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what's going on everybody
welcome to the sunday
sunday sunday night
crossfit talk a bears
victory sunday I couldn't
believe it for the first
time in eleven weeks we are
winners yes and against the
rival packers it couldn't
have come against a better team but
My crew that is with me
tonight has been so busy this week.
Let's do a little catch up
first and then we'll get
into all the news in the space.
And let's start with Jamie,
who every time I see a
Snapchat is under the
rubble of her her gym.
So what's going on?
Well,
we've always had this like soft spot
and kind of a back area of
our gym is actually like
right around the old rig.
And there was like one hump
and then one like soft spot.
And we pulled when we pulled up the mats,
we're like, this is just a disaster here.
I don't even know what they did.
And we started like kind of chipping away,
thought we would just kind
of get some like, like.
self-level or patch it somehow.
We're like chipping away.
Next thing you know,
we're like pulling out giant rocks.
It's we like basically dug
out an entire old trench
that somebody did to do
some plumbing that I didn't,
it was just a terrible repair job.
So we dug that all out and
poured new concrete and
hopefully it's done right this time.
Uh, my snap, uh, I don't,
I think it's expert Jamie,
like everything else.
I'm pretty sure.
Yeah.
So you did this.
You started a remodel.
We talked about it briefly
last week that you bought a
new rig that is a wall mount rig.
Your old rig was a self-standing.
Yep.
You moved the rig to another
part of your gym.
You moved the turf to where the rig was.
Beautiful purple turf for
the Vikings because you're
rooting for them tonight, right?
Yeah.
Yeah.
No.
Do you guys have more or
less rig squatting racks?
We'll have one less squatting rack.
We had six before.
We have way less, technically,
because we had those weird...
wall mount rigs on the wall, like always,
um, they were very,
like not far off the wall at all.
Like you couldn't do bar
muscle ups over there.
You really couldn't do chest
to bar over there.
You could sort of do total
bar if you didn't have a big backswing.
Um,
but it was mostly for people doing like
jumping pull-ups and just like,
like standing pull-ups, you know,
like stuff like that,
hanging knee raise maybe.
Um,
And you could squat over there.
So we had like,
we had six stations on our
freestanding rig.
And then there was six of
those on the wall.
So technically we had twelve,
but nobody would ever.
The part of the problem was the turf.
the turf broke up from the
freestanding rig to the
wall and nobody ever wanted
to go work out on the wall.
They felt like they were the
redheaded stepchild, not part of class.
It just,
it worked fine for like PT or
anything else going on.
But yeah,
it just sort of broke up the room.
Things didn't always flow.
When we had a shuttle, it was over turf,
it was just always weird.
So we do have less squat stands now.
But we'll probably end up with five, six.
We'll probably end up with eight.
But I think eight is sufficient.
We don't usually have more
than twelve in class and
some of our stuff can be doubled up.
That was my next question is
how big are your classes?
Yeah.
Yeah.
We cap them at twelve.
Saturdays are like up to twenty,
twenty four.
But yeah, absolutely.
Jay Birch would love to be
the redheaded stepchild during a workout.
Yeah,
I would just throw myself over there
all the time.
Because I have to throw it up there.
I am on Snapchat, Birch.
You guys can find me.
I'm only on Snapchat because
that's how my daughter will
communicate with me.
That's really it.
I've always had it.
I've never stopped.
I don't think it's my handle
from CrossFit.
I only have my friends on there.
I wouldn't accept just
random people on mine.
Yeah.
I,
I talked to Jamie and my daughter and
that's the only two people
I talked to on Snapchat.
I feel so privileged.
Um, so you have that going on.
Yes.
And you were hoping to be
done by this weekend.
Now with the new trench, uh,
probably into this week, I'm assuming.
Yeah.
So we'll,
so technically it says seven days
to like fully, I mean,
well actually it says like
twenty eight days, but like
load bearing like fully load
bearing like seven days so
we did pour that yesterday
so next saturday we'll
probably put the mats back
and open up that space and
maybe suggest not like
heavy deadlifts or crazy
stuff over there for a
while but um there is a lot
to figure out with like
wall ball targets like we I
just I don't know how
people do this stuff like
we have gone over bar height
numerous times tried to put
up wall ball targets we
also got the a-frame
hangers and I don't I guess
I don't know how other gems
do it like do they not do
wall ball targets on the
post that have the a-frames
because it's it's weird
like we hung one and put a
wall ball target up and
like I feel like you're
constantly gonna have to be
like getting the taking the
rings off or the rope off
or whatever you have or
it's gonna the wall ball
target won't be usable it's
like I don't know this is just crazy
I don't know.
My first ever gym,
the first ever gym we were in,
we had wall mount and we
went away from that.
And the three gyms after that.
Yeah.
And then I went to Polaris
and it's a freestanding too.
So we have both options at
my gym wall and then on the rig.
I feel like freestanding
rigs are kind of the gold standard,
right?
That's what you want to put in.
If you can, it just, it's,
it breaks up our,
we don't have good space.
The way CrossFit's gone with
like needing for things.
It just was,
it wasn't going to work out great for us.
And I didn't necessarily
want to go to a wall mounted rig,
but I think it opens up the space more.
So hopefully it just feels
bigger and I don't know.
Have you sold off all your
individual wall?
I might be interested.
Okay.
We've sold three.
I think we have one left of
the wall ones that I put up
on marketplace.
Yeah.
Okay.
But we have a ton of the freestanding.
I need to like portion that
out and you could make those wall.
You could put those to a wall as well.
Right.
So we,
I'm going to like piece off that
stuff as well.
Okay.
Yeah,
I it's like the right size for a
section of my garage.
Oh, perfect.
And I don't have like a
bench or like a place to bench or squat.
And it's perfect.
And it's actually in the
price range I would be looking for.
Perfect.
Yep.
I can reserve one of those for you.
So Carolyn,
you is tomorrow's your birthday.
Tomorrow's my birthday.
Yeah.
So happy birthday tomorrow.
Thank you.
And you just got back from California.
Yeah, a couple hours ago, I got back.
put my bags down and then my
freezer was making a noise
that it wasn't on.
And I was like, great.
So it must've like over
froze or something.
And then the door must've
just opened a little bit.
And then it has this connect like this.
It'll just automatically turn off.
So threw away every single
thing that was in the freezer.
Um, then went to the grocery store,
then meal prepped very quickly.
So I had a lunch tomorrow at school and,
right away.
I think it was at that point, seven forty.
So I was like, oh,
got to get ready for the podcast.
So I didn't have much time
yet to unpack everything,
but nothing broke of what I
saw that was maybe fragile
when I was traveling.
So very happy with that part.
I left with one hockey bag
and I came back with
a more full hockey bag and
another suitcase.
So like my hockey bag was
forty seven pounds.
And I think my other
suitcase was which I stole
from Lex was like forty pounds.
So how I gained that much of
stuff in the two weeks is I don't know.
Just get a ton of Christmas gifts.
Apparently.
Yeah.
A lot of like big kitchen
applying stuff that we're
taking up a little bit of room.
Craig says happy birthday
Bruce Wayne happy early
birthday and Denise Moore
happy birthday if you
didn't watch my countdown
of podcasts for twenty
twenty four my number one
podcast was Denise Moore
interesting so
congratulations Denise on
that as well and Julian
I've heard there's one yes
they did we've went over
that I think three times
now let's go Lions
All right.
