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What is going on, everybody?
It's lunchtime.
And it's Wednesday,
meaning we are cooking up
Cajun with Corey Leonard.
What's going on, man?
Same stuff, different day, brother, man.
Same stuff, different day.
Got my coaching in early this morning.
Had some strict pull-up or
strict weighted pull-up
work and some... I don't
know what the actual name
of the workout is.
I just kind of christened it
cardio hell because...
Rob echo, biking,
running and ruin as just on
Wilson used to say, how y'all are.
Hey, look at that.
I used to love watching him
when I was a kid.
I used to watch way more of
that than I like to admit.
Uh,
It was always funny to me
because he didn't sound
like anybody I know.
And I grew up as cool as you
can possibly imagine.
And I just always thought
that he sounded like he
sounded funny to me.
And I know I sound funny to
everybody else.
Right.
Like you're halfway by you.
He was the whole way.
No, I'm not halfway in the body.
Believe what I'm telling you.
Like there's I got home from
school one day.
This isn't.
Not a made-up story.
This is an actual thing.
I got home from school one day,
and there was about an
eight-and-a-half-foot
alligator on the road right
behind my mom's house.
Mom's house is here.
Road goes through,
basically cuts actually
through the swamp.
It goes back to some, like,
camps and stuff like that.
It leads out to Lake Barrett.
And there was about an
eight-and-a-half-foot
alligator sunning itself on the road.
And there was a dude in a
truck trying to go down the street,
and alligator was just
sitting there looking at him like,
I ain't moving, bro.
Lynn noticing a little grooming.
Yes, ma'am.
Got my hair did this morning.
I mean,
my birthday is tomorrow and it's
Easter this weekend.
So I figured it's a good time as any.
Birthday tomorrow.
What number are we hitting?
Forty-eight.
Forty-eight.
We'll be forty-eight on the planet.
So I'm in year forty-eight
of not making the games.
All right, man.
As long as you make it in
the next two years, you've met your goal.
A hundred percent.
A hundred percent.
Yeah.
I don't.
So it's funny.
Andrew says that, but the dude,
Troy Landry from a small
people actually went to
high school with my mom.
That's a real thing.
Yeah.
You are authentic.
I don't get much more.
I'll get much more.
I ain't never hunted alligators,
but I have run crawfish
traps and crab traps and
set nets and all of the things.
I can do all of that.
So I... Which ones?
I don't know.
I have no idea.
I don't know what Jay Birch is saying.
But hey, Jay Birch, welcome.
Andrew, Lito, Lynn, Andrew, Helson,
Jody, man, they're all here.
My one encounter with an
alligator is when I was
living in Tallahassee, Florida,
which is right across the
Gulf from New Orleans.
It was very common to be on
a golf course and see a gator.
Oh, yeah.
Very common.
And then we had this place
called Wakulla Springs,
which was this really deep spring,
like one hundred and fifty feet deep.
And it was crystal clear water.
National Geographic has gone
back into the spring to try
to find like the source of it.
They've never been able to find it.
They found new species of
fish back in where there's no light.
Like the fish had no eyes.
Just wild stuff, right?
And then out in where it
empties out into it formed a river.
And so the gators are all
along the banks of that river.
And then it is full of mullet fish.
Have you ever seen a mullet fish?
Oh, yeah, a hundred percent.
They jump.
They jump out of the water quite high,
like into the boat.
But they have like a fin
that looks like a mullet.
And that's why they're called mullet fish.
Like good bait.
Yeah.
The other thing that I
cannot... The gators I was fine with.
Yeah.
The snakes hanging from trees,
different story.
Completely different story.
Hanging from a tree.
Like if you see an alligator
and it's just chilling
where it's supposed to be,
then that's not a big deal.
If you see a snake, it's not necessarily,
you know,
not expected to be hanging from a tree.
And alligators for the most
part will leave you alone
if you are not listening to them.
They don't, you leave them alone,
they will leave you alone.
Snake hanging from a tree,
that's not necessarily the
case because if they fall
or if you happen to see
that and get stanced and it
kind of slithers and all of
a sudden it's just coming at you,
the air which is not what
you would expect from a
snake every time I come
into this basement man I
get one little dry spot on
my throat every time so
when my family would come
down from the north we
would take them to this
place to show them the alligators because
They don't get to see them in the north.
