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The Open Report, WFP Leadership & Wodapalooza Workouts · The Spin Podcast

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  Frog grips John Young. How did I didn't see you come
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  in? Yeah, Frog grips Code Spin saves
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  enough bags that they're like, hey, let's keep this train
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  rolling. I'm so glad to have not lost
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  them as a sponsor. That's good.
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  The good news, or I guess different news, is you can't use
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  code spin anymore. Someone of you guys went to one
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  of those discount codes and threw that on there.
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  And it's not for everybody, it's for those people watch.
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  So now you got to go to knkg.com/spin automatically
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  applied going forward. So links down there.
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  Your discount is still open. If you want to go to King Kong
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  and get that CrossFit. Those dividers are clutch.
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  I want all my bags and luggage with those dividers.
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  I think, I think they have like a lunch box thing and I was like
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  perfect, like every bag that I have, I want to be a King Kong
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  bag. Yeah, no, it is again.
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  I have mine from 2016, still going strong.
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  I'll probably have it at Syndicate.
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  John has a shirt on. It's form This is a formal show.
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  God Dang it. Not anymore.
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  He was wearing a syndicate shirt.
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  Oh, white beater night. There we go.
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  Now we're really classy I. Keep it formal for the open
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  report man. That's right, tonight.
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  I knocked over a plant and it made the goodness great.
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  I'm going to hear about that later, sorry.
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  Leslie, you didn't hear that. I did want to say, before we
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  move away from frogs, I got to get Jay's beard guy.
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  Jay Crouch's beard guy. He's got a good beard.
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  You. Guys.
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  Australia, I think is kind of how it works.
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  Bailey Martin also has a good beard so it might be they might
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  go to the same beard guy it. Could be it could be.
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  I think you should just grow yours out, Tyler.
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  Just keep going. Yeah, I saw a lot of people on
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  your on the in the comments down there that they were, they were
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  impressed by your just, I don't know, manliness.
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  I don't know if that's what lack of.
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  Taking care of my face. Yeah, yeah.
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  Just makes you look a little, you know, a little tougher,
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  maybe older. Yeah, Yeah.
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  Compared to what you were three years ago, it's quite the
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  transition. That's the Tyler that I love.
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  I love the emo Tyler. Long hair.
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  Long wimpy hair. Yeah, that was good.
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  Emo Tyler's never dead, he just aged up.
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  You do seem like like that's not the same person.
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  Yeah, it'd be amazing to put two of those side by side and be
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  like, do you recognize these people?
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  No, no. I don't recognize.
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  Him. So we'll go through the open
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  report. Tyler's going to go as much as
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  he wanted to in his 11 minute video to go into the details.
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  He didn't want to bore all the people, so we'll bore you guys
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  with some more detail. There's some good stuff in there
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  that I really wanted to get into that it's just like it does not
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  fit in a 10 minute video. I do want to talk about like the
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  main bit though. Yeah, that's OK.
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  Sure. And then we'll go into some
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  leadership. I think that's Will Morad, WFP
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  where all that stands, leadership, blind rankings and
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  then hey, typically Wadapalooza would be three weeks behind us,
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  but we're four weeks away from six Water Blues and the workouts
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  are starting to come out. So we'll take a quick look at
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  that. But first, but first, fewer
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  comments. Got a new guest on the show.
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  I want to read some some viewer comments.
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  Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi.
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  No, no, Dang. Sorry.
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  I guess you just find out. I think you'll like it.
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  So let's get going. Here we go.
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  Lil Wayne here, I'm going to read some comments from last
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  week. You feel me?
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  OK, here we go. First one is from at Tanner
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  Powell. Can we all disagree?
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  Tyler's wife is way better than Tyler at this.
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  If you missed it, Tyler Tyler's wife Jeanette was on the show
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  last week. Everything CrossFit.
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  Medical Society. And fitness.
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  She's better at everything than me.
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  You should wait till her open report comes out.
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  That's a. That's a close.
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  Report Yeah, open and closed. Yeah, so maybe we'll invite her
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  back whenever you can't make it. Let's see what else Lil Wayne
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  has got to say all. Right, this next one is cool at
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  Han Solo Wade. I'm using blind rankings as an
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  icebreaker activity for a ten person team at work.
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  Might get a little hairy with that number.
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  Any ideas for topics? I'm thinking types of food,
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  burgers, pizza, fried chicken. Any idea what?
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  Do you think? Did you add fried chicken or was
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  that in the in the? Comments.
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  That was in the comments. It just fits.
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  Hey Lil Wayne, man, He just reads the script like he just
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  reads it. Whatever the whatever the
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  comments that he reads. Just get anything anybody's
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  passionate about. Movies are a good one.
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  I would say countries. Let's.
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  Let's figure out who people are. Well, I'm curious what the what
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  the? Who are you?
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  What? Yeah.
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  What job? Like what?
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  What industry is this? Like, if you guys are like geeky
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  tech nerds, you could be like, what's your favorite Windows
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  year? I'm sure somebody would like get
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  really excited about that. What's your favorite letter in
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  Zuckerberg? Z.
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  There's obviously there's plenty of the.
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  Nerds would like R. Yeah.
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  So, yeah, I, you know, you got to get creative.
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  You got to get something that everybody's going to know and
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  can weigh in. The worst blind rankings that we
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  have done is when John doesn't eat like desserts.
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  Really. Like those were the terrible
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  ones. Like, oh.
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  I don't know. Dessert, some food.
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  Yeah. I don't eat any of that stuff.
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  So people don't have an opinion, they just they're out.
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  Yeah. So it's got to be something.
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  Try to relate something to your work.
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  I think that's the best way. Countries.
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  Or countries if you run out of ideas.
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  Just do countries. Like Tyler, in your opinion,
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  what is the worst country? Somalia, I didn't give the time.
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  Thought that that I would want to.
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  I wouldn't want to mess that up. I know you hate Brazil.
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  No, I don't hate Brazil. You were telling me how
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  Brazilians are freaking. Never mind, go ahead.
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  Wait, what's the? What's the?
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  What do you think? North Korea is pretty bad,
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  maybe. Hey they they published a public
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  survey and their people love it. I'm sure.
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  I'm sure they do. I'm ashamed to say I've never
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  done blind rankings. We usually once every two weeks
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  we have, you know, one of those team meetings because
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  everybody's remote and I've never done blind rankings.
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  So I got to. I got to do that.
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  There you go. That that becomes the icebreaker
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  of the future. Yeah.
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  So, Kenneth, the lap, why are these videos not on the
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  channel's page? Because nobody would watch them.
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  What videos? If I if I made if I made Lil
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  Wayne public, I don't think it would really.
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  I don't think it would get much traction.
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  And then once your video start getting much traction.
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  You can subscribe to our monthly our monthly subscription you get
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  access. I can put it behind in the
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  members only. Members only.
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  Yeah, and then the diehards could get it.
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  That'd be that'd be worth the the the subscription that you
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  pay you you get access to the viewer comments.
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  Definite value. Yeah, I'll do that.
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  Here we go, up next. Damn spin you messed up at Jane
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  E net C correction for spend. No, Cal Classic does have invite
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  spots still available for the elite without having to do the
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  NCC qualifier. That so I got I got blasted on
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  this one. You're talking about the nor Cal
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  classic. It's already over.
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  No, there you got 15 invites from the quarterfinals.
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  Yeah, but it's not the top 15. It's invites from the
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  quarterfinals. So don't think you're going to
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  get in if you're top 15 because they may have favorites.
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  I don't know how they're going to do it so.
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  Do you think if Tyler made it they didn't bite him?
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  Yep, 100% for sure. I'd like to think some somebody
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  would. I'd have to.
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  I'd have to decline. He'll be at Syndicate have to
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  just. What if?
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  What if Wilson offered it to you?
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  I think Wilson would do me that solid if I qualified for Norcal.
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  I think he would give me AI mean.
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  There's a, it's a straight up to your top.
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  I guess it's going to be like the top 30 or so.
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  You're going to get an invite in the world, so.
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  We're playing big what ifs here. No, I'm thinking, I know, I
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  think just top 2000. Like if you just make it like
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  you can do it. I think he would I.
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  Think oh I can do it, I could do any event that they program,
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  just not fast. Yeah, yeah.
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  Just talk to, you'd be. Better than kale?
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  True. He's coming back.
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  He's coming out of retirement. How do we know?
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  I'll show you after the viewer comments.
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  All right, Yeah, all. Right, Lil Wayne, take it away.
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  Hey. Spin told me not to do this, but
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  I do want. I want.
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  I'm Lil Wayne Dog. At banana dance man.
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  OK here we go one bro take a stats class 50% athletes only do
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  one open. 80% improve. That improvement data is fire
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  hot garbage when the population changes so much. 2 The open is
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  getting older. Mine is cool but this is useless
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  without knowing CF membership data. 3 The open was big because
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  a giant apparel company called Reebok spent 8 figs a year to
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  make CF big. The health pivot was a gigantic
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  blunder and CF will keep shrinking till this is
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  rectified. Good effort though.
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  Good effort buddy. Dude, why does banana dance man
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  hate you? Pete, I don't even want to give
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  him the time of day, really. He's so freaking annoyed, like
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  he's number one of the 50 and the 50 percent, 80%.
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  Like without the data from members or memberships data, how
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  the hell do you expect I get the membership data from every
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  CrossFit gym in the world? Like it's not going to happen #2
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  you're wrong. Like that.
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  Fifty, like that 50% is a good number to have.
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  And then the improvement data, like I did some combing to get
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  to that number. I understand like how how easy
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  it would be to shoot through holes through like if I just
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  come out and like I looked at every single person in the open,
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  well, 50% of them don't do it. They, there's no data that's
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  useful. I had you had to do at least two
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  opens to even qualify to use that data or to be involved in
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  that data. So I'm, I'm talking about
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  Crossfitters only. He's just like, he's stuck on
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  this Reebok thing and it's like he's like, Crossfit's only a
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  thing because of Reebok. It's like anytime anybody says
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  anything, he's like, you know, Crossfit's only a thing because
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  Reebok and it's like just shut up.
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  It's not. Also, I'm not a believer in that
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  theory. I think Reebok definitely
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  helped. By all means, I'm not taking any
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  of that credit away, but I think we were definitely on an uphill
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  climb without them in the first place, so.
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  I would argue that. I would argue that Reebok set us
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  up for failure after their contract expired.
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  Yes. Because we grew too fast and
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  then it and then you're left with trying to figure out what
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  to do. I think this guy got fired and
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  he's from Reebok. He's got fired from, I think if
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  he didn't work for CrossFit, he's kind of preposition that he
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  has. He hasn't, like directly said, I
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  work for CrossFit, but he acts like he has.
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  Yeah. And if he hasn't, like he's a
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  super jerk. And I, I, I think he's a nothing
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  burger man and you can take that with however you want.
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  Tyler Tyler gets all fired up. So I had to.
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  I had to have Lil Wayne. It's OK, Tyler.
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  I mean, we all can't have the glorious stats that Halpin has,
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  OK? He's been doing this for years.
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  If you ever need any help, like he's always out there man.
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  I'm calling you banana dance man is just like he got me so pissed
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  like I went I I like was like I'm gonna battle with you and.
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  We call him BDM. BDM after after I got to that
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  point of like, I'm just going to sit here and argue with you.
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  I then went into I'm just going to say something ridiculous so
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  this all stops. Like that's how pissed I got.
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  Like I'm done talking to you. I'm just going to tell some
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  weird algo allegorical story that does have meaning, but I
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  know you won't understand because you don't understand
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  stats it either. And then we're just going to
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  move on. Peanuts.
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  Butter. Yeah.
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  Yeah. I figured that was a good one to
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  get you started. And last one.
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  So many comments this week, keep them coming.
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  And while you're at it, subscribe to this channel.
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  This is the last time. Well technically two of them
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  from the same dude at TJ. You want participation then the
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  open needs to be free. What's my $20.00?
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  I see no return for the $20 and the second one.
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  The average Crossfitter who works out 5-6 days a week at
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  their box has no change of ever getting to the games unless they
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  become professionals and CrossFit becomes their job with
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  sponsors and training. The professional aspect has
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  ruined CrossFit and the games for most whoever participated.
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  That's it, I'm out. But I'll leave you with this
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  real G's move in silence, like lasagna.
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  That's. Right.
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  Like lasagna? That's right.
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  Wrong on both accounts. I the two should be free.
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  Just give it, give it away the free, give it, give it.
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  That person voted for Bernie Sanders.
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  I, I mean, it's an interesting idea to play with.
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  Like could you get the open to the point where it's like, hey,
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  it's just free to sign up? I think actually the $20
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  probably boosts participation more than it hinders it.
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  I think if it's free, people are just be like, well, I'm not
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  going to sign up because it. Like it's what's the point?
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  What's the point? Yeah, I'd be willing to bet if
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  it was free, the numbers would be very similar like like then
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  it like $20 versus versus free, like just very similar, right.
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  So if 300,000 people do the open and it's $20 a pop, that's $6
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  million that you did not get just to see that it was the
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  same. The the the athletes the
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  professionalization of the athletes killing the the
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  CrossFit. It's the progress, the progress
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  of a regular gym goer. Yeah, it's not.
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  That's not true either. Like, I actually think, I think
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  it was like you could color what I said in the video as like he
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  doesn't like the elite athletes. And it's like, no, that's that's
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  not what I mean. They've become too
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  unapproachable. Or, and we've talked about this
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  before, right? Because too.
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  Too. Too unattainable.
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  Yeah, they're too unattainable. Like you were like a lot of
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  college guys that were just looking and guys were like maybe
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  were like X college sports guys, right?
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  XD One guys, you see you are looking for something to do.
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  You're kind of lost. You love being fit.
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  You're just kind of working out aimlessly.
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  And then you see this dude on ESPN who's the fittest man in
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  the world and you're like, I can, I can do that, right?
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  Like, I think that reached so many people and now they're
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  like, I can't do that. Right.
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  Like like that's. Too hard.
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  I mean, I know what I started. I was like, oh, there's only
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  26,000 doing the open. Yeah, I got a shot and there's
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  zero chance I was even close. I know Tyler had a similar
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  story. He was going to sneak up on
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  everybody the year, too. Still, I'm still sneaking.
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  They know about you now. See me coming?
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  Damn. So no, I don't, Yeah, I don't
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  think you come in now and think you have any chance of being
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  something without 3-4 years of dedication.
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  Working there, yeah. Like, I mean, even then you look
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  at a guy like Ilya Moskalinko, like he's been in CrossFit for
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  three years and like started it for three years, but came and
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  he's barely into semi finals and he has a 350 snatch and a 4:40
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  cleaning jerk. So like if you're not coming in
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  with that, which you're, you're not like no, no, nobody is
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  right, Right. That's what three years gets you
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  to that spot. Like with that, right, Like it's
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  and and I and that's a tough sell.
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  That's a tough sell because I think a lot of, and I, I can't
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  speak for women, but I think a lot of guys got into it for that
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  reason because they thought they could do something that was
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  bigger than what they currently are.
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  And it and it and it was a dream, but it like you can see
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  it. It was my.
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  Dream. It was somewhat attainable.
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  Somewhat. Even if it wasn't, it looked
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  like it was, right? Right?
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  And now, and now it's, and now it.
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  It looks unattainable. And it really, really, really
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  is. Right, like you imagine looking
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  and if you were 22 years old and you graduate college and you're
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  I don't know, you're a football player, right, like you're a
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  safety or. You know, running defensive end.
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  Yeah, you're like, yeah, I'm going to.
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  Let's check out this CrossFit. You look at Jason Hop and you're
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  like. I can do that, No.
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  Yeah. No, not anymore.
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  But like and and I mean I think that attributes to a little bit
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  of the drop off from the open report.
