25
registration tonight.
56:27
I have a code.
56:28
All you have to do is go to
56:29
the YouTube video comments section,
56:32
not the chat, the comments section.
56:35
Type in, I'm in.
56:36
You will be put into a randomizer.
56:40
And if you win,
56:41
you'll get the code to sign up for
56:43
the open for free.
56:45
So if it's the twenty dollars holding you
56:47
back, we got you covered.
56:50
All you have to do is say I'm
56:51
in in the comments.
56:53
We will put you in a drawing and
56:55
you will get your registration for free.
57:02
And the numbers are awesome.
57:03
I hope they keep going.
57:05
I hope that's a sign of good things
57:06
to come.
57:08
Let's keep that momentum going.
57:11
Yeah, randomizers are fun, Jodi.
57:16
Cross that's just doing it on purpose.
57:18
All right.
57:20
Announcers for this year's open were
57:22
announced.
57:23
It is going to be Sean, Chase, Bella,
57:29
and Adrian.
57:31
So Sean and Chase, no,
57:35
Sean and Bella are doing first and third.
57:38
Okay.
57:40
Adrian is doing the second and Chase is
57:43
doing all three.
57:46
I thought all of them had two when
57:48
I looked.
57:49
I think Chase is doing all three.
57:52
I don't think so.
57:54
I have it up.
57:56
I thought all of them.
57:58
I'll share my screen.
57:59
Maybe I'm wrong.
58:02
There it is.
58:04
There we go.
58:04
Chase is in all three, Carolyn.
58:07
Chase, Chase, Chase.
58:09
I missed that.
58:11
So, twenty-six-one is Sean, Chase,
58:13
and Bella.
58:14
Twenty-six-two is Chase and Adrian.
58:16
Twenty-six-three is Sean, Chase, Bella.
58:23
Okay.
58:24
So, good to have Sean Woodland back.
58:25
Yes.
58:29
uh love bella so love adrian love chase
58:33
uh it's all good there um i did
58:36
see lex ask if i was registered yet
58:39
i am registered for the open you can
58:43
look at my name when can you start
58:46
working out uh right now i'm not allowed
58:47
to lift over ten pounds okay
58:50
Uh,
58:51
and it's all because so much was done.
58:54
I can't risk breaking a blood vessel.
58:57
So I go back in three weeks,
58:58
which is the first week of the open.
59:00
Yeah.
59:01
We'll find out,
59:02
we'll find out if I can do anything.
59:04
It's not going to be like,
59:07
it's not going to be one of my
59:08
best efforts.
59:08
Let's just say that,
59:09
but I want to support the community I'm
59:11
registering.
59:12
I will try to do every workout, um,
59:15
in some form, fashion or whatever.
59:21
CrossFit says we didn't bring back Tonya
59:23
Wagner.
59:23
We did not.
59:26
I love Tonya Wagner.
59:27
I miss those old days,
59:28
but we all miss the old days.
59:31
The old days are the old days because
59:32
they were fun.
59:37
What else do we have?
59:40
We have Boys Interrupt in Alaska.
59:42
That's been touched on a ton.
59:43
We touched on them at the ranch last
59:45
week.
59:46
They did a whole bunch of stuff in
59:47
Alaska.
59:48
The one thing that I did hear them
59:50
say that I loved is they went to
59:52
these affiliates,
59:53
and what they have found is a lot
59:55
of the parents that have been doing
59:57
CrossFit for ten years,
59:58
their kids are now doing CrossFit,
1:00:01
and they're awesome movers.
1:00:03
That's awesome.
1:00:04
And they said that on last week's Boys
1:00:06
Interrupted.
1:00:07
And I thought that was such a cool
1:00:09
observation.
1:00:10
That the parents who have been doing
1:00:12
CrossFit for ten years are training their
1:00:15
kids to move great.
1:00:18
And isn't that what it's all about?
1:00:22
And for these four elite athletes to see
1:00:26
that and comment on that,
1:00:28
I thought that was really cool.
