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Sunday Night CrossFit Talk - Ask 2 Games Athletes Your Questions · Clydesdale Media Podcast

• 0:29
  What is going on, everybody?
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  It is time for Sunday, Sunday,
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  Sunday night CrossFit talk.
• 0:37
  And someone's gloating
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  because her Canadian
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  national team in the Four
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  Nations Tournament of the
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  NHL took home the victory
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  in overtime over the USA.
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  Okay.
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  It feels good to be Canadian.
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  It feels good to be Canadian.
• 1:02
  But I do have to say,
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  the winners truly were the hockey fans.
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  What an electric game.
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  It didn't have the same
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  excitement as the one prior
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  when they played with the
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  fights and stuff like that.
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  But it's just best on best.
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  It's a fast game.
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  And love to see it.
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  The fans got so into it.
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  And just the countries got
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  behind their team so much.
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  And I think with a lot going
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  on in the world and tariffs and all that,
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  it's just like the game
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  meant more than...
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  a regular hockey game.
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  Like it was just like,
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  it was Canada versus us, you know, just.
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  Well, and the facts are,
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  it was the highest rated
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  hockey game ever on ESPN.
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  It, the, it was loud in that building.
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  And it was Thursday night late.
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  Like, had that been a Saturday night game,
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  like at like seven PM,
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  instead of even eight PM, like,
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  just a weekend game like
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  that gets even more people
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  watching I think you in our
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  text you said that and
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  there's actually two
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  schools of thought on that
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  right the the college
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  national championship game
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  is on a monday night
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  because they put it on
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  monday night because people
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  are out partying on the
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  weekend or going out with
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  family and dinner and all
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  that kind of stuff so
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  you're pretty much at home on a weeknight
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  Yeah.
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  So I don't really,
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  I don't know ratings enough
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  to know like how that all plays out.
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  Superbowl is a work night, you know,
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  technically Sunday night is a work night.
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  Um, so yeah, I like, I don't know.
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  Um, I got to address this comment here.
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  My Montreal Canadians have
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  twenty four Stanley cups.
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  What century?
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  That's okay if it was the
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  last time that they won.
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  It's okay.
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  We still have the most out of any teams.
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  We still have the most.
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  We are good.
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  And then it was the most bet
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  hockey game legally.
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  I had four dollars in my
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  ESPN account and I bet two
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  dollars on USA and two
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  dollars that the US would
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  win the first period.
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  So I lost both two dollars.
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  Damn it.
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  I'm a big better two dollars, two dollars,
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  two dollars.
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  Um,
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  and CrossFit's coming at her with name.
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  How many teams were in the
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  league for those?
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  Yeah.
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  Some of those early ones.
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  It was just what the original six.
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  Yeah.
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  They just ask how many,
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  they don't ask how you did it.
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  Just how many.
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  True.
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  My pens have five.
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  It's pretty impressive.
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  Yeah.
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  They went through a streak.
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  They're there.
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  They were streaky for a bit.
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  They're one of my favorite teams to watch.
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  I think the biggest shock
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  for me in the game on
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  Thursday night was when Sid, the kid,
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  took off his helmet and he was gray.
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  I mean, he's thirty seven years old.
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  He's no longer a kid.
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  But they still call him Sid, the kid.
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  No,
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  the most impressive thing is not this
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  is away from this,
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  but Alex Alex Ovechkin is
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  thirteen goals away from beating.
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  I in my opinion, is that the.
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  most, I don't know,
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  crazy record that there is
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  in sports with Wayne Gretzky's NHL goals.
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  No one thought that would ever be touched,
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  especially with the new
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  goalies and the equipment now.
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  He's thirteen goals away now
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  from beating that.
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  Just crazy how good of a
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  goal scorer Ovechkin is.
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  He is.
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  He's really good, and I hate it.
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  Yeah.
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  I hate the Capitals.
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  As a Penguins fan, we hate the Capitals.
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  We hate Ovechkin.
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  We hate all of that.
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  But he's so good for hockey.
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  His celebration.
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  Circumstance and boo, boo, boo, boo.
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  And Jamie is just riveted by
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  this hockey talk.
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  I am.
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  But the one thing I do want
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  to bring up for him is the
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  NHL took a chance with a
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  new version of the All-Star Week.
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  It was a complete takeaway
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  from East Conference versus
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  Western Conference.
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  And it doesn't matter.
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  Nobody cares.
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  And you see what happened in the NBA.
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  Nobody gives two shits about that game.
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  And it's just a joke and a
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  mockery of what the real game is.
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  What hockey did with this
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  was flipped the all-star game on its ear.
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  And to have the highest
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  rated game ever be your
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  all-star game is insane.
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  Yeah, because they actually, like,
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  they play hard.
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  They play as hard as they could.
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  They played more physical
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  there than they do during
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  the regular season.
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  It was like playoff hockey
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  with the best on best.
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  I mean,
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  there's a few countries that would
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  do very well if they could add, you know,
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  a few more in terms of, like,
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  really getting all the top players.
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  But I don't know if this is
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  a format that you could do every year,
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  maybe every two years.
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  Like, you have the Olympic year,
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  and then the other two
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  years you could do something like this.
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  Yeah.
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  Or do a different Four Nations or,
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  you know, even if it's a tick down,
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  you know,
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  it gets you to know more people
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  in the league.
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  Yeah.
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  So also today,
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  I got a Snapchat today from
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  my friend Jamie.
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  She was at the Michigan State game,
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  women's basketball.
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  So I ask you,
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  last year we talked about how
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  women's basketball was
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  growing and growing and growing.
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  What is a Michigan State
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  women's basketball game like?
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  I should have, like,
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  Snapchat at the stadium.
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  It was actually pretty well attended.
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  It was pink day.
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  I don't really know exactly.
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  It seemed like it was more
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  of a cancer awareness thing.
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  type thing that's what it
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  looked like to me and
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  people they were had some
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  people had signs and it
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  said like I fight for and
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  when the camera would go
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  around showing people they
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  would hold that up with
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  people's names so I feel
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  like that was the point of
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  the pink day um but yeah it
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  was pretty I was surprised
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  how well attended it was I
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  thought it would be a
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  little bit bearer in there
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  they played indiana they
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  won I think they're like
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  nineteen and seven decent
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  yeah yeah from your angle
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  you could see some of the
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  crowd yeah pretty good yeah
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  from where you're sitting
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  um I I I found I have found
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  myself this year watching
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  more women's basketball the
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  men's it's just more
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  entertaining to me yeah
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  same here um yeah it was a
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  good game so I think last year
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  kind of fed everybody
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  everybody's appetite and
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  then they saw what they saw
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  and now people are sticking
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  around for the year after
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  you can tell that it's a
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  ton of families and a ton
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  of kids like that seems to
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  be what I don't even know
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  if there was like because
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  it was pink day maybe there
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  was something else going on
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  there was a ton of sections
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  of young kids with pom-poms
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  their pink shirts like just
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  screaming girls like and
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  they're into it that's awesome
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  Yeah, I think like, and I've been going to,
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  you know,
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  women's hockey games and stuff
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  and really watching a lot
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  more just women
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  professional sports in general.
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  And like the amount of like
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  young kids that this is
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  impacting is so huge because for so long,
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  like us young girls,
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  like we didn't have as much
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  role models to look up to
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  that were female athletes
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  because there was just no,
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  no marketing behind it.
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  No, no hype behind it.
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  And now you're seeing so
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  many more young girls in
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  the stands with young signs and,
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  and dreaming about being
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  those players that are on
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  the court or on the ice or whatnot.
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  And it's just,
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  it's been such a growth for
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  women's sports these last few years.
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  It's yeah, it's been, it's been amazing to,
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  to see.
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  Yeah.
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  Larry young CP.
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  What year is that jacket from?
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  She was telling us before we went on air.
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  So I'll let her tell it again.
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  Yeah,
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  that was this one I wore when I was
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  on the under-eighteen national team.
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  So this is a very light one.
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  Most of my gear is actually
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  in my hometown.
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  And you're old now, so that's.
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  I'm thirty five now.
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  So this is this jacket.
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  This is this is old.
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  I never wear it.
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  It's literally in my closet, like buried.
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  And I was like,
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  I need something years old now.
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  Yeah, that's crazy.
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  Yeah.
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  Your your your jacket can vote now.
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  Yeah.
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  The professional women's
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  hockey league had its first fight.
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  Yeah, it was small.
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  It was a scruffle.
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  Sawing you.
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  Yeah.
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  Yeah, they separated it pretty fast.
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  So the other thing I was
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  scrolling through Instagram
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  and saw one of you doing
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  some drills that didn't
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  look very CrossFit-y.
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  And so I have some questions about it.
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  And that is you, Miss Carolyn.
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  And that is these drills.
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  So I figured out that this is Taekwondo.
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  Yeah.
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  Do you do this for like a
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  mental reset or is it just,
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  does it keep your athleticism up?
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  Or is it just fun?
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  I don't know.
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  I feel like whenever I'm
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  like alone in the gym and
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  especially like before competitions,
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  I have like, you know,
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  the open coming up next week.
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  Like I just like,
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  doing different things that just,
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  especially when music is playing.
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  I don't know, I just like stepping around,
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  kicking, visualizing.
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  Here,
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  I guess I'm visualizing fighting and
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  moving around.
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  I like it, I like working on my agility.
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  Other things that like are not traditional,
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  just CrossFit things.
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  I think it was like a meme thingy was like,
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  this is like a five rounds
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  per time of come at me, bro.
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  And I was like, this is perfect.
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  I'm like, that's exactly what that was.
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  come here, bro.
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  Come on, let's go.
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  Let's go.
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  Um, but yeah, no, I just like it.
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  I think mentally I like it.
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  I like there was a big part,
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  like this was a big part of
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  my life for so many years.
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  Like I would go,
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  like I'd be alone at my
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  Taekwondo gym before like
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  nationals and stuff like that.
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  And I would just step and
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  just train and visualize my
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  opponent and stuff like that.
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  And mentally, like I would just, you know,
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  sometimes just sit there
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  and listen to music and visualize.
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  And
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  when I get close to a
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  competition and I get
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  anxious a little bit and getting excited,
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  like I go back to my roots
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  of Taekwondo and just,
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  it's just kind of like what I know.
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  Um, yeah.
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  So I just, I like those type of days.
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  It just is different.
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  Um,
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  CrossFit says I would only do this
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  alone in the gym.
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  Same CrossFit.
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  This would not be a pretty site.
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  This was my trip in.
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  Does she say hiya every time?
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  I mean,
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  sometimes I would do like exhale
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  some little sounds,
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  but try to normally put the
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  music loud enough that no one hears it.
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  But yeah, just more like mental game stuff,
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  I feel like.
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  I mean,
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  I think it's good to work on
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  agility because everything
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  is very linear in CrossFit.
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  So I do like to throw in a
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  few things and not lose it because,
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  like I said,
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  this is how I train for so long.
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  And I still do it like once a week,
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  but maybe not as much of
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  like the Taekwondo stuff,
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  but the jumping stuff I do
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  weekly or plyometric stuff.
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  Yeah.
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  I just saw it and I was like,
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  I just want to ask her
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  because you are a games athlete.
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  You are an elite athlete.
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  Why,
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  why do we have to break up training
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  sometimes?
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  Like I know when I was an elite swimmer,
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  we would,
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  we would have some days where we just,
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  we didn't do the same old like, um,
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  same old workouts.
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  We would do something
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  different just to maybe
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  just play water polo, right.
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  Instead of swim,
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  because just to get your
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  mind off of the drudgery of it all,
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  just to,
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  and then get out there and play
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  water polo where you're,
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  you're still building up
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  that endurance and all that kind of stuff,
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  swimming, still working on speed,
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  getting to loose balls,
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  but just get your mind off of the,
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  the drudgery of the repeats
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  and the stuff you normally do.
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  Yeah, I think it's that's a good idea.
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  And yeah, I like doing it.
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  So my weekend was crazy.
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  It actually started last
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  Wednesday with my mom being
• 14:19
  rushed by ambulance to the
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  hospital with double
• 14:22
  pneumonia and what turned
• 14:24
  out to be double pneumonia.
• 14:25
  We didn't know that at the time.
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  And when she got when she
• 14:29
  was in the ER being admitted,
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  I got a call that my aunt passed away,
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  her sister.
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  So it has been a crazy,
• 14:36
  crazy week since then.
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  So I made a whirlwind trip
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  to Pennsylvania to be with my mom.
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  My nephew went earlier than
• 14:45
  me and he was raised by her as well.
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  Um, so he went the first part of the week.
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  I went through the weekend through today.
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  Um, but she's home doing well.
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  Um, but it made for a wild,
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  crazy trip to Pennsylvania, uh,
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  four hours away.
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  Doesn't seem like a lot
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  until you're trying to get
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  there in a hurry.
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  and then it's like why
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  couldn't I be two hours or
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  one hour because it's man
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  trying to get there but
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  she's doing well um fully
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  released uh doing well and
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  so uh just glad I was able
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  to get there and do all
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  that with her this weekend
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  so glad she's doing better yeah um
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  So with that, Oh,
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  there's also another Instagram post.
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  I saw that Jamie, you were lifting heavy.
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  What?
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  No.
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  What you said is I've been
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  lifting has not felt good for months.
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  And finally, like, what did you watch?
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  Cause I have not been lifting heavy.
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  Oh my gosh.
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  Only read your captions.
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  What is this old?
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  No.
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  It was a story or post.
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  It was a story.
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  So it's probably gone.
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  Um,
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  I just try to pick out things to talk
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  about in your stories or yeah.
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  What did I post?
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  You were doing and you're like,
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  for the first time it feels blah, blah.
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  Nevermind.
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  We're going to move on.
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  I have not done.
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  I don't know.
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  Um,
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  CrossFit said actually being
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  an athlete is great.
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  Yeah.
• 16:27
  We talk about it all the time.
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  Like that's the one part of
• 16:29
  CrossFit I wish was kind of
• 16:31
  tested a little bit more is
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  overall athleticism.
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  And everybody made fun of
• 16:38
  the softball throw,
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  but it was some form of athleticism.
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  And it was very obvious that
• 16:47
  some people had it and some
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  people didn't.
• 16:51
  Yeah,
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  it's just like it's completely
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  different than fitness, right?
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  I've known some very,
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  very great athletes that
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  aren't necessarily fit,
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  and there's some very, very,
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  very fit athletes that have
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  not really very good athleticism.
