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Sunday Night CrossFit Talk - Let's Talk Rules!!! · Clydesdale Media Podcast

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  what is going on everybody
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  welcome to the sunday
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  sunday sunday night crossfit talk
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  We're here, just Carolyn and I tonight,
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  as Jamie is busy putting
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  her gym back together after
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  an amazing remodel.
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  But now she has to get
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  everything back on the floor,
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  get everything in place, mop up, clean up,
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  do all that kind of stuff.
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  And so she is still at her
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  gym right now doing all that stuff,
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  and we feel bad.
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  I feel bad.
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  I know what that's like.
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  You're so tired from doing all that work,
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  and now you have to kind of
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  clean it all up.
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  She's probably just sneaking
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  in a few workouts here and there.
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  I did see her go on a rig at
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  some point this week.
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  She had to try it out, right?
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  Yeah.
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  Things are moving along, though.
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  Yeah.
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  with that uh we'll get
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  started on everything just
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  to get caught up on some
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  things I saw an instagram
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  story that I wanted to
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  share real quick and it's
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  kind of like um what
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  happens when a pro hockey
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  player goes for a quick
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  little casual skate
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  It was very casual.
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  My sister's filming,
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  so I can't really skate very fast.
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  But you are passing people
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  like they are standing still.
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  I mean,
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  she is just zooming by every single
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  person on this track.
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  My sister's holding her own, though.
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  Did, did she ever play hockey or as a kid?
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  She played a little bit up
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  until maybe she was nine years old.
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  So we go like maybe once a,
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  once a winter where we'll skate together.
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  This is my older sister.
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  So my twin played growing up.
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  She was a goalie, but only me.
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  So, and this is from your perspective.
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  Yes.
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  No, no.
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  Yeah, this is my perspective.
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  This is just me holding my
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  phone and just gliding out there.
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  Just gliding.
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  It's a cute little trail
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  path that they'll do every winter.
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  But some people don't
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  understand that the inside
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  track should be for...
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  like faster because you'll
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  see some people like
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  holding hands just like
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  going very close to the
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  edge and you'll see here
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  someone learning how to
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  skate and I'm like oh okay
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  but it was fun so is it
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  typical to um is it typical
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  to have a track in canada
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  or I've never seen a track before
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  So a lot of times it's just
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  like outdoor rinks, um,
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  like more just like people
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  just go in a circle.
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  There's a few of them that
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  will be like that.
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  Or some people will go on a pond, um,
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  but this is like a nice
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  figure eight and it's just like maybe.
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  Ten minutes from here.
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  Not even from my house, um,
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  down the street from my gym
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  at cross the Coliseum.
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  So it's, it's easy to get to.
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  I discovered it a few,
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  few years ago and I've been going every,
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  every winter since.
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  Cause it's cute.
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  And like during the day they
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  have these like, um,
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  plastic chairs that people can, um,
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  push around if they don't
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  know how to skate and but
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  so during the day it gets
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  pretty packed but if you go
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  to the evening time like at
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  nine thirty um the building
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  beside it closes all those
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  plastic thingies go back
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  into the building so that
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  normally means that the
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  people that are like more
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  learning how to skate are
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  not no longer on the ice at
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  that point and then they
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  have the lights on and some
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  music playing so it's just nice it's fun
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  So you mentioned like people
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  don't know to let the
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  inside for the fast skaters.
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  Jeffrey Birchfield says,
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  sounds like the roadway.
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  Yeah, absolutely.
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  That's what it, you're just like,
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  what are you doing?
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  DR, I think D Reed says ankle skater.
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  I don't even know what that means.
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  Well, like normally like ankle benders,
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  the people that are like,
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  just kind of like not very good skaters.
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  That's a term that we'll use.
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  I don't necessarily say ankle skater.
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  I'll use ankle bender.
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  It's just because the skates
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  bend at their ankles and
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  they're not as proficient.
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  When I was a kid,
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  we were at the rink every day.
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  I haven't been skating.
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  It's been so long since I've
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  been on the ice.
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  Does it fill your cup to do that?
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  I mean, I'm
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  I like skating,
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  but I'm probably going like
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  forty percent speed.
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  It's like I like I like
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  skating fast and just kind
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  of feeling like the wind in
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  your eyes and stuff.
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  But just kind of skating
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  with a view is just different.
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  Like, it's nice.
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  What I miss about hockey is
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  more my teammates.
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  Yeah.
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  Yeah.
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  Yeah.
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  I loved I love feeling the
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  wind in my face when I was
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  skating like watery eyes.
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  Yeah.
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  Yeah.
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  yeah I we didn't we just
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  didn't have hockey where I
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  grew up I if we would have
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  I think that would have
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  been maybe my number one
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  sport I just I loved being
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  on the ice it's fun um see
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  I've had I've had a crazy
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  weekend my my wife had her
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  surgery on monday still is
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  not able to get up
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  get up on her own out of a
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  chair or anything like that
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  so I'm having to lift her
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  um whenever she needs to go
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  to the bathroom or uh get
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  dressed anything like that
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  um man it it is it is
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  taking it out a lot of work
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  yeah last night I got
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  called three times in the
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  middle of the night to come
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  get her to go to the
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  bathroom and just trying to
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  get sleep is really tough
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  we have a bed in the middle
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  of our living room which is
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  very unusual and it it
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  takes away a lot of space
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  to kind of like do things
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  and we are together twenty
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  four seven now because
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  she's right there all the
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  time uh but we're making it
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  through and she's getting
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  stronger like I can tell
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  the last couple days I
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  don't have to lift as hard
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  to get her up so I think
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  tomorrow will be one week
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  Is it her strong knee or her weaker knee?
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  Because she has both of them
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  that she would need to do, right?
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  Correct.
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  So just getting up because
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  she's got to go on to one leg,
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  almost like a pistol, I guess,
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  coming out from sitting down.
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  Yeah,
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  so she has her surgically repaired
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  knee and she has her weak knee.
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  So neither of them are good.
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  And what the PT people have
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  been telling her, like,
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  she has to start trusting
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  the surgically repaired
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  knee because it is strong.
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  It is stronger than what she had before.
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  It's just pain tolerance as
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  that's healing.
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  But we have her on this
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  machine that bends her leg
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  three times a day for an hour each.
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  And she's up to like seventy percent angle,
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  seventy degree angle on the bend.
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  So she's doing really well there.
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  And yeah, we're on the way to recovery.
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  Hopefully we get we can get
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  her back upstairs where she can shower,
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  where she can sleep in her
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  own bed within the week.
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  That's what that's what the
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  goal is this coming week.
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  that's a good goal just a
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  little bit more every day
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  yeah um d reed says what
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  province are you from
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  carolyn the great province
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  of ontario that's a big one
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  yeah I used to we used to
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  go up to toronto all the
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  time when I was a kid so
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  I'm from sarnia ontario
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  which is uh across the
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  border from port here on
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  michigan like ten minute
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  drive to port here on
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  michigan about an hour from
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  detroit that's where I grew up yeah
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  Well, that was beautiful.
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  And that's in Toronto, the skate.
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  Technically, it's a city called Etobicoke.
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  That's where I live.
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  I'm on the border of Etobicoke and Toronto,
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  but it's southwest of Toronto.
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  By late go birds.
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  Yeah,
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  I'll go birds this week because I
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  hate the Packers.
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  But we'll see next week.
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  I've converted into a Bills
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  fan for the playoffs.
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  It used to be that Toronto
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  was pretty much like home for Bills fans.
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  It is.
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  That makes sense.
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  And they played well today.
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  Oh, yeah.
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  Real well.
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  Their next game is going to be tough,
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  though.
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  Yeah.
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  so I'm I'm going to skip
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  around on the rundown that
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  we have uh because we were
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  talking about this before
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  we went live you sent me a
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  link to a podcast I've I am
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  about a little over halfway
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  through it it's got to be
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  one of the most enjoyable
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  podcasts I have watched in
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  a long time because a lot
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  of times when I'm watching
• 10:28
  a podcast I'm I'm
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  information seeking um for
• 10:32
  this show or other shows but this was
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  justin madaris's channel
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  with dallin pepper and
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  jason hopper and the three
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  of them just sitting around
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  shooting the breeze and I
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  have been laughing so hard
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  they are making fun of each
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  other they're ripping on
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  each other they're telling
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  stories that are incredible um
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  The one highlight for me was
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  Jason Hopper always would
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  dive into people's DMs and talk smack.
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  He did it to Matt Fraser
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  before he knew him if he
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  would beat him in a workout,
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  like in the open.
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  He would send a DM to Matt.
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  Then when they met,
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  Matt opens up his DMs and
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  he sees all the stuff that
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  Jason had sent to him in the past.
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  And then the next...
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  The next thing he tells is
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  that when Luke Parker was on The Bachelor,
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  he was really into that season,
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  and he was blasting Luke in
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  the DMs the entire season.
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  Runs into Luke Parker at
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  Atlas Games during the
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  COVID year where Atlas gets canceled.
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  They're on the same flight back home,
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  and there's an empty seat next to Luke.
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  So Hopper has all these
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  questions for him about the season.
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  They sit down together on the plane.
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  He's answering all these questions.
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  Luke asked Hopper for his IG account.
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  Luke goes, Oh my gosh,
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  I have a message from you.
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  And it's all these things
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  blasting him for being a
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  douche on the bachelor.
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  And, and Jason's like,
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  I am so red and so embarrassed.
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  I had forgotten.
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  I had done all that.
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  I can't even imagine like
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  where you would come up
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  with just sending DMS to people,
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  blasting them.
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  on a reality.
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  I just, my mind doesn't work that way,
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  but it was a hilarious story.
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  And it just goes to prove you,
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  you can't hit unsend.
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  Like once you send that message,
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  it could come back and bite
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  you at any point in time.
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  Well,
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  back then they didn't have the unsend
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  button.
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  So it depends how long ago
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  those messages were, but
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  It's a good podcast,
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  and Justin does a good job
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  of leading the
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  conversations and asking
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  some fun questions.
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  Yeah, I really enjoyed it.
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  So if you haven't watched it,
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  hop on Justin's channel and
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  give that a listen.
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  Yeah,
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  and apparently it's going to be at
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  least a three-part series
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  where they're going to
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  rotate between the three
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  channels leading up to
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  Wadapalooza and one show after.
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  it would be cool if he
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  continued and got a few
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  other friends on and like
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  shoot the shit with them.
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  Just cause it's like,
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  it's a different type of
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  podcast than just someone
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  interviewing and asking them questions.
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  Like they're more just
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  sharing experiences and stories, which,
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  which I enjoyed.
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  Yeah, there was a,
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  There was a part of a behind
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  the scenes at West coast
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  classic last year that
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  Savan had done where it's
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  just a Jacob Heppner,
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  Brent Fikowski and Pat
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  Vellner just sitting in a
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  tent talking and nobody's
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  asking them questions.
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  He just recorded the three
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  of them talking to each other.
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  And I thought that was one
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  of the best things I had
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  seen in any of those shows ever, uh,
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  because it was unscripted.
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  It was just the three of
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  them talking to each other.
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  That's what you want to see
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  is those types of
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  conversations and just real
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  behind the scenes.
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  Uh,
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  Jay Burt says that was karma for hopper.
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  It sure was.
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  But I guess they're cool now
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  and friends and everything.
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  And I know I've talked to Luke.
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  He took a hit when he was on The Bachelor.
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  And the producers really
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  made him look bad.
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  But I never watch an episode,
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  so I don't really know anything about it.
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  But there's that.
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  So one thing I did not
• 14:53
  prepare is... I'm going to
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  look it up right now.
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  CrossFit this week announced
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  their CrossFit Athlete Council.
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  And it is split into three groups.
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  And there we go.
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  So I'll share my screen real
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  quick with that.
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  It's split into three groups.
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  The first one is individuals and coaches.
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  This is Olivia Grimsland, Spencer Pancheck,
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  Taylor Self, Colton Mertens, Ryan Dickey,
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  and Yasmin Arroyo.
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  I know three, and I might know Yasmin,
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  but I'm not sure.
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  I know Spencer, Taylor, and Colton,
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  and I might know Yasmin,
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  but I do not know the other two.
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  Do you, Carolyn?
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  Carolyn?
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  Yeah, I'm not familiar with those three.
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  I don't think so.
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  And then affiliate and team
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  is Andrew McLaughlin, Gio Benitez,
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  Matthew Young, Justin Reminter,
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  Mahmoud El Zayed, and Harry Jaeger.
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  I'm not familiar with any of them as well.
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  yeah me neither and then
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  finally we have divisional
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  uh with carly del demonico
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  rebecca voight-miller
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  nathan black jason grubb
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  tim murray and john kim uh
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  I know three of the three
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  of the six there as well so
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  I know I feel like I recognize four names
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  Tim Murray, Jason, Rebecca, Carly.
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  I don't know.
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  Carly.
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  And then personally don't
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  know much about John Kim and Nathan black,
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  but yeah, like you could have,
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  like basically you could
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  have given your name out, um,
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  for these divisions, as long as you had,
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  I think as long as you had
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  maybe an L one and you were
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  at an affiliate maybe, um,
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  you could give your name.