Right.
And one time we were there
and there's an alligator
just kind of swimming in
the river as they do.
And a couple deer came down
to get a drink of water.
Ooh.
And all of a sudden that
alligator picked up speed.
And I thought for sure my
whole family was going to
see a live National
Geographic special right in
front of their eyes.
Yeah.
But thank, and it was close.
It was close.
Um, but, uh, the, the deer did get away.
They have ridiculous reflexes,
unless you're coming at
them at sixty miles an hour
in a pickup truck at two
o'clock in the morning.
In that case,
they'll just stare at you
until you run them over.
It's ridiculous.
Yeah.
Um,
I missed the dart throw you
have not missed the dart
throw um I actually forgot
so what are what are the
odds today am I going to
put a hole in my wall or am
I going to hit the
dartboard today like when
you throw darts normally
it's it's like tight and
just a push right yeah now
I've got a longer distance
And I've got to go up and over.
Right.
Right.
Here we go.
Oh, I think I actually got triple ten.
You know what?
Ain't nobody can see that but you, Scott.
As far as I'm concerned,
I would be hitting a
bullseye every single time.
Nailed it.
No, because when I hit it for real,
I want it to be real.
If you hit it for real,
you'll probably freak out anyway.
I hit a triple ten,
so lower part of the board this time.
So last time I was way up above.
I hit the board,
but it was like up by the twelve.
Now I'm down to the lower.
Now I just got to zone in
that little middle spot.
I would never understand it like that.
I will go throw darts.
If I used to, I say I would go,
I probably wouldn't go now.
Cause it'd be out after eight, eight PM,
but I just never, I, then I hit it.
Yeah.
Cool.
What did it score?
Whatever.
All right.
Awesome.
Moving right along.
Like it's not.
So you're talking to a guy
who bartended and bounced
for like five years.
Right.
What, what do you do with your downtime?
I mean, that's fair.
you either play pool you
throw darts or you play
pinball or the video games
that happen to be at the
bar so I got pretty decent
at like all of them I
didn't get great at any one
of them but I was decent at
like most of it the thing
that we spent most of our
time on was the video game
nba jam the four person
he's on fire yeah lots and lots of that
But we had a phase where it
was a lot of darts.
A lot of darts.
There was a daiquiri shop.
It's still there, as a matter of fact,
in Thibodeau when I was
going to Nichols that had Cruisin' USA.
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Was it a side-by-side or just a solo?
Just a solo.
But we would use that at the
end of the night to see who
was driving home.
I'm not saying it was a great idea.
I'm just telling you it's a
thing that happened.
Yeah.
My friends and I used to do
that with Mario Kart,
but we got so good at Mario Kart,
we could do it half in the bag.
So it wasn't a good test.
We have Lito in the chat talking to Lynn,
and apparently he, she is a, sorry,
I don't know.
But you're close to making
it to the CrossFit Games.
So we will be rooting you on for sure.
Hopefully,
I get approval to do behind the
scenes again this year.
And I've got to be able to
do behind the scenes in my hometown,
right?
Yeah.
I mean, if you're talking to Joe,
I would stress that part of it.
Hey, man, I'm already here.
I can get some stuff ahead of time.
I'm already here.
I'll be able to get good sleep at night,
get here early in the morning, refresh,
ready to go, get good stuff.
As long as I have the
correct amount of access,
the entire weekend would be fantastic.
Would be.
Did I sound bitter about that?
Because I wasn't even involved in that.
You weren't.
You weren't even there.
Yeah, and it still came out well.
Like, I don't want to... It did.
It absolutely did.
It's a lot more work to, like,
yell at people and have
them come over to the side as opposed to,
like,
just walking up to someone and
asking them a question.
Right.
Salido is a female,
thirty-five to thirty-nine.
And according to Lynn, complete badass.
Well, if she's sitting in eighth or ninth,
then yeah, one hundred percent.
She is.
She's better than I am.
That's for damn sure.
Well, I am, too.
So if you listened yesterday,
I was talking about how
some of the emails have
gone out and are confirming
people's workouts.
Right.
