Clydesdale Media Podcast

Everyday we take a step back from the workday and use our lunch to take a breath to hang out with friends to talk about the world of Sports, Entertainment and specifically the CrossFit space. Today we talk about the in person semifinal concept being spread to the Age Groups. Why do we compare the WFP to the Games? Has Mat Fraser lost his appeal or is it just me.

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What is Clydesdale Media Podcast?

We cover the sport of CrossFit from all angles. We talk with athletes, coaches and celebrities that compete and surround in the sport of CrossFit at all levels. We also bring you Breaking News, Human Interest Stories and report on the Methodology of CrossFit. We also use the methodology to make ourselves the fittest we can be.

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this week man for the last

two weeks it has been awful

I hit all the buttons I go

to hit the launch and it

says can't connect to the

internet and then all of a

sudden boom we're on the

internet and we're live

here we are here we are

can't connect to the

internet we're on the

internet but we can't

connect to it it's fine

Yeah, now we're live.

And man, it is a stacked lunch show today.

We're having a group lunch,

a little brainstorming

party with my friend Kat and Corey.

I'm the only one without a C, I guess.

Kat, Kat, Kat, Kat, and Corey.

Why not?

Just drop the S. Why not?

It's a hard C. Whoa, special guest.

Yeah.

Yeah, I need help.

That's the only reason why I'm here.

So, yeah,

I don't even know what we're

going to talk about today,

but we're going to have fun.

It's lunchtime.

We're taking a break from the workday.

We're just taking a breath,

getting to hang out with friends.

Can't wait to do all that.

I did want to tell you guys,

I watched a movie last

night that put me in a weird,

weird place.

And it's a movie called Riff Raff.

So it has Bill Murray and

Pete Davidson and Jennifer

Coolidge and Ed Harris.

Like, tons of names, right?

Yeah.

And I really enjoyed watching the movie.

But the minute it was over, I was like,

what the hell just happened?

And is it... Was it worth watching?

But I enjoyed every bit of watching it.

It just... When it ended, I was like,

what?

What?

So...

I don't even know whether to

recommend it or not, but it was,

I was on the edge of my

seat the entire time.

I wanted to know what's happening next.

And then it was,

it was over and I was like, okay,

now what?

The director's like,

I don't know how to end this.

So we'll just cut it off here.

Yeah.

But I really enjoyed the

watching part of it just afterwards.

I'm not like, wow,

that was one of the best

things or worst things I've ever seen.

I just don't even know how

to think about it.

What kind of role did

Jennifer Coolidge play?

Was she her usual?

Typical train wreck.

Yeah.

Alcoholic, passed out all the time.

Yeah.

You sure it wasn't just an

episode of The White Lotus that you saw?

I'm pretty sure.

Yeah, it's kind of a mob movie-ish.

Okay.

Not to give too much away.

Kind of.

But then it turns out it really is.

You just,

you don't really know it totally

is until it's over.

And yeah.

Anyway.

Netflix, Prime, Paramount, where was it?

We actually rented it

because I had heard good things about it.

Oh, God bless it.

yeah went to my blockbuster

video store uh I was kind

and I rewound it last night

took it back this morning

um that's why we couldn't

connect to the internet we

own that we'll dial up um

but yeah that's yeah yeah

that was it that's all I

wanted to say I it's just

one it's just a weird

experience watching a movie

And we're watching lots of

movies because Julie's

still not able to get up without us.

Hey, I want a podcast.

Can I talk to you later?

From her bed.

Okay.

And this podcast is Jennifer Coolidge.

We are humming right along here.

I meant to hit the red

button and I hit the green

button by accident.

So there's my friend Mark.

Ken Walters, Kat, what kind of shampoo?

Your hair looks outstanding.

Well, thank you.

I used a little purple

shampoo today and I used my

new styling wand from TikTok.

So give me a little Farrah Fawcett curls.

I've been wearing my hair

really curly last couple of days.

And today I needed to go smooth,

even though it's raining outside.

Thank you.

I do have good hair today.

Tristan Patrick, what's with Corey's name?

What rules didn't he read?

So the NFC qualifiers that

are taking place right now,

the second workout was.

