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What is going on, everybody?
Welcome to Thursday Night CrossFit Talk.
Did you notice the new open?
Yes.
I saw my little face out there.
Yeah,
we gave you the wiggle head like
everybody else has.
I was trying to think of
what picture that was from.
I took it.
Oh, okay.
Yeah,
it's a picture I took of you at the
games.
You were actually front squatting.
It was the back nine.
OK, that's what I thought.
I was like,
I think it's the yoke picture
or something.
Yeah.
OK, that makes sense.
Yeah.
So, yeah,
it was back when I was in the pit
two years ago and actually
was getting good pictures.
And I have some of you with
the yoke to one really like
because you were in the
lane right by the pit.
So as you were coming by,
I like I got one that's
like super close up.
Great.
Because we all love those sometimes.
Yeah.
Especially when you're
lifting whatever weight
that was on that yoke.
That was a heavy workout.
Yeah.
Very.
I liked it.
So here we are Thursday at CrossFit Talk.
The open is over.
What do you want to get into first?
Anything new with you guys
before we get into the open talk?
carolyn you're back in
canada yes I'm back in
canada I got back sunday
afternoon um back because I
had I was on march break
that's why I was in
california so I got back
sunday afternoon and then
went back to work on monday
so students are all
thrilled to come back after
a week and teachers as well you know
I was telling Jamie that at the gym,
because I've just started going back,
it's spring break next week,
and there were people in my
class not doing the board
workout because they wanted
to save their legs for
their spring break vacation.
Now, the one guy was going skiing,
so I do kind of get that.
You don't want to have
ripped up legs going skiing, but yeah.
So Jamie, anything with you?
Nope.
I just have my members ball Saturday.
So just been trying to gear up for that.
Yep.
You have like a dance.
Yep, exactly.
Dress up full on.
Um, we usually do it in December,
but the last two years, that's like,
it's always right around
legends and it just takes a
huge toll on me, um,
in Christmas time and it's hard.
So I thought I would do it after the open.
Um, and I, I posted like two months ago,
this date and nobody said anything.
And,
and you would think I would know cause
I have a kid, but again,
our spring break is the same.
It starts next week.
Now I have a lot of people
like not RSVPing and being like, well,
we're going on spring break.
And I'm like,
why didn't you guys say
something two months ago
when I put the date out
there and I would have
moved it a week later?
Well, that'd be Easter, but I don't know.
Communication, communication,
communication.
Yeah,
that's why I put save the date out
there two months ago.
It's like Lex always
communicates with me that
she beats me in heat one.
Always.
Always.
I should have done it.
I like doing it and battling with Lex.
Yeah, I usually do too.
But again, I said this Sunday night,
my biggest beef is they
added those underdog
matchups and they didn't
tell you when until it was
like right about to go and
I missed it two different weekends.
I got zero on those.
Once I missed the first week
of the open for the heat one, I was like,
well,
there's no point to hop in now
because I'm assuming it was too late to
Carolyn,
you watched a movie that made you cry?
Oh my gosh!
You guys.
It was called Arthur the King.
Am I right, Lex?
Yeah, Mark Wahlberg.
Yes, so Lex and I love our doodles.
And the one dog looked a
little scruffy at first,
but then you kind of got to
know the dog and this group of
four people go on this
adventure um like the
mountains like biking
running everything so many
miles and then they see
this dog at the beginning
and then they also and then
like 200 miles later the
dog like after like mark
wilbert like feeds the dog
some meatballs the dog like
found its way back to them
and then they like did the race
with the dogs I'm not gonna
give it up but I don't know
lex and I just got so
emotional the whole time
because I think we just
like I don't know for me
like I just like pictured
like me and lex kind of
probably doing something
like that and then you
start thinking about like
your dogs and man lex had
to put some sunglasses on
to go to the store after
because we were a hot mess
oh that's cute it's such a
hard cry she had to go
sunglasses like the lights
are off at the end of the movie
And I'm like, Lex,
put your sunglasses on now
before the lights turn on.
It was good.
Don't worry.
Like it's, it's a good ending,
but it's still just a, yeah, that's good.
Yeah.
I had a pretty boring week.
Just it seemed busy with,
with like nothing accomplished.
But tomorrow I go see my
cardiologist for my follow-up,
so that'll be good.
I'll get in there and get
hopefully a clean bill of
health and no AFib, all that.
So, yeah.
I'm feeling good.
I told Jamie it's great
getting back into the gym,
but I am hurting.
Like, I am so sore.
My legs are completely trashed.