And some of them are saying that, hey,
due to public voting,
we took a look and your
your video is good.
um and so carolyn yesterday
on her instagram she told
us but then she posted it
got all five confirmed good
but I don't know if you
guys know this because all
five are good look who is
now the winner of the
thirty five to thirty nine
year old division
She won the Open, and now she won semis.
And she checked in and said,
can't wait to see you guys in Columbus.
So there's Lito.
Yeah, right there.
There she is.
Lito, are you from Greece?
Is that Greece?
Okay.
I think Greece is one of the
most beautiful places on
earth I am fairly certain I
actually scrolled over it
and it told me it was
Greece so Christine says
holy isht I didn't see that
what happened was she was
in fourth before I think
she was in third most of the time
But the people ahead of her got penalties.
We went back and looked at
the video to try to figure
it out because it was Stevie Dellinger.
The only thing I think that
they could have dinged her
on the one workout was she
moved her box and didn't
remeasure the five foot section.
And then on the last rep,
she jumped off the box with both feet.
And that's definitely.
So,
but that wouldn't have been a big penalty,
but not measure it.
She moved the box around and
then didn't remeasure.
That's the only thing there
might've been a soft elbow a time or two,
but not anything that was like really,
really bad.
So I don't really know what
happened with Stevie.
And then with Sarah,
Alicia Fernandez Costas,
I think is who was in first.
Yeah.
It looks like she miscounted
her reps on a round,
and they stopped it at that point.
Her score stopped.
Yeah, that's a thing.
And it was one burpee.
She missed one burpee,
and then they stopped the
workout where she missed the one burpee,
which seemed harsh to me.
That was...
was the rules that they put
out though I remember that
being a big thing like hey
if you miss a rep and you
keep going and it's like we
figure out that's where you
miss the rep that's where
your workout stops lito
that's exactly what we saw
is that sarah did twenty
nine of thirty burpees on
her first round and then
they they stopped even
carolyn who was competing
for her for the win was
like that's too harsh but um
yeah it's such a silly
mistake to make too like if
you're the judge and you
miscounted you you've got
to be feeling awful oh one
hundred percent dude my
judges would go back and
watch my stuff afterwards
because jeff's sitting
there actually judging
counting rest making sure
I'm doing everything I'm
supposed to do and then
bernard was just kind of
like hovering and watching stuff and then
uh for the for that one as a
matter of fact um bernard
went back and watched me
lunge across the line for
one rep arm and which one
it was like five different
times because he was making
sure that my feet he was
like I mean if they slow it
down I said bro I'm not
supposed to slow it down he
said it kind of looks like
both of your feet like it
looks like they are but it
could be interpreted I said
it's not no could be
interpreted they are they are
But they were on top of that,
making sure that even that
kind of stuff was as it should be,
I guess you could say.
So I didn't get dinged for
any kind of crazy stuff like that.
Yeah.
Jamie moved up a spot since
it was originally posted.
So she's in seventh now.
But she does not have all of
hers verified.
So it looks like they're
still working on her age
group with all of the reviews.
I started out in the eighty fifth.
I went all the way up to seventy fourth.
Yesterday,
I dropped back down to the eightieth,
and this morning,
I'm in the seventy-eighth.
So, like, whatever, I mean,
they're definitely looking at it,
and there's definitely stuff going on.
It's just wild to me that, like,
up at eleven spots,
which has people getting, like,
zeroed out, right?
Yep.
back down to aiding.
Okay, cool.
That's, you know,
people putting scores back in.
Awesome.
So I expect it to happen.
And then now I'm back in seventy eight.
So that to me,
that means that somebody
else's stuff got watched
and like they got dinged completely,
completely out or something happened.
I didn't I didn't pay enough
attention to the people in
front of me to see exactly what happened.
But it's just it's
interesting to see how much
movement has actually
happened and will continue
to because we still got five days.
Yep.
Uh, Lynn says, uh, man,
they'd have to pay me.
That's so painful.
At least she still is going
to come to masters, but ouch.
Yeah.
Thank goodness.
Like it only made her drop
to the twenties.
Um,
cause she's still in a qualifying spot.
Um, so yeah, cool there.
Uh, Jay Birch, congratulations.
Finished up the online L one yesterday.
So next year,
give me a holler if you need a judge,
Corey.
Love it.
Appreciate you, Jeff.
That's cool.
