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Sunday Night CrossFit Talk - Fight for the Fittest is coming! · Clydesdale Media Podcast

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  And for the second time today,
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  the music didn't work.
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  So we will just jump in live.
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  We're live, everybody.
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  Welcome to Sunday Night
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  CrossFit Talk on Clydesdale Media.
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  My name is Scott Switzer.
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  As you know, her name is Jamie Latimer.
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  And we're so excited to have
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  with us Sam and Kelly Krivit.
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  Yep.
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  They are the organizers of
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  Fight for the Fittest in Brentwood,
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  New York.
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  How are you guys doing?
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  Good.
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  How are you?
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  Good.
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  I'm great.
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  Great.
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  Am I correct in that this is
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  on Long Island?
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  Yep, on Long Island,
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  and you said it right.
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  Some people say in Long Island,
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  but it's definitely on Long Island.
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  So my college roommate was
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  from Long Island, and it's more a hard G,
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  right?
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  Long Island?
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  Yeah, yeah.
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  So my college roommate was
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  from Long Island,
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  and I used to go up there
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  on weekends to hang out.
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  Love it up there.
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  Yeah, it's a beautiful place.
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  So you guys have secured an arena.
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  You're doing teams of four,
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  a traditional CrossFit game style,
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  two men, two women.
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  Correct.
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  And this is the second year
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  you're doing this in a row?
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  So this is the second year
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  we're doing the team.
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  We've done individuals.
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  We've done partners,
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  probably seven or eight competitions.
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  But this is the first time
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  that we're taking it out of
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  the gym space and into an arena,
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  really looking to expand it
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  to a legitimate competition now.
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  Nassau County Coliseum or?
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  Suffolk.
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  I mean, Nassau Coliseum would be great.
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  So yeah, we tried.
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  But yeah,
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  Suffolk Federal Credit Union Arena.
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  So that's Suffolk Community
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  College out there in Brentwood.
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  Okay.
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  So have you gotten
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  spectators in the past that
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  you expect this to be like
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  a really big event?
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  Yeah,
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  so with the team event that we did
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  last May, you know,
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  we had about 50 teams and
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  we had tons of spectators,
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  but the event was outside and in.
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  So that allowed for people
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  to be camping out.
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  There was a big parking lot
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  at Mufasa Tevi Gym and that
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  had tons of spectators.
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  This facility has no limit.
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  So, I mean, it's full bleachers.
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  The size of the facility is
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  the size of a regulation track.
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  And that's what they do.
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  They do track and field inside.
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  So it's a massive complex
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  with locker rooms, lots of bathrooms,
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  pools, concessions.
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  So it has the potential to
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  have that big stage.
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  So you mentioned move fast, lift heavy.
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  There seems to be a connection there.
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  Do you guys CrossFit yourselves?
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  Yeah, we do.
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  Um, you know,
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  we ran our competitions out of our,
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  our friends gym in, uh,
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  Rocky point called RX fit.
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  And we met with move fast, heavy,
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  and we moved, uh,
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  the competitions there for
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  the past two years.
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  And we became close with them as well.
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  Uh,
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  their team there with Christian Harris
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  and Deb graph,
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  who helps us run the event.
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  Um, that's been a good, a good, uh,
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  partnership for us.
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  We've slowly over the years
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  kind of just been
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  outgrowing facilities one
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  after the other.
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  So the next natural step at this point was,
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  you know, moving it outside the gym,
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  like Sam said,
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  into an arena because we
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  want to continue to grow.
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  And the only way to do that
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  is to allow more teams and more space.
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  So Christian Harris is very
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  famous from that group.
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  And you have him doing your programming?
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  Yeah, so he does our programming,
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  which is really helpful
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  because team programming is
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  actually really difficult.
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  The individuals, the partners,
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  that was very doable,
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  but the team concept is difficult.
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  And since he did it for so
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  many years at such a high level,
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  that's been a big upgrade.
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  Yeah,
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  and to be one of the best to ever do it.
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  Yeah, I mean,
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  last year they finished fourth,
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  just shy outside the podium.
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  And to bring that now to a
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  competition on a regional standpoint,
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  he's really excited about it.
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  We love having him.
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  Yeah,
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  so I think you told me that the
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  workouts will be announced soon.
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  This week, we're hoping, you know,
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  we just finished shooting demos.
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  We've been testing these like crazy.
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  We want to get them out as
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  soon as possible for people.
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  So that way, really,
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  people can make a decision
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  where they stand.
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  But I'm looking at this week
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  to get our first one out,
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  which will probably be our pool workout.
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  And then every day I'll get
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  another one out.
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  So there's five and then
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  there'll be a final.
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  So it has swimming.
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  So it's a legit comp.
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  I appreciate that.
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  Yeah, that's what we hope.
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  This year,
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  what we did for the first year
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  is this year,
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  the RX and the elite teams will swim.
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  The scale teams will have a
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  version of matching stimulus.
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  And then we're hoping in
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  years to come that we can
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  add in different aspects
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  that the grounds has the
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  ability to do a trail run.
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  They have a turf field.
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  So there's a lot of stuff
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  that we can do with this
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  facility if we have the
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  backing that I think we
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  will from the community.
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  That is so cool.
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  Big questions.
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  Are there still spots
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  available for people to
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  sign up and register?
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  Yeah, absolutely.
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  So we we had an early bird
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  registration and we're
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  about at 50 percent capacity.
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  So for September being five months away,
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  I'm very happy with that.
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  The most people are still
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  waiting for to find out if
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  they should be doing our
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  extra scaled early.
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  So they can sign up.
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  They can go to conquest
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  events or they can go
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  through our Web site,
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  which is FFTF competitions dot com.
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  Yeah,
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  so they could still sign up for that.
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  But we do expect it to sell out.
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  The elites will fill in
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  later as we see what
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  happens over the next couple weeks.
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  But we have sold out every
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  event we've done so far,
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  and we're hoping to have
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  500 athletes there that weekend.
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  Wow, that's really awesome.
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  How do you prevent Christian
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  Harris and Christine Best
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  teaming up and doing a scaled team?
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  I personally bet every
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  athlete that signs up.
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  For the scale this year,
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  you're actually allowed to
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  participate because that is
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  more of a community division.
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  There's no cash prizes in that.
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  RX is regulated very carefully.
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  We have elite level restrictions,
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  so how many elite athletes,
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  and we have a definition of
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  what we consider elite over
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  the past several years.
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  I bet the teams.
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  I go through each person and
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  I look them up on CrossFit
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  Games and look at their social media and
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  I tell them no or yes,
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  and we don't have to do it that often,
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  but we've done it before.
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  Yeah,
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  our registration page has the
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  information as to, you know,
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  guide people if you've
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  competed at the games or at semifinals or,
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  you know, or at a higher level athlete,
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  which division you are
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  allowed to participate in
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  and at what capacity.
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  You know,
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  we do it because with cash prizes,
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  we want it to be fair for
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  the average CrossFitter to
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  come in and be able to have a chance.
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  You know,
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  it's not fun for everyone to have
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  someone come in and just
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  sweep the competition
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  because they signed up
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  lower than they really
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  should be competing.
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  So if Jamie would sign up in
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  the RX division,
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  she would have to get a
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  bunch of schleps like me to
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  compete with her to stay RX, right?
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  Well, you know,
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  we'll have to look at
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  everybody's scores and we'll see.
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  But we did,
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  we did take that restriction
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  off the scale division
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  because people like,
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  like best to have their,
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  she has a community, she has a gym.
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  And,
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  and if she had members that wanted to
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  do it, that were scaled,
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  we did want to encourage
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  people to do that, um,
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  as keep it competitive,
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  but there's no cash prizes in that.
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  So we,
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  we were a little bit looser with
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  that and we want to try to
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  encourage that.
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  Yeah.
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  I think that that's like a
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  subtle thing that the
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  average CrossFitter wants to know.
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  You know,
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  they don't want to go and just
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  get smoked at a competition.
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  They want to make sure that it's for them,
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  cash prize or not.
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  And I'd like that you guys do that.
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  Yeah.
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  You know, and I've been in,
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  it's been nice.
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  I've been in the situation where, you know,
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  in my stalking or vetting
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  or whatever you want to call it,
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  I have reached out to
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  athletes and be like, listen,
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  you don't belong in this division.
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  And,
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  and they've almost been in self doubt.
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  Like I belong better.
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  And I've talked people up, you know,
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  and I've talked some people down and,
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  and it usually works out to
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  their benefit as well.
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  You know, it's, it's interesting,
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  but you know, only once or twice,
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  maybe along the way we've
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  had someone try to sandbag it, you know?
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  So how well are you guys
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  doing on volunteers?
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  So that's a good topic to bring up.
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  So volunteers is always
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  tough because we don't own a gym.
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  So we don't have our
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  community of members to pull from.
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  I know a lot of people I speak to,
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  like Tim from Metcon Rush,
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  they have these communities and people
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  you know, get involved real quick.
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  We've built a community.
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  We're doing okay.
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  We always need more,
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  always tons and tons more.
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  And then we've also
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  partnered with the AFJ and
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  they're going to come and
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  send a crew to help us with
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  our elite level teams at
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  our RX level team.
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  So to help kind of offset
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  some of that judging,
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  they're going to provide
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  for us a little bit as well.
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  And it also creates an
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  opportunity because we're
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  not filling every judging
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  position from the AFJ.
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  So we still want to have
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  those community level
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  volunteer judges who have experience,
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  but want to learn more.
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  And they're going to be
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  working alongside the AFJ
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  judges and kind of getting some, you know,
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  on the ground training and
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  some assistance there, which is nice.
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  And, but volunteers,
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  especially at a facility
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  this size with the athletes
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  that we're hoping to have, you know,
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  competing,
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  we always need bodies for the
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  whole weekend.
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  So yeah.
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  And it's anything.
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  If you have no experience,
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  it's like the perfect opportunity.
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  We have this, you know, anything available,
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  whether it's scoring or, you know.
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  Ticket sales and things like that.
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  Pit crew, anything like that, yeah.
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  i love about that is um I
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  came up through the
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  volunteer ranks in crossfit
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  before I did this and I
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  always wanted to be a judge
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  but I didn't know what I
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  needed to do to get there
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  so if you want to be a
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  judge and you go just do
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  the community event but
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  you're working with the afj
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  you get to kind of see what
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  you need to do right to get
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  to that next level and
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  there's a ton of people out
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  there that want to move up
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  through those volunteer ranks
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  And that's exactly what we
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  have planned with the AFJ.
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  So when the scale division is going,
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  we want to use those new
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  judges that are learning
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  and the AFJ is going to be
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  there to support those people.
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  So it's going to be kind of
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  a good opportunity for them
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  to learn and to connect
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  with them because they're a
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  growing association as well
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  and they need more bodies to support.
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  my first job was handing out
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  t-shirts to volunteers and
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  then by the end I judged uh
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  regionals before they went
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  away and so you just got to
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  figure it out and work your
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  way up and it's awesome the
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  best the best way to learn
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  to do something is to do it
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  and we've had volunteers
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  who've been with us from
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  our first competition and
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  done almost every
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  competition with us and
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  that's exactly what it is
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  you know they come in and they're
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  handing out, you know,
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  the swag bags and they're
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  checking athletes in.
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  And then by the last event or two,
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  they're on the floor judging and,
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  you know,
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  some of our best judges because
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  they've been around,
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  they know what we expect
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  and we've worked with them.
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  They've worked with other people.
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  It's just a great community experience.
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  So they can sign up for that
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  through the same website as
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  registration and spectators.
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  And if anyone has questions,
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  they could DM and I'll
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  answer personally if
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  they're not sure if they
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  should be doing it or they're afraid,
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  I'll talk them into it.
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  You say prizes.
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  You're actually giving
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  prizes for both Elite and RX,
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  which is very unique.
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  Can you talk about that a little bit?
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  So one of the big things
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  when we started Fight for the Fittest,
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  you know,
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  the first year was that we felt
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  like the average
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  CrossFitter who puts in so
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  much time and effort to
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  train for these local
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  competitions weren't getting, you know,
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  that feeling of being what
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  the elite get with all the
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  prizes and the swag.
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  So from our very first competition,
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  we actually went out of
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  pocket before the first
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  event and bought tons of prizes, barbells,
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  weight vests.
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  We just wanted to spoil them.
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  And that's kind of just been our...
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  The way we do things ever since.
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  And when we decided to add elite,
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  this is the first time
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  we're actually opening an elite division.
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  We did not want to take away
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  from our RX division.
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  We wanted to, and even our scaled,
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  we want to give them that
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  same experience of working
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  and being rewarded and
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  feeling like a high level athlete.
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  So for the elite and RX,
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  we do have cash prizes.
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  We definitely were toying
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  with the idea of cash for scales,
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  but again, just for, you know,
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  people obviously not wanting people to go,
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  you know, to compete down, we ended up,
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  we're going to be doing a ton of stuff.
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  It's going to be like
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  difficult to walk away in one trip with,
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  with all this stuff that our sponsors,
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  we have fantastic sponsors and they,
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  they hook us up with tons
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  of prizes as well,
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  but the elites will have, um,
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  cash, $4,000, $3,000, and $2,000.
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  And then the RX first place is $1,500,
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  and then the cash prizes go
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  down as well from there.
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  So we do want to really grow
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  this elite level
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  competition for teams that
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  maybe just missed out on the games,
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  that missed out on semis.
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  There's not a ton
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  of team competitions
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  especially in the northeast
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  uh I know that because it's
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  hard to do you know
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  logistically equipment wise
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  spacing timing it's hard to
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  do um so we're hoping that
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  we can kind of become a
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  staple for for teams going
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  forward awesome
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  Well, guys,
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  it's been awesome having you on here.
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  I'm really interested in
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  doing some media coverage
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  on some more local
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  competitions this year.