So my weekend has been crazy.
I was at the hospital, seven thirty a.m.
Friday morning.
I was shocked back into rhythm.
I'm back in sinus rhythm.
Just checked it about twenty minutes ago.
Still in sinus rhythm.
So we're good on a new
medication to hope to keep it there.
But man, I feel so much better today.
That's like.
Like,
all of the aches and pains in my body
are gone now because I have
good blood flow again.
And it just...
I feel like a million bucks,
which I need to because my
wife is going into surgery tomorrow.
And today I moved a bed into
the living room.
I put together a walker.
I cleaned feverishly throughout my house.
I've done five loads of laundry.
And now I've done this show.
And then we have to be at
the hospital at six fifteen a.m.
tomorrow with her.
And it's about a two-hour surgery.
So I don't know what all
that means tomorrow, but...
And then she's staying
overnight at the hospital
Monday into Tuesday so that
they can start her rehab there.
We got delivered machines
Friday where I have to put
them on the bed and lay her leg in it.
And then it moves her leg
for her at the right angle.
You set it on like this
little computer pad and it
will slowly move her knee
back and forth for an hour.
um in the at the right angle
and then every day we
increase it so many degrees
that's nifty yeah so she
has to do it three times a
day for an hour each time
um and then her ice machine
is coming either tomorrow
or monday to wrap around
her leg that just keeps it
constantly flowing with ice yeah
um so you had to buy that
last week didn't realize
insurance didn't cover the
machine either but it's
really good for rehab so we
we went ahead and rented
one of those uh so super
excited about that but um
but yeah she's really
nervous and uh but twenty
four hours from now it'll
all be over and uh she'll
be relaxing in her bed yep
she's gonna be a whole new person
Yeah.
For people that are,
my wife was a CrossFitter.
She worked out with me all the time.
And when her knees went bad,
like she just couldn't do
anything anymore.
The pain was too great.
And I'm really excited to get her back.
um my wife in full back to
to all that stuff so we can
do all those things
together um as a couple
again instead of me out in
the garage by myself and
her wishing she could be
there or um so um super
excited about that um it's
been a long road to get her
approved but here we are
First one tomorrow and then
the other one about three
months from now.
And then she'll have two new knees.
She wanted all the
accessories like Bluetooth
and that in the knee,
but they said they weren't quite ready.
She wanted to be able to
answer her phone by just
like tapping the one side, but they said,
no, that's not available in this unit.
All right.
So with that,
we'll get into some of the
news of the week.
If you have been under a rock,
there was a podcast done
overseas with Victor Hoffer.
He was speaking in French.
Now, if I listen to the spin,
there was more than one
language in the podcast.
Carolyn, you speak French.
So you listened to it and took notes.
And we're going to let you
tell us what was said in
that podcast because people
are reporting certain things.
And my one frustration with
that is Spin used AI to translate it,
meaning that AI was the
voice of Victor in the translation.
And people are going, well,
his tone told me this.
It's not his tone.
That is AI taking the
translation and speaking like Victor,
but it's not him speaking.
It's crazy how much it
sounds exactly like
Victor's accent when he speaks English.
Right.
But it,
but AI isn't going to read the tone.
Yeah, no.
Right.
So,
so you listen to it as a French
speaking woman and tell us
what you learned.
Yeah, originally, like the start of it,
they were just introducing
how they'd gone to CrossFit,
him and his girlfriend.
I think his girlfriend
speaks a little bit of French,
but mostly English,
and I think maybe like a German.
I think there was someone
that was talking to her in
another language.
I assumed it was German.
But...
Essentially, he talked about the season.
He talked about the three
stages that was going to happen.
And he mentioned May, August and December.
Since then,
other people have thrown around
September instead of August.
So it would be May,
September and December.
And he said August and December.
He talked about how some of
the athletes plan on just
doing that season.
Circuit and other ones will
be doing both as long as it
doesn't like interfere and
he doesn't think it'll interfere.
How they like chose the
athletes will talk to a lot
of the main managers in the space.
And this is like the new part that.
like when we listened to all
of the Will interviews,
like he talked about his
leaderboard of Rogue and
the games to kind of form
like a top sixteen.
And then from there they
picked like four extras.
Victor didn't talk about any of that.
He just said that Will was
in contact with all of the
main managers who then
presented their athletes
and stuff like that.
And I believe that part, to be honest,
to be true,
because this is what we talked
about last week or the week before.
that, um, you know,
that they chose their
athletes and they weren't
too worried about their,
their choice because next
year in twenty twenty six,
the season will have probably, you know,
new faces anyways with the
qualifications of this year
and how the points will will, you know,
come about.
So I think as long as all
the main people were chosen, like
I think there's a lot more
in my opinion than four
at-large bets for that.
They definitely want to
explore the European market
was one of the things that
he was happy about.
The athletes get a salary
plus there's money at each competition.
he heard that the PFA was
going to be associated with
this new league and that in
February they will have a rule,
a rule book with every
single movement from the year.
So I haven't heard anyone talk about that,
but we know that Brent had
been working on that for a very,
very long time and creating
this rule book with all of
the movement standards of
every single movement so
that it's very clear that
what people are going to be able to do.
Um, so I thought that was interesting.
So I think that's cool that
all the movements are there.
So there's not going to be
any surprises of the year
of what movements can kind
of be thrown out there.
Um, with a lot of times the movements get,
or their workouts getting released, um,
like early so that
broadcasts and judges and everyone can,
can know about that.
He's still recovering, taking things.
What's that?
I think that's an awesome piece.
Yeah.
Because I like that for the sport.
I have been in the media pit
where we didn't know what
the standard was on a movement,
and everybody's asking each other, like,
should that have been a no rep,
should that not?
And because it could be one
way or another in the standard,
we don't know,
and we're there covering the sport.
What do you think the
audience at home is doing?
Mm-hmm.
Yeah, I think, yeah,
I think having a clear
movement standards for the year at least.
And if you want to add something new,
you introduce it the
following year for the rule book.
And there's always that, you know,
it's just clear for the sport.
It doesn't need, it's still unknown,
but there's still, you know,
there's standards that are
going to be the same at
every one of their competitions.
He said he's still recovering,
taking things pretty slow
and slowly getting back to peak form.
But he doesn't need to be
peak form until May,
which is when their first
competition is in person
for the new league.
And the open for him...
He should be fine with like
the one percent.
So he's not looking to peak for that.
So he's just kind of, you know,
he talked about a foot, his adductor,
just small little things, I think,
still from last season,
maybe bugging him.
So recovering from that.
And then he talked about.
his life as a full-time
athlete and how he has to
be an influencer as well.
And he was,
he just kind of gave advice to
younger people in the space, um,
as they're, um,
developing like in the sport,
if they want to make this full-time,
like he had a manager,
which really helped him out.
But sometimes he said that managers, um,
some people just don't
really need them yet.
And so he talked about that.
And the importance of his
family support and stuff like that,
because he wouldn't have
been able to go full in if
he hadn't had the family
support to allow him to
train full time for these
years that he went all in on the sport.
So, yeah, I think that was the main stuff.
And then they started
talking to the girlfriend on her path.
So I didn't listen as much after that.
So one of the questions that
has come out is that he
that he supposedly
mentioned that in twenty six.
Yes.
They may go for exclusivity.