I love that he's
credentialed and can do all the things.
I am extremely lucky and
blessed to be surrounded by
people who care about me,
hold me to the standard and, and like,
we'll give up an entire
weekend just to come and
basically watch me suffer for fricking,
you know,
five workouts plus or minus if I
got to redo any of them.
it's a, it's pretty good feeling.
It's pretty good feeling.
So.
Yeah.
It's amazing though.
How many people aren't
credentialed apparently and doing, doing.
It keeps happening.
I know.
Are you kidding me?
It keeps happening.
Like the,
the thing that may him was kind
of a big deal,
but then you look at it and it's like,
it's not,
that's not the only place that happened.
Like it's, it's a lot.
What I don't understand is
even if you know you're
going to come in a hundred
and twenty-fifth place.
Yeah, that's we're getting to that.
Even if you know you come in
a hundred twenty-fifth place, right?
If you know,
I'm not going to get anyone
anywhere close to that, whatever.
You still, if you're going to play,
you still have to follow the rules.
The same rules apply to everybody.
So I don't look three, four, five, six.
Yes, train to live.
So much going on.
So Bill Grundler's been
mentioned three times just now.
Lino, Shay, what's going on, Shay?
Glad you could be here.
And Lynn.
And then we have the impersonator,
which is insane to me.
then they made the video not
public so now it's not a
valid video anyway
regardless one way or the
other um which is admitting
guilt fyi like you just as
soon have said yeah okay no
that she's not actually who
she says she was so the
grundler thing surprised me
because someone who
has been such an integral
part to the ecosystem as he has been.
Neither him nor the other
judge had their credentials.
And he was seminar staff.
He was an L-to.
He owns an affiliate.
Right.
And as an affiliate owner,
isn't it required that you
or somebody that represents
you has an L-to?
So, yeah.
Well, along those lines,
we got a comment after Sunday show.
And it was from at John George, nine, four,
two, three.
And this goes to like what
Denise talked about on the
phone call in about the
fairness of them getting the exception,
but others not in the past
or even this year.
So this is at John George, nine, four, two,
three.
As far as mayhem, I'm mixed.
I had an issue with the
submission that was fine
when I submitted.
Somewhere along the way,
it was flagged for music
infringement and someone
flagged it as unviewable.
I did not realize this
because I could see it
because it was mine.
I received an email Friday at nine p.m.
letting me know I got a zero.
It was a sixteenth.
uh workout number three I
made correction the
correction immediately
crossfit emailed me back
and said based on rule
number two blah blah it
should have been fixed by five pm
I didn't know until nine,
so they couldn't cut me slack,
but they can for this mayhem issue.
So shame on me for not
double-checking late Friday.
I don't blame athletes at mayhem,
but if you're going to have
the ability to make exceptions,
make it available for all
potential issues, shit happens.
Just my opinion.
Great show.
So nothing was wrong.
He followed all of the rules
except for somebody flagged
his video for music and
copyright infringement.
I got three of mine that
have music copyright infringement.
It means they can't be
viewed in some countries.
Right.
His, they made it unviewable worldwide.
Oh.
That's a problem.
And so, and he went and he fixed it
He knew it was a problem.
He fixed it.
But CrossFit said, too bad.
You didn't follow rule number two.
You're out.
I will say this.
I went and made sure.
And this kind of stuff drives me bananas.
And I get it.
They're trying to play the game, whatever.
But the people that wait...
until Sunday at four o'clock.
And then I'm gonna go upload
all my videos right now.
I'm gonna upload all my
score here because I don't
want anybody to see what I did.
They either gonna beat you or they ain't,
bro.
Period.
Like,
especially in that small window that
we had to do five workouts.
Like,
I ain't had time to go watch anybody
else's workout or try to go
watch somebody else's
workout and figure what they did.
Like, I was focused on me.
So if that's what ends up happening,
all of them get uploaded,
and then you end up getting
flagged because for whatever reason,
music, copyright infringement, blah, blah,
blah, okay, it's not viewable here, there,
or yonder.
It sounds harsh, dude,
but whose fault is that?
If you put it up when you do it,
if it's a last-minute thing
that you have no control over,
like I have to get this done or redone,
whatever, and it's...
Three o'clock on Sunday
afternoon and they do it five.