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  I don't want to segue too soon, but the the biggest drop off was
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  in that 25 to 33 year old category, right and?
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  I think I think that contributes to that somewhat.
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  When we get to that part of the report, remind me of that
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  because it it's crazy how much it overlaps.
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  Yeah, the end I, I will say it's not, it's not, it's, it's, it's,
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  it's a really hard thing to think about because it's not
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  worthless. Like if you had a, if you were
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  an ex, do you want an athlete like, like you're going to get
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  stuff a lot quicker than most people, right?
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  And you could make it. It's just not going to be in a
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  year or two. It's going to be, it's going to
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  be in five. Yeah, right.
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  Yeah, like the two the year two or three, you're going to be
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  hopefully sniffing semifinals, but you're going to be in 20 to
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  30th. Abigail's getting loud.
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  She's getting her lungs on her now.
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  Like, yeah, you're, you have to know you're going to put in
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  years and years of work. And he may turn in to be
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  Moskalenko, where you're just making the semifinals.
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  Like that's a lot of time to be dedicating yourself to get there
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  if you're really trying to be the best, right?
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  And you don't know if you'll be the best ever, right?
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  So let me pull up Mr. Kale. Oh, Kale, almost Kale.
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  Lemon's a comeback. The comeback.
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  He started following me. I think it was last night or the
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  night before. He's back, baby.
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  Yeah, and he's got swag now. Two weeks, 2 days.
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  Is this, is this the real him? It looks like it, doesn't it?
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  Dude this is insane. Like if.
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  He's following Morning Chalk Out, World Fitness, project
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  Killer and Me. I don't think.
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  I don't think it's the real him. Then I don't.
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  What do you mean? That seems like a good for
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  people to start. Following.
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  I don't think he would follow you guys.
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  I think he would. Dude, he was going to do the
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  Hiller. He was going to do a show with
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  Hiller. Yeah, and then ghosted him.
• 22:16
  Well, things got rough last year.
• 22:17
  Hey, I don't, I know. New year, new man.
• 22:20
  This is his same Instagram profile or is it?
• 22:23
  A different 10. It's definitely his.
• 22:25
  It says Kale Layman. It doesn't.
• 22:26
  It's not like Lael Cayman. Click on his Click on his his
• 22:31
  post. LAEL, Cayman.
• 22:33
  Look, look at him, that's a good looking dude.
• 22:35
  The effect of modification of heat shock temperature as
• 22:39
  standard transformation efficiency.
• 22:43
  Look. He came back in September for
• 22:45
  those who weren't ready for the sudden departure.
• 22:48
  Go to the next one. I am not retiring Sam Dancers on
• 22:56
  it. But.
• 23:00
  I don't think this is him. Two weeks, 2 days.
• 23:04
  'Cause he doesn't post like this, like this stuff.
• 23:07
  It's a new year, man. Post what words on a black
• 23:11
  background? Yes, yes.
• 23:12
  Look, he has he has a video from covering CrossFit that he left
• 23:18
  tagged and he left this one. Men, do you think could
• 23:23
  potentially win it? 3 or 4 this is.
• 23:26
  His Is Dalen a threat? Dalen is a threat.
• 23:28
  Justin yes. James.
• 23:32
  Yes, Ricky. No.
• 23:36
  Is is Jeff a threat then? Jeff is a threat, yes.
• 23:40
  What about Roman? I think Roman, dude, all these
• 23:44
  guys have potential and like I said, I think everybody.
• 23:47
  These guys that's no What about Kane Lehman is?
• 23:52
  He going to do the open? He's just a threat in the open.
• 23:54
  Yeah, he's a threat in the first three weeks, but he just tends
• 23:57
  to fall away. How many men do you think could
• 24:01
  potentially win it? Jason backpedaled.
• 24:04
  So yeah. All right, well, you guys can
• 24:07
  believe what you want. On this is that that was his
• 24:09
  that was his little instead of like Hopper, how he has his
• 24:11
  little folder of hate on his phone.
• 24:14
  Yeah, the tags, the tag tab on Instagram is his hate folder.
• 24:19
  We'll see. I don't think it's him.
• 24:22
  It's definitely great. Great.
• 24:25
  It'd be the greatest troll of all time that you pulled up.
• 24:28
  I don't know. See.
• 24:29
  Look great. It was right here.
• 24:30
  You aren't him, can't be Grant unless you think Grant would
• 24:36
  comment on his own post. Play in the big game.
• 24:39
  That's smart, Grant. I just, if it is him and he just
• 24:46
  and he's like top ten in the open.
• 24:47
  Oh my God. You imagine if he beats if he
• 24:53
  beats Hopper by one spot, it would.
• 24:54
  Just it would just be hilarity at that point 'cause it would
• 24:57
  piss the elite athletes off, right?
• 24:59
  Like, like at this point it would be like, dude, what do we
• 25:02
  do? What do we do?
• 25:04
  What what he should do, what what he should do is wait until
• 25:07
  Hopper posts and posts one Rep better than him in every workout
• 25:11
  just to beat him by one spot. I can't.
• 25:15
  I can't no video proof. No, no, you don't have to do a
• 25:18
  video. It's not a, it's not an
• 25:19
  affiliate. Just mess with it, that'd be
• 25:21
  great. What's insane is he doesn't need
• 25:24
  video proof and his score stands with 0 video proof.
• 25:29
  My workout was live on your channel and we got took to 0.
• 25:36
  How does that make sense? How does it make sense, Finn?
• 25:41
  It was modified you. You they said my video was
• 25:44
  modified and we did it live and that got taken down.
• 25:51
  What? You were a target.
• 25:53
  They were. They were targeting you, John.
• 25:54
  Yeah, but I just how like take me there.
• 25:58
  How do we, how and his scores stand?
• 26:06
  There was no video. Nobody.
• 26:07
  I'm. Like right you, you screwed up
• 26:09
  in that. There was video, John.
• 26:13
  With no quarterfinals, no advancement to semifinals, Newt,
• 26:17
  you're gone. Insane, insane.
• 26:22
  Can you, can you, can we just for a second acknowledge that?
• 26:24
  That's insane. It is insane.
• 26:26
  It's so great though. I felt so bad for you when it
• 26:30
  happened because I was like, that's just not OK.
• 26:34
  But like when you like whatever I what for whatever reason, but
• 26:40
  when you retroactively looked at his scores count, right?
• 26:44
  And we know you didn't do it. But he's an affiliate.
• 26:50
  He's an affiliate. It's all verified.
• 26:53
  It's fine. Yeah, so I who am I to say?
• 26:58
  All right, the open report. Let's see.
• 27:03
  Let me let me pull it up here, I think.
• 27:06
  Our comments are frozen. Yeah, the the comments on Stream
• 27:10
  Yard have been getting bad. We have to find a new solution
• 27:14
  here soon. First off, go to our website, go
• 27:20
  sign up for the newsletter. It's the only free one out there
• 27:23
  that's sent to you five days a week.
• 27:26
  Other ones are behind the paywall now.
• 27:27
  So go sign up, go do that, and then you can click on the open
• 27:31
  report. And so, Tyler, first of all,
• 27:36
  before we get into the actual info, what made you want to
• 27:43
  spend a week pulling data? I've been thinking, I think I
• 27:48
  thought about doing this the past three years.
• 27:50
  And by the time I usually would like think about it like
• 27:53
  basically as the open started and I'm like, it's too late.
• 27:55
  Like if I come out with the report now, it's just like it's
• 27:58
  a miss. I knew it had to come out
• 28:00
  before, before the open started. But what finally, like, pushed
• 28:07
  me over the edge was like, I had seen the state of the OR state
• 28:11
  of the industry report and it like rang a bell.
• 28:16
  And I was like, oh, yeah, I need to try to do this.
• 28:19
  And so I reached out to a couple of friends that I knew might
• 28:24
  have scrapers because I didn't know how to build a scraper by
• 28:26
  myself. And then Barclay sent me one.
• 28:29
  Oh, not Michael. Michael no.
• 28:34
  Oh, that would have been a good one.
• 28:36
  Barclay sent me his and then I I read up on a little bit on how
• 28:41
  to code and I changed it to what I needed and then I just started
• 28:45
  pulling. But yeah, like, to me, CrossFit
• 28:50
  should have used data like this to inform what they were going
• 28:55
  to do on the next year. And I think like.
• 28:58
  You don't think they were? No, I actually know that they
• 29:03
  haven't been, No. OK.
• 29:06
  I think that they look, I think so as I went through this
• 29:09
  analysis and thought about all these issues, they're definitely
• 29:12
  looking at totals. I think that's as deep as
• 29:15
  they're going, but they're not using like, you know?
• 29:18
  I think they got the, I think they have like retention rate,
• 29:21
  yeah. I I do I have an ex insider who
• 29:27
  used to give this information and he did it on his own and it
• 29:33
  was just trashed like it was never utilized so it's.
• 29:37
  Helpful. Yeah.
• 29:39
  OK. So yeah, you started, you
• 29:42
  started pulling, pulling this data.
• 29:44
  Look, you can click right there King Kong then yeah, I click
• 29:48
  that and it goes straight to 10% off.
• 29:53
  So the open port before you can watch it over 6000 of you guys
• 29:56
  have, but we appreciate it. Yeah, as we go through see 15
• 30:02
  years of grit, 1.63 million people have done the open,
• 30:07
  235,000 last year and 57% CFI DS in the open.
• 30:15
  Before we do that, there's money here.
• 30:17
  So Chattanoofi 999. Thank you.
• 30:20
  Tyler, does your wife know if there's any availability at the
• 30:22
  San Diego CrossFit Medical Society event February 21st to
• 30:27
  22nd? No, but you can reach out to the
• 30:30
  CrossFit Medical Society. They'll be able to tell you.
• 30:36
  That's super helpful. His wife might know.
• 30:38
  Tyler doesn't know. No, I don't think she does.
• 30:41
  She just, she writes and and works on stuff for them, but she
• 30:43
  doesn't. She's not organizing any of that
• 30:45
  stuff. There's over.
• 30:48
  Did you know there's over 80 comments on your video?
• 30:51
  Yeah. I was looking against the other
• 30:53
  videos and I was like, OK, so this one, I, you know, when I
• 30:57
  come out with this, it was like, I I spent.
• 31:03
  She's so nice. Yeah, she's great.
• 31:06
  I spent four months doing this and this is.
• 31:10
  You could have done it in a couple days.
• 31:12
  I could have done it in a couple days.
• 31:13
  It's. Crazy.
• 31:16
  I it was nights and weekends and it wasn't like every night and
• 31:19
  weekend. It was just nights here and
• 31:20
  there when I could swing it. But oh shit, where was I going
• 31:25
  with that? The I that was the first metric.
• 31:29
  I thought I was like, how many people have done the open ever,
• 31:33
  ever. We we never talked about this
• 31:35
  and like 1,000,000 people doing the open is like a huge thing
• 31:39
  that we should have talked about a long time ago.
• 31:41
  It's like. It should have been a it should
• 31:43
  have been a big like celebration.
• 31:44
  Yeah, I mean, like McDonald's has it on their fucking sign.
• 31:47
  Yeah, like 1 billion burgers sold or whatever.
• 31:50
  Yeah, I know. No, there should have been a
• 31:51
  countdown. I I seriously like a like a
• 31:54
  countdown clock on their site. Like I think would have been
• 31:56
  insane. Speaking of countdown, I'm
• 31:58
  gonna, I'm gonna take a tangent. How cool would it be if the
• 32:02
  CrossFit Games website, you go to CrossFit and it was counting
• 32:06
  up in real time? So in like 100,863 people have
• 32:13
  signed up for the 2026 open. Join them.
• 32:15
  Yeah, and there's a link to register and the next time you
• 32:19
  go it says 102,000. Right.
• 32:22
  And you can play like that. It's like the debt clock.
• 32:25
  The Facebook movie wherever they keep refreshing to hit 1,000,000
• 32:28
  people and then you that can be Dave Castro just refreshing,
• 32:33
  right? One millionth sign up get some
• 32:36
  sort of or you know, set a #200,000 sign up gets dude gets
• 32:40
  an F-150 or something like that. That would be so fun.
• 32:44
  I honestly it's not I, I maybe not an F1, a free L1.
• 32:48
  No F-150. LL150.
• 32:54
  Speaking of that, like I'm I'm similar.
• 32:57
  Level 4. Yeah, I'm semi proud of like my
• 33:01
  my CrossFit ID number, like how low it is and it's like.
• 33:04
  Mine's lower. Yeah, yours is so much slower.
• 33:07
  What's your ID number? Mine or spins.
• 33:13
  See here. How do you know?
• 33:15
  It's on your CrossFit app. 4451. 4451.
• 33:21
  Nice man. He goes back to like.
• 33:23
  Holy cow, I I looked up the first, the first and last, so
• 33:32
  through 2025, the first and last CrossFit ID #SO00001 and then
• 33:38
  just. Kidding.
• 33:38
  Who was the first person? I had that name somewhere.
• 33:42
  I'm going to have to pull up all my sheets.
• 33:46
  Is an Asian lady. She's a photographer.
• 33:48
  I reached out to her, she never got back to me.
• 33:51
  I don't Josh Everett's. Wife Lin Lin Yi Lin from China.
• 33:55
  CrossFit. Jakarhu.
• 33:57
  Yakarhu. Jakarhu.
• 33:59
  I know that place. But what's weird is her open is
• 34:02
  only in 2017 and 2018 stats so I don't know what's going on.
• 34:06
  Yeah. She hacked in.
• 34:08
  Yeah, but with the CrossFit ID thing, so and I don't, I've
• 34:15
  asked about this, I've not got any pushback on it.
• 34:18
  So if I'm incorrect, like this is a hole in the report.
• 34:22
  But I thought about like you're only given a CrossFit ID if you
• 34:27
  do a level 1, you sign up for the open or you do some sort of
• 34:30
  training courses. They used to, you know, all the
• 34:32
  training courses they used to have, you know, CrossFit,
• 34:37
  football, gymnastics, endurance, all of those right.
• 34:41
  So I wanted to know how many people have not done or have not
• 34:46
  done the open that had I DS and it was what it's 43% of people
• 34:54
  had never done the open that. I DS that's surprising.
• 34:57
  Yeah. I've never heard of this person.
• 35:00
  This is number 10 system. Test.
• 35:05
  What, what, What is your number? Tyler?
• 35:10
  Sorry, I got a pretty low number too.
• 35:13
  It's it's it's lower than spins. No, it ain't.
• 35:16
  Yeah, No, it ain't. It says CFID number 1530.
• 35:23
  There's no way. I I'm just telling you what it.
• 35:26
  Says what year did you start? Like 2010.
• 35:30
  You started in 2010. Yeah, I was 16.
• 35:36
  Really. No.
• 35:38
  God, he's just screwing with me. No, I'm 683,000.
• 35:44
  You're way down there. Let's see, I actually don't know
• 35:47
  how to work. They've updated the app athlete
• 35:49
  profile. I'm pretty close to the
• 35:50
  millionth person. We are currently experiencing
• 35:52
  technical difficulties so I can't figure it out via the app.
• 35:57
  I'm using the app. That's because so many people
• 35:59
  are signed on. I think it's like I was
• 36:01
  somewhere around 40,000 or something like that.
• 36:04
  They're 40,000. Something like that.
• 36:06
  Wow, how am I 683,000 then? 'Cause you signed up in like
• 36:12
  what, 18? 16.
• 36:14
  Yeah, I mean, dude, that's at the peak.
• 36:16
  That's coming near the peak. I guess I'm after the big 1415.
• 36:21
  Swing, yeah. 16 Boom, yeah. So that was, that was impressive
• 36:26
  to me. I would love to know if that
• 36:28
  number is actually wrong and in like I'll I'll call it out.
• 36:31
  It might be wrong, but I don't I don't think it is.