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  And then from there,
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  I remember I got an email asking to vote.
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  I didn't know half of the
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  people that had given their names.
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  Um, but you could vote from there.
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  So these are just what was, um,
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  voted by the community.
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  And I don't even know if
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  everyone received that
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  email for just people that
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  have their level ones and
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  up that would receive that email.
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  Um, not quite sure.
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  Lex is saying only four
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  women and no women on the
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  affiliate representation
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  side with a hand to the face.
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  And we talked about that in
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  our text for there being
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  eighteen people voted and
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  only four women.
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  When this is.
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  When CrossFit is very.
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  even male-female in the
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  sport and in the methodology.
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  You go to CrossFit gyms,
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  you see as many women as you see men.
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  You see as many women affiliate owners.
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  I thought that was a little surprising.
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  And even for the athlete side of things,
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  like some of the standards
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  that might be in place for
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  the woman in terms of
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  heights and things that you
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  may not think about as a
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  male athlete could be of
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  interest in terms of on
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  some of these teams.
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  So Sarah Cooper is asking,
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  do you know how many women applied?
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  I saw the list.
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  Did I have...
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  a time to go through it and
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  like study how many women applied.
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  It was a long,
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  long list of people who applied.
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  Um, so I think just like any voting thing,
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  name recognition, um,
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  get you a long way in this.
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  Um, but yeah.
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  And I wonder if like this
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  type of voting will happen
• 19:21
  every year or if these are
• 19:23
  the members for a certain
• 19:24
  amount of years.
• 19:28
  and what their engagement
• 19:30
  will be like with CrossFit,
• 19:33
  how often they'll meet and
• 19:34
  stuff like that.
• 19:34
  I'm curious to see what that
• 19:35
  follow-through will
• 19:36
  actually be like this year
• 19:38
  and if more people will
• 19:39
  present themselves the
• 19:40
  following years as they
• 19:41
  kind of know a little bit
• 19:42
  more about the position.
• 19:46
  Patrick Clark comes in with
• 19:48
  Nathan Black as a games judge as well.
• 19:51
  So that gives him a unique
• 19:53
  perspective as well.
• 20:00
  Yeah, I hope it works.
• 20:04
  I know the last time they
• 20:05
  had these together,
• 20:06
  they didn't really seek
• 20:07
  much counsel from them.
• 20:11
  But I'm hoping that that
• 20:12
  changes with this.
• 20:14
  And knowing a couple people on the list,
• 20:17
  I know they're either going
• 20:18
  to be vocal about not being
• 20:19
  included in decisions or
• 20:21
  talk to about decisions.
• 20:23
  Or there's a couple that I
• 20:24
  could personally reach out
• 20:25
  to pretty easily and find
• 20:27
  out how it's going.
• 20:31
  Yeah.
• 20:31
  So anxious to know how this goes.
• 20:35
  For sure.
• 20:38
  The only thing I'm going to
• 20:39
  say about the female piece
• 20:41
  is that a lot of times on
• 20:44
  the show we talk because we
• 20:45
  we do have a female perspective.
• 20:47
  You and Jamie compete at the
• 20:48
  highest levels in the
• 20:50
  female division of this
• 20:51
  sport and that sometimes
• 20:54
  the cap times or the weights aren't.
• 20:59
  as accurate in depicting the,
• 21:01
  what should happen as the men's,
• 21:03
  because I think they use
• 21:04
  more male testers than they
• 21:06
  do female testers.
• 21:09
  And, um, I think,
• 21:11
  I hope that doesn't become
• 21:13
  a trend because I,
• 21:15
  I hope that people are seeing this where,
• 21:19
  you know,
• 21:19
  we're seeing that of the thirty athletes,
• 21:23
  twenty-eight men finished it,
• 21:25
  but only five women.
• 21:27
  And so you're getting,
• 21:28
  you are not getting the
• 21:29
  same stimulus if the men
• 21:32
  are finishing it and the women aren't.
• 21:35
  It's just hard to find
• 21:36
  testers that are not currently competing.
• 21:39
  Right.
• 21:40
  Um,
• 21:40
  that that's a difficult part is you
• 21:43
  almost need to hire a small team of like,
• 21:46
  let's call it two male,
• 21:47
  two females that are not
• 21:48
  like not affiliated with training camps.
• 21:50
  And you almost pay them
• 21:52
  during the season to not
• 21:54
  compete and be your testers
• 21:55
  for different stages.
• 21:58
  But if you're a good programmer,
• 22:00
  you should know that.
• 22:02
  like roughly time caps and
• 22:03
  um if you're looking at
• 22:05
  things within the crossfit
• 22:07
  space like you should be
• 22:08
  able to make good calls on
• 22:11
  weights and stuff like that
• 22:13
  sometimes they'll get it
• 22:13
  wrong but for the most part
• 22:15
  if you're looking at things
• 22:18
  and seeing what's happening
• 22:19
  in the community you should
• 22:20
  be a good enough programmer
• 22:21
  to do that even without testers yeah um
• 22:29
  lex just let everybody know
• 22:31
  that she was on the dac
• 22:32
  before um and lynn was
• 22:35
  surprised yeah and lex will
• 22:39
  be open and honest and tell
• 22:40
  you that they didn't get to
• 22:41
  give a lot of input uh when
• 22:43
  she was there so um so we'll see
• 22:52
  So next up, I wanted to talk about,
• 22:55
  before we get into the rule book,
• 22:56
  which will take up most of the show,
• 22:59
  NorCal was added as an
• 23:00
  in-person qualifier very last minute.
• 23:05
  In fact,
• 23:06
  the online qualifier for it had
• 23:08
  already started when it was
• 23:10
  named another in-person semifinal.
• 23:13
  Now,
• 23:13
  they did extend the due date for
• 23:16
  submissions for that to give more time,
• 23:20
  but it...
• 23:22
  The impact of this is that
• 23:25
  there are now eighteen
• 23:26
  spots going to in person,
• 23:29
  in person qualifying events or semifinals,
• 23:33
  and there are only twelve
• 23:35
  from the online affiliate semifinal.
• 23:43
  So my question to you as an athlete,
• 23:46
  we're shrinking the it
• 23:47
  seems like we're shrinking
• 23:49
  the holes to get through
• 23:51
  the qualification process.
• 23:53
  from every angle,
• 23:55
  how do you feel as an
• 23:56
  athlete having a legit shot
• 23:59
  and making it to the games?
• 24:04
  Me individually would be
• 24:06
  through the online portion.
• 24:09
  Like I've always done
• 24:10
  extremely well online through the open.
• 24:12
  I've gone top five twice.
• 24:14
  I've won the Atlas games
• 24:16
  online a few years ago.
• 24:17
  Like I,
• 24:17
  I compete a lot online over the years.
• 24:19
  Like my route that I'm going
• 24:21
  to try to do is,
• 24:22
  through an online portion in
• 24:25
  person is going to be very
• 24:26
  difficult for top two.
• 24:28
  Like I,
• 24:29
  I don't see myself getting a top two,
• 24:31
  like that many of the events,
• 24:34
  especially if there's like, ten,
• 24:35
  fifteen athletes from all
• 24:37
  around the world at them.
• 24:38
  Like I'm just speaking for
• 24:39
  myself and where I am in my career.
• 24:43
  like fitness wise is I would
• 24:45
  try to do that.
• 24:46
  Um, but I don't like,
• 24:49
  it's completely different
• 24:50
  than during the sanctional year,
• 24:53
  because you had the open in
• 24:54
  October and you had all of
• 24:56
  these sanctional events, very spread out.
• 24:58
  And you had almost like many,
• 25:00
  many opportunities to do a lot of them.
• 25:03
  Now you have a season where
• 25:04
  you have the online a
• 25:06
  little bit towards the starter, like very,
• 25:09
  very close to a lot of the competitions.
• 25:12
  And yeah,
• 25:13
  It's basically going to come
• 25:14
  down to how much money you have.
• 25:16
  How much time do you have to
• 25:17
  travel to all these things?
• 25:19
  You can't do many of them.
• 25:21
  You really can't because you
• 25:21
  can't go to Africa one weekend.
• 25:23
  Then you go to Europe.
• 25:23
  Then you go to North America.
• 25:25
  You have the online semifinals.
• 25:26
  So you have to pick and
• 25:27
  choose maybe at tops three at most.
• 25:31
  And even that I think would be very,
• 25:33
  very difficult.
• 25:34
  And if you pick the wrong one,
• 25:35
  you're shit out of luck.
• 25:37
  There's going to be a lot of
• 25:38
  athletes that will not
• 25:39
  qualify that think that they will.
• 25:42
  Like a very, very good
• 25:44
  like games athletes because
• 25:46
  top twelve online is not a
• 25:49
  gimme for any athletes
• 25:50
  besides maybe three or four
• 25:53
  of them on each like male and females.
• 25:56
  The rest is all workout
• 25:57
  dependent of what it is online.
• 26:02
  So there are a lot of people
• 26:03
  are banking on the online format,
• 26:05
  but they might find
• 26:06
  themselves having to travel
• 26:07
  to these events and just
• 26:08
  run out of time because you
• 26:10
  have all these events going
• 26:11
  on within not even two
• 26:12
  months of each other.
• 26:14
  Pretty, pretty tight.
• 26:16
  You just can't go to all of them.
• 26:18
  So I think there's going to
• 26:20
  be a and then I don't know
• 26:21
  who's who's actually competing,
• 26:22
  who's not.
• 26:23
  That's another thing.
• 26:24
  But like that's out of the
• 26:25
  control right now.
• 26:28
  But just in terms of.
• 26:30
  qualification process I
• 26:31
  think it's a very difficult
• 26:33
  one um in terms of bubble
• 26:38
  athletes like myself for
• 26:39
  sure because like we're
• 26:42
  like yeah and it's very
• 26:44
  expensive like it's just
• 26:45
  like it's not worth it for
• 26:46
  me to travel to these
• 26:47
  places knowing that I'm
• 26:48
  most likely not getting top
• 26:49
  two like I have work to do
• 26:51
  I'm a teacher um like I'm
• 26:54
  not gonna go waste a
• 26:56
  thousand dollars or two grand to
• 27:00
  to compete at a bunch of them.
• 27:01
  And I think that's kind of the,
• 27:04
  the biggest, the biggest change for me is,
• 27:07
  and Lex kind of says it
• 27:08
  here and wasting money, having to travel.
• 27:10
  You have one bad workout.
• 27:11
  You're out.
• 27:12
  Yeah.
• 27:13
  True.
• 27:14
  What we had last year was two big events,
• 27:19
  twenty people between the
• 27:20
  two events got to go.
• 27:22
  You had to pay for one trip
• 27:23
  as an athlete to go qualify and
• 27:27
  You still had to put your
• 27:27
  best foot forward.
• 27:29
  You couldn't have a bad weekend,
• 27:31
  but at least you had a
• 27:33
  realistic shot with, with what was it?
• 27:36
  Twelve in the east and eight in the west.
• 27:40
  but you had the strength of
• 27:42
  field play a factor.
• 27:44
  Now the strength of field has no factor.
• 27:46
  You can go to a competition
• 27:48
  and the strength of field
• 27:49
  is significantly higher than another one.
• 27:51
  And you just happened to choose the wrong,
• 27:54
  the wrong one where everyone was at.
• 27:56
  And then let's say you finish,
• 27:58
  I don't know, top five at that one.
• 28:00
  It doesn't matter.
• 28:00
  You need top two.
• 28:01
  If you know,
• 28:03
  like as long as no one that's
• 28:04
  going there has qualified
• 28:06
  previously through another competition,
• 28:10
  um,
• 28:11
  Yeah.
• 28:11
  It's just,
• 28:12
  it doesn't take into account the
• 28:13
  strength of field.
• 28:14
  Then you have restrictions
• 28:15
  on some regions and not in others,
• 28:18
  which you have three,
• 28:20
  three events that have restrictions.
• 28:21
  The one in Asia, the one,
• 28:27
  then the East and the West one.
• 28:31
  It's Africa and then the East and West.
• 28:33
  Oh yeah.
• 28:34
  Africa.
• 28:35
  Yeah.
• 28:35
  Asia is open to the world.
• 28:37
  Okay.
• 28:37
  Yeah.
• 28:38
  Africa with the renegade games.
• 28:42
  Yeah, that's the one.
• 28:43
  Renegade Games and then two
• 28:45
  of the North America ones
• 28:46
  being restricted there.
• 28:48
  But then the NorCal one that they have,
• 28:50
  they added it right after
• 28:51
  the like the syndicate one.
• 28:52
  So like,
• 28:53
  let's say someone is right on the
• 28:54
  borderline of syndicate the
• 28:56
  following weekend.
• 28:57
  If you didn't get your spot there, like,
• 28:59
  are you just going to get
• 29:00
  an invite to like to NorCal?
