Latest / Clydesdale Media Podcast / Lunch with the Clydesdale - The CrossFit Open Registration Starts Today!!!

Transcript

Lunch with the Clydesdale - The CrossFit Open Registration Starts Today!!! · Clydesdale Media Podcast

• 0:03
  Registration for the twenty twenty six
• 0:05
  CrossFit Open is live.
• 0:18
  I love the chase and the hunt and
• 0:20
  I set the pace when I'm running.
• 0:21
  I always take what I want and I
• 0:23
  always give it one hundred.
• 0:24
  Don't need a bank, no I'm funded.
• 0:26
  Play the game like it's nothing.
• 0:27
  I'm always thankful for something.
• 0:29
  Don't take for granted, stay humble.
• 0:30
  Now wake up!
• 0:32
  It's time to look at the enemy.
• 0:34
  Look in the mirror if he is no
• 0:36
  friend to me.
• 0:37
  It's not working out,
• 0:38
  maybe it's the chemistry.
• 0:40
  It's time to break up so I can
• 0:42
  make a better man.
• 0:47
  It's lunch time.
• 0:49
  What is going on, everybody?
• 0:51
  Welcome to Lunch with the Clydesdale.
• 0:53
  Good to see everyone here today.
• 0:58
  Apparently,
• 0:59
  Corey forgot he had an appointment today.
• 1:01
  He said he was going to be here.
• 1:02
  That's why he's not.
• 1:04
  So we'll miss him,
• 1:05
  but we'll go ahead and get this show
• 1:07
  on the road.
• 1:09
  Today is the official registration sign-up
• 1:13
  day of the first day of the sign-ups
• 1:15
  for the
• 1:19
  And it is today.
• 1:21
  It was at noon Eastern time today.
• 1:24
  And I actually got on this morning tried
• 1:27
  to sign up before the show was not
• 1:31
  able to little nitpick if you say it's
• 1:34
  going to be open on the fourteenth.
• 1:36
  probably should have done it like at
• 1:38
  midnight.
• 1:40
  Um, so that when people got up,
• 1:41
  they weren't discouraged when they tried
• 1:43
  to log on and sign up and they
• 1:45
  couldn't, uh, I guess it's live now.
• 1:47
  They went live at noon.
• 1:49
  Um, so yeah, but other than that,
• 1:53
  we are live people.
• 1:53
  Hopefully, um,
• 1:57
  uh hopefully we can get a higher sign
• 2:01
  up this year than last year uh it's
• 2:05
  the best it's the best twenty dollars you
• 2:06
  can spend truly truly is uh i've had
• 2:10
  so many fun times during the open and
• 2:13
  it's worth every penny of that twenty
• 2:14
  dollars um uh jay birch i don't care
• 2:21
  about the other side of the world
• 2:25
  I'm just – CrossFit is really an American
• 2:28
  sport right now.
• 2:32
  Let the WFP focus on Europe and the
• 2:34
  world.
• 2:36
  I know that there are participants from
• 2:38
  around the world,
• 2:38
  and I'm not discrediting that.
• 2:41
  But we are centric to the U.S.
• 2:44
  That is where the most affiliates are.
• 2:46
  That's where the most participants in the
• 2:47
  Open are.
• 2:49
  And so a lot of the marketing should
• 2:50
  be geared to that, in my opinion.
• 2:53
  So –
• 2:56
  So there we are.
• 2:58
  He's cheating.
• 2:58
  He was on the Savant podcast chat.
• 3:01
  Yeah,
• 3:01
  but you can do that from the waiting
• 3:03
  room with a doctor.
• 3:03
  I've done it in the past.
• 3:06
  Just saying.
• 3:08
  We've got Lana already signed up.
• 3:11
  We've got Joseph Ramirez already signed
• 3:17
  up.
• 3:19
  And he's here.
• 3:20
  I am.
• 3:21
  Sorry, I'm late.
• 3:23
  Hopefully your eyes aren't dilated and you
• 3:25
  can actually see.
• 3:26
  They were.
• 3:28
  So fun fact, I found out this morning,
• 3:31
  you can have your eyes undilated after
• 3:33
  they dilate them.
• 3:36
  Did not know that before.
• 3:37
  So it had been...
• 3:41
  Two years since they actually dilated my
• 3:42
  eyes.
• 3:43
  And so, so fun fact,
• 3:46
  my eye doctor is a very good friend
• 3:47
  of mine.
• 3:48
  I played soccer with him for six,
• 3:50
  seven years, something like that.
• 3:52
  Um, so Dave was like, uh,
• 3:54
  I need to dilate your eyes.
• 3:55
  I was like, whatever, let's go.
• 3:57
  And I,
• 3:57
  there's this sign up on the wall says,
• 4:01
  ask your eye doctor about undilating your
• 4:03
  eyes.
• 4:04
  And I was like, oh, okay.
• 4:05
  I didn't even know that was an option.
• 4:09
  It is, it works.
• 4:13
  Um, yeah, I didn't know that.
• 4:15
  I always struggled to get my sunglasses on
• 4:18
  to get to the car.
• 4:20
  Um,
• 4:21
  I love the challenge of feel like I'm
• 4:24
  an F one racer coming home with everything
• 4:26
  so big and bright on the way.
• 4:30
  And it never fails that it was cloudy
• 4:32
  when I walked into the office and it
• 4:34
  was beautiful, bright,
• 4:36
  sunshiny day whenever I left.
• 4:38
  So, but it actually works.
• 4:40
  So I'm pretty excited about that.
• 4:43
  Cool.
• 4:45
  I didn't know.
• 4:51
  There's people chatting.
• 4:52
  I don't know what they're talking about.
• 4:53
  Okay.
• 4:54
  Glad you could be here.
• 4:57
  Open registration is up.
• 4:58
  I tried to sign up this morning.
• 4:59
  I couldn't.
• 5:00
  I will sign up now after this show.
• 5:04
  And yeah.
• 5:06
  so that happens today we also have the
• 5:10
  wfp that released their season schedule
• 5:13
  yesterday and lots of cool changes um so
• 5:21
  i i don't want this just to be
• 5:22
  a smear a schmear campaign
• 5:27
  I think they made some relevant changes
• 5:29
  that we've actually discussed on the
• 5:31
  Sunday night show for sure.
• 5:33
  Jamie was a big proponent in using raw
• 5:36
  score throughout the season just because
• 5:39
  it's easier to explain the season then
• 5:42
  because you earn this many points here,
• 5:45
  this many points here.
• 5:46
  They carry over.
• 5:47
  Person with the most points at the end
• 5:49
  wins.
• 5:50
  Way easier to explain than you took first
• 5:53
  here, so here's the points given, blah,
• 5:55
  blah, blah.
• 5:58
  she actually did a full spreadsheet of
• 6:00
  every score raw versus assigned and it
• 6:04
  doesn't even really change the leaderboard
• 6:07
  at all but it just makes it easier
• 6:09
  to understand yeah for people who are used
• 6:12
  to looking at scores in that manner hey
• 6:15
  this is how many points you got yeah
• 6:20
  so that was a good move they did
• 6:24
  not go to the fourth tour stop
• 6:26
  Saw that.
• 6:28
  Sticking with two actual tour stops and a
• 6:31
  finals.
• 6:33
  They changed the fact that pro cards don't
• 6:35
  get an automatic bid to the finals.
• 6:38
  Oh, I missed that part of it.
• 6:39
  Okay.
• 6:40
  So if you were one of the twenty
• 6:42
  pro card holders, unlike last year,
• 6:45
  you could have skipped tour stop one tour
• 6:47
  stop two.
• 6:48
  You still got to go to Copenhagen because
• 6:50
  you had a pro card this year.
• 6:52
  That is not the case.
• 6:54
  So if you don't get it,
• 6:57
  if you are not in the top thirty
• 6:59
  points wise going to the finals,
• 7:01
  you do not get to go regardless of
• 7:03
  pro card or not.
• 7:05
  Good.
• 7:05
  That makes sense.
• 7:08
  They are keeping the participants to
• 7:10
  fifty, but they're all pros this year.
• 7:14
  There is no challenge or division.
• 7:16
  So the fifty that go will all be
• 7:19
  in the same division,
• 7:21
  and you will all compete for the same
• 7:23
  kind of points.
• 7:25
  That's a lot of people.
• 7:26
  It is.
• 7:28
  I'm not a fan of that move.
• 7:32
  I think watching ten heats of an event
• 7:36
  is tough.
• 7:38
  And that's just like what so that you
• 7:41
  the men do ten heat or five.
• 7:43
  Yeah, five heats.
• 7:44
  Women do five heats.
• 7:45
  That's ten heats of the same event.
• 7:47
  That seems a little bit rough.
• 7:50
  It's overkill.
• 7:52
  It's overkill.