My legs are still sore from the open.
I think I did something.
And I can't tell it to Lex
because she just sends me
the world's smallest violin
every time I try to
complain about anything.
She just sends me an emoji of a violin.
She's like, you're fine.
But...
Like I was so sore from this one.
Like I did it the Friday in California.
And then I was sore Saturday.
I was sore Sunday.
Like going down the stairs
was awful Monday at school.
I could barely go down the stairs.
Still how I redid the workout on Monday.
I have no idea.
I tried to squat for the first time today.
And I did like a high hang
squat snatch at like 115
pounds and can barely get
out of the bottom.
Like my quad seized up again.
And like I could barely flex
my knee after I was like, geez, I'm like,
I got to take more days off
again from squatting.
So I just did everything upper body.
I haven't been able to squat since.
So I think I did something.
But don't tell Lex because
she doesn't let me complain about it.
Well, that's why you have this show.
You can come.
Yes, I can.
I can vent here.
Yeah.
So perfect segue.
Uh,
you and Jamie competed at a high level
at the open.
Did you have something to say, Jamie?
Did I catch off?
Well, I was going to say,
cause I did it Thursday and
I was only sore,
like in my lats and like my biceps,
just like my pulling.
Um, and,
and I heard a lot of people saying
like their legs were sore and I, you know,
I, I suck at squatting.
I'm like,
I just don't use my legs clearly.
Um, and,
Well, I redid it on Monday,
even though we talked about Sunday,
me not redoing it.
I redid it anyway.
And I must have used my legs, glutes,
everything.
I am a wreck as well.
Still now, right?
Still today.
Well, get this.
Then Wednesday I did at
every minute on the minute.
Well, it was every night,
every minute 30 because it
was 30 second rest.
Three wall walks,
max thrusters at 95 pounds.
So for 10, for 10 rounds of that,
I did 90 more thrusters.
I had thrusters program this
week and I was like, no.
Yeah.
Today I had an overhead spot.
Nope.
Didn't skip that.
Did power snatch instead.
Yeah.
Well,
so I did this because Tristan had
programmed for me 50 chest to bar, um,
15 squat snatch, 25 bar muscle ups,
15 overhead squat with like
burpee back jump in there.
And I was like, I can't do,
I literally can't do any more pull-ups,
chest to bars or bar muscle
ups right now.
And so I was like,
I'll do this thruster while walk workout.
I Lord knows I need to work on thrusters.
Um, but yeah, I am, I'm totally wrecked.
I hope my quads are fine.
Like, I think I have a small injury.
Like, I don't know.
Guys, let me vent.
It's fine.
I'm in my feelings.
I mean, worth it though, but.
Yeah.
We'll see if it's worth it
because if I can't squat for another week,
I'm.
You have 30 days till quarters.
When everything means a whole lot more.
Now you have a small window
to get into semis for the elite athletes.
Jamie,
I know her dream is to make it to a
semifinal.
Plus,
she's sitting really pretty going
into the Masters.
So I want to talk about Carolyn first.
You finished fifth in the Open.
What is the process?
Because we announced last
week there is prize money
for the top five,
meaning you hit the top five.
What is the process you have
to go through with CrossFit
at this point?
That Monday night,
I got an email from
CrossFit asking for the
links to all three of my videos.
So it was like a Google Docs
thingy or forms of some sort.
I sent in all three of my
links and haven't heard anything since.
We had until Wednesday at 8 p.m.
Eastern to submit those three links,
but mine were already all downloaded.
So within literally a minute
of receiving the email, I was sent in.
I don't know if they'll
validate each one because
in the quarters you get an
email when you send in your video.
It says score is approved or
whatever they want to give.
I don't know if I'm
expecting something like
that for each of the videos
or if they're going to just
go through the videos and
then at the end just
announce the top five.
And we don't really hear
anything until that announcement.
I have no idea.
That's crazy to me.
Like,
I would think it would be like
quarters or at quarters
when you submit your, your video,
then you wait to get a validation on the,
on your app for the submission.
Um, but normally like every year I get,
I send in my videos or off.
Oftentimes I have to send in
my videos in the open and in the open,
I don't recall or get like,
like receiving an email saying that the,
like that the video was good.
Yeah.
I, I,
I only remember it from the quarters
and every year they'll ask
normally like after week one with the,
if you're within the top, whatever,
like you would submit a video.
You don't really hear back from it.
Week two, you submit your video.
So I don't know if I'm
supposed to hear from them or not.
Do you know if it was just a top five?
I heard a rumor that they
asked for the top 10.