• 36:34
  I haven't gotten any pushback that it is wrong.
• 36:37
  Just -1 for the system test. And then of course, the chart
• 36:45
  we've all seen is the open participation, you know, and I
• 36:47
  broke it up in men and women and total.
• 36:51
  I like that the, the men and women do seem to, to model each
• 36:54
  other. There seems to be like a pretty
• 36:55
  consistent distance between them.
• 36:59
  And then like I didn't realize how high we had actually gotten
• 37:03
  in 2024 in relation to the to the peak like we were.
• 37:08
  Dude, we're on the way. On the way.
• 37:09
  Back because I. Mean, I remember like in
• 37:11
  24/23/24, they had like a, a growth goal, yeah, 5% or
• 37:18
  something like that. They were trying to grow or 10%,
• 37:20
  something like that. We fell just short.
• 37:23
  But no, it was, relatively speaking, it was making a pretty
• 37:28
  good comeback. Yeah, I mean, it's been a roller
• 37:30
  coaster. It's been a very consistent
• 37:32
  roller coaster where like it builds and then there's
• 37:35
  something crazy happens and it drops, but then it just kind of
• 37:38
  builds year over year, and then something crazy happened again
• 37:41
  and it dropped. And what's going to happen this
• 37:43
  year? It's going to be a little bit
• 37:44
  bigger than last year. Yeah, the next year's going to
• 37:47
  be a little bit bigger than last year.
• 37:48
  And if we could just please, for the love of God, not have
• 37:53
  something crazy happen, it would keep on going.
• 37:59
  It should. And then the question a lot of
• 38:02
  people ask is like returning versus new athlete data.
• 38:06
  You can see the new athletes have I've started to that's
• 38:09
  really started to take a. Hit 2020 is crazy, yeah.
• 38:13
  How many? Look, look, I mean, I Greg
• 38:15
  killed the media and then Dave killed Lazar.
• 38:17
  If we could just stop killing things, it'll keep growing.
• 38:23
  And that's that's what really rang rang for me about how bad
• 38:27
  2025 was is like we basically matched a pandemic in how bad we
• 38:33
  took a hit. I mean like the.
• 38:35
  Well, no, 20/20/2020. 20 was before the pandemic. 2020 was
• 38:40
  the October 2019 open, so it was the second.
• 38:44
  It was the second open in the. Year, yes, Yeah.
• 38:47
  So we're worse. Than a pandemic.
• 38:49
  That was when they, they killed the media in 2018 after the
• 38:53
  games 2019, the, the Open was right in the middle of all of
• 38:57
  the different sanctionals. And then they had this idea of
• 39:00
  let's do the the open before all these sanctionals start to make
• 39:05
  it easier to follow. Let's just do it in October.
• 39:10
  Like there's so many things going on in October.
• 39:13
  That was just a disaster on top of being the second open in a
• 39:17
  year. And you read some of the
• 39:18
  comments on on your video and they're like an annual checkup's
• 39:22
  not enough. You got to do it twice or 4 * a
• 39:24
  year. No, no.
• 39:26
  That's what your affiliate is for.
• 39:28
  The open is for the worldwide check.
• 39:31
  But nobody wanted to do it again in October.
• 39:34
  Kids are going back to school. You already did it right.
• 39:37
  There's college football starting.
• 39:39
  There's so many things going on in that time frame that it was
• 39:42
  just a disaster. Right, the Open really is.
• 39:46
  It's perfect time. To and and nobody, everybody
• 39:48
  started questioning like, what is this?
• 39:50
  Like why do we change? Like now we have no media.
• 39:55
  Like there was none. I don't even think they had the
• 39:57
  social like media. Stuff they shut up at that.
• 39:59
  Point, yeah, like they had archived everything, so there's
• 40:03
  nothing pushing it, there's nobody pushing it.
• 40:06
  And so yeah, like nobody knew was signing up.
• 40:10
  I can't remember what the name of that guy was that like
• 40:13
  basically talked Greg into all that stuff.
• 40:15
  Savon talks about him from time to time, but he was the main
• 40:19
  driver behind all these stupid, stupid initiatives.
• 40:24
  I do not understand how he thought that that was going to
• 40:26
  play out. Yeah, it was bad.
• 40:29
  Anyway, it was bad. I know the comments are frozen
• 40:32
  right now, but a lot of people are trying to find out cross
• 40:35
  vats ID number and he's he's staying strong cross back.
• 40:40
  Can you just give us like a a range?
• 40:45
  Just give us the numbers but in different order.
• 40:47
  No, no, no, no, no, no, no, like like just give like top 2000.
• 40:52
  All combinations. Or top 3000 or you know what I
• 40:55
  mean? Like like just so 'cause he says
• 40:57
  he has you, you beats, man. I just want to know how far back
• 41:00
  he goes. Well, there we go.
• 41:02
  There's only 4400 and. 50 That's that's what I'm saying like like
• 41:05
  like I just I. I and we know that number one is
• 41:09
  Yi Lin and #10 is a system test and nothing in between all that
• 41:13
  all of them in between that are affiliates.
• 41:15
  Even if you're like 17 like you say like top 1000, I just want
• 41:22
  and. We will find.
• 41:23
  You. No, no, no.
• 41:24
  We're not going to find you. I just want to know how far back
• 41:26
  you go. Just Jeff Kane was that he was
• 41:31
  the CEO at the time. It was Jeff Kane.
• 41:34
  That was a disaster, yeah. Great.
• 41:37
  CEO should bring him back, yeah. More like Jeff Payne, am I
• 41:43
  right? Zero to 10,000.
• 41:48
  Zero to 10,000. OK, the best, the best.
• 41:55
  This is going to be John's favorite section.
• 41:58
  I I that means it's going to be my least favorite.
• 42:01
  Section listen the the rest. This one I struggle.
• 42:03
  This is the one I struggle with the most.
• 42:05
  I don't understand why you guys struggle with this.
• 42:07
  I've not even seen it. What are we talking about?
• 42:10
  We've already talked about this, John, but so I wanted to look at
• 42:14
  all the like of all the athletes who have done the Open for every
• 42:19
  single year, who were the best. Now, of course, like Rich didn't
• 42:24
  do one year, athletes fall out for different reasons.
• 42:28
  But it's like to me, you've made it work.
• 42:30
  You're you've stayed healthy for this long.
• 42:32
  You've stayed in the sport. Like you're a real model for
• 42:36
  what CrossFit is at the base level, right?
• 42:38
  So these are these are athletes that did 15. 15 opens.
• 42:42
  How many were there do you know? Total athletes I only, I used it
• 42:47
  to only pull what I exactly what I wanted.
• 42:50
  So I only wanted the the top five. 1.63 million.
• 42:55
  Did every open? At how many of them every open?
• 42:58
  There's not that many. It's it's a crazy low number.
• 43:02
  Even the plus even the 10 pluses is crazy low.
• 43:06
  I bet you. Becky Beck and Boyd Miller's
• 43:08
  one. Of them second right?
• 43:10
  There second, right there. Second best open athlete of all
• 43:14
  time. All time.
• 43:16
  So of course you have Rob Forte. And it was like when I saw it
• 43:19
  was Rob, I was like, yes, like that dude every single year
• 43:24
  kills the open. His his average being well, 30
• 43:30
  is probably the greatest of all time because her average is
• 43:33
  67th. Her worst is 155th.
• 43:36
  I mean, look at Rob Forte's worst is 1790.
• 43:39
  Ninth, like 30, stays. I'll give you 30.
• 43:45
  I Rob Forte. I don't.
• 43:47
  Know, I mean, it's, it's easier for women to stay at the top for
• 43:51
  this type of thing. That's why her numbers are
• 43:54
  that's why her numbers are like that over over Rob Forte.
• 43:56
  I mean, I you can say she's the best of all time, but it is
• 43:59
  easier for women to stay up there than it is for men.
• 44:03
  Irving was. It was a surprise and not a
• 44:07
  surprise at the same time if if you know Irving.
• 44:09
  I'm surprised he's still doing it.
• 44:11
  Yeah, why? I just, I never hear about him.
• 44:16
  Like if you still hear about Thurry, right?
• 44:18
  And Rob's a little bit still in the in there.
• 44:20
  Obviously Austin's around. Like, I don't know what Irving's
• 44:22
  doing. He, I mean he did crash like 2
• 44:26
  years ago or something like that.
• 44:28
  OK. He still competes, man, He still
• 44:31
  fit as hell. I just remember him back in the
• 44:34
  day, like he would crush the open and then he'd be like, oh
• 44:36
  man, this is his year and then he wouldn't qualify.
• 44:39
  Dude, think about this. Thurry's worst is higher than
• 44:42
  Becavoy's average. That's pretty that's that's
• 44:48
  pretty wild of. Course Ben Smith.
• 44:53
  Hobart, Hobart. One point behind, one point
• 44:59
  behind. This is his year, This is his
• 45:00
  year. He can make it up on the.
• 45:01
  He can make that average up. He can top five in the world of
• 45:07
  all time open athlete. That's pretty wild.
• 45:09
  It's. Impressive, yeah.
• 45:11
  Becavoy China Cho, I was surprised to see up there and
• 45:15
  then Ashley Werner had never heard of her.
• 45:18
  I had to do. Ashley Werner's a beast.
• 45:21
  Man, do you know who she is? Yeah, she's like the 4th best
• 45:25
  open athlete of all time. It's.
• 45:28
  True. You don't know Ashley Werner.
• 45:31
  She's big and. She's like top 600 every year on
• 45:36
  average. She does weightlifting meets 2.
• 45:39
  I had to. I had to look hard to find a
• 45:43
  good picture of her. She's to hold an Elsa.
• 45:48
  She's from Canada. Yep.
• 45:53
  It's been to the quarterfinals 3 times, 21/22/23, her best finish
• 45:58
  worldwide in the 2022300 and 4th in the quarterfinals.
• 46:03
  Made the age group quarterfinals in 22 and 24.
• 46:08
  Made regionals 5-6 times. Yeah.
• 46:12
  Semifinals in 2022 in the age group semifinal.
• 46:16
  Yeah, so shout out to Ashley Werner.
• 46:19
  I I don't know that she's ever had this much like clout given
• 46:22
  to her, but this was a big deal. And then Jennifer Smith a a home
• 46:27
  pick. So I was happy to see Jen had
• 46:29
  made it up there. And what's crazy is she she had
• 46:34
  a kid and like, still. Still did it.
• 46:38
  Still did it. And stealing it on the top five.
• 46:40
  Yeah, staying still hanging on the top five.
• 46:42
  But when I was originally texting John and Spin about
• 46:45
  this, they were like, I don't like it this way.
• 46:48
  That's true. I'm I'm more on board now after
• 46:51
  seeing it in like actual data. Yeah, we, I mean, we just, we
• 46:54
  just have to define what we're talking about, right?
• 46:57
  I mean if you want to see the best.
• 46:58
  You're calling them the best open athlete of all time, like
• 47:03
  you're not saying they're the best at the open, right?
• 47:06
  They have done all of the if they're the best of the people
• 47:09
  who have done every single open, that's what you're saying.
• 47:11
  And that's and that's and I'm totally fine with that.
• 47:14
  Right. But I did to kind of try to meet
• 47:18
  you guys halfway. I did the best athletes by era.
• 47:21
  And this makes so much more sense.
• 47:23
  The women's is a little bit funky, but it makes a lot more
• 47:26
  sense. Carolyn Prevo.
• 47:28
  Yeah, Carolyn Prevo is a bit of a surprise.
• 47:30
  Yeah, really good. Of course like.
• 47:34
  South African Crystal Holta down there in 5th.
• 47:40
  I had to do a little help for Rich because his name changes
• 47:45
  because I think in the beginning it was Rich frowning and then
• 47:48
  became Rich frowning Junior or it's vice versa.
• 47:51
  So I had to like fix his, but everybody else seems to make
• 47:58
  sense to me. Is Rich the only one that spans
• 48:01
  2 decades or to to Nichols? To Nichols.
• 48:07
  I think he is if. He is.
• 48:09
  Congrats, Ritz. That's pretty cool.
• 48:12
  Yeah, would have been if I don't, I don't.
• 48:15
  It probably would not have been in this era.
• 48:19
  That would have been cool. I would have liked to seen where
• 48:21
  he would have been. I he would have had to have been
• 48:24
  best overall. He did not done or had he done
• 48:27
  what was it, 23 or 24? I don't think he did 20.
• 48:32
  Four, Yeah. Oh, you're saying he would have
• 48:35
  been over Rob Forte it? Had to have been.
• 48:38
  Yeah, he had a lot of top 10s. Did he do everyone though?
• 48:41
  Did he do the one in 2007? I don't think he did.
• 48:43
  No, there was none in 2007. 11201111 yeah, yeah, I guess he
• 48:48
  did. I guess he would have, yeah.
• 48:51
  Yeah. Affiliates Affiliate data was a
• 48:56
  big deal. It's a lot of numbers.
• 48:59
  Yeah, the the crazy, the reason I kept that chart in because it
• 49:02
  is gross to look at was like it kind of gives you an accurate, I
• 49:06
  think in a pretty accurate count of how many affiliates there
• 49:10
  actually are. Like how many affiliates do you
• 49:13
  think don't have at least one representative in the open?
• 49:20
  I mean, we know the top was what, 15,000 in 2018, right?
• 49:25
  So this, I guess I'd say 80, I'd say 80%, yeah, it's probably a
• 49:30
  good approximation. Right.
• 49:32
  It's like 80% do the do it. So you could say that like 2025
• 49:37
  there might have been 11 to 12,000.
• 49:42
  That number might get like the 80% might get closer to 90% as
• 49:47
  you get less affiliates. Yeah, that's fair.
• 49:54
  Yeah, the the thing that I think is useful about this for
• 49:58
  especially for HQ is like if to me the open is the greatest
• 50:04
  state, it's the like the stock ticker for CrossFit.
• 50:09
  It's like, it's like the the health marker.
• 50:11
  Yeah, it's the health marker for CrossFit.
• 50:13
  And so it's like if you based on how many #1 like how much your
• 50:18
  affiliates are going up and down, which they track all the
• 50:20
  time, but how many are like want to be invested in the open.
• 50:24
  If you're not wanting to be invested in the open, it should
• 50:26
  be a giant red flag immediately. And then like using that, like I
• 50:30
  don't have the data on and I don't think anybody has the data
• 50:32
  besides the HQ on how many affiliates like are leaving
• 50:36
  after they they aren't represented in the open.
• 50:40
  Like how long do you have until that happens or how many just
• 50:43
  exist and don't do the open at all?
• 50:45
  I would imagine that number super low.
• 50:48
  So anyway, and then six percent, 6%, John's calling it.
• 50:56
  Yeah, no, I know it. Yeah.
• 50:58
  Yeah. Didn't happen.
• 51:01
  Talk all the time. We're frequent.
• 51:04
  Good. It's just, yeah, I mean, we have
• 51:07
  these all the time. That's good.
• 51:09
  The so the average athletes per affiliate, so how many people at
• 51:14
  an affiliate are doing the open. So this I talked a little bit
• 51:19
  with some folks about this one. So this is across all time and
• 51:23
  the reason I kind of stuck with that is you have the low years
• 51:26
  of 2011 and then like you went through the peak and then you
• 51:30
  know you have the current years. I think that you still would
• 51:33
  have gotten like a pretty good representation.
• 51:37
  I think this is spot on. It feels.
• 51:40
  Right, so I, I, I put out a mess.
• 51:43
  I think it was wooly put out something and said, he said that
• 51:47
  only like 10 to 15% actually signed up for the open at an
• 51:52
  affiliate. And so I asked on a story like
• 51:55
  right after that, what do you think you're, you know,
• 51:59
  participation is of people that actually pay for the open R in
• 52:03
  your affiliate? Asked anybody.