Okay.
That's one thing.
But if you got them all done,
like we had since Thursday,
I did my last one Sunday morning.
I had it uploaded by noon Sunday.
So Lito says that's why I
mute all my videos.
Um,
it's a known problem that music gets
dinged,
just mute in advance and upload early.
There's also an option with
the new versions of AI.
You can actually go into
your video once it's up and
you can have it remove the music.
Yeah.
So it'll keep everything else.
Like your spoken word will stay,
but all the music is gone.
But you have to have it in
in time for that edit to happen, right?
Yeah.
But just put it up as
private until you get that editing done.
Well, and then
That's another good reason
to hold up the board
beforehand with your name on it,
judge's name,
all that good stuff so
somebody can read it.
So if it does get flagged or
has to get muted, then it's done.
Yes.
What Leo just said right there.
Even YouTube offers the
option to mute the
copyrighted bit so that
video will still play.
And it's just, you just won't hear that,
which is fine.
They even give you the
option to use their YouTube
created music to put over
top of the music that you're eliminating.
So it doesn't look silly, right?
There's so many options.
Yeah,
they have like YouTube creators that
put out stuff that's
royalty free and it'll
allow you to take that and
just slap it right over
whatever you're removing.
The part that
I understand what the part he's saying,
like,
because it seems to be just a mayhem
problem as far as the, the,
the judge's thing is
concerned and his is a more
or less a technical failure, right?
Still on him.
But I would argue that this
stuff that happened in mayhem is still on,
still on the athletes.
Yeah, they got invited.
It sucks for them.
It absolutely does.
But I am not going anywhere
that I do not know.
One hundred percent.
Like if I'm trying to make the game,
I'm trying to do as well as
I can in this semifinal
stage so I can keep advancing,
keep getting better.
I am going to make damn good
and sure that the people
that are going to be taking, you know,
basically taking my athletic career,
whatever you want to call it,
into their hands,
have everything they're supposed to have.
Maybe, maybe I'm that dude, but do we know,
do we know if Grundler got
Grundler's athletes got the
same thing that mayhem did?
I have absolutely no idea.
All that.
I haven't, I haven't dug that, that,
that I dug down into that.
As far as that is concerned,
I just saw that people were
saying that bill didn't the
fact that he's not come out
and addressed it,
not anywhere that I've seen.
Anyway, it's kind of weird.
I would think because yeah.
He's so well-known.
He is such a face and a voice in, you know,
all of the things that for,
like we were saying the other day, dude,
you know, I know, like you get,
you know when your L-one is up.
You just know.
All of ours as coaches are
printed on the gym,
like the print versions and
frames with our little
picture next to it.
At the gym.
So I can go look at it whenever I want to.
Or with anybody else.
I can tell you that, yep,
mine expires in twenty twenty six.
Yeah,
when I was coaching at my previous gym,
we all had our certificates on the wall.
And you could look at the
expiration date of all of them.
Train to live is verifying
judge credentials will be
added to everything else, i.e.
cameras, backup cameras, backup batteries,
extra cords.
Yeah.
All of that.
When I was doing the documentary on Rudy,
Rudy Berger, he has a team that has, like,
three cameras.
They have three cameras on
every workout in case one goes down.
They've got two others.
Like,
it is insane the amount of steps they
take.
Dude, last year for quarterfinals,
I was doing that –
the three rounds, fifty wall balls,
fifty burpee box jump overs workout,
and I was halfway through
my second round of burpee
box jump overs when one of
my partners said, hey,
this camera's not on.
And I had,
and that was one percent my fault,
instead of putting it on do not disturb,
I just put it on airplane mode,
thinking it would be the same thing.
And I got a spam call in the
middle of my workout that
killed the video.
It's terrible.
Yeah.
That was a horrible workout
to have to redo halfway.
I did it one and a half times.
Absolutely terrible.
Hopefully they'll add it for individuals.
At least if you're an individual athlete,
after what you've just seen
and you have not learned
from this fiasco.
A hundred percent.
Like when it comes your turn,
you better be going down
the checklist and making
sure all of the stuff.
That is one hundred percent
on you at this point,
if you can see all this
stuff that's going on and
not have all your ducks in
a row by the time it's time to go.
Yeah.
Insane.
It.
