What is going on, everybody?
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With that, what's going on, guys?
Slow weekend?
Slow.
Not as slow as I would like.
My goodness.
I need more hours.
So what are you working on?
Tell the people.
We are like completely remodeling the gym.
Basically like flopping the layout.
Got the turf laid yesterday.
And what color is that turf?
It's purple.
It is purple.
Purple turf.
When I saw that, I was like, dang,
that fits your gym.
Yeah,
that's been the color scheme for the gym.
And I didn't really want to
mess with the branding and change it.
Purple is not at all one of
my favorite colors.
I would have went with green, of course.
But yeah,
purple's been the branding and we
have like so much merch and
just shirts and stuff that it made sense.
And it is really sharp on the turf.
Like it's really cool.
So as I get things a little further along,
I'll
I've been trying to take
pictures of stages and I'm
put together real so all
that will be out you guys
can see the transformation
what I'm interested to see
is how how clean the purple
stays looking compared to
the green because it's a
little deeper darker maybe
it's it looks cleaner
longer I'm anxious to see
what that that what comes of that yeah
did you guys get other
equipment as well for, uh,
like during this remodeling
or just moving things around?
Well, we got a whole new rig.
Um, other than that, equipment wise, no,
um, no, nothing major equipment wise.
I mean, a couple of ropes, right.
To like hang from, cause we got like,
twelve foot posts with
three foot extensions.
So with the,
a frame off we can hang
ropes or rings or whatever
uh nicole sherman said it
looks really nice with the
graffiti wall behind it
yeah nicole came to class
today uh denise wants to
know what is different
about the rig why the new one
so we had a middle not even
middle of the floor it was
two-thirds over in the
floor freestanding yep um
and it's again I bought
this gym a couple years ago
and it's like everything's
been pieced together um
some there was like some pieces of
get our extra rig some
pieces of rogue rig some
pieces of like most of the
rig was like hand welded by
a member like eight years
ago and the holes didn't
line up it's very shaky and
when we get like eight
people on it it doesn't
feel safe um so we actually
bought new rig with three
by three posts and um it's
gonna be a wall mounted rig
hopefully to open up the
space a little bit more so
And you don't have that up yet.
That's like one of the final stages.
Yeah.
So lots of burpees and
double-unders and box jumps for now.
Yep, exactly.
I know tomorrow's supposed
to have pull-ups, so I don't know.
I think it's going to just be push-ups.
I need to go in and change that workout.
Sumo deadlift high pull.
Let's go.
Keep it a pulling motion.
There you go.
Already rowing,
so that'd be a lot of that movement.
Yeah.
okay uh Denise says nice
safety first yeah yeah your
your rig did rock when yeah
I mean even when like two
of us were on it it rocked
like imagine when we get
like some of the heavy the
rig shakers on there holy
smokes yeah yeah well
that's cool um projected
ETA of finishing end of the week
I mean, yeah,
I'm going to go back there tonight.
So if I shut off on you guys,
it's because I'm leaving at nine.
I promised Aaron I would leave at nine.
So we're going to do some
more mats tonight and then
maybe tomorrow start the rig.
I don't know.
It's tough because you don't
want to like start
something that's going to
mess up the flow in there
when I need to have classes
Thursday and Friday and Saturday.
So.
We don't want to do too much
until Saturday, but we'll do some tonight,
see what we can do tomorrow
since we're closed.
The other thing is there's
some really unlevel spots in the floor.
I don't know what they did before.
There's like a pipe sticking
up that like it's trying to
like cut through the mats
like it's it's like sharp
and it's like breaking
through one of the mats.
So that needs to be grinded down.
Another section has a really
low spot that is like you
feel like you're going to
trip if you're walking through there.
You can't jump rope in there.
You can't lunge through there.
So like there's like four
mats that need to be pulled
and like leveled out.
Aaron's trying to decide
what he wants to use.
So we're going to do that
probably tomorrow so that I can cure over
new year's day and then
we'll just keep it roped
off on thursday uh lex who
is our next topic are you
working out on top of this
too jamie or does labor count
so I I didn't do anything
yesterday well we were
there literally all day
yesterday I left at twelve
thirty in the morning um
and I woke up this morning
in so much pain like my
back hurts so bad it's it's
not even funny so I did not
work out today I I did lift
with noon um but they did
dt and I was like
absolutely not so and I I
just did dt like two weeks ago
So I just, I was like, I'm good.
And plus I'm going back tonight.
I will probably work out in
tomorrow's class.
It's like a partner workout,
twenty minute thing.
So I will probably do tomorrow's.
But yeah,
I'm trying to be OK with all the
bending over and lifting and moving stuff,
counting as a workout.
It is hard for me because, you know,
I like to do like longer.
I like to just do more metabolic things.
Yeah.
More hinging with DT
probably was smart not to do that.
But if it's safe, you know, yeah,
it'd be fun to get it in.
Denise wants to know,
did you get med ball targets?
I didn't get any.
I have five or six.
We actually had more for the
rig that we had that weren't up.
So we're going to see how
that all works out.
If I need to get more of those or not.
And Craig is looking forward
to the gym tour video.
Thanks, Craig.
Yeah,
I'll put something together for you guys.
So speaking of Lex,
yesterday was her birthday.
Happy birthday to Lex.
And Carolyn,
you got to hang out with her
for her birthday.
Anything fun and special?
We went out to eat.
She had one of her best
friends come down that she
doesn't get to see very often.
And we basically hung out
the whole day there.
Did a little birthday one.
We attempted this thing
that's popular on TikTok or something.
One of the days,
like it was like the day
before her birthday,
where we go to target and
We each have to pick out
something in the other
person's favorite color,
in something that they need,
their favorite snack,
something that we can do together.
And let's just say it was an
epic fail on my part.
It was basically for both of
our birthdays because mine's January six.
And we're like, okay,
we're going to do this together.
It's going to be really cool.
She had everything planned at Target.
She knew everything to go.
And I was there for like,
Mine was not that great.
I basically just gave a
bunch of different things
and I'm not creative with
that kind of stuff.
Yeah,
we just had pedicures and what else
did we do?
Nothing too crazy.
It's so close to Christmas.
We did a lot of stuff.
Yeah.
My birthday is Wednesday.
So I have that one week after Christmas.
You and Lex know what that's all about.
The birthday Christmas,
my wife's is one week before,
mine's one week after.
It's all jammed into one time of the year.
It really stinks.
One,
I want to make it more special for my
wife on her birthday,
but it seems like you're
just cramming it in because
of all the holiday stuff going on.
And I know she feels the
same way about me.
only nice thing is I get my
birthday off every year
because it's new year's day
um and so we do have a
little bit of stuff planned
for wednesday I can't wait
um my best friend told me
about a new wing place that
just opened up near our
house and uh supposed to be
the best wings in town and
I man chicken wings are
number one on my list of
foods all time and uh so
that is my plan for birthday
Denise says happy birthday
to everyone except Jamie.
Mine's October.
Aaron's is January tenth.
So we we know how that goes.
Yep.
Yeah.
Oh, yeah.
Like I said here that we're
going we're going to go see
a Broadway show in in Toronto in January.
We're going to go see
Hamilton during the holidays here.
But the prices were so
expensive this during the holidays.
Everyone's off and
were waiting for the price
to come down and we ended
up just going um we're
gonna go see the lion king
in january in toronto when
she comes to toronto lion
king is so good I have
heard good things about
that so good the opening is
worth the price of
admission awesome so we're
looking forward to that um
also part of our birthday stuff
We looked at what's coming
to Columbus and Hamilton's
going to be here this
summer here in Columbus.
And then there's,
this is going to be my wife
and I both love Neil diamond.
It's a corny thing that we really love,
but he has a musical out now that's based,
that's based on his music.
And it's coming to Columbus
in April or may.
So we may,
we may hit that one up this year.
uh, Jody agrees.
The opening for Lion King is epic.
It is like, it is breathtaking.
I can't wait for you guys to
see it and hear what your
impressions are.
It's so good.
And Toronto is like
Toronto's built for Broadway.
Like they have like Toronto's the second,
from what I understand in the world,
if you can't get to Broadway,
Toronto is the place to go see a show.