Sorry, I forgot.
I skipped that part.
Yeah.
So he talked.
I was just like trying to
look at my notes.
I must have missed that.
Yeah.
So he talked about this first year,
it being.
people could do both.
But then in twenty twenty six, you know,
as people just kind of get
their feet wet within it
and kind of get a feel for
what the league is in twenty twenty six,
it would be more exclusive.
So who knows at that point
if that'll stay true or not.
In all fairness,
the spin has reported that
will called him after he
released that AI piece and said that, um,
there were no talks about
exclusivity beyond this year.
And that, that is,
that is not what they're looking for.
If it would be,
it would be much further
down the road than that.
Okay.
Interesting.
Um,
but I think what everybody's
getting up in arms about is
that it seems that Will and
Jackson on talking elite
fitness and on this, on, um,
coffee pots and wads said a,
some things and now
athletes are saying other things.
Right.
Um,
and so everybody's getting up in arms
about all of that.
Um, including this exclusivity piece.
Um,
I know you watched some of
the other interviews.
Did you see much contradiction, Carolyn?
No,
just a few points that just haven't
been brought up,
like the rule book being
released in February.
That was new.
The exclusivity part, that was new.
He talked about the managers
presenting their athletes.
That was new,
but also was not surprising because,
like I said, we talked about that.
The rest of it was basically
in line with what we
already knew about the new
season in terms of the payment.
None of the athletes are
really going into detail on
their salaries.
I mean, I think some people have told,
you know, John Young, for example,
like Hopper,
I think mentioned maybe his numbers.
But for the most part,
I think people haven't been
talking about the money part.
But yeah.
So,
so you said they talked about obviously
paying the athletes,
but then they're also being
prizes at each comp.
It has like,
maybe we need to wait for more
details on this,
but it's just like a podium,
just a one through three prize purse.
Didn't say anything on that.
Or if it's just,
you're making your money
from your contract.
I'm not sure.
And you said that they had
to do at least two events
out of the three.
um yeah that's in case of
injuries and stuff like
that that's that was also
um mentioned yeah I I
understand the like the
push for like a salary and
keeping these people
involved but I also I know
spin brought it up in
talking about like listen
if like ten k is the bottom
salary that we're offering
then why not why not thirtieth place be
three grand and go up from there.
And that will, for me,
I don't know if there's details.
How do these challengers
make money if it doesn't go that deep?
They just have to hope and
pray that they just got to
get themselves to maybe
Europe to go to one of these,
hope and pray they make top
twenty and get a card for next year.
If you just always paid out
the top thirty,
even those challengers are
getting some money and it's,
it's helping get these
athletes wanting to sign up
for this travel to these
far events and make some money.
That's a good point for the challenger.
I think the issue we have is
that we don't know all these details.
So we make up these
scenarios in our head and
we either swing it negative
or positive without really
knowing the whole story, right?
Because I have heard that
the prize money from the
event is actually taken
from what... So say you
signed for ten grand and
you win thirty grand at the event.
you don't get an additional
ten grand from your contract.
That's just a floor.
We don't know what the prize
money is at the event.
We don't know how deep it goes.
We have no idea what that is.
I hope it can cover
challengers to continue
because if you are a
challenger and you're going
to these events,
it would be nice to come
back with something.
But again, at a professional level,
there's a lot of
athletes and golf and
whatever that are going to
these events and they're
not making money if they're
not making it to a certain point.
But it just,
it's going to discourage people from,
from trying if, if it's very,
very hard to take a pro
spot because of the point
system that they'll come up with.
Um, and then let's say you,
you do finish at a certain high placing,
but it's still not enough
that you don't get any money.
Yeah.
So the other thing that you said, Jamie,
was that Spin had made the comment,
why not just pay down so
that the last place
finisher gets X number of dollars?
Well,
we also know that those payouts don't
happen immediately.
They happen four months down the road.
Where when you give someone
a contract up front and now
they have the money in the
bank account to be able to
pay for their trip,
like that's a huge
incentive for earning a pro card.
Is it up front though right
away or do you have to
finish the season to get your money?
I don't think that they'd be
giving the money.
You got to do drug testing.
If they do drug testing,
you got to go to your events.
I don't think that they'd be giving money.
ahead of time,
maybe maybe thirty or fifty percent.
But like,
I can't imagine they're getting
the whole check because
you've got to make it
through the season to earn
the whole thing.
And they want to wait and
see where you place and
what you're earning and
what they don't have to pay you.
Yeah, maybe you're right.
I don't know.
I don't know.
But but he will did say
there is drug testing and
it's going to be both in at
competition and in season.
and are like in and whatever
I'm trying to say all the
time it can be randomly
done at any point in time
during the season it would
be nice if events like you
know rogue became part of
let's say an actual circuit
of of the year um either as
a main event at the end
with nine events and that's
our championship as rogue
puts it on like that would
be cool yeah I mean
I do agree with them though
in the part where they want,
they want to keep it their standards.
If you're going to do a burpee,
you're going to do our
standard of burpee.
And some of these bigger
comps don't want to do that.
Yeah, I agree.
I like that they're putting
on their own events.
I think that's good.
Well, it's small.
I think that's fine.
Now maybe you can form
partnerships and agreements
later once you've proven your concept.
Um,
But I think it's, you know, in here,
people are saying Rogue is
too close to CrossFit for that to happen.
Rogue is adding the WFP as a
point earner for their leaderboard.
to select the twenty athletes.
I think Rogue would take any opportunity.
I don't think Rogue is
necessarily tied down to only CrossFit.
They're trying to expand.
Outside, they're going to college,
D-I programs, outfit.
I think any opportunity that
presents itself that seems
interesting to Rogue,
they would jump on it.
Just walk around the Arnold
and see how many things
have Rogue's name on it.
How many different sports?
NFL plates and bars and the whole shebang.
Yeah.
Olympic lifting, strong man,
all that stuff.
Rogue.
It's everywhere.
Rogue is everywhere you want to be.
Yeah.
Just like Visa.
so um there has been some
new signings um over the
weekend so I'm gonna just
pull that up we'll go
through a couple of those
um as you can see here I'll
blow this up a little bit
danielle brandon signed
today uh it's samuel quant
signed today uh james
sprague was yesterday I
think ariel and emily were friday
Um,
and Gee was somewhere in that range too.
Uh,
Jay Crouch and Maddie Sturt signed on
the same day.
Surprise, surprise, uh, Bethany Flores,
Ricky Gerard,
and then the rest are all
have been signed for, for a while now,
but, um, the roster is pretty full.
Um, we're probably at round at this point.
Yeah.
still some some big names
out there I'm waiting to
see uh if and when they
sign uh my last take on
this and I mentioned it on
the round table and then we
got some comments um
between then and friday but
I get irked sometimes.
Wednesday, I was really irked.
I'm just going to say.
I watched around the whiteboard.
Riff, riff, riff.
I watched around the whiteboard,
and then I watched the spin,
and I just was like,
everybody is attacking the
WFP with all this negativity.
We have been bitching about
the CrossFit game season
since twenty eighteen when
everything changed, when Greg said, hey,
enough is enough.
I'm done funding this thing.
We're going to do it differently.
And and then it has changed
every year since then.
An organization has come in
and has made it a very
linear story from beginning to end,
how you become a champion
and earn a pro card and do
all of this stuff.