Man, yeah.
So much is happening.
I can't wait till these five
days are over though.
Like I'm stressed and I'm
not even an athlete.
Like I'm stressed for Jamie, for you,
for Lito,
for all these people that are
like waiting, waiting for that final,
like, okay, you're good to go.
Like I kept texting Jamie,
do you get any more emails?
Do you get any more emails?
Hey Jamie, do you get any more emails?
Hey, you heard anything from HQ?
HQ, email me.
Yeah.
I will say I'm excited that
I have not gotten anything
from HQ whatsoever,
which means that either my
videos are good or nobody's
looked at them.
Probably the second one.
My guess is we're focused on
that like top thirty five ish.
I'm hoping.
Yeah.
Somewhere top fifty,
let's say somewhere up in that area.
Yeah.
Yeah.
So we're not worried about
seventy eight right now.
No, thank God.
Leave me alone.
Leave me alone.
I'm good where I'm at.
I'm good where I'm at.
I am back to normal training
as of this week.
If you really want to know
what the threshold is.
I would love to know what
the threshold is.
Super review.
I would.
Absolutely.
And I don't think we ever will.
Unless somebody goes and like,
that would be one hell of
an analytical deep dive to like,
See how many downvotes a video got.
Like you'd have to go
through everybody's stuff,
see how many down they got
and see if they got reviewed.
I don't even know how you'd
be able to tell if it got
reviewed at that point.
Well,
the only person is the athlete
because they get the email
that tells them it was reviewed.
Right.
So you'd have to put a poll out,
talk to those people,
see how many they got.
see how many they were at
when they got the trigger,
when they got the email
that said it was... And even that,
I think you're still coming
out with basically an
educated guess at that point.
If I was CrossFit,
I wouldn't tell anybody.
Yeah.
Like if we're going to do
this again next year, if I was CrossFit,
I wouldn't tell a single
soul because all that does
is open up the floodgates for...
Well, good job.
So Halpin says he's doing
that review outside looking
in and those that show a
scoring adjustment,
how many votes they had.
Yeah,
but what it won't tell you is the
people that got reviewed
and didn't get a score change.
Right.
So a leader said,
all my emails said
following public reviews,
your video was accepted.
Yeah, I know there's two emails.
Like Carolyn got some that said,
based on public voting,
we did a further review of
your video and your video
has been accepted.
And then others said, hey,
workout number three was accepted.
And they leave out the other part.
And she had three that had
deeper dives and two that
were just accepted.
but all of them were accepted.
So she had no score change.
So like that won't show up
on Mike's spreadsheet.
Right.
Right.
Even though three of them were reviewed.
Anyway, like I was saying, if I'm CrossFit,
I'm keeping that number as
close to the best as possible.
I hope that doesn't leak out
because next year it would just make it,
it would cause that much
more of an issue where people knew that,
oh, well, if you get
your video is going to get
immediately reviewed.
Well, then people are just going to,
you know, human nature at that point.
Some people, I would say,
are just going to go in
there and just get people
to just go downvote it
until it gets reviewed, no matter what,
or if it's good or not.
Yeah, I think that's a Pandora's box.
Jake says,
that window behind Corey is
really far away.
How big is that room?
You don't know.
My boy is big wigging it.
He's got the big office.
The big closet.
You've got the corner office
with the view of the mountains.
The view of the mountains
right here in South Louisiana.
There you go.
So they were considering the
video reviews.
So what they did is they
determined if it met a certain threshold,
they got a further review.
That's how they considered the, the,
um the votes to do the video
reviews I think is what you're saying
Yeah.
Halpin said,
I would also be able to see a
high number needs review
that didn't have a score change,
which is also interesting
as it means the community
voted improperly according to HQ.
Correct.
Yeah.
That's going to take a lot of work, man.
Which we know happened.
Yeah, we do.
I can promise you that happened.
uh we'll work out a ton ton
of down votes um that lunge
like everybody dinged so it
it's interesting no I was
saying yesterday I don't
remember where I saw it at
but like there was two
different standards shown
in the video as far as the
lunch is concerned like how
did and turning around so
But I think a lot of people
felt like people didn't
come to full extension at the top.
Because you're trying to go fast, right?
So you're like up and trying
to hit extension and go
right back down as quickly as you can.