Cause it is like the second
best place to see it in the world.
Um,
so and then ken walters is
uh january thirteenth so we
have a lot of birthdays
happening um going on
around here uh kat actually
saw a stomp last week in
philly man that's a long
run yeah stomp's been
around for what twenty
years now wow crazy
Yeah, I did have a bone to pick with you.
I'm not going to do it tonight.
But you made me watch the Madness show,
which was a complete
colossal waste of my time.
It really was.
Oh, my gosh.
It started out so good.
Like, verse two, three, I was like, okay,
this is going to be good.
I was not thrilled.
I said to my, I went,
we had dinner with friends
last night and I was like,
have you guys seen the madness?
And you're like, well,
it was good until it wasn't.
Yeah.
I couldn't describe it better.
It just, it was good until it wasn't.
Yep.
Oh, so bad.
I was so mad at you guys for
making me start that.
I, I should have.
You and Lex are the ones
that started me on this.
But we were only a couple episodes in.
I didn't update you and say, hey,
not going to end.
Don't watch.
This is the last thing I'm going to say.
The intricate detail of what
wasn't important compared
to the lack of detail of
what was important by the
time you got to the end of
the story was mind-blowing.
Yes.
Agreed.
Don't even finish it.
Do not start it.
Do not finish it.
It goes off the rails completely.
Everything you've learned.
I watched the Beast Games
yesterday for the first time.
Have you guys watched any of that?
I saw it, but I didn't watch it.
How is it?
It's very dramatic, but I mean,
I'm into it now.
There's just a few episodes
that we've watched so far.
People have a lot of trust
in people that they don't know.
I'd be taking a lot of money.
I mentioned this on the
lunch show today is that
the NFL killed it on Netflix on Christmas,
right?
The ratings were through the roof.
Streaming seems to be like
the place for event programming to go.
Doesn't it make sense that
CrossFit try to get on a
streaming service as
opposed to an ESPN where
you can get their marketing
arm behind it?
Because I was talking to Pat
Midgley today and like the
physical one hundred was on Netflix,
this Japanese show that was super niche,
but it got Netflix
marketing arm and it did really,
really well.
Yep.
Right.
Like that's the partnership
I think CrossFit needs to
get a Netflix or a Peacock
or like if the new tour, for instance,
with the twenty signed
athletes did a series of
the whole year with those
athletes that stay the same that,
you know,
will be at each of these
competitions like that
would draw a lot of people
towards the sport.
yeah I I just it came to me
when I was reading this
article about the nfl
killing it in the tyson
paul fight and that that
they're going for this
event programming um and
what better than like the
crossfit games or the wfp
to like follow these
athletes through a season
um beginning to end and
yeah and wwe's going to netflix so
And the streaming services
are looking for those event
type things to sign up
because they're doing so well.
But anyway, that wasn't even in our plans.
And neither was this.
But as I was doing my live
to kind of promote the show,
I ran across this.
So this is hot off the presses.
Someone that helped me out
big time at the Masters
CrossFit Games made an
announcement today.
And that is Ellie Hiller has
announced that she's pregnant.
Yeah.
I feel like that got leaked
like two weeks ago.
I didn't hear until I just saw it.
Oh, I meant to tell you that.
Yeah.
So congratulations to Ellie.
She was a big help at the
Masters CrossFit Games,
getting us interviews and
super happy for her and her
husband that they are with child.
So super cool there.
now to our regular rundown
um lions are on tonight
you're like are they even
starting anybody yeah yeah
they're playing the forty
niners carolyn was supposed
to go I know but they're
not there it doesn't even
it doesn't even matter if
they win or lose because
next week means everything
yeah once they were out of
the picture I felt less
inclined to go because I
don't know what players are
gonna be playing and then
they still been going for a
playoff spot then that
would have been really
exciting to go watch but
not this time we've uh
we'll go another time uh so
oh she announced it on
glinton things a few weeks
ago that's how far behind the times I am
Um, so the first thing we have up is, uh,
the WFP world fitness
project has been on two talk shows.
They've made some announcements and, uh,
we can do a rundown of details.
I wanted to get your
impressions as athletes.
Um,
Kat and I talked about it on the round
table briefly,
but neither one of us
competed a high level.
So our,
our perception of this is going to
be different than yours.
First,
we now know who kind of is running
the show.
It is Isabella Terry and Jackson Terry,
both co-founders of Good Life.
Isabella is the executive director.
Jackson is the director of operations.
Will Morad is the director of sport.
Jason Ansley is the event
director for North America.
He did the first four Monster Games.
That is his experience.
Roger Nilsson is the event
director for Europe.
He is with the Wadla Group,
but he is best known for
the Norwegian throwdown
went back in the sanctional time.
He put that together.
And then Ryan Husband,
Director of Business Development,
founder of LRX Apparel,
actually from right here in Columbus.
I met him when he first
started his company.
He used to go from gym to
gym and set up tables
selling his apparel.
And he used to come to Shred
when I was a member there
and got to meet him early
on in his career.
And then his wife, Maggie Husband,
is the Director of Logistics.
So those are the players
that we are working with currently.
Spin posted something today
about an investor, I think.
I didn't have time to read
the article or anything yet.
So I've read...
So Dense Updates had
something on it first.
Then Barbell Spin got more detail with it.
But it's just who the money is.
And she's actually a Masters athlete.
She competed at the Masters
CrossFit Games in the sixty
to sixty five year old division.
Sixty sixty four division.
And and so she's she's loves CrossFit.
She's all about CrossFit.
And apparently her and her
husband are the people
putting up the money.
Yeah.
Well, and they're Isabella and Jackson's,
they're Isabella's parents.
Oh, that part I did not see.
That's the connection.
So they're the money and they're like,
they don't, I mean, yeah,
it's all in that article.
They've donated a bunch to the Hawaiian,
that Kalea Foundation.
They put up the money, I feel like,
for this good life company
to start and now they're
So Good Life's been around a while.
And it's actually spelled L-Y-F-E.
Yes.
And it is a non-profit
religious organization.
And
when we were at one church
that was the middle school
like organization that ran
all the um camps and stuff
like that for our middle
school um and my daughter
went to that one summer uh
she went to good life and
she went to camp and did
all that stuff so I'd
actually heard of them for
a while um but where they
have the money is they
actually own like other
businesses good life is
just their non-profit
um and spin actually spells
out what business they own
um I'll try to pull it up
just so I can it came in so
last minute I thought we'd
talk about it later I'm
gonna be right back I'm
gonna keep it I'm gonna
take my camera off because
I'm gonna go upstairs for
uh the rest of this call okay um so
Uh, Beth Gillette is the, is the,
the masters athlete.
Uh,
she placed thirteenth in her division
at the masters CrossFit games.
Um, she, she, they're the owner.
She's the owner, CEO,
owner of power grid services.
That's it.
Yeah.
They do the overhead distribution,
construction, maintenance, transmission,
line construction,
and right of way clearing
and vegetation management
for utility companies
across the Eastern United States.
And that's where the money is.
Yeah.
She also before she did
something else big before that even.
But yeah,
that's where the money's coming from now.
So.
Yeah.
So Beth Gillette is the person behind it.
Yep.
Yeah.
If they're putting forth
what we think is fifteen million dollars,
that's decent money.
Yeah.
And I mean,
it sounds like they're the sole
investors right now.
And it's been said on both
interviews that they have
other investors ready to come in.
Yeah.
Waiting for the need for that right now.
They don't need it right now.
So.
Right.
Um, so Will Morad used to coach, um,
Jackson Terry.
Uh,
he was his personal coach and did
programming for him.
And then they actually hired
will to work for good life.
Eighteen months ago.
And since that time they've
been talking about some
other stuff and it morphed
into eventually what we
have now is the WFP.
So Jackson Terry is married
to Isabella Terry.
Isabella Terry is the
daughter of Beth Gillette.
So that's how the connections come.
And then Will was the
personal trainer for
Jackson Terry and did his
programming for a while.
Yep.
And again, like Carolyn said,
they're big with the Kalia Foundation.
And Will's been in Hawaii a
lot this last few months.
So, yeah.
Yeah.
But that's about what we know for there.
