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