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  So I'd love to reach out to
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  you and maybe come up to the show.
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  We would love to have you.
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  Do a behind-the-scenes.
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  I would love to have that.
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  We have Lauren coming out
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  and we have a great media
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  team with Be Relentless.
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  I'm great friends with Be Relentless.
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  They're awesome.
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  He's a good dude and we're
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  so excited to have him.
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  So that's our first time working with him.
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  So yeah,
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  let's talk more and we'd love to
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  have you.
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  Awesome.
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  Well,
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  what I'll do is I'll cut this as a
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  separate clip later so you
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  can use it to promote and
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  share it wherever you need to.
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  That'll be within the next day or two.
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  I want to thank you so much for being on.
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  You guys have been awesome.
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  Thank you so much.
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  I'm glad you're feeling well.
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  Yeah, thank you.
• 14:34
  And good luck with the competition.
• 14:36
  Thank you so much for having us.
• 14:38
  All right.
• 14:38
  Thank you.
• 14:39
  Bye, guys.
• 14:40
  Bye.
• 14:44
  All right.
• 14:44
  That was Sam and Kelly
• 14:47
  Kivett from fight for the fittest.
• 14:49
  I want to thank them so much
• 14:50
  for being here.
• 14:52
  Um,
• 14:52
  it was awesome getting to know them and,
• 14:54
  uh, yeah,
• 14:56
  that sounds like a great competition.
• 14:58
  Yeah, that sounds awesome.
• 14:59
  It is.
• 15:00
  There are not very many team opportunities,
• 15:03
  so that that's really cool.
• 15:05
  They've added that.
• 15:07
  Yeah.
• 15:07
  And you know,
• 15:09
  there's some bigger
• 15:09
  competitions that don't
• 15:11
  give out the cash prizes
• 15:12
  they're giving out.
• 15:13
  Yeah.
• 15:16
  So support local.
• 15:19
  Good evening, guys.
• 15:21
  Good evening.
• 15:22
  How's it going?
• 15:23
  Not too bad.
• 15:24
  You?
• 15:25
  Good.
• 15:26
  Good.
• 15:27
  Third show today.
• 15:28
  Just log in at it.
• 15:34
  So how has you were going to
• 15:37
  do a mock this week, right?
• 15:39
  I did do a mock.
• 15:40
  I'm sore.
• 15:40
  My legs are sore.
• 15:44
  Jamie did the real thing.
• 15:45
  We'll get into that in a minute.
• 15:47
  But I had to ask Jamie, you know,
• 15:49
  Welcome to Wrexham came back.
• 15:53
  Have you been keeping up?
• 15:55
  No, we haven't started it.
• 15:58
  Is it amazing?
• 15:59
  Oh, it's just as good as always.
• 16:02
  Just as good as always.
• 16:04
  You'd love it, Carolyn.
• 16:07
  Have you seen it?
• 16:08
  No, you've got to watch it.
• 16:10
  So it's it's Rexham is the
• 16:12
  soccer team that Ryan Reynolds bought.
• 16:15
  And they were like out of
• 16:17
  the Champions League in
• 16:19
  England and trying to get back in,
• 16:21
  try to get promoted.
• 16:23
  And that's what it's all been about.
• 16:25
  But what you'll appreciate with it,
• 16:27
  along with that,
• 16:28
  when they bought the team,
• 16:28
  they bought the women's team as well.
• 16:32
  And in season two,
• 16:33
  they really started to
• 16:34
  feature them along with the
• 16:36
  men's team in the season.
• 16:39
  And they were trying to get
• 16:40
  promoted as well.
• 16:42
  And I don't want to spoil
• 16:43
  anything for anybody on the
• 16:45
  first two seasons.
• 16:47
  It's on Netflix?
• 16:48
  It's Hulu.
• 16:51
  It's actually on FX is what it airs on.
• 16:54
  But Hulu has the streaming rates.
• 16:57
  See,
• 16:57
  Andrew hasn't even watched the new
• 16:58
  season.
• 16:59
  It's not just me.
• 17:00
  Yeah, I'm three episodes in.
• 17:01
  Guys, come on.
• 17:03
  Let's go.
• 17:03
  I've been busy.
• 17:08
  So...
• 17:09
  Yeah,
• 17:11
  it is like watching a season of a sport,
• 17:13
  this show,
• 17:14
  because they climb and fall in
• 17:18
  the standings,
• 17:20
  and then they show game
• 17:22
  clips and your heart's
• 17:23
  falling when another team scores,
• 17:26
  and it's just crazy.
• 17:30
  But it's as good as watching sports.
• 17:34
  Kenneth is making a snide remark.
• 17:35
  They have Hulu in Canada?
• 17:36
  Yeah.
• 17:38
  I'm not sure.
• 17:39
  I think so.
• 17:40
  I think I get it.
• 17:40
  I probably don't have it.
• 17:45
  That's why I don't.
• 17:46
  But I don't really watch
• 17:47
  even much Netflix at all.
• 17:49
  Lex does more Netflix or shows.
• 17:53
  So, like, for me, there's a Disney bundle,
• 17:56
  which is ESPN, Hulu, and Disney.
• 18:00
  And we got that a long time
• 18:01
  ago when my daughter lived here.
• 18:03
  And it's because I like ESPN.
• 18:05
  My wife liked that weird something tale,
• 18:10
  The Handmaid's Tale.
• 18:11
  Oh, yeah.
• 18:12
  I was on Hulu.
• 18:13
  So she got Hulu, Corey got Disney,
• 18:15
  and I got ESPN.
• 18:18
  And it was a nice bundle.
• 18:19
  Less than Netflix charges now.
• 18:26
  No, Andrew,
• 18:26
  you can wait till after the show,
• 18:29
  then go watch Wrexham.
• 18:35
  But yeah,
• 18:36
  I just had to bring that up
• 18:37
  because I got Jamie hooked
• 18:38
  on Wrexham last year, last season,
• 18:41
  and now it's back and I
• 18:42
  wanted to see if she was catching up.
• 18:48
  Lana Marcin,
• 18:49
  it's on Disney Plus in Canada.
• 18:54
  Jamie, happy Mother's Day.
• 18:56
  Thank you.
• 18:56
  What'd you do?
• 18:59
  Workout four.
• 19:07
  Ordered in our Marley spoon box.
• 19:10
  I had ordered like the
• 19:10
  Mother's Day brunch kit and
• 19:14
  it was waffles.
• 19:15
  It was like this really
• 19:17
  in-depth recipe of waffles, though,
• 19:20
  like had yeast and you had
• 19:21
  to make it the night before.
• 19:22
  So the boys,
• 19:23
  they did that last night for
• 19:24
  me and then cooked them this morning.
• 19:27
  I was so full and I was like,
• 19:29
  got to the gym and I was like, oh, my God,
• 19:31
  I need like an hour before
• 19:32
  I can even like think about it.
• 19:36
  So, yeah, I had that for breakfast.
• 19:37
  Then we just went out to dinner.
• 19:38
  I was rushing back here just to make this.
• 19:40
  The restaurant was so packed tonight.
• 19:44
  I mean, we knew it would be,
• 19:45
  but it was just insane.
• 19:46
  Our food was so slow.
• 19:50
  My wife boycotted Mother's Day.
• 19:52
  Yeah.
• 19:55
  I honestly thought we were not doing it.
• 19:58
  Like, last weekend we had said, you know,
• 19:59
  like,
• 20:00
  kind of out this weekend with
• 20:01
  semifinals and...
• 20:04
  And then, I don't know,
• 20:05
  yesterday we were getting
• 20:06
  texts trying to figure out
• 20:07
  what we were doing.
• 20:08
  I was like,
• 20:09
  I don't even know what I'm
• 20:10
  going to be done working out.
• 20:11
  But we made it work.
• 20:13
  Yeah, Corey's going through some stuff.
• 20:15
  And she was like,
• 20:15
  I just don't want any
• 20:16
  pressure on her to feel
• 20:18
  like she needs to be here.
• 20:19
  So she goes,
• 20:21
  I'm just boycotting it so she
• 20:22
  doesn't feel the pressure to come home.
• 20:24
  Fair enough.
• 20:26
  And so we had a nice weekend,
• 20:30
  just her and I. Did some
• 20:31
  errands yesterday and took
• 20:33
  her out to lunch.
• 20:35
  But last thing before we get
• 20:36
  to the CrossFit,
• 20:37
  Lucas had prom and he was
• 20:41
  sporting the pink tux as
• 20:43
  well as anybody could.
• 20:46
  You should pull that up.
• 20:47
  We should have had that
• 20:48
  ready to bring up on.
• 20:50
  I thought he looked so good.
• 20:52
  Like, he really went all out.
• 20:55
  His friends wore black, but I was like,
• 20:57
  come on, guys.
• 20:57
  It's Barbie theme.
• 20:59
  I know.
• 20:59
  And I kept telling him, like,
• 21:01
  because I had ended up ordering, like,
• 21:03
  six of these suits for him to try on.
• 21:05
  And I was like,
• 21:06
  ask your friends if they
• 21:07
  want to try one of these on, like,
• 21:09
  before I send them all back.
• 21:11
  I don't know.
• 21:11
  I don't think he asked.
• 21:12
  There he is.
• 21:14
  Aww.
• 21:17
  He looks so good.
• 21:18
  So good.
• 21:20
  So jealous.
• 21:21
  Yeah.
• 21:22
  He was, he was a stud.
• 21:24
  He said he got lots of compliments.
• 21:27
  So.
• 21:29
  Well, and this is going to sound bad,
• 21:32
  but like, I love the print in it too.
• 21:34
  Like it's just not.
• 21:37
  Right.
• 21:38
  Yeah.
• 21:39
  Like the first one we had
• 21:40
  ordered had like flowers in
• 21:42
  it and it was like real sparkly.
• 21:43
  It was like a bit much.
• 21:44
  And then the one that he
• 21:46
  said he liked was a
• 21:47
  straight up plain pink suit.
• 21:48
  And it was just not as like, I don't know.
• 21:52
  It just wasn't as unique as this one.
• 21:53
  And then when this one came in,
• 21:55
  this is what, this is what he said.
• 21:56
  Yeah.
• 21:57
  I was really happy with it.
• 21:59
  Yeah.
• 22:00
  And he had a good time?
• 22:02
  Yeah.
• 22:03
  I don't know how much he dances.
• 22:04
  I feel like those boys just stand there.
• 22:07
  But he said he had fun,
• 22:08
  and he said he did dance a little bit.
• 22:12
  It was at MSU's stadium,
• 22:16
  up in the press box area.
• 22:19
  I've never been up there,
• 22:20
  so it sounds like it was really cool.
• 22:23
  Yeah.
• 22:25
  That's really cool.
• 22:26
  Anything like that.
• 22:29
  Yeah,
• 22:29
  I had a conference one time at the
• 22:32
  Kansas City Soccer Stadium
• 22:35
  in their press box.
• 22:36
  And we had a work conference
• 22:38
  overlooking the field.
• 22:39
  It was awesome.
• 22:40
  Yeah.
• 22:44
  Well, you had a busy weekend.
• 22:45
  It was age group semifinal weekend.
• 22:48
  We did a little show with
• 22:49
  some guys this afternoon.
• 22:51
  All the ladies I'd reached
• 22:52
  out to were like,
• 22:53
  I'm doing a workout right at that time.
• 22:55
  Yeah, when you said the time, I was like,
• 22:57
  that's when I said I'm going to the gym.
• 23:01
  But I did get Ryan Redkey, Corey Leonard,
• 23:04
  and Dex Hopkins to jump on.
• 23:07
  And whenever you have Dex and Corey on,
• 23:09
  they're the Chatty Cathy
• 23:11
  doll that just pulled their own string.
• 23:13
  It was so good.
• 23:14
  It was a cooking show too, Scott.
• 23:16
  It was.
• 23:18
  Dex was meal prepping for his workout.
• 23:21
  I loved it.
• 23:24
  But I had a blast.
• 23:25
  They were so, so much fun.
• 23:27
  Wasn't sure Ryan knew what was going on,
• 23:30
  but he seemed to be playing along.
• 23:32
  He did great.
• 23:35
  It was off the rails.
• 23:38
  So, so they,
• 23:39
  we talked about a lot of
• 23:40
  things and I want,
• 23:41
  I want to get your
• 23:41
  impression of some of those.
• 23:45
  And that is, first of all,
• 23:47
  where you sit right now is
• 23:49
  a little tenuous.
• 23:51
  Yeah.
• 23:51
  Yeah.
• 23:54
  You're currently in 43rd,
• 23:56
  but your weakest workout is
• 23:57
  that it was out of the way.
• 23:58
  Right.
• 24:00
  You,
• 24:01
  you've said on here before that the
• 24:02
  torn labrum,
• 24:03
  it hurts most or your
• 24:06
  shoulders most unstable in a snatch.
• 24:09
  Yeah.
• 24:10
  And that could be mental too.
• 24:13
  Like I just, yeah, I don't know.
• 24:16
  We talked about that off air
• 24:18
  and that can stay private or whatever,
• 24:21
  but, um,
• 24:23
  But yeah,
• 24:23
  but you got it out of the way and
• 24:26
  you didn't fall clear to the bottom.
• 24:28
  You're still middle, middle of the pack.
• 24:31
  Yeah.
• 24:32
  I mean, there was like 50,
• 24:35
  50 people who also didn't
• 24:38
  snatch that final bar.
• 24:39
  And I think I was sixth out
• 24:41
  of those 52 people who
• 24:45
  didn't snatch that bar.
• 24:47
  So I made tie break was pretty good.
• 24:49
  Yeah.
• 24:49
  It became a tie break
• 24:50
  workout for a lot of people.