They came in with a
non-exclusive attitude.
So this is a non-exclusive deal.
When you're signing your contract,
you can do both the WFP and
the CrossFit Games season.
They're trying not to beat down athletes.
Qualifiers are going to be three workouts.
Tour events are going to be six workouts.
Finals are going to be nine workouts.
Twenty men, twenty women with a pro card,
ten challengers selected
from a qualifier to compete
in the pro division.
They will also have a
challenger division at the same event.
Challenger division,
you can still earn points,
but first place in the
challenger division is less
points than last place in
the pro division.
I'm really curious how
they're going to do the
points during the season.
how much is what placing is worth,
what points and all of that.
Just very curious about that.
Like how hard is it to lose
your top twenty card or how
hard is it to actually gain one?
Like, yeah, if that makes sense.
Yeah,
that question was asked and not
answered well at all.
Yeah.
Well,
I think they they did say they're
still stress testing the point system.
They're they're grabbing
existing leaderboards from
other events to see and
throwing it into the points
to see how it affects it.
So yeah,
but this is not a brand new concept.
Golf and tennis have used a
point system forever.
I can't see why you wouldn't
just grab an existing point
system for a tour event,
whether it be golf or tennis or whatever,
and scale it for what you're doing.
That doesn't seem that complicated to me.
I mean, golf's been doing it for thirty,
forty years.
Yeah, I don't know.
It seemed it seems to me
like it's going to be the
fact that there's the more
points awarded.
I just feel like it's going
to be very hard to move up.
Well,
if you can get one of the ten
qualifier spots, I don't think it's hard.
Sure.
But say you're eleventh all the time.
You're just missing that.
And it could be if it's three workouts,
it's probably going to be
workout dependent.
And I don't love that.
So then maybe the point
spread shouldn't be like if
it becomes workout dependent,
the point spread shouldn't be greater.
Let's be realistic.
Of the people that have been announced,
and we'll show that in a second,
because there were two more
this afternoon,
I think that the people
they picked for the twenty,
there's room for some
people to get removed.
I agree.
But until we know the points,
we can't say that.
It might be...
it might be just them
showing up and finishing
might be enough to stay in there.
Like, I wonder also, um,
if it's the same workouts, um,
let's say the challenger
division and the pro,
if they have the exact same workouts,
same weights and everything,
like let's say your score,
your winner of their
challenger division would have finished,
you know, seventeenth in the pro division,
but they're not getting any
points that are actually making, like,
I'm curious for that scenario.
Cause you're going to see
that if it's the same
workouts that people are
will outperform the pro
division especially the
like maybe the last ten um
with the same workouts
depending because three
workouts in an online
qualifier does not like um
jamie said this won't you
know they're brand new
workouts at a competition
in person you're gonna have
people perform I hope they
do that because the more
people talk about it the
better it's going to be for the sport
more people say well carolyn
prevote went in the
challenger division and she
beat she would have beat
six people in the pro
division like I think
that's that conversation is
good for the sport not good
for you the athlete but for
me as the media member and
someone who wants the sport
to do well the more that
people are talking about it
then the more exposure it gets
But I see what your thing is
a competitive athlete.
Like that would suck to like
always beat the pros,
but you can't even get into
that division because of the qualifier.
Cause of the online qualifier.
Yeah.
That's why I'm just curious
what they'll do with the
points because right now
they're saying automatically last place.
What if there's an injury
and someone didn't even do
all the workouts?
They're getting more points.
If someone's injured but
they know that just showing
up to the comp will allow
them to get points just to
stay within the race.
So they just show up injured, take a bow,
don't do any of the events,
withdraw right away,
but they finish ahead of
the challengers and gain
their points just by showing up.
I think that's fair.
So just curious with that
type of scenario because it could happen.
I agree with you,
especially like some of
these people that I think
got the card more for
lifetime achievement than
they have for current standing.
Like some of those people
have had injury issues recently.
I think if you have injuries
and you finish last,
you're going to have a hard
time holding on to your card.
Yeah, I think that'll probably be.
But if you automatically get
a spot at each of the three
and your challengers,
your ten people that are
showing up at these events
are always different,
you can finish almost last
and still gain your top
twenty card just because someone, I mean,
it depends on the scoring system,
but if those ten
challengers are flipping in and out,
you just have to basically show up.
and you can maybe hang on to
that twentieth spot.
You have to remember that
the third event is based on total points.
So it's going to be
basically the twenty that made it in.
If just by chance all
qualifiers were different,
the twenty qualifiers are
going to make up the rest
of the ten that go to the final.
So you'll be in at least two
of those events to compete.
I think that's where it's
important that if you don't
make it in you should go to
the qualif the challenger
to just give bank enough of
those points so you can add
them to whatever you do in
the other two like let's
say roman roman doesn't
show up to the first second
and let's say by the third
one he does the online
qualifier and then goes to
the last one and gets top
five does that enough
points for him to get a pro
card for the following year
there's no qualifier for the final
Oh, it's not.
Okay.
So that.
Only the two tour events.
And then the top thirty
points will compete in the final.
Okay.
So the double that.
So that trial thingy.
The trials is for every other division.
Not the pro division.
Got.
But I do think legit
questions have come out of
this that were not asked.
If Sydney Wells gets hurt, right?
Just throwing out a name
that I saw on the list today.
And she can't go to tour event two.
Do then eleven qualifiers get to go in?
If one of the twenty female
athletes can't go to the finals,
do eleven challengers get to go?
That wasn't answered or asked.
in the stuff and I think
that's important because if
someone gets hurt that is
an opportunity for another
athlete to get more points
and I hope that they give
them that man comments are
coming in fast and I know none of them um
Ken says tennis tour isn't
the same court surface golf.
Every course is different
and the five elite routines
are awarded more points.
Also players move up from
lower tours if they Yeah.
Well,
I think this is just starting this is
the money they have is to
support this small thing
now to see if they can get
it to grow and become self sustainable.
think the idea is great um
like I'm excited for it I
think they have some a lot
of people that are involved
right now hopefully that
they make some good
business decision for the
sustainability of it um but
still missing a lot of
information in terms of
dates and location like
victor hofer on one of his
podcasts that was posted on
helping the other day he
says in french that there's
three stages and it's in
may august and december
In French, clearly in that.
I never went to the actual
podcast to look for more information,
but those are the months that he said.
So I don't know if he spoke
and he knows information
and he was not supposed to say stuff,
but.
Yeah.
Justin Madera said may for
one of the months too.
So may seems to be it.
And now there's some
controversy that one of the
in-person semifinals is in may.
So is it really avoiding the
calendar of the game season?
Yeah.
So I think there's two in person in may.
Like it leaves like one possible week.
I was just thinking you're right.
Yeah.
Like, well,
that's the thing they're trying
to make this world.
Like it,
I feel like it's gonna be
tough on some athletes.
Yeah.
So I'm going to try to get
through this quick so we
can get to the year end
stuff before Jamie has to go.
I'm still sorting out the
relationship with the PFA.
They're in talks.
Nothing has been, um,
contractually done with them.
Um,
but they are talking to him about
movement standards, um, and safety.
Uh,
they're hosting completely new events
to control the standards,
which I do kind of respect, um,
that you're not having
third parties saying that, um,
a box step up is this,
and then this one over here
saying it's something different.
They're trying to make it so
that the movement standard
is the same across all the events.
I do like that idea a lot.
Yeah.
Yep.
plan is to expand in the
future years using the
highest finishes to score.
So say they have six tour
events and they're going to
take your three highest scores.
You can then choose to go to three events,
four events or five events,
but you'll only get your
three highest scores that
will count for your points.
But that will give more
flexibility in the season,
just like golf or tennis,
where you choose to go to this event,
that event and that event,
but not necessarily all of them.
And that's where the
backfill question would
even be more pertinent
because then more
challengers could get those
spots than ten.
If the twenty athletes didn't do whatever.
We talked about the point system.
They say they have enough
money for the foreseeable future,
but eventually they're
going to have to see a
return on investment at some point.
They want to embrace the storytelling,
and there's some bullets here.
Ramp up media content the
week before the tour event
to get to know the people.
And they want to get to know
the people as people, not as athletes,
so that you understand the backstories.