• 52:05
  And I got anywhere from like 5% to 30% on average.
• 52:11
  And then some of them were like the 5075% range, right?
• 52:16
  But so many of them were in that 1015, 2020, 5% range that I feel
• 52:20
  like that 21 percent, 21.9 average when you think about
• 52:26
  there's 100 to 125 members on an average gym.
• 52:31
  Dude, I think, I think it's, I think it's very accurate and
• 52:34
  like I do you have the answer to this question.
• 52:38
  How many people I not? Often that do the open that
• 52:42
  aren't affiliated. I bet it's like 30%.
• 52:49
  I bet it's grown over the years, but I.
• 52:50
  Don't think it's higher. I don't think it's higher.
• 52:54
  I can find it. Dude, these sheets are crazy.
• 53:00
  Keep going. Wait, wait before before we move
• 53:05
  on from that scroll back up to the the previous slide.
• 53:13
  So this I kind of wanted to fit people into buckets and see if
• 53:18
  Jim's into buckets. So it's like if you had one to
• 53:20
  25 athletes in the open, 26 to 50, and seeing, you know, sort
• 53:26
  of the distribution of those and it's like it's I did not expect
• 53:31
  it to be that bottom heavy. Of course, like with the average
• 53:34
  athletes per affiliate being 21.9, Like, yeah, you can make
• 53:37
  that inference. But I did not expect like that
• 53:40
  many gyms to be running just one to 25 athletes.
• 53:44
  It seems. That seems like I would have
• 53:47
  liked it to be more like, yeah. I think, I think there's a lot
• 53:50
  of people that they're, the gyms are running there, you know,
• 53:53
  Friday Night Lights, but they're not encouraging people to sign
• 53:57
  up. Right.
• 53:58
  I would actually argue that there's probably a good amount
• 54:00
  of members who don't even know that they're supposed to like
• 54:07
  they, they go to the gym, they don't they've never been to
• 54:09
  games website. All they know is that their gym
• 54:13
  is doing some type of intramural Friday night thing for three
• 54:16
  weeks or four or five weeks back in the day, and you signed up to
• 54:21
  do it in your gym and you just show up and do your workout.
• 54:26
  I bet there's a large percentage of people, especially in that
• 54:29
  white line where the gym, the owner doesn't push it.
• 54:33
  They just do something for the community.
• 54:35
  And then a handful of people sign up because they're they're,
• 54:38
  you know, watching this show. I think there's like 4 at our
• 54:41
  gym right now 'cause it's there's not a huge push for the
• 54:43
  open. Dude, there's not a there's not
• 54:46
  a push at all at my gym and like, but you're not affiliate.
• 54:51
  No, we're we're we're not affiliated but but like they
• 54:54
  want to do Friday Night Lights and I'm like, guys, you can't
• 54:59
  expect it's not going to be like a big showing or anything.
• 55:03
  Y'all don't promote it like nobody even knows it's coming.
• 55:07
  It's like 2 1/2 weeks away and nobody knows and that's like and
• 55:11
  they haven't talked about it at all, not even like 1.
• 55:15
  The open is coming post and I'm like good like like and then I
• 55:22
  don't it it blows my mind. It blows my mind how much they
• 55:25
  don't and I know it's not. I know there's a lot of gyms
• 55:29
  across the United States like that.
• 55:31
  Where? Hey, BDMI and John, like I get
• 55:40
  to that at the end. Like I think I asked spin, I
• 55:44
  asked everybody. I think I put it in the big
• 55:47
  group thread. I talked to different, different
• 55:51
  affiliate owners everywhere and it's like, what is, what is the
• 55:55
  open? What, why do we do the open?
• 55:57
  You rally up your, your affiliate members every year,
• 56:02
  but like you're spending a ton of time and energy to make this
• 56:05
  work. Like what is really the point of
• 56:07
  the open? I did not ever feel like the
• 56:09
  answer of like it's your yearly test of fitness.
• 56:12
  I didn't feel like it was good enough, not for the
• 56:14
  participation that we saw in 2018.
• 56:17
  Like it just that didn't feel right.
• 56:20
  And so I sort of get down to that at the end of like, it's,
• 56:23
  it really is your moment and you're stamped to say like, I'm
• 56:26
  on this ship and like, I believe in this thing.
• 56:31
  PC If only CrossFit HQ provided marketing materials for
• 56:34
  affiliates to help promote their event. 2018.
• 56:39
  I I'm. I think this I think that that
• 56:42
  response is ridiculous. I'm mixed on, I'm mixed on this.
• 56:45
  So in one regard I'm like, OK, that's cool.
• 56:49
  Like you're helping the affiliates like get a jump start
• 56:54
  or, or like you're giving them something to do.
• 56:59
  But then it it also reminds me of the office where they're
• 57:02
  doing that commercial and it's like this stock footage of these
• 57:06
  random people and they're dancing and this cheesy music.
• 57:10
  And in the very end, it's just one shot of the guy of the whole
• 57:14
  like actual office jumping up in the air.
• 57:17
  And it's like that doesn't sell it on anybody.
• 57:21
  'Cause that's not. Us yeah, like if you, if you
• 57:24
  post that video on your affiliate website, it's like,
• 57:28
  that's not my gym. Those aren't the people I know.
• 57:34
  Oh, look, it's a picture of my logo.
• 57:35
  I don't care. Right, right.
• 57:37
  And so like, yeah, you can use some of that stuff like, yeah,
• 57:40
  there's posters and stuff you can print out and take to the
• 57:43
  printer and do it. But for some like you've got to
• 57:47
  get. I don't, I don't know why, but
• 57:48
  the affiliate owners, not all of them are bought into actually
• 57:52
  pushing that on their own. It's because it was never like
• 57:58
  it is about your affiliate. We do know retention goes up,
• 58:02
  that if you keep athletes in the open.
• 58:05
  But like the real thing about it was back in the early years,
• 58:11
  everybody just believed in CrossFit.
• 58:12
  It had nothing to do with the open really.
• 58:14
  It was just belief. Yeah, and I and I'm that's all.
• 58:17
  And that's a hard sell now. Like like like this better
• 58:22
  Barbie. Is it better or butter?
• 58:27
  Whatever. Barbie.
• 58:29
  Yeah Barbie, the members get the experience prior online so why
• 58:34
  pay $20? They have 100 members less than
• 58:37
  20 sign up. They encourage them but why
• 58:39
  would they like that is the same.
• 58:44
  I feel like y'all tell it, correct me if I'm wrong.
• 58:46
  That's the same thing as a person, as an owner being like
• 58:50
  well what is CrossFit doing for me?
• 58:52
  So why would I affiliate like why would I pay the $3500 to
• 58:58
  affiliate if they're not going to give me any like tools to run
• 59:02
  my gym? And it's it's because you love
• 59:07
  CrossFit. You want CrossFit to grow.
• 59:09
  If like it's almost like the community insurance Tyler, like
• 59:12
  if we are all in on this thing. This will.
• 59:15
  Work it. Grow everybody.
• 59:17
  Everybody succeeds. Your gym grows, the sport grows,
• 59:21
  the company grows. Everything would grow if we all
• 59:26
  just it. What what does rich say?
• 59:28
  If we all just got in a room and talked together, everything
• 59:32
  would grow. But but there's so and I'm
• 59:34
  sorry, Smith, I know, I know you.
• 59:35
  I I'm keep on cutting you off. Like there's so many people with
• 59:39
  that this mindset or just thinking they're too good for
• 59:45
  CrossFit, I guess, or like they're they don't care about, I
• 59:49
  don't know, like it growing that that's how things die.
• 59:54
  What's what's? Sorry, go ahead and spin.
• 59:57
  I, I liken that comment to like if you go into a coffee shop or
• 1:00:03
  like I think Panera did it, tried it like years ago where it
• 1:00:08
  was the honor system. You go in, there's a there's a
• 1:00:11
  pot of coffee and you pay whatever you feel is, you know,
• 1:00:15
  worth it or you just like it's on you to pay for it, but you
• 1:00:19
  can technically walk out for free.
• 1:00:22
  And how many people walk out for free with their cup of coffee
• 1:00:25
  thinking it's not a big deal and then six months later, Panera or
• 1:00:30
  whatever coffee company doesn't. It's like, we can't do this
• 1:00:33
  because we're losing money. We're going to go out of
• 1:00:35
  business. If, and it goes back to Lil
• 1:00:39
  Wayne, that last comment that he read was like, I'm not going to
• 1:00:44
  pay the $20. What do I get for it?
• 1:00:48
  50% of that goes to CrossFit. Running CrossFit.
• 1:00:53
  So $3,000,000 help support the company so that CrossFit is
• 1:00:58
  still around next year. If we all stop doing that, if we
• 1:01:01
  all stop taking L ones, if we all stopped paying our affiliate
• 1:01:05
  fees because we just don't find the value in it, guess what?
• 1:01:09
  You're going to XYZ Fitness you. There is no CrossFit.
• 1:01:14
  There is nothing that's tying the community together $20 to
• 1:01:18
  support the methodology and things that's changed your life
• 1:01:21
  is pretty cheap for if you're thinking about it for a whole
• 1:01:24
  year to pay $20. You paid more than $20.00 a
• 1:01:27
  month for AD free subscriptions Taco.
• 1:01:30
  Bell. Taco Bell today.
• 1:01:33
  No, Sean. And I did.
• 1:01:35
  Dude, Taco Bell's gotten so expensive.
• 1:01:36
  It's so expensive, dude. McDonald's is the way.
• 1:01:39
  I had the same amount of food, the same amount of food I get
• 1:01:43
  for $8 versus $20 a Taco Bell. But like this, this, but like
• 1:01:47
  spent in like in 2018, there was just such belief in CrossFit,
• 1:01:53
  the company. Like there wasn't that mindset.
• 1:01:58
  People just like, yeah, we're doing the open.
• 1:02:00
  Like, why wouldn't we like it's it's.
• 1:02:03
  I also think they'll back in 28, there were a bunch of the people
• 1:02:05
  that felt the same way, like I, I'm not going to pay for it.
• 1:02:08
  Like why, why do that? And the more I, you know, the
• 1:02:13
  longer I've been around and the more I think about it, it's like
• 1:02:16
  $20 a year to support something that has very much likely
• 1:02:22
  changed your life, like $1.60 a month.
• 1:02:27
  And if you don't do it, there's a chance that it doesn't go on
• 1:02:32
  next year. Right, regardless of how you
• 1:02:34
  feel about the company now. And guess what?
• 1:02:36
  If if Crossfit's not around and they don't put out three open
• 1:02:39
  workouts, there's no Friday Night Lights cause your gym's
• 1:02:42
  not gonna run it. Right.
• 1:02:45
  But this this comment, my affiliate is brand new, open in
• 1:02:49
  October. Half the members have never done
• 1:02:51
  CrossFit before and the owner isn't pushing the open at all
• 1:02:54
  because it's just trying to get people through the basics.
• 1:02:56
  They don't know what the games are and they don't know what the
• 1:02:58
  open is. So my answer to that would be,
• 1:03:02
  why would you not do the open then to be like, this is our
• 1:03:05
  baseline. This is where everybody's AT.
• 1:03:08
  And like if you can't do some of the movements, there's a scaled
• 1:03:11
  down like you scale the work. Everybody can do foundations.
• 1:03:15
  Everybody. Everybody, right?
• 1:03:17
  So like, why would you not get a baseline?
• 1:03:22
  And then, like right now, it's the perfect time to do the Open
• 1:03:25
  because then next year you see how much you improved from not
• 1:03:30
  knowing what CrossFit is to now you're the fittest version
• 1:03:33
  you've ever been. And what's and what's retention
• 1:03:36
  like Tyler, when you improve year over year?
• 1:03:39
  It's like it's well, 80% of people can improve every year.
• 1:03:44
  Yeah, but didn't you say if you don't improve, you leave?
• 1:03:46
  Oh yeah, you'll leave. Yeah, 50% of people who don't do
• 1:03:49
  the open leave. And it's like, we don't know
• 1:03:51
  what that retention data is like for people who don't do the
• 1:03:53
  open. But I, I guarantee you it's,
• 1:03:55
  it's worse than people who push the open every year.
• 1:03:58
  Dude, the, the gyms that really put a big push behind the open
• 1:04:02
  every year. I never wanted to leave those
• 1:04:04
  gyms. I still think about those gyms
• 1:04:05
  to this day, like CrossFit on the Plains and CrossFit Maximus.
• 1:04:09
  We talk about them all the time. And before I forget, if you've
• 1:04:15
  signed up for the Open, go into your competition dashboard, add
• 1:04:18
  hashtag the barbell spin. I've not looked at that for a
• 1:04:21
  while. We'll have to be doing the draft
• 1:04:23
  here very, very soon. Don't miss out SO.
• 1:04:27
  Make sure you're at it because last year we did the draft and I
• 1:04:29
  published shoes on every team and then people go, I want to be
• 1:04:32
  part of this. Yeah, yeah.
• 1:04:34
  Sign up do. Not delay, sign up.
• 1:04:36
  #Barbell spin. Hey, spin, can you do a poll?
• 1:04:39
  Oh man, you don't have to maybe just in the comments and like
• 1:04:45
  only really comment this if you would really do it.
• 1:04:48
  I've thought about doing would should we do a like shirts?
• 1:04:53
  I don't know if that's two weeks away.
• 1:04:54
  We could just do a pre-order and you just get them.
• 1:04:58
  Let's see, you want pre-order shirts.
• 1:05:01
  We'll just do it through Travis. Travis, you got this right.
• 1:05:06
  By the way, I wanted to answer Summers question about how many
• 1:05:08
  unaffiliated athletes there are. It hovers so it's been as low
• 1:05:14
  the data pre 2017 there. Was a poll out there?
• 1:05:17
  There's a poll out there for you.
• 1:05:18
  Guys, go vote. Do you want shirts for the
• 1:05:20
  barbell spin open? We'll figure out how to brand it
• 1:05:24
  real nice. It's been between 6% and last
• 1:05:29
  year it was 9, almost 10%. It's been hovering around 10%
• 1:05:34
  for the last few years. It was 22,000 plus people last
• 1:05:39
  year were unaffiliated athletes. OK.
• 1:05:44
  All right. Let's see.
• 1:05:47
  Continue. Affiliates Number of affiliates
• 1:05:50
  with 101 plus athletes in the open.
• 1:05:53
  Yeah, so this there's a big swing in this last year.
• 1:05:57
  So 295 S look 295 in 2024. So 2024 was a really big year.
• 1:06:04
  I I did want to get a feel for the juggernaut gyms of like how
• 1:06:07
  many people are pulling in 100 plus members.
• 1:06:09
  I didn't go over 100 plus and I kind of wanted to see but the
• 1:06:12
  numbers just get so low. That's kind of crazy.
• 1:06:15
  That's over 30,000 of the, what, 350 in 2024?
• 1:06:22
  Yeah, like that's a very large percentage on a small, small
• 1:06:27
  fraction of the number of gyms. And then 166 dropped last year
• 1:06:36
  or did it last year in relation? Yeah, well, there are a lot of
• 1:06:40
  big, there are a lot of big gyms in Europe that didn't do it,
• 1:06:42
  Brazil that didn't do it right, for sure.
• 1:06:45
  That's super alarming. Of course, like CrossFit knows
• 1:06:48
  about those gyms, I would assume, I would assume they
• 1:06:51
  would have to be monitoring that.
• 1:06:54
  And then I have like drop out rate.
• 1:06:55
  So like, did you, did you not have any athletes in the open
• 1:07:01
  the following year or the previous year or Yeah, the
• 1:07:04
  following year? That one really was mostly for
• 1:07:08
  people like HQ and affiliate members, just to see what those
• 1:07:11
  dropout rates were. The thing that I wanted to say
• 1:07:13
  is upward mobility. So this is an ability for a gym
• 1:07:20
  to grow in membership year to year, and it increased through
• 1:07:27
  the Rosa era, which I thought was interesting.