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  Now, when I think of athleticism,
• 17:08
  I think of hand-eye coordination.
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  If I give you any type of stick,
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  are you hitting the ball?
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  Are you able to do what your body,
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  like throw, catch, everything?
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  But yeah.
• 17:19
  Larry also says, oh, you guys,
• 17:21
  memory lane.
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  I miss the combat stuff and
• 17:23
  being able to dunk on anyone.
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  I got to step on then really
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  hits me that I'm an old man.
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  You and me both, brother.
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  You and me both.
• 17:33
  Yeah, Jamie lifting heavy.
• 17:34
  That's worth a four ninety nine comment.
• 17:36
  Man, I I wish I lifted heavy, Larry.
• 17:41
  I actually I think what you're thinking,
• 17:42
  Scott, is I was sharing my member.
• 17:45
  My members lifted and would
• 17:47
  tag me in their lifts.
• 17:52
  And again, I would run with it.
• 17:54
  I did heavy this week.
• 17:56
  Let's go.
• 17:59
  But I wish I did Larry.
• 18:00
  I wish I earned that for ninety nine.
• 18:02
  I was I was I was not lifting heavy.
• 18:05
  I was sleep deprived in my mom's house.
• 18:08
  And yeah.
• 18:13
  Yeah.
• 18:13
  Tell them you hit a dead PR.
• 18:14
  Yeah.
• 18:14
  Yeah.
• 18:17
  All right.
• 18:18
  So let's get into the CrossFit stuff.
• 18:20
  Just quick recap on Thursday.
• 18:21
  I did an interview with Justin Kotler.
• 18:24
  If you have not caught it,
• 18:24
  which a lot of you have,
• 18:26
  and I totally appreciate that.
• 18:28
  Um,
• 18:28
  and I appreciate all the nice comments.
• 18:30
  Uh,
• 18:31
  but the fact that we got to talk about
• 18:33
  stuff more personal than
• 18:34
  the CrossFit and what
• 18:35
  Justin and his family are
• 18:36
  going through right now, uh,
• 18:38
  really meant a lot to me
• 18:39
  that they trusted me to tell that story.
• 18:41
  That was the first time he
• 18:42
  talked about it publicly.
• 18:44
  Um,
• 18:45
  And so I'm very appreciative
• 18:48
  to Justin and Ashley for
• 18:51
  trusting me to tell that
• 18:52
  story and allowing them to
• 18:53
  get the word out about that.
• 18:55
  And love them to death and
• 18:58
  so glad they did that.
• 18:59
  But it turned out to be a great interview.
• 19:01
  We also talked about...
• 19:03
  know he has alex and mano
• 19:04
  and they're doing all
• 19:05
  they're doing both seasons
• 19:07
  and how that could impact
• 19:09
  their season we talked
• 19:10
  about that a little bit um
• 19:13
  as well as uh some other
• 19:14
  stuff and we talked about
• 19:15
  the ricky thing which
• 19:18
  actually truth be told a
• 19:20
  little peek behind the
• 19:21
  curtain I was going into
• 19:24
  that for the ricky thing
• 19:26
  that's what we're going to
• 19:26
  talk about one minute
• 19:28
  before we went to air
• 19:29
  justin said hey I want to
• 19:31
  tell the world about what
• 19:32
  we're going through with ivy
• 19:35
  So scrap the notes, scrap the rundown,
• 19:38
  live without a net.
• 19:40
  Here we go.
• 19:41
  And what I love about that
• 19:42
  is it just turned into a conversation.
• 19:46
  And really love that.
• 19:47
  And then it gave perspective
• 19:49
  on the Ricky thing for him,
• 19:52
  which was really cool.
• 19:53
  Yeah, I thought it was a great interview,
• 19:55
  Scott.
• 19:56
  if you've not checked it out
• 19:57
  please do so again a lot of
• 19:59
  you have and I really
• 20:00
  really appreciate that um
• 20:02
  uh but and a lot of you
• 20:03
  have commented which helps
• 20:04
  the algorithm a ton so we
• 20:06
  truly appreciate all that
• 20:08
  um thank you so much for
• 20:09
  that like and subscribe
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  Like and subscribe.
• 20:14
  Yeah.
• 20:14
  And if you're listening to us,
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• 20:21
  If you're listening to us on
• 20:22
  iTunes or Spotify or Apple
• 20:25
  Music or Google or any of those.
• 20:29
  So then we're going into
• 20:30
  open week this week.
• 20:32
  Thursday will be the first announcement.
• 20:34
  It'll be done at Mayhem.
• 20:36
  We'll have Roman, Austin,
• 20:38
  Haley doing the workout.
• 20:41
  Rumors are maybe rich,
• 20:42
  depending on what it is.
• 20:47
  Last chance for guesses.
• 20:56
  I feel like you should have
• 20:56
  pulled up cat programming already.
• 20:59
  I feel like there's going to
• 20:59
  be some sort of burpee or a
• 21:02
  pressing from the floor,
• 21:03
  like a burpee or a wall
• 21:04
  walk and a barbell.
• 21:09
  So I feel like with the situation,
• 21:13
  the numbers,
• 21:15
  you almost always get a last
• 21:17
  surge of signups.
• 21:20
  And with being lower,
• 21:23
  I feel like they really
• 21:24
  need to... Knock it out of the park.
• 21:26
  Yeah.
• 21:27
  I mean,
• 21:27
  it's got to be kind of like twenty
• 21:31
  four point one was right.
• 21:32
  Like totally doable.
• 21:37
  But I also...
• 21:39
  It has to have some kind of
• 21:40
  fun aspect to it.
• 21:41
  Yeah, it does too.
• 21:42
  Got to try to get people signed up.
• 21:44
  Right.
• 21:45
  Um, right.
• 21:46
  Like,
• 21:46
  I don't know that you necessarily
• 21:48
  want a long, like.
• 21:49
  Twenty minute workout.
• 21:51
  Um,
• 21:54
  like the problem is it also can't be
• 21:56
  just too basic because this qualifies.
• 22:00
  I mean, I know almost everything,
• 22:02
  the top one percent can
• 22:04
  separate themselves.
• 22:05
  There is still two more
• 22:06
  weeks to have some other things.
• 22:08
  So that could be,
• 22:09
  it could be super basic this first week.
• 22:12
  Um, I just honestly, like,
• 22:15
  I still go back to like, I,
• 22:18
  a lot of people say the
• 22:18
  rowing and wall ball one
• 22:20
  it's it's very at nineteen point one.
• 22:22
  It's very entry level.
• 22:24
  I'll tell you about the
• 22:24
  rowing wall ball and the muscle up one.
• 22:26
  That's my, yes, that's my thought.
• 22:28
  But a lot of people keep
• 22:29
  saying some like saying
• 22:30
  nineteen point one.
• 22:32
  because it's so basic and doable,
• 22:36
  which is why I still think in my mind,
• 22:38
  it also, so here's the thing.
• 22:40
  Like,
• 22:40
  I feel like CrossFit sort of damned
• 22:42
  if you do damned, if you don't,
• 22:44
  I can see them doing twenty
• 22:45
  point five and getting pushback.
• 22:49
  Like, I can't believe you're,
• 22:50
  you're using him to try,
• 22:52
  like you're trying to like
• 22:53
  make a mockery of this yet again,
• 22:55
  but I all, but I all like it.
• 22:58
  I feel like there's just no winning.
• 23:00
  Twenty point five for us.
• 23:02
  Yeah, twenty point five.
• 23:03
  So it was I think it's like a oh,
• 23:05
  it's one hundred and twenty
• 23:06
  cows on the row.
• 23:09
  Eighty wall balls and then
• 23:11
  forty ring muscle ups split
• 23:12
  up how you want.
• 23:13
  So like for scaled,
• 23:15
  you just go through the
• 23:16
  first two movements,
• 23:17
  finish those and then
• 23:19
  basically try to get your
• 23:21
  first ring muscle up.
• 23:21
  So it's like I don't like it
• 23:23
  that you can kind of pick
• 23:24
  your own adventure because
• 23:26
  I like to do the same
• 23:27
  workout at the same time.
• 23:28
  strategy as other people
• 23:30
  type thing um but it's
• 23:32
  actually a really good
• 23:32
  workout for people to race
• 23:34
  those two movements and
• 23:35
  then work the rest of the
• 23:37
  time to get their first
• 23:38
  ring muscle like it
• 23:39
  wouldn't be a bad first
• 23:41
  workout right because the
• 23:42
  first the the rowing and
• 23:43
  the wall balls is extremely
• 23:45
  accessible right
• 23:48
  And then I won that Lazar one.
• 23:50
  Right.
• 23:51
  And I feel like, I mean,
• 23:53
  there might be some people
• 23:54
  who see that and be like, man, and,
• 23:58
  and didn't know that he won it.
• 23:59
  Like if they,
• 24:00
  if they advertise it correctly,
• 24:02
  I think some people would be like,
• 24:03
  that's cool.
• 24:05
  I want to do this one.
• 24:07
  Um,
• 24:08
  And I think I honestly think
• 24:09
  it'd be a great workout for Rich.
• 24:11
  That's kind of why I keep
• 24:12
  going back to it.
• 24:13
  Like if there's one that
• 24:14
  like Rich is phenomenal at
• 24:15
  wall balls and his cardio
• 24:17
  over that is ring muscles.
• 24:18
  Like I actually think he
• 24:20
  could hang in there with
• 24:21
  Roman and Hatfield.
• 24:22
  So it'd be exciting.
• 24:24
  I remember,
• 24:25
  I think it was a Torian
• 24:26
  competition that had that
• 24:27
  workout as one of their
• 24:29
  first workouts of a competition in, uh,
• 24:33
  in Australia.
• 24:34
  And like Royce destroyed it.
• 24:36
  Um,
• 24:37
  because I want to say that like rich
• 24:39
  had like tested this
• 24:40
  strategy and it was like the one to go.
• 24:43
  It was like, I don't know.
• 24:43
  It was like a four ring
• 24:46
  muscle ups or something a
• 24:47
  minute or whatever strategy it was.
• 24:51
  Um, but,
• 24:52
  But the Mayhem group had a good strategy.
• 24:54
  So that would be a cool one
• 24:57
  to see them do.
• 24:59
  And yeah, Rich would be good at those.
• 25:00
  He would be great at it.
• 25:01
  It'd be one he would be willing to do,
• 25:03
  I think.
• 25:04
  It's not going to hurt his body.
• 25:06
  Prepare for Dave to step it up this year.
• 25:08
  I know everyone says I'm wrong,
• 25:09
  but we will see.
• 25:14
  Craig says,
• 25:15
  I'm looking forward to watching
• 25:16
  all the Elite Athletes video submissions.
• 25:18
  Me too.
• 25:19
  I don't think you'll see it.
• 25:23
  The open,
• 25:23
  it's the semifinals where
• 25:25
  everything's going to open up.
• 25:27
  For the open,
• 25:28
  you'll only see the ones that
• 25:30
  aren't doing it at an affiliate.
• 25:32
  Correct.
• 25:33
  So, like,
• 25:35
  I'll be going to California at
• 25:36
  one point during the...
• 25:41
  I don't know,
• 25:41
  the second week or something.
• 25:43
  I'll get an attempt like before I leave.
• 25:45
  But if I wanted to redo one of my workouts,
• 25:48
  the gym that Lex trains at
• 25:50
  is not an affiliate.
• 25:51
  So if I were to redo it there,
• 25:54
  then I would have to post
• 25:55
  my video publicly.
• 25:57
  But if I just do it,
• 25:58
  if I just take my attempt
• 25:59
  that I'll do before I'm my affiliate,
• 26:00
  then I don't have to.
• 26:02
  So I think it's only
• 26:04
  publicly viewable for the
• 26:07
  semifinals and then the
• 26:09
  people not doing it at an affiliate.
• 26:12
  I think so.
• 26:13
  I can't remember if there's like,
• 26:15
  if they said like,
• 26:16
  if you're going to be in
• 26:17
  the top of one percent,
• 26:18
  you should have a video.
• 26:19
  I don't know.
• 26:19
  Well, you should.
• 26:21
  Right.
• 26:21
  Exactly.
• 26:23
  Yeah.
• 26:25
  Craig says Rich is a great rower.
• 26:27
  Yeah.
• 26:28
  I think I think that workout is is great.
• 26:31
  I think if it was week one,
• 26:33
  I would love it.
• 26:34
  If it was bar muscle ups instead of ring,
• 26:37
  because so many more people
• 26:38
  get like their first bar
• 26:39
  muscle up in the open and
• 26:41
  that creates so much
• 26:42
  excitement around it.
• 26:43
  Um,
• 26:44
  where ring muscle up is still such an
• 26:46
  advanced thing.
• 26:49
  Like that,
• 26:50
  that you still have trouble with that.
• 26:52
  Right.
• 26:54
  Yes.
• 26:54
  No,
• 26:54
  I know people who can do a ring muscle
• 26:56
  up that can't do a bar muscle up.
• 26:58
  It's it, whether it's can be like,
• 27:00
  can you move your body
• 27:01
  around or can you move the
• 27:03
  rings around your body?
• 27:04
  Like,
• 27:05
  and the bar prohibits that people are
• 27:07
  good at moving the rings
• 27:08
  around their body.
• 27:10
  they can do it strict better.
• 27:11
  Like they get their first one,
• 27:13
  almost like strict ring muscle up.
• 27:14
  Right.
• 27:15
  Um, but you have to get,
• 27:16
  you have to get there.
• 27:17
  There's still a lot of
• 27:18
  volume to get before.
• 27:19
  Cause it's like,
• 27:19
  it's like that those workouts are,
• 27:21
  it's like Diane at first.
• 27:23
  And then you get a heavy
• 27:24
  Diane with handstand walk.
• 27:25
  I'd be like, Oh, I can't handstand walk.
• 27:27
  And I'm like, get there first.
• 27:29
  Yeah, exactly.
• 27:29
  And they never actually get
• 27:30
  there because they can't
• 27:32
  deadlift the two Oh five
• 27:32
  bar or whatever it was.
• 27:34
  Um, so, I mean,
• 27:35
  there's still some work to
• 27:36
  do to even get there.
• 27:39
  Atlanta, I did two chest to bars to start,
• 27:41
  then tried again after
• 27:42
  rowing and wall balls, but no luck.