• 24:53
  I had,
• 24:54
  we had two people at my gym in the
• 24:56
  semifinals.
• 24:57
  One's a 14 and 14 year old boy.
• 24:59
  And then the other one is a 65 plus.
• 25:01
  So really both end of the spectrum.
• 25:05
  But then I started looking
• 25:06
  at their leaderboards and
• 25:08
  sure enough like there's
• 25:09
  like just a chunk of people
• 25:11
  at you know whatever
• 25:12
  weights where people don't
• 25:13
  lift at that weight and it
• 25:15
  just becomes a tiebreaker
• 25:17
  there's like 20 people that
• 25:18
  were tied and for your
• 25:19
  division there was what 50
• 25:20
  you said I think it was
• 25:22
  yeah I think it was 50
• 25:23
  people maybe 46 40 I don't
• 25:25
  know um at that final bar crazy yeah
• 25:32
  So if people know you're sitting in 43rd,
• 25:34
  they pick 40.
• 25:37
  But you have two pretty good
• 25:39
  workouts for you coming up.
• 25:42
  I hope so.
• 25:43
  So I have confidence that
• 25:44
  you will be well above that
• 25:47
  40 spot after the weekend is over.
• 25:52
  After seeing Rudy do his and
• 25:56
  seeing your times,
• 25:57
  I'm confident you will be
• 25:59
  in really good shape.
• 26:02
  Did you redo any this weekend?
• 26:05
  I have not.
• 26:08
  I may redo number three
• 26:12
  tomorrow just for... That's
• 26:14
  the ring muscle-up one?
• 26:15
  Yeah,
• 26:16
  but it would probably just kind of be
• 26:20
  for training purposes more
• 26:22
  than anything else.
• 26:24
  Or position-wise on day one?
• 26:28
  I don't know what they're...
• 26:31
  what they're uh how they're
• 26:33
  setting that up I doesn't
• 26:34
  that doesn't really bother
• 26:35
  me honestly so it's a long
• 26:42
  it's again and we talked
• 26:44
  about this with carolyn and
• 26:45
  the in quarterfinals and
• 26:46
  you in quarterfinals it's a
• 26:48
  really long weekend for
• 26:50
  four workouts it's so long
• 26:54
  I and I don't like that
• 26:55
  because I don't like the
• 26:57
  testing two, three times.
• 26:59
  And, um, I don't know.
• 27:01
  It's just not, not my thing.
• 27:04
  I think while I think one, one, three,
• 27:09
  and four are totally redoable.
• 27:11
  I think two is too much volume to redo.
• 27:16
  Um, so I, if anyone redid that, holy cow,
• 27:19
  props to them.
• 27:20
  There was no way I was
• 27:21
  redoing that workout.
• 27:23
  Um, well, but minus the three,
• 27:25
  the three minute setup and, um,
• 27:27
  10 seconds of jumping rope.
• 27:33
  Uh, I see McCannons says, uh,
• 27:36
  I think chase said that too,
• 27:38
  and it would have been nice
• 27:39
  for a flashy fifth workout.
• 27:42
  There totally needs to be another workout.
• 27:44
  I'm shocked.
• 27:45
  We only have four workouts to be honest.
• 27:50
  It's always been five, right?
• 27:52
  Yeah.
• 27:54
  Crazy.
• 27:56
  Yeah.
• 27:57
  I was surprised quarters was four.
• 28:00
  Like with that much time,
• 28:01
  it easily could be, it could be five.
• 28:06
  But, um,
• 28:08
  so then there was the leak that it
• 28:11
  came out.
• 28:11
  I didn't even know about this.
• 28:13
  Right.
• 28:14
  Neither did the guys on the show today.
• 28:15
  Like they're like,
• 28:16
  we're two days in when we
• 28:17
  learned about it.
• 28:18
  Yeah.
• 28:19
  Some people had the
• 28:20
  movements in the order they
• 28:23
  were weeks before this happened.
• 28:26
  That's insane.
• 28:27
  I got a bone to pick with Tristan.
• 28:29
  He needs to be in that crowd
• 28:30
  so we know these things.
• 28:32
  Yeah, I just saw that.
• 28:34
  See,
• 28:34
  I had just heard that Taylor Self had
• 28:37
  it just because I saw it on
• 28:39
  Taylor's video that he was
• 28:40
  doing about it.
• 28:42
  But I didn't know that.
• 28:43
  I mean, I'm assuming if it goes to him,
• 28:46
  there's a community of
• 28:47
  people that would have it.
• 28:48
  But I didn't know how many
• 28:49
  people would have access to that.
• 28:52
  It's crazy.
• 28:53
  Like Taylor said,
• 28:54
  people hate his guts and he had it.
• 28:58
  And he said that on Club and Scribble.
• 28:59
  That's where Hiller took that.
• 29:02
  But who else have we heard
• 29:04
  that actually had it other than Taylor?
• 29:07
  So Masters Chatter talked about it,
• 29:09
  and there were other people who had it.
• 29:11
  Okay.
• 29:13
  So what kind of disadvantage
• 29:16
  does that put athletes in
• 29:18
  that don't have it?
• 29:20
  Or do you just not care and
• 29:23
  you're just going to move on?
• 29:24
  Um.
• 29:29
  It's really tough to... It's
• 29:33
  really tough to, like,
• 29:35
  just knowing the movements is one thing.
• 29:36
  It's really tough to
• 29:37
  anticipate what the time
• 29:39
  frame would be and... Like,
• 29:43
  you don't have the weights.
• 29:45
  Like,
• 29:45
  just because you knew you were rowing
• 29:46
  and snatching,
• 29:47
  how do you know exactly
• 29:48
  what you're doing?
• 29:49
  And you don't know that it's
• 29:50
  a 20-minute AMRAP.
• 29:51
  Like,
• 29:52
  I suppose you could have practiced
• 29:53
  some combinations of things
• 29:55
  and maybe had a leg up, but...
• 29:58
  you don't know what the long workout is.
• 30:00
  So you don't know which one
• 30:01
  is the one you probably
• 30:03
  want to test so that you
• 30:04
  don't have to have a redo later.
• 30:06
  I don't know.
• 30:09
  So this is the podcast I saw
• 30:12
  talking about it.
• 30:14
  Jason Grubb had a podcast
• 30:15
  and Bob and Joe ripped into
• 30:16
  Taylor without naming him
• 30:18
  saying he had a lack of integrity.
• 30:21
  Who has the lack of the person reporting?
• 30:22
  It has a lack of integrity
• 30:24
  or the person who leaked it.
• 30:27
  I feel like he at least was
• 30:28
  honest in saying, hey,
• 30:30
  I got these workouts.
• 30:33
  Right.
• 30:34
  Reporting is one thing.
• 30:35
  That makes no sense.
• 30:36
  But, like, what was he – I mean,
• 30:38
  I guess he could have reported it earlier,
• 30:40
  but then you also don't
• 30:41
  know if that's the real
• 30:43
  thing until it comes out.
• 30:44
  And it's like, oh, I guess these were it,
• 30:47
  the text message or whatever he had.
• 30:49
  Yeah.
• 30:52
  maybe they felt that if once he had it,
• 30:54
  he should have put it out
• 30:55
  versus after the workouts were released.
• 30:57
  I don't know.
• 30:58
  Is that what they meant?
• 30:58
  Cause I didn't see that podcast.
• 31:01
  I only saw clips from it to
• 31:02
  know that the leak was
• 31:04
  bigger than just Taylor.
• 31:09
  Here's my, here's my thing.
• 31:15
  I really disagree with you, Andrew,
• 31:16
  and I'm trying to get upset.
• 31:19
  Um,
• 31:20
  Here's the deal.
• 31:23
  Being at Legends back in the athlete area,
• 31:27
  talking to athletes,
• 31:28
  it was obvious to me that
• 31:31
  some of the athletes had
• 31:33
  more information than other
• 31:35
  athletes about that competition.
• 31:39
  And I'm not naming names or
• 31:42
  accusing anybody of anything.
• 31:45
  It was obvious to me in the
• 31:46
  questions I asked and the
• 31:47
  answers I got that some
• 31:49
  people knew more than
• 31:50
  others and knew more about
• 31:52
  what was coming with the
• 31:54
  age group CrossFit games than others.
• 31:58
  Yeah.
• 32:00
  So there is someone leaking
• 32:01
  information to some of the athletes.
• 32:06
  If you want to be a legit
• 32:07
  sport moving forward, that has to stop.
• 32:10
  Or you need to make your
• 32:12
  announcements way earlier for everybody.
• 32:14
  CrossFit almost needs to
• 32:16
  hire like a few athletes
• 32:20
  that are good that could basically like,
• 32:22
  you know,
• 32:22
  semifinal games level athletes
• 32:24
  and be like, Hey,
• 32:24
  we're going to pay you a contract.
• 32:26
  And like, it's a paid job.
• 32:28
  You're on the team to test
• 32:30
  and you're not part of any
• 32:31
  training camp or anything like that.
• 32:32
  Your job is to, you know,
• 32:34
  test the workouts and
• 32:34
  you're part of that little tiny circle.
• 32:37
  It's almost like you need
• 32:37
  someone that's not actively active.
• 32:40
  within the community, even,
• 32:41
  even like people that are programming,
• 32:43
  like they're still friends
• 32:44
  with people that are
• 32:45
  competing and stuff like that.
• 32:46
  Like, it's just hard.
• 32:47
  We live like, it's,
• 32:48
  it's just an unprofessional
• 32:49
  sport in terms, like in general,
• 32:51
  these leagues happen every competition,
• 32:53
  almost like almost every competition.
• 32:55
  There's people that know the workouts, um,
• 32:59
  or movements or something like that.
• 33:01
  Like, I don't know.
• 33:02
  I don't even know if that
• 33:02
  would even work to, they don't,
• 33:04
  they wouldn't have the money to do that,
• 33:06
  but.
• 33:08
  I don't even know what the solution is.
• 33:09
  Cause you still need some
• 33:10
  sort of high level athletes
• 33:12
  to test the workouts,
• 33:15
  but almost everyone is
• 33:16
  connected to someone.
• 33:19
  So it's like,
• 33:20
  even if you were to hire them
• 33:21
  to test workouts or it's just hard.
• 33:25
  I think there's just a lot
• 33:26
  of people that lack
• 33:27
  integrity in general and
• 33:30
  I just, I don't know.
• 33:33
  It's just frustrating.
• 33:35
  It's really frustrating.
• 33:37
  I'm,
• 33:37
  I'm to the point in my belief system
• 33:40
  that the late announcement
• 33:42
  of things is just,
• 33:43
  we just have to go away from it.
• 33:48
  You just have to, you know, the workout,
• 33:51
  you have it finalized,
• 33:52
  you announce it to the
• 33:53
  world and then you do the
• 33:55
  password stuff if it's,
• 33:56
  if it's online or.
• 33:59
  you or it's live and
• 34:02
  everybody has the same
• 34:03
  advantage you should always
• 34:05
  do the password online
• 34:06
  because if you had access
• 34:07
  to it prior you can't film
• 34:09
  it prior you need to
• 34:11
  release that password so
• 34:12
  that you're still executing
• 34:14
  whatever workout it was on
• 34:16
  that day or that weekend
• 34:18
  like the password thing was
• 34:19
  a great idea when they when they had that
• 34:24
  But yeah,
• 34:24
  I think that they just almost
• 34:26
  have to release the
• 34:27
  workouts early because
• 34:29
  there's just too much
• 34:30
  information out there.
• 34:32
  Once the workouts are finalized,
• 34:33
  it's almost like, okay, release it.
• 34:37
  Yep.
• 34:38
  Seema, you're making excellent points,
• 34:40
  but I don't want to name names.
• 34:41
  So I'm not pulling up your comment,
• 34:43
  not because of I don't
• 34:45
  believe you or respect you.
• 34:47
  You are making excellent points.
• 34:52
  What Andrew says here,
• 34:53
  society in general has a
• 34:56
  problem with integrity.
• 34:57
  I agree.
• 34:59
  But like you're saying,
• 35:01
  just because Taylor heard it,
• 35:02
  he shouldn't share it.
• 35:04
  I actually think that is the
• 35:06
  issue and it in line with
• 35:07
  what you're saying.
• 35:09
  Like,
• 35:09
  I kind of think he has that he has
• 35:12
  more integrity to try to
• 35:14
  put it out there and let everyone,
• 35:17
  everyone else be in it.
• 35:18
  Like it's,
• 35:20
  it's unfair.
• 35:21
  And so he's trying to level
• 35:22
  that playing field by
• 35:23
  getting that out there.
• 35:24
  Like he shouldn't be one of
• 35:26
  the few that has it or for people,
• 35:28
  if he like is aware of where,
• 35:30
  where it came around.
• 35:33
  It's just tough.
• 35:34
  Right.
• 35:34
  Cause like he'll like,
• 35:35
  he coaches age group
• 35:37
  athletes or if he got the
• 35:38
  information for himself for
• 35:39
  the semifinals, right?
• 35:40
  Like it is an advantage for
• 35:41
  him to know that as an athlete,
• 35:43
  like when he got released
• 35:45
  the movements of the
• 35:47
  individual semifinals, um,
• 35:49
  except for like two or
• 35:50
  something that weren't in there.
• 35:51
  Like that's an advantage for him to know.
• 35:53
  And it's like,
• 35:54
  it's a tough situation that he's in.
• 35:56
  He didn't ask to be put in
• 35:57
  that position to know that information.
• 35:59
  So it's, I mean,
• 36:02
  good on him for being
• 36:02
  honest with what would you say?
• 36:06
  Shut up and scribble.
• 36:07
  So the Jr.
• 36:08
  Yep.
• 36:10
  But yeah, it's just a, it's tough.
• 36:14
  But why should he have it?
• 36:15
  Andrew?