Twenty minute time cap,

two K row and then one

hundred fifty burpees over the roar.

And I inputted my score when I got done.

And then I saw some of the

other people's scores when

the leaderboard went live,

and it did not make any

sense to me because I didn't finish.

And so they, you know,

put your score at whatever, you know,

whatever it was when you got done.

And people had scores in

there that were more,

like that got time capped, like I did,

and had more burpees than

what we actually did,

which is supposed to be a

hundred and fifty.

Like what I saw that stuck

out to me was like a

hundred and fifty-seven.

I was like,

you can't get a hundred and

fifty-seven burpees and get time capped.

There's only a hundred fifty

burpees in the workout.

So I messaged them this

morning and turns out the

rope was worth sixteen reps,

which I did not read when I

had glossed right over that.

So it wasn't basically what

happened was it wasn't hard

enough as it was.

I needed to make it more

difficult to try to qualify.

So I was like, you know what,

I'm going to cut sixteen

reps off myself and just

kind of roll with it like that.

I don't read the rules well.

This is not the first time

you have not read the rules.

No, it won't be the last either.

I can pretty much promise you that.

So could you adjust your score?

Yeah, they let me down.

A lot of people are.

Mine hasn't moved yet, but I mean,

I've moved on the leaderboard.

My score hasn't been adjusted yet,

but other people's have.

So that's a good thing.

No,

I went to message them about it and

they were like,

is it yours or somebody else's?

And I went and took a

screenshot and I sent it

and they sent me the

screenshot of the scorecard where it says

And I was like, yeah,

I didn't see that at all.

And they were like,

just email us at MFC scoring.com.

And I was like, okay, cool.

So I did that and just

waiting on to readjust.

Andrew Sten wants to know, Kat,

was that a guy on the phone?

Yeah, that was my friend, Mark.

He's a,

we actually dated a million years ago,

but he's a CrossFit coach down,

down the road.

And he and I give each other life advice.

So yes, it was friends.

Not one of my eight thousand dates.

Well,

one thing I wanted to get to to make

sure we get to before lunch

is over and then we'll let

it go off the rails again

is that in Dave's Week in Review,

he announced that there,

because someone emailed or

made a comment on Dave's

Week in Review named Corey,

asked him to clarify a situation,

and he did,

and it was that the age group

athletes could have

in-person semifinals next

year to qualify for the CrossFit Games.

Very similar to what the

elite athletes have this year,

where we have these like

nine events where you can

qualify or you can do it on

the in affiliate semifinal.

Looks like they're trying to

do the same thing with masters and teens.

And they have like five

event organizers who would

like to participate.

Sign me up.

Let's go.

Line us up like they do everybody else.

And let's see.

Don't give them,

we did this one six times.

No.

Line us up.

Let's go.

Let us qualify to get there.

Use the open as a qualifier.

Easy peasy.

You made top hundred?

Cool.

You can go to this one.

If you can't go to this one,

you can go to this one.

Just like the individuals do.

If there's enough of it.

And still have the online court.

Just like the individuals do.

It's going to cut down on

that kind of stuff.

You're only going to have a

certain amount of people

going from the online after

you break it down.

Top three at this one,

top three at this one,

top three at this one, whatever.

If you have five of them,

that's half the field right there.

Then the top fifteen from

the online get to qualify.

Let's go.

Line us up and let's go.

And that's the example he

used was five events, three spots,

each half and half.

So half from online, half from in person.

Yeah.

Um, Lido asks, asks a great question.

I wonder how many in Europe,

if thinking about it,

I would think it would be

events that have a

community aspect to it as well.

Yeah.

Like if French throwdown had

a community aspect,

you would have the elite

qualifier and you would

have the master's qualifier

in the community event.

Um,

I don't think maybe MFC

would do something like

that to get it by them back

themselves back in the game.

Um, but I don't really see like a,

a totally dedicated age

group qualifying event.

No.

And that's fine.

Like, I don't think, you know,

at someone who's actively

trying to make the games,

I don't think I care.

Like it doesn't have to be

at MFC or it doesn't have

to be at legends.