• 27:44
  It moved me up the leaderboard though.
• 27:45
  And that's actually a great strategy.
• 27:46
  Do that hard thing first and
• 27:48
  try to get your first one,
• 27:49
  then go finish the other
• 27:51
  two and then come.
• 27:52
  Cause if you get one,
• 27:53
  it's going to like jump you
• 27:55
  over thousands.
• 27:57
  Well, you have a little bit more energy.
• 27:58
  Yeah.
• 27:59
  I and I'm glad lana's in the
• 28:01
  chat last week she sent me
• 28:03
  a text I meant to say it on
• 28:04
  the air last week at that
• 28:06
  point there was seven
• 28:07
  hundred and twenty three
• 28:08
  seventy plus year olds
• 28:10
  signed up for the open and
• 28:12
  that number has gone up
• 28:13
  since I know holly reported
• 28:15
  it at like seven fifty six
• 28:17
  on tuesday and we've had
• 28:20
  five days since then so who
• 28:22
  knows what the
• 28:24
  The fact that we have an
• 28:26
  event where seventy plus
• 28:28
  year olds are doing fitness
• 28:32
  is the best thing about the open.
• 28:36
  Did you guys see it was
• 28:38
  either Dave reposted or CrossFit Games.
• 28:40
  It was a lady from CrossFit industry.
• 28:43
  It's just a gym close to Toronto here.
• 28:46
  And it was an older lady and
• 28:48
  her story and why she's doing the open.
• 28:50
  That was a cute video.
• 28:52
  Do you see that one?
• 28:52
  I saw that.
• 28:54
  I did.
• 28:55
  It was a quick one.
• 28:56
  It was either Dave or the
• 28:58
  CrossFit Games that reposted it.
• 29:02
  Yeah,
• 29:02
  that was one of my favorite ones so
• 29:04
  far that they've re-shared.
• 29:09
  I think Dave's sharing like a ton.
• 29:13
  You're going to get your stuff shared.
• 29:14
  Yeah, he's shared both of mine.
• 29:17
  Yeah, that's what blew me away.
• 29:20
  I know he collabed on the
• 29:22
  one like it's on his wall now.
• 29:27
  My other one was a story and
• 29:28
  he just reshared it, which is cool.
• 29:31
  Yeah,
• 29:31
  he he had said in his weekend review
• 29:33
  that he would collab and approve.
• 29:36
  He'll just basically skim
• 29:37
  through it to make sure it's not like,
• 29:39
  yeah, stupid stuff.
• 29:40
  But he was going to
• 29:42
  basically promote all the
• 29:43
  everyone's stuff that were tagging him.
• 29:45
  Yeah.
• 29:46
  Yeah.
• 29:46
  That was my gym one that I
• 29:47
  posted and I got,
• 29:49
  I have like hundreds of
• 29:51
  likes like Craig Howard,
• 29:53
  like commented on it.
• 29:56
  Yeah.
• 29:56
  It's helped our gym page a ton actually.
• 30:03
  DM four says CP is very athletic.
• 30:05
  Some CrossFit athletes that
• 30:06
  have not done other sports
• 30:08
  may not adapt as well to new movements.
• 30:11
  So true.
• 30:12
  Yeah.
• 30:13
  All right,
• 30:13
  so we're a little bit behind for our Q&A,
• 30:15
  so I'm going to try to get
• 30:16
  through everything open really fast,
• 30:18
  just news-related.
• 30:20
  And that is,
• 30:22
  it was announced this week
• 30:23
  that TFX was enforcing
• 30:25
  their map for the people
• 30:27
  that finished their event in January.
• 30:31
  If you are not in the West
• 30:34
  and you podiumed,
• 30:35
  you don't get the automatic bid to Semis.
• 30:42
  It it's all I want to say
• 30:44
  about it from my perspective.
• 30:45
  And I'll let you guys talk
• 30:46
  is that this is the problem
• 30:49
  of announcing all of your
• 30:50
  season stuff late.
• 30:52
  There's no time to make sure
• 30:54
  everybody has their ducks in a row.
• 30:56
  And then we hit these things that,
• 30:58
  that throw muck against the wall.
• 31:02
  I don't understand why they
• 31:03
  don't invite those three
• 31:04
  athletes from the podium.
• 31:05
  Like no one would say anything.
• 31:06
  It's like the,
• 31:08
  it would be all athletes from the West.
• 31:10
  And if you showed up at that
• 31:11
  comp and podium there,
• 31:13
  you get your invite.
• 31:14
  And like that, they had announced it.
• 31:16
  Like no one would,
• 31:17
  no one would literally say
• 31:18
  anything to that.
• 31:19
  Like ever.
• 31:20
  Like, I mean,
• 31:21
  the only thing is no one knew
• 31:23
  that that was actually a
• 31:24
  qualifier before they were
• 31:25
  even signed up.
• 31:26
  So like,
• 31:27
  That's the only thing.
• 31:28
  But had that been announced
• 31:29
  prior and more people would
• 31:30
  have entered that
• 31:31
  particular competition to
• 31:33
  try to win and then also
• 31:34
  get that opportunity to
• 31:38
  compete at the TFX would be helpful.
• 31:40
  But, like,
• 31:41
  no one would have said anything
• 31:42
  if the three athletes or
• 31:44
  two athletes that were from
• 31:45
  the east on the female side.
• 31:47
  I don't know about the men's side,
• 31:50
  but... Yeah.
• 31:53
  Like...
• 31:54
  If you announced it,
• 31:55
  just follow through with it.
• 31:56
  Like who cares about the regional stuff?
• 31:59
  Right.
• 31:59
  Well, it's their comp and they,
• 32:01
  and they created the rules
• 32:02
  and they can do what they want.
• 32:03
  CrossFit isn't stepping in.
• 32:04
  So just honor what you said.
• 32:06
  Yeah.
• 32:07
  Yeah.
• 32:10
  Um,
• 32:10
  Emma Lawson announced that she's Emma
• 32:12
  Lawson and now she is out
• 32:13
  for the game season due to a back injury.
• 32:17
  Uh,
• 32:17
  but she is trying to rehab that to do
• 32:19
  the WFP.
• 32:23
  I I sort of feel like maybe
• 32:24
  she's been fighting this
• 32:26
  injury for a year or more
• 32:30
  could yeah I mean it's not
• 32:35
  something that like you I
• 32:37
  mean back injuries are
• 32:38
  serious like you don't want
• 32:39
  like if it's nagging and
• 32:41
  it's just not getting
• 32:41
  better and like she's been
• 32:42
  doing a lot of running and
• 32:43
  other things like
• 32:46
  Maybe that's why she got
• 32:47
  into that because she still
• 32:48
  wanted to move and it's not loaded.
• 32:50
  She was doing a lot of lightweight stuff,
• 32:52
  just trying to have fun again.
• 32:54
  I think for her, if she's doing everything,
• 32:56
  it might just be another
• 32:57
  stressful season.
• 32:58
  I think the WFP takes a
• 33:01
  little bit of pressure off of her.
• 33:03
  I think that was an easier
• 33:04
  route for her to do than...
• 33:06
  the game season,
• 33:07
  which has some pressure of
• 33:08
  qualifying this place, that place,
• 33:10
  you know, um,
• 33:12
  I think mentally was
• 33:14
  probably a factor and physically.
• 33:16
  And I know she talked about
• 33:17
  only the injury,
• 33:18
  but I think there's other,
• 33:19
  if I were to guess, um, I mean, it's,
• 33:22
  it's no secret.
• 33:23
  She's been mentally going
• 33:25
  through some stuff.
• 33:26
  She's announced that are on
• 33:27
  her own over the last year.
• 33:28
  It really does make it take
• 33:30
  the pressure off this year
• 33:31
  to do it this way and still compete.
• 33:33
  Yep.
• 33:33
  Yep.
• 33:34
  So,
• 33:37
  It was also announced that
• 33:38
  twenty five point three
• 33:39
  announcement will be Sprague,
• 33:42
  Hopper and Pepper.
• 33:46
  Love it.
• 33:49
  I. I like it.
• 33:54
  I just I'm afraid we're
• 33:55
  going to the well too often
• 33:56
  with the same people.
• 33:58
  Yeah, I can see that.
• 34:00
  Like,
• 34:01
  I feel like they would have done
• 34:02
  something like on their own
• 34:03
  channel or something.
• 34:04
  Anyways, very likely would have.
• 34:07
  I would have liked to – it's
• 34:08
  going to be a great show because, I mean,
• 34:09
  I think they're three very
• 34:10
  similar athletes.
• 34:12
  And I think – like I hope
• 34:13
  that they pick a workout
• 34:14
  that's just a softball to them,
• 34:15
  like just a soft toss for
• 34:17
  them to just go so hard.
• 34:20
  Like I want to see a tough
• 34:23
  event for like all three
• 34:24
  where it's just a battle.
• 34:25
  But I feel like they would
• 34:27
  have done something anyways.
• 34:28
  Like I would have liked to have seen,
• 34:30
  I guess, someone else.
• 34:32
  Yeah, I –
• 34:35
  I always also like entertaining.
• 34:38
  I just,
• 34:39
  I don't want them to overdo it so
• 34:40
  much that we lose the novelty of it.
• 34:44
  I wish that there was always
• 34:45
  a matchup guys and girls each week.
• 34:48
  So like the first week we
• 34:49
  get to see a top score for, you know,
• 34:52
  two or three male athletes.
• 34:53
  And then also Haley Adams.
• 34:54
  The next week there should like,
• 34:56
  I would like to also see a male matchup.
• 34:58
  Cause like,
• 34:59
  Yeah,
• 35:00
  you can look at the females or the
• 35:02
  males if they're going and compare,
• 35:04
  but there are different
• 35:06
  strategies sometimes
• 35:07
  depending on the workouts
• 35:08
  and different stimulus also
• 35:11
  depending on what the
• 35:12
  workouts is for the females
• 35:13
  and males for what the
• 35:14
  limiting factor is.
• 35:16
  So I would always like to
• 35:17
  see a duel of – or it could be three,
• 35:21
  but see both the sexes go so we get –
• 35:27
  top scores for, um, both.
• 35:30
  So I, I would,
• 35:31
  I would like to see
• 35:32
  something in week two with
• 35:34
  Rolf and Sydney.
• 35:36
  And then in the week three, uh,
• 35:38
  a female pair.
• 35:40
  That was,
• 35:41
  that's just my opinion or a guy
• 35:43
  versus girl matchup.
• 35:47
  Uh, so we have,
• 35:47
  do you think T is competing this year?
• 35:49
  I do.
• 35:50
  I do too.
• 35:51
  I just don't think she's
• 35:52
  taking the open very seriously.
• 35:54
  Right.
• 35:56
  um vi says also this is on
• 35:59
  the emma lawson thing also
• 36:01
  given how some athletes who
• 36:02
  are not doing the open have
• 36:03
  been received saying she's
• 36:05
  out due to an injury
• 36:06
  shields her from criticism
• 36:09
  I hate putting thoughts
• 36:10
  into people's heads though
• 36:12
  she said what she said but
• 36:16
  I get but I do see where
• 36:17
  people would think that
• 36:18
  yeah I could see something like that but
• 36:22
  I do think she's been dealing with,
• 36:23
  like you said, something for a while.
• 36:26
  Yeah.
• 36:27
  If you're going to go with
• 36:27
  one of them for the season,
• 36:28
  you already have your contract guaranteed,
• 36:30
  no pressure, just move on that one.
• 36:33
  Yep.
• 36:34
  If you want to come back the
• 36:34
  following year, you do that.
• 36:36
  Craig said,
• 36:37
  this year is hard to do matchups.
• 36:39
  We don't know who's competing.
• 36:40
  That's a good point.
• 36:42
  That's true.
• 36:43
  Yeah.
• 36:45
  So, yeah.
• 36:47
  Um, so now let's,
• 36:49
  let's finish up with syndicate crown.
• 36:51
  Uh,
• 36:51
  there were announcements made last week.
• 36:54
  Uh, one Jr.
• 36:55
  How is doing the programming
• 36:56
  for syndicate crown.
• 36:57
  We've watched crash for years.
• 36:59
  So we have a taste as to
• 37:01
  what that may look like.
• 37:03
  Um, so Carolyn, Jamie,
• 37:05
  when you know what someone programs like,
• 37:07
  does that help you train
• 37:09
  for an event like that or pick,
• 37:11
  is that something you
• 37:12
  should or should not attempt?
• 37:16
  I think it definitely helps
• 37:17
  to look at who's programming.
• 37:19
  Like if like there's certain
• 37:21
  competitions that have
• 37:23
  certain styles and like,
• 37:25
  I don't think I would be
• 37:26
  going to Dubai again.
• 37:27
  Like there's just too much
• 37:29
  anaerobic work or aerobic
• 37:31
  work and certain stuff that
• 37:32
  you just see machines and
• 37:34
  stuff like just more, more so.
• 37:36
  So you get certain programmers, um,
• 37:39
  Like I think JR does a lot
• 37:40
  of high skill movements.
• 37:43
  Like you're probably going to see,
• 37:44
  you know, legless rope climbs,
• 37:46
  maybe parallette handstand pushups,
• 37:48
  some sort of harder version of a press,
• 37:51
  strict movements.
• 37:53
  And then...
• 37:54
  strength will be tested but
• 37:55
  maybe not necessarily in a
• 37:57
  max like in a six event
• 37:59
  thing because we know that
• 38:00
  that he doesn't necessarily
• 38:01
  like a one-off max event um
• 38:06
  so there are certain
• 38:07
  tendencies so yeah as an
• 38:08
  athlete I feel like you
• 38:09
  should kind of know
• 38:10
  people's styles and and get
• 38:12
  a feel for maybe where you
• 38:13
  where you would maybe do
• 38:15
  best because I mean like I
• 38:17
  said that on multiple times
• 38:18
  like occasions these comps
• 38:20
  for a lot of athletes
• 38:21
  aren't free to go to
• 38:23
  Like you want to make sure
• 38:24
  that you're kind of going
• 38:25
  to the ones that you're
• 38:26
  having the best chance of qualifying.
• 38:28
  Um, there are certain ones that like,
• 38:31
  I just won't go because I have zero shot.
• 38:33
  Like, like there's just,
• 38:36
  I don't need to go there
• 38:37
  and finish in a certain
• 38:39
  position and waste my
• 38:40
  weekend when I can be
• 38:41
  training and preparing for
• 38:42
  something else.