• 1:07:31
  So it's like more gyms became 76 to 100 open athletes.
• 1:07:37
  In 2024, we were almost at we're like at the second best that we
• 1:07:43
  had, we were equal to the second best ever.
• 1:07:46
  Right. But it like it, it, it, it's
• 1:07:48
  sort of a gauge on affiliate growth, like it's not direct,
• 1:07:52
  but it's like if more people are signing up or they open, they're
• 1:07:55
  definitely growing and I would assume they're growing in
• 1:07:57
  membership. And so I thought that that was
• 1:08:00
  really interesting that that went up during the Rosa era.
• 1:08:04
  To be fair, if you cut this at 2020, the 2020 number would be
• 1:08:11
  like 180. Which what?
• 1:08:15
  What are you talking about? Like you have 2018, 2024-2025
• 1:08:19
  right? And it looks like 2025 is like
• 1:08:21
  crazy crazy bad compared to the rest of prospect.
• 1:08:23
  If you had a 2020 year it would be like 180.
• 1:08:27
  Yeah. Yeah, yeah, it's going back up,
• 1:08:31
  right? Yeah, I guess it's kind of a
• 1:08:33
  dirty way to cut it. You're right, John.
• 1:08:35
  Let's see percent of tile improvement.
• 1:08:39
  Yeah. How many people?
• 1:08:41
  I was interested to see how many improved especially in the 20
• 1:08:44
  plus points percentile points and that's 31%.
• 1:08:49
  So like, you know, if you start at like a 50th percentile, 31%
• 1:08:54
  of those people are getting up at, you know, above the the
• 1:08:56
  80th. Yeah.
• 1:08:59
  And I think that's that's a really good improvement.
• 1:09:02
  And then like how many never improve or decline is only 20%.
• 1:09:05
  Now, Hiller pointed out. Like not everyone can improve.
• 1:09:09
  I'm like, yeah, sure. But only 20% I think is a really
• 1:09:14
  good number. Yeah.
• 1:09:16
  I mean, I think we see people that are still getting more fit
• 1:09:19
  years and years into doing it on the left of that count of
• 1:09:22
  athletes by age per year. Just real quick, this is
• 1:09:26
  probably our problem. Yes, it is the largest problem
• 1:09:31
  that exists right now. That white line is.
• 1:09:34
  It's also how to succeed. Yes.
• 1:09:38
  Well, it, it, I mean, yes, I, I, I'm curious, do you think that
• 1:09:45
  that because what we're looking at is the young actually
• 1:09:50
  probably college age and up in the, into the 20s stopped doing
• 1:09:58
  the open. We're not getting new people to
• 1:10:02
  bet to fill that bucket as they age up compared to what we had a
• 1:10:06
  decade ago. Obviously we don't have every
• 1:10:11
  year of that. But when everything shifted in
• 1:10:15
  2019 and we're still carrying milk jugs in front of a couch
• 1:10:20
  and the messaging is gone from Chris Spieler doing the open to
• 1:10:24
  Grandma doing the open, does that hurt the bottom of the, the
• 1:10:30
  that 20 year old funnel? And it goes back to you can tie
• 1:10:39
  this into the Border Patrol, the military, U.S. military
• 1:10:43
  sponsoring the games. Like that's what we used to like
• 1:10:48
  go in hard at. It was always the first
• 1:10:50
  responders, the military. That's what that's who should be
• 1:10:53
  doing CrossFit. If you're in that you should do
• 1:10:55
  CrossFit, CrossFit or should consider doing it going into
• 1:10:57
  that line of work. And now it's like, oh, we can't
• 1:11:01
  talk about that. And now look what you have.
• 1:11:03
  You have all these 20 year olds that are going to do something
• 1:11:05
  else. Question is what are they doing?
• 1:11:11
  You know, I've heard that like the younger generation, I've
• 1:11:16
  heard it both ways, that the younger generation both isn't
• 1:11:19
  working out as much and then also is working out more.
• 1:11:23
  James, you missed something that you're going to like a lot, but
• 1:11:26
  also you get called out pretty hard, like I forget where
• 1:11:32
  somewhere in the last 70 minutes there is, I mean, something,
• 1:11:36
  something not great was said about you.
• 1:11:38
  So go ahead and scour that. Spin eye over it I overlapped
• 1:11:45
  when I pulled these numbers I I was desperately worried about
• 1:11:48
  this because the openness felt the open and gyms have felt
• 1:11:51
  older and older to me like aggressively older than just
• 1:11:55
  aging. You know what I mean?
• 1:11:57
  And so I, when I pulled this chart, I started to think about
• 1:12:03
  how the season structure has changed throughout the years.
• 1:12:05
  Because what you're saying, like with, you know, the tip of the
• 1:12:08
  spear stuff and, and the milk jugs.
• 1:12:11
  I heard the antifreeze jugs and all that stuff is like they
• 1:12:14
  started to try to appeal to an older crowd.
• 1:12:17
  And it's like the younger people just feel alienated.
• 1:12:22
  They, they, they're not turned on by that.
• 1:12:23
  Like they want to do something that gives them FOMO or makes
• 1:12:26
  them feel like other people are doing at their age, right?
• 1:12:29
  And then so I started to think about the season structure.
• 1:12:32
  And so it like you don't have to scroll back, but if you go and
• 1:12:35
  look at that just athlete count over the years, like you can put
• 1:12:40
  a direct overlay of like when we were doing regionals, when we
• 1:12:44
  went to super regionals, when we went to sanctionals, and then
• 1:12:48
  now our new system. And it's like every time that
• 1:12:52
  those changed, that tilt went down.
• 1:12:55
  Do you also, I still also remember 10 years ago, all the
• 1:13:02
  gyms around Nashville had a competitor program.
• 1:13:05
  Yep, Yep. Right.
• 1:13:07
  And so like you'd start out in the regular classes and if you
• 1:13:10
  were one of those top guys or women, you kind of were like,
• 1:13:13
  oh, I'm going to go to the competitor program.
• 1:13:15
  I know that some people don't like that now, right?
• 1:13:19
  Like, no, we just do our programming.
• 1:13:21
  That's it. But that competitor program is
• 1:13:24
  what fed your affiliate team that was trying to make it to
• 1:13:27
  regionals and that's what you did is like, oh, I want all my
• 1:13:32
  people that are the the best to train together so they get good
• 1:13:35
  at regionals and then go to the regionals and there's a chance
• 1:13:39
  of making it to the games before the Super teams came.
• 1:13:43
  I don't think that's like happens that's.
• 1:13:45
  Not a thing that's not a really like the the competitive gyms
• 1:13:48
  now are just so niche. I'm sure there's a few.
• 1:13:53
  I'm sure there's a few and we'll see it at Syndicate.
• 1:13:55
  I'm sure there's a couple affiliate teams that go in there
• 1:13:58
  that are true affiliates. But I don't, I don't get that
• 1:14:02
  sense that that is like those groups were there because they
• 1:14:07
  wanted to be able to make regionals at some point.
• 1:14:09
  People were proud to Rep their their affiliate and be at
• 1:14:13
  regionals back in the day. And now it's like, what training
• 1:14:16
  camp are you with Mayhem? You know, whatever there was
• 1:14:20
  1800 mayhem teams, you know, when they were in Brazil and all
• 1:14:23
  over the place. And it's like, you know, you're
• 1:14:25
  going to see that. And it's like, I want to go back
• 1:14:27
  to that affiliate style. And like that was the point that
• 1:14:30
  I really wanted to get across was like those if I back in
• 1:14:34
  2015, there was a lot of talk of like, what do you do with the
• 1:14:37
  athletes that caught? Like they cause a lot of
• 1:14:39
  problems. They usually your equipment,
• 1:14:40
  they're not doing class like all that stuff.
• 1:14:43
  But every affiliate that I've ever been to that has a large
• 1:14:47
  competitor base, they were always way healthier gyms.
• 1:14:51
  Now you could argue that they go there because it's a better
• 1:14:54
  facility or whatever. But I think I what I observed is
• 1:14:58
  that it, it trickled down even to the people who didn't want to
• 1:15:02
  be competitive because people would be training.
• 1:15:05
  People would jump in on pieces with the athletes that they
• 1:15:07
  could do and they would feel cool because they did, you know,
• 1:15:10
  some workout with, you know, with me.
• 1:15:12
  It was like Jen Smith is like, I felt cool because I was doing
• 1:15:14
  workouts with her. And then like, I go work out
• 1:15:18
  with the class and I'm moving better because I want to be able
• 1:15:21
  to train with Jen. And then they're, you know,
• 1:15:23
  having to compete with me. They start moving better and
• 1:15:26
  then like everybody in the gym is moving better and feels
• 1:15:30
  better. And it's like that is gone.
• 1:15:34
  That's all gone now. Right.
• 1:15:36
  No, I, yeah. And, and a lot of times those
• 1:15:38
  competitive programs weren't, they're not following Mayhem or
• 1:15:41
  there weren't those programs. Out there they were, home they
• 1:15:43
  were. Home they were, they were the
• 1:15:44
  owner that was just creating harder workouts or an extra
• 1:15:48
  workout on top of what they were doing for that group of people.
• 1:15:51
  It wasn't like, hey, we're just going to come here and use your
• 1:15:54
  gym. Like they were still part of the
• 1:15:56
  community. And he knew what it took to get
• 1:15:58
  to that. And it's what members were
• 1:15:59
  doing, striving to go to to compete.
• 1:16:02
  There, I think Chase did this at Big D like if you want, he made
• 1:16:05
  the rule that like if you were at his gym, you had to do his
• 1:16:08
  programming, but if you wanted to be an athlete, he would
• 1:16:11
  program extra stuff for you, but you were going to do the
• 1:16:13
  affiliate. Program.
• 1:16:14
  Yep. Anyway, let's see.
• 1:16:17
  Moving on down, we're going to go through a couple things.
• 1:16:20
  Go down to the recommendations. Recommendation number one,
• 1:16:23
  restore the participation feedback loop by reinvesting
• 1:16:28
  open registration funds into the regionals structure.
• 1:16:32
  Yeah. So I mean, we kind of already
• 1:16:34
  hit on this with like the thing about regionals where you were
• 1:16:38
  pulling from such a smaller base of a smaller travel base.
• 1:16:43
  And so it felt like a community event.
• 1:16:45
  And then I've, I've hit on the piece where in the IT affects, I
• 1:16:51
  think your retention in the gym in your own affiliate, because
• 1:16:54
  people care more. And then once a year, if you
• 1:16:58
  have athletes that are qualifying to go to regionals,
• 1:17:00
  guess what your gym is going to do.
• 1:17:02
  You know, it's like mine. We were two hours away from
• 1:17:05
  Cincinnati. We drove up to Cincinnati or we
• 1:17:06
  were three hours from Nashville and we would drive down to
• 1:17:09
  Nashville. It was like it, that was
• 1:17:11
  basically the commute for most people to go to the regionals.
• 1:17:14
  And it's like, I knew a bunch of people that just went for one
• 1:17:17
  day and it was like, that was cool.
• 1:17:18
  They they hung out with everybody, but that created a
• 1:17:22
  camaraderie event essentially. And then also the the cut off
• 1:17:29
  for athletes has been raised every single year.
• 1:17:32
  I didn't include the chart. I included in the graph of like,
• 1:17:35
  essentially how many athletes can play ball.
• 1:17:40
  And like back in the day, it was like basically 4000 athletes
• 1:17:46
  around the world were allowed to play ball.
• 1:17:48
  And now it's like, and it's close to 1000 and it's like, you
• 1:17:53
  know what effect? That has the number of athletes
• 1:17:55
  that actually do in person semifinals.
• 1:17:58
  I bet it's less than that. Right.
• 1:18:02
  And I mean, you look at it like anybody that's using the
• 1:18:06
  quarterfinals as their methanol is as their, you know, their
• 1:18:12
  funnel, the same athletes are going to get invited to three or
• 1:18:15
  four of the same semifinals. They can't all do them.
• 1:18:19
  So they're going to, it'll trickle down beyond that.
• 1:18:23
  But if you're #300 in the world in quarterfinals, there's a good
• 1:18:29
  chance you don't make it to a semifinal unless you did one of
• 1:18:32
  these other random online qualifiers, whereas 300 in the
• 1:18:38
  world back then you were going to a regional.
• 1:18:42
  Yeah, basically because like John hit on this with the
• 1:18:46
  athletes, you know, the football athlete, right?
• 1:18:49
  That whole example that you were giving, what those people would
• 1:18:54
  have done in 2014 is they would have joined a team somewhere.
• 1:18:58
  Like you had some of the pieces, but you didn't have all of it.
• 1:19:01
  And like back then, when you had six people on a team, you could
• 1:19:04
  go. To regionals on a team and and
• 1:19:07
  even if you're bad, but you're good at lifting, right and then
• 1:19:11
  you can hide right, but it would bring people to more people to
• 1:19:17
  the competition, I think. And if people haven't seen it,
• 1:19:21
  you need to watch the 11 minute video that's kind of hits the,
• 1:19:25
  the head topics of Tyler's open report, but the Super regionals
• 1:19:30
  to super regionals. And that equals getting more
• 1:19:34
  people at your competitions, even though it does cost money
• 1:19:37
  to do like as far as the growth of the sport.
• 1:19:43
  And when we embrace that the open was the highest it's ever
• 1:19:48
  been. Every step that we've gotten
• 1:19:50
  away from it, it has deteriorated in various ways,
• 1:19:56
  right? It's gotten a little help, but
• 1:19:58
  still right. And I really, I, I think that's
• 1:20:04
  the biggest point that you've like in the whole entire report
• 1:20:07
  is how is this? Recommendation one to fix growth
• 1:20:13
  'cause I just think it would, I just think it would work.
• 1:20:15
  People, yeah, Abby does too. People loved regionals.
• 1:20:21
  I didn't and, and, and, and I loved regionals.
• 1:20:25
  Obviously like, you know, I'm the type of things like it's,
• 1:20:28
  it's an easier bar to think you can get there as an individual.
• 1:20:35
  And then there's way more people that can do it because of teams,
• 1:20:40
  right. Like, and then when you said the
• 1:20:42
  people who come to the competitions, it's either, you
• 1:20:45
  know, somebody from your gym or it's your family.
• 1:20:49
  Yeah. She is all on board with.
• 1:20:54
  This she is big time super regional fan.
• 1:20:57
  Like I don't see how even if it costs money, just the sheer
• 1:21:04
  marketing boom you can have from it.
• 1:21:07
  Like, I just think it's worth it, man.
• 1:21:10
  A lot of people won't go to the games and this was HQ's
• 1:21:15
  opportunity in each little, you know, region to say this is a
• 1:21:20
  mini mini games. This is like a taste of what you
• 1:21:22
  would get at the games. It was a fantastic marketing
• 1:21:25
  opportunity at the very like there would be affiliate
• 1:21:27
  gatherings and stuff like everybody you know, a lot of the
• 1:21:30
  big. I mean that's things like TF TFX
• 1:21:34
  have the whatever the Southwest or South Central affiliate
• 1:21:38
  gathering there, right? You could do that at these semi
• 1:21:42
  fine or you know, regionals and that's part of what you're doing
• 1:21:46
  like. And having like the central
• 1:21:49
  regional be the hard way, harder than all the rest of the
• 1:21:51
  regional. It's like I there's something to
• 1:21:53
  that, man. Like it was great.
• 1:21:55
  People want to watch that, right?
• 1:21:57
  So like if there's what Dallin, James and Justin would be in the
• 1:22:01
  same regional they be? In the northwest back.