They want to make the live
stream more easily understood.
So if someone just walking
in and it's on can
understand what's going on
as opposed to having to
have it explained.
Knowing the players will
increase the anticipation
and third party media will
be welcomed at tour events.
That's awesome.
Top thirty points accumulate
will compete in the finals
where double points will be awarded.
They will have a teen and a
master's division, two divisions of each.
Teens will be called next gen,
fourteen to sixteen and
seventeen to nineteen masters,
thirty five to forty nine and fifty plus.
Thoughts on that master's athlete.
I mean.
There needs to be so many
more details around that.
I think it's not getting too
far out over their skis,
like dipping their toe in
to bring them in,
and then let's see what we
can do and create anticipation.
I would do one teenage division.
I don't think they need two little ones.
One master division, one teen,
just to kind of get them in there.
I do like that they expanded to nineteen.
Yeah, I do like that.
I don't think that they need...
Especially if it's going to
be the same workouts,
it just becomes a long day.
If they wanted to make it viewable.
Yeah.
The workouts are going to
get released early too, he said.
Yeah.
I, I have that somewhere.
And then goal is to
reinvigorate the connection
with the fans.
So, and I think that if you're,
if you sign a contract with a company,
they can actually make that
happen more often than if
you're just a freelance athlete,
they can say, Hey,
we're going to have this event.
You need to be at this before we,
we go to X, Y, Z or whatever, but, um,
rolling out announcements
through January.
Um,
given out forty they've
talked to forty athletes
nobody has said no some are
still waiting to see the
dates and get the dates
confirmed uh qualifiers
will be six weeks prior to
each event uh all the
events will have jerseys
and a kit for the events
there will be one north
american tour event one
europe tour event and then
the finals will be in north america
if can't compete the season
for some reason contract
will be paid out as a
percentage of what was
completed so you're
contractually said to do
three if you can only do
two you'll get sixty six
percent of your contract
and they did say that
carolyn they did talk about
the workouts uh especially
in year two everything
being released early so
that judges event
organizers and athletes can
all be on the same page by
the time the tour event happens
which I know you'd be happy about that.
Yeah, I think it allows for less leaks,
just throw it out there.
They're gonna be different events.
It's like, like,
you know what the workouts
are going to be that far in advance,
but just a little bit.
It takes away some of it.
Some of the issues that we
see right now with the unknown.
still training for the
unknown it doesn't change
the methodology it's just
the sports side of it you
just know a little bit more
to make it cleaner for the
broadcast everything wow
there's so many you guys
have thrown so many
comments and I can't even
keep up um uh ken walter
says scott sounds great
questions looks like you
should get will on for lunch hour show
I would love to have Will on,
and I'm going to reach out
to Will about that and a
couple other things.
I have a pretty good
relationship with Will.
He's been on a couple times on the show,
and we hung out a couple
times at the Masters Games
in the documentary, as you can see.
Kenneth says,
I assume streaming is a
pretty big expense.
It is.
To get full production...
But who knows who they're
negotiating with either?
Like we said,
if you pitch it as a show
idea and a series,
maybe a streaming service
would pick it up as opposed
to trying to do it yourself
through YouTube or whatever
that might be.
And they did say they're
talking to a couple broadcasters,
not just one.
And that has been one of my
beasts forever is that the
same broadcaster keeps
getting used for every CrossFit event.
So you've had no innovation in ten years.
The broadcast is the exact
same as it's always been.
Wooly Meemeth in the house saying,
I'm a little upset I didn't
get signed for the Masters Division,
but whatever.
Yeah.
Clooney,
sports don't usually make money
without a big broadcast deal.
Streaming on YouTube won't
work for longer-term growth
or return on investment.
Yes, you are preaching to the choir.
We have mentioned both on my
lunch show today and
tonight that streaming
seems to be the way to go
and maybe to try to get a
partnership with a
streaming service as
opposed to ESPN or CBS and
the more conventional things.
Maybe it's better to look
toward streaming services instead.
I've seen some stuff in here
about Rich coming in, getting Rich to go.
I think you have to get Rich
to agree to come.
And I think that's going to
be the bigger issue than
you wanting him in there.
Yeah.
So, and I felt like Jim Carrey there,
like I took in the big breath.
blew through that really
fast but keep throwing your
comments in there we'll
talk about this we're going
to be talking about it as
they keep doing more and
more announcements through
the season but I will pop
up the signed athletes at
this point as they did sign
two more athletes this
afternoon and they are sure
I only have like five instagrams open
My boy Saxon Pancheck got
signed this afternoon,
and Emma Lawson added to
the roster this afternoon.
That was in addition to Sydney Wells, BKG,
Jason Hopper, Amy Kringle, Mano Anganese,
Dallin Pepper, Emma Tall, Justin Medeiros,
Victor Hoffer, Roman Krennikoff,
Emma McQuaid, Travis Mayer, Alexis Raptus,
Yellow Hosta, Patrick Vellner,
Brooke Wells, Alex Kazan,
and Chandler Smith.
And I believe that brings us
to twenty signed athletes announced.
So we're at the halfway point.
Any thoughts on the signed
athletes before we move on?
Not surprised that really
honestly with any of them,
like even the ones that I,
that I feel are,
could be replaced by other people.
Like they have connections.
to agents they have
connections to athletes
they have media following
so there's not really any
surprising picks there most
are most are the top
athletes anyways most I
think this is the only
disappointing part that I have so far
And that is because on the
interviews they said they
were taking the
leaderboards of Rogue and
the Games for the last few
years and putting them
together and taking the
top-sixteen men and top-sixteen women.
And then four at-large bids
to get the twenty spots.
Right.
At my count, we are past four at-large.
Oh, yeah.
Based on those leaders.
And if that's what you're doing,
then fine.
This is year one.
You get to pick who they are.
It's your league.
Do what you want to do.
But this is not what you said.
And I love you, Will.
And I want to support this.
I think this is a great endeavor.
I think this is correcting a
lot of the things we've
been bitching about the
CrossFit game season about for years.
And I want to see it do well.
But this is not what you said.
There are more than four
people here that would not
have been in the top six
team combining those two leaderboards.
I agree.
Is it just from this year or
is it last year's past two years?
The past two years.
Some of these athletes were
hurt during those two years
and would not have made the top sixteen.
Some of these athletes are
so new they wouldn't have
made the top sixteen.
So that is.
That's all.
But again, I'm not surprised, though.
This is a sport where we
recycle the same sponsors
for every athlete.
It's the same few agents.
It's literally a who you
know and followers for a lot of things,
for opportunities.
So I'm not surprised.
Glennie said there's no
perfect way to select athletes.
I agree.
There is no perfect way,
but don't tell me you're
doing it one way and then
obviously it's not that way.
Right.
Just say we're picking hot names,
people we think are going
to invigorate the sport,
people with bigger personalities,
whatever.
Whatever you think it is, just say that.
Right.
Just don't tell me you did
it another way because I
know Victor Hoffer did not
compete at the games.
He withdrew this year on his
one qualification before event one.
So he couldn't have been top-sixteen,
right?
Sidney Wells is not
top-sixteen in the world
combining those leaderboards.
And I don't want to go through and, like,
Amy Kringle's too new to be top-sixteen.
BKG, well, BKG did do okay,
even though he couldn't
lift more than ninety five
pounds at the games two years ago.
These are not surprising picks, though.
They're not surprising at all.
You cannot you cannot be
surprised for the most part.
Competitive in two years.
I thought she was retiring to this year.
She just said she's not doing the games.
OK, but.
Yeah, they're like,
I'm not surprised by any of
the picks again.
For the most part,
like you still have your
top athletes that will be there.
And someone asked if Laura and Tia, I mean,
if no one's turned down,
they would be within the top twenty.
So I'm assuming Laura and
Tia are going to be there.
But yeah.
I'm like, yeah.
Like every time I see an athlete, I'm like,
yeah.
OK, again, I see why they picked them.
If if they wouldn't have said top sixteen.
I wouldn't care then they
can pick whoever they want
and I'm cool with that so
and I wouldn't have been
surprised but don't tell me
you're using this criteria
and then I know for a fact
you didn't use that
criteria you I have
connections with agents you
went to that agent's
clients you signed all those people
And then you went to the
next agent and you signed those people or,
Hey, this is a major sponsor of ours.