• 38:46
  Um,
• 38:47
  the other thing is it was announced
• 38:49
  that the seven podcast is
• 38:50
  doing the broadcast, uh,
• 38:52
  I think the more
• 38:53
  opportunities we give to
• 38:54
  other entities to do this,
• 38:56
  to make that cheaper,
• 38:58
  to then make the event
• 38:59
  better and have more
• 39:00
  disposable income for athlete payouts,
• 39:03
  for making the event profitable,
• 39:06
  the better off we are.
• 39:07
  The more people we give a
• 39:09
  bite of the apple of this to, the better.
• 39:12
  I think NorCal also has the seven podcasts,
• 39:16
  um, doing NorCal as well.
• 39:18
  So those would be
• 39:19
  back-to-back weekends for
• 39:20
  that crew and NorCal
• 39:22
  traditionally last few years.
• 39:23
  Haven't been broadcast at all.
• 39:27
  Yeah.
• 39:28
  In addition,
• 39:28
  I did get word that I think I
• 39:32
  heard rumor that be
• 39:33
  friendly is doing the broadcast for WFP.
• 39:35
  Okay.
• 39:37
  So they are using that
• 39:38
  alternative broadcast too.
• 39:40
  So the more people we can
• 39:41
  get in this space doing
• 39:43
  that stuff and the more shots at it,
• 39:45
  the better.
• 39:46
  Yeah.
• 39:46
  I mean, that's the only way we grow.
• 39:50
  You have to have some sort
• 39:52
  of broadcast at these
• 39:53
  events for people to see.
• 39:55
  And it has to be affordable
• 39:56
  for these event organizers
• 39:58
  so that they can,
• 39:59
  they're willing to do it
• 40:00
  and to not break the bank.
• 40:03
  Yeah.
• 40:03
  Cause it is so expensive.
• 40:07
  Yeah,
• 40:07
  there's questions about Mayhem
• 40:08
  Classic and Emma that I do not know.
• 40:11
  That's a good question.
• 40:13
  It does seem,
• 40:14
  I don't know why she would
• 40:15
  even bother going.
• 40:16
  No, honestly.
• 40:18
  Unless you're doing it for the payday.
• 40:23
  Which brings us to the syndicate.
• 40:25
  And the one announcement
• 40:26
  that Wilson made also is if
• 40:29
  you get a qualifying spot to the games,
• 40:31
  your invite will be revoked.
• 40:34
  Yeah,
• 40:34
  they only will have people that have
• 40:37
  not qualified and from the East.
• 40:40
  Correct.
• 40:41
  So the podium will be the
• 40:43
  qualifiers for the games.
• 40:45
  The top thirty there.
• 40:47
  It is thirty.
• 40:49
  Yes.
• 40:51
  Twenty from the open.
• 40:53
  Ten from the in person in affiliate semi.
• 40:59
  what are you what do you
• 41:00
  think will come from the in
• 41:02
  in person affiliate semi or
• 41:06
  in affiliate semi so if the
• 41:08
  person who gets second
• 41:09
  place at syndicate they're going is
• 41:14
  already qualified from the open,
• 41:16
  what happens?
• 41:17
  They're not getting invited.
• 41:18
  They can't go.
• 41:20
  Only people that have not
• 41:22
  qualified from the East are
• 41:24
  allowed to go.
• 41:25
  So if you had wanted to go,
• 41:29
  it doesn't matter.
• 41:30
  If you already have a spot,
• 41:31
  they're going to go to someone else.
• 41:32
  That's a great idea.
• 41:34
  Yeah, I like that idea.
• 41:36
  Yeah, I think that's much better.
• 41:37
  If you're one of those
• 41:38
  people that want to go for a payday.
• 41:40
  But yeah, you're right.
• 41:44
  But it's again,
• 41:45
  it's this late organization
• 41:47
  where nothing's really defined.
• 41:51
  Because when I talked to Justin last week,
• 41:52
  he said outright that Alex
• 41:55
  was doing NorCal.
• 41:56
  Even if she gets a spot,
• 41:58
  it's such a good payday to go for it.
• 42:01
  Right.
• 42:03
  And it's close to them.
• 42:05
  So that's an easier shot for
• 42:07
  them to go for a payday.
• 42:10
  I mean,
• 42:10
  we'll see because we also talked
• 42:12
  about her shoulder,
• 42:13
  and she's got a lot of
• 42:13
  competitions going on this year.
• 42:16
  So, I mean,
• 42:19
  she doesn't necessarily need to
• 42:20
  do that one if she has WFP
• 42:23
  in middle of May.
• 42:24
  I feel like a lot of people
• 42:27
  say yes to certain comps,
• 42:28
  and then once the season
• 42:30
  begins and things start to unfold,
• 42:33
  I think certain people will
• 42:35
  have to deviate a little
• 42:36
  bit from their initial plans.
• 42:38
  for the good or for or it
• 42:40
  might be desperate yeah I
• 42:43
  think that's kind of cool I
• 42:44
  hope other semis do that
• 42:46
  yeah I mean that I like
• 42:53
  that yeah like that you
• 42:55
  don't know that's a good
• 42:56
  move it is a good move well
• 42:59
  now's the time of the show
• 43:00
  we turn it over to the chat
• 43:03
  have three-time games
• 43:04
  athlete carolyn privo who's
• 43:06
  also been a member of the
• 43:07
  demo team who has also done
• 43:09
  an open uh announcement we
• 43:13
  have um legends champion
• 43:16
  jamie latimer we have
• 43:18
  masters fitness
• 43:20
  championship winner jamie
• 43:21
  latimer we have games
• 43:23
  athlete jamie latimer and
• 43:26
  we are opening up the chat
• 43:28
  for you to ask them any
• 43:29
  question you want to ask them as
• 43:33
  uh there's no restrictions
• 43:35
  on it it's not if if it's
• 43:36
  an athletic question if
• 43:38
  it's whatever you can ask
• 43:40
  them uh we're gonna take q
• 43:43
  a for them for about five
• 43:45
  or ten minutes and then
• 43:46
  we're gonna make this a
• 43:47
  recurring thing uh going
• 43:50
  forward tonight's just
• 43:51
  night one hopefully we get
• 43:53
  some stuff we also don't
• 43:56
  know for these competitions
• 43:58
  how much each of them are
• 43:59
  paying out like I think
• 44:00
  those would be interesting to know
• 44:03
  That's right down what Craig said.
• 44:04
  It'll be cool if someone ran
• 44:06
  the numbers on the payment
• 44:07
  potential this year with all these comps.
• 44:12
  Yeah, because certain ones give a bunch,
• 44:15
  and then they pay very deep.
• 44:16
  Other ones,
• 44:17
  it's really just the qualifying spots,
• 44:18
  and then you don't really
• 44:20
  know what you're getting
• 44:23
  for that competition.
• 44:24
  Has Mayhem announced a prize first?
• 44:26
  I don't think I've seen anything of that.
• 44:30
  Yeah.
• 44:30
  I know NorCal has announced
• 44:32
  a prize for us.
• 44:32
  Apparently they had, I mean,
• 44:34
  they had that prior to
• 44:35
  being an event for semifinal.
• 44:39
  Right.
• 44:41
  I know someone asked who's
• 44:43
  commenting mayhem.
• 44:44
  They're just doing their
• 44:45
  in-house mayhem broadcasting.
• 44:48
  Correct.
• 44:48
  Like Rory.
• 44:48
  Yeah.
• 44:49
  Yeah.
• 44:50
  Yeah.
• 44:53
  I have heard rumor.
• 44:56
  Chase is going to be in the building.
• 44:58
  Oh, yeah.
• 44:59
  I think it is Rory and Chase.
• 45:00
  I think that's been... I
• 45:03
  think Chase is doing a
• 45:05
  little bit of an announcement, isn't he?
• 45:07
  Like helping with... Oh,
• 45:08
  you said Mayhem Classic?
• 45:11
  Yeah, I'm talking about Mayhem Classic.
• 45:14
  Someone asked them in
• 45:15
  something on a podcast and
• 45:17
  they said they're not revealing that yet.
• 45:19
  Oh.
• 45:20
  Okay.
• 45:21
  I guess I just assumed it
• 45:22
  was going to be their...
• 45:24
  They do a good job of
• 45:27
  Yeah,
• 45:27
  but Rory's never done a play-by-play
• 45:29
  or he's always been kind of
• 45:31
  the floor guy.
• 45:32
  Yeah.
• 45:36
  And he has alluded that that
• 45:37
  is what he's doing for
• 45:38
  Twenty-Five Point One and
• 45:40
  will be doing at the Classic as well.
• 45:41
  Okay.
• 45:42
  Speaking of mayhem,
• 45:46
  like I saw that Taylor self
• 45:48
  and what's his face?
• 45:50
  Bryson.
• 45:51
  No, no, I was testing the workout.
• 45:53
  for uh angelo I was like man
• 45:56
  mayhem must know every
• 45:58
  event from almost like from
• 46:00
  half of the events it's
• 46:01
  crazy how how involved they
• 46:03
  are with every with
• 46:05
  literally every semi-final
• 46:06
  because even in norcal like
• 46:08
  they're also talking to
• 46:09
  blair and ben like blair
• 46:10
  and ben are programming but
• 46:11
  there's even like probably
• 46:13
  some bouncing of ideas with
• 46:14
  rich and and the group
• 46:15
  there and I was like they
• 46:17
  literally would know
• 46:19
  probably half the events
• 46:20
  right now for the semifinals
• 46:22
  Like it's, it's crazy.
• 46:23
  Cause they're,
• 46:24
  they're already programming
• 46:26
  the French throw down the wad fest.
• 46:28
  Maybe it's what it's called
• 46:29
  their own helping with
• 46:30
  NorCal now know the syndicate workouts.
• 46:32
  Some of like, at least Angelo does.
• 46:34
  Um, that's five of them.
• 46:39
  They're doing them.
• 46:39
  They're doing an open announcement.
• 46:40
  Like they are involved in
• 46:42
  the season to say the least.
• 46:46
  Uh, plus riches on the safety committee.
• 46:47
  Yeah.
• 46:48
  Yeah.
• 46:50
  Like,
• 46:51
  they got their hands everywhere this
• 46:52
  year.
• 46:53
  And Ben and... Blair.
• 46:57
  Blair were in Cookville
• 47:00
  talking with Rich and doing some testing.
• 47:04
  So, yeah.
• 47:06
  If you watch the Mayhem podcast.
• 47:10
  Yeah, like,
• 47:11
  so I was just thinking about that,
• 47:12
  and I was like, gosh, like,
• 47:15
  that's an advantage.
• 47:16
  Like, if you know what's, like...
• 47:18
  And like Taylor won't
• 47:19
  compete at syndicate and
• 47:20
  Angela's not going to compete there,
• 47:21
  but just like, just,
• 47:23
  I'm just talking about like,
• 47:24
  just knowing all these,
• 47:26
  these workouts and stuff.
• 47:27
  And as like a program or like what,
• 47:31
  what a gift that is.
• 47:33
  Well,
• 47:33
  supposedly they are as kept his group
• 47:35
  to six,
• 47:37
  but you just don't like if any one
• 47:39
  of those six spread,
• 47:40
  it's like the old
• 47:41
  commercial from the
• 47:42
  seventies and so on and so on.
• 47:45
  And so, and it grows so fast.
• 47:47
  Well, when they were testing the workouts,
• 47:48
  I was looking in the background,
• 47:49
  like there was a female
• 47:50
  that was there on the bike.
• 47:51
  I don't know,
• 47:52
  maybe Lindsay Lane or something,
• 47:53
  or Brooke, maybe testing workouts,
• 47:55
  like while they're like
• 47:57
  debriefing the workout, like,
• 47:59
  like cooling down.
• 48:00
  So I'm like,
• 48:00
  I want like my mind goes to
• 48:03
  how many people know the
• 48:03
  workout there are watching
• 48:05
  that like these take place.
• 48:06
  And that's just like where
• 48:09
  my competitive mind goes.
• 48:10
  Now I'm sure that it's very,
• 48:12
  very secret and all that,
• 48:13
  but I've just seen so many
• 48:14
  leaks and things throughout
• 48:15
  the years that,
• 48:18
  I hope that, I mean,
• 48:19
  I feel like Jared does a
• 48:20
  great job with that, but again.
• 48:23
  So our first question for
• 48:24
  you two is do either of you
• 48:26
  have thoughts on camps
• 48:27
  programming semis and that
• 48:29
  their athletes are participating in?
• 48:32
  I hate it.
• 48:33
  I think it's a conflict of interest.
• 48:35
  I've always hated it, but I'm all,
• 48:38
  I'm not part of a camp.
• 48:40
  It's like,
• 48:41
  I don't know, but I,
• 48:42
  I think there's a conflict of interest.
• 48:44
  I think that it's,
• 48:45
  you're naturally kind of
• 48:46
  preparing your athletes,
• 48:47
  knowing what the workouts are coming out,
• 48:49
  like on,
• 48:49
  like without even thinking about it,
• 48:52
  like you're kind of, it's hard not to,
• 48:56
  it would be hard not to.
• 48:59
  Right.
• 49:00
  Even if you think they're trustworthy,
• 49:01
  not telling them the events.
• 49:04
  Yeah.
• 49:04
  I think there's some
• 49:05
  inherent bias there with
• 49:06
  your programming.
• 49:08
  you know you have athletes
• 49:10
  contending um yeah certain
• 49:13
  combinations that you would
• 49:14
  program and I'm not saying
• 49:15
  that the athletes know the
• 49:16
  workouts it's just in terms
• 49:18
  of like kind of what you're
• 49:19
  programming little
• 49:20
  combinations here and there
• 49:21
  throughout sprinkling
• 49:23
  certain stimulus that
• 49:26
  Yeah,
• 49:26
  your tendencies are still going to be
• 49:27
  your tendencies,
• 49:29
  whether you're programming weekly,
• 49:31
  daily for your athlete,
• 49:33
  as if you're programming a competition.
• 49:36
  Your tendencies are going to be the same.
• 49:38
  So inherently,
• 49:40
  you're training your athlete
• 49:42
  for your tendencies in your programming.
• 49:46
  Even if you're not saying, hey, Roman,
• 49:50
  we're running event one is this,
• 49:52
  event two is this, event three is this.