• 29:02
  Are they going to accept
• 29:03
  like different people that
• 29:04
  are high level athletes that were,
• 29:06
  let's say,
• 29:07
  third or fourth place at
• 29:08
  syndicate and didn't qualify?
• 29:09
  And all of a sudden you have
• 29:10
  a field of fifty athletes.
• 29:12
  at already at NorCal and they're like,
• 29:14
  people are going to be
• 29:15
  looking and scrambling and
• 29:16
  they're going to be asking
• 29:17
  all these people for their
• 29:18
  free invites because
• 29:19
  they're this person and
• 29:21
  they have this accomplishment.
• 29:23
  And it'll be just
• 29:24
  interesting to see what the
• 29:25
  event organizers do as
• 29:26
  these athletes didn't plan
• 29:28
  to not qualify online.
• 29:30
  And all of a sudden are
• 29:30
  stuck and wanting to do all
• 29:33
  these competitions.
• 29:34
  And let's say they didn't do
• 29:34
  their qualifiers because
• 29:36
  they all qualified different ways.
• 29:41
  Um,
• 29:41
  so it's just going to be interesting
• 29:42
  because like I said,
• 29:43
  the sanctional season was
• 29:44
  spread out so much that you
• 29:46
  could pick multiple.
• 29:49
  And I just don't see people
• 29:51
  being able to do that many
• 29:52
  with them being so close together.
• 29:55
  And especially if people are
• 29:56
  banking on the online portion,
• 29:58
  then there's like,
• 29:59
  there's a few of them that
• 29:59
  are right before, like right before,
• 30:01
  right after,
• 30:02
  which means you don't really
• 30:03
  want to do those ones.
• 30:04
  If you're banking on the online.
• 30:07
  I have a, I have a followup to that,
• 30:08
  but I want to address a
• 30:09
  couple of things in the
• 30:10
  comments real quick.
• 30:11
  And that is, um,
• 30:14
  Patrick Clark says I had
• 30:15
  six athletes reach out to me,
• 30:17
  high level semis athletes
• 30:18
  to ask for help to find
• 30:19
  sponsors for this season.
• 30:23
  Lynn comes in with yes.
• 30:24
  And a lot more go fund me is
• 30:26
  this season for sure.
• 30:29
  Um,
• 30:30
  And then this one, Vi,
• 30:32
  is the Mayhem Classic only
• 30:33
  being for Mayhem athletes a
• 30:34
  real thing or did that turn
• 30:35
  out to be false?
• 30:37
  I made that up last week in
• 30:38
  my frustration and admitted
• 30:40
  it right afterwards that I
• 30:42
  was just making it up
• 30:43
  because these third-party
• 30:45
  competitions seem to be
• 30:47
  able to do whatever they want to do.
• 30:48
  So I was being facetious in that moment.
• 30:51
  If you've heard that elsewhere,
• 30:53
  sorry if I started something,
• 30:54
  but I was just trying to be
• 30:56
  over the top making a point with that.
• 31:00
  but like Patrick's right.
• 31:01
  Like sponsorship is going to
• 31:03
  help a lot of these athletes.
• 31:04
  Like I don't have people
• 31:05
  that's paying my trips to
• 31:06
  go to any of this.
• 31:07
  So it's like, it's a lot of pocket.
• 31:10
  So it really comes down to,
• 31:11
  it's a rich sport and it's
• 31:12
  who's living at home with, you know,
• 31:14
  their parents and can afford to,
• 31:16
  or their significant others
• 31:17
  supports that they can just
• 31:19
  go and travel as they do this full time.
• 31:21
  And.
• 31:24
  So I have a question for you
• 31:25
  because this was, this was kind of a,
• 31:31
  point I made at some point
• 31:32
  in one of my riffs but I
• 31:33
  wanted to ask you this
• 31:34
  question with the way that
• 31:37
  we have these multiple
• 31:38
  seasons now and you can add
• 31:41
  reps ahead in that you can
• 31:42
  have wfp you can have uh
• 31:44
  the crossfit game season
• 31:45
  then you have this
• 31:46
  off-season stuff that
• 31:47
  happens is it going to be
• 31:52
  on the athletes
• 31:53
  responsibility to change
• 31:55
  the way they train
• 31:57
  Like the days of going six
• 31:59
  hours a day and beating
• 32:00
  yourself into the ground to
• 32:02
  be ready for one
• 32:03
  competition three months from now,
• 32:06
  I think those days are gone now.
• 32:09
  You're going to have to be
• 32:10
  ready in some state more
• 32:14
  frequently through the year
• 32:15
  if you want to participate
• 32:18
  in all this stuff that's going on.
• 32:21
  Yeah.
• 32:21
  I think there's a lot of
• 32:22
  people in the space that
• 32:23
  over train though.
• 32:24
  Like there's so many people,
• 32:25
  like I've always just
• 32:27
  trained all year long and
• 32:28
  basically like I'm ready to
• 32:31
  go any competition anytime.
• 32:33
  Like I don't really have any
• 32:34
  huge peaks or huge times of
• 32:36
  the year that I'm feeling very,
• 32:39
  very unfit.
• 32:40
  Um,
• 32:42
  but the way that people have trained,
• 32:44
  like they've taken huge off seasons.
• 32:46
  And I mean, some, most of them are like,
• 32:48
  Oh, I'm not right.
• 32:49
  Like I'm not peaked for
• 32:50
  rogue because I'm coming off the games.
• 32:52
  I always think that's
• 32:53
  bullshit because like rogue
• 32:54
  has so much money on the line.
• 32:55
  And I just think people say
• 32:56
  that they're not ready, but like,
• 32:57
  they're still training for
• 32:58
  all of these comps.
• 32:59
  So I don't know.
• 33:00
  I just think there's a lot
• 33:01
  of people that over-train they,
• 33:03
  the season still is, you know,
• 33:05
  for the majority of the part,
• 33:08
  you need to be ready in that,
• 33:10
  may june area like the open
• 33:13
  for most is the one percent
• 33:15
  is still pretty you know
• 33:17
  quote easy for the top
• 33:20
  athletes in the sport so
• 33:22
  really you're thinking
• 33:22
  about the semis and like
• 33:25
  in that end of April, May, early June.
• 33:30
  So unless you're, you know, Jeff Tia,
• 33:33
  those athletes that doesn't
• 33:35
  matter for the programming,
• 33:36
  like most people are
• 33:37
  looking to peak at that
• 33:38
  point so that they can make
• 33:41
  their way to the,
• 33:42
  like even just qualify for these,
• 33:44
  you know, main events like the games.
• 33:46
  Cause yeah,
• 33:47
  The field is just too deep
• 33:49
  that to just show up there
• 33:50
  and hope for the best.
• 33:53
  And then most of the time,
• 33:54
  the main event's been in, you know,
• 33:56
  in August.
• 33:57
  So you still can take an off season,
• 33:59
  like right after that a little bit.
• 34:01
  Or I would say most of the
• 34:03
  off season for most people
• 34:05
  should probably be around that November,
• 34:08
  December, early January.
• 34:09
  Yeah.
• 34:10
  unless you're part of the
• 34:11
  WFP and that's where their
• 34:13
  championship is.
• 34:13
  So that's what I'm saying right out.
• 34:14
  Okay.
• 34:15
  So right after that December time,
• 34:17
  but you just have to choose, like,
• 34:18
  are you doing a water Palooza in January?
• 34:20
  Are you going to like,
• 34:21
  cause that one technically
• 34:22
  is not involved within any
• 34:25
  of the spaces right now.
• 34:26
  So you just have to choose what,
• 34:28
  what do you value where you
• 34:30
  can compete in and stuff.
• 34:33
  It's,
• 34:35
  I always hear people say we
• 34:36
  want to professionalize the sport.
• 34:37
  We want to professionalize the sport.
• 34:39
  And then when people start
• 34:40
  to professionalize the sport or try to,
• 34:43
  we all go to this.
• 34:45
  Well,
• 34:46
  I can't peak for this or I can't peak
• 34:48
  for that.
• 34:48
  Well,
• 34:48
  if you want to professionalize the sport,
• 34:50
  most professional sports go
• 34:53
  weekly or biweekly for a
• 34:56
  period of time during the year.
• 34:58
  And then you get an off season.
• 35:01
  Like your hockey season,
• 35:03
  you played multiple games a week, right?
• 35:07
  And then you did get an off-season.
• 35:10
  But the off-season, yeah,
• 35:12
  you're training more in the off-season.
• 35:14
  Like during the year,
• 35:15
  you mostly just maintained
• 35:16
  and you weren't training as much.
• 35:18
  Our sport's kind of
• 35:19
  different because our sport
• 35:20
  is working out,
• 35:23
  which is different than
• 35:24
  like skill-based sports.
• 35:26
  Because you can take an
• 35:27
  off-season away from the
• 35:28
  sport while still training.
• 35:31
  if that makes sense.
• 35:32
  Like,
• 35:32
  and like most of the time you're off
• 35:33
  season is when you're
• 35:34
  working super hard and just
• 35:36
  kind of building your base
• 35:38
  and building your strengths
• 35:38
  so that you can maintain it
• 35:40
  within your sport.
• 35:41
  Um, it's hard, it's hard to know, but like,
• 35:46
  I think, I think for the most part,
• 35:49
  like if you just stay at a
• 35:51
  volume and you listen to
• 35:52
  your body and you stay injury free,
• 35:55
  like you should be able to
• 35:58
  throw down almost whenever
• 35:59
  you want like not
• 36:00
  necessarily like do
• 36:01
  competitions every weekend
• 36:02
  because I think that's very
• 36:04
  very hard on the central
• 36:06
  nervous system but if you
• 36:07
  went like once every month
• 36:10
  or two I don't think that
• 36:10
  would kill people it's just
• 36:13
  money wise it's just so
• 36:14
  expensive and it's not
• 36:16
  worth it there just aren't
• 36:19
  any sponsors out there right now
• 36:24
  Uh,
• 36:24
  and CrossFit says a time to sell feet
• 36:26
  picks for him.
• 36:27
  So yeah, you got to find a way, I guess.
• 36:32
  Uh, Judy Reed,
• 36:33
  it's a positive that there
• 36:34
  are more opportunities now
• 36:35
  for athletes to compete and make money.
• 36:37
  I agree.
• 36:38
  And I,
• 36:38
  I don't think it's bad that we
• 36:40
  changed the way it's trained.
• 36:42
  I do think there's so much
• 36:44
  overtraining that maybe
• 36:45
  this is a way to get a
• 36:52
  that didn't come out right.
• 36:53
  But I know what you mean though.
• 36:55
  I mean, it makes sense.
• 36:56
  And there are a lot of
• 36:57
  opportunities for people to, you know,
• 37:00
  compete and, and get,
• 37:02
  get a name for themselves.
• 37:03
  And, you know, you,
• 37:06
  you pick and choose maybe
• 37:07
  like three or four main,
• 37:09
  main thing during main
• 37:11
  competitions during the year.
• 37:13
  Like you can, you can easily do that.
• 37:16
  Well,
• 37:16
  all these athletes that have signed
• 37:17
  up for the world fitness
• 37:18
  project are doing three comps for sure.
• 37:23
  most of them,
• 37:24
  if you're listening to them
• 37:25
  on different podcasts are
• 37:26
  doing the game season,
• 37:28
  that means they're doing
• 37:29
  some form of a semifinal
• 37:31
  and the games and those three, you know,
• 37:35
  nobody's turning down a
• 37:36
  free trip to rogue.
• 37:37
  No.
• 37:39
  And then you've got water pollute.
• 37:40
  Like,
• 37:41
  so it's starting to pile up and
• 37:44
  you're just going to have,
• 37:45
  Dallin said this on beyond
• 37:47
  the whiteboard or around the whiteboard.
• 37:50
  You have to train smarter if
• 37:53
  you're going to take on
• 37:54
  this volume of competitions.
• 37:56
  I agree.
• 37:56
  You have to train smarter.
• 37:57
  You have to listen to your body.
• 38:01
  People just over-train.
• 38:13
  Patrick says,
• 38:14
  the new formats with WFP and
• 38:15
  games benefit the Europeans
• 38:17
  who do compete a lot.
• 38:20
  probably because they've
• 38:20
  been training the right way
• 38:21
  for that style.
• 38:31
  And Larry,
• 38:32
  even though I'm an advocate for
• 38:33
  athletes being always ready,
• 38:34
  it still costs money for not many spots.
• 38:38
  It does.
• 38:40
  That's why a lot of athletes
• 38:43
  need to have a part-time or
• 38:44
  a full-time job because now
• 38:48
  this WFP has some guaranteed money,
• 38:51
  but it's not that much that
• 38:53
  you have a yearly income
• 38:55
  from that unless you have
• 38:56
  additional sponsorships.
• 38:58
  You have a lot of athletes
• 38:59
  that are going all in for a few years.
• 39:04
  You need more money than...
• 39:07
  than what even is out there.
• 39:09
  Because it's not that much.
• 39:11
  Like, besides the top few,
• 39:13
  you're not making much in CrossFit.