• 7:53
  It's watering down the competition at that
• 7:54
  point, in my opinion,
• 7:56
  because you're going to have your top ten,
• 7:58
  fifteen, whatever,
• 7:59
  that are actually fighting for points.
• 8:00
  And it is going to be a bunch
• 8:01
  of other people there.
• 8:04
  Yeah, I think thirty is a good number.
• 8:06
  So and they're they're only taking thirty
• 8:08
  to Copenhagen.
• 8:09
  But tour stops one and two,
• 8:10
  they're doing fifty each.
• 8:14
  I wonder if they are hedging because of
• 8:17
  the withdrawals of last year to make sure
• 8:19
  they have enough participants to backfill
• 8:22
  in case that happens.
• 8:24
  I would say probably a little bit of
• 8:26
  that and a little bit of if somebody
• 8:28
  just shows up and they are holy shit
• 8:31
  fit.
• 8:33
  And instead of just, hey,
• 8:34
  this is the top-thirty,
• 8:35
  this is the top-fifty,
• 8:36
  and we're only taking thirty,
• 8:38
  you give people in that lower part,
• 8:40
  lower half of that,
• 8:41
  a little bit of an opportunity to make
• 8:43
  it to the top-thirty and have their
• 8:45
  opportunity to get to the finals.
• 8:48
  So I still think fifty is a lot.
• 8:49
  So this is the other big switch,
• 8:54
  and that is the twenty with the pro
• 8:56
  card go to tour stop one and two.
• 8:59
  And then there's a qualifier to get in
• 9:02
  to that as well.
• 9:04
  Just like last year.
• 9:05
  So,
• 9:06
  twenty pro card members are automatically
• 9:08
  in tour one and two.
• 9:10
  There's a qualifier to then become the
• 9:12
  other group.
• 9:13
  Plus,
• 9:14
  they've added in and I have this up
• 9:16
  on my screen just to make sure I
• 9:18
  don't get it wrong.
• 9:20
  It'll be a fifty athlete field.
• 9:21
  It'll be comprised of the twenty twenty
• 9:23
  six sign pros.
• 9:25
  Those are the twenty WFP finals finishers.
• 9:31
  That part I don't get yet.
• 9:32
  Yeah, I don't know what that is,
• 9:33
  but okay.
• 9:35
  Up to five invited athletes and a minimum
• 9:40
  of fifteen athletes from the online
• 9:42
  qualifier.
• 9:43
  Hold on,
• 9:44
  let me go check my email to see
• 9:45
  if I got an invite.
• 9:49
  So you got the twenty,
• 9:50
  you got the fifteen from the qualifier.
• 9:52
  That's thirty-five.
• 9:54
  You've got five invitees.
• 9:58
  And you're saying ten people who went to
• 10:00
  Copenhagen get automatic bid to these
• 10:04
  events because they finished?
• 10:09
  So essentially they're saying the ten that
• 10:11
  didn't get a pro card but went and
• 10:13
  finished the finals don't have to do the
• 10:17
  qualifiers this year.
• 10:20
  I'm talking it all out loud because I
• 10:22
  just read this and I,
• 10:23
  that's what it's saying.
• 10:25
  If you finished Copenhagen,
• 10:28
  you don't have to do the qualifier this
• 10:30
  year for any of the events.
• 10:33
  So is that them rewarding the people who
• 10:35
  stuck with them and showed up at
• 10:37
  Copenhagen and saying, Hey,
• 10:38
  thank you for coming.
• 10:39
  You know,
• 10:40
  and if you want to participate again next
• 10:42
  year, you don't have to do the qualifier.
• 10:43
  Yeah.
• 10:49
  I still don't know how I feel about
• 10:50
  that.
• 10:50
  I don't.
• 10:52
  Here's my thing.
• 10:53
  We're doing stuff like that is that now
• 10:55
  you're inviting people.
• 10:56
  You don't know if they're going to
• 10:58
  participate or not.
• 10:59
  You're rewarding for first showing up last
• 11:01
  year and that's cool,
• 11:02
  but you don't know what their fitness
• 11:03
  level is going to look like whenever your
• 11:05
  thing starts.
• 11:08
  That's my problem with just inviting
• 11:10
  people like, oh, you showed up last year,
• 11:11
  cool.
• 11:12
  Maybe you got injured in the meantime.
• 11:14
  Maybe you stopped competing for whatever
• 11:16
  reason.
• 11:16
  You had family, I mean,
• 11:18
  seasons of life type stuff.
• 11:20
  And so now what,
• 11:21
  if those people don't decide to decline,
• 11:25
  Do you just not backfill down that list?
• 11:30
  There's only so many.
• 11:31
  There is no more lists.
• 11:31
  There was only thirty athletes at
• 11:33
  Copenhagen.
• 11:34
  Twenty of them are pro card,
• 11:35
  ten are the other.
• 11:36
  But you would go from the fifteen
• 11:39
  qualifiers to eighteen qualifiers or
• 11:42
  twenty qualifiers.
• 11:45
  Yeah.
• 11:48
  Treadnought actually makes a good point.
• 11:49
  Actual finishes in a live comp are better
• 11:51
  than online qualifiers.
• 11:53
  I agree.
• 11:55
  And then Eric Mackey did correct me.
• 11:57
  This is just for the first tour stop.
• 11:59
  This is how they are filling the first
• 12:01
  tour stop.
• 12:03
  And that's the case that that makes sense
• 12:04
  because then that's just,
• 12:06
  this is how we're going from there.
• 12:07
  And then from tour stop one to two,
• 12:10
  and then the finals,
• 12:11
  we're just going to go on our point
• 12:13
  system.
• 12:13
  And like, if you made it in here,
• 12:14
  cool.
• 12:15
  But from what I saw,
• 12:16
  there was a qualifier for tour stop two
• 12:18
  and another qualifier for the finals that
• 12:21
  I don't understand.
• 12:26
  Sean in Oregon it's like inviting the two
• 12:28
  teams that played in the Super Bowl last
• 12:29
  year the right to go straight to the
• 12:31
  playoffs next year yeah it's I don't know
• 12:40
  what I find interesting is and again I'm
• 12:44
  not intending this to be a smear campaign
• 12:46
  at all we've done enough of that and
• 12:50
  I do think they made some steps in
• 12:51
  the right direction to correct some things
• 12:54
  from last year
• 12:55
  But it seems like, my God,
• 12:59
  you had so many withdrawals last year and
• 13:00
  you're trying to fill a fifty person field
• 13:03
  just seems aggressive.
• 13:07
  And they they tout that they didn't like
• 13:11
  the inconsistency of the game season that
• 13:13
  every year it changed.
• 13:15
  And here we are,
• 13:16
  season two of the WFP,
• 13:18
  some pretty substantial changes.
• 13:21
  I wouldn't say wildly different,
• 13:23
  but definitely substantial changes.
• 13:25
  Yeah.
• 13:26
  Yeah.
• 13:27
  I mean, you got three stops,
• 13:29
  but now your point system is different.
• 13:32
  Your qualification system is different.
• 13:33
  You did away with an entire division in
• 13:36
  the Challenger division.
• 13:38
  So...
• 13:42
  mean can we say wildly different i mean
• 13:44
  i would say that's that's pretty close
• 13:46
  right same basic structure one two three
• 13:50
  and three with three being the final but
• 13:51
  different ways to get there different
• 13:54
  people that you're inviting different like
• 13:57
  you again trying not to repeat myself but
• 14:00
  you just did away with an entire division
• 14:03
  well it's like they said okay we have
• 14:05
  these top end athletes that withdrew last
• 14:07
  year and we don't want to lose them
• 14:08
  forever
• 14:10
  So how can we create loopholes to get
• 14:13
  them back into the mix if they want
• 14:15
  to come back?
• 14:16
  So we add five invitees.
• 14:19
  And then someone in here put Luca rule
• 14:22
  for the ten that finished.
• 14:24
  But while I see what they're saying with
• 14:27
  the Luca rule, I think it's more that,
• 14:30
  hey, all these people dogged us last year,
• 14:32
  and you guys chose to come and compete,
• 14:34
  and we want to reward you for doing
• 14:36
  that.
• 14:37
  Yeah, that's how I'm looking at it.
• 14:38
  Like, hey,
• 14:39
  thanks for coming because y'all showed up,
• 14:41
  you know,
• 14:43
  didn't just blow us off because it was
• 14:45
  Christmas time or whatever.
• 14:48
  If you want to show up,
• 14:49
  you can show up.
• 14:50
  Here's your invitation.
• 14:51
  You don't have to do anything else.
• 14:53
  Right.
• 14:53
  And then if you want Jason Hopper to
• 14:55
  come back and he's willing to,
• 14:57
  you want to have that ability to have
• 14:58
  a wildcard invite.
• 15:00
  So you add that to the mix.