Why can't we just give them
the benefit of the doubt
and let them try?
CrossFit has not moved
anywhere toward what we
have been bitching about
for all these years.
And someone is trying to do it.
Can we not give them the
benefit of the doubt to see
if they can pull it off?
I mean,
I think we want to give them the
benefit of the doubt.
We want something,
we want something to
succeed and be done right.
I think part of the problem
is so many people have like
put out so many ideas that,
and I think first and foremost,
all along we've said,
you just need to be transparent.
And they're not doing that
number one thing that we want.
And it makes it,
it makes it hard to then
trust them because we're
just trusting another
probably CrossFit person.
Why are you saying?
Will said in his statement
that they are just
releasing the stuff over
the course of January.
All of the details.
We have not given them the
opportunity to be transparent.
This is a new organization
that has a lot to tell us,
and if they threw it all
out there at once, it would be chaos.
Would it?
I mean,
there's so many questions
surrounding the point.
The problem we have is the
athletes can't keep their mouth shut.
That too.
So like you get little
trickles of information.
You're like, well, that doesn't add up.
Then you're extra questioning things.
Right.
But we don't have all the
details to know if the
athletes even correct in
what they heard or said.
We're playing the telephone game.
You're not wrong.
Jackson and Will said,
give us the month of
January to release all the information.
And Carolyn said that there
will be a full rule book in February.
So the rule book is going to
have the points system.
You have to wait for that.
Cause like,
there's a lot of things that
like really matter for the
season matter for people
considering trying this.
We've asked for transparency
from CrossFit from since.
Or just consistent season.
Even,
even this CrossFit game season with
all the different rules for
different semifinals.
I'm sure we'll get into that,
but like you have a
qualifier coming up in a few weeks.
That's the same weekend
almost as Wadapalooza for the Europeans.
What's that one called?
Wadfest, right?
Wadfest something.
They have their qualifier
coming up like January.
January the eighteenth.
That's basically right
before Wadapalooza where a
lot of athletes are competing there.
And that's the only
qualifier to get them to their semifinal.
I mean,
I don't know if they're inviting
any athletes, but they wrote,
I think top-twenty from
that will compete for one
of the two spots.
I mean, if you had already signed up,
let's say,
for Wadapalooza and you're
planning on doing that
competition in Europe,
mostly the Europeans,
because I don't think many
of the North Americans
would be traveling at that
time of the year with the
online semifinal being next to it,
but like,
you didn't,
you didn't know that you had to peak,
not peak,
but like be in top shape right
now in January to qualify
for your semifinal.
Like that just got released
like three weeks before.
Like that's ridiculous.
Like that's, that's so stupid.
Like I'm not doing it, but I'm just saying,
right.
I'm not going to Europe.
Bitching and complaining
about all of that stuff for years.
Yes.
All of that stuff for years.
And someone's trying to make it better.
And like, and this is the stuff we get.
Like Bruce is like,
they're already conflicting
with the CrossFit game season.
They have no obligation to
avoid the CrossFit game season.
They can do whatever they want.
They don't,
but they've led people to
believe that it's not going to conflict.
So they said you can do both,
but it does conflict.
Like the May one is going to conflict.
It will.
It's going to be an issue.
Yeah.
I don't know.
We'll see.
Like you have choices at this point.
You're going to get to the
point where you don't have
time for those choices.
Like you don't want,
you don't want to know in February.
Like, I mean, that's,
it's like about three months maybe,
but like you would like
more time to plan a trip in May.
If you need to,
you would like to know where it is.
Start looking at hotels.
For ticket sales.
Start looking at flights.
Like, I would like to know those dates.
But, like, for ticket sales, like,
you need to start filling the stamps.
You need to sell your tickets.
You can't be releasing things last minute.
People need to plan their trips, et cetera,
like, athletes and fans for both leagues.
Agreed.
But...
yeah for the crossing ones I
was just surprised at how
different every
everything's being and the
fact that some athletes
need to be ready to qualify
for their semi-final next
like in two weeks I was
like oh so this is the last
thing I'm going to say and
then maybe we need another
show for this and maybe
we'll have more information
next week about this we
have a lot on the agenda
tonight so maybe next week
is a better time to get
into all of it but
Will said, and Jackson said,
that this first year they
are crunched in for time.
But the plan is to give
ample opportunity and time for every,
and my guess is the rule
book isn't going to change
that much year to year.
It's going to be tweaks and
little adjustments.
And he said that in the fear
of having leaks,
we're going to put it out
so early the following year
that people are going to know everything.
love that so again they said
that up front right it's
not like they said hey the
rulebook's coming out
november and then january
third here you go like
crossfit's done for the
past five years right like
let's just take a breath
give them some time to put this out um
I think they have a plan.
I do think they have a plan.
I really do.
But I am the naive one in this group.
No, no.
I'm a believer.
I think it's going to – like
I have faith in what
they're putting together.
I just – I do think that
they – I don't know if they
had it planned right to
start this year or they –
or after everything that
happened with the games, they,
they were like, this is the time.
Like we got to put it, put our,
all our chips in right now to,
to get this thing going.
And then they had more
people buy in and people were looking,
looking for maybe something else to,
to explore.
So I will say this,
if done right in twenty, twenty six,
they could possibly go
exclusive and make the athletes decide.
And at that point,
if CrossFit wants to sell off the company,
and this is something that
they could sell off, like,
I mean,
they wouldn't have to worry about
the money that they spent on the games.
And I don't know.
I guess we will see.
But that can be another
discussion for another day, though.
If you go back and listen to
my interview with Will
right before the syndicate crown,
there are indications in
that interview that something was coming.
And that is before anything
happened at the games.
Now,
could their timeline have been bumped up?
Sure.
There are definitely
indications in that
interview if you re-listen to it.
I didn't know what I was
hearing at the time because
it's a lot easier to understand now.
But there's definitely,
he knew something was
coming at that moment.
Well, yeah.
I mean, he said that.
They had a plan whether it
was this gym that was going
to profit for kids or whatever.
There's been a plan.
It just changed.
It morphed.
Yeah.
And we don't know what the plan was then.
And I'll just take him at his word.
I have reached out to him.
I have gave a lot of things
I want to talk to him about
on and off the air.
So I'm waiting to hear back on that.
And hopefully we can have
this conversation with him.
Yeah.
So with that, let's move on for now.
And we'll come back to this, I'm sure,
next week.
As this is not going to go away.
We already talked.
Oh, last thing on the WFP.
And we talked about last
week how it's not the top twenty.
It is.
It was like you said,
the managers got together,
spin put together using the rogue points.
And it's actually not as bad
as I thought it was.
Right now,
they have less than four outside
the top twenty using the
rogues point standards.
Okay.
on each side and it was
supposed to be four at
large and that the rest
came from the top.
Um, so, uh, so it,
he has it on his website
and he updates it as they
announced more athletes, um,
where they finished in the rogue points.
And so it's,
it's not as bad as I thought
it was last week,
but that's if you trust the
rogue points and how they do it.
Um,
so news across the CrossFit game season.
So we're going to stop the WFP.
We're going to talk about
the CrossFit game season.
Ah,
there was a joint announcement from the
fittest experience and the
syndicate crown that they are going to be,
um,
holding events that are exclusive to
North America,
East and North America West.
and I have this map,
you can see that the
Syndicate Crown is only
going to allow competitors
from what was last year the
North America East.