Yeah.
I had heard the same rumor as well.
Top 10.
That's probably smart.
Yeah,
you have to go back because you don't
want to just do top five.
And then if there's anything,
then you got to re-add or ask the top,
you know, the rest of it.
It's just wasting time now.
Yeah.
It's like there's that many
videos to look at.
Right.
I'm glad that they asked all
10 of you for all three videos.
Like that's the way this
process should go to pay out the open.
I just think it, I thought maybe week one,
they would start that process.
to not do it like last minute on them.
But I mean,
I'm glad they're asking for this stuff.
Cause I had,
I had said week one to you guys, right?
I was like, I was surprised that I,
that was like that they
hadn't asked for any videos.
I was like, Oh, that's weird.
Sarah Cooper says, go Carolyn team Canada.
Um, it, it,
it sounds to me like they only
asked for the, the winner from each week.
And now that they're at the
money for the end,
they're asking for the top
10 to validate the top five.
Yeah.
So that's good.
Yeah,
because even if they gave a penalty
to someone that's like in 40th,
they're wasting their time.
No offense, because it's not going to.
That person's still going to
qualify to quarterfinals.
Like, even if you give a 20% penalty,
if they're in the top 40, top 100,
they're still so well into
the zone of top 25% that why even do it?
So I get it from the CrossFit, you know?
Yeah.
Totally.
I've got more questions
about that when we get a
little bit further down.
So, Jamie, you finished –
You were going into the last
week like in 97th, I think,
like just inside the top 100.
You finished like 121st?
Yep, 121.
This year overall in the world,
not age group,
but overall in the world at 40 years old.
And you finished like top 40.
I don't remember the exact
number in North America East.
31st.
So what kind of confidence
does that give you
competing against the
elites or does it not
matter because the open doesn't matter?
Yeah.
That's what like sucks.
Like it doesn't matter.
So it's like, I can't,
you can't even use it as
any type of barometer
because there's people like
TM Brooke who really didn't
even do the workout.
And so, you know, there's people that,
could do it, could edge you out.
But like, yeah, it does.
Still, that's still really good.
Like, it's still...
And people say they don't
care about the open,
but they're still going hard for whatever,
whether they're doing one
attempt or some of them are
doing two attempts and
they're just not saying
they're doing two attempts.
Like Roman redid it.
He didn't have to redo it,
but he redid it.
Pat redid it.
Cause he was close, but like,
there's people that are still redoing it.
So like,
they're still trying for their one
attempt if it's one.
So I think it's still,
it still shows you're like, you know,
you're right there with the elites still.
She has a world-class engine.
Like that's for sure.
Yeah.
And that's where it's like, I,
in a way I wish it mattered
so that I could see where I
am in things like that.
Because like,
I know Dave kind of touched
on this point.
Like, he's like,
you can say the open doesn't matter,
but like,
and maybe things are
changing a little bit to
the point where it won't,
but he has said like, historically,
you can probably tell like
the top five at the games
based on looking at the open leaderboard.
And, um,
And I do feel like in a sense,
the the because the open is
like kind of the engine based stage.
And then you also typically
see like running a lot of
running at the at the games
like the games has more engine work.
I always have felt like I
would perform really well
at the games if I could just get there.
I can't get there because
the middle stage is always the
maxes really heavy at semis
really heavy like there's
always a lift in
quarterfinals to get there
like so I can't get there
but I like I feel like the
open is a pretty good
pretty good representation
representation of the games
um minus a few things of
course so it's like in a in
a way for me I just wish it
mattered a little bit so I
could see where I would
fall somewhat and just to
throw everybody in you
finished third in the world
in your age group
So you are solidly moving on
in both venues.
And this year it's cool
because you get to compete
in both with just one
attempt by combining them this year,
which I think is one of the
smart moves that CrossFit has made.
Yeah.
Yeah.
That's cool.
I'm excited for that.
I liked what,
I think it was Paige Semenza.
Either it was a story or it
was a post or something.
And she talked about like the opened up,
like when people say like
the open doesn't matter.
And I feel like we've all
said it as like elites,
but it's like your own personal result.
If you're an elite doesn't matter,
but the open does matter in terms of like,
if you're part of a community, like you,
the open is like,
it's kind of like sad to
say that in front of people
that like the open does matter to hold.
If you go to the CrossFit gym like that,
the open does matter.
Like people are buying into it.
People are trying to, you know,
do the best that they can.
And it's like,
like you can say your result
on the leaderboard doesn't matter,
but I don't think it's fair
to say like the whole open
doesn't matter because it
is a very important stage
for everyone in our community.