So we're going to sign all
their athletes to make sure
that they're covered for
their sponsorship and to,
to create a partnership.
I understand how business works.
I understand how you have to
handshake deals and stuff
behind the scenes.
That's just not what they said.
That's all.
don't think he's picking
friends I think he's
picking people that they
think will draw attention
and who have connections to
people they need behind the
scenes so um okay so that
is done let it let's go to
the year-end awards real
quick so jamie can
participate in that I just
have to pull up my notes so
We have a list of, I don't know, ten,
twelve categories and we
are going to go through
those and we will pick our
year end for twenty twenty four.
There was no real criteria given for this.
It is just whatever you believe in,
whatever you feel.
We're not setting an
expectation of combining leaderboards.
We are just setting that
we're going to pick what's best for us.
So with that best male
performance twenty twenty four.
Who do you want to go first?
We'll start with you, Jamie,
and then we'll rotate it.
I said Dale and Pepper.
Any reason behind that?
I feel like his performances
at both the games and Rogue
were net better than pretty
much everybody else's.
Carolyn?
Fikowski.
I thought he performed well
at all aspects of the year.
I thought he looked good.
He maximized his last year in the sport.
I picked Jeff Adler because
of his rogue performance.
It was a dominating win.
It's the only competition he
completed in twenty twenty four.
And that one he did go up
against the best in the
world and he dominated that performance.
He is the best male athlete.
Hands down, he's the fittest male athlete.
I just picked Pekowski in
terms of he outdid my expectations.
Jeff Adler is hands down.
He had three great performances this year.
That's why I said there's no
criteria for this.
Ken says we should call these the Clydes.
I love it.
So now we go to the female side,
female best performance,
twenty twenty four.
Start with Carolyn.
I mean, it's hard to argue against Tia,
but I'm going to I'm going
to pick Laura Horvath.
Well,
I think beating Tia four straight
events in a row is just
like you don't see that ever.
That's pretty impressive.
But didn't Tia beat her four
straight events before that?
Yeah, but Tia's supposed to.
When does anyone,
one athlete beat Tia four
straight events in a row?
It just doesn't happen.
As much as I've been a Laura
picker for a long time,
and I tried to find a way
to pick somebody other than Tia,
I just couldn't.
She just killed it this year.
She just killed it.
So I picked Tia.
Tia's the obvious choice.
I didn't want to go with the obvious,
so I'm going to say Gabby.
And I feel like she was
crushing Rogue until she wasn't.
She was crushing Rogue.
She stuck out the games.
Incredible performance at the games.
I was just excited for her whole year.
I mean,
it sucks to see that happen at Rogue.
so I I tried to make an
argument for gabby but she
was still in third at rogue
behind laura and tia like
even with that great
performance she was still
you know well yeah she
didn't finish and so to me
it's similar to jeff right
like tia is the best jeff
is the best male and female
and then I was looking for
someone else that are not
the the two usuals exactly
So then we move into most
disappointing performance
of twenty twenty four male.
This is hard because I
really hate picking disappointments,
but I'm going to go first
and my pick is Ricky Gerrard.
I really thought.
that he would have better performances at,
at rogue and the games.
And they weren't terrible, but he,
why does he always get hurt?
Like,
why does he always get hurt when like,
you're right there on the
precipice of greatness and Chad,
he rolls his ankle coming off the box.
It was right in front of me.
I saw it happen.
It was,
I thought he was done for the games
in that moment.
And he somehow still finished seventh,
but that is not a Ricky finish.
and so I said and I and I
expected him to do better
at rogue too and he still
did well it just I I wanted
him to compete against jeff
closer so I pick ricky my
pick also hinged a lot on
rogue finish um and I went
with velner def definite
decline this year yeah
And we know I love my boy, Pat.
Oh, you love some Pat Vellner.
That was mine was Pat for in
terms of a performance at a
specific event.
That's how I had read the question.
If you wanted to say like in
general for the year, my disappointment,
Roman.
Roman was not very good at Wadapalooza.
None of the events I was really...
awe with and I know he was
injured a little bit at the
games but like he didn't do
anything there even prior I
think I had lost a little
bit of faith of where he
was at last year um at the
games I thought that he had
a not so great season but
again I don't know how much
the the injury played a
part at what point of the
season it started but he
didn't look good at the
games he didn't look good
at water palooza he looked
okay at semifinal deep like
decent at semifinals yeah um
Yeah.
Uh, just to catch up on some climate, uh,
some comments,
Craig passively picked Jason as a, uh,
best performance.
Um, Clint East picked Tia.
Uh, Craig said, Brent is a good pick.
Um, Craig picked Tia.
Um,
Jody agreed with me.
I love when that happens.
Ken said, mine is Colton.
Not that he did bad by any means,
but because my favorite
athlete didn't make the games.
That's a good disappointment.
I agree.
I like that.
That's a good pick.
Yep.
So then we go to most disappointed female.
Back to me?
Yep.
Overall, for the whole year,
I'm going to go with Danielle Brandon.
Okay.
that's always a solid pick
because the expectations
for her are always like
super high they are I think
she'll do like I just
really thought she would
finish higher at both the
games and rogue carolyn
mute you're on mute sorry
uh I have two lawson just
didn't perform as as well as I um
expected her throughout the whole year.
Not like the games.
I don't even look at the games at all,
but just in terms of the
whole year in general,
like normally she would, you know,
be top three in the open top three,
like just wasn't herself this year.
Um, yeah.
And I think my, my other pick was Domet.
I think I expected a little
bit more of her at the games.
Um,
after coming off the
semifinal and maybe a
little bit of hype but how
hard was it factoring in
the games this season
because they just they
weren't what yeah they're
it's so hard there you had
programming removed you had
like it just was hard to
like judge through all of that
It really is.
I take small value in the games this year,
but it's one of the only
competitions in person we have.
All the athletes are there competing.
There's Waterpalooza, there's Rogue,
the games.
We don't have much besides the online,
and I'm not going to put as
much value on the online.
Sadly, again, the games to me doesn't
reflect how the performance
of a lot of athletes so my
appointment is based on
rogue and I know that this
person is not typically
strong at rogue but because
of the metamorphosis she
supposedly went through in
the off season I expected
more of her there and that
is hayley adams uh
sixteenth place at rogue
Even though I knew she
wouldn't hit the
weightlifting events or the heavy events,
she didn't do anything well at Rogue.
That's not true.
She crushed the snatch one.
And that's...
you know, and she would,
that snatch event for her was like,
when I looked at the
strategies of everyone, I'm like, oh,
they're all doing like what I did.
They're blowing up.
And then they're going to start, you know,
not doing as well in the snatch.
She took her sweet time on
those ring muscle ups.
She did like four, five sets even,
and then just move the snatch,
move the snatch weight
better than anyone.
Everyone was like,
including Laura missed snatches.
Almost everyone did the same
strategy that I did, which was just like,
two sets or maybe three I
think this is it she was so
overhyped the media was
attention was on her that
she had done all this stuff
to change and get get her
love for the game back and
I just expected more than a
sixteenth place yeah her
adaptability at rogue
wasn't good like she
couldn't do the long muscle
up she couldn't do the
pegboard which normally she
is so good at the pegboard
So there, yeah, there's a few there.
I'm going to spoil this
because I probably won't make it.
My most surprising female,
I picked Haley for those big dichotomies,
right?
Like some great performance at semis.
You know, like Erin says it's great here.
I feel like she got a little stronger,
but everything else regressed.
So to me,
there was some big surprises
there for me with Haley.
So that was my vote for that
because that's like your
last one and I will not be on for that.
So that was my pick there.
Ken keeps saying that
Carolyn just keeps picking the Canadians.
I've been honest, good and bad,
good and bad with my Canadians.
Can't stand DB every year.
It's the same.
And then Daniel,
Dan Church echoes all that.
And then Craig says Alexis.
So that's a,
I consider that for my dis my
disappointed as well.
Yeah.
Good pick.
All right.
Next category is coach of
the year and it's Carolyn.