1:00:32
So my overall,
1:00:35
we'll talk about this more next week
1:00:37
probably,
1:00:37
but I love what CrossFit did with them
1:00:40
and took a media team with them on
1:00:42
all these adventures, right?
1:00:44
I think that is awesome.
1:00:45
I'm ready for CrossFit to expand out and
1:00:48
I'm hoping other athletes see this and
1:00:51
show it pays to be yourself in front
1:00:54
of the camera.
1:00:55
And to,
1:00:56
to let people in because it's going to
1:00:58
pay off in huge amounts,
1:01:01
not only for you, but for the community.
1:01:04
And then the more the community buys in,
1:01:06
then the more they buy back into you.
1:01:08
Like it's this loop that just goes and
1:01:10
goes.
1:01:11
If you just,
1:01:15
if you just go and do that.
1:01:17
Vicky said,
1:01:18
James is high rocks this weekend.
1:01:19
Everybody like so many people this
1:01:22
weekend.
1:01:23
It's crazy how they all have tickets to
1:01:26
the High Rocks.
1:01:27
That's what I'm saying.
1:01:28
They're all sold out every time people try
1:01:30
to go to them.
1:01:31
But all of these games athletes just have,
1:01:35
and even other athletes,
1:01:36
their whole group just have tickets to
1:01:39
every single High Rocks that there is.
1:01:40
It's crazy.
1:01:41
I've said that on here.
1:01:42
They have good connections.
1:01:45
Yeah, I don't know how.
1:01:46
James was trying to break an hour.
1:01:49
I don't think he did it.
1:01:50
One-on-one or something.
1:01:52
Yeah,
1:01:52
it was like one-on-one with a two-minute
1:01:54
penalty.
1:01:54
I think it moved him to like one-on-three,
1:01:56
thirty-eight or something, I want to say.
1:01:59
Emily Rolfe won two pairs competitions,
1:02:02
both male-female, female-female.
1:02:05
Fifty-six or something?
1:02:07
Yeah,
1:02:07
and then fifty-nine with breath roll.
1:02:11
That's awesome.
1:02:12
I would love to see Emily try it
1:02:14
solo and train for it.
1:02:16
yeah she would be one of our best
1:02:18
crossfitters to try to to like excel in
1:02:24
it yeah it's stuff oh yeah yeah it
1:02:28
would be fun to see that for sure
1:02:30
but i i saw carolyn stanley i saw
1:02:33
the whole proven all proven oh yeah didn't
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uh sydney wells do it with uh daniel
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and bailey yes yeah
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Like, so those, those partnerships,
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that's what like CrossFit should be diving
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into.
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Bailey has millions of followers, right?
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And she did a high rocks with a
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CrossFit athlete.
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We CrossFit should have been there to
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document some of that.
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That was like,
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would have it filmed it and they're going
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to do something with it.
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I'm sure high rocks posted something with
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them.
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Do something in conjunction with every
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like,
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But like High Rocks America,
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whatever their Instagram is,
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had done a little reel of those two.
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Yeah.
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Of course,
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they're smart because Daniel and Bailey
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has a butt ton of followers.
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How'd they do?
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Do you know their time?
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One oh nine, I think something.
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All right.
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Yeah.
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Dana said she is not the runner.
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Right.
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Right.
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I mean,
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the fact that she was able to keep
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up and pull that off,
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I think is excellent.
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Uh, CrossFit says the Sydney DLB thing,
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uh, has a ton of views.
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Of course it does.
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Right.
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Like everything she does to us.
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Yep.
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Uh,
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she's been doing CrossFit adjacent for a
1:03:52
long time too.
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She has been, I mean,
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she used to do a ton of stuff
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with Brooke, Brooke.
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Yes.
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And they would get tons of views back
1:03:59
in the day.
1:03:59
Yeah.
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Um, all right.
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And that's about it.
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Cause we already talked about the level
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four signups.
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Yep.
1:04:10
Yeah.
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The high rocks thing was insane.
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Yeah.
1:04:13
It's still like,
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I think it's a cool event, like,
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like a five K.