• 36:19
  You can't just yell at the screen, Jamie.
• 36:22
  Come on.
• 36:26
  Here we go.
• 36:28
  So Andrew said,
• 36:29
  but he doesn't know who has it.
• 36:32
  I don't think he's, and then he says this,
• 36:35
  I don't think he's assuming
• 36:36
  everybody has it.
• 36:37
  I think he,
• 36:38
  if you heard Brent Fikowski on Savan,
• 36:42
  he said if he had it,
• 36:43
  he would be the rat that
• 36:45
  told everybody because it
• 36:46
  needs to be a level playing field.
• 36:49
  And he goes,
• 36:49
  everybody would call me a rat.
• 36:50
  And that's what I would do.
• 36:52
  And that's why nobody shares
• 36:53
  anything with me because
• 36:54
  they know I'm going to rat it all out.
• 36:58
  And the one year at the games,
• 37:00
  like there's a, I think it was like 2022,
• 37:04
  I think.
• 37:05
  Like,
• 37:05
  I feel like so many athletes knew so
• 37:07
  many of the workouts.
• 37:08
  Like I was on the bus and I
• 37:10
  had a male athlete tell me, oh yeah,
• 37:13
  the next one I heard
• 37:13
  there's cleans and yokes
• 37:15
  and heavy deadlifts.
• 37:16
  And I was like, okay, yeah.
• 37:17
  I mean,
• 37:17
  we're going to find out soon at the
• 37:19
  briefing.
• 37:20
  And like, I didn't, and then sure enough,
• 37:22
  they're like doing the briefing and then
• 37:26
  The clean, the deadlifts.
• 37:27
  And I'm like, are you kidding me?
• 37:31
  I'm like, how long have people known this?
• 37:33
  And I was like, this is ridiculous.
• 37:37
  I was happy with the workout
• 37:39
  because I like those movements.
• 37:41
  But I was like, people know this?
• 37:44
  This is not a fair game.
• 37:48
  This is not a fair game.
• 37:51
  I completely agree.
• 37:53
  So my last age group question,
• 37:55
  now that we've hammered that quite a bit,
• 37:58
  is I'm confident you're
• 38:02
  going to qualify after this weekend.
• 38:03
  I've seen your scores.
• 38:04
  You're going to be fine.
• 38:06
  You're going to make it to the games,
• 38:07
  and then you have a really
• 38:10
  long time before the games
• 38:13
  because your semis are before elite,
• 38:15
  and elite to elite games is
• 38:18
  a shorter window,
• 38:19
  and then you have another
• 38:20
  month after that.
• 38:22
  So how do you, like,
• 38:25
  do you just stop training
• 38:27
  hard and get your body
• 38:28
  recovered and then start
• 38:31
  building back up as you get closer?
• 38:33
  Or how are you going to
• 38:34
  handle that long window?
• 38:35
  Because I asked Rudy Berger
• 38:37
  the same question.
• 38:37
  I don't want to hear your answer.
• 38:42
  I don't know.
• 38:43
  That's a tough one for me.
• 38:45
  Like, I'm not somebody who likes...
• 38:50
  resting or even like down,
• 38:56
  down regulating in my training.
• 38:57
  Like that's been really hard
• 38:59
  for me over like the last four years.
• 39:01
  Like I would honestly say I
• 39:03
  could show up to any
• 39:04
  competition any week of the
• 39:07
  year and would perform
• 39:09
  exactly as I do any time.
• 39:12
  And,
• 39:12
  and I know that's not even close to ideal,
• 39:15
  ideal, but I, I don't,
• 39:19
  I don't know.
• 39:20
  I just train the same year
• 39:20
  round pretty much.
• 39:23
  So nothing will really change.
• 39:24
  Probably.
• 39:26
  You have a shoulder injury.
• 39:27
  Well, yeah, I,
• 39:29
  right now I should probably
• 39:30
  try to like figure the
• 39:33
  thing is there's really nothing I can do.
• 39:34
  Like, like you said,
• 39:36
  I have to have surgery.
• 39:36
  So I don't know, like,
• 39:40
  and maybe this isn't a topic for here,
• 39:42
  but another CrossFit
• 39:44
  athlete reached out to you
• 39:45
  and said they tried something different.
• 39:47
  Do you have time to try that
• 39:49
  different thing,
• 39:49
  or do you think that wouldn't work?
• 39:55
  Like the court zone shot?
• 39:59
  Yeah.
• 40:00
  Well,
• 40:00
  it was Carleen Matthews reached out
• 40:01
  to you because she had the same injury.
• 40:03
  Yeah,
• 40:04
  I think she just did a court zone
• 40:05
  shot too.
• 40:06
  Yeah, I thought she did PRP.
• 40:10
  Oh, yeah,
• 40:12
  I don't know if I want to do that.
• 40:15
  don't know if because of the
• 40:16
  extended period of time
• 40:18
  would you have the time to
• 40:19
  try something and recover
• 40:21
  maybe maybe I don't know I
• 40:24
  don't know enough about any
• 40:25
  of that stuff like I don't
• 40:27
  you have to like not work
• 40:28
  out for a while after prp
• 40:29
  like isn't it kind of like
• 40:34
  a stem cell type issue like
• 40:36
  and you're supposed to not
• 40:37
  work out so like that it
• 40:38
  can heal I think it's your
• 40:40
  own red blood cells it's
• 40:42
  your own platelets
• 40:45
  I don't know.
• 40:47
  I'll just keep working out on it.
• 40:48
  It's whatever.
• 40:49
  I'm just going to rip it off
• 40:51
  and then we'll get it fixed afterwards.
• 40:52
  Like I, it is what it is.
• 40:54
  Would you get surgery after the games?
• 40:57
  Yeah, that's kind of on the plan.
• 40:58
  And that's why I just like train up.
• 41:00
  Like it is what it is.
• 41:01
  I'll work on it until it
• 41:03
  pops out of pops out of the
• 41:04
  socket completely.
• 41:05
  And, and it's useless.
• 41:08
  And then we'll get it healed.
• 41:11
  I don't know.
• 41:12
  I'm not smart.
• 41:13
  I just work my body until it
• 41:17
  doesn't go anymore.
• 41:19
  Okay.
• 41:22
  Right.
• 41:22
  I'll rub some dirt on it, Ken.
• 41:24
  You're spot on.
• 41:25
  I'm just here to ask the question.
• 41:29
  We'll see what Tristan has to say.
• 41:32
  Okay.
• 41:34
  And you're working with a doctor.
• 41:37
  You could talk to them as well.
• 41:40
  I guess I haven't seen him since.
• 41:42
  Okay.
• 41:43
  February.
• 41:45
  So I haven't seen him since
• 41:46
  before the open.
• 41:47
  Cause you don't want to hear
• 41:48
  what he has to say at this point.
• 41:51
  I, yeah.
• 41:51
  I mean,
• 41:53
  he told me I can work out on it and
• 41:56
  I will probably try to get
• 41:57
  the quarter zone shot.
• 41:58
  That's like,
• 41:58
  that's going to be what I do
• 42:00
  and see if I can, I don't know.
• 42:03
  Okay.
• 42:03
  All right, cool.
• 42:07
  Well, good luck the rest of the way.
• 42:11
  Um, if you redo good luck with that.
• 42:13
  Um, and I,
• 42:16
  I'm confident you'll be in there.
• 42:19
  So, um,
• 42:22
  we're a week out from the elite
• 42:24
  semifinals already.
• 42:26
  It seems like the season is so compressed.
• 42:28
  Is it just me?
• 42:31
  We're like, bam, quarterfinals.
• 42:33
  Bam, age group semis.
• 42:35
  Bam, we're into the elite semis.
• 42:37
  It's just nonstop.
• 42:40
  I don't know.
• 42:40
  I felt like it was like this last year.
• 42:44
  I had a lot more time to do
• 42:45
  semifinal interviews last
• 42:46
  year than I do this year.
• 42:47
  Because the quarterfinal got pushed back.
• 42:49
  That's the issue for you.
• 42:51
  Because the quarterfinals
• 42:52
  almost two or three weeks
• 42:53
  after what it was last year.
• 42:56
  Like there was a lot of time.
• 42:57
  There was still somewhat a
• 42:58
  lot of time between the
• 42:59
  quarters and the semis.
• 43:01
  This time around,
• 43:02
  it was like quarters got
• 43:03
  done and less than a month away.
• 43:05
  Boom,
• 43:06
  you already have the first semifinal.
• 43:09
  So that's why it's probably
• 43:10
  like more jam packed.
• 43:13
  It feels like a quicker
• 43:14
  turnaround for sure from
• 43:15
  the quarters to semis.
• 43:16
  I prefer like last year's
• 43:18
  version where it went open
• 43:20
  one weekend off and then we
• 43:22
  had the quarterfinals and
• 43:23
  then a little bit more time
• 43:24
  to build for the semifinals.
• 43:27
  I prefer that over the
• 43:31
  schedule of this year, I guess.
• 43:33
  But it is what it is.
• 43:36
  So, so they're here anyway.
• 43:38
  We're here.
• 43:39
  They come last week on barbell spin.
• 43:42
  Um,
• 43:43
  they had a dream Bosman on who did
• 43:45
  clarify some, some things.
• 43:48
  First is the running on the workout.
• 43:52
  One is not going to be on a machine.
• 43:55
  How excited are you for that?
• 43:58
  Or are you not?
• 44:00
  I don't know.
• 44:01
  Like I like the machines.
• 44:02
  I get the direct feedback of
• 44:04
  like if I'm slowing down,
• 44:05
  if I'm picking it up versus
• 44:06
  like on the floor.
• 44:08
  But in terms of the race,
• 44:10
  like you just know where
• 44:11
  you are in the race.
• 44:11
  Like it's hard to you can
• 44:13
  like a lot of times you
• 44:14
  could see just the lanes
• 44:16
  beside you last year on the
• 44:17
  flip cards that they were putting.
• 44:19
  But you couldn't see all the
• 44:20
  way down the floor unless
• 44:21
  the commentary or the.
• 44:23
  person talking was announcing.
• 44:25
  And most of the time they're
• 44:26
  like behind on what they're saying.
• 44:28
  Uh,
• 44:28
  so in terms of like knowing where you
• 44:30
  are in the race, it's much better.
• 44:31
  Um, you, again,
• 44:34
  we kind of are like last
• 44:35
  year where you can't
• 44:36
  compare between regions at all.
• 44:38
  Um,
• 44:39
  kind of like the magic carpet from last
• 44:41
  year where one, you know,
• 44:43
  North America had
• 44:45
  the floors that were like super friction.
• 44:48
  And then you had other places that,
• 44:51
  you know, it was sliding much better.
• 44:53
  So like you,
• 44:54
  I always like after the end of
• 44:57
  the semifinals,
• 44:58
  just to see where I would be worldwide.
• 45:00
  And I think that that takes
• 45:02
  that out now because you cannot compare.
• 45:05
  routes that different people
• 45:07
  will be running.
• 45:09
  And it just leaves a lot of
• 45:11
  room for interpretation.
• 45:12
  Is it going to be like 200 meter loops?
• 45:14
  Is it going to be one long 800 meter loop?
• 45:16
  Is it outside?
• 45:18
  Is it inside?
• 45:19
  So I'm looking forward to
• 45:21
  seeing a little bit more of
• 45:22
  those details.
• 45:25
  But I mean,
• 45:26
  I think running on the ground
• 45:28
  will just favor the better runners.
• 45:30
  I think the machines help
• 45:34
  um certain athletes because
• 45:37
  every machine is better if
• 45:39
  you are a little bit taller
• 45:41
  weigh a little bit more so
• 45:47
  yeah I what I think is if
• 45:49
  they would broadcast it
• 45:50
  which they have chosen not
• 45:52
  to it would make it a
• 45:53
  better spectator event
• 45:55
  because you could actually
• 45:57
  see who's winning
• 46:00
  There's nothing more boring
• 46:01
  than watching Air Runner
• 46:03
  and a little tick thing
• 46:05
  going up than that.
• 46:10
  Vi asks a question.
• 46:15
  And she typed a long time,
• 46:16
  so we want to give her her due.
• 46:18
  Jamie,
• 46:19
  there are some games athletes who
• 46:20
  are saying they're
• 46:20
  considering doing the
• 46:22
  individual games if they
• 46:23
  qualify and the Masters games.
• 46:26
  Do you have thoughts on this?
• 46:27
  Is it good for the age groups?
• 46:30
  Yeah,
• 46:31
  I think it's great for the age groups.
• 46:32
  I think keeping some of
• 46:35
  these age group names
• 46:37
  relevant is only going to
• 46:39
  draw bigger crowds to the age groups,
• 46:42
  to the Masters.
• 46:42
  So, yeah,
• 46:44
  if you can have someone go to the
• 46:46
  games and do well and then –
• 46:50
  what,
• 46:50
  and what if that person shows up at
• 46:52
  their 35, 39 and doesn't win?
• 46:54
  Like that just shows you a,
• 46:56
  it probably shows you a
• 46:57
  little bias in the programming possibly,
• 46:59
  but like,
• 47:00
  there's just the qualifying
• 47:04
  process is just,
• 47:05
  it's just difficult and
• 47:08
  everybody's different at
• 47:09
  different stages.
• 47:10
  So, um,
• 47:11
  I think it'd be cool to see
• 47:13
  something like that happen.
• 47:16
  And probably added
• 47:16
  motivation for the age
• 47:18
  group athletes trying to
• 47:19
  beat that games qualifier.
• 47:21
  Absolutely.
• 47:22
  For sure.
• 47:24
  Yeah.
• 47:24
  And exposure is exposure, right?
• 47:27
  The more you get, the better.
• 47:29
  And the age groups need as
• 47:30
  much as they can get.