Like if mayhem wants to do a,

a master's category or, uh,

Whatever, you know,

Wilson Pack and then want to do,

excuse me,

Puck and then wants to do a cool.

Let's go.

Tell me how, tell me how I signed up.

Tell me how I register and let's, let's go,

let's go that route.

I think the majority of us

would much rather the ones

that have legitimate scores on the board.

Not that I'm poking fingers at anybody,

but would much rather do it

in person and see what we

can do in person.

I think the stress of the

online review is just insane.

I can't even imagine.

Like for a Masters athlete,

your whole season depends

on video review.

And what else you got going

on that weekend?

Like for semifinals this year,

I just didn't have that much time.

I just didn't.

Like life was also happening.

And as it turns out,

I have a career and kids

and a wife and all that good stuff.

So I did all of them once.

That's all I had time for.

Um, not that I would have jumped.

Forty people and made the

games necessarily, but like what I should,

what you saw was exactly what I had in.

That's all I had.

So I heard you say to me, uh,

if you didn't have all that

stuff going on,

you would have beat Jason

grub with a stick.

Maybe I know Tristan.

I'm sorry.

Wife and kids as an athlete,

selfish Corey.

terrible terrible I should

have thought about that

thought about being an

athlete before I had a wife

and kids yeah it's probably

whatever so I want to get

cat's thoughts because she

has done event organizing

um with mfc with the

greenberry project with

things like that she's been

a judge she's done online

judging all of that stuff

how much more legit do you

think an in-person

qualification is than an

online a hundred percent

there's no comparison

Absolutely.

You can get away with so much online.

And I mean,

competition is meant to be kind

of a one and done thing, right?

You show up,

you do your thing against other people.

Like,

I would much rather see that happen

than have it be completely

online like it is now.

I think I was watching boys

interrupted last night,

which I will never do again

when I'm trying to go to bed because I,

I stay awake until the very

end because it is so damn entertaining,

but they're like,

they talked about the

Brookwell situation.

If she was at a live event

and a judge would have

called her out for those burpees,

she would have corrected it

and wouldn't have gotten a three.

She would have gotten at

least a score higher than that.

Right.

Yeah.

And, and they were like,

that's what sucks about the

online thing because you

don't get that immediate feedback.

My, my,

my response to them is get a judge

that will tell you.

Yeah.

Oh yeah.

I get it.

Like get a better judge.

I mean, Andrew,

Andrew Stendo reps people

just for the fun of it.

Yeah.

Even when they shouldn't be no rep.

Right.

I'm a carry.

Granite games.

Right.

A little bit.

Yeah, I did.

Andrew says instant feedback from judges,

you know, are qualified.

Do you though?

But you do know there are some that are.

Oh, absolutely.

And you need, this has been a two,

three year fight.

Emma was a legit no rep twice.

She's the reason.

Yeah.

You're the reason Andrew,

why she's not doing CrossFit anymore.

I blame you for all of it.

Just so you know.

It's Andrew's fault.

All this promise,

all this and the emotional

baggage of that no rep is vaporized.

But I do think you can't control it.

You've told me, Corey,

you make sure that you have

the two guys that you know

will tell you you're doing

the movement wrong.

You can't afford to escape

by and hope that nobody finds it.

I'll put it to you like this, Scott.

Last night I did the snatch

ladder workout for the MFC qualifier,

like at the last possible

minute I could possibly do it.

I can't see when I set my

camera up to set it up like I wanted to.

I have to flip it backwards.

I can't see the timer,

even if I had it facing me.

I mean, it's this big.

I can't see the timer from

where I'm standing.

So I got my buddy Jeff,

who's one of the first

people that I would let judge me.

And I said, look,

I just need you to tell me, you know,

I got a minute to snatch,

a minute to rest, two, a minute, three,

whatever.

Just call out times for me.

Let me know when I can start

and when I can't start.

The first thing he said was,

you need me to do it.

I said, I'm just snatching.

But I mean, yeah,

if I don't come to extension,

like if I don't stand all the way up,

call me.

Yeah, please do.

But that was his first question.

Like,

do you need me to make sure you're

doing this correctly?