I mean,
it's hard to not talk about what's
going on at Burt camp and our brute,
not camp or fitness with strength.
And I was like, Oh, I forgot the name.
Um, I don't know who coaches, what athlete,
like, I don't know if it's that,
if something's going,
something good is going on, um, there.
Yeah,
I said Matt Torres along with Aaron
Fraser.
He took over Brute.
He is now the owner of Brute, so I'm just,
I guess, giving him the nod.
But they also have Coach L
there who's taken on a lot of clients.
Coach L was at the Masters
CrossFit Games with a ton of athletes.
I know he's Kelsey Keels.
He's Daniel Brandens.
He just took on Jason Hopper.
So, yeah.
And I'll pick Caroline
Lombre just to continue
with my Canadians.
Yeah.
Thanks, Ken.
My coach of the year is Tristan.
Yeah.
Because he got Hattie there.
He got me there.
Can't argue with results.
Yeah.
All right.
Best viewing experience.
We're not doing favorite moment.
Oh, favorite moment of the year.
I'm sorry.
Favorite moment of the year.
All right.
This is my last one.
I'm signing off.
Okay.
Is it me?
I'll go.
My favorite moment of the
year was me finishing
second in the power clean
total bar burpee workout at
the masters games.
Little self-promotion.
It was my favorite moment.
I was more impressed by your
echo bike performance.
That was up there for me
because it was like full push.
Cause you're not that like tall, big,
like that was impressive for me.
I feel like both were like
the power clean was super heavy.
The bike was, is more power output.
Um,
I think the fact that there was more of
a race on the floor in the,
in the going back forth to the bar,
to the toe, you're just on a bike.
You don't know everyone's kills.
It's really hard to see.
It's not,
I wasn't really happy with my
performance.
Don't get me wrong.
I just think the race in the
power clean one was a
little more exciting.
And that you got dizzy
because they kept making you spin.
Things could have been improved there,
but it was, yeah.
Carolyn?
I didn't write this one down.
Go ahead.
You go first.
But let me think about it.
Mine is a semifinal syndicate crown.
Lydia Fish finishing the snatch ladder.
And I think it's I think it
is so indelible because I
was right beside her in the
media pit and I caught the
footage from behind with
her entire family in the stands.
going ballistic when she hit
the last bar and like the
the gen the genuine
excitement in that arena
when she did that was one
of the coolest feelings of
the year for me and so that
is my favorite moment and
it's still on my instagram
uh as a real so if you want
to go check that out but
her dad like loses his mind
in the stands and I
captured that on video as
she hit that final bar
Okay, I have one, Ken.
Canadian again.
So I was in the stands at
Syndicate Crown for the last event,
and I'm sitting with Chloe
Goldvang-David's parents
and her boyfriend cheering for her.
And after she smashed that event,
just seeing her qualify
again for the Games was exciting.
I have a lot of appreciation for her.
in the sport and I have a good,
good relationship with her.
So just was very,
very happy to see her get
back to the games, um,
at the expense of other Canadian friends,
which that's not good, but, um,
I was happy for Chloe.
Yeah.
Not many people had her on
their bingo card for making
the jump on that final workout.
I said that that Sunday was
built for Chloe.
You did build for her.
We also have Ricky running
the sub five minute mile at the games.
That was pretty awesome.
James final games event.
That was pretty awesome too.
That was Aaron's choice.
He was torn between my
performance or the games,
the games final event.
He thought that was a really
good race on the floor
between like three of the men.
And he was like,
that's like the one that
sticks out in my mind.
I wouldn't be surprised if
Tudor joined Brute this year.
You know,
what's funny is Tudor started with Brute.
Right.
He was a Matt Torres athlete
back when him and Dallin
and James were all teens.
And Emma Carey,
that group was all together
with Matt Torres back in the day.
All right.
I'm going to sign off.
You guys want me to remove you?
I think I can leave the studio.
Okay.
Bye.
Okay.
We get to go.
Whoops.
There, ah, there we go.
Wide screen.
Um, uh,
Carolyn with the make a Canadian
great again.
We've been good.
We've been here.
We've won on both the males
and females side.
So there ain't no great again.
Uh, so best viewing experience.
Rogue.
rogue that's mine the
package the special package
you can purchase with rogue
every event that has
streaming should offer that
it's a way to make your
money back it is a revenue
stream um they charge
twenty five dollars every
year you can move the
freaking camera to watch
whatever you want to watch
how can you not love that
And you can either pick the
traditional broadcast or
what I call their Manning
cast or their tailgate party.
You can do both.
And to me,
that was the best viewing
experience by far.
Not even remotely close.
It's so much better than any other comp.
They raise the bar all the
time for competitions and stuff.
So yeah, it's great.
best of overall event your
turn rogue yeah me too I
mean you have the athletes
as well as a new location
in in europe the fans are
great um like there are
good like there were other
good events out there like
in terms of some of the semi-finals um
but you don't always have
the best of the best
competing and like Rogue
just gets those athletes there.
It has the best atmosphere in the world.
They pay attention to every detail.
Waterpalooza was essentially
rained out this year.
The games had the tragic
event that took away a lot there.
So there really wasn't even
a lot of competition.
Semifinals were underwhelmingly attended,
except for Europe and Torian.
But for me,
those were tough to watch just
because they were in the
middle of the night.
Um, but so rogue by far.
Yeah.
And then, yeah.
Yeah.
That's what I was going to say.
Like if you,
if you want to go with a
smaller competition, um,
competition with less money
than what rogue can put out, then crash,
I think nailed it.
Yeah.
They did.
They do a great job now every year.
Um, so super stoked that they're,
they keep doing what they do.
Um, best event workout.
I didn't think about this one.
You added some new ones that I didn't see.
This one's always been there.
Oh, has it?
Best event workout.
Yeah.
I'll go ahead.
I think I like the finale.
I like the finale of the semifinals.
And I don't know if it's
because there's so much on
the line for it that it
just created a lot of excitement.
But I thought it was one of
the better finales that we've seen.
We match again.
Yeah.
The distance on the lunge at
the end could not have been more perfect.
It was,
there was so much devastation in
that last event with
everything on the line.
It brought all the drama.
Um, usually the, you know,
they always say the workout
shouldn't be the star.
The athlete should be the star,
but that workout was the
star to end all the semifinals.
Yeah, it really was great.
And like going in, I was like, oh,
like no one's going to put
down the lunges.
Like it's going to be
irrelevant for most people
that they're just strong enough.
And then sure enough,
people are those dumbbells are slipping.
People are having to get called back.
And it was that was an exciting event.
People are like, giving JR some love,
well-deserved, yes.
And then Jay Birch says,
was it Torium Pro that had
the cool opening ceremony?
They always have.
It's like a rock show there.
They've got fireworks and
flames and lasers and everything else.
I so want to get to go there
one time to watch what they put on.
Last two categories.
Most surprising performance, male.
It's my turn, right?
So I go James Brown.
Uh,
games like nobody saw him winning the
games.
If, if you had him picked before you,
you're going to Vegas to
collect a big sum of money.
Um,
And even though it was
really tough to include
much of the games in
judging this season because
of what happened there,
that was a huge surprise.
And like James is just one
of the coolest dudes I've ever met.
So happy for him and his family.
It was just awesome.
And that to me,
that's the most surprising
male performance.
I'm going to go Austin Hatfield.
I thought that he had a
couple event wins like for him to win.
two events at the games.
I think he won a couple,
at least one at the semifinals too.
I didn't expect as much from him.
And I know that the games, again,
like if you put everyone in
the field with the right mentality,
it's a different maybe outcome.
But I still thought that he
was better than I expected.
Come on,
John Young would have told you
about Austin Hatfield six years ago.
I know, but I'm not.
not going on that he did
have like the biggest
cheering crowd though at
syndicate uh that was him
and haley adams it was
crazy how many people were
there for them it was so loud
That was fun to see.
Someone knew, you know, Austin was,
you know,
he was in Orlando the year before, but in,
in Tennessee, near his hometown, uh,
the people from West
Virginia could get down there and, uh,
man, it was loud.