• 1:22:05
  In right and they and they only have three people that go
• 1:22:08
  there's gonna be some weirdo that is ahead of one of them
• 1:22:12
  going into the last day and everybody's gonna be like, Oh my
• 1:22:16
  gosh, James might not make the games right and that's that's
• 1:22:21
  that's what like that added to it because like when Sam Briggs
• 1:22:25
  didn't make the games in 2014, she just.
• 1:22:29
  Won. Yeah, imagine if that happened
• 1:22:33
  today. And like, things like that could
• 1:22:35
  happen. There was so much more.
• 1:22:38
  Just heartbreak and just like Oh my God.
• 1:22:41
  Storytelling. I I made it right like you don't
• 1:22:45
  have the same just heartstrings that were connected like that
• 1:22:50
  regionals brought. There were so many tears shed,
• 1:22:54
  good and bad from regionals than any other competition Crossfit's
• 1:23:00
  ever put on. And you like Fukowski missing it
• 1:23:04
  two years in a row because of handstand push ups when
• 1:23:07
  everybody knew Dude, that guy, if he ever makes it, it's going
• 1:23:12
  to be dirty. And then when he finally did, he
• 1:23:14
  was fourth place as a rookie, right?
• 1:23:17
  Like that stuff matters. That's storytelling, right?
• 1:23:23
  And I you got to find a way to make it work.
• 1:23:28
  The the thing. Right I I think you just have to
• 1:23:31
  find a way to make it work. I was thinking about that, John.
• 1:23:34
  Like, find a way to make it work.
• 1:23:35
  And like we think like that and like HQ sitting there, they're
• 1:23:38
  looking at their. It's not HQ, it's Berkshire.
• 1:23:42
  Berkshire is looking at it and they're just seeing, you know,
• 1:23:45
  their balance sheet and they're like we, you know, in their
• 1:23:47
  income statement, they're like, you know, we can't do this.
• 1:23:48
  And it's like, no, I don't think you understand.
• 1:23:50
  Like you have to find a way to make this work like there's no
• 1:23:54
  other. There's no other option.
• 1:23:56
  Obviously nobody's coming here to buy you to buy CrossFit, so
• 1:23:59
  you might want to invest long term if you want a chance of
• 1:24:02
  getting out of this thing. And the thing that I thought
• 1:24:04
  about that, that actually I 100% I think would happen is like,
• 1:24:09
  say you just took the map, the, the, the region's map that I
• 1:24:12
  had, you know, in the video and you just laid it back down.
• 1:24:15
  It's like we've got to find events willing to put on this
• 1:24:18
  regional and like people to host this and, and, and cut the cost
• 1:24:22
  for us, but we'll subsidized it. I think you would have people
• 1:24:25
  coming out of the woodwork to be like, I would host that event
• 1:24:28
  immediately and like they haven't had a regional or
• 1:24:31
  semifinal in years. And they'd be like, I'd do it
• 1:24:33
  tomorrow because they know what it means.
• 1:24:36
  Yeah, I I definitely agree. And I, you know, if, if
• 1:24:41
  Berkshire's plan is to keep cutting costs by just reducing
• 1:24:44
  workforce, like that's not going to.
• 1:24:49
  It turns, it turns the, it turns the, it's a revenue driver back
• 1:24:52
  on. Like, yeah, you're going to give
• 1:24:54
  up, you're going to give up a 20%.
• 1:24:55
  You're already giving back to the affiliates back into this
• 1:24:59
  regional structure. And it's like, you know, I said
• 1:25:02
  it in the video, I know for a fact that these, I know 100% for
• 1:25:06
  a fact that the regionals were costing, I said 1,000,000 in the
• 1:25:09
  video. It's, it's more like almost half
• 1:25:12
  of 1.5 million that they were spending on these regionals.
• 1:25:15
  It's, it's insane. They're now running for 300,
• 1:25:20
  four, $100,000. Like if you give them however
• 1:25:23
  much it, you know, you can dole out to each one of these
• 1:25:26
  semifinals, it's going to greatly help.
• 1:25:28
  It's going to increase how many sponsors and, and vendors that
• 1:25:31
  they can have at the event. And then they're going to get
• 1:25:35
  more, they're going to get more people in their gyms.
• 1:25:38
  They're going to stay longer. People are going to want to make
• 1:25:41
  open more gyms and all that it it will pay off within five
• 1:25:44
  years. Can you not can you not and and
• 1:25:48
  maybe this is this is what it looks like and I'm you know,
• 1:25:51
  don't know. Can you not like just lease out
• 1:25:54
  like the Central East Regional to syndicate and it's just
• 1:25:59
  called the? Central, if you have each
• 1:26:01
  region, somebody would bid or ask, you know, fly to be the one
• 1:26:05
  that hosts it and got it like. It would be the same as you have
• 1:26:09
  now, right? If Wilson wanted to run that
• 1:26:11
  one, but like, I don't know if they all have to be in an arena
• 1:26:16
  like Knoxville. No, they don't.
• 1:26:18
  Right, like you could do one at a large gym if you had the right
• 1:26:22
  set up, right, Like the Mode Classic, you could do that out
• 1:26:27
  there in the Pacific Northwest. You could do J Rs gym.
• 1:26:31
  I mean, here in Nashville, you have CrossFit East Nashville,
• 1:26:33
  you have proven, proven has four lanes of a of a semifinals level
• 1:26:38
  floor. Yeah, it's almost like going
• 1:26:41
  back to sectionals. Yeah.
• 1:26:44
  Right, like the that was really home grown at that point.
• 1:26:47
  Right. The thing that I was thinking
• 1:26:50
  about is like, we're not, we're not far off of it now.
• 1:26:54
  We do have more regions than we've had in a long time.
• 1:26:58
  And the the real difference is like that CrossFit sort of
• 1:27:01
  created this, this vibe of like it was a mini professional event
• 1:27:05
  in each one of your cities, but then also like it was just so
• 1:27:09
  close and like anyway. Miss Medeiros Regional sucked us
• 1:27:15
  all in 100%. Yeah, and, and, and also like,
• 1:27:21
  you know, Justin talks about this all the time.
• 1:27:23
  His first experience as regionals, he was running 333
• 1:27:27
  and he was right next to Josh Bridges and he was and Justin
• 1:27:30
  was nothing. Justin was nothing.
• 1:27:32
  And he and he was like, Oh my gosh, I'm next to Josh Bridges,
• 1:27:36
  right. And and then, you know, lo and
• 1:27:39
  behold, he come, you know, he ends up a lot better than Josh
• 1:27:42
  Bridges, but you don't. I just so like if you can be in
• 1:27:49
  in heat one of regional and be so underneath, like the caliber
• 1:27:54
  of athlete that you're going to go against and yeah, you're
• 1:27:56
  going to get crushed. But just the opportunity, the
• 1:28:00
  opportunity and like, like you guys, I know, I know people
• 1:28:04
  think I overestimate my fitness a lot, but y'all, y'all tell me
• 1:28:09
  if I'm being mistaken like this. It it'd be like heat one, right?
• 1:28:15
  And it's like 20 people per heat and and one of the better
• 1:28:18
  athletes has a bad whatever quarterfinals.
• 1:28:21
  And like me and Jason in the same event, right?
• 1:28:26
  Like that's that's the type of athlete that you would get
• 1:28:29
  against a guy like that. Like yeah if y'all don't belong
• 1:28:32
  in the same room but just the chance to go against the best in
• 1:28:38
  the world and people would want to train for that.
• 1:28:42
  And you could have a bad open event.
• 1:28:43
  You'd have a bad open event and you were in the first heat.
• 1:28:46
  Right. Right.
• 1:28:47
  And so like you did get to go compete against somebody that
• 1:28:51
  was really good next to you, at least on day one, and then
• 1:28:54
  they'd pull away. But no, I, I, if you can figure
• 1:28:58
  that out, I think that helps tremendously with the community
• 1:29:01
  drawing affiliates. I don't will say going back to a
• 1:29:05
  six person team draws more from the affiliate base than a four
• 1:29:09
  person team. It does.
• 1:29:12
  It sucks because no one really wants to watch it, but we don't.
• 1:29:15
  Want to watch it with four but? Like we don't want to watch it
• 1:29:17
  with four and like there's also. Questions.
• 1:29:20
  We might not watch regionals like like it might not even be
• 1:29:23
  that watch worthy, but so many more people would participate
• 1:29:27
  and pay for it. So like your competition would
• 1:29:31
  have so many more people and more money would flow in, even
• 1:29:36
  if people aren't watching it, right?
• 1:29:39
  Like nobody's going to watch heat one, heat 2 and heat 3.
• 1:29:42
  Like, you know, no, nobody's going to and we shouldn't.
• 1:29:45
  Those people don't matter, right?
• 1:29:48
  But so many more people would come and watch the the whole the
• 1:29:53
  competition live in person, money, vendors, It's just the
• 1:29:57
  whole ecosystem would grow. The issue this runs into is that
• 1:30:01
  we'd have to cut quarterfinals and.
• 1:30:04
  But if you're going back to something like this where your
• 1:30:07
  regionals is your quarterfinals? Right, but whose?
• 1:30:10
  Whose income statement does that hurt?
• 1:30:15
  Do you have to cut quarterfinals?
• 1:30:16
  I think you do. You again like you could do
• 1:30:21
  'cause. We're going instead of going
• 1:30:23
  instead of doing. Three weeks, we're doing 3 weeks
• 1:30:25
  and then go into a week off and into quarterfinals.
• 1:30:29
  Like there's a, we're not doing anything to check the open,
• 1:30:32
  right? Like we find out if Colton and
• 1:30:34
  Mirham win and then we just move on and there's no video.
• 1:30:37
  I mean, while we're at it, let's just go back to A5 day open.
• 1:30:40
  And the, well, no, the only thing, the only person that gets
• 1:30:43
  like dinged outside of that is John.
• 1:30:46
  And then like week four could easily be two workouts, right,
• 1:30:51
  right. Like as part of quarterfinals,
• 1:30:54
  Sure. And then that's like, all right,
• 1:30:56
  you've made it into the top. Whatever.
• 1:30:58
  There's two more workouts that you can do at your affiliate.
• 1:31:01
  Oh, a cut. Yeah, like it's a cut those it
• 1:31:05
  gets progressively harder and and workouts four and five are
• 1:31:08
  now big boy workouts and they're the quarterfinals you got to pay
• 1:31:13
  to get to continue on. Like if you're in that top 2000
• 1:31:16
  or whatever, you want to do 25% whatever and you just do the
• 1:31:20
  next week and it's 2 and then you have all 5 workouts and you
• 1:31:24
  do everything you did like you did with the open back in the
• 1:31:27
  day from reviewing and doing all that stuff.
• 1:31:30
  But then it's and then it's top 50 in the South region of of
• 1:31:34
  that quarterfinals like of. All of that, Yeah, all of it's
• 1:31:38
  by. Region S region goes to your
• 1:31:41
  regional. Yeah, yeah.
• 1:31:44
  And I'm like, like, that's still so many more people would fight
• 1:31:47
  for that. Oh yeah.
• 1:31:49
  I agree. All right, we got to move on.
• 1:31:51
  It's been. I just want to say it's only
• 1:31:54
  taken me three years, but I finally guys, they've converted
• 1:31:56
  you guys to back to regionals team.
• 1:32:00
  It just took a week's worth of pulling data four months.
• 1:32:03
  Four months worth of day to work.
• 1:32:05
  All right, real quick leadership.
• 1:32:08
  I I've heard this but I'll comment.
• 1:32:09
  I'm going to take her out of the bouncer.
• 1:32:15
  Go ahead, leadership. Will Morad goes over to Mayhem
• 1:32:18
  last week, publishes the podcast on Monday.
• 1:32:22
  We've got World Fitness Project. We've got 19 signed men.
• 1:32:27
  James Sprague is the lone holdout.
• 1:32:30
  He may or may not be doing it, I don't know.
• 1:32:34
  The women only have 7 announcements on what they're
• 1:32:37
  doing. What is going on with the women?
• 1:32:41
  Like what are are the women not going to do?
• 1:32:45
  World Fitness project. Any of them.
• 1:32:48
  I mean, Emma Tall's the only one out of the top ten who has been
• 1:32:53
  signed so far. Well, I thought roughly 70% or
• 1:32:58
  blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. They said 70% is accepted that's
• 1:33:01
  what will said with rich, which means 30% did not, which means
• 1:33:06
  that would 12 total out of the 40 invites to be a pro card
• 1:33:10
  holder have you know have declined.
• 1:33:14
  We know four men, Dallin, Justin Adler and Ricky Jason and
• 1:33:25
  Hatfield, Jay Crouch, they didn't even get an invite
• 1:33:29
  because they didn't do the finals.
• 1:33:31
  That's only four. And we know Lucy Campbell, so
• 1:33:34
  that's 5 because she told Talking Elite Fitness.
• 1:33:37
  And you have Brooke Wells, who's retired six.
• 1:33:40
  That means there's six more women, unless James is 1.
• 1:33:44
  But there's a there's a whole bunch that are going to say no.
• 1:33:52
  Is it over? Like what?
• 1:33:54
  What is it going to turn into? I don't.
• 1:33:55
  I don't think it's over. It's over.
• 1:33:58
  I don't think it's over, but it's like, oh, it's a bad mark.
• 1:34:02
  Yeah, that would have been nice to hear Will's opinion on that
• 1:34:04
  on the Rich Froning podcast. I would have loved to have a
• 1:34:07
  straight answer of, you know what we think of that stuff.
• 1:34:10
  Dude you could have pinned him down and not got a straight
• 1:34:13
  answer. Well, I've been better than,
• 1:34:16
  yeah. Dude, he's more crooked than a
• 1:34:20
  hillbilly in Kentucky's teeth. We have great teeth, I'll have
• 1:34:24
  you know. A hillbilly, not you.
• 1:34:29
  It's looking, it's looking not good.
• 1:34:33
  I just, I don't know, I the the whole podcast did not come off
• 1:34:38
  well. It was.
• 1:34:39
  Weird. He's very evasive and like.
• 1:34:42
  Well I'd say the whole podcast in general, like the first 7
• 1:34:45
  minutes Will said like 6 words and then it finally got into it.
• 1:34:51
  Do that part where Austin's just like.
• 1:34:54
  Please give me an answer. Hypothetically, hypothetically,
• 1:34:58
  I know anything which I mean it was a hard question like what,
• 1:35:03
  what do you what should will even say in that situation like.
• 1:35:07
  Just say yes. Just say we would 100% work with
• 1:35:10
  them. It's.
• 1:35:12
  All hypothetical anyway. When people ask me
• 1:35:14
  hypotheticals, I just go for the moon.
• 1:35:16
  I'm like, yeah, buddy, I would just.
• 1:35:19
  Yeah, but if you get, then you get how, what would you say you
• 1:35:22
  can't be like, well, we, you know, the CrossFit Games is
• 1:35:24
  going to be part of our season because then everybody's going
• 1:35:26
  to attack you there. You just spit.
• 1:35:30
  You got to be good at spitballing.
• 1:35:32
  You just got to run with it. I he just like, that's why you
• 1:35:38
  Dave. Dave is really good at answering
• 1:35:41
  questions and making you feel like he answered them even
• 1:35:45
  though he may have not. Like it?
• 1:35:46
  Whether there be a new movement in the open, Right?
• 1:35:49
  Right. And it's like you've got you, if
• 1:35:51
  you're going to be the front man, you got to be able to Shuck
• 1:35:53
  and jive like that. And it was just nothing it and
• 1:35:56
  it like him going on that podcast was worse than him not
• 1:36:00
  going on it. I know everybody's waiting for
• 1:36:04
  it and and like the North Star stuff was terrible.
• 1:36:09
  My North Star is sport, my North Star is website.
• 1:36:14
  I love lamp. They should have.