Like, I can't put a price tag on that.

Right.

Alito, who is a master's athlete in Europe,

I think I'd probably end up doing both.

I'm generally better online,

the comfort of your own gym,

and it's quite hard to come

in first or second in a live comp.

You may get third in what

Dave Castro mentioned.

So top three.

And then she said moving

better and checking what

can and cannot be seen on

video before actually doing

the workout saves most of these issues,

solves most of these issues.

Um, Larry young, Corey,

what gets you in the gym

when you're not feeling it?

I'm legit scared to head out

to the garage right now.

Too many days off.

Motivation is bullshit.

Discipline is everything.

Breach.

I mean, motivation comes and goes.

Motivation comes and goes.

Some days I'm like, yeah, let's go.

And some days I'm like, all right,

let's go.

But either way it gets done.

It has to,

the only thing that stops me

from going over there is if

I am legitimately hurt or cannot do,

and it has to be where I

cannot do anything.

And I mean, anything like if I can't squat,

I can skier.

If I can't run, I'm probably can bike.

And if I can't bike,

I can figure something else out.

But nine times out of ten,

it there's no motivation is

nothing that means that means shit.

Motivation will leave you

long after discipline is

ingrained in you.

I'll tell you this,

like in the last few weeks, months,

just going out and starting to move,

even if I'm not feeling it, like, Hey,

I'll just go and get on the bike.

And then I get on the bike and I'm like,

Oh, this is really boring.

So let me pick up the

sandbag and do some stuff.

And at least then like I'm moving.

And most of the times I actually then say,

okay,

let's do a Metcon just because it's not,

it's much more fun than

doing just sitting on a bike for an hour.

Those mornings where I'm like,

I don't want to go,

that's the first thing I'll

do is get in there, put my stuff down,

and go get on the bike and

just ride for a couple of

minutes until the same thing.

Okay, my blood's moving.

This is dumb.

I'm just riding this bike

for three minutes.

Let me get off and go do

what I'm actually supposed

to be here to do.

Yeah, absolutely.

Man, Lito, that's so catchy.

You should put that on your shirt.

Okay.

Just saying.

I did use my new Adidas last night.

They are very... When lifting,

they are very supportive.

I think they still need

broken in a little bit to

get to where I want them,

but I do kind of like that...

I do kind of like them.

I think I like them.

That's what I'm trying to say.

I think I like them,

but I think they need

broken in just a little bit more.

Are they lifters or just regular?

They're their drop set.

Okay.

They're called drop sets.

This is drop set three.

They're on sale for a

hundred and four bucks

right now on their website.

Women's colorways are awesome.

The men's are kind of blah, but

Corey found a set he thought

were pretty cool looking

the white and gum anything

white and gum I'm going to

tear them up I'm well aware

that they're going to not

be white in a very short

order but when they are

clean and we have you can

text your bestie there Kat

my wife text Jeff we have a

I don't know where they

found that but a recipe to

get white shoes back to

almost white that we use

I'll be talking to Jen later

Uh, Lido says, I love my drop sets,

but they definitely take

some breaking in.

Okay.

Lido, have you run in them?

That's my biggest question.

Anything more than a four hundred.

Cause like I'll buy some,

I have no problem with that,

but they look clunky.

That makes sense.

Like they look like, I thought,

I thought they'd be heavy

and they weren't.

Yeah.

Like when the Reebok X,

like those were clunky, those were heavy.

Right.

I hated doing everything in them.

These are lighter than that.

Most of it is that like

Kevlar fabric and the plastic cage.

I thought they were nice.

Kevlar.

So they're bulletproof.

The same thing that Reebok

did with the fours and fives.

No, fives and sixes.

Fives and sixes.

Uh-oh.

They're terrible for running,

but I've yet to find a

CrossFit show I like

running more than four hundred meters in.

That's also fair.

Yeah.

Vans.

I'm a Vans for everything now.

I like the Rad Runners.

They're pretty firm,

but they're also pretty

cushiony for like running.

Reds look like moon boots.

I cannot get behind them.

I cannot.

I think they look like

mid-nineties Jordans.

I liked early nineties Jordans.