And it's like, you know, you can run,
um a you know sign up for a
race or whatever sport you
want to do right like you
can train it train for a
10k or a marathon and do it
whenever but then it's like
you still want to sign up
and see how how well you
can do it's like that's
that's why you sign up for
the open that's why these
members do do the open so
it's like it still matters
so I like that from um
It just kind of was like, you know, yeah,
I think we have to stop
saying like the open
doesn't matter because it
is very important for a lot
of people in our community.
And it's just like your own
personal result, I guess,
isn't you're not, you know.
And I saw that post earlier today.
What I liked about it is this.
She said because she was
part of the community this
year and let herself be a
part of the community.
It was important to her again.
Yeah.
Her result may not have been
exactly important to move on.
but she got to enjoy the
open with her community.
Yeah.
A great post if you haven't seen it.
I do agree with that,
and I've wrestled back and
forth with that because I
do think it is important for, like,
the elites to be a part of the community.
And if this is what it takes is, like,
a little less pressure, like,
you don't need to go do it
at noon or without the community or, like,
just come in and get it done.
And, I mean,
you would think they'd still
have a pretty darn good
score even not stressing over it.
Absolutely.
But I've tried to think,
is there a way to make it
matter some way?
Could you take your placement into,
not your score, but if you're fifth,
you're fifth going into quarters.
You have five on the board,
and I have 121 on the board
going into quarters.
It's just hard because of
the... They would have to
validate videos and
actually look into it because... Agree.
I don't think it can transfer...
if there's not a thorough
video review process.
But I do like that idea
because what I hated every year is like,
you start back over at zero,
but I still did something
and you still did something in the open
these these style of tests
should still be a part of a
like they're like oh like
we don't need to test that
because we've already
tested it but it's like but
it's not counting so it's
not counting anymore right
so yeah I don't know like I
wish there was a way that
your performance could
still carry over at a
certain point yeah me too
I think you hit the nail on the head,
Carolyn, though.
Like, without video validation,
it's impossible.
Correct.
But they did it in the Masters for so long,
right?
Like,
your open score was one of your scores,
if I remember.
They only did it the first year.
And then it was so weighted,
and it caused so much grief.
I think they did away with it.
I thought they did it for a
few years or something like that.
But regardless, it's just,
it would be too hard, I think.
I think with the bandwidth
of Headquarters HQ,
they just couldn't right now.
Right.
Yes.
Even if they were to open up
the videos to everyone post,
it still wouldn't be enough.
People aren't going to look
at every single, it's just, no.
Yeah, way too much.
So my notes got a little bit
out of order and kind of messed up.
But I'm going to go to
CrossFit announced the
official winners of 24.3.
And that was Yonikoski and Rebecca Fusile.
It did not come without its controversy.
A lot of people speculating
that Rebecca did not come
to full extension.
I guess my first question to
you is what is your opinion?
Did you see her video and
what are your thoughts?
I can start.
I,
I saw it like immediately and I was like,
oh my gosh,
like those are not full extension.
And I know she's got her whole,
I like Rebecca.
I just,
I think this is the same thing with
the deadlifts.
like you don't penalize this.
She,
you can specifically tell like a stark
difference between the 65
pound and the 95 pound bar.
And that right there should
tell you something like,
I don't necessarily care
that her elbows bent.
I care that it's like here on the 65.
She's only going to hear,
she's not here with about elbow.
She's out front.
So like, I, I did not see that, but okay.
I didn't think she was that
much out front.
I didn't think she was that
much out front.
It's more just, I think,
the angle of her elbow.
And, like, I have trouble, like,
if I wear a T-shirt, like,
sometimes it looks like I have a bend,
but it's just the way that literally my,
like, the way my bicep looks like this.
Like,
whenever I do a double kettlebell
overhead, like, some people have, like,
a hyper-extended elbow, like,
when they catch a jerk like
when I catch my jerk I'm
here and it's like this is
my lockout and it's like
it'll look so it's like
when she was explaining it
I i don't know I could
understand it and I could
see like the whole so
where's where she won me
over where she won me over
is there is a restricted
movement clause that if you
tell your judge that you
have restricted movement
and it is and you talk
about it before the event
now you know online that
makes it a little bit
difficult um but you tell
them that she showed video
of her doing handstand
walks pulls hangs and the
bend is still in the arm
Yeah, her jerks.
I've seen her move countless times,
like the double kettlebell, her jerks,
like everything.