Uh,
Ken Walter said Hatfield's going to be
a game's regular release the rabbit.
we finish up with most
surprising performance
female emily rolf sure she
was in my list yeah howdy
kanye I'm gonna go with all
the canadians just tonight
well I went with hattie
hattie hattie at
semi-finals yeah not not
necessarily at the games
Oh, my only,
my only wish for her is that
she wouldn't have blown the
last event and had a podium finish to,
to cap it off because she
was leading going into the
final event and then lost
it on that workout.
We just talked about enough
where she fell back.
I take my votes back.
Gabby.
Okay.
Gabby,
because I knew she was getting good.
I didn't know she was getting this good.
And I didn't know that she was going to be,
you know,
right there with Laura as much
as I... Because to me,
it was like Tia and Laura
are just like completely
separated from the rest of the girls.
And then there's like a
little group of girls, you know,
within that three to seven or eight.
And then there's another little group.
But I thought...
Gabby really made a step this year.
Really made a step.
So you are picking a
non-Canadian as your most
surprising athlete of twenty twenty four.
Yep.
I'll do it.
I'll pick a non-Canadian.
All right.
So that was fun.
The the Clydes are over.
We have Craig says Emily at
the Games third.
That was surprising.
And Kate.
Man, my internet is going.
I didn't know if it was mine or yours.
It's mine.
Okay.
It's not happened in a while.
So hopefully it comes back.
We're coming back.
Patrick Clark is bragging
that he's been telling us
about Gabby for two years now.
Something changed this year though.
I mean, she trained with Laura.
She was, she looked like she was happy.
She learned from one of the
best in the sports.
Like if you're training with
one of the best and you're getting pushed,
like that's going to help in training.
Like,
I don't know what has happened since
then.
And I'm not going to get into any of that,
but I mean, that helped her.
And I think it helped.
It helped Laura too.
Sorry about that.
OK.
A couple other things before
we head out of here.
Speaking of the WK Crown,
the volunteer registration is open.
And here is the Google Doc for everybody.
You can go out to and fill out that.
And they have jobs available.
sure athlete control gear
judges media medical
scoring and special
assignments so make sure to
go check that out I don't
know if you had it on the
the list too but the one
competition the rebel rebel
games or whatever they
announced today or
yesterday that you know the
athletes that would be
competing there are only
going to be from the
African region and the UAE itself.
So that was surprising.
And you know, this way, you know,
we don't know the details about the other,
um,
semi-finals and maybe this is going to
set a precedent for next
year and what people might
do in the following years.
Um, you know,
people might be looking at this like, Oh,
I guess there's no restriction.
We could do that with ours too.
So I'll be interested to see
if any of that, um, happens this year or
in the future years because
we already have cut down
the field and if we start
changing things it could be
yeah from your perspective
I can see where that is
it's getting it sucks and
no uncertain terms we
thought we were going away
from the regions and now
and now we're just adding
them back in in a different format
I also have this announcement.
This came this week.
Katrin David's daughter got
engaged to Brooks.
And I don't know if you saw this,
but the ring is a whopper.
But they look very happy.
They've looked happy for years.
So happy for them.
And then...
last big thing and then
we'll get out of here is
waterpalooza has made a ton
of announcements today um
they have announced all
their elite teams women and
men and all their elite
individuals so here are the
elite teams you can go to
their instagram you can see
like the sydney wells
brookwell's haley adams
kyra milligan danny spiegel
olivia kerstetter then
there's I'm not going to go
through all of them
try to go slow so you can
kind of see them I'll point
out the ones that um kind
of stand out emily rawl
ferial lowen alex kazan
elisa fuliano linda keesman
fisa goffi ali weiss lauren
stalwood and sydney smith
uh shelby neal emma lawson
danielle brandon there's
some great teams and great
individuals it's going to be stacked
Lucy Campbell, Jennifer Muir,
and Taylor Howe.
Speaking of Tristan,
a bunch of his athletes, Hattie Canio,
Madison McElhaney, and Elisa Shower.
Jamie Smith, Jesse Smith, Amy Kringle,
and Annika Greer.
Emily Rethwell, Elizabeth Wishart,
and Hannah Black.
And then the daughters have joined forces.
Katrin, Annie, and Sarah all together.
Reese Littlewood, Lucy McGonigal,
and Berggrost.
The OGs and then the new teens.
That's pretty cool.
Ava George, Grace Lochner,
and Trista Smith, another young team.
So that is the women.
and then I know we have
whoop here are the
individuals all announced
uh erica folo emma tall
claudia gluck kyra milligan
brooke wells alexis raptus
andrea pinero elizabeth
wishart hattie canyo emily
lumberg amia lumberg
Amy Kringle, Danny Spiegel, Linda Keisman,
Georgia Pryor, Laura Horvat, Emily Rolfe,
Chloe Govan-David, Jessica Androzik,
Victoria Campos, Lucy McGonigal,
Bethany Flores, Elisa Fuliano,
Ariel Lowen, Lydia Fish, Reese Littlewood,
Jennifer Muir, Abigail Domet, Lexi Neely,
Annika Greer, Zoe Warren,
lucy campbell sydney wells
and sahir kaya that's quite
a field for wadapalooza on
the women's side very
stacked on the men's side
it's not quite as stacked
but there's still some big
names uh we have alex
catoulas moritz feebig jack farlow uh
kike serveini kaike ricky
garrard nick matthew gima
hieros alexander caron
harry lightfoot austin
hatfield uh jeff adler luka
jukic uh saxon pancheck
trayvon benton james
sprague travis mayer max
krieg luke parker pat velner anola kai
John Wood, Yonikoski, Ruan.
The guys have a lot of great names, too.
Both sides are... This is a great roster.
And then... That's the women again.
The elite team's men.
Pull that up.
This one,
I don't think is as stacked as
some of the other,
but there's some stacked teams.
Justin Madaris, Dallin Pepper,
Willie Georges, Jack Farlow,
Benjuan Boulanger, Tudor Magda, Hopper,
Adler, Vellner, Saxon Pancheck,
Jorge Fernandez, Guy Mejeros, Noah Olsen,
Chandler Smith, Travis Mayer,
who always do well at Waterpalooza,
Alex Cotullis, Nick Matthew,
and Brandon Shipper.
uh Michael Wislowski Pablo
Caza Cazales Callum
Clements uh the vigno
brothers are joining up
with Yves Eric pelote and
then we have Moritz fee big
Harry Lightfoot and Luca
jukic joining up and that's
those and then those are
pretty much the big names
on that side but there's
definitely some stack teams
I did not see Colton as one of the names.
Sorry.
I know he is a fan favorite.
I think that's pretty much
all the news from the week.
That was a lot.
So we did not do our gauntlet workouts.
We are going to do them next
week instead because there
was so much news.
And with Jamie's schedule,
it was tough for her to
commit to do that and the
year-end awards.
So Sunday night,
we are going to do the workout.
The assignment for you all
is create a sixty to ninety
minute workout.
Mine's under, but that's okay.
Well, mine is too,
but I left mine is sixty
minutes in total with a
transition so that you can
keep it moving.
If that makes sense.
Yeah.
I added my transitions with it.
And so so mine's a hair
under sixty minutes.
You make a sixty minute work, sixty,
ninety minute workout
waterfall style in a in a
high rocks ish type of
thing or like a gauntlet at
Waterpalooza thing that
would travel from city to
city where everybody from
the community would come
and do it together.
You would do heats.
It would just be like a rolling start.
And you would go through to finish.
And you would get a time.
Mine is set to every second counts.
Carolyn's is done for reps.
I did two.
I did one for time and one is for reps.
You're an overachiever.
I did two.
So I have two...
I have two submitted workouts from you,
the audience.
Those people are going to
get two entries because
they met the original
timeline for our either
water bottle giveaway or the coffee cup.
You get your choice,
either water bottle or
coffee cup with the
engraved Clydesdale Media logo.
The two people that put
theirs in ahead of time
will get two entries into the drawing.
Everybody that submits one
between now and Sunday will
get one entry into the drawing,
and then we'll read them
out and come up with what
we think is like the best
idea for an overall
gauntlet-style workout that would travel.
I say around, around sixty minutes.
It doesn't need to be.
Mine's around sixty.