• 39:15
  Like,
• 39:15
  you have to find the right
• 39:16
  competitions that are worth
• 39:18
  paying where you can get money back.
• 39:22
  I think what the WFP has
• 39:23
  done is made it to pay for your travel.
• 39:26
  Essentially.
• 39:27
  Yeah.
• 39:27
  So you can at least go to
• 39:28
  these events and have that compensated.
• 39:31
  And then if you do well,
• 39:32
  you can make more.
• 39:35
  But...
• 39:36
  We'll see.
• 39:39
  And we have WFP later on the rundown,
• 39:41
  so we'll get to that in a second.
• 39:50
  Sarah,
• 39:50
  we're going to get to the Frog Grip
• 39:51
  stuff in a second.
• 39:55
  I assure you,
• 39:56
  it's in the rulebook stuff we have,
• 39:58
  which we're starting now.
• 40:01
  So,
• 40:01
  the CrossFit Games rulebook came out
• 40:04
  this week.
• 40:05
  These are my takeaways.
• 40:08
  If Carolyn has other ones
• 40:09
  she wants to throw in, it's all fine.
• 40:12
  Some of these are very obvious details,
• 40:15
  but I just wanted them out there.
• 40:17
  The first one is the Open is
• 40:18
  still twenty bucks.
• 40:20
  They did not raise the
• 40:21
  registration for the Open.
• 40:23
  It's still twenty dollars.
• 40:24
  I think that's good.
• 40:26
  the top one percent from the
• 40:28
  open go to semifinal go to
• 40:31
  semifinals uh age group top
• 40:34
  two percent or two hundred
• 40:36
  whichever is greater there
• 40:39
  are no regions and then I
• 40:41
  did put in parentheses
• 40:43
  unless an in-person
• 40:46
  semifinal wants to use the
• 40:47
  region which three of them
• 40:49
  already have invoked
• 40:53
  For the one percent,
• 40:54
  does it say whether it's
• 40:56
  one percent of people doing
• 40:59
  it's one percent of like
• 41:00
  the people doing the elite, right?
• 41:01
  You don't count any of the
• 41:02
  masters that don't have the same workouts,
• 41:04
  right?
• 41:04
  Do you know what I mean?
• 41:08
  So I would say it's
• 41:09
  everybody doing the same
• 41:10
  workout because when you
• 41:12
  sign up for the open,
• 41:13
  it's in your division.
• 41:14
  If you are fifty four or younger,
• 41:16
  you're doing the same workout R.X.,
• 41:19
  And so you would all be put
• 41:21
  into an elite leaderboard.
• 41:23
  Now they may be also split
• 41:25
  off into another
• 41:25
  leaderboard for another competition,
• 41:28
  but that counts as part of
• 41:29
  your overall number.
• 41:30
  Cool.
• 41:33
  Um, they've added a seven plus division.
• 41:37
  Uh,
• 41:38
  we affectionately like to call that the
• 41:39
  land of our scene rule here on our show.
• 41:43
  Uh,
• 41:43
  she has been advocating that for the
• 41:44
  last two years.
• 41:46
  Uh, she got it as a, um,
• 41:52
  a tryout last year at the games.
• 41:55
  They did not consider them champions,
• 41:58
  but they did let them participate.
• 42:00
  Now, this year,
• 42:01
  they get the full kit and caboodle.
• 42:09
  There are no judging
• 42:10
  qualifications needed for open videos,
• 42:14
  which kind of blew my mind because...
• 42:18
  None for the open,
• 42:18
  but when you get to the semis,
• 42:20
  it's ridiculous.
• 42:23
  What all you need?
• 42:29
  Larry's saying, Carolyn, cardio up,
• 42:32
  deadlift for the lift could
• 42:35
  be your moneymaker.
• 42:36
  Yes, we have some kind of lift this year.
• 42:41
  I like don't even deadlift ever.
• 42:45
  I rarely do it.
• 42:50
  open videos and must be made public.
• 42:53
  And they,
• 42:54
  you must own all the content on
• 42:56
  the videos.
• 42:57
  And I think this is a big one.
• 42:59
  So that means you cannot
• 43:00
  play music that you do not own.
• 43:05
  When they say like public,
• 43:06
  does that mean like,
• 43:07
  I can't put it on unlisted,
• 43:10
  but then put my link and it
• 43:11
  appears publicly.
• 43:13
  Like if you know, like last year,
• 43:15
  for instance, um,
• 43:18
  like you still have it on,
• 43:19
  like you can do,
• 43:20
  like you insert the link unlisted,
• 43:22
  but because you're entering
• 43:23
  it in the page,
• 43:27
  like it's your video still
• 43:28
  pops up because the link is there,
• 43:30
  but it's not like public on your YouTube.
• 43:32
  Does that make sense?
• 43:32
  What I'm asking?
• 43:34
  It makes sense,
• 43:34
  but the verbiage in the
• 43:36
  rulebook says must be made public.
• 43:39
  And public is a status.
• 43:41
  Unlisted is a status.
• 43:43
  Private is a status.
• 43:45
  Because the leaderboard is
• 43:46
  going to be locked.
• 43:47
  The reason I'm asking is
• 43:47
  because the leaderboard
• 43:48
  will be locked and you won't know scores,
• 43:50
  but if you have to put it
• 43:51
  public on YouTube,
• 43:53
  you're going to start
• 43:53
  seeing a lot of scores on
• 43:54
  YouTube being uploaded
• 43:56
  earlier on unless people
• 43:58
  just will change it after
• 43:59
  they've submitted and put it public.
• 44:02
  That's another way to...
• 44:05
  think about that I guess I
• 44:08
  think it just it has to be
• 44:11
  I mean I wouldn't risk it
• 44:13
  I'd I'd ask I wouldn't I
• 44:15
  don't want to risk it but
• 44:16
  at the same point like at
• 44:17
  the same time I feel like
• 44:18
  the scores are going to be
• 44:19
  so secretive that you don't
• 44:21
  want to have it just
• 44:22
  hanging around on your
• 44:23
  youtube publicly before the
• 44:25
  deadline if you're a top
• 44:29
  athlete yeah unless you don't
• 44:33
  I mean,
• 44:33
  you could switch it over to public at,
• 44:35
  if you want to risk it,
• 44:36
  like five minutes before.
• 44:38
  Yeah.
• 44:43
  Or Sarah says,
• 44:44
  I'm pretty sure you can publish,
• 44:46
  schedule a time to publish it.
• 44:49
  Cool.
• 44:50
  Yeah, I don't know all that.
• 44:50
  She is right.
• 44:51
  You can't do that.
• 44:54
  But I think the music thing
• 44:55
  is going to be big.
• 44:56
  Because you can actually get
• 44:58
  a zero score if they can't
• 45:01
  hear anything because of the music.
• 45:03
  Because if you get a strike from YouTube,
• 45:05
  they will remove all sound.
• 45:07
  And that means you can't
• 45:08
  hear the introduction,
• 45:09
  you can't hear any of the stuff,
• 45:12
  and you would get a zero.
• 45:13
  yeah,
• 45:13
  there's a lot of responsibility as an
• 45:15
  athlete when you're
• 45:16
  submitting your video to
• 45:17
  make sure that it's viewable in, you know,
• 45:21
  in the regions around the world.
• 45:22
  And, um,
• 45:24
  like it can be played before you
• 45:26
  submit it because we've
• 45:27
  seen that before where
• 45:28
  people sent links and they
• 45:30
  weren't the right ones and
• 45:31
  their season ended.
• 45:33
  Yeah.
• 45:36
  Uh,
• 45:36
  new scoring is the video is either good
• 45:38
  video valid with penalty or
• 45:42
  Zero score or invalid.
• 45:45
  And the difference between
• 45:46
  zero score and invalid is
• 45:48
  if you get a zero score,
• 45:50
  all your other scores
• 45:51
  remain on the leaderboard.
• 45:53
  If you get an invalid,
• 45:54
  all of your scores are
• 45:55
  removed from the leaderboard.
• 45:57
  So you wouldn't get a level
• 45:58
  for your next competition,
• 46:01
  which is the Community Cup, for instance,
• 46:03
  because for the Community Cup,
• 46:04
  you need all three scores.
• 46:05
  Correct.
• 46:06
  Correct.
• 46:12
  Appeals will be handled a
• 46:14
  different way this year.
• 46:15
  You'll actually get a link
• 46:16
  in the email with them
• 46:18
  questioning or telling you
• 46:20
  you've been penalized.
• 46:22
  You have to click on that
• 46:23
  link now to appeal.
• 46:28
  Semifinals,
• 46:30
  individual and age group must
• 46:33
  complete workouts at an
• 46:34
  affiliate if you're doing the online one.
• 46:39
  The leaderboard will be
• 46:40
  blind until the conclusion
• 46:41
  of the competition.
• 46:44
  I do like that.
• 46:47
  All athletes who qualify for
• 46:48
  the CrossFit Games will
• 46:49
  have to follow drug testing
• 46:51
  instructions provided by CrossFit.
• 46:54
  If they do not, they will be disqualified.
• 46:57
  So there is still drug
• 46:58
  testing even for the online semifinal.
• 47:02
  They're essentially,
• 47:03
  once the online semifinal
• 47:04
  is going to be over,
• 47:04
  the athletes that have
• 47:05
  qualified need to pass some
• 47:07
  sort of drug test before
• 47:08
  going to the actual games.
• 47:09
  That's going to be it.
• 47:11
  Well, it's a joke.
• 47:14
  CrossFit's going to give you
• 47:15
  instructions on how to
• 47:16
  submit your sample.
• 47:18
  Yeah.
• 47:18
  Or they're going to come and collect it.
• 47:19
  Just give your information
• 47:21
  and someone's going to,
• 47:22
  and then you have to give
• 47:27
  them a time when you're
• 47:28
  ready for the drug test.
• 47:29
  Yeah.
• 47:30
  Great.
• 47:33
  Uh,
• 47:33
  D Reed is the reason for public to get
• 47:36
  more eyes on the videos and
• 47:37
  adhere to standards.
• 47:38
  Yeah.
• 47:38
  They're actually in the rule book,
• 47:40
  encouraging judges to judge
• 47:42
  the videos that are public.
• 47:44
  And if the video gets enough goods,
• 47:49
  it will move on as a good video.
• 47:52
  If there are an X number of
• 47:55
  with penalties or zeros or invalidated,
• 47:59
  then someone at CrossFit
• 48:01
  will then check that to
• 48:05
  make a final determination.
• 48:06
  Yeah.
• 48:07
  Sometimes when I see people
• 48:08
  judging the videos –
• 48:10
  Like they don't understand like good,
• 48:14
  good with modifications and invalid.
• 48:16
  Like so many times people
• 48:18
  hit invalid and they have
• 48:19
  no idea that it's not an
• 48:21
  invalid video if there's no reps.
• 48:23
  and people will be like, Oh, invalid.
• 48:25
  Like the only way it's
• 48:26
  invalid is if the video doesn't open,
• 48:29
  it's not the right workout.
• 48:31
  They come out of the screen.
• 48:32
  There's, there is modifications to the,
• 48:35
  like to the video,
• 48:36
  but when there's like no rep or like,
• 48:37
  it's not even the workout,
• 48:39
  but like when people have no reps,
• 48:40
  people will be like invalid, invalid.
• 48:42
  It's like that part always like, I'm like,
• 48:46
  did you guys take your judge's course?
• 48:49
  So back when they opened it
• 48:50
  before you had to sign in
• 48:53
  and prove that you were a,
• 48:55
  you were a qualified judge
• 48:56
  that you had taken the
• 48:57
  course and do all that kind of stuff.
• 49:00
  And then you went into a
• 49:02
  certain portal and it would
• 49:04
  just feed you videos.
• 49:05
  You didn't even get to pick.
• 49:08
  It would just send you this,
• 49:09
  like you'd get one from the Ukraine.
• 49:11
  You'd get one from Iceland.
• 49:14
  Like I never got any from someone I knew.
• 49:17
  That's how it should be
• 49:18
  because or else you just go
• 49:20
  judge your friend's video and you're like,
• 49:22
  good.
• 49:24
  Your competition's video modification.
• 49:28
  Now,
• 49:28
  does that mean that's what they're
• 49:29
  doing this time?
• 49:30
  I have no idea.
• 49:32
  But back in like.
• 49:34
  Fifteen, sixteen.
• 49:36
  Maybe seventeen when I was doing it,
• 49:39
  you went into a certain
• 49:40
  portal and they just fed you the video.
• 49:42
  You didn't get to pick who
• 49:42
  you were judging.
• 49:44
  They just came at you.
• 49:46
  But now it's just the
• 49:48
  semifinals that's like that, right?
• 49:49
  Not the open or the open.
• 49:51
  Are they public videos for a
• 49:53
  certain for the top one percent or no?
• 49:57
  Just the semis.
• 49:59
  What's that again?
• 50:00
  The open.
• 50:01
  Is there also like videos
• 50:03
  being public in the open or
• 50:04
  is it just semis?
• 50:06
  I believe it's both.
• 50:10
  I would love to see now.