And usually just because of
the pure space that took,
you don't have a really
great angle to see that
extension on video.
No,
and not all angles are created the same.
Like I had to make the best
they do because of how our gym is set up.
Like it didn't make any
sense to me to set it up.
Like they asked to set it up.
So I had to kind of move
stuff around as far as that's concerned,
but to get to the feet and
make sure you could see the
dumbbell and make sure you
could see the box that I
was going to be jumping
over and make sure the box
is five feet away from
where the dumbbell is.
I got done with my last snatch.
I just tossed the dumbbell.
Well, that's what happened.
So that's what happened in
Stevie Dellinger's video.
They put the stuff there,
they measured it all,
and then they were seeing,
can you see this?
Can you see that?
And then they kept moving
the box to make sure you
could see both sides of the box.
After they measured it.
And then measured it after they moved it.
So I'm thinking, and again,
there's no comment to tell
you why it was changed or
why they did it.
So you're just going on pure assumption.
But my assumption is because
she didn't remeasure the
distance from the dumbbell to the box,
they gave her a penalty.
I tell you what I did is I marked,
when I measured from the
dumbbell to the box, I put a tape mark.
where I was going to put the
dumbbell so that, hey,
this is my five foot.
There's a tape mark.
Like, here's a line.
I'm starting behind.
Here's a tape mark behind the line,
which my dumbbell is going
to sit on at the very least.
But I did that last snatch, dude,
and I just,
I got it further away from the
box because I didn't want
to have any kind of, any kind of,
any kind of reason for somebody to go, oh,
well,
his dumbbell is right there by the box,
you know,
while he's doing these box jump overs.
Lito, she's asking,
assuming Stevie would have
gotten the reason for the
penalty in her email, I would assume that,
but I've not seen one where
there's been a scoring
adjustment to know if it
was spelled out for the athlete.
But I believe in years past, it does say.
The other thing,
like where her dumbbell was,
and I'm not trying to pick on Stevie.
I think she's a great athlete.
And she just happened to get
a scoring adjustment that I
saw that affected Carolyn's landing.
So it's not that I'm picking
on her at all.
She also used a chalk line
for the dumbbell instead of tape.
And it was like handwritten.
So it was a squiggly line.
But I don't think that would
have affected it because
the chalk line was there
from beginning to end.
It didn't like get erased in
any form or fashion.
Lito said, if you look at Sarah's email,
said that she only did
twenty nine burpees.
If you look at her stories.
Yeah, I thought so.
In years past,
CrossFit has usually pointed
out why they've given you a penalty.
I thought that rule was kind of harsh.
But if for no other reason that, okay,
add a second to my score, to my time.
That's where it gets tricky though.
if you did all three rounds
that's one thing but if you
did twenty nine one round
where do you draw the line
of hey it takes a second
because there is a build up
of fatigue fatigue that can
affect the moves after and
so that's all arbitrary at
that point I don't disagree
I do think it's harsh for
one burpee to stop the
workout bam especially if
if it's at like if it's in
your first round dude like
you still got two more
rounds to go like now your
score is uh stevie was
given a one minute and
forty second penalty uh
which moved her from second
to fifteenth overall
Yeah, we looked at all that yesterday,
and she's still going to
the games as long as
everything else is accepted.
And she's going to be great at the games.
She's a great athlete,
and she's probably going to
compete with Caroline and
Caroline Klutz and all of
those ladies for the championship.
So she's still going,
and someone as fit as
Stevie is going to be fine.
It's interesting now that
everybody can see all the
things no matter what.
And like, so, I mean,
when you talk about public forum, dude,
like we are now,
we are now very much a public forum,
especially being able to see that, no, no,
this needs review.
That's unviewable completely.
This person is not even the
person they said they were
whenever they got on the thing.
That was insane, by the way.
I think the fear of getting
judged over your video made
people do the best they
could to meet all the standards.
I would say that, but yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Dude, for me, like.
Leader said not all reps are
created equal.
One burpee isn't the same as
one jump rope or which
isn't the same as one rope climb.
Correct.
Absolutely.
Carolyn made the point yesterday.
Like if I miss a double under,
do you stop the workout for
one double under?
And so you're right.
Like they're not created equal,
but by this standard,
wherever you missed a rep, it ends.