• 47:31
  And I think you'll probably
• 47:33
  see them even more in team athletes.
• 47:36
  Like you'll have some team
• 47:37
  athletes who then come and
• 47:41
  do the master's.
• 47:45
  Right.
• 47:45
  And Kenneth, that's what I was saying.
• 47:47
  If it was streamed,
• 47:48
  it'd be a better spectator sport,
• 47:50
  but it's not being streamed,
• 47:51
  which is a travesty.
• 47:53
  It is a travesty.
• 47:55
  yeah even like see even if
• 47:57
  they don't get the run
• 47:58
  because it's like outside
• 47:59
  and they come back in and
• 48:00
  they don't want to have
• 48:00
  like a drone or something
• 48:01
  like that but just seeing
• 48:02
  the athletes enter every
• 48:04
  round do their 10 clean and
• 48:05
  jerks run out see the you
• 48:07
  know who's coming in and
• 48:09
  out where people are going
• 48:11
  touch and go singles are
• 48:12
  they making up any ground
• 48:14
  just any type of broadcast would be good
• 48:19
  So I was in the Coliseum for
• 48:22
  the 400s with the cleans,
• 48:24
  the clean ladder,
• 48:25
  one of the most exciting
• 48:26
  events I ever watched.
• 48:27
  And I couldn't even see the run.
• 48:30
  Well, regardless,
• 48:32
  I run that I could not see.
• 48:35
  And then the clean,
• 48:37
  when they were entering and exiting,
• 48:38
  it was so much fun.
• 48:40
  Yeah.
• 48:43
  And this is a longer run.
• 48:44
  Like there's going to be some change.
• 48:46
  Yeah.
• 48:49
  Yeah,
• 48:50
  I'm so upset that they're not doing that.
• 48:55
  So the other clarification
• 48:56
  is that the lunges are farmer's carry.
• 49:02
  Thank God.
• 49:05
  And then he was very coy
• 49:07
  about the handstand walk.
• 49:09
  Hmm.
• 49:11
  Because he was asked straight out,
• 49:12
  is it a straight down and
• 49:14
  back handstand walk?
• 49:16
  And he said,
• 49:18
  I'm going to save that for now.
• 49:21
  Yeah,
• 49:22
  that one I'm just really having
• 49:24
  trouble visualizing.
• 49:26
  I don't get the 96, 120, and then 72.
• 49:31
  And the 72 is the same
• 49:32
  distance as the last event
• 49:35
  with the lunges.
• 49:35
  But, like, yes, they can go into –
• 49:39
  like a 24 foot sections, uh,
• 49:43
  spin was saying like, you know,
• 49:45
  one round would be 48 down
• 49:47
  and back then 60 down and back then a 72.
• 49:50
  But I just don't see that
• 49:52
  like where you'd have a 48, um,
• 49:57
  foot line.
• 49:58
  And then the next round you're going for,
• 50:00
  like,
• 50:00
  I think it would be so confusing to
• 50:02
  have different colored lines.
• 50:03
  It's like, no,
• 50:03
  this time you're going to that line.
• 50:06
  I don't know.
• 50:07
  I think it's just 24-foot sections.
• 50:09
  Maybe with like a pirouette
• 50:11
  or something in the middle of a box.
• 50:14
  Like we had at semifinals last year,
• 50:15
  like a pirouette in the
• 50:16
  middle of each 24-foot section.
• 50:19
  And it's just like a 20-foot,
• 50:21
  one pirouette.
• 50:22
  And then you come down at the 20-foot,
• 50:23
  24-foot.
• 50:25
  Kick back up in the middle.
• 50:26
  You do a 360.
• 50:27
  Just because I don't see them bringing...
• 50:32
  The ramp and like having
• 50:34
  that at every semifinal.
• 50:36
  Right.
• 50:36
  I agree.
• 50:38
  I just don't see them having that.
• 50:41
  Could they do a zigzag?
• 50:43
  They could.
• 50:44
  I don't see that.
• 50:45
  The easiest thing is the
• 50:48
  pirouette that they had last year.
• 50:50
  Totally agree.
• 50:51
  Like, I just don't,
• 50:52
  I don't even see them
• 50:53
  having plates on the ground
• 50:54
  where you go over and.
• 50:56
  Nope.
• 50:58
  Yeah,
• 50:58
  I think it'll be the 24 foot sections
• 51:00
  with one to three pirouettes.
• 51:03
  Something like that.
• 51:06
  I just don't think it's like a 48, 60.
• 51:09
  Like, I don't know.
• 51:10
  I can't.
• 51:11
  I can't picture going
• 51:12
  different distances every time.
• 51:16
  You would just keep adding a length.
• 51:20
  But yeah, I don't know.
• 51:25
  So it was also announced
• 51:27
  that they were changing the
• 51:28
  formula for strength of region,
• 51:33
  and they were only
• 51:34
  including those individuals
• 51:37
  who are going to semifinals
• 51:39
  instead of the whole thing.
• 51:42
  Which is what I thought it was, right?
• 51:44
  That's what I was trying to say last week.
• 51:45
  It was not that way before.
• 51:47
  I know, but that's what they're doing.
• 51:49
  It's like the 40 that signed up,
• 51:51
  that makes the strength of field, right?
• 51:53
  Yeah.
• 51:54
  So we had to wait until 42nd cat got it,
• 51:58
  whoever declined.
• 51:59
  And that's what I thought was happening.
• 52:04
  So it, it was not announced though,
• 52:06
  until Wednesday and then
• 52:08
  released on Friday.
• 52:09
  Um, cause if you follow like Halpin,
• 52:13
  like he changed it
• 52:15
  repeatedly through the week
• 52:16
  as more information became available.
• 52:19
  Um, and like, at first when he said that,
• 52:23
  I was like, okay, that's a,
• 52:24
  that's actually a good change.
• 52:26
  to represent, you know,
• 52:27
  the actual athletes that
• 52:28
  are competing and people
• 52:29
  that are going team that
• 52:31
  tried to do the
• 52:32
  quarterfinals for their regions.
• 52:34
  Like they shouldn't count
• 52:35
  technically because they're
• 52:36
  not in the field.
• 52:36
  So I'm like, okay,
• 52:37
  this is actually a good move.
• 52:38
  And then when the numbers came out,
• 52:40
  I was like, Oh no.
• 52:42
  I was like, yeah, I don't think this is,
• 52:44
  I mean,
• 52:46
  clearly it's somewhat performance based,
• 52:50
  but I was like, Ooh,
• 52:56
  So here's my beef with this whole thing.
• 53:00
  And then I'll let you guys,
• 53:02
  I'll pull the string.
• 53:04
  We'll let you guys go.
• 53:07
  Jamie, when this was released,
• 53:08
  Jamie said to me,
• 53:09
  there's no way that the
• 53:11
  third place person from
• 53:13
  South America beats,
• 53:16
  I can't remember what number she used,
• 53:18
  like the 40th person from
• 53:21
  North America East.
• 53:22
  Correct.
• 53:25
  Or Europe.
• 53:27
  I think the first place
• 53:29
  person would have a hard
• 53:31
  time beating 30 of the
• 53:33
  people in the North America East.
• 53:35
  Correct.
• 53:35
  I was just, yeah, being very extreme.
• 53:37
  But yes.
• 53:38
  I'm going further with it.
• 53:40
  And yet they did a next,
• 53:42
  like I see Oceana with the men.
• 53:45
  The men are on the come.
• 53:46
  And with Bailey and Jay Crouch and Ricky,
• 53:52
  like that needed to be boosted up.
• 53:55
  Yep.
• 53:56
  And the women,
• 53:57
  they have a bunch of young
• 53:58
  women coming out of there too.
• 54:00
  I'm not sure it should go to four,
• 54:01
  but... Not this year.
• 54:04
  In regular years, yes.
• 54:06
  It's already like they got a
• 54:07
  spot added because Tia's not there.
• 54:09
  Now it's like they got two spots added.
• 54:13
  When Tia's not in the field,
• 54:14
  that's a spot for someone.
• 54:15
  Like...
• 54:17
  It really is.
• 54:19
  Same thing.
• 54:20
  I mean, I would say typically for when,
• 54:22
  when Carl was competing,
• 54:24
  like if she was not there,
• 54:25
  like it's the same thing.
• 54:25
  It's like earning those spots.
• 54:28
  But so it was already like
• 54:30
  they had that extra spot.
• 54:33
  Cause Tia switched regions.
• 54:35
  Agree.
• 54:37
  So.
• 54:39
  Your guy.
• 54:40
  So only eight women in the West.
• 54:44
  which we kind of talked about.
• 54:45
  I think you guys are good
• 54:46
  with that last week.
• 54:48
  I thought it was going to be
• 54:49
  somewhere like around seven or eight.
• 54:52
  So that's basically where I
• 54:55
  thought it was.
• 54:56
  Yeah.
• 54:57
  Were you shocked Europe only got 10?
• 54:59
  Very.
• 55:01
  In my opinion,
• 55:02
  Europe should have like 14
• 55:03
  or 15 for the women.
• 55:08
  I think I would have them have like 14,
• 55:10
  the East 14, the West like 18.
• 55:14
  Seven or eight.
• 55:15
  Asia.
• 55:17
  Sahar... What's her name?
• 55:19
  Sahar?
• 55:21
  She's good.
• 55:22
  And Chung Young Choi is back.
• 55:25
  And Choi is good.
• 55:26
  It's like max two there.
• 55:28
  I don't understand the South
• 55:32
  America one where they got
• 55:34
  the extra spot.
• 55:35
  Me either.
• 55:36
  And the Asia one, really, too.
• 55:38
  Maybe I just haven't been following it,
• 55:40
  but...
• 55:40
  I get the Asia one with Sean
• 55:42
  Young Choi and Zahir Kaya.
• 55:44
  It's because it's because
• 55:45
  Choi wasn't in the field last year.
• 55:48
  So she's getting back her
• 55:49
  points from the year prior
• 55:51
  and someone else from the
• 55:52
  year prior that had qualified.
• 55:53
  So like,
• 55:54
  that's like one of the ways that
• 55:55
  you could get more like spots,
• 56:01
  but I don't know.
• 56:03
  I just don't understand the extras.
• 56:05
  Like I, like, like you're three.
• 56:07
  No,
• 56:09
  south america but lynn says
• 56:15
  it best in the comments
• 56:16
  linda jiri europe was the
• 56:18
  biggest surprise of only
• 56:19
  getting 10 yeah at least 12
• 56:21
  like at least 12 to 13 for
• 56:23
  me like for the east and
• 56:25
  europe and like the west I
• 56:27
  think is fine at eight
• 56:28
  that's fine but it's like
• 56:30
  some of the other regions
• 56:31
  that got more I was like oh
• 56:36
  I tried talking to Lex about it,
• 56:38
  and she's like, hey, these are the spots.
• 56:41
  You can't do anything.
• 56:43
  And I was like, I know, but let me vent.
• 56:45
  And she's like, nope.
• 56:46
  She's like, top 11.
• 56:48
  It's all set.
• 56:50
  She's like,
• 56:50
  you don't have to worry about
• 56:51
  any other region.
• 56:51
  And I was like, I know, but still.
• 56:57
  To me, Europe got ripped off.
• 57:04
  I completely agree.
• 57:05
  Yeah.
• 57:08
  We ready to do our exercise?
• 57:11
  Yes.
• 57:14
  I'm going to try my best.
• 57:15
  I need to pull up my list.
• 57:18
  So we are picking the people
• 57:23
  we think are going to make the games.
• 57:24
  And I have a frog.
• 57:39
  Okay.
• 57:41
  So let's start with Asia
• 57:42
  because it was the hardest.
• 57:50
  Who do you guys have for the men in Asia?
• 57:53
  It's two spots.
• 58:00
  Ant.
• 58:02
  Haynes.
• 58:09
  I mean, I, I feel like that set of got,
• 58:12
  wasn't he, wasn't he qualified last year?
• 58:15
  And he ended,
• 58:15
  he was the one who backed out.
• 58:17
  Which one?
• 58:18
  The one that's in second?
• 58:20
  Yes.
• 58:21
  He's a set of got.
• 58:25
  I feel like he was qualified
• 58:26
  last year and something
• 58:27
  happened and Ant took his spot.
• 58:32
  I'll take the Ivan guy.
• 58:35
  Yeah, I would take.
• 58:36
  Ivan dominated quarters.
• 58:38
  Yeah, he did.
• 58:40
  So I've been Kirkus of.
• 58:42
  I have him going and Shung Young Kim.
• 58:45
  OK,
• 58:47
  with Aunt Haynes being the dark horse
• 58:50
  to get a spot.
• 58:53
  I just don't know enough about that.
• 58:54
  The man on that side.
• 58:58
  I still think I think said I
• 59:00
  got it's going to get one
• 59:01
  of the spots personally,
• 59:03
  and I think it would be the sleeper.
• 59:06
  I think Ant will get in as
• 59:07
  one of the two spots.
• 59:09
  I'll pick Ivan.
• 59:12
  I'll do Ortiz as a third place.
• 59:16
  On the women's side,
• 59:18
  I think we all probably
• 59:19
  have the first two.
• 59:19
  Yeah.
• 59:22
  Sahir Kaya and Chung Young
• 59:24
  Choi will get two of the three spots.
• 59:27
  Who do you have on the third spot?
• 59:30
  Evie Hollis.
• 59:33
  That's what I picked too.
• 59:34
  That's just because I...
• 59:35
  That's like the one name
• 59:36
  that I would recognize.
• 59:40
  That's who I have.
• 59:40
  And I couldn't come up with a dark horse.
• 59:42
  I'll be honest.
• 59:43
  I did not know any of the
• 59:44
  other John Young.
• 59:47
  Do I want John?
• 59:49
  Yeah.