The Fittest Experience is
only going to allow
athletes who were part of
North America West.
This also happened with the
Renegade Games in Africa.
They're only taking African athletes.
The Far East Throwdown has
announced they're taking
people from all over the world.
We talked about the stuff
that we complained about
with the CrossFit Games season.
Could we not get any more
confusing than letting
these people pick whether
they are a regional
in-person semifinal or
they're just a worldwide
in-person semifinal?
Yeah, it's crazy.
That's the biggest miss for me.
Like, they should just all be open.
Really, I mean, you're looking,
we're not doing regionals.
Like,
it just needs to be find the fittest.
You've cut it to thirty people,
you better find the thirty
fittest people.
We talked about when this
was first announced that
there were no regions
associated with this.
And that was enticing
because finally we'll get
the thirty fittest people
to the CrossFit Games.
And that makes sense.
Now you're going to get the
fittest person from Africa,
but you're not guaranteed
to get the fittest person from Far East.
Nope.
Like this makes sense in the
sense that more people can
do semifinals in person,
like in terms of like not
allowing the same athletes
to just take up all the spots always.
Um,
but I don't like the inconsistency
between each one of them.
We're either all going back
to what it was or it's all open.
Um,
But having some that are open,
some that aren't, that part is confusing.
Their process itself of the
syndicate and the TFX is not confusing.
It makes total sense.
But what Jamie is referring
to that's confusing is
which semifinal in-person is open to who.
And there should be some
sort of consistency.
I get it's the owner or the
host to decide.
should be it should be
uniform let me throw the
grenade on this if you're
going back to what it was
last year are we are we
taking the exemptions right
no so this it's whatever
Jim you're you're signing
up for the open okay so I
could technically do I
could technically go do the
open in California and then
would be eligible to be in
the West yeah okay without an exemption
Okay.
It's where,
where your affiliate is signed
up that you're competing under.
Trish said there are other
American sanctions.
There's one other American
sanction and it is mayhem.
And there's rumor that they
may just take mayhem athletes or no way.
Why not?
Why can't I start that rumor?
If it's up to the, if it's up to the,
That's a good rumor, Scott.
If it's up to the sanctional
or whatever these in-person semifinal,
why can't Rich go, Hey,
let's take care of our own.
This is a mayhem athlete
only in-person semifinal
top to go to the games.
Yeah.
Cause he knows better not to do that.
Mine scored.
Yep.
Seven, nothing.
Ah,
I hate, I hate this.
The one that I hate the most
is just even the way you qualify to each,
right?
Like mayhem is just, it's by the open.
Uh, Torian has a week after, um,
wad fest one is, uh, in January.
Yeah, that was weird.
I love Torians.
I think that is the way to think.
Another one is right before
the Open in February, I think,
is another one.
Maybe?
Other qualifier?
There's an online qualifier
for one of them.
And then there's still some
that we don't have the details on.
So Jay Birch,
I think you're confusing the
elite semifinal with the community event.
The community is inviting
the top thirty people from
the RX division of TFX.
And then additionally
through other aspects like the open,
things like that.
And it's an invitation only
to their community event at TFX.
Syndicate Crown is having a
community event that is a two-man,
two-woman team event, and it's bigger.
It has more athletes than
the elite semifinal.
How do the teams qualify?
I think it's only online.
And then in-person is just
for experience before the
in-person games.
Interesting.
Very interesting.
This leaderboard being
locked the day after is
mind-boggling to me as well.
It's CrossFit.
So did we need a fall open
for this to actually work
like it did before?
A fall?
Yes.
A fall.
Like do it in October like
they did before.
To allow the leaderboard to get finalized,
the video reviews.
The all-time low attendance for an open.
Yeah,
I don't think we want to go back to that.
I don't think we want to go back to that.
uh kenneth says teams get
the master's treatment
welcome to the club folks
uh so so yeah that's that's
that bit of news um so
that's fun and we talked
about the far east throwdown
So before we get into the
gauntlet workouts,
I'm going to talk about
Rogue because we talked about it briefly.
They did change their point
system for qualification to
Rogue by adding the WFP and
all in-person qualifiers
from the CrossFit game season.
So both of those are ways to
earn points in the Rogue point system.
They've also announced when
the twenty twenty five
Rogue Invitational will be.
And it is October thirty
first through November second in Aberdeen,
Scotland again.
Carolyn was there this year, um,
said it was an amazing experience.
I'll let her finish if she
wants to say anymore.
No, I mean, that was, that was awesome.
Awesome.
So.
if you guys have your,
your gauntlet workouts in a
typed form and want to
email them to me while
we're talking about some of
the other entries that came in,
I'll be able to pull them up that way.
I don't have mine in typed form.
Okay.
I can try to type it.
I did not listen.
I needed to put more time into this,
but I've been at the gym for like,
I can just send it to them.
I can just select and then
email it to myself quickly.
Okay,
I'll start with mine so you guys can
rip on me first.
And then we'll go to the contestants,
and then I'll pull up yours
as the experts in programming afterwards.
So I'm going to share this window.
So this is my gauntlet workout.
I will blow this up.
So the way I did mine was there are four,
fifteen minute stations so
that the rotation is even
and you can move from from
event to event and it
doesn't have any backup.
So.
okay so here we go so the
first station is a two two
k row ten minute time cap
and then a fifteen minute
transition time because
this you're going to need a
little bit of rest before
you go to the next one and
then we go to the chief
For regular RX people,
it's going to be the regular chief,
but twelve rounds for time, three cleans,
six hand-release push-ups,
nine air squats.
For elite athletes competing,
it would be three cleans,
a little bit heavier, one eighty-five,
one thirty-five, six handstand push-ups,
nine pistols.
Then three-minute transition
from that twelve-minute cap,
workout three, five rounds for time,
fifteen toes to bar, thirty double-unders,
fifteen dumbbell box step-overs, fifty,
thirty-five, twenty-four, twenty,
ten-minute cap, five-minute transition,
and then workout four for
the elite five rounds for time,
fifteen thrusters at one, fifteen,
eighty-five, twenty burpee over the bar,
And then RX is five rounds for time,
fifteen thrusters, ninety five,
sixty five,
and then twenty burpee over the bar cap,
twelve minutes.
Love it.
So I tried to not go to barbell intensive,
so it didn't take a lot of
a lot of equipment on the floor.
But I wanted to.
To give a little bit of everything,
some gymnastics, uh,
the two K monostructural row, um,
for pure, uh,
for PR pure cardio and recovery, uh,
and start that off as the first thing.
Um, yeah.
And the chief is my favorite workout.
So I wanted to add it
somehow just for personal gratification.
It is a great workout.
Um, so yeah.
So all this would be done in
sixty minutes and then
you're done and you move on
and we have this and people
are asking what this is.
If you didn't follow us the
last the last couple weeks,
High Rocks has become so
popular as a community event.
Can we create a CrossFit
traveling event where the
community can come out
together as a group and go through this
And we're saying gauntlet
because Waterpalooza does
something very similar to this,
but it doesn't travel.
It's an hour-long workout
that you go through at
Waterpalooza as a community.
Can we do that in a traveling way?
And the goal was to come up with these,
and we put it out to the audience.
And if you sent one in,
you go and do a drawing for
one of our new Clydesdale
water jugs or coffee cups.