• 50:12
  I know people will disagree
• 50:13
  with me where the open scores as,
• 50:17
  as well as the semifinal
• 50:18
  scores are all in one
• 50:21
  leaderboard of the athletes
• 50:23
  that I've done both in one leader.
• 50:26
  You,
• 50:26
  you erase everyone else that affects
• 50:28
  because now you have,
• 50:29
  let's say nine scores and
• 50:31
  Because like the open workouts,
• 50:34
  like let's say I beat three
• 50:36
  people or like a bunch of
• 50:37
  people there on those three workouts.
• 50:40
  Like those three workouts to
• 50:41
  me are like still valid enough.
• 50:43
  Like they're different style of workouts.
• 50:46
  Versus like, just like being like, oh,
• 50:47
  you've moved on to the next,
• 50:49
  but now you won't see
• 50:50
  burpees and thrusters and chest to bars.
• 50:52
  You're going to see something else.
• 50:54
  So let's say I get beat the
• 50:55
  next part on this other type of workout,
• 50:57
  but I still beat a bunch of
• 50:58
  people at this style of workouts.
• 50:59
  Like, why can't that still be relevant?
• 51:03
  Then you actually make the open count,
• 51:04
  especially if the videos are public,
• 51:06
  make it so it's nine workouts.
• 51:08
  Now you've got a bigger,
• 51:09
  now the open matters even more.
• 51:11
  Then there's a lot more
• 51:13
  workouts at play for,
• 51:15
  the qualification to go to the games.
• 51:17
  You have to be,
• 51:18
  it's like basically nine scores or like,
• 51:22
  like I would like that using logic again.
• 51:26
  I know people will disagree
• 51:27
  because they're like, oh,
• 51:27
  those workouts in the open don't matter.
• 51:29
  But you kick out everyone
• 51:30
  that has not made it
• 51:32
  through the one percent and
• 51:34
  only a leaderboard with
• 51:36
  open in the semifinals
• 51:38
  combined because they're different tests.
• 51:40
  And that's the one thing
• 51:41
  about CrossFit that I don't get is like,
• 51:42
  oh,
• 51:43
  you've you've dwindled out different
• 51:45
  athletes, but.
• 51:47
  those tests are still important.
• 51:48
  It's like, it's like doing a speed test,
• 51:51
  like a sprint test,
• 51:52
  let's say as a few months prior.
• 51:55
  And you're like, Oh,
• 51:56
  we won't test speed now
• 51:57
  because we've already tested it,
• 51:58
  but here are new events.
• 52:00
  But you were barely, you,
• 52:02
  you were shitty at, at speed,
• 52:04
  like at sprinting, but doesn't matter.
• 52:06
  Now you,
• 52:06
  you were just good enough that you
• 52:08
  moved on.
• 52:08
  Now we'll erase that.
• 52:09
  Like, I would like that to be added.
• 52:13
  A train to live.
• 52:13
  I think that's exactly what she's saying.
• 52:16
  Add the open scores to the
• 52:17
  semifinal scores.
• 52:21
  And the top twelve of all of
• 52:23
  those scores are going on.
• 52:26
  Because to me,
• 52:27
  that's way more complete test.
• 52:31
  Yeah.
• 52:31
  I think to do that,
• 52:32
  you would have to then put
• 52:34
  the semifinal judge rules
• 52:35
  on the open so that they
• 52:36
  are judged identically.
• 52:38
  But other than that,
• 52:39
  I think it's a great idea.
• 52:41
  Yeah,
• 52:42
  I just never understand why you just
• 52:44
  go back to zero at the next
• 52:46
  event and everything you've
• 52:48
  done prior doesn't matter.
• 52:51
  It makes no sense.
• 52:52
  I beat these people at this test.
• 52:53
  I am significantly better
• 52:55
  than you at this.
• 52:56
  I suck at this,
• 52:57
  but I beat you at all of these.
• 52:59
  But it doesn't matter
• 53:00
  because at this stage,
• 53:01
  I didn't do well at that workout,
• 53:02
  so I'm out.
• 53:03
  But I beat you, let's say,
• 53:04
  at eight of the nine workouts or...
• 53:07
  six out of the not like it's
• 53:09
  to me it just makes no
• 53:10
  sense in terms of that's
• 53:12
  overall fitness it's not
• 53:14
  just erasing everything and
• 53:15
  now you can't program bar
• 53:16
  muscle ups again because
• 53:17
  you've done it in the open
• 53:18
  so you got to do something
• 53:19
  else but it was still about
• 53:21
  that test was still valid
• 53:24
  train to live says he
• 53:25
  agrees with that point so I
• 53:27
  want to hit andrew here
• 53:28
  because he's our active
• 53:29
  judge uh videos are rarely
• 53:31
  ever invalidated even when
• 53:33
  there are times they should be
• 53:35
  And I know he has done
• 53:36
  online judging before for CrossFit,
• 53:39
  so he would know more than most of us.
• 53:42
  And in addition,
• 53:43
  the one thing with videos
• 53:45
  that blows my mind is the
• 53:46
  number of people who don't
• 53:48
  use an app like WeTime or
• 53:49
  Wadproof put your name and
• 53:51
  a clock on the video
• 53:52
  instead of relying on a gym clock.
• 53:55
  And it never goes out of
• 53:56
  sight because it stays in
• 53:58
  the corner the whole time.
• 54:00
  I like seeing the clock.
• 54:03
  Well, you can do both.
• 54:04
  Yeah, it's just hard timing it sometimes.
• 54:07
  Yeah,
• 54:07
  because I know at Jamie's when we
• 54:08
  were there for one of her
• 54:11
  quarters or semis,
• 54:13
  we started the clock right
• 54:14
  when her wee time started
• 54:15
  to make sure that she could
• 54:17
  always see it as something to go off of.
• 54:25
  And yeah,
• 54:25
  some of those apps aren't free too.
• 54:26
  Yeah,
• 54:28
  especially since all elements get
• 54:30
  tested at the games,
• 54:30
  it would give a more
• 54:31
  complete look at the athletes.
• 54:35
  Lynn is with you, Carolyn.
• 54:38
  I didn't think a lot of
• 54:38
  people would be agreeing with me there,
• 54:40
  but I just think it like, to me,
• 54:42
  it makes no sense that
• 54:43
  everything that you do past
• 54:45
  like prior make just gets erased.
• 54:47
  And it's like, Oh, new slate.
• 54:49
  Only this counts,
• 54:51
  especially if it's going to
• 54:52
  be all an online portion,
• 54:55
  like the semifinals and the
• 54:57
  open or online portion.
• 54:58
  So make that one test the
• 55:00
  in-person that's another thing.
• 55:04
  And the clock is readable
• 55:05
  instead of fifty feet away
• 55:06
  on a back wall.
• 55:07
  Yes.
• 55:11
  So we'll keep going through this.
• 55:16
  All video will be open for public review.
• 55:20
  We kind of beat that to death.
• 55:22
  Affiliates must appoint a
• 55:24
  head judge to oversee all
• 55:27
  the workouts at their affiliate.
• 55:30
  And that is a new
• 55:30
  requirement for the
• 55:33
  in-affiliate semifinal is
• 55:36
  every affiliate must have a
• 55:38
  head judge that oversees all of them,
• 55:41
  and they must introduce
• 55:42
  themselves in every video.
• 55:45
  Does it have to be the same one?
• 55:48
  Getting timing-wise,
• 55:49
  like scheduling of two
• 55:51
  people now is so annoying.
• 55:53
  as long as they meet these
• 55:54
  requirements because these
• 55:55
  are the requirements for
• 55:56
  the head judge must hold an
• 55:58
  active l-one must have
• 55:59
  completed the twenty-five
• 56:01
  judges course must have
• 56:02
  completed the advanced
• 56:03
  judges course and must be
• 56:05
  on site to intro each video
• 56:08
  uh during each workout of
• 56:09
  the competition I think you
• 56:10
  could have multiple um but
• 56:13
  you have to meet all those requirements
• 56:17
  I don't love that part.
• 56:18
  I think it's very difficult
• 56:19
  to find like two people all
• 56:21
  like every time that you
• 56:23
  want to do the workout that
• 56:27
  are available with those
• 56:28
  qualifications for a quick
• 56:29
  weekend of doing, let's say,
• 56:31
  let's call it five workouts,
• 56:32
  six workouts.
• 56:34
  Like it's just tough to get
• 56:35
  those people to come back.
• 56:36
  Like, yeah, I think for smaller affiliates,
• 56:41
  this is very difficult.
• 56:43
  you're, you're bigger,
• 56:44
  like CrossFit players.
• 56:46
  We have lots of people that
• 56:47
  meet those criteria every year.
• 56:51
  Same with my gym.
• 56:51
  I would say that most of them will do.
• 56:54
  We have a bunch of them that
• 56:54
  will have their level one
• 56:56
  and level twos because we
• 56:57
  host level ones and twos
• 56:59
  and we'll get a lot of
• 57:00
  people that do the judges course,
• 57:01
  but still scheduling.
• 57:04
  And I just think about other
• 57:05
  people that have,
• 57:05
  we'll have trouble
• 57:07
  scheduling to people that
• 57:08
  have all those qualifications,
• 57:09
  like the head judge and
• 57:12
  The judge or the two people,
• 57:13
  whatever it is.
• 57:15
  They are responsible for
• 57:16
  spot checking judges as
• 57:17
  they judge athletes.
• 57:19
  Ensure video setups and
• 57:21
  floor requirements are met.
• 57:23
  Prior to the competition starting,
• 57:24
  CrossFit Games staff will
• 57:25
  hold an online workout briefing.
• 57:28
  It is recommended all judges
• 57:30
  view the online workout brief.
• 57:33
  That's new, too.
• 57:34
  And I actually think that's a good thing.
• 57:40
  I mean, yeah,
• 57:40
  you should judge the one
• 57:42
  judging each individual athlete.
• 57:44
  Their requirements are they
• 57:45
  must have completed.
• 57:48
  They they must have have a
• 57:50
  current L one or higher
• 57:52
  must complete the twenty
• 57:53
  five judges course must
• 57:55
  complete the advanced judges course.
• 57:58
  And then teams may require
• 58:01
  multiple or two floor
• 58:03
  judges for an event.
• 58:05
  Definitely for a synchro work,
• 58:06
  like it's going to make,
• 58:08
  they're going to have two people,
• 58:10
  but I still think that's difficult.
• 58:14
  Yeah.
• 58:15
  Some of it's a money grab to
• 58:16
  get more people to do their, um,
• 58:20
  their L ones, their L twos, their quality,
• 58:22
  their judges course, all of that.
• 58:24
  I mean, I get it.
• 58:25
  It's a business.
• 58:26
  Andrew says,
• 58:27
  I think it's mostly for the
• 58:28
  training camps that do
• 58:29
  large in-person events,
• 58:31
  but it hurts the regular affiliates.
• 58:38
  Patrick Clark,
• 58:39
  I love how they expect all
• 58:40
  these head judges to do
• 58:41
  something that took Chuck Boz, et cetera,
• 58:44
  years to perfect.
• 58:45
  I do not disagree.
• 58:47
  I'm going to be honest.
• 58:48
  If I have another judge
• 58:49
  that's just in the
• 58:50
  background making sure that
• 58:51
  the judges is – they're not –
• 58:56
  they're not Chuck and Boz
• 58:58
  and people like that.
• 58:59
  Like they're just going to
• 59:00
  be there introducing themselves.
• 59:02
  And then most of the,
• 59:03
  most of the people that are
• 59:04
  going to grab these judges
• 59:05
  are just going to have
• 59:06
  someone that has their
• 59:07
  level one or whatever introduced.
• 59:08
  And then they're going to be
• 59:09
  off camera and just the one judge.
• 59:12
  Uh, trained to live.
• 59:13
  I get why they're pushing
• 59:14
  the judges to have an L one,
• 59:16
  but I think if the athlete
• 59:17
  is comfortable having a
• 59:18
  judge that has taken both courses,
• 59:19
  that should be acceptable.
• 59:21
  I don't know how the L one
• 59:23
  even plays a mat.
• 59:23
  Like the L one is talking
• 59:25
  about technical movements
• 59:27
  and how to perform the nine
• 59:28
  foundational movements and
• 59:29
  nutrition stuff.
• 59:30
  It has nothing to do with
• 59:33
  the judges stuff.
• 59:34
  Like, yeah, I guess points of performance,
• 59:35
  but, but the, that you wouldn't,
• 59:38
  that you wouldn't get in
• 59:39
  the judges course and the
• 59:40
  advanced judges course.
• 59:41
  This is the biggest, when I became a judge,
• 59:44
  this was the hardest thing for me.
• 59:46
  The L one teaches you how to move well.
• 59:49
  Yeah.
• 59:49
  In competition,
• 59:50
  nobody cares if you move well.
• 59:52
  Exactly.
• 59:53
  Did you meet the standards
• 59:54
  of that movement?
• 59:58
  And so you almost have to
• 59:59
  deprogram the L-one to then
• 1:00:02
  become a judge because it
• 1:00:04
  doesn't matter how ugly it is.