• 49:55
  roman already knows your
• 49:57
  tendencies and has been
• 49:59
  trained to them um you had
• 50:04
  one other one up here yeah
• 50:07
  okay clock carolyn what are
• 50:12
  your competition plans for
• 50:14
  this year trying to go to
• 50:15
  the games wfp challengers
• 50:19
  Well, the open next week.
• 50:21
  So I've signed up for that.
• 50:23
  I've signed up for the WFP
• 50:24
  qualifier as well.
• 50:26
  The first one,
• 50:27
  although I don't know how
• 50:29
  many in-person events I can do this year.
• 50:32
  I've taken a lot.
• 50:33
  I've taken more days off of
• 50:35
  work in this first half of
• 50:37
  my school year than I
• 50:38
  normally do because I went to Rogue,
• 50:40
  which was in Europe.
• 50:42
  I went to Crash Crucible.
• 50:44
  I had NorCal Classic all in
• 50:45
  my first semester of teaching.
• 50:47
  So I don't have many days
• 50:50
  left to take off.
• 50:51
  I think I have like four and a half days,
• 50:53
  maybe five and a half days
• 50:54
  left to take off.
• 50:56
  And there's plenty of
• 50:57
  competitions in my second
• 50:58
  semester that I could go to.
• 51:01
  So I've signed up for NorCal,
• 51:03
  which is June six to eighth.
• 51:08
  Syndicate would be another
• 51:09
  option the week before that.
• 51:12
  And I mean, my goal is two things.
• 51:16
  Well, three technically, um,
• 51:19
  qualify for the games.
• 51:20
  Hopefully again.
• 51:21
  Um,
• 51:22
  I think my best route would be online
• 51:24
  semifinals.
• 51:26
  I believe I do very, very well online.
• 51:29
  Um, traditionally, um, open wise,
• 51:33
  I've won online semifinals before I do.
• 51:35
  I don't know.
• 51:36
  I do well online.
• 51:37
  So I hope I can have the
• 51:39
  right workouts for me there.
• 51:40
  If not, then NorCal and,
• 51:43
  maybe syndicate,
• 51:44
  but I don't think I can do
• 51:45
  those back to back.
• 51:46
  It's just too hard on my schedule.
• 51:48
  WFPA,
• 51:49
  I would love to compete at one of the
• 51:51
  events this year.
• 51:53
  Just not sure whether I'll
• 51:54
  accumulate enough points
• 51:56
  and I will try to make the
• 51:58
  Masters CrossFit Games and
• 52:00
  hopefully try to win the
• 52:01
  Masters CrossFit Games in
• 52:02
  the thirty five to thirty nine.
• 52:07
  So nice to see what is real
• 52:09
  for working people.
• 52:11
  PTO.
• 52:15
  Yeah.
• 52:15
  Like,
• 52:15
  like syndicate and NorCal are the two
• 52:18
  ideal ones for me,
• 52:19
  like from an athlete from the East,
• 52:21
  but they're back to back weekends.
• 52:23
  It's literally like, I would have to miss,
• 52:28
  like,
• 52:28
  let's say I would leave the Tuesday
• 52:29
  after work or the Wednesday morning.
• 52:33
  So I'm still missing the
• 52:33
  Wednesday of school, Thursday, Friday,
• 52:36
  Saturday,
• 52:37
  possibly try to do a red-eye
• 52:39
  the Sunday night to be at
• 52:40
  work with a Monday,
• 52:41
  and then I have to go to California, like,
• 52:43
  that Wednesday again.
• 52:44
  Like, it's just too much back-to-back.
• 52:46
  Like, I don't think I can do that.
• 52:48
  Like, I don't have those days off.
• 52:50
  Like, especially at the end of the year,
• 52:51
  like,
• 52:51
  I'm trying to prepare my students
• 52:53
  for their math provincial
• 52:55
  tests and stuff.
• 52:55
  Like, it just...
• 52:57
  sucks, but like, I have a full time job.
• 52:59
  Like, I can't take those time,
• 53:01
  that time off.
• 53:02
  So like the online just
• 53:03
  makes sense for people that
• 53:04
  work full time.
• 53:05
  Like,
• 53:05
  that's where you that's what I have
• 53:08
  to do.
• 53:11
  Yes.
• 53:11
  Fellow teacher here.
• 53:12
  I find it so impressive that
• 53:13
  you're able to do your job
• 53:15
  and compete at this level.
• 53:16
  My hat is off to you.
• 53:17
  Thank you.
• 53:19
  Did we ever get more details
• 53:21
  on the last chance qualifier?
• 53:23
  No.
• 53:25
  Jesus.
• 53:27
  Uh, Lana after, right.
• 53:29
  That one comes after NorCal
• 53:30
  and it's online and like they have, yeah,
• 53:33
  they haven't released how
• 53:34
  many from the in-person or like, yeah.
• 53:36
  Uh, same question for Jamie.
• 53:39
  What are your, what are you,
• 53:41
  what are your goals for this year?
• 53:43
  I have no goals this year.
• 53:45
  Um, get my son graduated, get them into,
• 53:50
  get an open house, get them.
• 53:55
  into college.
• 53:56
  And I mean, we need to figure that out.
• 54:00
  We need to figure out if
• 54:01
  he's going to go to MSU,
• 54:01
  if he's going to get a scholarship,
• 54:02
  if he's going to have to go
• 54:04
  to LCC because we can't afford it.
• 54:07
  I don't know.
• 54:09
  He's my focus.
• 54:10
  Like we were doing spring
• 54:12
  break this year for him and
• 54:13
  it's March twenty fourth
• 54:14
  through the thirty first.
• 54:15
  And I think in our online
• 54:18
  semis is April third.
• 54:20
  So
• 54:22
  Probably not going to really
• 54:23
  get to train for the week
• 54:24
  right before that.
• 54:25
  So that's great.
• 54:26
  So I don't, it is what it is.
• 54:27
  I already knew that this
• 54:28
  year was not going to be
• 54:31
  focused on me and it was
• 54:33
  going to be focused on him.
• 54:34
  I've been incredibly selfish
• 54:35
  for the last eight to ten years.
• 54:41
  If I get lucky, I get lucky.
• 54:44
  uh but it's not my focus I
• 54:46
  mean I I'm curious to learn
• 54:48
  more about the wfp I still
• 54:49
  feel like there's no shot
• 54:51
  for challengers personally
• 54:52
  um so I I mean I'm really
• 54:54
  trying to like figure out
• 54:56
  the master's side of wfp
• 54:58
  but I kind of feel like
• 54:59
  there's no money there I
• 55:01
  don't know what's actually
• 55:02
  going on I feel like the
• 55:04
  information is just
• 55:07
  We'll see.
• 55:08
  Yeah,
• 55:08
  like I'd like to know for those divisions,
• 55:10
  like for the age groups
• 55:11
  there that they put,
• 55:13
  what are the earning opportunities?
• 55:14
  Like what's the incentive in
• 55:15
  terms of age groups, teenagers?
• 55:18
  I know that there's pairs.
• 55:20
  Exactly.
• 55:22
  What are the qualifiers for those?
• 55:23
  Are they the same as the
• 55:25
  elite ones or are they
• 55:26
  different weekends?
• 55:26
  Like there's a lot of
• 55:28
  information missing for that part as well,
• 55:30
  which I was curious about too.
• 55:34
  Well, I will tell you that my dream –
• 55:36
  is that carolyn wins the
• 55:39
  thirty five to thirty nine
• 55:40
  jamie wins the forty to
• 55:41
  forty four in my hometown
• 55:43
  of columbus where we can
• 55:46
  rock the party rock the
• 55:49
  party and like I like the
• 55:51
  dates of of that
• 55:52
  competition too for the
• 55:53
  masters because I'm off in
• 55:55
  august so like yeah like
• 55:56
  for me like august and july
• 55:58
  is great because like
• 55:59
  that's when I get to be an
• 56:01
  athlete full-time and not
• 56:02
  have to worry about um
• 56:04
  missing work and traveling and
• 56:06
  red-eyed to back the school
• 56:08
  and stuff so that was great
• 56:10
  it's actually welcome
• 56:11
  weekend for michigan state
• 56:13
  so it would not be great
• 56:14
  for me this year but yeah
• 56:17
  it's my dream I'm just
• 56:19
  telling you okay I didn't
• 56:20
  say it would come true just
• 56:22
  said it was my dream um uh
• 56:24
  lana asked what about pairs
• 56:25
  at mfc um I think lana's
• 56:29
  looking for a partner
• 56:32
  Uh, I, I actually, um,
• 56:35
  Megan reached out to me to
• 56:37
  possibly do pairs.
• 56:39
  I still think, I mean,
• 56:39
  I might do MFC individual.
• 56:44
  So,
• 56:44
  cause I haven't done it doing an
• 56:45
  individual.
• 56:46
  Yeah.
• 56:47
  Okay.
• 56:48
  Would you do the crash again?
• 56:50
  Um, masters like you did before?
• 56:54
  I don't know.
• 56:54
  Like.
• 56:56
  I mean,
• 56:56
  you're pulling in people like
• 56:58
  Stevie and Carolyn,
• 56:59
  and I'm going to be forty two.
• 57:01
  I don't know if that's even
• 57:03
  a good idea for me.
• 57:04
  If someone wants to pay my way there,
• 57:06
  I'll go.
• 57:06
  But for me to go spend
• 57:08
  fifteen hundred two thousand
• 57:10
  dollars to not make money
• 57:13
  is silly we have expensive
• 57:15
  hobbies huh yeah like it's
• 57:18
  just just so expensive uh I
• 57:21
  will I've done I've done it
• 57:22
  once so far um I will redo
• 57:25
  it tomorrow just as as I
• 57:27
  see some scores pop up but
• 57:30
  and carolyn's being asked
• 57:32
  what her time was for the
• 57:33
  excavator challenge that's
• 57:34
  thirty sandbags she is the
• 57:36
  rogue challenge queen
• 57:39
  I mean, I have done it for,
• 57:39
  this is my fifth year doing it.
• 57:43
  I will not disclose that yet.
• 57:45
  Tomorrow night.
• 57:47
  One thing you'll learn about
• 57:48
  Carolyn is she does not give up.
• 57:50
  Like we are her co-host.
• 57:52
  She won't even tell us her
• 57:53
  times until she.
• 57:58
  That's true.
• 57:59
  Just letting you know.
• 58:00
  Great question though.
• 58:01
  Great question.
• 58:03
  Phil B. I don't think
• 58:04
  there's a qualifier for age group.
• 58:05
  WFP registration is March.
• 58:07
  First.
• 58:08
  So, yeah, Larry's saying no money.
• 58:10
  It's just a community division.
• 58:11
  That's that's dumb.
• 58:13
  But like I registered for
• 58:14
  the first challenger like WFP,
• 58:18
  knowing I most likely can't
• 58:19
  like if I were to qualify
• 58:21
  in the top ten there,
• 58:22
  I probably wouldn't do the
• 58:23
  first one in Indiana,
• 58:24
  just like timing wise.
• 58:26
  But I just want to.
• 58:29
  put my name out there.
• 58:29
  One,
• 58:30
  I want to support that league or
• 58:31
  whatever that is.
• 58:32
  So I want to support the athletes.
• 58:34
  They're just like the other side.
• 58:36
  Um, and then two,
• 58:37
  I think just committing to
• 58:39
  some online prep prior to
• 58:41
  the semifinals and just putting like,
• 58:44
  it's not the same if I don't sign up,
• 58:46
  like I just won't go as hard.
• 58:48
  I might skip them.
• 58:48
  I might do them whenever I want.
• 58:50
  Then like, I can't compare that.
• 58:53
  It's like people that will
• 58:55
  do the open and then be like, oh,
• 58:56
  I would have finished there and there.
• 58:58
  To me, it's like I got to sign up,
• 58:59
  put my name on there, have the pressure,
• 59:02
  practice so that more
• 59:04
  online competitions right
• 59:05
  now is going to be good for
• 59:06
  me to practice prior to
• 59:08
  online semifinals.
• 59:10
  I signed up for two reasons there.
• 59:13
  The pack says you do it all the time.
• 59:15
  Come do it at our gym with us.
• 59:16
  You are close.
• 59:17
  Where are you?
• 59:20
  Where's the pack?
• 59:25
  So, yeah.
• 59:27
  Well, that was the first Q&A, open Q&A.
• 59:30
  We'll do those periodically,
• 59:32
  probably once a month going forward.
• 59:35
  So save up your questions.
• 59:38
  Now we have one more question.
• 59:39
  And then right after this question,
• 59:40
  we will go into the WFP point system.
• 59:45
  Vi,
• 59:45
  do either of you have any predictions
• 59:47
  about movements you think
• 59:48
  will be in the open?
• 59:50
  Like new movements or things
• 59:51
  that will just be in the open?
• 59:53
  Yeah.
• 59:54
  Because, I mean,
• 59:54
  there's movements that just
• 59:55
  pop up all the time.
• 59:56
  Like, you're going to see thrusters,
• 59:57
  burpees, toaster bars,
• 59:58
  some sort of chest-to-bar
• 1:00:00
  or bar muscle-up version.
• 1:00:02
  Yeah.
• 1:00:07
  Let me think.
• 1:00:07
  What new movement could we see?
• 1:00:09
  Do you think week three will
• 1:00:11
  be your typical, like, thruster,
• 1:00:13
  chest-to-bar, some combo of that?
• 1:00:15
  Because I feel like that's
• 1:00:16
  going to lean James Sprague way.
• 1:00:18
  And I almost feel like
• 1:00:19
  they're setting it up that
• 1:00:19
  way for him to beat him once again.
• 1:00:29
  I mean it's kind of the way
• 1:00:30
  that we close out almost
• 1:00:32
  every single time and it's
• 1:00:34
  gonna I just think it's
• 1:00:35
  gonna lean in his favor I
• 1:00:38
  mean like um is it nineteen
• 1:00:40
  point five which one is
• 1:00:41
  that the thirty three
• 1:00:44
  twenty seven yeah like if
• 1:00:46
  Like if they finished with
• 1:00:48
  the rowing and thrusters,
• 1:00:51
  I think some sort of
• 1:00:52
  machine with those three
• 1:00:53
  would be definitely very
• 1:00:55
  interesting as they will suffer.
• 1:00:59
  I'm curious to see whether
• 1:01:00
  we'll see the rings pop up
• 1:01:01
  this year or the bar for
• 1:01:02
  the bar muscle ups.