Yours is around sixty.
Jamie was begging for ninety.
Of course she was.
But I'm also thinking about some, like,
it can't be such high skill
that we put away a lot of people too.
Like I want it to be easy to
judge and something that
people can kind of go through.
And it's just something
that's like a baseline
that's can be tested at
multiple locations.
And cause like the open is great.
And that's like,
I guess it's a baseline every year,
but the workouts are always different.
Like you don't actually like
actually know,
If you're fitter,
there are different workouts.
So this would be something
that could stay a little
bit more relevant.
Like, yeah, we have so many benchmarks,
but it's like just creating
one pretty balanced workout
with maybe different parts
in it that everyone in the
community can do either
yearly or multiple times a year.
was my idea of doing it.
The professor, Professor Clyde,
says this is due by next Sunday afternoon,
just so I can copy and
paste it into a document
that I can share on screen
so we can show it.
And you can either you can
either DM me on Instagram
or you can put it on the
YouTube comments.
We prefer the YouTube
comments because it helps
the algorithm tremendously.
But I'll take either at this point.
Jody Lynn says one person workout.
Yes.
So back when I first started CrossFit,
a lot of the competitions
were waterfall style.
You would do one workout.
You would get a transition
time or rest time to the next workout.
Do that.
another transition rest time to that.
And you would just go
through it and you'd be
done in sixty to ninety minutes.
But it's it's not just one
steady workout for sixty to
ninety minutes.
It's a series of workouts
with transition time.
Yeah.
And something that could get
scaled because.
So I actually have in two of
my workouts and an elite
version and an RX version.
the workout who's the
overachiever now so so we
can we can we can be there
for both both sides of the
the community so uh craig
says it's a good idea well
carolyn came up with this
and it's only taken us I
can see uh lex's shadow on
the wall she's like the lex shadow puppet
because I I like the high
rocks but I just find it so
running dominant that I
would like something like
that that's a little bit
more balanced in terms of
crossfit so restrictions
and equipment that can get
used quite a bit like if
you start adding rope
climbs and now we gotta
have you know rope ropes
are gonna get destroyed
during the day like they
wouldn't even last
Yeah, I thought about like what could be
So my vision of this is that
like high rocks, you have stations,
you have like in my minus four workouts,
you have station one,
you transition to station two,
which is another workout
transition to station three,
which is another workout
transition to station four.
So you can keep all the
equipment in the same station all day,
but you do want to think about,
it's going to be banged on
all day by a ton of athletes and
Easy to judge.
Yeah.
And I do have running in mind.
I'm just saying the whole
thing doesn't need to be running.
Yeah, I did not put running in mind.
Shocker.
Spoiler alert.
Not even in the forethought
of my mind to put running in this.
But I think it came out well.
I'm really proud of it
because I never do programming.
Like this was really outside
the box for me.
So I'm excited to get
feedback on my workout.
Back when I coached in like
from fifteen to eighteen,
I programmed a couple days,
but it was very minimal.
Would you claim that your
workout is could balance out in terms of
strength monostructural
gymnastics like it would be
a pretty fit test like a
lot of the benchmark
workouts like yes there's a
lot of good ones but you
need you would need
multiple to kind of
determine who's the fittest
that day right so
you would have enough stuff
in there that you could
claim this as a fit test
and the fittest will come
out is what you're saying.
I tried to be balanced.
Perfect.
Awesome.
Yeah.
Inside or outside.
It's ideally inside because
of the weather.
Yeah.
You don't want to be,
if you want to do a mass thing,
it needs to be something
that's rip that weather is
not playing a factor in scores.
Like you just want to see what the scores,
the top scores and you can
have a world championship.
We're basing this off of High Rocks,
which is always like in a
convention center with
indoor running or whatever it is.
So, and just,
we don't want to copy High Rocks.
They do what they do and that's great.
We just want to be a very
cross-fitty version
of a waterfall style workout
and I would even say the
two thoughts in my mind are
gauntlet at waterpalooza if
you've ever been there it's
a sixty minute workout that
anybody can sign up for and
do from the from the crowd
um and you do that straight
through sixty minutes take
that put it into the high
rocks traveling show and
that's what we're looking for
Cindy is super simple,
but a killer at the same time.
I will tell you,
Cindy was in mine and I took it out.
So if you have to think
about if you're going to put Cindy,
I mean, that's all.
I mean,
that would be a short person range
of motion.
So you would have to balance
that with something that
would be also for tall
people and strength bias.
So, yeah,
there's a lot of considerations to take.
Like, well, Cindy is a great test.
It wouldn't be the test of fitness.
So I had Cindy as one of my pieces,
and then I took it out
because I wanted to use an
element elsewhere.
Does that make sense?
I wanted to use an element
of Cindy elsewhere,
so I took Cindy out to be
able to do that.
And, yeah,
you can use any equipment that
you want to use.
Yeah, you guys are getting the idea now.
Short time domain, long time domain,
and mix it up.
So for my and this is a
little spoiler alert for mine,
I thought logistics because
you want to keep it flowing.
So I actually did with
transition time for fifteen
minute pieces.
So that the stations would
be changing at the same
time and you would just keep moving.
Does that make sense?
Like I have three minutes in
between my one that is for reps,
but there's like different
time domains because I'm
trying to get different
time domains as well.
But mine right now is fifty minutes.
Five zero.
In total.
And I think there's four parts as well.
So, Clintus,
I would say you can have as
many lanes as you want.
Probably ten to twenty.
Because it depends on
your... If you're in a convention center,
and this isn't like a broadcasted thing.
This is for the community to
come out and hang out together.
You can have a rig with two sides.
Ten and ten.
You can... If you're just doing...
But you want to kind of keep
it the same throughout the
whole day so the same group
of people can move together
through the stations.
But you're going to have a
lot of space if you go to
like a convention center
and set this up into stations.
And just move from one to the other.
So think outside the box.
As long as you can like
figure it out logistically,
I'm up for it.
And easy to judge because we
don't want to be on,
on social media posting.
Ken Walters.
Honestly, safe pounds and feet.
One of my metrics is also safety too.
If you're,
if I'm running a lot of people
of different levels,
it needs to be pretty safe.
I didn't want to have any dealing with,
like I said, like rope climbs or people,
if you don't have the right
equipment and things are falling apart,
like,
Safety is a big thing too.
Yeah.
But you guys get the idea.
Again, you can win this cool water bottle.
I actually have one still boxed up.
You'd win that one, not this one.
But water bottle or coffee cup,
your choice.
And then next week when we
announce them all,
then we can have a fan vote.
And then maybe we have to do
it in the new year.
Okay.
All right.
We need a baseline for it.
See if what we wrote is
killing these athletes.
Jodi wants to know,
when will you be signing
athletes up for this event?
We have to decide which workout wins.
Well, once we get our investor.
Fifteen million.
Yeah, the fifteen million.
Once it comes in,
we'll set this up and do
the traveling road show.
and fifteen million works
both in metric and in uh
american standard or
english standard so I just
think this could be like a
cool baseline that's
well-rounded that people do
in the community that every
year they could they could
do a different location and
meet up yeah and what's
cool is you could do a
world championship of it at
the end of the year take
the best times from all the
different cities
invite you you're assuming
it's time what if it's reps
like mine okay this of
course I'm gonna go with mine of course
Okay.
Well, with that, guys, this has been fun.
I love the interaction tonight.
You guys, we love you.
You're the best.
Hanging out with you every
Sunday or Monday night is awesome,
and we can't wait to do it
again this Sunday.
I'll be back on for lunch
with the Clydesdale tomorrow.
maybe I'll do some some
year-end stuff myself more
podcast related maybe best
shows of the year things
like that um with that
we'll see you guys all
tomorrow and don't forget
to wish lex a happy
birthday belated from
yesterday we have carolyn's
coming up on the sixth uh
we have mine coming up on
wednesday and we have
jamie's husbands on the
tenth yeah so make sure you
wish everybody a happy birthday
As you're pulling down your
Christmas tree and happy
new year to everyone.
Yeah.
Happy new year guys.
See you next time on the Clydesdale media.
Nope.
Sunday night, CrossFit talk.
That's what we're doing now.
Bye guys.