• 59:53
  So, yeah, I don't,
• 59:54
  I don't know enough about
• 59:55
  the other athletes to come
• 59:58
  up with a dark horse there.
• 1:00:01
  Me either.
• 1:00:02
  Yeah.
• 1:00:04
  All right.
• 1:00:04
  So then we go to Europe
• 1:00:06
  where it's going to be a lot easier.
• 1:00:07
  Okay.
• 1:00:09
  So we'll do this systematically.
• 1:00:14
  Jamie, who are your men for Europe?
• 1:00:18
  Koski.
• 1:00:20
  Yeah.
• 1:00:20
  Like, like all of them.
• 1:00:23
  Yeah.
• 1:00:23
  Just hit,
• 1:00:24
  hit the 10 and then your dark horse.
• 1:00:28
  Koski, BKG, Feibig, Hoffer.
• 1:00:35
  Benito.
• 1:00:38
  Bronislaw.
• 1:00:41
  Lazar.
• 1:00:50
  What am I at?
• 1:00:53
  Seven.
• 1:00:55
  I wasn't counting.
• 1:00:56
  Yellow hosta.
• 1:00:58
  And I'm going to say my dark horse is...
• 1:01:05
  I wrote that down somewhere.
• 1:01:12
  Is this the one that has the, yeah,
• 1:01:15
  my dark horse versus boss hard.
• 1:01:17
  Colin.
• 1:01:19
  Yeah.
• 1:01:22
  Caroline, are you going to go with her?
• 1:01:23
  Do I need to count as you go?
• 1:01:24
  No, I have my 10.
• 1:01:25
  I'll pick the dark horse after.
• 1:01:28
  Koski.
• 1:01:31
  Lazar.
• 1:01:33
  BKG.
• 1:01:34
  Hoffer.
• 1:01:35
  i think the brother
• 1:01:36
  qualifies especially with
• 1:01:37
  that running event I think
• 1:01:38
  the brother qualifies
• 1:01:38
  especially with that
• 1:01:39
  running event I think the
• 1:01:40
  brother qualifies
• 1:01:41
  especially with that
• 1:01:41
  running event he'll do well
• 1:01:43
  in that first one he'll do
• 1:01:44
  well in that first one
• 1:01:46
  he'll do well in that first
• 1:01:46
  one hosta hosta hosta hosta
• 1:01:48
  hello hello hello uh henrik
• 1:01:48
  kapalinan uh henrik
• 1:01:50
  kapalinan uh henrik
• 1:01:51
  kapalinan and my tenth is
• 1:01:52
  luca vunyak okay okay okay
• 1:01:52
  this and I actually put
• 1:01:55
  them in the this and I
• 1:01:57
  actually put them in the
• 1:01:57
  this and I actually put
• 1:01:58
  them in the order I think
• 1:01:59
  they'll finish order I
• 1:01:59
  think they'll finish order
• 1:02:00
  I think they'll finish okay
• 1:02:01
  Yonikoski, BKG, Moritz Fiebig, Yella Hosta,
• 1:02:06
  Lazar Jukic, Enrico Zanoni, Victor Hoffa,
• 1:02:12
  Enoil Akai, Heinrich Heipelainen,
• 1:02:15
  and Fabian Benito.
• 1:02:17
  And I actually have Luca as my dark horse.
• 1:02:20
  My dark horse is the Nika.
• 1:02:25
  Maserazzi?
• 1:02:27
  Maserazzi?
• 1:02:30
  Okay.
• 1:02:30
  Okay.
• 1:02:34
  Go with the women.
• 1:02:36
  We'll go Carolyn first this time.
• 1:02:39
  Women.
• 1:02:41
  Laura, Gabby, Manon, Emma Tall,
• 1:02:46
  Emma McQuaid, Freyova, Dahlstrom.
• 1:02:50
  I'm going to go with Gluck, Fuliano,
• 1:02:56
  Kringle.
• 1:02:57
  What am I at right now?
• 1:02:58
  One, two, three.
• 1:02:59
  You told me I didn't need to count.
• 1:03:02
  I guess Kringle will be my last one.
• 1:03:08
  I have Laura Horvat, Gabby Magawa,
• 1:03:11
  Emma Tall, Karen Freyova, Emma McQuaid,
• 1:03:14
  Mano Anganese, Elisa Fuliano,
• 1:03:18
  Elena Caratal-Sanahua, Andrea Sober,
• 1:03:24
  and Moram Yvonne Rohrer.
• 1:03:28
  Dark Horse, Lucy McGonigal.
• 1:03:31
  Decent.
• 1:03:34
  I have Gabby, Laura,
• 1:03:38
  not necessarily in that order,
• 1:03:39
  but possibly.
• 1:03:40
  Gabby likes to beat Laura at semifinals.
• 1:03:43
  Emma, Tal, Karen Freova, Turi, Manon,
• 1:03:49
  McQuaid, Van Roer, and Wittesen.
• 1:03:52
  And my dark horse is Solberg.
• 1:03:54
  Yeah, just outside for me,
• 1:03:56
  I have Turi and Solberg.
• 1:04:01
  So Lynn asks me, wait, Scott,
• 1:04:03
  you don't have Bronislaw?
• 1:04:05
  This is classic CrossFit this year.
• 1:04:08
  Last year was heavy, pulling a sled,
• 1:04:12
  heavy snatches.
• 1:04:15
  Bronislaw doesn't have that this year.
• 1:04:17
  And so that's why he's not in my 10.
• 1:04:20
  He just has to survive the
• 1:04:21
  first two events, damage control.
• 1:04:24
  And then I think he can make
• 1:04:27
  up some stuff.
• 1:04:28
  But like number three is what,
• 1:04:30
  rope climbs?
• 1:04:31
  He's not very tall, right?
• 1:04:33
  Some of the taller Europeans
• 1:04:35
  might have an easier time
• 1:04:36
  on a 30-inch box jump, legless rope climb,
• 1:04:42
  and the echo bike.
• 1:04:43
  Really, if you're tall on that one,
• 1:04:45
  someone like Brent should
• 1:04:46
  do very well on that event
• 1:04:48
  when it's his turn.
• 1:04:51
  Bronislaw's not short, but he's not tall.
• 1:04:54
  I think it's mostly that
• 1:04:57
  first event for sure.
• 1:05:00
  Then after that,
• 1:05:02
  he can win the snatch one.
• 1:05:08
  And the reason I have Andrea
• 1:05:09
  Solberry there is if she's
• 1:05:11
  going to ever make it to the games,
• 1:05:13
  this is the programming she needed.
• 1:05:16
  Yeah, I agree.
• 1:05:21
  And she's been on the verge for so long.
• 1:05:23
  She's good.
• 1:05:27
  And like anything handstand walk,
• 1:05:28
  she's going to crush.
• 1:05:29
  i think she's gonna crush
• 1:05:30
  that event I think she'll
• 1:05:32
  win that one so yeah that's
• 1:05:35
  where and I find in europe
• 1:05:37
  like you have like gabby
• 1:05:40
  and laura and I might be
• 1:05:42
  like maybe one or two other
• 1:05:43
  ones and then there's like
• 1:05:44
  so many that can just fight
• 1:05:45
  for the rest of those spots
• 1:05:47
  it's gonna be very exciting
• 1:05:50
  and it's just like
• 1:05:50
  depending on execution
• 1:05:54
  really and how they're
• 1:05:55
  gonna be feeling that
• 1:05:57
  weekend it's gonna be close
• 1:06:02
  So Lynn says,
• 1:06:04
  I have it on record that
• 1:06:05
  Bronislaw has been running every day.
• 1:06:08
  Nice.
• 1:06:09
  But it doesn't matter if you run every day,
• 1:06:10
  if you run really slow every day.
• 1:06:16
  Yeah.
• 1:06:17
  It's just tough.
• 1:06:17
  Cause like Europe are so
• 1:06:19
  known to have aerobic capacity and,
• 1:06:23
  you know,
• 1:06:24
  most of the workouts that
• 1:06:25
  they've excelled in
• 1:06:26
  throughout the open and quarter finals,
• 1:06:27
  like they've done so well
• 1:06:28
  in any type of aerobic work.
• 1:06:30
  So yeah,
• 1:06:31
  I'm sure there's going to be
• 1:06:32
  some freaks on that first
• 1:06:34
  one with the run.
• 1:06:36
  That's just going to be hard
• 1:06:38
  for him to get those points,
• 1:06:40
  but he can even up by winning the snatch.
• 1:06:43
  Yeah, exactly.
• 1:06:45
  And like when you have a
• 1:06:46
  home run in these type of semifinals,
• 1:06:50
  it's huge.
• 1:06:50
  If you can get those top five points,
• 1:06:54
  like because it like the
• 1:06:55
  points kind of like
• 1:06:56
  decrease at a certain amount.
• 1:06:58
  It's like in the East last year,
• 1:07:01
  Most of the time,
• 1:07:02
  those top four or five
• 1:07:03
  girls were just getting top four or five.
• 1:07:06
  So the moment like Sydney
• 1:07:07
  Wells got a first place on
• 1:07:09
  that run and got a lot of points,
• 1:07:13
  it helped for her last
• 1:07:14
  place because it just,
• 1:07:16
  it brought her way back
• 1:07:17
  into the mix versus like,
• 1:07:19
  if you're just getting
• 1:07:20
  middle ground the whole
• 1:07:21
  time and it's just kind of
• 1:07:22
  fighting between those bubble players,
• 1:07:24
  like the moment you can
• 1:07:24
  have that home run, it's,
• 1:07:26
  it's huge in that kind of weekend.
• 1:07:31
  Yeah.
• 1:07:33
  It'll be interesting to see.
• 1:07:36
  I just... It's never been
• 1:07:39
  easy for Braun to make it to the games.
• 1:07:43
  Every year is a struggle.
• 1:07:45
  He's not going to go in as a podium.
• 1:07:48
  It's going to be... He's
• 1:07:49
  going to be in that 7 to 13 range.
• 1:07:57
  So... Any other comments
• 1:07:59
  about what's coming up?
• 1:08:01
  The...
• 1:08:03
  And we'll get the coverage
• 1:08:04
  of Saturday and Sunday this
• 1:08:08
  weekend for both of those,
• 1:08:10
  probably in the early morning hours,
• 1:08:12
  right?
• 1:08:13
  I just think it's
• 1:08:14
  unfortunate for the week
• 1:08:15
  one to not have all the details.
• 1:08:18
  And like, we had the same thing last.
• 1:08:20
  I mean, I I've never,
• 1:08:21
  I've never not been in week one.
• 1:08:23
  I think every time I've been week one,
• 1:08:25
  but like,
• 1:08:25
  it would be nice for them to
• 1:08:26
  know like what kind of
• 1:08:27
  handstand walk it is like just the,
• 1:08:29
  the layout, the flow.
• 1:08:31
  at least know that you know
• 1:08:33
  the week of um I just
• 1:08:37
  because the rest of the
• 1:08:38
  weeks we're going to know
• 1:08:38
  how what the floor layouts
• 1:08:40
  are and everything else so
• 1:08:42
  I don't think that it's
• 1:08:43
  fair for the week one to
• 1:08:44
  have the adaptability also
• 1:08:47
  be a factor like for us we
• 1:08:49
  have you know we have more
• 1:08:51
  time I guess that like that
• 1:08:53
  like that's one thing but
• 1:08:55
  like week one has the least
• 1:08:57
  amount of time and they
• 1:08:58
  also have to adapt because
• 1:08:59
  they're finding out
• 1:09:01
  floor layout like why not
• 1:09:02
  just release like what they
• 1:09:04
  used to do a few years ago
• 1:09:05
  those videos of someone at
• 1:09:07
  hq going through the flow
• 1:09:09
  of what the workout looks
• 1:09:11
  like I think it saves a lot
• 1:09:12
  of stupid questions at the
• 1:09:14
  briefing and I think it
• 1:09:15
  makes it fair for the week
• 1:09:16
  one I i like that idea so
• 1:09:23
  kenneth asks who does andre
• 1:09:24
  who day coach he coaches a
• 1:09:26
  lot of people now
• 1:09:32
  Uh, hyperline and the medicine, right?
• 1:09:34
  I'm not sure.
• 1:09:38
  And I know Mano for sure.
• 1:09:40
  Um, but yeah, he's growing in Europe as a,
• 1:09:46
  as an elite coach.
• 1:09:47
  So there's a lot,
• 1:09:48
  he has a lot of athletes.
• 1:09:52
  Um,
• 1:09:54
  talked about north america
• 1:09:55
  versus the world earlier in
• 1:09:56
  the week um carolyn you
• 1:09:58
  brought that this up in the
• 1:10:00
  notes they announced that
• 1:10:01
  they're going to have
• 1:10:02
  several formats at water
• 1:10:04
  palooza california socal
• 1:10:07
  water palooza socal my
• 1:10:10
  first question to you is
• 1:10:12
  north america versus the
• 1:10:12
  world do you think this is
• 1:10:16
  the out of box thinking
• 1:10:17
  that crossfit offseason needs
• 1:10:23
  Yeah, I think it's, I mean, it's cool.
• 1:10:25
  It's,
• 1:10:26
  this is what we talked about before
• 1:10:27
  the format was out that
• 1:10:29
  they should do something like this,
• 1:10:31
  where the athletes after the games,
• 1:10:34
  the volume can be a little bit lower.
• 1:10:36
  Um, you know,
• 1:10:37
  you have the one-on-ones or two,
• 1:10:39
  you pick your two athletes
• 1:10:40
  for this workout so that
• 1:10:42
  they're not getting crushed by the bond.
• 1:10:45
  Cause they're coming off the games.
• 1:10:47
  Um,
• 1:10:48
  So I think something like this is cool.
• 1:10:50
  You saw a unique format in,
• 1:10:54
  what was it called?