• 15:02
  And there's a big list of people they
• 15:04
  could invite, like Jay Crouch.
• 15:06
  I was just picking a name as an
• 15:07
  example.
• 15:08
  Right, right, right.
• 15:13
  It's an interesting choice.
• 15:14
  I don't know if I necessarily agree with
• 15:16
  it.
• 15:16
  I don't like the...
• 15:20
  whoever it was that said, you know,
• 15:21
  it's like inviting the people who won a
• 15:23
  Super Bowl straight to playoffs last year.
• 15:25
  There's some other competitions that I've
• 15:27
  been a part of that do the same
• 15:28
  thing.
• 15:28
  If you finished on their podium last year,
• 15:31
  you might get an invite.
• 15:32
  And for that particular competition,
• 15:35
  it can knock other people who qualified
• 15:38
  out of a qualifying spot,
• 15:40
  even though those people didn't actually
• 15:41
  do the qualifier.
• 15:43
  And instead of having a list of twenty
• 15:45
  people,
• 15:46
  now you really and truly have a list
• 15:48
  of seventeen or maybe fifteen,
• 15:51
  depending on if you're going to invite
• 15:53
  some other people just randomly.
• 15:55
  Instead of expanding that number and
• 15:56
  going,
• 15:57
  these are twenty people that qualified
• 15:59
  through our qualifier.
• 16:01
  If these other people want to come,
• 16:03
  we're going to go from a twenty man
• 16:04
  field to a twenty three man field or
• 16:07
  twenty five, whatever the case may be.
• 16:08
  And then we're going to invite these other
• 16:10
  we might invite these other people.
• 16:11
  And if they had they say they're coming,
• 16:13
  then we're just going to add to that
• 16:15
  instead of knocking the people down who
• 16:17
  did the qualifier.
• 16:18
  Well,
• 16:19
  I don't think they're knocking the people
• 16:20
  down who did the qualifier because they're
• 16:21
  saying fifteen.
• 16:23
  And then if we'll turn them down for
• 16:25
  the other invitations,
• 16:27
  then they'll grow the qualification field.
• 16:32
  I'm cool with that,
• 16:32
  unlike your experience with MFC last year
• 16:36
  where they said twenty and then they
• 16:38
  reduced the qualifiers down after the fact
• 16:41
  and you got the boot because they changed
• 16:44
  their mind.
• 16:46
  I'm cool with WFP saying, hey,
• 16:47
  we're going with fifteen and that's the
• 16:49
  floor.
• 16:52
  If you finish seventeenth,
• 16:53
  you may have a shot if we can't
• 16:55
  invite five people.
• 16:58
  As long as they're being transparent up
• 16:59
  front,
• 17:01
  I'm much cooler with it than what happened
• 17:03
  to you last year.
• 17:04
  It makes a whole lot more sense at
• 17:06
  that point.
• 17:08
  It makes a whole lot more sense.
• 17:12
  We invited John Cena,
• 17:14
  but we can't see him.
• 17:18
  Ask NFL players about their experience
• 17:20
  with Mexico games.
• 17:22
  I don't need to ask.
• 17:23
  I've seen it.
• 17:23
  Yeah.
• 17:28
  I get it.
• 17:29
  Mexico City is like one of the biggest
• 17:30
  cities on the face of the planet.
• 17:32
  And I would like to,
• 17:34
  if I knew I was kidnapped and or
• 17:36
  murdered, I'd visit Mexico City.
• 17:38
  Having said that,
• 17:39
  I do not want to go and do
• 17:41
  a CrossFit competition on top of the
• 17:44
  world.
• 17:44
  They'd just soon be on top of Mount
• 17:45
  Everest at that point.
• 17:47
  Yeah, I think that...
• 17:53
  I think that what the NFL experienced was
• 17:56
  bad facilities, bad turf,
• 18:00
  all of that kind of stuff.
• 18:02
  I think an indoor venue that they're going
• 18:04
  to use probably isn't going to experience
• 18:05
  that.
• 18:06
  They're probably going to bring in their
• 18:07
  own flooring, their own rig.
• 18:09
  They're not going to encounter the things
• 18:11
  that the NFL did when they went to
• 18:13
  Mexico.
• 18:14
  But they keep going back.
• 18:17
  So ticket sales drive...
• 18:21
  everything i would say at the the it's
• 18:25
  more it's less the facilities at that
• 18:27
  point than it is the altitude is really
• 18:32
  the the biggest thing that people are
• 18:33
  probably talking about just being at fifty
• 18:35
  two hundred feet above sea level air is
• 18:38
  not the same it's not the same as
• 18:40
  where you and i are i mean they
• 18:42
  held an olympics there and it was it
• 18:44
  made a dramatic effect right so five
• 18:46
  percent
• 18:49
  Yeah.
• 18:50
  And then we cross local hires,
• 18:51
  air quality and water.
• 18:56
  Yeah.
• 18:57
  And logistics of getting the equipment to
• 19:00
  the venue.
• 19:03
  Without it being kidnapped or set on fire
• 19:06
  or whatever.
• 19:07
  It's got one of the highest crime rates
• 19:08
  also on the face of the planet.
• 19:10
  So yeah.
• 19:16
  Wayne Short makes a great point.
• 19:17
  Invitees leave room for those that skip
• 19:19
  tour stop one and fail to qualify for
• 19:21
  the games.
• 19:22
  Just remember, though,
• 19:23
  that what I just explained to you as
• 19:25
  the criteria to get into tour stop,
• 19:28
  into these tour stops,
• 19:28
  this is only for tour stop one.
• 19:30
  Yeah.
• 19:32
  We don't know what tour stop two is
• 19:34
  going to be.
• 19:40
  Hey, you know what?
• 19:41
  Good on him.
• 19:43
  Again,
• 19:44
  nobody on this show nobody in this space
• 19:47
  that as far as i can tell is
• 19:49
  wishing for them to fail not at all
• 19:55
  right if people see high-end athletes
• 19:57
  doing functional fitness moves and it
• 19:59
  somehow drives that person to get up off
• 20:01
  their couch and go join an affiliate or
• 20:03
  just start moving in general so much the
• 20:06
  better but our biggest problem is was and
• 20:10
  probably still will be is a whole lot
• 20:13
  of this
• 20:15
  and not a lot of doing.
• 20:18
  That was the whole problem, right?
• 20:19
  We're gonna do it better.
• 20:20
  We're gonna do it bigger.
• 20:21
  We're gonna do it better.
• 20:22
  We're gonna do it bigger.
• 20:22
  We're gonna do it better.
• 20:23
  And then it turned out it wasn't.
• 20:27
  That's it.
• 20:27
  But again, this is not a smear campaign.
• 20:30
  This is a, Hey, they've done,
• 20:33
  they've done some nice correcting to the
• 20:36
  court of, of everything.
• 20:39
  Yep.
• 20:40
  Now we're nitpicking some things.
• 20:42
  So I, you know, Yeah.
• 20:48
  From at least looking in the mirror and
• 20:49
  making some changes.
• 20:51
  Correct.
• 20:51
  Good on them.
• 20:52
  We would nitpick the exact same things for
• 20:53
  the games.
• 20:55
  and have been so uh our last smear
• 21:03
  is everything bagel double cream cheese i
• 21:06
  am not against an everything bagel big fan
• 21:08
  as a matter of fact i'm actually i
• 21:10
  i know that there are some down parts
• 21:13
  about mexico city but i'm anxious to see
• 21:15
  what the crowd is like for a cross
• 21:17
  event in mexico city
• 21:18
  We've gone to Brazil,
• 21:21
  like Copa Sour and all of that kind
• 21:23
  of stuff.
• 21:24
  I'm actually anxious to see what turns out
• 21:26
  in Mexico City.
• 21:28
  If the place is jam-packed full,
• 21:31
  that's an interesting data point, right?
• 21:34
  Yeah, good on them.
• 21:35
  Yeah.
• 21:36
  So in that realm,
• 21:38
  I think that's going to be fascinating to
• 21:40
  see what happens.
• 21:43
  Good on them.
• 21:45
  Again, wishing them nothing but the best.
• 21:49
  And, yeah.
• 21:50
  And then the last thing I wanted to
• 21:52
  talk about on this whole front is the
• 21:55
  Barbell Spin did a great job putting
• 21:57
  together the calendar for the year with
• 22:04
  both WFP and...
• 22:08
  games so the other the one thing and
• 22:11
  this isn't even wfp related just
• 22:13
  everything that happens before the open
• 22:15
  actually starts you have norcal qualifiers
• 22:18
  lat am qualifiers mad fitness qualifiers
• 22:22
  french throwdown qualifiers uh copasor
• 22:25
  qualifier far east throwdown qualifier and
• 22:29
  then you have the wfp tour stop one
• 22:30
  qualifier rebel renegade games qualifier
• 22:34
  All before the open.