• 1:01:04
  I think we'll see a two part
• 1:01:07
  scored event this year.
• 1:01:12
  I think we see four scores.
• 1:01:14
  I think the last year was three.
• 1:01:17
  The year before, I think, was three.
• 1:01:19
  And then the year before that was four.
• 1:01:22
  Or maybe I'm missing one.
• 1:01:25
  When was the thruster?
• 1:01:26
  Was that point three?
• 1:01:27
  That was twenty three with
• 1:01:28
  the burpee shuttle.
• 1:01:29
  Yeah.
• 1:01:30
  Burpee pull up shuttle.
• 1:01:31
  That was twenty three.
• 1:01:32
  OK, so maybe.
• 1:01:33
  Yeah,
• 1:01:34
  I think I think we'll see a four
• 1:01:35
  scored event.
• 1:01:38
  Open.
• 1:01:40
  New movement?
• 1:01:42
  I think you could see a single arm.
• 1:01:45
  No, no movement.
• 1:01:46
  No, it's not the year to do anything cute.
• 1:01:49
  Like, I don't think there's anything new.
• 1:01:52
  But like a single arm
• 1:01:53
  thruster or something like that.
• 1:01:55
  Have we seen that?
• 1:01:57
  No.
• 1:01:58
  Like a single dumbbell
• 1:02:00
  thruster with something.
• 1:02:01
  Like,
• 1:02:01
  you could see a simple movement like
• 1:02:03
  that pop up.
• 1:02:04
  That still is...
• 1:02:08
  No,
• 1:02:09
  I don't think ring muscle ups are dead.
• 1:02:11
  I still, Julian, Julian, yes,
• 1:02:14
  I watched Kill Taylor.
• 1:02:14
  I've actually done it.
• 1:02:16
  And then CrossFit,
• 1:02:19
  are ring muscle ups dead?
• 1:02:20
  I don't think, I think,
• 1:02:21
  I still think twenty point
• 1:02:22
  five is a viable option.
• 1:02:25
  Yeah, Julian,
• 1:02:27
  Jamie was one of the first
• 1:02:28
  contestants ever.
• 1:02:30
  I've been waiting for another one.
• 1:02:33
  they just literally have all
• 1:02:34
  been anti women.
• 1:02:36
  Like there's just been no, no reason.
• 1:02:39
  I mean, this one with the bike, no reason.
• 1:02:42
  They've been like that a lot lately.
• 1:02:44
  I don't watch it.
• 1:02:45
  We will ever see devil's press.
• 1:02:47
  I don't think we'll see
• 1:02:48
  devil's press either.
• 1:02:50
  I don't watch a kill Taylor
• 1:02:52
  or any really there,
• 1:02:54
  but I do see the word.
• 1:02:55
  I do see the workouts posted and yeah,
• 1:03:00
  I'm waiting for him to
• 1:03:00
  program some sort of deadlift,
• 1:03:02
  but he won't do that
• 1:03:03
  because he struggles with deadlifts.
• 1:03:07
  Yeah, I need another one of the Toto bars.
• 1:03:09
  Yeah, a lot of higher skill sandbags,
• 1:03:12
  legless rope climbs,
• 1:03:13
  high volume ring muscles.
• 1:03:14
  I mean,
• 1:03:15
  he's got some great wheelhouse stuff.
• 1:03:18
  But yeah.
• 1:03:20
  Jamie was killing it until
• 1:03:21
  the tall box jump overs.
• 1:03:22
  I mean, yeah, it was like I said.
• 1:03:24
  How high was it?
• 1:03:25
  It was like it was forty
• 1:03:27
  eight or forty eight.
• 1:03:29
  You didn't get to go to forty two.
• 1:03:31
  No, he no, he was.
• 1:03:33
  And I was like, this is just I mean,
• 1:03:34
  it is what it is.
• 1:03:35
  I didn't even if I were to call in.
• 1:03:37
  next week,
• 1:03:38
  if it's like something I don't
• 1:03:39
  call in thinking to win,
• 1:03:40
  I just want to be a one
• 1:03:42
  year old woman that is
• 1:03:43
  within a minute of Taylor, you know,
• 1:03:44
  like just, you know, I'm,
• 1:03:48
  I'm not calling into when I'm calling,
• 1:03:50
  you know,
• 1:03:50
  calling in to get shit talked
• 1:03:52
  about me on live TV.
• 1:03:53
  I think it's a,
• 1:03:54
  I think it's a cool concept.
• 1:03:56
  I think it's, um, it's been, uh,
• 1:04:00
  really big for him and he's built his, uh,
• 1:04:03
  his platform quite a bit from that.
• 1:04:05
  And I think,
• 1:04:06
  think the idea of you know
• 1:04:08
  having games athletes call
• 1:04:09
  in and people of different
• 1:04:11
  age groups and random gym
• 1:04:13
  people call in is a great
• 1:04:15
  concept to race against you
• 1:04:17
  know a top athlete in the
• 1:04:18
  sport I think the the
• 1:04:19
  concept is is great um none
• 1:04:22
  of the workouts I would I
• 1:04:24
  would call in though for
• 1:04:25
  but yeah and it says it's I
• 1:04:29
  mean the premise is it's
• 1:04:30
  his game he makes I mean he
• 1:04:32
  gets to set it up for himself
• 1:04:34
  Yeah, he creates all of them, right?
• 1:04:35
  Him or Jr or something.
• 1:04:36
  He does.
• 1:04:37
  He does.
• 1:04:40
  Yeah, so like,
• 1:04:40
  he's not gonna pick things
• 1:04:41
  that he's bad at to give
• 1:04:42
  away the money for free.
• 1:04:43
  Like he's gonna pick some
• 1:04:45
  combinations of things that
• 1:04:46
  he's particularly like
• 1:04:48
  elite at and people get to race.
• 1:04:52
  I think it's a cool concept.
• 1:04:54
  as I've said over and over again,
• 1:04:56
  the more exposure the sport
• 1:04:57
  gets in different ways,
• 1:05:00
  in different venues and different,
• 1:05:03
  the better off the sport will be.
• 1:05:06
  It's more ways to show your friends.
• 1:05:08
  This is what I do.
• 1:05:10
  Reps ahead, kill Taylor, CrossFit games,
• 1:05:15
  WFP.
• 1:05:16
  All of it is good.
• 1:05:17
  If used in the right way.
• 1:05:22
  Um,
• 1:05:24
  So we'll move on to our rundown.
• 1:05:26
  WFP released a movement list
• 1:05:28
  and their complete point system.
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  We talked about a movement list.
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  We've talked about that.
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  I know I've talked about it for years.
• 1:05:37
  They put out a movement list.
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  My first reaction to this was,
• 1:05:42
  if you think that movement
• 1:05:43
  list makes it known and knowable,
• 1:05:47
  you're highly mistaken.
• 1:05:49
  There were like,
• 1:05:50
  five hundred movements on the list.
• 1:05:55
  Yeah, I think it's a nice way to do it.
• 1:05:59
  It's different than, I guess,
• 1:06:00
  how we approach it with the
• 1:06:02
  unknown and unknowable.
• 1:06:04
  I was going to say known and knowable,
• 1:06:05
  but that's helping.
• 1:06:07
  Unknown and unknowable.
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  I like that it's clean.
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  It has...
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  Uh, with axle bar,
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  they say the movements with dumbbells,
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  these are the movements.
• 1:06:16
  Like it just looks clean.
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  Um, so I do like that.
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  It's not like it, you know,
• 1:06:21
  you look at those movements
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  are still so like,
• 1:06:23
  you don't really know what
• 1:06:24
  the workouts are,
• 1:06:25
  but if there's anything to be added,
• 1:06:26
  it's like,
• 1:06:27
  maybe it's like the following
• 1:06:28
  year they can add, you know,
• 1:06:29
  a couple of different movements.
• 1:06:30
  If they feel they can,
• 1:06:32
  there's new movements in
• 1:06:32
  the space that should be added.
• 1:06:34
  You go year by year on the list.
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  I think it's a good idea.
• 1:06:39
  It doesn't give away the workouts.
• 1:06:41
  If you're not training those
• 1:06:41
  movements naturally, what are you doing?
• 1:06:44
  Most of those movements,
• 1:06:45
  there's no surprises.
• 1:06:47
  There's not anything that's
• 1:06:50
  out there that you're like, oh, I haven't
• 1:06:52
  done this before so do they
• 1:06:56
  need it no but I think it
• 1:06:57
  just looks nice and
• 1:06:59
  honestly for like
• 1:07:00
  programming it's nice to be
• 1:07:01
  like okay let's look you
• 1:07:02
  know you get it's just
• 1:07:04
  written easy to easy to see
• 1:07:07
  and be picking some stuff
• 1:07:08
  and to me though if you're
• 1:07:10
  going that far why not
• 1:07:13
  define a standard for each
• 1:07:15
  one of those in that right
• 1:07:17
  and then you have it and
• 1:07:19
  everybody knows what the
• 1:07:20
  standard is for that movement
• 1:07:23
  Because it's every variation of a burpee.
• 1:07:25
  It's not just a burpee.
• 1:07:27
  It's a burpee over a box.
• 1:07:28
  It's a burpee over a dumbbell.
• 1:07:29
  It's a burpee over a barbell.
• 1:07:31
  And then you can define what
• 1:07:32
  that standard is so everybody knows.
• 1:07:35
  And then the other thing I
• 1:07:36
  would say is I think to
• 1:07:40
  make it the best possible,
• 1:07:43
  when you get to a championship series,
• 1:07:45
  whether you're in the WFP
• 1:07:46
  because it's their list or
• 1:07:48
  the CrossFit Games and
• 1:07:49
  you're doing a list like this,
• 1:07:50
  two wild cards to bring in something new.
• 1:07:54
  like a snail or like,
• 1:07:57
  like one of those big
• 1:07:58
  things that just wouldn't
• 1:07:59
  appear at any other time
• 1:08:01
  during the season.
• 1:08:02
  Yeah.
• 1:08:06
  I like that.
• 1:08:07
  Yeah.
• 1:08:07
  I mean, I think it's,
• 1:08:09
  I think it's nice that we see new objects,
• 1:08:12
  new skills, new things at the games.
• 1:08:17
  It keeps the sport growing and exciting.
• 1:08:20
  Something new to train.
• 1:08:23
  But I think if they're
• 1:08:23
  trying to make themselves different,
• 1:08:25
  like I think just having
• 1:08:26
  their list is cool.
• 1:08:27
  And then on the CrossFit side,
• 1:08:29
  anything goes.
• 1:08:29
  Like, I think that's,
• 1:08:30
  that's what's unique about
• 1:08:32
  CrossFit is that you have
• 1:08:33
  to adapt to the snail when
• 1:08:35
  you haven't touched it in
• 1:08:36
  the warmup and just go out there.
• 1:08:38
  Um,
• 1:08:40
  Yeah.
• 1:08:40
  And I would like to see standards.
• 1:08:42
  That's yeah.
• 1:08:43
  Yeah.
• 1:08:43
  The standards would be nice.
• 1:08:44
  It'd be like,
• 1:08:45
  this is the standard for this.
• 1:08:46
  This is for sure.
• 1:08:47
  The list is nice,
• 1:08:49
  but that doesn't do much for me.
• 1:08:51
  I want to see a standard for
• 1:08:52
  each one of those.
• 1:08:54
  Now that you've said what they are,
• 1:08:56
  tell me what the standard is.
• 1:08:58
  So going into the season, we all know.
• 1:09:02
  And it's not Becky harsh on
• 1:09:03
  a thing saying we all know
• 1:09:04
  what a thruster is.
• 1:09:06
  Well, do we apparently not?
• 1:09:08
  We apparently do not.
• 1:09:11
  Right.
• 1:09:12
  So let's, why not define it?
• 1:09:15
  The other thing they
• 1:09:16
  released was the point system.
• 1:09:19
  And the best way to describe
• 1:09:20
  it is in the pro division.
• 1:09:22
  These are the points you
• 1:09:23
  earn for every tour event
• 1:09:25
  to then be on the
• 1:09:26
  leaderboard for the end of
• 1:09:27
  the season for each tour event.
• 1:09:31
  it's a five hundred four
• 1:09:32
  eighty five four seventy four sixteen.
• 1:09:34
  It kind of goes down from
• 1:09:35
  there with the lowest third
• 1:09:38
  last place being two seventy.
• 1:09:41
  The challenger points,
• 1:09:42
  if you're in the challenger division,
• 1:09:44
  like you didn't make the
• 1:09:46
  ten that get to go elite
• 1:09:49
  and you're in the challenger division,
• 1:09:50
  it's half of all of those scores.
• 1:09:55
  When you get to the finals,
• 1:09:58
  they're all doubled.
• 1:10:03
  So that's the point system
• 1:10:04
  for the year you add them up.
• 1:10:06
  And then at the end of the year,
• 1:10:08
  if you're in the top.
• 1:10:09
  You get a pro card.
• 1:10:11
  Is there any points for the online,
• 1:10:14
  like doing the online,
• 1:10:15
  but not showing up or, um, nothing there,
• 1:10:19
  just in person.
• 1:10:20
  And then if you're in the
• 1:10:22
  challenger division,
• 1:10:23
  you're not getting your,
• 1:10:24
  your automatically, no matter what,
• 1:10:26
  if you beat
• 1:10:28
  a bunch of people from the
• 1:10:29
  pro doing the exact same
• 1:10:30
  workout you're not getting
• 1:10:32
  any more points even if
• 1:10:34
  let's say you're in the
• 1:10:34
  challenger division you had
• 1:10:35
  a bad um online you know
• 1:10:39
  you just made a just missed
• 1:10:40
  it but then in person
• 1:10:43
  outperform seven to ten
• 1:10:45
  athletes but you don't get
• 1:10:47
  the points right they will
• 1:10:49
  have the same workouts
• 1:10:49
  right or I think yeah looks likely
• 1:10:54
  Yeah.
• 1:10:55
  So I think where it comes
• 1:10:55
  into play is for the
• 1:10:56
  challenger points is say
• 1:10:58
  you make tour event one and
• 1:11:00
  you finish eighth.
• 1:11:02
  So you have four hundred twenty points.
• 1:11:06
  Well,
• 1:11:06
  then you don't make it in tour event two,
• 1:11:09
  but you make the challenger series.