• 1:00:06
  If they get their chest to
• 1:00:10
  the floor on a burpee and
• 1:00:12
  they come up and their hips are extended,
• 1:00:14
  it's a clean burpee.
• 1:00:16
  whether they looked horrible
• 1:00:17
  in between all that or not.
• 1:00:19
  That's why I don't get, like,
• 1:00:20
  I don't understand the L one in terms of,
• 1:00:23
  yeah, the L one of course is like,
• 1:00:25
  what is CrossFit and what
• 1:00:27
  are the down like nine foundational,
• 1:00:29
  like the L two is more how to coach it.
• 1:00:31
  And yeah, like the points of performance,
• 1:00:33
  but it doesn't necessarily matter.
• 1:00:35
  Just there's more money for, um,
• 1:00:39
  I do love the courses like
• 1:00:41
  I've I have my old two and
• 1:00:42
  I like I I learn so much at
• 1:00:44
  both of them and if they're
• 1:00:46
  great courses I just don't
• 1:00:47
  know how that makes people
• 1:00:48
  better judges I agree I
• 1:00:51
  love the courses I have
• 1:00:53
  taken my l-one twice uh but
• 1:00:59
  in all honesty I don't
• 1:01:00
  think the l-one does
• 1:01:00
  anything to make you a
• 1:01:01
  better in-person judge
• 1:01:05
  Especially if they have an
• 1:01:07
  online judges course that's
• 1:01:08
  more advanced now and
• 1:01:09
  hopefully has more of those
• 1:01:11
  athletes that are actually
• 1:01:12
  riding the line,
• 1:01:14
  which is what we do as elite athletes.
• 1:01:16
  We're just on the right side, hopefully,
• 1:01:18
  of the line because we're
• 1:01:19
  racing versus the very
• 1:01:21
  obvious judges course
• 1:01:23
  that's just like you know
• 1:01:24
  exactly what the no rep is.
• 1:01:27
  That's not what we see with
• 1:01:28
  the top athletes.
• 1:01:29
  It's way more gray than that.
• 1:01:32
  That's more valuable than an L-one.
• 1:01:35
  Experience doing live
• 1:01:36
  judging is more valuable in my opinion.
• 1:01:38
  For sure.
• 1:01:39
  And the L one and the speed
• 1:01:40
  at which you athletes move
• 1:01:42
  is so different than what
• 1:01:43
  you see it in L one or in the affiliate.
• 1:01:46
  Which is why the advanced
• 1:01:47
  judges course is a phenomenal idea.
• 1:01:49
  Love that.
• 1:01:50
  Love that they've added
• 1:01:51
  something like that.
• 1:01:52
  Cause I don't think that the
• 1:01:53
  regular judges course is
• 1:01:54
  enough for those fast moving athletes.
• 1:01:58
  And just because he said, I'm right.
• 1:02:00
  You judge to the standards
• 1:02:02
  set by the competition.
• 1:02:06
  Trying to live.
• 1:02:07
  It sucks.
• 1:02:07
  I've worked in fitness for
• 1:02:08
  over twelve years and I've
• 1:02:10
  always taken the judges
• 1:02:11
  course and now I can't judge this year.
• 1:02:15
  You can judge in the open.
• 1:02:17
  You just can't judge semis.
• 1:02:22
  All right.
• 1:02:26
  So that is the judging requirements.
• 1:02:30
  Games qualifying spots.
• 1:02:32
  Individual will get thirty
• 1:02:34
  men and thirty women.
• 1:02:37
  Masters,
• 1:02:38
  thirty five to thirty nine through
• 1:02:41
  fifty five to fifty nine
• 1:02:42
  will get thirty men and thirty women.
• 1:02:45
  Sixty to sixty nine will get
• 1:02:47
  twenty and twenty and
• 1:02:48
  seventy plus will get ten and ten.
• 1:02:52
  I'm glad they brought that
• 1:02:53
  down a little bit from last year.
• 1:02:55
  I'm being at the Masters games.
• 1:02:58
  That was a little tough.
• 1:03:00
  Teenage divisions,
• 1:03:01
  thirty and thirty and teams top twenty.
• 1:03:07
  And excuse me while I blow
• 1:03:09
  my nose for a second.
• 1:03:14
  Yeah,
• 1:03:14
  I think those are pretty good numbers.
• 1:03:16
  I still think some of the
• 1:03:19
  teenage and masters could
• 1:03:20
  maybe even go to twenty on
• 1:03:22
  some of the divisions, but.
• 1:03:26
  Pretty good.
• 1:03:34
  All right, I'm back.
• 1:03:38
  Um,
• 1:03:40
  backfills for drug suspension will only
• 1:03:44
  go three athletes outside
• 1:03:48
  the qualification position.
• 1:03:53
  If an athlete does not decline or invite,
• 1:03:55
  there's no backfill.
• 1:04:00
  And then we go to grips and
• 1:04:06
  I have an Instagram video.
• 1:04:09
  Somewhere here.
• 1:04:11
  From victory grips.
• 1:04:21
  Okay, there's Scott.
• 1:04:30
  I think the grip the grip
• 1:04:32
  one is to be determined on
• 1:04:34
  what they'll do with that.
• 1:04:35
  But
• 1:04:37
  I mean,
• 1:04:37
  having added that terminology is
• 1:04:40
  interesting.
• 1:04:40
  There's additional language
• 1:04:42
  in the rule book this year
• 1:04:44
  that applies to grips.
• 1:04:46
  Previously,
• 1:04:47
  it just said that the grip
• 1:04:48
  surface cannot be tacky or sticky.
• 1:04:50
  This year,
• 1:04:51
  there is an additional language
• 1:04:53
  that says grips must be
• 1:04:54
  made of a material that
• 1:04:56
  provides hand protection,
• 1:04:58
  but not additional grip advantage.
• 1:05:01
  Grips are made of either leather,
• 1:05:04
  synthetic leather,
• 1:05:06
  or rubber.
• 1:05:08
  The rubber based grips are
• 1:05:09
  really popular because they
• 1:05:11
  do provide additional grip advantage.
• 1:05:14
  They are really sticky on the bar.
• 1:05:17
  So could rubber based grips
• 1:05:19
  be banned in the CrossFit Games?
• 1:05:22
  There's nothing in the rule
• 1:05:23
  book that specifies which
• 1:05:25
  material is banned.
• 1:05:27
  However,
• 1:05:28
  I'm going to reach out to CrossFit
• 1:05:29
  to get some clarification.
• 1:05:31
  And also,
• 1:05:32
  does this apply to just the games
• 1:05:35
  or does it apply to the
• 1:05:37
  open and the semifinals,
• 1:05:39
  the in-person qualifiers?
• 1:05:41
  There's still some questions
• 1:05:42
  that need to be answered.
• 1:05:43
  So I'm going to reach out to
• 1:05:44
  CrossFit and get some
• 1:05:45
  clarification and report back.
• 1:05:49
  Very interesting.
• 1:05:52
  I'm interested on that one,
• 1:05:53
  on what they'll say, um,
• 1:05:57
  If that's what they meant by
• 1:05:58
  the verbiage of the not
• 1:06:02
  adding additional...
• 1:06:04
  I guess sticky things.
• 1:06:05
  Cause those rubber grips
• 1:06:07
  definitely are very sticky.
• 1:06:11
  I don't use them.
• 1:06:12
  I've,
• 1:06:12
  I've used bear complex almost my
• 1:06:15
  entire career.
• 1:06:17
  And when I've, I had a,
• 1:06:20
  at a local competition,
• 1:06:21
  someone give me a pair of rubber grips.
• 1:06:24
  And since then,
• 1:06:25
  like the frog grips came
• 1:06:26
  out and it's been very,
• 1:06:27
  very popular in our space
• 1:06:29
  to use those grips.
• 1:06:30
  And when I went onto the bar, I was like,
• 1:06:32
  Whoa, wow.
• 1:06:34
  you're like stuck.
• 1:06:35
  And now all of a sudden
• 1:06:35
  people are entering the
• 1:06:37
  competition floor and they
• 1:06:38
  bring towels and they're
• 1:06:39
  wiping down the fricking
• 1:06:41
  bars and get all the chalk off.
• 1:06:45
  And I'm like,
• 1:06:45
  what is going on with these grips?
• 1:06:48
  But it's similar to the
• 1:06:49
  NorCal competition where you're like, oh,
• 1:06:53
  let's add this NorCal and oh,
• 1:06:54
  the qualifiers are tomorrow.
• 1:06:56
  To me,
• 1:06:56
  if you're adding a rule that would
• 1:06:58
  change some of your
• 1:06:59
  sponsors or like big
• 1:07:01
  companies in the space,
• 1:07:03
  and just be like, Oh,
• 1:07:04
  here's the rule book right now,
• 1:07:05
  right before the season.
• 1:07:06
  Oh, the grips that you've been making,
• 1:07:07
  you won't be,
• 1:07:08
  none of your athletes can use them now.
• 1:07:11
  Like,
• 1:07:12
  I feel like you should be
• 1:07:14
  communicating those type of
• 1:07:16
  changes well in advance,
• 1:07:18
  if it's going to affect
• 1:07:19
  some of your sponsors and
• 1:07:21
  stuff like that.
• 1:07:22
  Um, but curious as to what they'll,
• 1:07:25
  what they'll say.
• 1:07:26
  And if that's what they
• 1:07:27
  meant by the addition, the,
• 1:07:30
  sticky stuff because the
• 1:07:32
  rubber grips are completely
• 1:07:34
  different to me and
• 1:07:35
  definitely are a game
• 1:07:36
  changer for sticking onto the bar.
• 1:07:41
  Uh, CrossFit says,
• 1:07:43
  I bet the RX Mark here guy
• 1:07:44
  complained after his grips
• 1:07:45
  got bounced last year.
• 1:07:46
  He mentioned the rubber grips then.
• 1:07:49
  Well, what they did was actually,
• 1:07:53
  they did skate the line.
• 1:07:56
  Uh,
• 1:07:56
  it has been in the rules forever that
• 1:07:58
  you cannot use a Dow grip.
• 1:08:00
  that is a traditional gymnastics grip,
• 1:08:03
  they basically sewed the
• 1:08:05
  leather over top itself to
• 1:08:08
  make it like a dowel that
• 1:08:10
  hooked onto the bar.
• 1:08:14
  That's very different than a rubber grip.
• 1:08:16
  Now,
• 1:08:18
  I would say the dowel probably grips
• 1:08:20
  even more because you're
• 1:08:21
  actually like hooking it
• 1:08:23
  and it would have like a
• 1:08:24
  little hook underneath to
• 1:08:26
  hold on where...
• 1:08:29
  The rubber grip,
• 1:08:30
  I have a pair of rubber grips.
• 1:08:32
  They definitely make a difference.
• 1:08:35
  I can do more reps with them
• 1:08:37
  than I can with my bare
• 1:08:38
  complex leather grips, for sure.
• 1:08:44
  But the Dell,
• 1:08:45
  I think what he did last year
• 1:08:46
  was even more over the line,
• 1:08:49
  if you want to say that.
• 1:08:51
  I just think if you add
• 1:08:55
  something like that to the rule book,
• 1:08:57
  I think that's something
• 1:08:58
  that you communicate in advance.
• 1:09:01
  Just like you don't throw on
• 1:09:03
  NorCal Classic after you've
• 1:09:04
  announced your competitions
• 1:09:06
  and you're like, hey,
• 1:09:07
  the qualifiers right now.
• 1:09:09
  And then another one of your
• 1:09:10
  competitions for WOD Fest is like, oh,
• 1:09:14
  Wadapalooza is right now.
• 1:09:15
  I guess we'll extend our
• 1:09:16
  qualifier as well.
• 1:09:17
  It just seems like there's a
• 1:09:18
  lot of last-minute changes,
• 1:09:20
  which I don't like with that.
• 1:09:24
  But I guess, yeah,
• 1:09:24
  to be continued on that
• 1:09:26
  topic and what will go on with that.
• 1:09:29
  Because there's a lot of
• 1:09:29
  athletes that are sponsored
• 1:09:30
  by Frog Grips right now, I think,
• 1:09:32
  in the space.
• 1:09:32
  It's like they took over...
• 1:09:35
  a big part of the market for, for grips.
• 1:09:38
  Cause back then it was
• 1:09:39
  mostly victory and bear
• 1:09:41
  complex were like the main and RX, um,
• 1:09:46
  smart gear that were like the main three,
• 1:09:48
  but.
• 1:09:49
  Yeah.
• 1:09:51
  Yeah.
• 1:09:51
  We'll see.
• 1:09:51
  I, cause there,
• 1:09:53
  there was a big deal made
• 1:09:54
  of them last year about the
• 1:09:55
  length and all of that kind of stuff.
• 1:09:57
  The length is still in the
• 1:09:59
  rules that it cannot be at
• 1:10:01
  full extension above the
• 1:10:04
  top of the finger.