Yes.
Uh, I just sent you one.
Yeah,
it's basically a traveling gauntlet
that just is more
CrossFit-y than High Rocks.
And that kind of hits everything,
but still pretty easy to judge,
like was my thing.
And not too high skilled
that it deviates like so
many people from doing it.
Because I think what
attracts High Rocks is that
it's very attainable.
There's no high skill, no heavy movement.
So just a little bit more.
Two stations that have the elite option.
I didn't do all four,
just two of them where it
went up a little bit in
weight and a little bit more in skill,
but didn't take a lot of
different floor space or
anything like that.
So, yeah.
I tried to think of that.
The only thing I was worried
about is the pistols.
Those are always hard to judge.
That was my only real,
but I added hand release
pushups to the chief
because those are make it
easier to judge a pushup
than just straight pushups.
Go down here.
So go,
go back to the top and then just
scroll down again.
So the two K row, then the chief.
Trish said that there was no
monostructural,
but there's a two K row and
then there's double unders.
And for the elites, honestly,
burpees are pretty,
I know they're not
considered that it's a
gymnastics movement,
but it can get pretty repetitive, but.
So, yeah.
So I can.
Morning pressing.
Yep.
I mean, I, I really tried.
Yeah,
because I always look at like
movement patterns,
like if it's everything is
in the same movement pattern,
if you have like a
horizontal and a vertical press,
if you have something
that's just good for short people,
but like the last part is
very good for short people,
but then a two K row
balances that out where all
of a sudden now you're not
just needing to be short for this, right?
Step over.
So you got legs there.
No wonder it's toast of our good.
I had to put double unders
so I could beat Carolyn in something.
Just kidding.
I didn't put double unders in mine.
I didn't want any judging
stuff like the double
unders where sometimes the
counting can be meh.
And then they're having to
bring their equipment on the floor,
which I didn't want.
Um, okay.
But I'm good with yours.
I like it.
Here is the, the crowd.
So Kaylee Brock, um,
long time listener from way
back in the day, uh,
she used the open workouts, uh,
So hers in shorthand is in a
twenty five minute window,
sixteen point two or
nineteen point two into a
twenty minute window of
twenty one twenty point one.
The remaining time,
twenty four point three.
And I wrote it all out.
So sixteen point two,
twenty five minute window
is the whole beginning on a
four minute clock,
completing as many reps of
twenty five toes to bar,
fifteen double unders,
fifteen squat cleans.
If completed before four minutes,
add four minutes to the
clock and proceed to
twenty-five toes to bar,
fifty double unders,
and thirteen squat cleans.
And the squat cleans keep
going up in weight.
If you remember that one.
They go up in weight but down in reps.
And you stop at twenty minutes.
Then twenty point one is ten
rounds for time,
eight ground to overhead at
sixty five pounds and ninety five pounds,
ten bar facing burpees.
And then twenty four point
three is five rounds of ten thrusters,
ten chest to bar pull ups,
rest one minute,
then five rounds of seven
thrusters at weight to
seven bar muscle ups.
And I think the weights were sixty five,
ninety five, ninety five,
one thirty five.
I just think because of the
squat clean you don't need
the thruster because you're
going heavy squat clean you
don't need to maybe keep
going on that last part if
you if you have another
movement there maybe into a
snatch but I like that idea
of old open workouts you're muted jamie
So, sorry.
I do love the idea of old open workouts.
I think using a time-gated
workout in something like
this is not a great idea.
Like...
yeah for one judging
someone's on a some some
judge would mess that up
and let somebody keep
working I think when you
pay to go to these things
you want that's why people
go to high rocks is they
get to work out
continuously for sixty to
an hour and a half or
whatever it takes them and
they're just moving through
this whole thing like
nobody wants to only get
through the four minutes
and stand there for the
next sixteen minutes to
move on to the next section like
It's got to be rounds for
time or an AMRAP where they
just get to keep trying
things and keep moving.
Agree.
The way I looked at it, some of the,
some of like a two K row
needs a little bit of rest
before you go to the next thing.
If you're giving everything
you have on a two K row, you're gassed.
Yep.
And so that's the way I built,
but it wouldn't be one there.
You could pull back your two
K row and save ten seconds
for what you're going to
make up on somewhere else.
If I look at yours,
I'm not going all in on that two K row.
Someone's going to think
they can beat their buddy
by doing the two K row.
Good for them.
Try it.
You know that everybody
falls into the trap.
Yeah.
All right.
So then we have Pat Midgley.
He has a lot of caveats with his.
um it's a sixty minute
version note I like the
simplicity of this as well
as the flow the gear list
is relatively minimal and
there's only one plate
change in the hour I left
six minutes at the end to
reset for the next heat
which would still be pretty
tight I don't think it's
pretty good test and
whatever so then he says he
tried to not do anything in
common with hyrox ah okay
cool uh he does have roski and burpees
uh and then he we can go
over this later but um
stage one zero to nine
minutes twenty one fifty
nine for time with a nine
minute cap row calories
burpee over the rower oh
that's mine stage two
jamie's signing up already
she doesn't even need to
hear the rest no that's my
work that's what my first
stage it first okay workout is
Stage two, fifteen to twenty five minutes.
I am wrapped ten, fifteen,
twelve calorie ski,
twelve handstand push up
strict or kipping twelve,
twelve deadlifts, twelve toes to bar.
Oh, and you're not seeing this.
I need to stop sharing and
sharing again here.
Hold on.
I'm hitting the wrong
buttons left and right.
There we go.
All right.
Stage three,
three rounds for time with a
ten-minute cap,
seventy-five double-unders,
twenty-five twenty cal echo,
ten ground to overhead.
And then stage four,
forty eight to fifty four
for time with a six minute cap,
twenty thrusters, twenty chest to bar,
twenty overhead squat, ten bar muscle ups,
sprint to the finish,
approximately a fifty foot lane.
I would totally sign up for this one.
I love it.
thrusters, overhead squats.
I think it's ground overhead.
It's honestly not that much
different than mine.
And then finally is Craig.
Two twenty five one eighty five.
I like that.
OK, I'm into that workout.
Deadlift.
Three rounds, assault bike,
fifteen to twelve calorie deadlift,
two twenty five, one eighty five,
fifteen reps and then
burpee box jump up twenty four,
twenty ten reps.
Rest period workout to four rounds,
jump rope, fifty dumbbell box,
step over twenty four, twenty fifty,
thirty five,
thirty reps and then ground
to overhead one fifteen
eighty five for fifteen reps.
Rest period five K row to finish.
how many times would you
want to sign up for that
yeah after the deadlifts
I'm done so so that was
them and then Carolyn you
said you sent me in an email yeah
Jamie texted me,
so I don't know how to do that.
Well, shoot.
Like mine,
I didn't want any equipment that
would like a rope in terms
of like rope climbs.
I don't want to deal with
anyone falling from the rope.
I didn't want to deal with
any inverted stuff just
because some people,
if it's a mass participation thing,
I just didn't want to deal
with certain movements.
That was one of my
restrictions that I had.
All right.
Here is Carolyn's.
Station one, zero to fifteen.
Four hundred meter run.
Twenty one burpees a plate.
Fifteen sandbag clean hand
release and nine bar muscle ups.
A hundred seventy pounds for
regular division.
Yeah.
And then maybe like a
seventy fifty or something.