You can see the elbow,
like the soft-looking elbow,
but it's not.
It's just like that's her.
Honestly, she could probably pause more.
She would have still worked out.
She was so far in front of
the second place.
So let's say the 65,
let's say she did just
pause that brief second.
There's no difference in what she does.
She just pauses.
I think that would make you feel better,
right, Jamie?
It would for sure make me feel better.
Same position, same angle, everything,
but there's a slight pause
because you're like, oh,
I guess that's the end point right there.
If there was a split second,
it would look probably better.
The cumulative fatigue of
doing that is what she's
missing that other people are getting,
but she's locked out at her elbow.
That's the thing is she's
still getting that cumulative.
Like she, that, that, like, that's,
I think, I think from her elbow, like,
that's what it's hard to like,
I don't know.
I don't have that.
I personally think there's
quite a difference between
the 65 and the 95 with the, where it,
where it ends up.
Yeah.
yeah um I I was looking at
the elbow so specifically
when trying to prepare for
this show I'm trying to
watch so many things to
kind of catch up like I'm
just looking for spot
things but I think Andrew's
missing a word or something
because I'm having a hard
time understanding this I
disagree I can that her
elbows can't extend that like that
I don't know if it's I can
tell or I can't tell.
Her elbows can't extend like that.
After judging so many
athletes that have elbow issues,
I can spot it.
So I don't know who he's disagreeing with,
but hopefully he can clear
that up for us.
But I think regardless,
she would have won the
workout had she even paused
for a split second.
But I don't think that's like
But like her depth is fine on the squat.
Her bar muscle ups were good.
Like her feet aren't rising above the bar,
which you'll see from people.
Her chest to bar was fine.
Like I didn't see it so much in front.
For me, it was more the elbow locked.
And again,
depending on the angle of the video,
as we've seen, you know,
where you place your camera can affect.
So like was,
did the barbell shift just a
tiny bit of an angle?
So now when she got to the
barbell in those 95,
all of a sudden you're
seeing a slightly different
angle than where the barbell rolled.
You know, like we don't know.
Even though the camera's in the same angle,
that barbell's not in the exact same spot,
but the speed is definitely
faster in the first one.
It's hard.
I don't know.
It's hard.
If there was no elbow issue, you'd be like,
okay, yes.
No.
But with her video explanation, I'm like,
okay, I get it.
And I've seen her every comp
with the elbow sleeve and
and trouble with the lockout
and she catches and it's here.
I don't know.
So like we talked about last week, um,
Yona winning or taking
second in the second
workout and first in the third,
that's a pretty varied
style for the two movements.
What, what does that say for Yona winning?
And he won the open overall, uh,
What does that say for him
going into the season?
He's fit.
He's always been,
he's always done well in the open.
These are great workouts for him.
I don't think it says too much,
not nothing that we don't
already know about him.
Like he's not an unknown.
If it was an unknown person, you'd be like,
Oh, we've got to watch out, but he's,
we know he's fit.
Like he's,
he's battled some injuries in
the last two years.
I think that he hasn't
performed sometimes as well,
but he had a great season last year.
I think.
Nothing new.
Lex says, I mean, I get it.
I've had Tommy John surgery
in October and have a torn labrum still,
and the positioning isn't
great for me either.
A full lockout is rough when
you've had surgery.
The ligaments aren't the same.
Well, Lex has had 72 surgeries.
So I'm not sure she's the best example.
But no,
I think she's talking also about
Foussier's had surgeries on her elbows.
I was just giving her a hard time.
Yeah, she has had many.
It's just tough.
I would have liked to have
seen maybe a couple different angles,
but we don't have that, right?
And we don't know if she
sent maybe a couple
different angles to CrossFit.
I think she showed a different angle.
Well, she has two different videos.
Yeah, she has two different.
Yeah.
Kenneth asks, what's worse,
the no reps on 24-2 or 24-3?
In general, in general, 24.3.
Yeah.
Because the deadlift is no offense.
You kind of irrelevant in
the 24.2 for the elite.
So even if they want moderate,
like lockout extension,
doing that on 24.3 is a way
bigger factor on the workout.
If you're not hitting depth
or the lockout position, then
what the deadlift would do for the result.
Because it was more about
the rope pace and it was
more about your execution
on the double unders.
So for me, it would be by far 24.3.
Would be more worse.
Totally agree.
I think my biggest grief on
24.2 is 90% of the people
didn't lock out the deadlift at the top.
And they picked one to make an example of,
and that to me was just wrong.
Agreed.
Especially for 200 reps penalty.