• 1:10:06
  But that was kind of ignored
• 1:10:08
  when you got to the games last year.
• 1:10:11
  I personally feel like the
• 1:10:12
  grips that are rubber are a
• 1:10:13
  little bit like cheating.
• 1:10:14
  That was my... And I always
• 1:10:16
  roll my eyes of the
• 1:10:17
  athletes that bring their
• 1:10:18
  towels to wipe down all the
• 1:10:19
  chalk on the bars.
• 1:10:20
  I'm like, oh my gosh,
• 1:10:21
  this is getting ridiculous.
• 1:10:23
  But I think it's going to be
• 1:10:25
  hard to implement.
• 1:10:27
  I mean,
• 1:10:28
  I guess you could just show your
• 1:10:29
  grips before.
• 1:10:30
  I guess it wouldn't be that hard, but...
• 1:10:33
  To me,
• 1:10:33
  it's just like you either allow
• 1:10:35
  grips or you don't maybe,
• 1:10:38
  but Larry says I have death grips,
• 1:10:39
  little pin in them way less
• 1:10:41
  than those sticky grips.
• 1:10:42
  Just saying have both, but my gymnastics,
• 1:10:45
  it doesn't matter.
• 1:10:46
  So I choose none.
• 1:10:47
  I'm with you, Larry.
• 1:10:48
  Like the little bit of help
• 1:10:51
  that the sticky grips give
• 1:10:52
  me is not even going to
• 1:10:53
  make me come close to
• 1:10:54
  anybody else on the gymnastics bar.
• 1:10:57
  Uh, so.
• 1:10:59
  just helps me do string more
• 1:11:01
  together in a workout and
• 1:11:03
  work and get a better
• 1:11:04
  workout I'm not competing
• 1:11:06
  in that stuff so I'll do
• 1:11:08
  what I want there you go um
• 1:11:14
  real sports provide a
• 1:11:15
  runway with equipment
• 1:11:16
  getting banned six twelve
• 1:11:18
  eighteen months yeah not
• 1:11:21
  two days before the season
• 1:11:22
  starts and then is it
• 1:11:27
  cheating if everybody can use them
• 1:11:29
  No, that's what I'm saying.
• 1:11:30
  It's been fair game.
• 1:11:32
  I just chose not to use them, but I could.
• 1:11:37
  I do think it's an advantage, though.
• 1:11:39
  Like, it does make a difference.
• 1:11:40
  Just, like,
• 1:11:41
  flopping the grips over make a
• 1:11:43
  difference versus putting your, like,
• 1:11:45
  fingers, I guess,
• 1:11:48
  in the holes and creating
• 1:11:50
  that little thingy.
• 1:11:50
  And, like,
• 1:11:51
  the way you use your grips make
• 1:11:53
  a difference on where it's
• 1:11:54
  pulling on your wrist and
• 1:11:56
  how much you're using your grip strength.
• 1:12:00
  But, yeah.
• 1:12:03
  And just, me too, Larry.
• 1:12:06
  I give up before the equipment as well.
• 1:12:11
  Allocation of prize money.
• 1:12:13
  So with all open registrations,
• 1:12:17
  fifty percent of the money
• 1:12:18
  earned on those
• 1:12:19
  registrations will go to
• 1:12:21
  prize money throughout the season.
• 1:12:24
  So if the example they use
• 1:12:26
  is if three hundred
• 1:12:27
  thousand people sign up for the open,
• 1:12:28
  that's six million dollars.
• 1:12:30
  Three million of that would
• 1:12:32
  go into prize money
• 1:12:34
  throughout the season.
• 1:12:36
  The Open would get affiliate
• 1:12:38
  prizes split between
• 1:12:40
  participation and performance, uh,
• 1:12:42
  twenty percent.
• 1:12:44
  The Open top individual
• 1:12:45
  performers would get five percent.
• 1:12:48
  Individual semifinals would
• 1:12:49
  get three percent.
• 1:12:51
  Individual games get forty-nine percent.
• 1:12:57
  Um, affiliate cup games, teams,
• 1:13:00
  ten percent.
• 1:13:02
  Masters, ten percent.
• 1:13:04
  And adaptive, three percent.
• 1:13:09
  So I know if Jamie were here,
• 1:13:14
  she'd have a lot to say
• 1:13:16
  about the ten percent masters.
• 1:13:18
  And I will tell you her
• 1:13:19
  argument because we had
• 1:13:20
  this in a text during yesterday that.
• 1:13:24
  The thirty five to forty
• 1:13:25
  nine year old divisions of
• 1:13:27
  masters make up
• 1:13:29
  approximately fifty percent
• 1:13:30
  of open registrations.
• 1:13:34
  So the people putting in all
• 1:13:35
  the money are only getting
• 1:13:37
  ten percent of the cash prize.
• 1:13:41
  Now, she's not asking for fifty percent.
• 1:13:43
  She was just like, hey,
• 1:13:45
  could we get twenty?
• 1:13:50
  And that is that is her argument,
• 1:13:52
  and because they only pay
• 1:13:54
  for second and third in all
• 1:13:55
  the masters divisions,
• 1:13:57
  she just thinks it should
• 1:13:58
  go to fifth or sixth place.
• 1:14:06
  I do like the twenty percent
• 1:14:07
  back to the affiliates.
• 1:14:09
  I think that's a great idea.
• 1:14:10
  And they get like twenty
• 1:14:11
  five hundred dollars to
• 1:14:12
  rogue to buy more equipment.
• 1:14:14
  Not exactly sure how those
• 1:14:16
  spots are or how those
• 1:14:19
  prizes are allocated in
• 1:14:20
  terms of it says like high
• 1:14:22
  performers and
• 1:14:23
  participation by participation.
• 1:14:26
  Yeah,
• 1:14:26
  it would be nice that maybe a few of
• 1:14:28
  them are at random.
• 1:14:29
  just to allow some of the
• 1:14:31
  smaller gyms to also
• 1:14:32
  benefit from possibly
• 1:14:33
  getting some equipment from
• 1:14:34
  rogue for free.
• 1:14:35
  Like if you had, you know, half of those,
• 1:14:38
  half of those,
• 1:14:39
  half of those are most
• 1:14:41
  participation or whatever.
• 1:14:43
  But then like someone said, uh,
• 1:14:45
  like Sarah said,
• 1:14:46
  like it might just end up
• 1:14:47
  going to those big gyms again,
• 1:14:48
  that already have a
• 1:14:50
  ridiculous amount of equipment.
• 1:14:52
  So grabbing some,
• 1:14:55
  maybe at random would be nice.
• 1:14:58
  Um,
• 1:15:02
  But I do like that.
• 1:15:03
  I like the idea of it.
• 1:15:04
  Hopefully it'll play out
• 1:15:06
  that the prizes don't go to
• 1:15:08
  Invictus and Mayhem and all
• 1:15:10
  of those people, but never know.
• 1:15:15
  For me,
• 1:15:15
  it was more the breakdown of the
• 1:15:18
  individual games field that
• 1:15:20
  I didn't really like as much.
• 1:15:22
  The top gets a lot more.
• 1:15:24
  The top athlete that wins gets a lot.
• 1:15:26
  I would just like to see it
• 1:15:29
  just be spread a little bit better, um,
• 1:15:32
  throughout the rest of the, the athletes.
• 1:15:36
  Cause it is, I mean, yeah, I mean, winners,
• 1:15:40
  um, get more,
• 1:15:42
  but I think you could give a
• 1:15:44
  little bit more down the line.
• 1:15:48
  So what Carolyn's talking
• 1:15:49
  about is if it was the the
• 1:15:55
  three hundred thousand
• 1:15:55
  registrations for the open first,
• 1:15:58
  we get three hundred sixty
• 1:15:59
  five seven thousand five
• 1:16:00
  hundred second would only
• 1:16:02
  get seventy three five.
• 1:16:05
  Then fifty eight, eight, fifty one, four,
• 1:16:08
  twenty five, seven.
• 1:16:09
  And when you get to eleven
• 1:16:11
  places down to twelve
• 1:16:12
  thousand and then it stops at twenty.
• 1:16:17
  So only the top twenty get
• 1:16:18
  paid and that's three
• 1:16:18
  thousand six hundred seventy five.
• 1:16:20
  But that is more than they
• 1:16:21
  paid out last year.
• 1:16:24
  For the for the for one place.
• 1:16:26
  Right.
• 1:16:28
  For one place, the rest of them are,
• 1:16:31
  I don't think.
• 1:16:33
  I'd have to go back and look.
• 1:16:36
  I know it's a steep drop off.
• 1:16:38
  I'm not sharing the screen.
• 1:16:41
  I can.
• 1:16:42
  Because like second place
• 1:16:43
  was like one hundred and something.
• 1:16:47
  Like there's a big
• 1:16:48
  difference between the rest.
• 1:16:53
  So I will blow this up.
• 1:16:56
  There you go, Lynn.
• 1:16:58
  Those are the top places.
• 1:17:04
  So in twenty and twenty twenty four.
• 1:17:07
  The first place at the
• 1:17:09
  CrossFit Games was three
• 1:17:11
  hundred and fifteen thousand dollars.
• 1:17:13
  The second place was one
• 1:17:15
  hundred and twenty five thousand dollars.
• 1:17:17
  The third place was eighty
• 1:17:19
  five thousand dollars.
• 1:17:20
  Fourth was sixty.
• 1:17:22
  Fifth through eighth was forty five, fifty,
• 1:17:24
  thirty five, thirty two.
• 1:17:26
  Like, fortieth place got money.
• 1:17:29
  Here in this, in the way that they said it,
• 1:17:31
  I mean, they stopped at twenty-first,
• 1:17:33
  but the twenty-first place
• 1:17:34
  in this one last year had seven thousand.
• 1:17:38
  So, I mean, you can't tell me that, yeah,
• 1:17:44
  you got one person that's gonna,
• 1:17:46
  Tia's getting more money, or Laura,
• 1:17:50
  Jeff is gonna get more money, the winners,
• 1:17:52
  but the rest of the field
• 1:17:53
  is making actually way less.
• 1:17:55
  Yeah.
• 1:17:58
  So yeah.
• 1:18:01
  Now who knows what the
• 1:18:03
  registration is going to be?
• 1:18:05
  Um, I don't know who said that.
• 1:18:08
  I think it was trained to live.
• 1:18:10
  Uh,
• 1:18:13
  so they are praying people sign up for
• 1:18:15
  the open.
• 1:18:15
  Uh,
• 1:18:16
  I think the athletes are praying that
• 1:18:17
  people sign up for the open, um,
• 1:18:19
  because it makes the pot
• 1:18:21
  bigger that they can earn.
• 1:18:23
  Um,
• 1:18:26
  And I will tell you the last two years,
• 1:18:29
  there have been more than
• 1:18:30
  three hundred thousand
• 1:18:32
  people registered for the open.
• 1:18:35
  I think last year was like
• 1:18:36
  three seventy and the year
• 1:18:38
  before that was three forty.
• 1:18:42
  But, you know,
• 1:18:44
  there's been all this
• 1:18:45
  speculation that not as
• 1:18:46
  many people would be
• 1:18:47
  signing up this year.
• 1:18:48
  So who knows what that's
• 1:18:49
  going to mean to overall
• 1:18:51
  registrations and whether
• 1:18:54
  whether or not it's going to
• 1:18:56
  impact the price purse.
• 1:18:58
  I do like that they gave that information,
• 1:19:00
  though,
• 1:19:00
  on where the percentages of the
• 1:19:02
  twenty dollars is going.
• 1:19:03
  I think that is better
• 1:19:06
  communication than they've
• 1:19:07
  done in the past.
• 1:19:08
  So I think that was a
• 1:19:09
  positive that they put
• 1:19:10
  because normally we don't
• 1:19:11
  really know where the money
• 1:19:12
  is coming from.
• 1:19:14
  They didn't have to give us
• 1:19:15
  that information.
• 1:19:15
  They did.
• 1:19:16
  But I think that was
• 1:19:17
  interesting to see where
• 1:19:19
  they are going to be putting it.
• 1:19:23
  Patrick says this is what
• 1:19:24
  happens when you lose
• 1:19:25
  sponsors and decide not to
• 1:19:26
  give title rights to sponsors.
• 1:19:38
  Haven't seen many vids from
• 1:19:39
  athletes begging fans to sign up yet.
• 1:19:45
  I,
• 1:19:45
  I have seen a lot of video or
• 1:19:47
  advertisements on social
• 1:19:49
  media from CrossFit about L ones,
• 1:19:54
  the open things like that.
• 1:19:56
  So they are,
• 1:19:57
  they're doing a push from CrossFit,
• 1:20:00
  but I have not seen
• 1:20:01
  anything from athletes.
• 1:20:08
  Sarah says,
• 1:20:09
  Lambray better be eating her words.
• 1:20:10
  What have the affiliates
• 1:20:11
  done for athletes?
• 1:20:13
  Be your payday.
• 1:20:16
  Again,
• 1:20:16
  I think that was taken a little out
• 1:20:17
  of context.
• 1:20:18
  I was just about to say that.