• 22:36
  And then the open.
• 22:37
  And then the open.
• 22:40
  Isn't that insane?
• 22:42
  That is bananas crazy, dude.
• 22:43
  That is absolutely bananas crazy.
• 22:45
  As a matter of fact,
• 22:47
  I was on my way back to the
• 22:48
  office.
• 22:48
  I was talking to one of my partners
• 22:51
  and we were trying to plan out what
• 22:52
  we wanted to do for our competitions this
• 22:55
  year.
• 22:56
  And my big overarching thing right now is
• 22:58
  to be able to finish quarterfinals high
• 23:00
  enough to...
• 23:02
  know qualified to be able to compete in
• 23:05
  person at semifinals and that's before
• 23:09
  anything else but before that there's two
• 23:11
  separate qualifiers one is for monster
• 23:15
  games and one is for uh
• 23:20
  Oh Lord.
• 23:21
  The other, the regular magic city games,
• 23:23
  not the,
• 23:24
  not the semifinal that both start like in
• 23:27
  within the next couple of weeks.
• 23:29
  So like,
• 23:29
  I'm going to be doing those also training
• 23:31
  for the open,
• 23:32
  also looking at possible semifinal.
• 23:34
  Like it's not completely backwards,
• 23:37
  but it's a little,
• 23:39
  it's something that is for certain.
• 23:42
  So the other place where WFP fits in
• 23:45
  are you have WFP tour stop one,
• 23:48
  the same weekend as Copas or far East
• 23:51
  and the magic city games.
• 23:56
  Tour stop two is three weeks after the
• 24:01
  games again, or four weeks, maybe.
• 24:07
  And we heard some of the top end
• 24:09
  athletes say that they actually were
• 24:11
  really tired at that tour stop to last
• 24:14
  year, right after the games.
• 24:16
  And again, it looks like December, the,
• 24:19
  the is the co is the Copenhagen games.
• 24:23
  At least it's like a full week before
• 24:25
  Christmas almost.
• 24:28
  So, um,
• 24:31
  But yeah, jam-packed schedule.
• 24:34
  And I see people in here saying there's
• 24:35
  better calendars online, and there may be.
• 24:37
  But this one just kind of shows you
• 24:39
  there's just a lot.
• 24:41
  There's a lot to manage through.
• 24:44
  If you want to be a competitive athlete
• 24:46
  through this season,
• 24:48
  it's going to take some planning.
• 24:51
  And really sitting down and determining
• 24:53
  what your priority is and how you want
• 24:57
  it to be.
• 24:59
  The NorCal Classic qualifiers are online
• 25:02
  or happening right now, FYI.
• 25:06
  That's another one that's already taken
• 25:08
  place.
• 25:09
  Yeah.
• 25:10
  So it's crazy.
• 25:13
  Anyway, we wanted more opportunity.
• 25:16
  We're getting lots of opportunity.
• 25:19
  Let's see how it plays out this year.
• 25:21
  I am planning,
• 25:24
  planning on going to Indianapolis this
• 25:25
  year to see tour stop too,
• 25:27
  just because I want to see it.
• 25:30
  it's not far right now it's two hours
• 25:33
  two and a half hours for me yeah
• 25:35
  um to go to that so um i'll
• 25:38
  probably head over it's the end of august
• 25:40
  i don't generally have a lot going on
• 25:42
  at that point in time so and hopefully
• 25:45
  medically me and my wife are good after
• 25:48
  january this year and uh and that'll
• 25:51
  that'll be something we can do so
• 26:02
  Your parents caught you with a CrossFit
• 26:04
  cigarette,
• 26:04
  so here's a whole pack of CrossFit.
• 26:07
  Oh, you want CrossFit?
• 26:08
  I'm going to give you some CrossFit.
• 26:11
  Yeah.
• 26:12
  Awesome.
• 26:14
  Yeah, I like that.
• 26:15
  I want to make sure we shout out
• 26:16
  our sponsor, Thirdsy.
• 26:18
  Make sure you go to thirdsy.com backslash
• 26:20
  Jazzy.
• 26:21
  J-A-Z-Z-Y, Jazzy.
• 26:24
  That gets you fifteen percent off your
• 26:26
  order.
• 26:28
  Dude,
• 26:29
  I'm now becoming addicted to the stuff.
• 26:31
  Not literally, but like, man,
• 26:34
  the sleep I get with that and when
• 26:35
  I don't take it is so much different.
• 26:39
  It's night and day.
• 26:42
  It's a night and day.
• 26:43
  And now I need my,
• 26:44
  if I don't drink the liquid at night,
• 26:46
  now I get dehydrated.
• 26:47
  Like my mouth is all dry,
• 26:49
  like through a.m.
• 26:50
  And I'm looking for something to drink.
• 26:52
  Um, God is going on.
• 26:57
  Uh,
• 26:58
  so I love what it does for my
• 26:59
  sleep.
• 27:00
  I love that.
• 27:00
  I wake up refreshed in the morning.
• 27:02
  Um,
• 27:03
  I used to fall asleep at my desk.
• 27:05
  I don't do that anymore.
• 27:07
  And thank God, cause I need this job,
• 27:09
  um, to pay the bills.
• 27:11
  As it turns out, yeah.
• 27:14
  No, dude, same, same.
• 27:16
  My measurables are up,
• 27:18
  and it's the only thing that I've done
• 27:20
  different is started taking that every
• 27:22
  single night.
• 27:23
  So shout out to Thirdsy.
• 27:24
  Go get some.
• 27:25
  Use code Jazzy.
• 27:27
  Thirdsy.com backslash Jazzy.
• 27:34
  What happens if something wakes you
• 27:35
  mid-sleep?
• 27:35
  You okay?
• 27:36
  Yeah.
• 27:37
  I get up.
• 27:38
  I'm old.
• 27:40
  So I have to pee in the middle
• 27:41
  of the night, regardless of what I do.
• 27:43
  So I get up, I pee.
• 27:44
  I try to do it with my eyes
• 27:46
  closed.
• 27:47
  I feel for the walls and everything.
• 27:49
  And then I just climb back into bed
• 27:51
  and out I go.
• 27:56
  I even pee less and I had to
• 27:58
  get up and pee less in the middle
• 28:00
  of the night.
• 28:01
  That's another thing I noticed.
• 28:02
  Like before third scene,
• 28:04
  I was getting up once,
• 28:05
  sometimes twice to go pee.
• 28:06
  And now I just wake up and I'm
• 28:08
  like, Oh yeah,
• 28:09
  I need to go pretty bad.
• 28:13
  Yeah.
• 28:14
  Um,
• 28:17
  was listening to the mayhem podcast this
• 28:18
  morning the froning podcast i guess it is
• 28:20
  now and i'm not i'm not the whole
• 28:24
  way through it but some interesting things
• 28:27
  that i heard uh not not that it
• 28:29
  was the main topic of conversation uh but
• 28:32
  some things i heard in that conversation
• 28:34
  that were interesting to me were that uh
• 28:38
  hq is doing a review of the programming
• 28:41
  for the mayhem classic and i think they
• 28:44
  now have a template spreadsheet
• 28:46
  that you fill out and it actually gives
• 28:48
  you instant feedback of what you're
• 28:50
  missing in your programming on the
• 28:54
  spreadsheet if i heard rory correctly he
• 28:57
  entered that because the programming is
• 28:59
  done for the classic he entered it into
• 29:01
  this spreadsheet and it'll say hey you're
• 29:03
  missing
• 29:06
  a sprint or, Hey,
• 29:07
  you're missing this movement or whatever.
• 29:10
  And then they have to send that to
• 29:12
  HQ and it gets one more set of
• 29:14
  eyes on it, but it's in the spreadsheet.
• 29:16
  That's already done some of the work for
• 29:18
  them.
• 29:21
  And I thought if that's true and CrossFit
• 29:26
  has done that,
• 29:27
  that is a major step forward for the
• 29:29
  programming of the semifinals of all of
• 29:33
  them.
• 29:34
  Right.
• 29:35
  If all of these third-party semifinals are
• 29:37
  required to enter their programming into
• 29:40
  the spreadsheet,
• 29:43
  instant feedback as to what is missing and
• 29:46
  those types of things,
• 29:47
  and then HQ is taking a look at
• 29:49
  that spreadsheet that is already giving
• 29:52
  them feedback, I think that is a major,
• 29:56
  major,
• 29:57
  major step forward with where we're going
• 29:59
  with the semifinals.
• 30:01
  That's a huge deal.