Insane.
Yeah, that's crazy.
In a movement that was
insignificant to the elites, really.
Right.
Yeah.
I know back here someone
said justice for Tudor.
There we go.
Justice for Tudor.
Yeah, it's not right.
So there's that.
We also had the Tia and Brooke situation.
My biggest questions are, one,
is this going to set a precedence?
Are elite athletes now going
to look at the open?
And injury or not, like Brooke and Tia,
I think,
had valid reasons to not push through.
They need to survive to the next round.
But elite athletes can look
at that and say, well, heck,
I can have a 25,000th
finish and still move on.
Are more elite athletes
going to bow out on certain
workouts if they know they
can do just enough to get through?
It's entirely possible.
I think no.
I think you want to have confidence.
We don't get to measure each
other against everyone in
the world very often.
The Open is that time.
You've gone almost a full
year of training.
You can do an online
qualifier somewhere where
you get a certain amount of
people that you get to compare against.
Now you've got the whole field at play.
I want to see where I'm at
at this point in the season.
I want to get confidence
going into the season.
I want to perform well.
I want to do well just myself.
I know for me,
I wouldn't just throw it in
the bag to the point where
I'd get just going through the motions.
I still want to put in a great effort.
That's me personally, but I'm competitive.
I was just going to say,
the two of you are probably
two of the most competitive
people I've ever met.
I could never see you guys doing that.
I just see someone that...
And not that I think Brent would do this,
but like someone who is
very strategic about everything he does,
like looking at it and analyzing,
I should sit out and train
through this and just do
enough to get through and
then really push hard.
And Brent's someone who's
never really done great at
the Open anyway.
Right.
Right.
But I think it's a missed opportunity.
I think it's a missed
opportunity to do your camera setups,
to push the envelope,
to maybe redo a workout and
learn from stuff because
you got quarterfinals in a
month and this is prep season.
I did an online comp before
the Open so that I'm ready
because all of these young
people that are coming up
through the teen division, for instance,
They're good at open.
Why?
Because an online qualifiers,
because that's all their
season is online.
So if you don't, if you're not good online,
you're not making it to the
semis or the games.
And I know it's super
competitive in the East.
So like I did an online comp
prior to the open,
just to get myself ready
and to get an intensity
that I don't get normally.
Like,
I want to feel like this soreness
that I felt and still feel this weekend.
Like I'm going to feel that
at quarterfinals.
And if you're not,
doing that at some point in your training,
you can do a mock weekend all you want,
but you're still not at the
intensity that you would
like the quarterfinals, like a semifinals,
like the open when you're
actually pushing.
And I think it would be a
missed opportunity to not
go to that spot a month before once,
at least one workout of the weekend,
you can put your training
to the side and put your
head down and go for it.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I feel like Hopper said that too.
Like he was using that
Taylor verse Hopper as like competition.
Yeah.
Like let's try to redline here.
Let's see how hard I can go
out and hang on.
Um, yeah, I mean, I, that's kind of why,
partly why I redid them.
Cause I was totally missing
that intensity in all of my
first attempts.
So do you think you're
better for retesting?
that you'll be able to ramp
up the intensity better come quarters?
Yeah.
So like the last two years I
didn't redo at all.
And I was just like one and done.
You don't get the
opportunity to redo at comps.
So you need to learn to do
it the first time.
And I feel like I went
pretty hard last year, but like, I,
I feel like I pushed myself
harder this year.
So I don't know.
Like, and I don't like,
I don't want to have to
have to take that.
Right.
Like I want to be able to
just do it one time.
I want to be able to just go
out there and plan
accordingly and do it correctly.
Um, so yeah, I don't know.
And it's also your highest
open finish ever.
Yeah.
Could be a correlation there.
Yeah.
So Jamie Lex and Brooke all
have the same entry.
Will Brooke be ready for quarters?
So we got three more weeks?
Ish, yeah.
It gave me a little bit of
pause that that was her
first chest of arms she'd
done in eight weeks.
And she still hasn't done a bar muscle up.
And she did kipping.
Yeah.
There's for sure going to be
a ring muscle ups and more rig.
I would assume there's going
to be more test bar of some sort.
Her issue is going to be,
and it's the same issue
when you have a weakness in a movement.
If you're,
let's say you're bad at gymnastics.
If like I'm bad at double
unders and that's a main
one that's in one workout.
If there's one workout that
has chest to bars and something else,
and there's a second
workout that has ring
muscle ups and other things,
and possibly a third
workout that has another
gymnastics movement that
has that rotational
movement that's hurting her,
now she's gonna have three
scored events that is
affecting her points.