• 1:11:11
  Well,
• 1:11:11
  it's worth it for you to go get some
• 1:11:14
  points to add to your four twenty,
• 1:11:16
  because then if you make the top thirty,
• 1:11:19
  you get to compete in the finals.
• 1:11:23
  Does that make sense?
• 1:11:24
  Yeah.
• 1:11:24
  Like you have to compete to, uh,
• 1:11:26
  as a challenger,
• 1:11:27
  you have to be at all of
• 1:11:28
  them or else you have zero chance.
• 1:11:31
  I mean, unless you want,
• 1:11:32
  cause you can't even just
• 1:11:33
  qualify to the final cause
• 1:11:34
  you wouldn't even had enough points.
• 1:11:35
  Like you have to,
• 1:11:38
  you have to have done both
• 1:11:40
  unless you go and win the first one,
• 1:11:41
  which will be pretty hard
• 1:11:43
  for a challenger to do.
• 1:11:44
  Like you just won't have enough points.
• 1:11:46
  I don't totally understand that.
• 1:11:50
  Quite honestly,
• 1:11:51
  I feel like if it goes from
• 1:11:52
  the five hundred down,
• 1:11:52
  because it's like two
• 1:11:53
  seventy or two fifties,
• 1:11:54
  the thirtieth place point
• 1:11:56
  and then to twenty and down.
• 1:11:58
  Like why,
• 1:11:59
  if they're all doing the same workouts,
• 1:12:02
  why is it not just one through fifty?
• 1:12:06
  That way,
• 1:12:07
  if somebody in the Challenger
• 1:12:10
  division gets what would be
• 1:12:12
  twenty seventh place,
• 1:12:14
  it's actually scored appropriately,
• 1:12:16
  appropriately.
• 1:12:17
  It's like the RX division at
• 1:12:18
  Waterpalooza that doesn't
• 1:12:20
  get the prize money of the elite,
• 1:12:24
  but they've done the same
• 1:12:25
  workouts and can maybe beat some of them.
• 1:12:28
  It's silly.
• 1:12:30
  I don't see much change up.
• 1:12:31
  I don't know.
• 1:12:32
  I think Jamie hit the nail on the head.
• 1:12:34
  You're all competing at the
• 1:12:35
  same place at the same time anyway,
• 1:12:37
  doing the same events.
• 1:12:38
  If the workouts are the same,
• 1:12:40
  just open it to... If
• 1:12:41
  you're going to have the same heats,
• 1:12:42
  just freaking open it to the rest.
• 1:12:44
  It makes no sense that...
• 1:12:47
  You just missed out on the online portion,
• 1:12:49
  so you're, you know,
• 1:12:51
  fourteenth or fifteenth, you know.
• 1:12:53
  You get to in-person.
• 1:12:54
  You outperform because those
• 1:12:56
  workouts just happen to be
• 1:12:57
  better for you.
• 1:12:58
  You outperform some.
• 1:13:01
  Even if you outperform one person, right,
• 1:13:03
  you know, for the same workout,
• 1:13:05
  you're automatically given less points.
• 1:13:07
  Yeah.
• 1:13:10
  Jay Burch asks,
• 1:13:11
  has WFP put out a rule book?
• 1:13:14
  I don't know if it's a full rule book,
• 1:13:15
  but they put out a lot.
• 1:13:21
  There should be a rule book though.
• 1:13:22
  Like drug testing, prize purse,
• 1:13:24
  all of that,
• 1:13:25
  like movement standards or
• 1:13:27
  dates when you know your
• 1:13:29
  videos are writing it.
• 1:13:31
  Yeah.
• 1:13:31
  And they're releasing the
• 1:13:32
  pieces that they have done.
• 1:13:35
  Eventually we'll get to it.
• 1:13:36
  I don't know.
• 1:13:38
  It gives me less and less optimism for it.
• 1:13:41
  That's it's frustrating.
• 1:13:45
  I hope it works, though.
• 1:13:46
  I really hope it works.
• 1:13:49
  How is it going to work?
• 1:13:50
  I mean,
• 1:13:50
  it's pretty obvious the top twenty
• 1:13:52
  are going to, like,
• 1:13:53
  two people are going to change up.
• 1:13:55
  Colton's probably going to take a spot,
• 1:13:56
  and that's probably about it.
• 1:13:58
  You might see some people retire,
• 1:14:00
  and then it'll expand.
• 1:14:02
  Well,
• 1:14:02
  what's going to happen is you're
• 1:14:03
  going to have a couple
• 1:14:04
  people that can't even
• 1:14:05
  complete the season.
• 1:14:07
  Then you're going to have a
• 1:14:07
  couple challengers that
• 1:14:08
  really go all in because
• 1:14:10
  they want to contract.
• 1:14:13
  And you'll get,
• 1:14:14
  my guess is five people
• 1:14:16
  change for next year.
• 1:14:20
  That's silly.
• 1:14:21
  Why is it silly?
• 1:14:21
  That's the way golf is and tennis is.
• 1:14:24
  And then once you establish
• 1:14:26
  who the best are, yeah,
• 1:14:27
  they're the best because
• 1:14:28
  they're the best.
• 1:14:29
  And then they shouldn't be.
• 1:14:30
  Are they the best?
• 1:14:31
  Are they best because they
• 1:14:32
  got picked the first year
• 1:14:33
  and that they are there?
• 1:14:36
  It's going to sell into the
• 1:14:37
  best will be the best.
• 1:14:38
  No, because it's so, no,
• 1:14:40
  it won't because there's,
• 1:14:42
  there isn't a real shot for
• 1:14:45
  the online people to get into that,
• 1:14:49
  into that bracket.
• 1:14:50
  If online people want to, they can do it.
• 1:14:54
  I think there's a shot
• 1:14:55
  because if you're in person
• 1:14:59
  and let's say you are –
• 1:15:00
  like you have to make it
• 1:15:01
  within the top twenty, right?
• 1:15:03
  Like if you're a bubble
• 1:15:05
  athlete finishing twenty-ninth,
• 1:15:06
  you weren't going to make it anyways.
• 1:15:07
  But if you're online and you
• 1:15:10
  just didn't get a pro card
• 1:15:11
  and you go to all these
• 1:15:12
  events and you're good enough,
• 1:15:14
  you have an even – like
• 1:15:16
  none of these pro athletes
• 1:15:17
  are starting with points.
• 1:15:18
  They're just –
• 1:15:20
  going to the events.
• 1:15:22
  But they're starting in the
• 1:15:23
  top thirty that a
• 1:15:24
  challenger can't even get in.
• 1:15:27
  Well,
• 1:15:27
  that's your only... That's what I'm
• 1:15:29
  saying.
• 1:15:29
  If you get a challenger,
• 1:15:31
  if the challenger goes to all of them,
• 1:15:33
  they have a chance.
• 1:15:34
  But you have to go to all of
• 1:15:35
  them as a challenger.
• 1:15:36
  You have to match the people
• 1:15:37
  that already have contracts.
• 1:15:39
  Okay,
• 1:15:39
  so if people don't show up and they
• 1:15:41
  just throw the towel in and
• 1:15:42
  don't take... You will see that.
• 1:15:43
  You will see people not show up.
• 1:15:44
  Then they shouldn't have
• 1:15:45
  signed a contract if that's their point.
• 1:15:46
  If you're giving money,
• 1:15:47
  they're going to... If I
• 1:15:48
  was given like thirty grand,
• 1:15:49
  I'd show up freaking broken.
• 1:15:51
  I'm like, okay, he gets my points.
• 1:15:53
  Okay,
• 1:15:53
  well then you already... So you could
• 1:15:55
  get last and take thirtieth
• 1:15:57
  and ten people from the
• 1:15:58
  challenge... You're going to see that.
• 1:16:01
  The ten people that qualify
• 1:16:02
  can beat everybody of the twenty.
• 1:16:05
  Sure.
• 1:16:06
  Yeah.
• 1:16:10
  So Andrew Hiller says it's
• 1:16:12
  more likely the earth is
• 1:16:13
  flat than the WFP survives.
• 1:16:16
  Um,
• 1:16:16
  clock says we need an over under bet on
• 1:16:18
  three replacements.
• 1:16:19
  I'm betting under, I will go over,
• 1:16:20
  but slightly, I think it'll be like six,
• 1:16:25
  six replacements.
• 1:16:26
  You talk about,
• 1:16:27
  I think it'll be five aside.
• 1:16:29
  Yeah.
• 1:16:34
  I think I, I might go under on that.
• 1:16:39
  For next year?
• 1:16:41
  Yeah, for next year.
• 1:16:46
  I think people are going to
• 1:16:47
  want that guaranteed
• 1:16:47
  contract and they're going
• 1:16:48
  to go all in for one year.
• 1:16:50
  And there are going to be
• 1:16:51
  people that are going to
• 1:16:52
  make both tour events and
• 1:16:54
  they're going to finish
• 1:16:56
  ahead of some of these.
• 1:16:57
  Yeah.
• 1:17:00
  It shouldn't have been picked.
• 1:17:01
  You do have a lot of people
• 1:17:02
  towards the end of their careers,
• 1:17:04
  injury prone.
• 1:17:05
  Like you have people that
• 1:17:06
  can get a hundred percent replaced.
• 1:17:10
  I mean,
• 1:17:10
  you're basically saying like
• 1:17:12
  someone like Pat is not
• 1:17:14
  going to show up to all the
• 1:17:15
  events because he's on his way out.
• 1:17:17
  And I don't know.
• 1:17:17
  I'm not going to show up.
• 1:17:19
  I'm saying that they're not
• 1:17:20
  good enough anymore to compete.
• 1:17:22
  Pat is a tough athlete.
• 1:17:24
  And I'm not saying Pat.
• 1:17:26
  I have never said Pat.
• 1:17:27
  No, Pat's legit.
• 1:17:28
  I'm saying the DKGs.
• 1:17:30
  I'm saying the Victor Hoffers.
• 1:17:31
  He hasn't even made it in an event.
• 1:17:33
  Well, I agree on Victor Hoffer.
• 1:17:36
  There are people that can get beat.
• 1:17:38
  On both sides.
• 1:17:42
  So I'm saying over on both sides.
• 1:17:45
  Jay Birch.
• 1:17:46
  So they lose their card for
• 1:17:47
  the next year and the
• 1:17:47
  challenger gains it.
• 1:17:48
  Yes.
• 1:17:49
  That is how it works.
• 1:17:54
  The next season is the top
• 1:17:56
  twenty point getters for the year.
• 1:17:59
  Get the new contract or the new card.
• 1:18:03
  And if you're not in that
• 1:18:04
  twenty and you were the
• 1:18:06
  year before you lose that
• 1:18:07
  card for the next year.
• 1:18:14
  Yeah,
• 1:18:14
  you'll see some replacements for sure.
• 1:18:17
  For sure.
• 1:18:17
  We're going to see how this
• 1:18:18
  point system shakes out.
• 1:18:21
  As a challenger,
• 1:18:22
  you have to do all of them,
• 1:18:23
  just like the pro people
• 1:18:24
  have to do all of them.
• 1:18:26
  You better be damn sure
• 1:18:27
  you're taking a spot.
• 1:18:29
  If the challengers don't get
• 1:18:32
  their travel paid for to
• 1:18:33
  get to these events,
• 1:18:34
  that's a big ask to send
• 1:18:36
  these people to Copenhagen
• 1:18:37
  to try to – you better be
• 1:18:39
  certain you're getting that spot.
• 1:18:40
  That's the one expense if
• 1:18:41
  you're a North American athlete.
• 1:18:43
  Yeah.
• 1:18:45
  Because Indianapolis,
• 1:18:46
  you can probably get to pretty easily.
• 1:18:47
  You can get to Mesa,
• 1:18:49
  whatever the hell it is.
• 1:18:50
  You can get to pretty easily.
• 1:18:53
  It's going to be,
• 1:18:55
  can you go all in for
• 1:18:56
  Copenhagen one time?
• 1:18:58
  Well,
• 1:18:58
  I think a lot of the Europeans are
• 1:18:59
  going to travel to North
• 1:19:00
  America anyways during that
• 1:19:02
  time because you have all
• 1:19:03
  those competitions in the
• 1:19:06
  North America at those times.
• 1:19:07
  And then you have the online semifinals,
• 1:19:09
  which would benefit them
• 1:19:10
  being maybe seeing getting
• 1:19:11
  pushed by people and then
• 1:19:13
  going to their WFP events.
• 1:19:15
  When's the second WFP?
• 1:19:17
  Is it towards the same time as August?
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  Right around where the Masters Games is.
• 1:19:23
  So after the Elite Games?
• 1:19:26
  Yeah.
• 1:19:28
  Okay.
• 1:19:29
  So I guess they do have that
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  middle section to,
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  cause they still got to do
• 1:19:32
  their own season too.
• 1:19:33
  I don't know when the
• 1:19:33
  qualifiers are for the
• 1:19:35
  second challenger event,
• 1:19:37
  but that's where the
• 1:19:38
  challengers will have to make decisions.
• 1:19:41
  I think on how much they
• 1:19:44
  compete because they have those.
• 1:19:45
  And then there's going to be
• 1:19:46
  a lot of competitions to go to this.
• 1:19:50
  If you're a European challenger,
• 1:19:54
  I feel like half of them are
• 1:19:55
  here all the time anyway I
• 1:19:57
  don't think it I don't I
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  don't think so a few of
• 1:20:00
  them I wouldn't say
• 1:20:06
  qualifiers so that's the
• 1:20:08
  point system for the wfp
• 1:20:11
  there we go it'll be
• 1:20:12
  interesting like I said I
• 1:20:13
  hope I hope it works we
• 1:20:15
  will see I donated my
• 1:20:18
  twenty five bucks for now
• 1:20:23
  I'm going to finish up kind of with this,
• 1:20:24
  and that is,
• 1:20:26
  and I don't even think I have
• 1:20:28
  what Carolyn sent me,
• 1:20:30
  but Carolyn is such a
• 1:20:32
  researcher that she looks
• 1:20:33
  at the CAP programming for
• 1:20:36
  different weeks where she
• 1:20:37
  knows she's competing and
• 1:20:38
  CrossFit is programming.
• 1:20:41
  So why do you do that and
• 1:20:43
  what are you looking for?