• 30:03
  huge deal and whoever came up with that
• 30:06
  idea give that person a raise we'll give
• 30:10
  them a golf clap right now uh that's
• 30:15
  yeah so here's a template we won't
• 30:18
  actually and i wonder if they if they
• 30:21
  could if like their stuff filled in before
• 30:23
  they filled their stuff in does that make
• 30:24
  sense like
• 30:25
  So I think there are formulas and
• 30:27
  algorithms probably hidden behind the
• 30:29
  spreadsheet.
• 30:30
  And as you like, it'll say workout one,
• 30:32
  you have to type it in.
• 30:34
  Right.
• 30:34
  Workout two, you have to type it in.
• 30:36
  And then the algorithm or what or the
• 30:38
  formulas behind that analyze what movement
• 30:42
  is it?
• 30:43
  is it gymnastics time duration control is
• 30:46
  it you know and then and then it
• 30:50
  it determines if things are missing time
• 30:53
  domain um because rory did mention time
• 30:56
  domain is something they got feedback from
• 31:00
  um that's a super useful tool if that
• 31:06
  is in fact what they have uh for
• 31:09
  all of them not just for mayhem like
• 31:11
  forever for everybody's sake
• 31:14
  Jonathan asks,
• 31:15
  it probably came from NorCal fiasco,
• 31:16
  and Dave's saying we probably should have
• 31:18
  helped them more and given them guidance.
• 31:23
  I don't think it necessarily came from
• 31:24
  NorCal.
• 31:25
  I think there were enough complaints about
• 31:27
  some of the semifinal programming,
• 31:29
  and it wasn't limited to just NorCal.
• 31:32
  Well, it's semifinal programming,
• 31:34
  Masters programming,
• 31:37
  anything that's got anything to do with
• 31:39
  the games where there were enough loud
• 31:42
  voices saying, hey, man,
• 31:44
  this was just not a good test,
• 31:46
  you know,
• 31:46
  or some of this test was okay.
• 31:48
  Some of it was crap.
• 31:49
  Or if you listen to Jamie,
• 31:50
  it was all crap.
• 31:54
  Love you, Jamie.
• 31:57
  Do you think Dave will use the
• 31:58
  spreadsheets?
• 32:01
  I think Dave wrote the spreadsheet.
• 32:04
  I'm guessing.
• 32:05
  Or he had input.
• 32:06
  I'm sure he had input.
• 32:07
  I doubt.
• 32:08
  Yeah.
• 32:08
  I doubt he was in Excel or whatever,
• 32:10
  like making it out,
• 32:11
  but I'm certain he was probably working
• 32:12
  with someone pretty close to say, okay,
• 32:16
  We need to have this, this,
• 32:17
  this and this.
• 32:18
  You know,
• 32:18
  this is what my season is going to
• 32:20
  look like because he crafts the entire
• 32:21
  thing right from the open all the way
• 32:23
  through the games.
• 32:23
  Every year has got a theme.
• 32:25
  So if we're doing that and we're going
• 32:26
  to help these people,
• 32:28
  then I need to have something here that
• 32:30
  they can take their program and put it
• 32:32
  into here and see how it matches up,
• 32:34
  what it has, what it doesn't have.
• 32:36
  And then we can make adjustments from
• 32:37
  there if need be.
• 32:38
  That's a really good idea.
• 32:41
  CrossFit says,
• 32:42
  I'm guessing you could probably teach
• 32:43
  machine learning this based on tests over
• 32:46
  the years.
• 32:48
  Amanda,
• 32:48
  it sounds like a script is running.
• 32:49
  Exactly.
• 32:51
  A script is just an automated algorithm,
• 32:55
  right, that you've typed in.
• 32:56
  CrossFit, Caro, Carolyn,
• 32:59
  only thought the mayhem programmed ones
• 33:00
  were crap, so basically they all were.
• 33:05
  Right.
• 33:06
  Carolyn loves mayhem programming.
• 33:09
  Right.
• 33:11
  And she won the Everyday Heroes games,
• 33:16
  right?
• 33:18
  She loves Mayhem programming.
• 33:19
  I think she just thought that there was
• 33:21
  way too much influence from Mayhem on the
• 33:23
  season.
• 33:24
  It was really her complaint.
• 33:26
  That's a legitimate complaint.
• 33:29
  I mean, they were involved in, what,
• 33:31
  five out of eight?
• 33:34
  Yeah.
• 33:34
  That's a lot.
• 33:36
  That's a lot.
• 33:37
  For one season.
• 33:38
  And I think they said,
• 33:43
  it was either on that show or Rich
• 33:46
  on Savan said that Daniel Chaffee was in
• 33:48
  town and they were working with him on
• 33:50
  the French throwdown.
• 33:51
  So I don't think that mayhem helping with
• 33:53
  programming is going anywhere soon.
• 33:56
  Why would it?
• 33:58
  Like the vast majority of people who saw
• 34:01
  the things, yeah,
• 34:01
  they were a little concerned about the
• 34:03
  Mayhem athletes doing the Mayhem
• 34:04
  programming at these Mayhem programmed
• 34:07
  events, right?
• 34:08
  Which again is a legitimate concern.
• 34:11
  But other than that,
• 34:13
  The vast majority of it was straight up
• 34:15
  CrossFit, like old school,
• 34:18
  just the stuff that rich programs or
• 34:21
  whoever's in charge of the programming
• 34:22
  programs.
• 34:25
  She loves the programming.
• 34:27
  She didn't love the lack of diversity.
• 34:30
  I didn't either.
• 34:31
  It seemed very repetitive.
• 34:34
  As someone who loves to watch the sport
• 34:36
  and loves to watch the qualification
• 34:37
  process to the games,
• 34:39
  I don't want to see heavy Isabel
• 34:42
  forty-seven times.
• 34:43
  I don't want to see the same sandbag
• 34:46
  workout twelve times.
• 34:49
  I want to see some diversity in what
• 34:50
  I'm watching.
• 34:51
  I mean, that's fair.
• 34:55
  Same.
• 34:56
  I didn't like the idea...
• 34:58
  Let me rephrase that.
• 34:59
  I liked the idea that everybody was going
• 35:02
  to do Heavy Isabel for semifinals until
• 35:05
  you actually started playing out.
• 35:07
  And then you're like, oh, here we go.
• 35:09
  Now this guy's going to do Heavy Isabel.
• 35:11
  Now this Heavy Isabel.
• 35:13
  Or this guy's taking a seventh attempt at
• 35:15
  Heavy Isabel because he signed up for all
• 35:18
  of the events.
• 35:19
  Because he's done it at four different
• 35:22
  places now and online.
• 35:24
  Yeah, absolutely.
• 35:26
  And he's beat his score every time,
• 35:27
  and now he's doing it in superhuman speed.
• 35:29
  The other thing they weren't intending to
• 35:37
  announce,
• 35:39
  but they did say that the invites have
• 35:41
  gone out and they got more returned
• 35:44
  positive wanting to sign up for Mayhem
• 35:47
  this year than they did last year.
• 35:50
  Um,
• 35:51
  and they kind of like just through a
• 35:53
  conversation release that Jason Hopper has
• 35:55
  signed up for mayhem because lost his
• 35:58
  email and could not find it and was
• 36:00
  calling to complain that he wasn't invited
• 36:03
  on the first round.
• 36:05
  Um,
• 36:05
  so Angelo had to walk him through what
• 36:07
  spam email is.
• 36:10
  re-email to another email address to get
• 36:12
  them to get it and they said they
• 36:16
  knew that some had gone to spam because
• 36:19
  db went to spam and they had to
• 36:22
  work with her to find it as well
• 36:24
  so i'm assuming i'm assuming that those
• 36:27
  two are going to mayhem for sure
• 36:30
  That is the most Jason Hopper thing to
• 36:33
  have ever Jason Hopper.
• 36:35
  I didn't get an invite.
• 36:37
  You said I was getting an invite.
• 36:38
  Have you checked your email?
• 36:40
  Yeah.
• 36:41
  Have you checked all your email?
• 36:42
  What do you mean?
• 36:43
  Like,
• 36:43
  that's how I figured it feels like that
• 36:45
  conversation went.
• 36:47
  Angelo said he asked, he said,
• 36:49
  I checked my priority.
• 36:50
  I checked my,
• 36:52
  like all the things that Gmail now splits
• 36:55
  it into because I tried all of them.
• 36:58
  And none of them that he listed were
• 36:59
  spam.
• 37:01
  Did you, though?
• 37:02
  Did you, Jason?
• 37:06
  DB and Jason being those two color me
• 37:08
  shocked.
• 37:09
  Yeah.
• 37:11
  Yeah.
• 37:13
  All of that happens in the first probably
• 37:15
  ten minutes of the Rich Froning podcast.
• 37:18
  And then...
• 37:23
  And then it got into a lot of
• 37:24
  this triathlon training that they're going
• 37:26
  to do in Cozumel.
• 37:28
  The Mayhem crew are doing Ironman.