Yeah.
A three minute rest.
Fight gone bad style.
Station two, three times for reps,
one minute of wall balls,
one minute of double
dumbbell farmer lunges.
I just wrote the elite version for now.
One minute toes to bar,
one minute box jump overs, step down,
one minute calorie row, one minute rest.
Three-minute rest, station three,
thirty-nine to forty-five,
thirty ground to overhead,
twenty ground to overhead,
ten ground to overhead.
Max reps in remaining time.
Barbells are already set.
There's no changing of the weights.
Nice.
Three-minute rest, forty-eight to fifty,
two-minute max distance sled pool.
Five foot is a rep.
Rest three minutes.
Station five.
Two-minute max distance sled push.
The end.
The sled pull was instead of
the rope climbs.
I didn't want to deal with that.
And then just still testing
some strength stuff.
Yeah.
Any way you emailed me that, Jamie?
I'm trying right now.
I'm typing.
Hold on.
So what we'll do is we had three entries,
one from Craig, one from Kaylee,
one from Pat.
Um,
I have all the entries in my pocket and
I will draw a name.
So I don't know if you can
see all the paper there, other there and.
Pat and Kaylee got two
entries each because they
actually had theirs in on time.
Craig got his in this week.
He gets one entry.
So I'm drawing a name.
And that name is Pat.
So Pat Midgley,
you win either a coffee cup
or a water bottle from us
in this beautiful yellow
Clydesdale media etched water bottle.
The coffee cup, same color, same etching,
just smaller to drink your
coffee and not over caffeinate.
Okay, it's coming.
I was really struggling with same thing.
Like rope.
Carolyn was an issue for me.
Didn't want to bring out.
I wanted like, I, like someone said,
you need a max lift in here.
And I feel like too many
plates on the floor and all that was,
I do have a lift, but you'll see.
Um,
There was a lot of things I like,
and I don't love my, my workout.
That's like station three.
Um, cause it is like wall balls,
like they already have.
But I, I, again,
I would have liked to tweak this all week,
but I have been so stressed
with the gym that what I wrote,
what I wrote last week and
I just didn't even tweak it.
So, um,
Jimmy, do you want me to read yours?
Amrap, fifteen.
Fifteen, twelve-calorie row.
Ten, burpee over rower.
At eighteen, Grace, cap five.
Isabel, cap five.
At thirty, ten rounds for time.
Fifteen, wall ball.
Ten, chest-to-bar pull-ups.
uh a thirty foot handstand
walk or bear crawl and cap
of twenty four and then at
fifty seven max overhead
squats in three minutes I
like it nice so what's interesting is um
Jamie and Carolyn did reps
rounds for time.
Um, I did every second counts.
Every one of mine was a
timed one that you finish
each piece in each station
and you add the four times
together and come up with an overall.
So I thought about that and
that was a big thing.
And I, and I'm trying to like, in my mind,
think how park station one would.
net like how you could earn
like point like time off or
time added to your to your
total time because that's
what I was thinking wasn't
every second counts like
you add in your finish
times and what happens if
you get capped on like on
yours what happens that's
that's what that's what I
thought about too it would
be capped plus it does become really hard
Like people want to know
their score right away.
Right.
So like to me,
like I feel like an AMRAP or some sort of,
yeah,
like for reps is just easier unless
it's one workout entirely for time.
Right.
I think I was pretty lenient
on my time caps, but yeah.
I like the concept of every
second counts I mean that
means something in the
crossfit world um it it was
the two thousand eight
games or two yeah two
thousand eight and um and
so I think it's nostalgic
and that's why I went with
it yeah I mean this concept
is not that far out there
the two thousand eight
crossfit games were this
Do these three workouts.
This is your time.
You're talking about elite
athletes versus like this
would be a mass in the
fitness level would range
even more than the games.
Yeah, that's it.
That's the only thing.
That's what made it hard for
this one because it was like,
what movements can...
still challenge some of the
top ones in the sports
where they want to sign up for it,
but not also defeat
everyone else from going.
So let's say you have a
station where there's, you know,
a higher rep or higher skill movement.
Maybe you just take no reps on that one,
but you can still continue
and do the elite version
for the whole thing.
But yeah, I just want to
Movements that are easy to
judge and not so far out
there where no one wants to sign up to,
but not so basic that you
don't get the top people trying.
I've told you, this is,
this is my plan for like,
I've been writing it out
and working on it for well
over a year for, to host a comp.
And this is why I like keep
going back on points, times,
like how you do things.
But my concept is like these
one hour gauntlets and you
get those people out of the
gym and a new heat comes in
so that you can run different.
You can get more people
signed up and you're not
just there all day with the
same thirty athletes or
however many lanes you have.
But one of my things that I
want to do kind of the way
like I wanted to see the
Masters competition run is
like say my workout is the
ten round for time of the
fifteen wall balls.
ten chest-to-bar and
whatever handstand workout
I've been there well maybe
that workout is like a
similar type workout but
like it's like it's like
you gotta figure out what
uh like a bar muscle-up
versus a chest-to-bar like
what like I would need
Carolyn to test it and
somebody else test it and
like a bar muscle-up would
be ten reps uh a
chest-to-bar would be six
reps a pull-up would be
three reps and a ring row
would be one rep so like
And it's a lot of math and I get it,
but like that way,
the people who have the
skill go do it and they,
they're clearly going to
win the workout because
they did the high skill movement.
It's like,
it's the same way I want to see.
I know what you're talking
about for those movements.
You just get more points for
the higher skill versus if
you still want to do the,
like say the ten,
you're just not building up as much.
Right.
Right.
but they can still continue the race.
So back when, when I first,
when I was competing in CrossFit locally,
we had a couple of comps that did that.
Like you, you choose your own adventure.
Yeah.
But you get,
it was basically reduced reps.
You know, if you're doing bar muscle ups,
it's five.
If you're doing pull-ups, it's ten.
If you're doing, right.
Yeah.
But you have to figure out
what the correct conversion is.
Yep.
Yep.
And I'm not sure everybody
did that back then.
They just threw something
together so everybody could play.
But I like this idea of a
traveling gauntlet.
Like the gauntlet is so
popular at Waterpalooza.
Every year, you know,
they do a great job with it.
And just to have it travel
in different cities would be nice because,
like,
not everyone can get to Waterpalooza.
So it's just like that
yearly CrossFit travel that just –
you know, can hit different, um,
different movements.
And I think you come
together with the community
and it's a celebration for
an hour and you get to
cheer different people and
you have different stations,
but it's just, it's our,
it's our community.
It's CrossFit.
Like, I think it could work, um,
in terms of something.
You know, that would be cool in our space.
And it's not really like a competing with,
you know,
these leagues or the CrossFit Games.
It's completely different.
It's just a community get-together,
a challenge that goes from city to city.
And there can be an ultimate
champion at the end,
whoever has the most reps.
And it's comparable.
Like, you can do it anywhere.
And not to get too, like, I don't know.
the community needs something right now.
We need something that pulls
it together where we all
come together and hang out
in the same place for a day.
And we travel around the
country and every region gets to,
you have that regional feel like, again,
where everybody kind of
comes and maybe a Carolyn
Prevo shows up to a couple
around her area.
And, you know,
Christy Aramo shows up to a
couple around her area.
And,
and then you get to hang out with
athletes you've watched
over the years and,
and just make it a fun
experience where we do show
that we are a lot alike and
not different.