You can get away with it.
Maybe with one event,
she needs to hope that the
whole fricking kitchen sink
is all thrown.
All the moments she doesn't
like almost is like in, in one,
if she can't do something
and then crush everything else.
Cause that's how I do it at
the games with the swimming event.
That's how I got to survive
my double under workouts.
The moment things are separated,
she will be in trouble.
I think.
Yeah.
It,
it doesn't help her cause that they've
taken 25%.
Um,
you know,
like now you're competing with three,
4,000 people who all might
be able to start to edge
you out on a few things.
And that's really going to
knock you down for a four,
like 40 spots is tough when,
and how many does North
America used to have out?
Like, I know,
I know not all of them are
going to sign up,
but isn't it like something
like eight or nine,
eight or 9,000 women are
moving on or is that too much?
I don't know.
Probably too much, but something like,
let's call it 5,000, five to 6,000.
Yeah.
It's a lot.
Even if 2,500 of those 2,000 sign up,
if like,
that's a lot of people to compete
against.
Like, that's what, I mean,
I know that's going to like
completely derail me.
There's going to be a lift of some,
of some sort or like a exponential,
like a gated workout that
gets up to super heavy and
there's going to be lots of
people that can outlift me.
Um, like she said,
she said she could snatch
and do other things.
It's just,
I think it's just that
rotational type of.
Yeah, it's the kipping.
I think it's that like swing through.
Um, so again,
if those movements are in
several different workouts,
there's going to be an issue.
If it's in one, she'll, she'll,
I think she can make it.
They're not going to be,
I'd be curious how like
handstand walk and
handstand pushups are for her.
Um,
it seems to me that we have either it's
on the opposite side or
mine's more torn or
something because I can't like,
I feel like I can't really
do like the lifts.
Like,
I don't know.
And it could be a function of,
I'm just not comfortable.
I know that's my weakness.
So I'm already in my head,
like scared to catch a
barbell and she just might
be more confident in her lifting.
Um,
like total bar definitely hurts it.
Um, but the fact that like,
she like says she can't
even like hang on the rig is like,
I don't know.
I'm curious.
I'm curious how you can
still snatch heavy and not do like,
that makes, that makes no sense to me.
Handstand pushups bother me.
Things like that.
Like, I don't know.
So I'd be curious on handstand pushups.
Cause those won't be in the same workout.
I would assume.
And like, I'm just curious.
Cause it's like, she,
she didn't even attempt one.
Like, that's the thing.
It's like, like she sent her a video.
She'll be fine by quarters.
And it's like precautionary, but it's,
I'm like, you, you couldn't do one.
Just, you know, one.
That's a red flag.
know she can say that to
maybe convince herself
mentally and to maybe shut
it down publicly but if
you're not doing one a
month out it's still pretty
early I'm assuming in the
injury I've never had that
injury but it's got to be
nerve-wracking because it's
going to be high volume
there's gonna there's
think it's gonna be multiple
movements like I think
toast bar will be in one in
one workout and I think
ring muscle-ups will be in
another like I i agree and
if there's only five scored
events and there's two
different scores that she
can struggle on she's not
making top 40 right yeah
feel it lex says I couldn't
do a pull or total bar for
months lex I'm curious
could you like did
handstand push-ups or
handstand walking bother you at all
was it just him or just alex
are you talking about your
labrum like for your
shoulder or your elbow
because hers is her
shoulder she she had yeah
uh hers is her um shoulder
that's injured right for
for brooke it's not her
elbow that was her elbow is
her previous injury yeah
okay correct yep okay
because lex also has that
from her from wadapalooza
from a few years ago at the the rings
Oh, geez.
So what I think is very
indicative of this injury, Jamie has it,
Lex has it,
what they can and can't do is
very different.
So I think it all depends on
where it is and how bad the tear is.
Yeah.
So...
my last injury her first two
events were great though
because she was she was
within the top 15 I think
she was top 10 or something
um because she was one of
the scores I was waiting on
on the monday because I'm
like okay there's tia needs
to post brook needs to post
I was waiting for the one
girl from um switzerland or
something like that but
I was like, oh.
And then I saw her score.
I was like, oh, Brooke did post.
And I was like, whoa, what happened?
Coach Krispy Kreme says,
shoulders are really
different from person to person.
And Lex clarifies, I have a slap tear,
but my shoulder didn't dislocate.
Yours didn't either, right, Jamie?
No, it did.
Oh, it did.
Yeah.