• 37:32
  So when I saw or when I heard
• 37:34
  Rich say that,
• 37:36
  that he was probably going to do a
• 37:37
  triathlon, it...
• 37:39
  My head always goes back to that, uh,
• 37:42
  at outside magazine tweet,
• 37:45
  but I had a picture of rich coming
• 37:46
  up out the water at the tribe that
• 37:49
  he did, uh, whenever that was,
• 37:51
  or so something like that and said the
• 37:55
  captions, uh,
• 37:58
  training for a triathlon is the best way
• 37:59
  to get in shape.
• 38:00
  This guy will tell you and enrich sub
• 38:02
  tweeted underneath and said, I'm that guy.
• 38:04
  And no, I won't tell you that.
• 38:06
  Hmm.
• 38:08
  So now that tweet could come back around
• 38:11
  because it's relevant again,
• 38:13
  because now he's actually going to do a
• 38:14
  triathlon and he's not actually,
• 38:17
  he's going to do CrossFit training to
• 38:18
  actually train for a triathlon.
• 38:19
  Yeah.
• 38:20
  He says he's not,
• 38:21
  he said the only thing he's really going
• 38:22
  to work on is transitions from the bike
• 38:24
  to the run.
• 38:25
  Cause every small triathlon he's done,
• 38:27
  that's been the bit hardest part.
• 38:30
  And he's going to up his swimming,
• 38:32
  but basically just train like he always
• 38:34
  does.
• 38:35
  Right.
• 38:36
  Yeah.
• 38:36
  Do a little bit more swimming,
• 38:37
  practice getting off the bike and getting
• 38:38
  my shoes on and start running.
• 38:39
  Yeah.
• 38:40
  Easy day.
• 38:42
  Like when High Rocks used his jogging
• 38:43
  photo.
• 38:47
  Wayne Short,
• 38:48
  they also said Velner and Crouch declined.
• 38:50
  I missed that part.
• 38:51
  Again,
• 38:52
  I run these podcasts while I'm working.
• 38:54
  So like I'm just listening and I try
• 38:57
  to pick out things that I hear.
• 38:58
  So I did not hear that part,
• 38:59
  but thank you for updating us on that.
• 39:01
  Yeah.
• 39:02
  Yeah.
• 39:03
  So what Sten said,
• 39:07
  they should have sent Hopper's invitation
• 39:08
  to Grace Ann and let her just handle
• 39:10
  that because that probably would have been
• 39:12
  the best thing to do.
• 39:14
  Grace Ann needs to tell Jason, hey,
• 39:15
  just give them my email and not yours.
• 39:18
  Yeah,
• 39:18
  can you just give them my stuff and
• 39:20
  I'll just take care of that next time,
• 39:21
  please?
• 39:21
  Thank you.
• 39:27
  He just needs a personal assistant or
• 39:29
  Grace Ann.
• 39:30
  Yeah.
• 39:35
  CrossFit, he didn't say more biking.
• 39:37
  He just said he was going to go
• 39:39
  back to his CrossFit training days and go
• 39:41
  back to making weekly swims a thing.
• 39:44
  And then he just wanted to test the
• 39:47
  transition from bike to run,
• 39:51
  going from that crouched position to
• 39:54
  trying to become upright to start running.
• 39:57
  So here's what I love about that.
• 40:01
  is that he's like, I'm not competitive.
• 40:04
  I'm just gonna go do it, blah, blah,
• 40:05
  blah, whatever.
• 40:06
  I'm also gonna practice my transition,
• 40:08
  getting off the bike and getting my shoes
• 40:09
  on and getting onto the run so I
• 40:10
  can do that as smoothly as humanly
• 40:12
  possible.
• 40:13
  Okay, Rich.
• 40:17
  We've been watching you, dude, since like,
• 40:19
  two thousand and ten-ish,
• 40:21
  something along those lines.
• 40:24
  We got a good beat on it,
• 40:25
  I'm just saying.
• 40:29
  Well, it's like his first games.
• 40:30
  He learned how to transition from the top
• 40:32
  of the rope to the bottom of the
• 40:33
  rope more efficiently from twenty ten to
• 40:36
  twenty eleven.
• 40:37
  Yeah, well,
• 40:39
  his first transition was super efficient
• 40:41
  because he just fell.
• 40:42
  That's the fastest way to get down.
• 40:49
  Not competitive,
• 40:49
  but going to prepare like a psycho,
• 40:51
  like anything else.
• 40:51
  Yeah, exactly.
• 40:55
  Rich will never not be competitive in
• 40:57
  anything.
• 41:00
  Dude,
• 41:00
  his high school baseball coach said he was
• 41:02
  diving for ground balls in a parking lot.
• 41:06
  That's all you need to know about that
• 41:08
  dude.
• 41:08
  Like that's the kind of dude that he
• 41:10
  is.
• 41:11
  Yeah.
• 41:12
  Asphalt.
• 41:13
  Yeah, that was – when I heard that,
• 41:15
  that was just insane.
• 41:17
  Although there was a time in my life
• 41:19
  that I was that guy.
• 41:24
  For me, it depends on what's going on.
• 41:26
  Like what's at stake.
• 41:27
  If I really want to win that bad,
• 41:29
  then yeah, it doesn't really matter.
• 41:30
  I'll just deal with the pain later.
• 41:32
  It's fine.
• 41:33
  I suffered more injuries in intramural
• 41:35
  sports than I did actually on a
• 41:36
  competitive field.
• 41:41
  Playing adult soccer.
• 41:45
  Like I don't, as a matter of fact,
• 41:46
  I don't call it league soccer,
• 41:47
  but
• 41:48
  I had probably one of the worst injuries
• 41:50
  I've ever had in my entire life from
• 41:51
  a goalkeeper literally landing on my foot
• 41:54
  while my toes were pointed like this and
• 41:56
  my ankle was here and my foot went
• 41:58
  that way to where the top of my
• 42:00
  foot touched the ground.
• 42:03
  Yeah, it was fantastic.
• 42:05
  Do not recommend that, by the way.
• 42:06
  I'm like, dude,
• 42:07
  I was turning away from you with the
• 42:09
  ball.
• 42:09
  Like, why are you coming to get that?
• 42:10
  That doesn't make any sense.
• 42:11
  I had to crawl off the field.
• 42:14
  Well,
• 42:14
  yesterday we talked about partnerships.
• 42:17
  One of the ones I forgot to mention
• 42:18
  yesterday was that Mayhem and CrossFit
• 42:22
  partnered to do the Everyday Heroes games
• 42:26
  where they brought in people from the
• 42:29
  medical, teaching, military, police,
• 42:32
  fire to compete together at Mayhem.
• 42:36
  And Carolyn was one of those people.
• 42:39
  She said it was an amazing experience.
• 42:41
  Mayhem just sent her a custom barbell.
• 42:45
  like a week ago that is beautiful.
• 42:49
  It says Mayhem Athlete on it.
• 42:51
  It's baby blue and the Cerakote bar with
• 42:57
  the shiny stainless steel collars.
• 43:03
  But super sweet.
• 43:06
  That's one of the partnerships they're
• 43:08
  doing.
• 43:08
  It was announced earlier this week that
• 43:10
  Coaches Congress and CrossFit are
• 43:12
  partnering now,
• 43:13
  which I think is monumental to have this
• 43:17
  entity that works on making coaches better
• 43:21
  in the CrossFit space is now partnering
• 43:23
  with CrossFit.
• 43:26
  The educational team that puts together
• 43:28
  the L-I, the L-II,
• 43:29
  the L-III is now going to partner with
• 43:33
  this entity that has these gatherings
• 43:38
  where coaches come together and share
• 43:40
  their experiences and share their best
• 43:42
  practices,
• 43:43
  I think is really freaking awesome.
• 43:46
  Makes everybody better.
• 43:49
  Makes everybody better.
• 43:50
  Rising tide raises all ships.
• 43:53
  The more knowledge you get in a room
• 43:55
  with people that are actually willing to
• 43:56
  listen, right?
• 43:57
  If you go into coaches,
• 43:58
  attend a coach concerts because you want
• 43:59
  to get better and you want to listen,
• 44:01
  you're not going over there thinking,
• 44:02
  I know everything.
• 44:03
  Nobody who signs up for that does that.
• 44:05
  So you're going to get better.
• 44:06
  You're going to listen.
• 44:07
  You're going to hear a different
• 44:08
  perspective, different takes on how to,
• 44:10
  you know,
• 44:11
  triage people when they walk in the door
• 44:12
  and try to prioritize good movement,
• 44:15
  you know,
• 44:16
  better than what you're already doing.
• 44:17
  No, I'm huge fan.
• 44:18
  That's a great idea.