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And I said this to you guys in
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the chat.
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And I think it's awesome that people sign
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up for it,
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but it's like a one day thing that
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you can just go and do and be
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done.
1:04:28
It's not going to be like a CrossFit
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game season.
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It's not a competitor to the game season.
1:04:35
It's a form of CrossFit done as an
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event.
1:04:38
And we've talked about on this show that
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we think CrossFit should embrace that and
1:04:42
do maybe something even more CrossFit-y as
1:04:45
something like that.
1:04:48
Yeah.
1:04:49
To introduce CrossFit to a more mass
1:04:51
population.
1:04:51
With less running.
1:04:56
Right.
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Right.
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It is like... Yeah,
1:05:03
it's basically the newer version.
1:05:07
It grabs everyone from the fitness space.
1:05:10
My gym used to do Spartans and Tough
1:05:12
Mudders and all that stuff back in the
1:05:15
day.
1:05:16
It's the same thing.
1:05:17
Gyms are now just doing High Rocks as
1:05:19
their goal thing to...
1:05:25
Whenever winter came,
1:05:26
you wanted to get better at running
1:05:27
because you couldn't run outside a ton.
1:05:29
So you had to figure out ways to
1:05:30
get your cardio up.
1:05:32
And so you had to have a goal
1:05:33
in mind.
1:05:33
And that's why you signed up for these
1:05:35
things to get your running better.
1:05:39
There it is.
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Would it be that different to have a
1:05:45
high rocks at the games like a cyclocross
1:05:47
race?
1:05:49
I think it would be cool to have
1:05:50
a high rocks race as one of the
1:05:51
events.
1:05:52
I don't think it will ever, ever happen.
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No.
1:05:59
Instead of just a straight run or a
1:06:02
swim or something,
1:06:03
have something like a High Rocks, which...
1:06:06
is a little bit of run,
1:06:07
a lot of running with a little bit
1:06:08
of stuff in the middle.
1:06:09
I think it just takes away a lot
1:06:11
of movements.
1:06:12
That's the other thing for the rest of
1:06:14
the weekend.
1:06:14
Cause ideally, I mean,
1:06:16
we've seen them repeat movements or
1:06:18
machines on multiple events,
1:06:20
but ideally you don't want to be repeating
1:06:23
too much of the,
1:06:25
of the movements over the weekend,
1:06:27
like your ski row.
1:06:30
I mean, you'll see running multiple times,
1:06:33
but there's your burpees and,
1:06:35
some pattern of lunging wall balls are
1:06:37
out.
1:06:38
I mean, it's still plenty on the table,
1:06:40
especially at the games,
1:06:41
but it would be cool to see that.
1:06:44
And then you come back with a strength
1:06:47
test and then some upper body pulling
1:06:50
because there's not much pulling in the
1:06:51
high rocks would be cool.
1:06:55
Um,
1:06:55
they need to be tougher on movement
1:06:56
standards though.
1:06:57
It's a race and a competition at the
1:06:58
end of the day.
1:06:59
Yeah.
1:07:00
But Tough Mudder wasn't tough on standing
1:07:02
on standards either.
1:07:03
Warrior dashes.
1:07:04
None of those were tough on the standards.
1:07:07
There wasn't a judge there to make sure
1:07:09
that you like went over the obstacle just
1:07:11
right.
1:07:12
Yeah.
1:07:13
Um, it's yeah,
1:07:16
it's just a bad look anyway.
1:07:21
Um,
1:07:24
Last thing and then we're going to go.
1:07:25
It takes away what sleds, lunges,
1:07:28
wall balls, burpees.
1:07:28
You could redo the ski row and run.
1:07:31
No redoing the ski row.
1:07:32
We can redo the run.
1:07:33
We don't need more machines.
1:07:36
Like I wouldn't want to see another ski
1:07:37
in another workout or another row.
1:07:38
You could use a bike.
1:07:41
You can run more.
1:07:43
Different distances of running though.
1:07:46
Yeah.
1:07:46
All right, guys.
1:07:47
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1:07:51
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1:07:59
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