Everybody's early nineties Jordans now.

yeah the like the was it the

jordan threes I think it

was like those were pretty

cool looking but like the

mid-nineties stuff they all

they look same thing it

looked like they remind me

of morning mcfly's shoes

that like zip themselves up

or whatever in freaking uh

back to the future too like

that's what I see when I

see those um I can confirm

the rad runners are decent

for walking the dog too um

Good lap.

Yeah,

the lap did three miles in the Savage

Ones because I had no other

choice than barefoot Innovates.

Innovates would be awful to run in.

Innovates are awful for anything.

Innovates seems so stiff to me.

It looks like wearing a

two-by-four on your foot.

Innovates were the very

first pair of lifters I bought back in,

like, I like them a lot,

but talk about...

Yeah, I mean, they were so supportive,

like a little too supportive.

They were really, really stiff.

You don't get to use the

word cobble very much these days.

I just wanted to.

And you should, honestly,

people should cobble more stuff together.

I know bull trainers are straight blocks.

I would,

I had one pair that someone had

painted for me with like

the Clydesdale media logo and everything.

And if I wear them to an event,

because I think they're just cool looking,

like I am dying by like a

third away through the day.

So I went through a phase where I wore,

Hey dudes, my Hey dude,

sneakers like every day for

all the things for maybe a

year and a half.

And I'm talking like

recently within the last eight months.

my plantar fasciitis

disappeared I don't have it

anymore it's the opposite

for me I was in a hey dude

phase where I wore them all

the time my back started to

get worse because there's

no there's no support and

there's no cushion and my

back just started blazing I

feel like all my foot

muscles got a lot stronger

because they had to be

because there was no support

jen had nobles and like she

really thought she liked

and then like I bought

another pair and she

couldn't figure out why her

feet were hurting the

entire time she wouldn't

let me I don't need any I

don't need different shoes

so I just bought her some

uh nanos just like the

newest pair or whatever in

a colorway I knew she'd

like she wore them one time

and came back and promptly

apologized to me

I was like yeah I know

strike movement is my shoe

of choice now drop sets for

rope climbs I have a I have

a nice pair of strike

movement that I got at mfc

because we got a deal for

judging and um they're too

narrow they're like they're

it's like wearing a metcon

to me a nike I got flippers

for feet dude I need to

have oh I do lots like yeah

uh tristan my first semis as

a coach I wore a pair of

barefoot shoes uh out in

cali twenty five to thirty

thousand steps a day I was

hurting yeah that's a

terrible idea tristan

Tristan says his are

stretching out pretty well.

Maybe I just haven't given

them enough of a chance,

but I wore them for like

maybe a couple of weeks of

everyday Met cons and they

just never got to where I liked them.

Were they the easy ones?

Do they have a different kind?

Yeah, I think so.

I have a pair of vintage

strike movements from like,

before anyone,

knew who they were and they

are the most comfortable shoe ever.

They don't have a,

I don't wear them a ton

because they've got like,

they're like a leopard print,

but they're really cool.

And I have wide feet and they don't,

they don't bother me,

but I think the newer ones

you're right are a little more narrow.

Everybody said, Hey,

they have a wide toe box.

And actually the,

it's the lip of where the

sole comes up to the side

bites into the outside part of my foot.

Yeah.

The strike movements are

like the Savage One,

but with arch support.

I'm just going to market for

a new pair of shoes.

Good luck, Corey.

Like I said,

CrossFit shoes are like

Chinese restaurants.

Everybody has their favorite

and you never know what that is.

I mean,

you just don't know until you try

it yourself.

That's what sucks.

That's why we all have

eighteen pairs of shoes.

What sucks is that I lost my

nano discount whenever Reebok was like,

we're not giving discounts

to anybody anymore.

But it used to be fifty percent.

I could buy two pairs of

shoes for the price of one.

That's why my closet is

littered with nanos.

up until last year once it

went from fifty percent to

forty percent and then as

far as I know now it's zero

percent which is awesome

thank you reebok um and

that's when I bought my

first pair of savage ones

and I really really really

like them but I need I need

I need new shoes I don't

need new shoes I need new

shoes go on amazon and look

because I get guys nano

whatever the latest and

greatest is in like a

really cool colorway in like a seven,

six and a half or seven for

like sixty bucks.