• 44:20
  And this year's open,
• 44:21
  they're partnering with Wadapalooza in
• 44:22
  Miami to do twenty twenty six point three
• 44:28
  and allowing the
• 44:30
  Joe Piazza,
• 44:31
  General pop to come in to what a
• 44:32
  palooza and do the workout it will be
• 44:34
  one of the events for all of the
• 44:36
  competitive divisions so they'll get their
• 44:38
  workout on out on the floor,
• 44:41
  I think that's a brilliant move to if
• 44:43
  you've never been to what a palooza it
• 44:45
  is.
• 44:47
  one of the most well attended events in
• 44:50
  the CrossFit space.
• 44:51
  It's Miami beach.
• 44:53
  It's cold in the North.
• 44:55
  People trying to get out of here.
• 44:56
  Don't hang out on the beach for a
• 44:58
  couple of days.
• 44:59
  It's a great place to highlight what the
• 45:01
  open is and that loud and live decided
• 45:05
  to partner with them to do that at
• 45:07
  this, their event,
• 45:08
  I think was really cool.
• 45:10
  I want to go one year just to
• 45:12
  go just cause I've,
• 45:14
  I've never been and I just want to
• 45:15
  go see like,
• 45:18
  Fittest, I mean,
• 45:21
  just to catch all the spectacle.
• 45:22
  It's going to be badass.
• 45:26
  Yeah,
• 45:26
  CrossFit says this year it's spring break.
• 45:28
  It's still going to be cold in the
• 45:29
  north.
• 45:30
  Spring break is cold out there.
• 45:35
  What I'll tell you about Waterpalooza is I
• 45:37
  really enjoyed my time there,
• 45:39
  but I really enjoyed my time
• 45:42
  in the crowds and walking around and
• 45:44
  meeting a ton of people and seeing people
• 45:46
  that I've met in the space for years
• 45:49
  and years.
• 45:52
  I have not been to the new location,
• 45:54
  the old one at Bayfront.
• 45:58
  Watching the competition was hard.
• 46:01
  Like if you're there to watch the
• 46:02
  competition, getting a seat was difficult.
• 46:05
  The floor is thirty lanes wide.
• 46:07
  Seeing someone on the far side was
• 46:10
  impossible.
• 46:12
  But to meet all the people and to
• 46:16
  see all the people is better than any
• 46:19
  other event that I've ever gone to.
• 46:24
  Strong endorsement, boys and girls.
• 46:26
  Probably the biggest vendor village you'll
• 46:27
  ever see.
• 46:31
  I like going to walk around vendor village
• 46:32
  just to go see all this stuff that
• 46:33
  people bring.
• 46:35
  Well,
• 46:35
  and it's different than other vendor
• 46:37
  village.
• 46:37
  I mean,
• 46:37
  they have tattoo artists at this vendor
• 46:39
  village,
• 46:40
  just doing tattoos in the middle of water
• 46:42
  Palooza, right?
• 46:43
  Um, it's like, it's just,
• 46:46
  they're very open to whoever wants to come
• 46:48
  in and sell or whatever.
• 46:51
  Right.
• 46:51
  And there's tons of community events all
• 46:53
  throughout the, the, well, I had, again,
• 46:57
  I've not been to Miami beach,
• 46:58
  but there are tons of places for the
• 47:01
  community to come and get a workout in.
• 47:02
  Yeah.
• 47:03
  Activations, all that kind of stuff.
• 47:05
  I'm going to say this too, is that,
• 47:06
  uh,
• 47:10
  I expect twenty six point three to be
• 47:13
  a badass workout.
• 47:16
  Because they're doing it there,
• 47:17
  because it's going to be a part of
• 47:19
  Waterpalooza,
• 47:20
  like it's going to be an actual event
• 47:22
  over there, like I expect.
• 47:24
  So, you know,
• 47:24
  Dave saying on his weekend review the
• 47:26
  other day that, you know,
• 47:27
  we're going to we're going to kick off
• 47:28
  the open, you know, with a bang,
• 47:32
  with a bang, blah, blah, whatever.
• 47:35
  I'm hoping to God it's not another
• 47:37
  dumbbell slash burpee workout because
• 47:39
  that's not a kicking off of the bang,
• 47:41
  if you ask me.
• 47:43
  But I really do feel like that one
• 47:46
  especially,
• 47:46
  and I know the other one's going to
• 47:48
  be announced somewhere else.
• 47:49
  They're all doing their thing and whatnot.
• 47:51
  But the fact that that one's going to
• 47:52
  be at Waterpool,
• 47:54
  I just feel like something special is
• 47:56
  going to be cooked up for that.
• 47:59
  And I could be wrong.
• 48:00
  Maybe twenty six point three will be
• 48:01
  dumbbells and freaking burpees.
• 48:03
  But I just don't feel like it.
• 48:06
  Atlanta's going for the first time this
• 48:08
  year.
• 48:10
  Jody,
• 48:10
  they used to have the CrossFit cruise
• 48:11
  right after Waterpalooza.
• 48:15
  If you've never seen video from that,
• 48:16
  like the workouts they were doing on the
• 48:18
  ship deck.
• 48:19
  Crazy.
• 48:24
  And then Ken's always got to tell us
• 48:25
  when he leaves.
• 48:31
  I don't have any noose around your neck,
• 48:33
  and I don't have anything holding you
• 48:34
  here, buddy.
• 48:35
  No.
• 48:36
  Love you, Ken.
• 48:39
  Go talk.
• 48:39
  Go watch Colton.
• 48:43
  I wonder if Waterpalooza will have space
• 48:44
  for volunteers to do the open workout.
• 48:47
  I would hope so.
• 48:49
  I think they should make it a volunteer
• 48:50
  event and film it.
• 48:52
  Here's the volunteers of Waterpalooza all
• 48:54
  doing the open workout together.
• 48:56
  That'd be good content.
• 48:59
  Yeah.
• 48:59
  That would be good content.
• 49:03
  The last thing I wanted to address before
• 49:05
  we sign off today is I got a
• 49:07
  comment about we talked about rivals in
• 49:10
  sport on Monday, I think.
• 49:13
  I don't know.
• 49:14
  It's all blurring together for me.
• 49:16
  And how it's good.
• 49:17
  It started with the handshake with the
• 49:19
  Bears coach and the Packers coach.
• 49:21
  And I love it.
• 49:22
  I love the fact that we hate our
• 49:23
  rival and the cities behind it.
• 49:26
  And I think it brings cool drama to
• 49:28
  the space.
• 49:31
  And I think that's something CrossFit is
• 49:32
  missing.
• 49:33
  I think we need...
• 49:36
  more heated rivals in the spot in the
• 49:38
  space and someone made a comment and it
• 49:41
  was a legit comment that we had our
• 49:43
  drama last year with wfp versus crossfit
• 49:47
  and i would say that's not the drama
• 49:48
  i'm looking for that is living the space
• 49:52
  and i don't like that that created a
• 49:55
  rift that created a split i don't like
• 49:57
  that i want people back together but i
• 50:00
  want that laura and tia don't get along
• 50:05
  And I want them on the same floor
• 50:07
  while they're not getting along.
• 50:09
  Right.
• 50:10
  I want Tia to look and see Laura
• 50:12
  coming at the corner of her eye.
• 50:14
  And all of a sudden,
• 50:15
  like really as much faster,
• 50:17
  you thought she was moving before puts the
• 50:19
  hammer down because there's no way I'm
• 50:21
  letting her body.
• 50:23
  Right.
• 50:24
  And I think like,
• 50:25
  there are some athletes that have that dog
• 50:27
  in them.
• 50:28
  Like,
• 50:28
  I think Lucy Campbell is that kind of
• 50:31
  dog, right?
• 50:33
  Like she doesn't want to lose and she's
• 50:35
  going to tell you she doesn't want to
• 50:36
  lose and she's going to look you in
• 50:38
  the eye and say she doesn't want to
• 50:39
  lose.
• 50:42
  And,
• 50:42
  and that doesn't mean she's a bad person,
• 50:45
  but I want,
• 50:46
  I think we need to highlight the dogs.
• 50:48
  Yeah.
• 50:50
  Maybe that's a better way of putting it.
• 50:52
  And that's the drama I want.
• 50:54
  I don't want the drama that splits us.
• 50:57
  I want the drama that when we're all
• 50:58
  together,
• 51:00
  we're going to throw down and it's going
• 51:01
  to get ugly.
• 51:03
  I don't have to shake your hand.
• 51:05
  I don't have to say pleasantries before we
• 51:10
  start.
• 51:11
  I'm coming out here to kick your ass.
• 51:16
  Hard stop.
• 51:19
  Do we need more Colton Mertens?
• 51:22
  Colton,
• 51:23
  what do you think about this last workout?
• 51:25
  All these nerds knew I was fixing to
• 51:26
  come out here and beat them.
• 51:28
  Like,
• 51:28
  that's the kind of stuff he says on
• 51:29
  the microphone,
• 51:30
  and I think we need more of that.