• 1:36:15
  They should have been like. John's North Star is mountain
• 1:36:18
  like what? When, when he said when he said
• 1:36:22
  that I don't what? I don't know how Rich kept a
• 1:36:25
  straight face. I really don't like like, I
• 1:36:28
  don't know how you don't go. We don't know what Angela was
• 1:36:30
  doing though. What?
• 1:36:32
  Angela's got a thick enough beard he can hide anything the
• 1:36:37
  like. Say you say my North Star is
• 1:36:40
  sport. I don't know how you go.
• 1:36:43
  What does that mean? Or, or or you know what I would
• 1:36:47
  have said you and I said, well, OK, I got you.
• 1:36:50
  That's cool. Would you consider the World
• 1:36:54
  Fitness project like the sport of fitness?
• 1:36:57
  Right. And he would.
• 1:36:57
  Say he would say yeah. Yeah, he would say.
• 1:36:59
  Yeah, I would like. I hope you reached it.
• 1:37:01
  You don't have to do anything more.
• 1:37:02
  You're there. You're.
• 1:37:04
  There. You're there, you've done it.
• 1:37:06
  You're the most successful person in your mind.
• 1:37:09
  Yeah, and I just, I don't know, I.
• 1:37:12
  What's your S star, Will? That's because that's where I
• 1:37:16
  feel you're at. Not.
• 1:37:17
  Not North or not. Not not I.
• 1:37:20
  Just not sport. I just wish that they would
• 1:37:24
  reconsider what they're trying to do because it's very loud and
• 1:37:28
  clear that not a whole lot of people wanted, can or want to
• 1:37:31
  compete this much dude. And like I don't one competition
• 1:37:41
  like you just saw what rogue did they they they increased their
• 1:37:46
  cash investment in the prize purse to $1.215 million from a
• 1:37:50
  million. They added another 2200 and
• 1:37:52
  $15,000 to their cash prize minimum guaranteed.
• 1:37:57
  As much money as that World Fitness project is spending,
• 1:38:01
  they could have done one competition in December in
• 1:38:06
  Copenhagen. And have been more valuable.
• 1:38:10
  And paid a $300,000 to the winners.
• 1:38:13
  Yeah, and. We just say, hey, we're just
• 1:38:14
  doing this really big competition.
• 1:38:16
  We're doing one awesome competition.
• 1:38:17
  You're gonna we're going to pay more than your prospect games.
• 1:38:19
  Yeah, in Europe doesn't have a big.
• 1:38:21
  Europe doesn't get anything right.
• 1:38:23
  We're going to move it around every year to somewhere else.
• 1:38:25
  We're going to be the world from that standpoint.
• 1:38:28
  World Fitness project. But it's one giant competition
• 1:38:31
  where we want the best of the best to go, and we're going to
• 1:38:34
  pay them so much money that they can make a living off of 1
• 1:38:37
  competition. They'd spend less than bouncing
• 1:38:40
  around 3 places, burning everybody out, making people
• 1:38:43
  quit the thing. All of us would be so excited if
• 1:38:48
  there was a competition, one competition like that.
• 1:38:51
  If they grow into the minor league of CrossFit though, I
• 1:38:53
  don't mind it because. I think, I don't think if you're
• 1:38:58
  the minor league of CrossFit, you can keep doing what you're
• 1:39:00
  doing well. They got a blank blank check
• 1:39:02
  man. Unlimited budget.
• 1:39:07
  I mean, people are already buying tickets for next year at
• 1:39:10
  the same event, you know? Like, I don't, I don't doubt it,
• 1:39:13
  like it. Goes it goes it goes Vogue and
• 1:39:15
  World Fitness project. I think Wilson needs to allow
• 1:39:17
  cowbells into the syndicate, like cowbells like the Zuzu
• 1:39:23
  Vellas or whatever they were from the World Cup years ago
• 1:39:27
  just get crazy drums. I just like how he goes.
• 1:39:33
  I but I would say the athletes we have are awesome.
• 1:39:38
  Patrick, you're Patrick. You are.
• 1:39:42
  Great. Look, I get it to some degree.
• 1:39:45
  I get it. I CrossFit you.
• 1:39:47
  I get it to some degree because like last year at Syndicate, we
• 1:39:51
  didn't have the Jason Hoppers, the Austin Hatfields, because
• 1:39:56
  they all went somewhere else where they qualified through the
• 1:39:58
  online semifinal. I get that.
• 1:40:04
  But this was designed for the best of the best, and you're now
• 1:40:07
  seeing a large percentage of the best of the best.
• 1:40:10
  Only two out of the top nine do it.
• 1:40:12
  And I think the two of the nine that are staying are doing it
• 1:40:15
  because now they look at it and go, I've got easy money.
• 1:40:18
  Like I'll just, I'll be top three regardless of what
• 1:40:22
  happens. Like I'm beating all these other
• 1:40:24
  guys and that's going to be decent money for me.
• 1:40:27
  I'll deal with the ramifications later.
• 1:40:29
  And it will be. But I don't think you can keep
• 1:40:33
  paying 80,000 or more or $60,000 to somebody who's not even on
• 1:40:42
  John's Mountain, or if they are, they're on the bottom row and be
• 1:40:47
  sustainable because it's not going to drive enough sponsors
• 1:40:50
  to do that. Is Roman out?
• 1:40:52
  Roman's in. Right, Roman's in and James are
• 1:40:54
  is in. James is in.
• 1:40:55
  Wait, I thought he wasn't in? Well, that's what I've heard.
• 1:40:58
  I don't know. Confirm that James is in.
• 1:41:00
  I don't know anything, I'm just saying I'm assuming James is in.
• 1:41:03
  James Man. Give us a.
• 1:41:06
  Listen. Give us breaking news, buddy,
• 1:41:08
  You got? Your number you got.
• 1:41:10
  You got something else, John? Is James out?
• 1:41:13
  No, I don't know anything. No, like I don't, I don't know.
• 1:41:16
  I don't know anything. OK, come on, James, call us
• 1:41:19
  right now all. Right.
• 1:41:21
  I don't even know what I know. Me either.
• 1:41:25
  I love, I love lamp. Yeah, I love Speaking of, we're
• 1:41:29
  not making an open spin shirt. 56% said no.
• 1:41:33
  Sorry. They don't.
• 1:41:34
  They don't want our shirts. That's fine.
• 1:41:38
  There's sometimes whenever things happen like that and then
• 1:41:40
  I go, did I do, did I know something like do I do I know
• 1:41:44
  something I don't like? Like gaslight yourself.
• 1:41:48
  Yeah, like I have like then now I don't even know.
• 1:41:50
  Like I really don't even know what I know.
• 1:41:52
  Yeah, James, I mean, James said he was the only one of the boys
• 1:41:55
  doing it on Sivan's podcast. But then he also left the
• 1:41:58
  comment on my post of like, you're, you're basically the
• 1:42:02
  average of your friends and tagged them.
• 1:42:04
  So I don't know. I would say that he's trolling
• 1:42:06
  you then because it is easy money for James.
• 1:42:09
  Why would you not do it? And he handled all.
• 1:42:12
  The competition. He handled all the competition
• 1:42:15
  the best out of everybody. Yeah, I, I mean, look, I mean,
• 1:42:19
  he's gonna, he's, he's guaranteed $80,000 just for
• 1:42:22
  showing up. If he doesn't, if he doesn't
• 1:42:25
  feel like it, he could just literally show up and go through
• 1:42:28
  the motions. It's hard to say no to.
• 1:42:31
  And then he's up for $150,000. I think it is for if you win
• 1:42:36
  everything. So like, and it's gotten easier
• 1:42:40
  with all the big guys, all this competition other than Roman.
• 1:42:43
  I completely get. So I mean, that's fine.
• 1:42:47
  We'll see. I don't know what the women's
• 1:42:48
  going on. I've asked around and asked
• 1:42:50
  like, does anybody know why? Like more have just not been
• 1:42:53
  announced and like, nobody knows.
• 1:42:55
  We're willing to share. That does make me want to shift
• 1:42:58
  my predictions. So two, I mean, if all of those
• 1:43:04
  guys are not doing it and they're just training and James
• 1:43:09
  has two competitions that they don't have.
• 1:43:12
  It'll only one before the games. Gotcha, gotcha.
• 1:43:14
  It just, it just makes me want to, you know, shift things
• 1:43:18
  around 'cause. It'll be, it'll be fine if James
• 1:43:21
  goes to Norcal and wins, But if he goes to Mexico City the first
• 1:43:28
  week of May and then doesn't take top three at Norcal for
• 1:43:33
  some reason and then has to go to online semifinals, like
• 1:43:37
  that's starting to add up. Where now you have less and less
• 1:43:41
  time to qualify for or train for the games, get ready for the
• 1:43:45
  games, all that stuff. You've now done 3 competitions.
• 1:43:49
  There's a good chance that some of those got like Jason or
• 1:43:52
  Dallin may have only done 1. I don't know why he's not stated
• 1:43:57
  whether he's going to do it yet or not.
• 1:43:59
  I thought he had. He said he did, but then he just
• 1:44:02
  put him on comments so he got got everybody questioning.
• 1:44:05
  My my guess is like he's you want.
• 1:44:07
  Me to call him. Yeah, call him.
• 1:44:10
  He's really having a time with it.
• 1:44:13
  And if you're like, if you're having a time with it at this
• 1:44:16
  point, it's you need to like can.
• 1:44:23
  You hear it? Yeah, yeah, Mr. Spring.
• 1:44:27
  Rob. Hey, James.
• 1:44:30
  What's good Mr. Are you doing the World Fitness project?
• 1:44:33
  Yes or no? Dude, I don't know.
• 1:44:36
  Am I? I I don't know.
• 1:44:37
  That's why I'm asking. You better tell them we're on
• 1:44:40
  the show doing. Their secrets.
• 1:44:41
  Isn't it more fun that way? Hold on, hold on.
• 1:44:43
  Before you say anything, we are on the show.
• 1:44:47
  Does that change your opinion I. Know it's your time right now.
• 1:44:49
  It's I want come on, the last few weeks you invited me on, but
• 1:44:53
  it's always during youth group, dude.
• 1:44:54
  That's that's fine. You know, you stay to youth
• 1:44:56
  group. Youth group's more important.
• 1:44:58
  Just tell us the answer now and it's understanding.
• 1:45:00
  All right, just keep the. Answer is yet yet to be
• 1:45:06
  announced. When When do you plan on
• 1:45:09
  announcing? Come back to John Young can.
• 1:45:18
  You hear me? Yeah, I got you.
• 1:45:19
  When? When do you plan on announcing?
• 1:45:22
  It's kind of like a pregnancy enough.
• 1:45:25
  You're wait, Danica's pregnant. Danica's pregnant.
• 1:45:31
  No. Oh, James, you're breaking up.
• 1:45:35
  I think. I think that's the last thing we
• 1:45:37
  got, man. I I I hope things go well for
• 1:45:40
  the two of you. Congratulations, dude.
• 1:45:41
  I have nine months to announce it.
• 1:45:45
  OK, Nine months to announce it. I got you.
• 1:45:46
  All right, I'll let you go, man. Sorry for bothering you dude.
• 1:45:49
  You're cutting out so bad, gosh Dang it.
• 1:45:54
  All right, I'm gonna let you go, man.
• 1:45:55
  Thank you all. All I hear is you laughing, all
• 1:45:58
  right? Bye.
• 1:46:00
  Well, Congrats to James and Danica maybe.
• 1:46:02
  Yeah, James and Danica every Hey everybody, hey everybody from
• 1:46:06
  the show. Congrats.
• 1:46:09
  Go DM James. Congrats to you and Danica.
• 1:46:15
  That's that's that's but just DM him.
• 1:46:17
  Don't like take post or anything.
• 1:46:19
  Don't make it. Just DM.
• 1:46:20
  Yeah, Congrats. Keep it private.
• 1:46:23
  All right, That's world fitness project.
• 1:46:25
  All right, real quick 9 freaking minutes blind rankings.
• 1:46:34
  That's right. Hey, Tyler, Tyler, Tyler, we're
• 1:46:37
  not going to do we're just going to do the normal blind rankings
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  because we don't have time for John to sing to us.
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  We got it. We got.
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  It well, I'll wear it anyway. I'll make good hints, yeah.
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  All right, let's. See.
• 1:46:46
  No, it's OK. This is what we'll do.
• 1:46:53
  Either way, manta sleep. Go to manta.com, mantasleep.com
• 1:46:57
  and get the best sleep mask. Code spin saves you or whatever
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  10% I don't know. Jeez, code spin 10% There it is.
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  Winter Olympics is the topic. Oh, this would be a good one
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  Spin. Can we try?
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  I'll try to be fast. No, I'm not going to get it.
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  There's zero chance, Zero chance.
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  All right, real quick, first up. Oh.
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  Two jumping. Yeah, yeah, I hold on.
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  What would be 1? Snowboarding.
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  I I kind of like curling is not my number one.
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  I could get into some curling. We agree on We agree on this
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  one. USA is in the gold medal match
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  man. Yeah.
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  And we, we upset Italy. It's a big deal.
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  Cur curling's cool, but it's funny cool.
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  It's not like sport. Cool.
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  That's my number one though, man, Come on.
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  You get it everyone, once every four years.
• 1:47:57
  Have you ever, have you ever betted on curling?
• 1:47:59
  Dude, betting on curling is crazy.
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  You are so nervous the entire time and it's so slow.
• 1:48:09
  Oh, dude, you're, you're like sweet back, sweet back.
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  Like like, like, dude, it's awesome.
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  It's awesome. Scale whatever they go down.
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  That icy thing on the the luge? Any of those are.
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  Awesome. Like bobsled.
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  Bobsled's cool. Hockey's cool.
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  Oh, hockey probably should be #1.
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  It probably should be number. One Yeah, let's go 2 for ski
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  jumping. Ski jumping #2 all right, did
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  you see that they dudes are injecting stuff into their.
• 1:48:44
  Their wee wee's. Wee wee, just to make it larger
• 1:48:48
  so they can get a bigger suit. Smart I.
• 1:48:53
  Did not see that. I was wondering why they were
• 1:48:55
  doing it. It so apparently the IT gets
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  like their, their suit is scanned to make sure it's like a
• 1:49:02
  certain size of of their body. And so by making it larger, they
• 1:49:08
  can make a bigger suit. And so then it adds like, like
• 1:49:12
  a, like a parachute effect down there between your legs.
• 1:49:16
  This would be easy. You just like take a ton of
• 1:49:18
  electrolytes and eat pizza and stuff leading into like whenever
• 1:49:21
  they measure you for that. So you get bloated and then and
• 1:49:25
  you just shed all that. I guess you could do that.
• 1:49:29
  Next up, just drink a gallon of milk.
• 1:49:31
  Or you could just inject your pee pee with whatever.
• 1:49:35
  Either way, it works. Next up, figure skating. 4.
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  I would say 5, but we'll go 4I. It would have been three with
• 1:49:46
  Tonya Harding was back there doing her thing.
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  It's just nothing about it interests me at all.
• 1:49:53
  It's cool what they can do, but like I'm.
• 1:49:55
  Just I'm, I'm with you. I mean, you know what?
• 1:49:58
  There is an amazing figure skating movie though.
• 1:50:00
  Blades of Glory. Top tier.
• 1:50:03
  Top tier? You don't think so?
• 1:50:06
  We're not rating movies, though. We're not rating movies.
• 1:50:09
  Here we go. Next up, speed skating. 5.
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  Five, Yeah. Also, did you?
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  See that little Chinese girl though, that did like lap the
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  field right from the jump and then she just stayed in the
• 1:50:21
  back? That's not from this year
• 1:50:23
  though, right? That's like a couple years ago.
• 1:50:24
  Yeah, it passed. I don't.
• 1:50:25
  Know it was cool. But it's it's cool, like it's
• 1:50:28
  like sprinting, but it's just like, I don't care.