• 1:20:45
  Well,
• 1:20:46
  I want to see if there was some sort
• 1:20:48
  of ideas on what could be
• 1:20:52
  coming up because I program
• 1:20:54
  for my affiliate.
• 1:20:55
  So if I can see some signs
• 1:20:58
  on the programming at the
• 1:20:59
  cap and maybe think that
• 1:21:01
  there's a certain movement coming up,
• 1:21:03
  I can maybe avoid that
• 1:21:04
  movement a couple of days before,
• 1:21:06
  do a conditioning.
• 1:21:07
  So I think it just helps to...
• 1:21:10
  predict what can be that
• 1:21:12
  week as you see the
• 1:21:13
  movements that are there,
• 1:21:14
  but I don't think that
• 1:21:15
  they've done a good job.
• 1:21:17
  Like the last year they had,
• 1:21:19
  I think a bunch of front
• 1:21:20
  squats or something.
• 1:21:21
  I was like,
• 1:21:21
  I think it was like thrusters
• 1:21:23
  that they had programmed
• 1:21:25
  and it literally made no sense.
• 1:21:26
  I was like,
• 1:21:27
  is there not going to be
• 1:21:28
  thrusters in the open?
• 1:21:29
  And then they did thrusters
• 1:21:31
  and chest to bars or
• 1:21:32
  whatever to finish the open
• 1:21:34
  with the bar muscle ups.
• 1:21:35
  And the following day on cap
• 1:21:37
  had a bunch of heavy front
• 1:21:39
  squats and more like
• 1:21:41
  same movement pattern so I
• 1:21:42
  was like oh so like last
• 1:21:45
  year was the first time I
• 1:21:48
  really tried to dig deep
• 1:21:49
  into the cat programming
• 1:21:50
  and look whether there was
• 1:21:51
  any signs of them knowing
• 1:21:53
  the workouts because you
• 1:21:55
  would assume that they
• 1:21:55
  would know and not do that
• 1:21:57
  but maybe they just tried
• 1:21:59
  to throw off the community
• 1:22:01
  that year and then this
• 1:22:02
  year they're not trying to
• 1:22:03
  throw it off because
• 1:22:05
  they'll change it up so I
• 1:22:06
  don't know I just like looking at it
• 1:22:09
  Um,
• 1:22:09
  I like looking at the cap program just
• 1:22:11
  to see if there's anything
• 1:22:13
  new floating around from their ideas.
• 1:22:15
  And, um, but I look at.com as well,
• 1:22:19
  but yeah, I mean, for myself,
• 1:22:20
  knowing what movements are
• 1:22:21
  there and mostly cause I program for, um,
• 1:22:25
  the affiliate that I train
• 1:22:26
  at across the Coliseum.
• 1:22:31
  So as an elite athlete,
• 1:22:33
  there's not a lot of clues this year.
• 1:22:38
  in the cat programming that
• 1:22:39
  you've found in the past?
• 1:22:42
  No.
• 1:22:42
  Cause I think that they've
• 1:22:43
  done a bad job of putting it with the,
• 1:22:47
  with the weekly open.
• 1:22:49
  I thought it would be a good,
• 1:22:51
  like I thought, no,
• 1:22:52
  maybe they're keeping it separate.
• 1:22:55
  That's what,
• 1:22:56
  that's what I figured last year.
• 1:22:57
  I was like, okay, maybe that,
• 1:22:58
  maybe they were actually don't know.
• 1:23:00
  Yeah.
• 1:23:01
  I mean, that's,
• 1:23:01
  that's good if they don't know.
• 1:23:03
  Um,
• 1:23:05
  But I still will do my homework and look.
• 1:23:08
  Yeah.
• 1:23:13
  But I also look as they'll be like, oh,
• 1:23:14
  we're preparing, you know,
• 1:23:16
  for the open coming up and
• 1:23:17
  we're going to be doing
• 1:23:18
  these benchmark workouts
• 1:23:19
  and we're going to be
• 1:23:20
  trying to finish on a, you know,
• 1:23:22
  a heavy clean and jerk this month.
• 1:23:24
  And I'm like, ooh,
• 1:23:24
  is clean and jerk coming?
• 1:23:26
  And, you know, you start looking.
• 1:23:29
  We'll read into it and we'll
• 1:23:30
  think of things coming up.
• 1:23:35
  back on the previous subject.
• 1:23:37
  Do you think world fitness
• 1:23:37
  project athletes can make a
• 1:23:38
  name for themselves
• 1:23:39
  specifically via world fitness project?
• 1:23:45
  Well,
• 1:23:45
  it would have to be a challenge
• 1:23:46
  because they only pick names.
• 1:23:50
  So the twenty card athletes
• 1:23:51
  are already names, right?
• 1:23:53
  Yeah.
• 1:23:55
  So it'd have to be a
• 1:23:56
  challenger coming out of nowhere.
• 1:23:58
  But I don't think the games
• 1:23:59
  does a good job because
• 1:24:01
  I've been to the games
• 1:24:02
  three times and done demo and stuff,
• 1:24:04
  and it doesn't mean that I
• 1:24:06
  have any following.
• 1:24:10
  Just because you're at the
• 1:24:10
  World Fitness Project or at
• 1:24:12
  the CrossFit Games,
• 1:24:13
  I feel like there's a
• 1:24:13
  responsibility for yourself
• 1:24:15
  as an athlete to promote
• 1:24:16
  your brand and make yourself known.
• 1:24:20
  unique online with the way
• 1:24:22
  that you post and stuff like that.
• 1:24:24
  Like,
• 1:24:25
  I don't think it's necessarily just a
• 1:24:26
  fitness project that might
• 1:24:28
  struggle getting people to
• 1:24:32
  like make a name for themselves.
• 1:24:33
  Cause there's a plenty of
• 1:24:35
  games athletes that have low following.
• 1:24:38
  Yeah.
• 1:24:39
  And I mean,
• 1:24:41
  there's better broadcasting
• 1:24:44
  there than any of the other
• 1:24:45
  local comps or main comps.
• 1:24:48
  So.
• 1:24:54
  we so last week we said like
• 1:24:56
  crossfit has done a
• 1:24:57
  terrible job eleven through forty right
• 1:25:02
  Top ten, awesome.
• 1:25:04
  They get tons of coverage.
• 1:25:05
  They get tons of interviews.
• 1:25:06
  They get tons of airplay.
• 1:25:10
  Eleven through forty, not so much.
• 1:25:14
  And I suggested to Justin in
• 1:25:15
  my interview with him,
• 1:25:16
  like a game show that you
• 1:25:17
  could make if you were a
• 1:25:19
  camp trying to recruit people.
• 1:25:21
  And it's to get to know
• 1:25:23
  people in those lower levels.
• 1:25:25
  And I've gotten comments
• 1:25:28
  that nobody cares about those athletes.
• 1:25:30
  this channel and I don't
• 1:25:32
  think that's the sentiment
• 1:25:33
  of everybody but I do know
• 1:25:35
  that there is a large
• 1:25:37
  sentiment that says that
• 1:25:38
  but if you don't care about
• 1:25:39
  them then you don't care about the future
• 1:25:42
  Yeah, it's kind of, well,
• 1:25:43
  I think that we don't do a
• 1:25:44
  good job of broadcasting the athletes.
• 1:25:46
  We only show the middle lane
• 1:25:47
  or the leaders.
• 1:25:47
  And it's kind of like what's
• 1:25:48
  happened with women's sports, right?
• 1:25:50
  Like if we never showed it before,
• 1:25:52
  no one knew about it.
• 1:25:52
  Everyone's like, oh, women's sports sucks.
• 1:25:54
  This, that, like get in the kitchen.
• 1:25:56
  Like you can see all the
• 1:25:57
  comments that were horrible online.
• 1:25:58
  Like this is nothing.
• 1:26:00
  This is like a peewee boys team.
• 1:26:02
  Like you saw all those
• 1:26:03
  comments and then you
• 1:26:04
  actually started showing
• 1:26:05
  the women's sports and then.
• 1:26:06
  you know,
• 1:26:07
  it keeps getting bigger and bigger.
• 1:26:08
  And it's like,
• 1:26:09
  I wonder if you got out of the,
• 1:26:11
  let's focus on one athlete
• 1:26:13
  and showed more of the race
• 1:26:14
  and showed more,
• 1:26:15
  if that actually grew more the sport,
• 1:26:18
  you know,
• 1:26:19
  similar to women's sports right now.
• 1:26:20
  And it's thriving.
• 1:26:21
  Like if we did the same with CrossFit now,
• 1:26:24
  I don't know,
• 1:26:25
  maybe people just want to see,
• 1:26:27
  obviously you want to see the best,
• 1:26:28
  like what people are capable of.
• 1:26:31
  Um,
• 1:26:32
  but it would be nice to see more of the
• 1:26:34
  field more often, um,
• 1:26:35
  to get to know more people competing.
• 1:26:38
  And what's beautiful about
• 1:26:39
  CrossFit is in one event,
• 1:26:42
  eleven through forty may have the best.
• 1:26:44
  A hundred percent.
• 1:26:46
  You know,
• 1:26:47
  like you put up a deadlift workout,
• 1:26:49
  Carolyn should be featured, right?
• 1:26:53
  Like she's if it's a
• 1:26:56
  deadlift workout and
• 1:26:57
  deadlift is prominent,
• 1:26:59
  she's going to make a run at it.
• 1:27:02
  Depends what it's paired with, but yeah.
• 1:27:06
  so um there's a lot of
• 1:27:09
  comments about what the
• 1:27:10
  talking elite fitness
• 1:27:11
  people are doing I can't
• 1:27:12
  speak for if they're doing
• 1:27:13
  the open or not I'm not in
• 1:27:15
  communication with them I
• 1:27:16
  can tell you the three of
• 1:27:17
  us are signing up for the
• 1:27:18
  open I've been signed up
• 1:27:20
  since I think the day it
• 1:27:21
  came out the day after january so um
• 1:27:27
  So yeah, we're doing it.
• 1:27:28
  I don't know what anybody else is doing.
• 1:27:31
  I'm having a hard time
• 1:27:32
  scrolling through Instagram
• 1:27:38
  every day to make sure I
• 1:27:39
  capture all the athletes in
• 1:27:41
  which way they're going.
• 1:27:43
  The one thing I will comment about that is,
• 1:27:46
  I've said so many times,
• 1:27:48
  I love the Reebok era.
• 1:27:50
  These hype videos that Scott
• 1:27:52
  Pancheck and Rich Froning and Ben Smith.
• 1:27:56
  Oh, give me more of that.
• 1:27:59
  Oh,
• 1:28:00
  Ben Smith even putting the header he
• 1:28:01
  took on the beach racing to
• 1:28:04
  the ocean in his was awesome.
• 1:28:07
  Like so many cool memories.
• 1:28:11
  I love the fact that...
• 1:28:14
  they're doing these hype
• 1:28:15
  videos it's just getting me
• 1:28:16
  fired up for the open makes
• 1:28:18
  if you're not signed up and
• 1:28:19
  you want to sign up make
• 1:28:22
  sure you get that done so
• 1:28:23
  we know what the numbers
• 1:28:24
  are going into the weekend
• 1:28:26
  it'd be cool to know that
• 1:28:28
  if you don't want to sign up it's fine
• 1:28:30
  I think the media team has
• 1:28:31
  done a pretty good job as
• 1:28:32
  of late to start, you know,
• 1:28:34
  posting more things and
• 1:28:36
  collaborating with more
• 1:28:37
  posts that people have been doing.
• 1:28:40
  Um,
• 1:28:41
  I feel like it's definitely more than
• 1:28:42
  the last couple of years.
• 1:28:43
  Like I don't remember this much content,
• 1:28:45
  um, in the past years,
• 1:28:48
  like leading up to the open.
• 1:28:50
  Yeah.
• 1:28:51
  Yeah.
• 1:28:51
  We talked before we went on air,
• 1:28:52
  like Dave sharing
• 1:28:53
  everything and collaborating with people.
• 1:28:57
  If you tag him in it, um,
• 1:29:00
  So, yeah,
• 1:29:02
  we might have our highest gym
• 1:29:04
  sign up ever.
• 1:29:05
  And we're not even an affiliate.
• 1:29:07
  I think we're at like twenty right now.
• 1:29:09
  And I know like three or
• 1:29:10
  four people said they're
• 1:29:11
  going to get signed up this week.
• 1:29:12
  I think my gym's at eighty five right now.
• 1:29:15
  We're hoping to get I don't
• 1:29:18
  even have eighty five members.
• 1:29:19
  So pretty big gym.
• 1:29:22
  I think they're hoping to
• 1:29:23
  get like a hundred.
• 1:29:25
  I think last year we had
• 1:29:26
  like one sixty or something.
• 1:29:27
  So we're about halfway a little bit.
• 1:29:30
  That's incredible.
• 1:29:31
  So we'll see.
• 1:29:33
  People sometimes sign up
• 1:29:34
  last minute and we'll see.
• 1:29:39
  Well, awesome.
• 1:29:40
  We're coming to the end of
• 1:29:41
  our ninety minutes.
• 1:29:43
  you to everybody in the chat
• 1:29:44
  you guys are awesome as
• 1:29:45
  always love you all um
• 1:29:47
  thank you for a cool q a
• 1:29:48
  today that was our first
• 1:29:49
  one we'll do some more in
• 1:29:50
  the future um I did pack I
• 1:29:54
  did not see the nc notre
• 1:29:56
  dame game today I went into
• 1:29:58
  overtime um just in case
• 1:30:03
  everyone forgot who the
• 1:30:04
  best hockey country is in the world
• 1:30:10
  Carolyn pulled out her
• 1:30:12
  junior hockey national team
• 1:30:16
  jacket from when she was
• 1:30:17
  seventeen to show her
• 1:30:19
  Canadian pride on the show
• 1:30:22
  today after Canada beat the U.S.
• 1:30:24
  on Thursday night.
• 1:30:26
  Yes, we did talk about Emma Lawson.
• 1:30:29
  That's back about minute ten.
• 1:30:34
  Somewhere there.
• 1:30:34
  Ten or fifteen.
• 1:30:36
  And we're at ninety.
• 1:30:38
  So with that, thank you so much, everybody,
• 1:30:40
  for being here.
• 1:30:42
  You guys are the best, as always.
• 1:30:43
  We'll be back next Sunday
• 1:30:45
  night with the same crew.
• 1:30:49
  See you then.
• 1:30:51
  Bye.