• 51:33
  Jokovic is a prick to some,
• 51:35
  but has fans.
• 51:36
  Exactly.
• 51:37
  Everybody in this world,
• 51:40
  from nineties wrestling,
• 51:41
  people love heels.
• 51:44
  People love the villain in the space.
• 51:48
  If you live long enough as a hero,
• 51:50
  you're going to turn into the villain.
• 51:53
  Does not matter.
• 51:54
  That is a fact.
• 51:58
  I like when I hear insane Philip Rivers
• 52:00
  audio.
• 52:01
  Yeah,
• 52:01
  because that guy is the best trash-talking
• 52:04
  person without profanity I've ever seen.
• 52:07
  Dadgummit.
• 52:07
  Dadgummit.
• 52:10
  And he's serious about it, too.
• 52:12
  He's not saying it ironically at any given
• 52:14
  point.
• 52:15
  He just throws it out there.
• 52:16
  It's fantastic.
• 52:18
  Sean,
• 52:19
  where did I say anywhere in this that
• 52:20
  they had to dislike each other?
• 52:22
  If they do, that can be a bonus.
• 52:25
  But I just want people that don't have
• 52:28
  to be nice about it the whole time.
• 52:31
  Like,
• 52:31
  I am coming out here to kick your
• 52:33
  ass.
• 52:37
  It just...
• 52:40
  It just makes sense.
• 52:42
  I want to be able to root for
• 52:44
  one athlete over another.
• 52:46
  If I root for all the athletes,
• 52:48
  I'm not as invested.
• 52:54
  If it matters to me who wins that
• 52:57
  event,
• 52:59
  because I love this person way over the
• 53:02
  other person, then...
• 53:06
  then I'm invested, right?
• 53:08
  And because everybody is so likable and
• 53:10
  everybody shakes hands and you come down
• 53:13
  the floor and you root on the last
• 53:14
  place finisher, that's great in a class.
• 53:17
  On the competition floor,
• 53:19
  I want you to want to beat them
• 53:22
  by two laps.
• 53:26
  You have to be invested on who you're
• 53:28
  rooting for or it doesn't matter.
• 53:32
  And that means show your personality,
• 53:34
  tell me who you are,
• 53:39
  I think one of the most underrated or
• 53:42
  subtle ones,
• 53:44
  examples of that was when Matt Fraser,
• 53:46
  when they did, oh, which workout was it?
• 53:54
  With the dumbbell deadlifts and the
• 53:59
  parallel handstand pushups.
• 54:00
  The year before, he didn't even have to,
• 54:01
  he had to do a minimum work requirement
• 54:02
  because he had already had it sewed up.
• 54:04
  And then they threw it in the middle
• 54:06
  of the games the next year.
• 54:07
  And he said,
• 54:09
  Last year,
• 54:10
  I didn't really have to do this one.
• 54:11
  This year,
• 54:11
  I wanted to see what I could actually
• 54:14
  do on it.
• 54:15
  That was some subtle,
• 54:17
  I'm fixing to wax everybody here because I
• 54:20
  can't type shit without him actually
• 54:23
  saying that.
• 54:24
  Bring that kind of stuff out.
• 54:27
  Have an attitude, dude.
• 54:31
  We had a little Adler and Krennikoff,
• 54:32
  but it died quickly.
• 54:34
  Yeah.
• 54:36
  Roman getting hurt didn't help that.
• 54:38
  No.
• 54:39
  If Roman stays healthy through that games,
• 54:40
  I think it's a lot more than we
• 54:42
  got.
• 54:44
  Yeah.
• 54:44
  Wayne,
• 54:45
  you can talk trash without disliking
• 54:46
  somebody.
• 54:53
  The bike and banger one when he complained
• 54:55
  about George Sanchez.
• 54:58
  He was complaining about Noah because
• 54:59
  Noah's was straight hook in that thing the
• 55:01
  entire time.
• 55:03
  Yeah.
• 55:06
  Wanting that passion, fight,
• 55:07
  and desire is exactly why Noah Olsen was
• 55:09
  so damn annoying.
• 55:12
  Yeah.
• 55:15
  Yeah.
• 55:17
  Yep.
• 55:19
  Amanda is guessing Fibonacci.
• 55:22
  Yes, that's it.
• 55:23
  Fibonacci.
• 55:23
  Because they had the final the year before
• 55:24
  and then they did it again the next
• 55:26
  year.
• 55:27
  This is what I want.
• 55:28
  I want Matt Frazier calling Noah Olsen
• 55:30
  dinkle nuts.
• 55:32
  Dinkle nuts over here,
• 55:33
  which is hooking it the whole time.
• 55:37
  It doesn't mean that Matt dislikes Noah.
• 55:39
  It just means he was pissed off in
• 55:41
  that moment that he got to cheat and
• 55:42
  he.
• 55:45
  And compete against the cheater.
• 55:47
  Yeah.
• 55:49
  It's entertaining.
• 55:50
  And it's him being it's Matt being Matt
• 55:53
  at that point.
• 55:55
  The athlete heels act like it's a bad
• 55:57
  thing.
• 55:57
  Lean into it.
• 55:58
  Hey,
• 55:58
  it's worked for Daniel Brandon for a long
• 56:00
  time.
• 56:01
  And she has as many fans as anybody
• 56:03
  in the sport.
• 56:05
  That's a fact.
• 56:10
  swagger uh fraser trash talk was the best
• 56:17
  and the funniest yeah i i thought he
• 56:21
  was his best early in his career and
• 56:25
  then after he got into a long-term
• 56:27
  relationship with sammy he kind of
• 56:28
  mellowed out a bit oh sammy definitely uh
• 56:33
  softened some of those edges
• 56:35
  Like those early behind the scenes or
• 56:38
  documentaries and behind the scenes when
• 56:40
  Frazier's trying to beat Froning and
• 56:43
  trying to beat Ben Smith,
• 56:45
  like that is classic trash talking.
• 56:47
  And he would even trash talk himself.
• 56:51
  He was a dumbass for trying to flip
• 56:53
  the pig.
• 56:57
  Curling it every time instead of, yeah.
• 57:01
  When Ben told him, oh dude,
• 57:02
  it was easy.
• 57:03
  It's just like flipping a tire.
• 57:04
  And he's like,
• 57:05
  I've never flipped a tire.
• 57:07
  Never flipped a tire.
• 57:11
  Yeah.
• 57:12
  Those were the best.
• 57:16
  All right.
• 57:18
  That's about enough for today.
• 57:19
  I got to get back to work.
• 57:21
  Time for you, Knucklehead,
• 57:22
  to get back to work as well.
• 57:23
  I guess the CrossFit, or what is it?
• 57:26
  The podcast?
• 57:29
  Sport of Fitness podcast.
• 57:31
  It's live now.
• 57:32
  I'm guessing because Ken left us,
• 57:34
  it's because Colton Mertens is on it.
• 57:37
  So go check that out now.
• 57:39
  um jenny's dense update was good today and
• 57:41
  i think she's promising something very
• 57:43
  interesting later this week um so yeah
• 57:45
  i'll have to check that out um yeah
• 57:49
  sport of fitness my bad it's been a
• 57:52
  long week man i had doctor's appointment
• 57:55
  yesterday doing pre-op stuff and had to
• 57:58
  drive an hour and a half to get
• 57:59
  there anyway with that don't forget to
• 58:04
  like and subscribe
• 58:07
  Thank you, Jody.
• 58:09
  That's why you're our favorite.
• 58:10
  Because you'll never leave.
• 58:14
  With that, it's Wednesday.
• 58:19
  I know, like,
• 58:19
  it has been a long week halfway through.
• 58:22
  Thank goodness I get a three-day weekend
• 58:23
  this weekend.
• 58:26
  Oh.
• 58:27
  Martin Luther King Jr.
• 58:28
  Day on Monday.
• 58:29
  I don't know if we got MLK Day
• 58:32
  off or not.
• 58:33
  We might.
• 58:34
  We should.
• 58:34
  It's a banquet holiday, isn't it?
• 58:37
  It's a federal holiday.
• 58:38
  Federal holiday.
• 58:39
  Yeah, we probably have it off.
• 58:41
  No mail, no banks.
• 58:44
  No banks is what gets us.
• 58:45
  That's why we generally have it off.
• 58:47
  The banks are closed.
• 58:48
  Chances are better not.
• 58:49
  We're closed.
• 58:51
  Anyway.
• 58:51
  All right.
• 58:51
  Yeah.
• 58:53
  All right.
• 58:54
  Don't forget to like and subscribe,
• 58:55
  people.
• 58:56
  We need it.
• 58:56
  We need help.
• 58:57
  With that,
• 58:58
  we'll see everybody next time on Lunch
• 59:00
  with Clydesdale.