Yeah.
I just,
I'm frustrated with the separation
that we have going on right now.
And I'd really like
something that kind of
draws it back into a global
community again.
I agree.
I mean, people always say, like,
nobody cares about the teams,
but I truly feel like teams, partly teams,
partly regionals that were
close is what grew the
sport to what it is.
Like, it's a little more accessible.
You get multiple people from
your gym going,
and that's why droves of
people would drive to the
regional to go cheer on their box.
Like,
I feel like that's what grew.
I think, I think you just gave me an idea.
Like instead of going to
like a convention center,
it's a local affiliate that
hosts for the region, this, you know,
this thing.
And then you have all the
affiliates that sign up
that are close by or that
you want to travel close by too.
And you know, you're saving money.
It's all things that people
would have access in their box.
And then they're running through heats,
maybe, you know,
for a few hours and it's a
big community event.
And then there's another affiliate,
maybe two or three hours
away that they hosted a
different weekend and
You know,
you get a bunch of people coming
together.
It's one day of the affiliate to host.
And I think that would be cool.
That would be awesome.
Versus renting a big
convention center and doing
like thousands and
thousands where all of a
sudden might not be as good.
Just locally, kind of like a regional,
but maybe more of them.
And it's affiliate based
with some volunteers in
terms of judging and all that.
I think that would be cool.
When I run my gauntlet,
I'll let you know how it goes.
Yeah, let me know.
And if you do do this,
like in the affiliates,
you can have the two person
teams or whatever.
So, hey, bring a friend.
You and I are going to do this.
This is what we have to know
before we even get there.
And then we're going to run through this.
And it's a way to bring
people into the affiliates
and get them to experience
what that is like as well.
Mm hmm.
I love it.
So the pack said,
I just explained that in
affiliate semifinals,
but I think this would be
different because this is one,
this is a traveling one that could.
Yeah.
If it continued on and was the same.
Yeah.
Pack is right.
Like that's kind of what an
affiliate semifinals is
going to end up doing.
I, I believe.
But in affiliate semifinals
are already in the
community that people are there.
This is a way to bring new
people into the forum.
Exactly.
That's where I was going at
was I would be doing my
semifinal by myself at my gym.
It's not like a community
where people from all
different regions are
coming to do the semifinal.
This would be the same idea,
but you get the whole
region actually coming to show up.
I think people will group together.
For the semifinals?
Yeah, a hundred percent.
Some people.
I think people.
That have access to it.
It's top one percent, though.
Like,
I know that people around you think I
agree.
Yeah.
And yeah,
it might only be like three and
you might be traveling an hour.
But I would think I would
think some some most people
would try to find.
A gym to go to.
And within bring in two or
three athletes so they can
compete together with someone else.
I don't want to do it alone.
Yeah.
Yeah.
But, but I think this is,
I think what we're talking
about is different because
like the sign files is very, very elite.
And then the community cup,
it would be closer to the community cup.
Yes.
But even then you're just doing it.
Maybe a few teams at your
gym versus hundreds of teams.
Our idea is definitely different.
Yeah,
it's more about bringing other people.
Like people are dabbling in high rocks.
Hey, let me see what this thing is like.
It's a way to reach out and
bring people into CrossFit
who have no idea what it is.
I don't know.
That is a good question.
Is CrossFit going to force
it to be done in the
affiliate you sign up under?
No, I doubt it.
Cause I don't,
you don't need to sign up
under an affiliate.
So you would just need to go
to an affiliate to do the
semifinals if you qualify.
Have you signed up for the open?
No.
I mean,
every year I've signed up before I
haven't,
I've been able to put on affiliated.
But everything this year is
pointing to an association
with an affiliate.
I don't think so.
I don't think it has to be.
But I don't think you have to go.
I don't.
I just think you need to go
to an affiliate.
You don't have a rule book,
so who the hell knows?
Who knows?
That's a good question.
We would just be speculating.
Yep.
And creating rumors that aren't true.
Like mayhem is only allowing
mayhem athletes.
would be irresponsible of us
to say things like that all
right couple last pieces of
news and then I gotta get
to bed yeah you do um so
emma carey retired yep uh
one of the bright young
stars of the sport um I
said this the day after she
retired you know we we did
her first ever podcast
Um,
thanks to Kat and reaching out to her
mom and getting to know her.
And then I became really
good friends with Emma, uh,
over the years.
And it,
it saddens me that I am not going
to get to cover her
CrossFit games career
because she was something special.
And, but I'm happy that she has found, uh,
happiness and joy and
contentment in life and
that is more important than
any kind of sport and I'm
so happy for her yeah
anything from you guys no I
agree she should do what
makes her happy and she
went out on top she won
wadapalooza called it a
career it's not but it's
not the worst way to go out
And another person I did his
first ever podcast was Colton Mertens.
And we actually had him and
Allie on together a couple
of times and officially
they are now engaged.
And so, so excited for them.
Allie is one of the nicest
people in the world.
Every event she is always, you know,
cause Colton is a little shy.
He's coming out of that shell quite a bit.
I don't know if he's shy anymore.
But Allie was always the
voice of the couple early on.
And now, like Colton just says,
whatever's on his mind.
But I'm happy for both of them.
Super stoked for them.
Yeah, it's awesome.
Congrats.
And I think that's about it
for the week of news.
next week we'll dive more
into the WFP and hopefully
we'll have more details
about the CrossFit game
season and how they will merge, combine,
um, whatever.
Maybe some water Palooza
predictions as well.
You know,
John and John Young and I have a
love hate relationship.
Um,
The spin really got me last
week when he was saying
that maybe the WFP becomes
so big that it will then
partner with CrossFit Games
and the games will be its finals.
Well, if you think about it,
if the WFP gets that big,
do they need the CrossFit
Games at that point?
No.
No.
If that merger would ever happen,
it would have to happen way
before the WFP got that big.
It would have to be rising,
and then they decide to
come together and work
together to create one season.
I think CrossFit would just
sell the sports side of it
and then allow them to use
the name CrossFit if they wanted to.
They're doing their world fitness project.
did you see the prediction
show that this was part of
the prediction show?
Did you see that Tyler
picked that the CrossFit
would be sold prior to the
CrossFit games?
I mean,
and spin predicted it would be sold
right after the twenty twenty five games.
I think it's going to be around there.
Hmm.
Yeah.
So, uh,
it's been no stuff behind the
scenes that it's true.
And so that one caught my eye.
I will just say that, that got,
that got my wheels turning
and wants me and I want to
dig in more now.
So maybe in the waiting room tomorrow,
I'll, I'll start doing some research.
Yeah.
You'll have some time on your hands.
thank you everybody for
being here this week um
it's been a blast I don't
know what the lunch with
the clydesdale is going to
look like this week I've
got other obligations at
least at the beginning of
the week um as and that
takes precedence my wife is
more important than my lunch show um so
Check us out.
Maybe I'll be on.
Maybe I won't.
And then we'll be back
Wednesday-ish for sure.
And into the later parts of
the week with the roundtable on Thursday.
And again,
back next Sunday night with
Sunday Night CrossFit Talk
and these lovely ladies.
With that,
I hope you guys have a great week.
And we will see everybody
next time on Sunday, Sunday,
Sunday Night CrossFit Talk.
Bye, guys.