• 1:10:55
  The fittest?
• 1:10:58
  fit fest fit fest that like
• 1:11:00
  that worked well um people
• 1:11:03
  will say that this is kind
• 1:11:04
  of like the grid league
• 1:11:05
  type of format too I'm not
• 1:11:08
  familiar enough with how
• 1:11:09
  that runs to I don't think
• 1:11:11
  that it's kind of like the
• 1:11:13
  grid league but I think
• 1:11:14
  it's a great idea um
• 1:11:17
  something unique and I
• 1:11:19
  think it's going to draw a
• 1:11:20
  lot of people to come there
• 1:11:22
  plus it's california so
• 1:11:24
  So I think calling it grid league is lazy.
• 1:11:27
  Grid league movements are
• 1:11:28
  very different than CrossFit movements.
• 1:11:31
  What they allow and what
• 1:11:32
  they don't allow in grid is
• 1:11:34
  what makes grid grid.
• 1:11:36
  Just because you start
• 1:11:37
  different people and
• 1:11:38
  specialists doesn't make a grid.
• 1:11:41
  So here are the formats.
• 1:11:43
  First is individual,
• 1:11:44
  all for one and one for all,
• 1:11:45
  all eight versus each other.
• 1:11:49
  Second one is all hands.
• 1:11:51
  Um, because we go, we go further together,
• 1:11:54
  all eight as one United
• 1:11:55
  front spotlight showcase,
• 1:12:02
  the team's expertise,
• 1:12:03
  one male and female on
• 1:12:04
  behalf of the team.
• 1:12:10
  Um, Miami team, uh,
• 1:12:12
  with love for the teams of three,
• 1:12:15
  same gender.
• 1:12:16
  So three women, three men.
• 1:12:19
  And then we have a CrossFit Games team.
• 1:12:22
  Two men, two women repping your squad.
• 1:12:25
  And then captains.
• 1:12:27
  True test of leadership.
• 1:12:28
  Teams captains go toe to toe.
• 1:12:30
  I love it.
• 1:12:34
  I do too.
• 1:12:34
  That's awesome.
• 1:12:35
  And the captains will be
• 1:12:36
  voted on by the fans.
• 1:12:39
  That's cool.
• 1:12:42
  Should the teams be voted on by the fans?
• 1:12:46
  Or just becomes a popularity thing?
• 1:12:50
  I call it heavy hitter.
• 1:12:53
  I like that.
• 1:12:56
  The heavy hitter format.
• 1:12:58
  I think it hits all the
• 1:12:59
  spots it needs to hit.
• 1:13:01
  It's reduced volume, like you said.
• 1:13:03
  You're just coming off the games.
• 1:13:07
  You cheer on your teammates.
• 1:13:08
  You can pick who's good at what.
• 1:13:11
  And you can split it up so
• 1:13:13
  not anybody's doing too
• 1:13:14
  much in the weekend.
• 1:13:16
  And just...
• 1:13:18
  And again, I said it last week.
• 1:13:21
  We used to do like a
• 1:13:22
  barbecue the day of the invitational.
• 1:13:25
  And it was just an all-day watch party.
• 1:13:28
  And we would have a blast.
• 1:13:29
  I cannot wait for this.
• 1:13:32
  And that's not going to rain
• 1:13:33
  like in Florida.
• 1:13:34
  This is California here.
• 1:13:39
  And the television coverage
• 1:13:42
  should be better because
• 1:13:43
  you don't have a 30-wide lane here.
• 1:13:46
  field to try to cover this
• 1:13:48
  is just two teams I'm
• 1:13:51
  excited for it uh Lynn's
• 1:13:55
  asking is SoCal happening
• 1:13:56
  before after Rogue it is
• 1:13:57
  happening before it is at
• 1:13:59
  the very end of September
• 1:14:02
  and Rogue got pushed back I
• 1:14:03
  think to November next year
• 1:14:05
  or this year right because
• 1:14:07
  normally it's in October
• 1:14:08
  this time yeah SoCal is
• 1:14:09
  definitely the end of September
• 1:14:19
  Um, so yeah, so I'm excited.
• 1:14:23
  Something fun to watch.
• 1:14:27
  Um,
• 1:14:28
  we'll go ahead and finish up with a
• 1:14:29
  couple other little details.
• 1:14:31
  Um,
• 1:14:32
  I wanted to talk a little bit about
• 1:14:34
  CrossFit media.
• 1:14:36
  Um,
• 1:14:36
  and this may be my riff for the week or
• 1:14:38
  whatever,
• 1:14:39
  but I found out that we had
• 1:14:43
  approved media credentials
• 1:14:44
  for Clydesdale media on Monday.
• 1:14:50
  Two weeks from an event in California.
• 1:14:55
  Try to get plane tickets and
• 1:14:57
  accommodations in two freaking weeks.
• 1:15:05
  And that was verbal.
• 1:15:06
  I didn't even get the
• 1:15:06
  written approval until Thursday.
• 1:15:12
  We've got to do better.
• 1:15:15
  If you're not going to have
• 1:15:16
  your own media department
• 1:15:17
  and you're relying on third-party media,
• 1:15:19
  they need to know if
• 1:15:20
  they're approved or not
• 1:15:22
  well before the event so
• 1:15:23
  they can make the
• 1:15:24
  accommodation plans just
• 1:15:26
  like an athlete does.
• 1:15:29
  What did you find?
• 1:15:32
  The first hour it was available.
• 1:15:34
  Which was when?
• 1:15:37
  A couple months ago.
• 1:15:38
  Yeah.
• 1:15:39
  It took this long.
• 1:15:40
  Wow.
• 1:15:42
  Yeah.
• 1:15:42
  It was during the open, I think.
• 1:15:46
  I'd have to go back and look at my email,
• 1:15:47
  but literally the first...
• 1:15:49
  And I reached out to both
• 1:15:52
  Syndicate and West Coast
• 1:15:54
  Classic on Monday.
• 1:15:56
  They both gave me a verbal,
• 1:15:58
  but... And basically,
• 1:16:01
  it was like with an attitude, like,
• 1:16:04
  why didn't you reach out sooner?
• 1:16:07
  I've applied.
• 1:16:08
  That was me reaching out.
• 1:16:12
  So...
• 1:16:17
  Oh, Trish.
• 1:16:18
  Trish says,
• 1:16:19
  they have to watch all of your
• 1:16:21
  videos to make sure you
• 1:16:22
  don't have the wrong tone.
• 1:16:26
  Here's my thing.
• 1:16:29
  I've been respectful.
• 1:16:29
  I show up at every press
• 1:16:30
  conference at the events.
• 1:16:32
  I do all the things I'm supposed to do.
• 1:16:34
  I'm a rule follower by fault.
• 1:16:38
  Once I've proven that,
• 1:16:41
  I should have a blanket
• 1:16:42
  approval and not have to go
• 1:16:44
  through an application
• 1:16:45
  process every single year.
• 1:16:48
  Now the size of my team may
• 1:16:50
  differ this or what I can
• 1:16:52
  bring as in photographer, videographer,
• 1:16:55
  whatever may change year to
• 1:16:57
  year based on the venue and the space.
• 1:17:00
  I get that,
• 1:17:01
  but the organization as a whole
• 1:17:03
  should have an approval
• 1:17:05
  once you've proven yourself.
• 1:17:09
  waiting till this last
• 1:17:10
  minute has made me pivot
• 1:17:12
  completely on what I'm
• 1:17:13
  doing this season because I
• 1:17:16
  just cannot afford as a
• 1:17:18
  small company to pull this off.
• 1:17:22
  Here's the other part.
• 1:17:23
  I'm going to say the fact
• 1:17:25
  that they deny Andrew
• 1:17:26
  Hiller as a media person is
• 1:17:31
  you can love him or hate him.
• 1:17:34
  He brings eyes to the sport
• 1:17:37
  that I love and,
• 1:17:40
  When you start restricting
• 1:17:42
  people who have the ability
• 1:17:43
  to bring people to the table,
• 1:17:46
  you're going to lose the
• 1:17:47
  sport altogether.
• 1:17:50
  And then I'm going to have
• 1:17:50
  nothing to talk about.
• 1:17:54
  Is he my competition?
• 1:17:55
  Sure.
• 1:17:57
  But he deserves to be there
• 1:17:58
  to report on what's going on.
• 1:18:01
  He has proven that he has
• 1:18:02
  the journalistic chops to do that.
• 1:18:05
  with his visits to Mayhem,
• 1:18:07
  with his 48 hours with Haley,
• 1:18:09
  the visits to Affiliates.
• 1:18:13
  Hate is no rep videos.
• 1:18:14
  Hate is attack videos on HQ.
• 1:18:16
  Whatever you want to do, fine.
• 1:18:18
  But he deserves to be there.
• 1:18:22
  I'm so sick of this.
• 1:18:24
  I'm sick of them because
• 1:18:25
  with personal vendettas
• 1:18:27
  doing certain things and it
• 1:18:29
  goes back to the days of
• 1:18:32
  the vendetta against Matt
• 1:18:34
  Frazier and not letting him
• 1:18:35
  go to the invitational.
• 1:18:36
  They do it to athletes.
• 1:18:37
  They do it to media.
• 1:18:38
  Whenever there is someone
• 1:18:39
  who speaks out against them,
• 1:18:42
  they blackball them in ways that
• 1:18:44
  that is not fair to the
• 1:18:45
  sport and you're going to
• 1:18:46
  screw over the sport.
• 1:18:48
  And then I'm not going to
• 1:18:49
  have anything to talk about
• 1:18:51
  in the venue that I love.
• 1:18:54
  And it's got to stop.
• 1:19:00
  I just think, and riff,
• 1:19:02
  I just think more media, the better, like,
• 1:19:04
  especially if they're not
• 1:19:05
  going to be investing that
• 1:19:07
  much in their media.
• 1:19:08
  I don't understand why they
• 1:19:09
  restrict the lenses,
• 1:19:11
  like the lens length.
• 1:19:12
  I don't,
• 1:19:12
  I don't know anything about
• 1:19:13
  cameras and stuff, but like,
• 1:19:15
  why not allow people to, you know,
• 1:19:20
  show like showcase their media side and,
• 1:19:23
  and promote the sport
• 1:19:24
  through their channels.
• 1:19:24
  Like,
• 1:19:25
  I think that that would only help
• 1:19:26
  grow the sport.
• 1:19:31
  I don't understand that part.
• 1:19:33
  Yeah.
• 1:19:36
  I do understand certain aspects, right?
• 1:19:38
  You can only have so many
• 1:19:39
  photographers in the pit.
• 1:19:40
  Yes.
• 1:19:41
  Right.
• 1:19:43
  And the frog is back.
• 1:19:47
  But you mean like anyone.
• 1:19:49
  If I bought a Spectre Pass,
• 1:19:50
  why can't I bring in a
• 1:19:51
  camera lens and shoot from the stands?
• 1:19:53
  I agree with you.
• 1:19:55
  Why not?
• 1:19:56
  Who cares?
• 1:19:56
  People are still going to
• 1:19:58
  watch the broadcast.
• 1:20:00
  People are still going to
• 1:20:01
  listen to the broadcast.
• 1:20:02
  Are they that scared that
• 1:20:03
  people aren't going to
• 1:20:05
  watch the broadcast?
• 1:20:06
  People are going to watch the broadcast.
• 1:20:08
  Right.
• 1:20:10
  There are lenses though that
• 1:20:12
  are and I can't even show
• 1:20:14
  it on the screen because it's too small.
• 1:20:16
  Right, right.
• 1:20:17
  You do have to limit the
• 1:20:18
  lens in the spectator area
• 1:20:20
  or people are going to get
• 1:20:21
  hit in the head.
• 1:20:22
  Okay, true.
• 1:20:23
  Sure.
• 1:20:23
  But it can be more reasonable.
• 1:20:27
  Yeah.
• 1:20:33
  All right.
• 1:20:35
  But anyway,
• 1:20:36
  we need as much media coverage
• 1:20:37
  as we can get.
• 1:20:38
  Absolutely.
• 1:20:38
  I mean, we don't even have day one.
• 1:20:40
  The teams get half of their competition.
• 1:20:42
  Sure.
• 1:20:46
  Right.
• 1:20:46
  Cause the teams only compete
• 1:20:47
  two days and you just cut
• 1:20:48
  one of their days off.
• 1:20:50
  Yep.
• 1:20:51
  Yep.
• 1:20:51
  I mean, and things like this happen, like,
• 1:20:59
  like Dave saying after the fact last year,
• 1:21:03
  when nobody was covering masters,
• 1:21:04
  except for an iPhone from
• 1:21:06
  the rafters and it's still
• 1:21:09
  frame out where nobody
• 1:21:11
  could see anything set on
• 1:21:12
  as we can review.
• 1:21:15
  to people that said, oh,
• 1:21:15
  I would have covered it,
• 1:21:16
  which I would have been one of them, said,
• 1:21:19
  well, you should have.
• 1:21:20
  But your media agreement
• 1:21:22
  makes it so we can't.
• 1:21:26
  Like, left hand talk to right hand.
• 1:21:31
  But anyway.
• 1:21:37
  It's what nobody,
• 1:21:38
  there's no official stream
• 1:21:40
  to compete with when they don't do one.
• 1:21:44
  Like you would think if you
• 1:21:45
  would think that on day one,
• 1:21:47
  they'd be like, do you know,
• 1:21:48
  we're not going to stream.
• 1:21:49
  However, feel free to stream it, you know,
• 1:21:55
  on your own platforms.
• 1:21:57
  Well, and you know, everybody's brother,
• 1:21:59
  sister, partner,
• 1:22:01
  whatever is IG living it
• 1:22:03
  from the stands anyway.
• 1:22:04
  Like who did it last year?
• 1:22:05
  Was it chase?