Right there.
Yep.
And double unders are the worst account.
Not my favorite thing to do.
Man, I'd do five extra just in case.
Not my favorite thing to do.
I'll go until my judge tells me to stop.
I'm not even – I'm counting in my head,
but, like,
even if I do fifteen and they
say I'm at forty-eight, then, okay,
we're doing two more or
however many it is.
Like,
I'm not stopping until they tell me good,
and I will roll on through
with it because I'm not
getting dinged for that.
Same way, dude.
For the open, the –
Thruster pull up chest of our thing.
Because I can't count.
I did twenty one or twenty
chest or twenty pull ups to
start off with.
And my judge was like, hey, man,
you need to do another pull up.
Like, yeah, I probably did.
I took ten,
did another one and went on
about my business.
What I've learned is get a
good judge that you trust,
that's willing to tell you
when you've done it wrong,
that's willing to tell you
you didn't count right
because the ramifications
of that are so big now.
So big.
It's just not worth having to redo it,
especially if you end up with it.
If nothing else goes wrong,
And like you said,
you missed two double
unders or you miscounted a
burpee or something like that.
And nothing else goes wrong
during that workout.
You got a phenomenal score.
And then you go back and
look at the video and you go, oh shit,
I got to do this again.
Like that's demoralizing at that point.
And have someone look at
your video before you submit it.
Like say, hey, look at this.
And tell me,
did I miss anything along the way?
Tell you, dude, Benorn got, God bless him,
him and Jeff,
they took my camera away
from me after I got done
and went back and, all right, show me.
Train to live.
Guess this shows having a
judge taking courses and
having an L-one maybe isn't
that important.
I mean, he ain't wrong.
I think it's overkill, but sure.
An L-one,
while it helps you
understand the methodology
of CrossFit in the best way possible,
does not teach you how to
judge a competition.
No.
I know people who have their
L-ones who have no business
judging anybody whatsoever.
It is also that because you
have an L-one and you know
what good movement is
supposed to look like,
does not mean that you move
well or know what good
movement is supposed to look like.
Denise says,
I got a penalty on workout
three and it was a correct penalty.
Did your email tell you why
you got the penalty, Denise?
Lito,
I feel like the advanced course
should have had a lot more
counting in it.
My thing with the videos are
you need to video an elite
athlete going at elite speed.
That's what people need practice with.
Yeah.
Not whoever they had,
Joe Bob from down the street.
I mean, yeah, he was moving well,
but... Then he said, yeah,
great explanation too.
Good.
That's encouraging.
That's encouraging.
I hate to cut this party short.
Wednesdays,
we always seem to run over and
I've got a one-thirty
meeting and I need to eat something.
I don't know why.
So...
And I'll leave it on this.
Jay Birch,
competition movement is
different than gym movement.
Yes, it is.
My first judging experience
at regionals and it was team.
My first judging experience.
Holy cow.
When they started moving, I was like,
I have never been in this
ball game before.
These are not normal human beings.
What's happening right now.
Right.
And that was the team competition.
Yeah.
I was outside lane like I
was new so I didn't get any
of the preferential
treatment um dude the first
time I saw elite athletes
move in person or even back
when that's watching uh
scott pancheck at legends
uh this past year dude like
there's elite athletes and
then there's the scott
panchecks of the world I
would not have wanted to
I mean,
I say that judging him probably is
fairly easy because he moves so well,
but he's also moving so
fast the entire time.
Like you got to keep up.
Yeah.
So, yeah.
To those of you who do that elite judging,
God bless y'all.
I wouldn't want to do it.
There's no way.
Well, don't forget tonight,
five PM cats catching feelings.
She said it's going to be a wild show.
She had a first date last night.
She had a wild night Friday
night with the girls night out.
So she's going to share all
of that tonight.
Make sure you check in to
that five PM Eastern standard time.
And then tomorrow I just
started watching behind the
scenes of mayhem that I
I think Taylor did for Savan.
I'm about fifteen minutes in so far.
Pretty cool.
But I'll let you know how
the whole episode goes
tomorrow when we get back
here for lunch with the Clydesdale.
With that time to get back to work,
you knuckleheads.
Lunchtime is over.
We'll see you next time.
Lunch with the Clydesdale.