• 1:20:22
  I was just about to say that.
• 1:20:23
  That clip that went viral,
• 1:20:25
  if you listen to the whole interview,
• 1:20:27
  she goes on.
• 1:20:28
  I mean, she's an affiliate owner.
• 1:20:29
  She's not trying to bash the affiliates.
• 1:20:34
  They were just trying to
• 1:20:34
  make a point in one piece, but
• 1:20:38
  She could have chose her
• 1:20:39
  words better in that sentence,
• 1:20:40
  but I think it was taken
• 1:20:42
  out of context for sure.
• 1:20:44
  I think so too.
• 1:20:51
  T-Bird says,
• 1:20:51
  I think they're trying to make
• 1:20:53
  it so to win is very profitable.
• 1:20:55
  So people are going to want to try and win,
• 1:20:58
  which means people will still register.
• 1:21:02
  We'll see.
• 1:21:07
  Uh,
• 1:21:11
  Okay, and we'll move on from that.
• 1:21:14
  I think that pretty much
• 1:21:15
  sums up the Dave Castro
• 1:21:18
  video on the Community Cup.
• 1:21:22
  We're running late,
• 1:21:22
  so I'm just going to tell
• 1:21:24
  you the way that the
• 1:21:25
  seeding happens and the way
• 1:21:27
  you get your level is it's
• 1:21:28
  based on percentile.
• 1:21:30
  So wherever you finish
• 1:21:31
  percentile-wise in the open,
• 1:21:35
  if you're in the fiftieth percentile,
• 1:21:37
  that's a level five.
• 1:21:38
  fiftieth to fifty nine.
• 1:21:41
  If you're sixty to sixty nine,
• 1:21:42
  that's level six and so on and so forth.
• 1:21:46
  The divisions are are like
• 1:21:48
  two groups of those.
• 1:21:52
  Level, so ten and nine or one group,
• 1:21:56
  seven advanced.
• 1:21:57
  Right.
• 1:21:58
  Intermediate, rookie.
• 1:22:01
  So they all have like a
• 1:22:02
  different division.
• 1:22:03
  And then that's how you will
• 1:22:04
  compete in the community cup.
• 1:22:07
  If you go to the Dave Castro Instagram,
• 1:22:09
  he explains it out with a
• 1:22:11
  whiteboard and a marker.
• 1:22:13
  And it's pretty simple the way he does it.
• 1:22:16
  It's essentially the
• 1:22:16
  quarterfinals from last year,
• 1:22:18
  but everyone can play at their own level.
• 1:22:20
  Yeah.
• 1:22:23
  Yeah.
• 1:22:27
  So then we also have the WFP
• 1:22:29
  making announcements this week.
• 1:22:31
  And I hate shortchanging this,
• 1:22:33
  but we'll just have to get
• 1:22:34
  into more detail next week.
• 1:22:36
  They announced where their
• 1:22:37
  tour events are going to be
• 1:22:38
  and when they're going to be.
• 1:22:40
  So the first tour event for
• 1:22:42
  WFP is in Indianapolis, Indiana,
• 1:22:45
  and it will be May ninth
• 1:22:46
  through the eleventh,
• 1:22:48
  which is also the same days
• 1:22:49
  as the French throwdown.
• 1:22:53
  So all of the European
• 1:22:54
  athletes who are in the WFP
• 1:22:57
  and will have to travel to Indianapolis,
• 1:22:59
  Indiana based on their
• 1:23:00
  contract will not be able
• 1:23:02
  to do the French throwdown
• 1:23:04
  if they were choosing to do that anyway.
• 1:23:09
  Tour event two will be in Phoenix or Mesa,
• 1:23:12
  Arizona.
• 1:23:13
  They said Phoenix slash Mesa.
• 1:23:16
  It's all kind of one hub in there.
• 1:23:19
  August twenty ninth to the thirty first.
• 1:23:21
  And the finals will be
• 1:23:22
  December eighteenth to the
• 1:23:24
  twenty first in Copenhagen, Denmark.
• 1:23:30
  Yeah, and that tour event, one,
• 1:23:32
  not only is it during French Throwdown,
• 1:23:34
  but it's literally the
• 1:23:36
  weekend after the online semifinals.
• 1:23:39
  So if you're a European athlete,
• 1:23:41
  you're probably going to be doing it.
• 1:23:43
  You know,
• 1:23:43
  you've already traveled to
• 1:23:44
  somewhere in North America, in Indiana,
• 1:23:47
  and you'll probably be
• 1:23:48
  doing the online semifinals
• 1:23:50
  there because you don't
• 1:23:50
  want to be traveling,
• 1:23:52
  doing the online semifinals
• 1:23:53
  at your home affiliate and
• 1:23:55
  then traveling to North
• 1:23:57
  America for this first one.
• 1:23:59
  And if you're a North America athlete,
• 1:24:01
  you know,
• 1:24:02
  you're going to go back to back
• 1:24:03
  weekends and you're going
• 1:24:04
  to go try to do your online semifinals,
• 1:24:07
  probably repeat some
• 1:24:08
  workouts to try to qualify
• 1:24:09
  through that online
• 1:24:10
  semifinals and right away
• 1:24:11
  go into your first competition,
• 1:24:14
  which is not ideal because you're,
• 1:24:17
  let's say the last workout
• 1:24:18
  is May fourth or May fifth
• 1:24:20
  for the online semifinals.
• 1:24:21
  You're going back to back
• 1:24:22
  right there into the next part.
• 1:24:26
  And then let's say you
• 1:24:27
  didn't get in that top
• 1:24:28
  twelve spot and you're
• 1:24:30
  hoping to do both seasons.
• 1:24:32
  It's going to be very
• 1:24:33
  difficult because now all
• 1:24:35
  of a sudden you got to
• 1:24:36
  start looking at
• 1:24:36
  competitions right after
• 1:24:37
  your first event in Indiana.
• 1:24:40
  And you only have three more weekends.
• 1:24:46
  So it's pretty tight.
• 1:24:48
  Yeah.
• 1:24:48
  Which is why like it's
• 1:24:49
  people are going to have to
• 1:24:50
  kind of choose.
• 1:24:51
  And that's why I asked you the question,
• 1:24:54
  do we need to start training differently?
• 1:24:57
  If you want to play in this
• 1:24:59
  pro sport now where you
• 1:25:00
  have more opportunities,
• 1:25:03
  it's going to be crammed.
• 1:25:09
  What I'm excited about is
• 1:25:13
  Mayhem and Syndicate Crown
• 1:25:17
  are drivable for me.
• 1:25:19
  Uh, Indianapolis,
• 1:25:20
  Indiana is a two hour drive for me.
• 1:25:22
  The masters CrossFit games
• 1:25:23
  and teen CrossFit games are in Columbus,
• 1:25:25
  Ohio, right here in my hometown.
• 1:25:28
  And Phoenix Mesa is a,
• 1:25:30
  there's direct flights from
• 1:25:31
  Columbus all the time and
• 1:25:32
  they're super cheap.
• 1:25:33
  Uh,
• 1:25:34
  so those are at least a handful of
• 1:25:36
  events that I can get to fairly cheaply.
• 1:25:40
  Um, so I'm excited about that.
• 1:25:43
  I know PC's in here talking
• 1:25:46
  about the European athletes
• 1:25:47
  and all they have to pay.
• 1:25:48
  Um,
• 1:25:49
  which is way more than what
• 1:25:50
  I'm going to have to pay this year.
• 1:25:52
  But I'm excited that I get
• 1:25:53
  to go to a lot of in-person
• 1:25:55
  events pretty easily.
• 1:26:00
  In addition to that,
• 1:26:00
  there was an announcement a
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  day or two ago, maybe,
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  Reps Ahead Pro Six is on the board.
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  What a lineup.
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  Great lineup.
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  This will be at Wadapalooza.
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  And the headliner for the
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  men is Jason Hopper versus Dallin pepper.
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  And the workout does contain an echo bike.
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  So you'll see once and for all,
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  who is the king of the echo bike.
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  And then Emma Lawson and
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  Alex Kazan are going for
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  the women as the headliner there.
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  And I'm sure Patrick knows more than I do,
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  but they said there is an
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  undercard that is still to be announced.
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  Yeah, great lineup.
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  And it is on the final night
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  of the individual events
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  after the last individual event goes,
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  then the Reps Ahead crew
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  will hit the floor and do their event.
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  So, and he said, yep,
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  just waiting on one signature.
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  My signature, Patrick?
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  Just kidding.
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  There was a question for you,
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  and I don't want to skip over that.
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  Oh, trying to live.
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  Uh, is Carolyn going to play in the WFP?
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  I'll try to do some online stuff.
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  Yeah.
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  I have to qualify for it.
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  I think it's very hard to do the top ten,
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  but I do like that those
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  time of the year better for me.
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  Like the August one, I'm off for school.
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  So that already is better.
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  Um,
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  But yeah, we'll, uh, I'll try.
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  I don't know what,
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  I didn't see when the dates
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  are for the qualifier though,
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  but there are six weeks
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  before each event.
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  Gotcha.
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  I mean, I like competing.
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  Um,
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  I don't like wasting my money to travel.
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  So I try to find things
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  normally that I can.
• 1:28:00
  be smart with my money but
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  I'm just yeah like I I've
• 1:28:05
  always just competed and
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  done stuff so I'll try to
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  do it uh you are not
• 1:28:09
  undercard material carolyn
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  don't worry we will talk um
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  another question for you uh
• 1:28:17
  carolyn are you doing all
• 1:28:18
  the rogue challenges this year every year
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  You'll see me in a bunch of online stuff.
• 1:28:25
  I like doing stuff.
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  It just keeps me motivated.
• 1:28:30
  If I don't have competitions
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  or if I don't have
• 1:28:33
  different things to train for,
• 1:28:34
  I mentally struggle to just
• 1:28:35
  kind of stay in it.
• 1:28:36
  So that's why I just kind of
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  compete all year round, stay fit.
• 1:28:40
  I enjoy it.
• 1:28:43
  T-Bird, missed the beginning.
• 1:28:44
  Did you guys talk about AFJ
• 1:28:46
  seminar right before WADA?
• 1:28:47
  We actually talked about that, I think,
• 1:28:48
  two weeks ago.
• 1:28:50
  Yeah, pretty in-depth.
• 1:28:52
  So it was on our episode
• 1:28:53
  about two weeks ago.
• 1:28:54
  But yeah,
• 1:28:54
  they are holding a judges seminar
• 1:28:56
  right before Wadapalooza goes live.
• 1:29:00
  It is the first time that
• 1:29:01
  has ever happened.
• 1:29:02
  And it's a way to train.
• 1:29:03
  And then they will be also
• 1:29:06
  grading judges starting at Wadapalooza.
• 1:29:09
  I think that's a great idea though.
• 1:29:10
  I saw that Brent with the PFA had posted,
• 1:29:13
  like they're looking for
• 1:29:13
  athletes that are high
• 1:29:14
  level to kind of help with
• 1:29:17
  these seminars to be moving fast.
• 1:29:19
  And yeah, I think giving,
• 1:29:23
  giving more judges
• 1:29:24
  experiences is going to be
• 1:29:25
  good in having some
• 1:29:27
  in-person seminars where, you know,
• 1:29:29
  you're getting graded on judging is,
• 1:29:31
  is awesome.
• 1:29:31
  Great idea.
• 1:29:34
  We need a full on Q and a
• 1:29:35
  show with Carolyn.
• 1:29:37
  We can make that happen.
• 1:29:39
  I can facilitate.
• 1:29:45
  Tiber says, I'll go back and watch.
• 1:29:46
  Yeah, I think it's two weeks ago, right?
• 1:29:48
  I'm not sure.
• 1:29:49
  I think maybe last week.
• 1:29:50
  I'm not sure.
• 1:29:51
  Yeah.
• 1:29:52
  I can't remember.
• 1:29:56
  But I know we did talk about
• 1:29:57
  it for sure because that's
• 1:30:00
  how it came up.
• 1:30:03
  um yeah I think that's all
• 1:30:03
  that's on our docket for
• 1:30:07
  tonight and we hit right at
• 1:30:09
  nine thirty as always next
• 1:30:13
  week we're gonna talk about
• 1:30:13
  wadapalooza more in depth
• 1:30:15
  uh as it will be kicking
• 1:30:17
  off two weeks from last
• 1:30:20
  friday or thursday last thursday uh
• 1:30:24
  maybe we'll hit those um
• 1:30:27
  maybe we'll hit the that
• 1:30:28
  afj thing a little bit next
• 1:30:30
  weekend and talk about that
• 1:30:31
  maybe we'll put a little
• 1:30:32
  segment in the next week
• 1:30:33
  show ask carolyn or ask
• 1:30:35
  jamie the two athletes um
• 1:30:38
  and let you two just have
• 1:30:40
  like fifteen minutes for
• 1:30:41
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• 1:30:44
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• 1:30:45
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• 1:31:14
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• 1:31:17
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• 1:31:18
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• 1:31:19
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• 1:31:21
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