• 1:22:06
  Was it,
• 1:22:07
  was it get with the program or was it, uh,
• 1:22:10
  the cross CrossFit podcast?
• 1:22:12
  Like, well, what, what platform was it on?
• 1:22:16
  think is the crofts fit
• 1:22:17
  podcast yeah it was chase
• 1:22:19
  and um adrian conway but I
• 1:22:24
  think it was chase that
• 1:22:24
  kind of started the the
• 1:22:26
  movement are they like they
• 1:22:28
  should be at least allowing
• 1:22:30
  that and allowing them to
• 1:22:32
  do something well chase is
• 1:22:34
  doing the recap show so now
• 1:22:36
  he doesn't want to cut into
• 1:22:37
  his own other ratings and
• 1:22:38
  then bring back jason
• 1:22:39
  kalipa just getting so
• 1:22:40
  excited off of everyone yeah
• 1:22:47
  Yeah,
• 1:22:47
  and so they're having Adrian and
• 1:22:49
  Chase do the recap show.
• 1:22:52
  So they'll be busy setting up for that,
• 1:22:53
  and they can't do their own stream.
• 1:22:55
  But if they're going to be
• 1:22:56
  doing recaps and already
• 1:22:57
  have some footage of the event,
• 1:22:59
  why not have, I mean,
• 1:23:00
  I'm going to say the standstill camera,
• 1:23:02
  but then I'm thinking about
• 1:23:03
  the game's age group
• 1:23:06
  standstill camera and how bad that was.
• 1:23:08
  And it was like, okay,
• 1:23:09
  don't even show it because
• 1:23:10
  it was so far away.
• 1:23:12
  Yeah.
• 1:23:14
  I don't know.
• 1:23:14
  Something is better than nothing, I think.
• 1:23:16
  I still think something's
• 1:23:17
  better than nothing,
• 1:23:17
  but the age group one at
• 1:23:19
  the games was pretty competitive.
• 1:23:21
  I think so many people said
• 1:23:22
  something's better than nothing.
• 1:23:23
  They tried to prove us all wrong.
• 1:23:25
  Yeah, they literally were so far away.
• 1:23:30
  Literally, though,
• 1:23:30
  if you parked an iPhone in
• 1:23:32
  each corner and used just
• 1:23:34
  this stream yard and
• 1:23:34
  bounced between the angles,
• 1:23:37
  you could do a better job
• 1:23:38
  than a lot of things.
• 1:23:42
  Anyway.
• 1:23:45
  Riff's over.
• 1:23:46
  I just had to say that.
• 1:23:49
  So we need to go to east and
• 1:23:51
  stream is what you're saying.
• 1:23:55
  I don't know.
• 1:23:55
  Maybe.
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  Well, I talked about a pivot,
• 1:23:59
  so I did want to make this announcement.
• 1:24:02
  So what I've been doing is
• 1:24:03
  reaching out to really cool
• 1:24:06
  local comps that are bigger
• 1:24:08
  than just a local comp.
• 1:24:10
  Yeah.
• 1:24:10
  Yeah.
• 1:24:10
  to offer my services to come
• 1:24:13
  in and do like a behind the
• 1:24:14
  scenes of their competition.
• 1:24:19
  And one of the first ones I
• 1:24:19
  did that with was Fresh Coast,
• 1:24:22
  which is on Lake Michigan,
• 1:24:24
  up in Michigan.
• 1:24:26
  And I knew of it because
• 1:24:27
  they came on the show last
• 1:24:28
  year and Jamie has competed
• 1:24:29
  there for the last several years.
• 1:24:33
  And it got kind of famous
• 1:24:34
  because now Rich Froney
• 1:24:35
  goes and competes there with a team.
• 1:24:39
  reached out to them.
• 1:24:40
  They have given me approval
• 1:24:42
  to go in and do a behind
• 1:24:43
  the scenes of that event in July.
• 1:24:47
  And so I am super,
• 1:24:49
  super excited that we're
• 1:24:51
  going to be able to do and
• 1:24:52
  highlight local competitions,
• 1:24:56
  local athletes that bring
• 1:24:59
  in some more because Jack
• 1:25:01
  Rosema competed there.
• 1:25:02
  Rich Froning competed there.
• 1:25:04
  There's semifinal athletes
• 1:25:06
  and other athletes that do that.
• 1:25:08
  And we can kind of
• 1:25:10
  feature them and give them
• 1:25:12
  the highlight they deserve.
• 1:25:15
  So we're going to do that this summer.
• 1:25:19
  And I just offered my
• 1:25:21
  services up to fight for the fittest.
• 1:25:24
  So we'll see what we can do there.
• 1:25:26
  And maybe go up to New York.
• 1:25:28
  Haven't been to Long Island
• 1:25:29
  in about 30 years.
• 1:25:31
  So go check that out and see
• 1:25:34
  what's going up there.
• 1:25:36
  Maybe we can go stop in at Jethro's gym.
• 1:25:40
  Yeah.
• 1:25:41
  could do that so I'm looking
• 1:25:43
  for stuff like that like I
• 1:25:45
  think the norcal classic is
• 1:25:47
  a cool one that'd be fun to
• 1:25:48
  go do um things like that
• 1:25:55
  you should do the norcal
• 1:25:56
  classic that was fun yeah
• 1:26:01
  so um lex is asking no
• 1:26:04
  semis for you scott will
• 1:26:04
  you go to the games this year
• 1:26:07
  I actually booked hotel
• 1:26:10
  rooms the minute Fort Worth
• 1:26:11
  was announced.
• 1:26:12
  So I actually have those hotels booked.
• 1:26:16
  So I have a better shot at the games.
• 1:26:19
  Knoxville,
• 1:26:19
  I would have to like stay quite
• 1:26:21
  a bit out of Knoxville to go,
• 1:26:24
  but it is drivable.
• 1:26:26
  So that one is possible.
• 1:26:29
  But California is just out
• 1:26:31
  of the question with this late notice.
• 1:26:35
  at this point.
• 1:26:36
  And I am committed to the Masters Games.
• 1:26:39
  So I think that's a good place for you,
• 1:26:41
  because I think that
• 1:26:42
  there's a lack of coverage
• 1:26:43
  of people with the age group.
• 1:26:46
  And you've done by far, you know,
• 1:26:50
  the most job covering the
• 1:26:52
  age group athletes for the
• 1:26:53
  last few years that you've become that,
• 1:26:55
  that person,
• 1:26:56
  right for the age group athletes.
• 1:26:58
  So I think it's great that
• 1:26:59
  you're going to be there.
• 1:27:00
  Yeah.
• 1:27:02
  And if I get the access I had at Legends,
• 1:27:05
  I could probably get some
• 1:27:06
  really cool content.
• 1:27:08
  By the time I figured out
• 1:27:09
  kind of the flow of it,
• 1:27:10
  at the end of the weekend,
• 1:27:12
  I was getting really good stuff,
• 1:27:14
  like Jen Ryan laying on a
• 1:27:15
  therapy table talking to me,
• 1:27:18
  like really good behind-the-scenes stuff.
• 1:27:20
  So that's what I'm hoping to
• 1:27:22
  get at this one as well.
• 1:27:24
  So that should be fun.
• 1:27:30
  So if you know of a local comp that,
• 1:27:33
  what I'm calling them now
• 1:27:34
  is those mid-majors, like Metcon Rush,
• 1:27:37
  Crash Crescendo,
• 1:27:40
  those ones that are really
• 1:27:42
  highlighting semifinal to elite athletes,
• 1:27:46
  I want to come cover some of those.
• 1:27:48
  So shoot me any ideas you might have.
• 1:27:54
  And then finishing up,
• 1:27:56
  I'm back to around the
• 1:27:58
  whiteboard this week.
• 1:28:02
  Semifinals.
• 1:28:04
  I'm going up against Will Branstetter,
• 1:28:06
  and it's a level one guy.
• 1:28:11
  I didn't know the name.
• 1:28:16
  A red shirt.
• 1:28:16
  I'm sorry.
• 1:28:19
  So he's a level one trainer.
• 1:28:24
  Jimmy Jones?
• 1:28:25
  I don't know.
• 1:28:26
  Something like that.
• 1:28:28
  But yeah, that's this Wednesday, 3 p.m.
• 1:28:30
  Eastern time.
• 1:28:32
  Back in the ring.
• 1:28:35
  Take another swing.
• 1:28:37
  You came in heavy the other time,
• 1:28:39
  so the bar is set now.
• 1:28:43
  Yeah.
• 1:28:44
  That's the only way you
• 1:28:45
  score points on that show.
• 1:28:47
  You have to come in hot with
• 1:28:48
  everything you have.
• 1:28:50
  In one minute.
• 1:28:50
  Yeah.
• 1:28:51
  Yeah.
• 1:28:53
  the thing is I practiced it
• 1:28:54
  at one minute and then when
• 1:28:55
  I was on the show I talked
• 1:28:57
  so fast I did it in 45
• 1:28:59
  seconds so I gotta I gotta
• 1:29:02
  factor that in this time so
• 1:29:06
  excited about that you guys
• 1:29:08
  got to go anything going on
• 1:29:09
  this week no now it's just
• 1:29:15
  back to regular training
• 1:29:17
  it's just feels like it's
• 1:29:18
  going to be so long being
• 1:29:19
  the third week for semifinals.
• 1:29:21
  Like I'm just looking
• 1:29:22
  forward to seeing week one
• 1:29:23
  and then getting a visual of, you know,
• 1:29:26
  the layouts of stuff and
• 1:29:27
  then playing around with
• 1:29:29
  different pieces of, of the workouts.
• 1:29:32
  I got a taste of them this weekend,
• 1:29:35
  lots of room for improvement.
• 1:29:37
  We'll look at some of the
• 1:29:38
  next couple of weeks and
• 1:29:39
  then hopefully my best
• 1:29:40
  execution is on game day.
• 1:29:42
  Like you don't want your
• 1:29:43
  best execution to be right now, but,
• 1:29:46
  If you're going to be making mistakes,
• 1:29:47
  you need that right now.
• 1:29:51
  Yeah.
• 1:29:52
  It's so much different than the games,
• 1:29:54
  right?
• 1:29:54
  Because the games,
• 1:29:54
  you don't really know the
• 1:29:55
  workouts as much.
• 1:29:58
  No.
• 1:30:00
  Unless you're in that right.
• 1:30:02
  I was just about to say, I was like, well,
• 1:30:05
  sometimes you do.
• 1:30:08
  But Carolyn never knows.
• 1:30:10
  Yeah, we're not there.
• 1:30:12
  I'm just not a part of any
• 1:30:13
  training camp or any, like,
• 1:30:15
  I just train literally on my own.
• 1:30:17
  I program, like, I'm not a part of that.
• 1:30:23
  There are people that know.
• 1:30:24
  I'm just not one of them.
• 1:30:25
  Yeah, I'm just not one of them.
• 1:30:28
  Yeah.
• 1:30:30
  All right.
• 1:30:32
  Jamie,
• 1:30:32
  good luck tomorrow if you redo
• 1:30:35
  number three.
• 1:30:35
  Thank you.
• 1:30:36
  And we will be looking on the leaderboard,
• 1:30:39
  fingers crossed,
• 1:30:39
  that everything is all good.
• 1:30:41
  And then hopefully you get
• 1:30:43
  at least a week off or a
• 1:30:44
  couple days off this week.
• 1:30:47
  Start recovering that shoulder.
• 1:30:49
  Yeah.
• 1:30:50
  And hopefully get ready for that game.
• 1:30:54
  I predict a top three for
• 1:30:55
  workout four for her.
• 1:30:57
  No way.
• 1:30:58
  Yeah, way.
• 1:30:59
  No chance.
• 1:31:01
  You're like Patrick Midgley.
• 1:31:04
  We were,
• 1:31:05
  I was messaging with him and he was like,
• 1:31:07
  guarantee your number one
• 1:31:08
  with your score for workout two.
• 1:31:10
  And I was like, no way.
• 1:31:11
  I was like, maybe top 10 and we bet.
• 1:31:15
  And I went, I won that bet of course.
• 1:31:16
  Cause I was right.
• 1:31:19
  I know, but it's,
• 1:31:22
  and that's going to be my best workout.
• 1:31:24
  So number two or four, two.
• 1:31:32
  Are you going to have a celebration?
• 1:31:35
  Do you already have
• 1:31:35
  something in your mind in
• 1:31:37
  case you qualify for your first games?
• 1:31:41
  Are you treating yourself to a meal?
• 1:31:43
  Are you... What is your... I
• 1:31:47
  guess we can talk about it
• 1:31:48
  when it happens.
• 1:31:50
  Yeah.
• 1:31:51
  I don't know.
• 1:31:52
  I mean,
• 1:31:53
  I guess... All the changes just
• 1:31:56
  take all the...
• 1:32:00
  like joy and earning it out of it for me,
• 1:32:08
  honestly.
• 1:32:12
  I don't know as bad as that sounds.
• 1:32:13
  I just.
• 1:32:20
  Well, on that note,
• 1:32:22
  I'm going to leave you with these wise,
• 1:32:23
  wise words from Kenneth to lap.
• 1:32:26
  Sometimes, you know,
• 1:32:27
  to bring a beat a jump rope.
• 1:32:28
  Sometimes you don't.
• 1:32:34
  Well,
• 1:32:34
  we just hope to know we're trying to
• 1:32:36
  get in that in crowd information.
• 1:32:40
  Yeah.
• 1:32:41
  Thank you to everybody for
• 1:32:42
  being here tonight.
• 1:32:43
  It's been a blast.
• 1:32:45
  We'll see everybody next
• 1:32:46
  time on Sunday night.
• 1:32:49
  CrossFit talk.
• 1:32:50
  The original.
• 1:32:52
  Bye guys.