• 1:50:31
  I also don't care about sprinting.
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  I. Don't.
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  Yeah. Yeah, well.
• 1:50:34
  That's fair. Like in the.
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  Summer Olympics. Yeah, I don't care.
• 1:50:37
  Usain Bolt doesn't excite you. OK, well we disagree on that
• 1:50:41
  one, but I I'm with you here. Yeah.
• 1:50:43
  All right, Next up, curling. #1 Tyler.
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  Just give it to him. Give it to me.
• 1:50:50
  Give. It a number one to me.
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  Let's oh. Crap.
• 1:50:55
  It's not better than ski jumping, but it is really like,
• 1:50:58
  it's a lot. It's more.
• 1:50:59
  It's better than ski jumping for sure.
• 1:51:01
  Better than ski jumping? Ski jumping is boring, yeah.
• 1:51:06
  All right. And the last one, number three,
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  yeah, there you go. That's what.
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  Bobsled. OK, OK, it's fine.
• 1:51:15
  Bobsled, bobsled #2. Yep, Yep, the rest is fine.
• 1:51:22
  I put speed skating, but ahead of speed skating or speed
• 1:51:27
  skating ahead of figure skating. I could get down with that.
• 1:51:31
  I slurred slurred your speech a little bit.
• 1:51:34
  We spent an hour and a half on the open report.
• 1:51:37
  I'm sorry, all right. There you go.
• 1:51:42
  Man to sleep, that was the fastest blind rankings you've
• 1:51:44
  ever done. When you say we had to get
• 1:51:46
  going, we we're fast when we have to be, Yeah.
• 1:51:48
  We'll see about that. All right.
• 1:51:51
  And finally, did you guys look at the Water Palooza workouts?
• 1:51:56
  I have not looked. At it.
• 1:51:57
  I haven't looked at them, no. Been reading comments from
• 1:52:00
  banana dance man. I thought you booted them.
• 1:52:04
  No, I didn't boot them. Somebody booted him.
• 1:52:08
  He's annoying, yeah. I guess we found out who booted
• 1:52:14
  him. Yeah, this is good.
• 1:52:21
  I could get there. It does cross bat.
• 1:52:24
  It does not. Yes, yes, man, every.
• 1:52:29
  Dude in the world thinks man if I just trained for like a year.
• 1:52:32
  I don't like ping pong. You're awesome.
• 1:52:34
  Ping pong feels when you're playing it.
• 1:52:35
  It's. Amazing.
• 1:52:36
  There's no chance you watch the Asians playing stuff you're like
• 1:52:38
  I no. I'm saying I don't, I don't know
• 1:52:40
  if this is like this in other places, but there's a place in
• 1:52:43
  Nashville where you can actually do curling like it's a box car
• 1:52:46
  with like a curling field or whatever you want to call it.
• 1:52:49
  And you can go out there and rent a lane and.
• 1:52:53
  I would do that. Yeah.
• 1:52:55
  When we go to Nashville, for whatever reason we might go,
• 1:52:58
  that's what we're doing. Yeah, you can see that in the
• 1:53:01
  memories. Only section, yeah.
• 1:53:03
  Two individual Miami workouts for Wadapalooza.
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  No easy way down intervals. 4 sets of three minutes on, one
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  minute off of descending calorie row wall balls and legless rope
• 1:53:19
  climbs. So 40443033202210101.
• 1:53:25
  The wall balls are 30 lbs. So.
• 1:53:28
  Different different workout. You get caught like.
• 1:53:34
  You're going to get caught in the first round.
• 1:53:37
  The first 3 minutes, yeah. Then you pick up where you left
• 1:53:40
  off the second. So like if let's say you
• 1:53:42
  finished one legless rope climb the second interval, you'd start
• 1:53:46
  with the the second legless rope climb 3rd and 4th, then move
• 1:53:50
  back onto the row. This is a cool workout I.
• 1:53:56
  Think it'll be pretty interesting because the last one
• 1:53:57
  you'll probably have to go through the last two rounds or
• 1:54:01
  the wall balls. Heavy.
• 1:54:02
  Yeah, yeah, 30 lbs. The rope climb is probably not
• 1:54:07
  15 feet, I think it's probably the more the semifinals regional
• 1:54:10
  style rig, so probably 14 feet. Right.
• 1:54:14
  Unless they got something special, but something cool
• 1:54:20
  little different. Test recovery ability.
• 1:54:21
  I wouldn't have programmed it at 30.
• 1:54:25
  At the £30 wall balls. Yeah, I.
• 1:54:28
  Think that'll be a good one though.
• 1:54:29
  Dude, I think it'd be hard to make it through the whole thing.
• 1:54:32
  Yeah, I think so. I'm just.
• 1:54:34
  Trying to figure that out because you got 12 minutes of
• 1:54:36
  work with the one minute rest, I think you can get done in like
• 1:54:40
  10 minutes, nine and a half, 10 minutes.
• 1:54:42
  I mean 40 Cal, say if you're going at 20 Cal, which is
• 1:54:47
  moving. Yeah, that's 5 minutes.
• 1:54:50
  Till unbroken wall balls is you're at 10, you're at 10 wall
• 1:54:54
  balls on the first set, 10 wall balls left.
• 1:54:58
  Yeah. And then 10 wall balls plus 4
• 1:55:01
  legless. I would say that's two minutes
• 1:55:04
  and then 30 Cal row. You're probably not sprinting
• 1:55:07
  the 30 Cal row at that time. So let's say you have 20 cows in
• 1:55:12
  it and that's what you held the first time.
• 1:55:13
  So now you have 10 Cal row with the two sets left, 30 wall
• 1:55:18
  balls, 10 Cal row, 3 legless rope climb.
• 1:55:20
  By that time, I mean, I think, I think that takes all three
• 1:55:23
  minutes. But like, you're really good
• 1:55:25
  people could probably finish the row in three.
• 1:55:27
  Minutes. They'll get into the row, yeah,
• 1:55:30
  and then they could finish the last.
• 1:55:32
  Then 20 Wawa 2 legless and then the 10.
• 1:55:37
  And I think they, I think they roll faster than, I think they
• 1:55:39
  roll faster than the 20. I don't know, especially at the
• 1:55:42
  intervals. Like you're good, people like
• 1:55:45
  these are. This is for the event, right?
• 1:55:46
  The actual event. Yeah, I'm saying like they row,
• 1:55:49
  I think they row like 25 cows a minute.
• 1:55:52
  This is not a qualifier event, right?
• 1:55:53
  I'm saying it's. This is the first workout, yeah,
• 1:55:56
  on Thursday of Wadapalooza. This is just this seems like
• 1:55:58
  it's just a really hard workout for your your regular persons
• 1:56:02
  on. I think it separates who's going
• 1:56:05
  to win and who's not right here. I like that.
• 1:56:09
  Assumption. Oh, oh, just for like the top
• 1:56:13
  heat. Like if you look at the
• 1:56:14
  correlation, if you look at the correlation like somebody that's
• 1:56:16
  in the top, there's only going to be 20 athletes.
• 1:56:19
  So it's not a huge field, but I think somebody, whoever, you
• 1:56:23
  have to be top five in this to win it.
• 1:56:26
  I don't have to be. For me, it seems like a big boy
• 1:56:27
  workout because you get you get minutes of rest and there's 10
• 1:56:32
  legless total. Like you're jumping for legless.
• 1:56:35
  It's wall balls and it's calorie rowing and they're in a Sprint
• 1:56:38
  fashion. Like I think I think, yeah, I
• 1:56:41
  don't think, like I think the small guys hurt a lot in this
• 1:56:43
  workout. It's not super indicative of the
• 1:56:47
  winner per SE. Everything is a big guy thing if
• 1:56:53
  you're good at legless roll. That's what Crossfit's turned
• 1:56:55
  into, though. OK.
• 1:56:58
  But I I don't think that's indicative of your winner.
• 1:57:02
  I would. We'll find out.
• 1:57:06
  I'd learn more towards spin that I would towards you, John.
• 1:57:09
  It's it's, you got to have a good power output, but you also
• 1:57:13
  have to have good recoverability.
• 1:57:15
  And then like you have to be good at upper body pulling like
• 1:57:19
  I did. The 15 foot rope helps.
• 1:57:23
  But he said it would be more of a low rope.
• 1:57:26
  That's what I'm saying. Like I'm saying, like Colton
• 1:57:28
  Mertens doesn't top five this. No, he can't.
• 1:57:31
  That's my point and Colton Mertens.
• 1:57:32
  But I don't think Colton, I don't think Colton Mertens wins
• 1:57:35
  Wadapalooza. Do we know the field?
• 1:57:37
  He's a he's also like a we're getting.
• 1:57:39
  Closer to I don't think they've announced all of the invites
• 1:57:42
  yet. OK, next workout.
• 1:57:46
  The next and last workout that we know.
• 1:57:48
  Oh. We only know 2.
• 1:57:49
  We only know two press and impress 3 rounds for time 15
• 1:57:57
  dumbbell bench press 50 foot front rack dumbbell lunge 100
• 1:58:00
  foot handstand walk 70 pound 50 LB dumbbell short.
• 1:58:03
  This is hurting but. It's just I.
• 1:58:06
  Think the time cap was 8 minutes.
• 1:58:08
  That's way too long. You think yeah, people are.
• 1:58:14
  Gonna do the handstand walks on the on the sand.
• 1:58:16
  I'd be on the sand. That'd be sweet.
• 1:58:18
  That'd. Be wild.
• 1:58:20
  Do we know how many events there are going to be It's.
• 1:58:22
  Usually 6 or 7. It's only two days so it's got
• 1:58:25
  to be at most 6. This is crazy for a one event
• 1:58:29
  score and you just did a ton of wall balls.
• 1:58:31
  I think people do this sub 6. You can definitely do this sub
• 1:58:36
  six, but like you're just going to see who is a great like who
• 1:58:40
  has short arms like Colton's going to destroy this.
• 1:58:44
  This is this is James Sprague. Not necessarily dude, because
• 1:58:47
  it's still like length. It's 50 feet if it was like if
• 1:58:52
  15 lunges, that makes a difference.
• 1:58:54
  All. The only thing Colton has is
• 1:58:56
  this. Everything else is a bigger, a
• 1:59:01
  longer limbed athlete. I agree.
• 1:59:02
  I think this is James Sprague. All of that is James in the
• 1:59:06
  field. I.
• 1:59:07
  Think so. Like, you look at that first
• 1:59:10
  event, James is going to murder that first event.
• 1:59:13
  You look at this event, James is going to murder this event.
• 1:59:16
  Yeah. Oh, that's a lot of just your
• 1:59:20
  shoulders just tired. Not Justin.
• 1:59:24
  I think Justin could give her James James a run for his money
• 1:59:27
  on this. This is a fun workout.
• 1:59:34
  Just cause 15 bench press is is nothing like the bench press
• 1:59:37
  doesn't it's literally it's it's to fatigue you.
• 1:59:42
  Yeah, if if the bench press was like that's the crux, then not
• 1:59:45
  only Justin would, but this is. All to get people.
• 1:59:48
  James is confirmed. James is confirmed.
• 1:59:50
  Hatfield's confirmed. Awesome will be great at this
• 1:59:54
  but I think James takes takes him to school on the first one.
• 1:59:57
  Yeah. Right.
• 2:00:02
  This is all set up in that last round so that they get to the
• 2:00:04
  100 foot handstand, walk and fail and I don't.
• 2:00:06
  Think it's guaranteed. I I think James beats Austin in
• 2:00:09
  this one just because that lunch, like he's going to get a
• 2:00:12
  little bit of a lead on the lunge every time.
• 2:00:18
  Yeah, but you got to hold those dumbbells right here.
• 2:00:20
  You you don't need James to do that.
• 2:00:22
  James No, he can. It's just like.
• 2:00:26
  Tyler, Speaking of personal experience, anything?
• 2:00:28
  Yeah, right on, bell lunges. Wondering.
• 2:00:30
  No, I'm terrible Lunger. No, I mean it's good.
• 2:00:34
  So this is this is it's presented by rain.
• 2:00:37
  So last year when they moved it, rain's was the IT was it was the
• 2:00:41
  rain sandbox. So I'm saying like this would be
• 2:00:44
  crazy if it was 100 foot sand, hand handstand walk on the sand.
• 2:00:49
  It's hard sand though, so it'd be fine.
• 2:00:52
  They should. They should brand the dumbbells
• 2:00:57
  with rain. Just on the on the end.
• 2:01:00
  Yeah, yeah, on the ends. Does that mean Hopper will be
• 2:01:03
  doing it because he's a rain athlete?
• 2:01:06
  I don't know if he's they've not announced Topper yet.
• 2:01:09
  I always got invited, but I don't think he has, at least
• 2:01:13
  it's not been announced. I do.
• 2:01:16
  Let me see. That's all for Wadapalooza.
• 2:01:19
  I just wanted to bring it up because they're starting to
• 2:01:21
  announce the workouts and should go buy some tickets.
• 2:01:24
  Is this 12? Yeah. 1-2 like OK.
• 2:01:29
  Wow, I believe I believe that. Yeah, Workout 1 and 2.
• 2:01:33
  Is Laura doing water Palooza because she would destroy every
• 2:01:39
  person in the first one. Yes, I do want to call your
• 2:01:45
  attention. If you are going to be around
• 2:01:47
  South Carolina in April or want to, you should go sign up now.
• 2:01:56
  There's one spot left for a couple, the student ID, same sex
• 2:02:02
  intermediate, a couple spots left male and female for the
• 2:02:05
  learner's permit, same sex advanced and a couple of
• 2:02:09
  masters. So.
• 2:02:13
  Learner's permit. What is this?
• 2:02:17
  Got it. Got it.
• 2:02:19
  Spring Break edition. OK, that's right.
• 2:02:21
  That's. Right.
• 2:02:22
  I might even go there. I'm thinking about going you.
• 2:02:25
  Thinking about going. Yeah, me too.
• 2:02:27
  I'm thinking about going. Should we all go?
• 2:02:29
  You guys want to hang out? That'll be fun.
• 2:02:32
  It's in. It's in Spartanburg, right?
• 2:02:35
  That's right, CrossFit crash April 24th, 26th.
• 2:02:40
  Guys, we should, we should like meet up.
• 2:02:42
  We should do something. There's a pizza place me and
• 2:02:44
  Tyler likes over there. Is there milk down an alley way
• 2:02:47
  too? Oh, that was.
• 2:02:49
  I was in New York. That was, you know what?
• 2:02:51
  The other one I was thinking of was Ian's, and I think that's in
• 2:02:54
  Wisconsin. I.
• 2:02:57
  Was like we've never been to a pizza place since.
• 2:02:59
  I because the Ian's the really good that Jr.
• 2:03:02
  Jr. is the one who mentioned it to me.
• 2:03:04
  You don't have to talk me in very hard to go get pizza at the
• 2:03:07
  QT if you don't, you know if you.
• 2:03:09
  Want no, dude, come on. We, we're, we got our own
• 2:03:11
  website. We're we're, we're Portnoy's
• 2:03:14
  rival. Yeah, well, maybe we'll go go
• 2:03:17
  check out Crash Crucible, go compete there.
• 2:03:20
  It's going to be a great event regardless and we're.
• 2:03:22
  Thinking about going. We're thinking about being
• 2:03:24
  there. Thinking about going.
• 2:03:25
  There might be something going on, who knows?
• 2:03:27
  We might be doing something, a little something.
• 2:03:30
  Never know, never know. All right, that's it.
• 2:03:32
  Go check out Tyler's video on the on our YouTube channel.
• 2:03:35
  You're already watching it, so just go check it out now.
• 2:03:37
  Subscribe. Yeah, and then go, go visit the
• 2:03:40
  website because that's my North Star.
• 2:03:42
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