No, without fail.

Being a volunteer,

I got a new pair of Reeboks

every year forever,

like through the when they

were the sponsor of the games.

And then there's a Reebok

outlet near us and you

could get them for thirty bucks a pair.

The Reebok outlet by my house closed down.

Ours closed too.

There is one down by Sten, though.

Andrew Sten in Cincinnati.

They have a Reebok outlet.

Oh, good.

I'll be there in a little bit.

Hand tight.

Go have lunch.

Kenneth says,

just bust out the Chuck Taylors.

Great deadlifting shoe.

I'm down to get a pair of Vans.

I know a couple people that

work out and swear by them.

Apparently,

you cannot climb a rope in them.

It seems like it would tear them to shit.

Yeah.

Who's climbing ropes anyway?

I climbed a rope for the

first time last Friday and

thought my arm was going to,

my elbow was going to rip out of it.

It was not a good idea.

I did it three times.

This is terrible.

Let me do it again.

Everyone else was like beating me.

They were doing, you know,

I was doing like,

I wasn't going to do jumping pull-ups.

I'm like, I'm doing rope climbs.

I just have to learn how to

like lead with my left arm

and not my right arm, you know?

But I couldn't do that.

Switch hit it, as it were.

So I have a question for you

guys to ponder and give me

your opinion on.

Has Matt Fraser lost his

luster as a five-time champion?

His content is not good.

they're desperate so they

have him sit in front of

the camera this week to

talk about his highs and

lows of competing like hey

let's go back and relive

the high school glory days

um I'm just like how the

mighty has fallen like he's

just not relevant anymore

like rich has stayed

relevant because he is

willing to speak his mind

and say what's on his mind

I have no interest in

watching a matt fraser video anymore

He's so far removed from CrossFit.

It's really just the bottom line.

He's just removed from CrossFit.

He was never really embedded

in it in any way.

All he did was compete.

He was very one-dimensional

when it came to CrossFit.

When you're finished competing,

what do we expect?

He was not going to be relevant.

You go look back at his

early story when he said

that once he found out that

you could make money competing,

he went and did that every

weekend and made

whatever it was, fifty dollars,

five hundred dollars while

he was in college and then

qualified for regionals and

then the rest of it's all.

And he literally was just there to win.

He was never really part of a of a box,

never really part of a

community or any other bullshit.

He was a part of a community

of elite athletes.

OK,

that's not the same thing by any

imagination.

Rich has been rich since day one.

It's been the same dude.

And all of his stories are the same.

Like, it's almost like it's a script.

If you ask him about this

year and this event,

he'll say the same story he

said in every documentary,

the same story he said in his book,

the same story that he said

on six podcasts.

I'm just like, there's nothing new.

Yeah.

And who,

are there even any like HWPO

athletes anymore that are relevant to

The only one relevant right

now is Kayla Lehman.

And it's not for a good reason.

Right.

Everybody knows who that dude is.

And that's not because it's,

it's not because he was tearing it up.

Nobody's.

I mean, I will,

I will give them their

programming is really good.

I was probably in the best

shape of my life when I was

doing their stuff in my garage.

But other than that, I mean,

like from a competitor, you know,

I'm not competing.

I'm not like trying to win

the CrossFit games.

I was just trying to stay, stay fit.

But I don't know what else

they have to offer, really.

I mean,

are people still doing HWPO programming?

Are gyms still doing it?

Do they have affiliates?

So supposedly they dove

headfirst into affiliate programming.

Okay.

And they're not really doing

pro athletes anymore is the story.

But I think technically

Brooke is still on their roster.

And that's the only person I

know that's still there.

Vellner, right?

Is Vellner still there?

Yeah, I guess.

Is Vellner still doing CrossFit, really?

Well, I mean,

he's only there because of LaTondra.

Right.

He went there, but... David Johnson says,

O'Keefe was at WFP this past weekend.

Well, he fortunately was.

Most of his athletes were there.

I mean, to me,

I feel like O'Keefe is back

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