That's how I knew I did something wrong.
That's why they x-rayed it,
because I felt it come out of socket.
Wow.
And you're still third in your division.
Yeah, but it's going to hurt.
There's going to be some
stuff that come up that are
a big problem.
Yeah.
Okay.
So I did want to...
show some of Holly's stats real quick.
I'll do this one first.
I guess we'll do this first.
What I found interesting,
I'm going to share my screen.
So this is from Data Wad.
She actually looked at like
how many people submitted
scores from week to week
and what was the loss
And so here from the men,
from week one to week two,
we lost 6,000 men.
From week two to week three,
12,097 for a total of
18,523 people who signed up
for the Open and did not
submit a score from week
one to week three.
On the women's side,
it was 4,000 from week one to week two,
12 from week two to week three,
and 16,700 from week one to week three.
And she has this for every age group.
She has this for every region.
So if you want to see this,
go out to either data wad
on Instagram or our own
Instagram Clyde zone media,
and you can look through
some of these stats.
In addition to this,
she looked at kind of like,
does the open matter.
and um and she did this by
by region so we're going to
look at it this way and it
is whether they did better
or worse from the 23 to the 24.
the arrow is either pointing
down up or straight across
depending on how they did
um and so this is north
america west you can see
whether people improved
their score or got worse
like look at bethany
shadburn or flores 815th
and 23 barely knew if she
was coming back or not this year 132.
And then you go to North America East.
Danielle Brandon got better.
Emma Lawson got worse.
Alexis Raptus,
like a lot of people dropped,
but then Fisa Goffin did so much better.
Shelby Neal so much better.
Caroline Stanley, Paige Semenza.
So just a kind of an
interesting take from regions and from
And she has this overall and
the age groups as well.
Interesting.
So I think this is a big
indicator how seriously
people took it maybe this
year compared to last year.
From this list when I look,
the one that stands out the
most to me is Lawson.
She's so good online.
Even if she doesn't try,
I feel like she's top 10.
She's so good at this stuff.
Amanda was unable to do the third workout.
She's out for the season.
She didn't do it.
Amanda did Barnhart.
She did the final workout.
She got like 1228.
Yeah.
It was like the same as me.
Like, like I,
I assumed she would finish
her on my score with her.
Amanda did it.
Okay.
Cause I remember her posting about it,
that this was going to be
her worst finish.
And it still wasn't,
it honestly was a decent score.
I mean,
I wasn't like overjoyed with my score,
but it was still fine.
1228.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah, I think this one, like, finishing it,
even for, like,
just if you're close to that semifinal,
you know, like, if you're finishing it,
that's a good score.
That's a very good score, I should say.
Not just good.
So make sure to check that out.
Holly puts a lot of work in
every week during the Open.
I'm sure she's going to do
stuff for quarters just like that.
And she comes up with
different things every week,
so it's fun to kind of look
at and see how her mind is
working and what she's looking at.
So with that,
CrossFit made an announcement today,
a press release,
talking about their
successes from the Open this year.
and that they set records
for live stream for
workouts 24-1 and 24-2.
They had 198,000 streams and
173,000 streams,
and those are concurrent live streams,
respectively, for a total of 391,000.
I'm sorry,
a total of 391,000 viewers
watched the announcement of
CrossFit Open 24-3 during
the first 24 hours after the live show.
So still pretty good,
pretty good numbers for live streams.
The registration,
they don't point out what
Holly did that people didn't continue on,
but more than 343,500
athletes from 185 countries
participated in the 24 CrossFit Open,
with 60% of the
registrations coming from
outside the U.S.,
Top five countries outside the U.S.
were the U.K., France, Brazil, Australia,
and Canada.
The largest region was
Europe with 112,000 participants.
Nearly 90% of the
participants were members
of a CrossFit affiliate.
And 10,744 affiliates had at
least one member participating.
And then they announced the
winners for 24-3 and the
dates for quarterfinals later.
Registration opens Monday,
April 1st for individuals, teams,
and age groups.
Teams will compete over six
days from April 3rd to April 8th,
while the six-day
competition for individuals
and age groups will take
place April 17th to April 22nd.
So 90% of people completed...
at an affiliate?
Do we think that, I mean,
we know there's like pretty
big contingent of like
street parking and just
your garage gym fitnessers.
Do we think people are just
going and finding a local
box and doing the workout?
So it didn't say they did it
at an affiliate.
They said they were members
of an affiliate.
Right.
Right.
So like, and that,
and I would argue it's probably like,
it's probably that like,
it's probably like 70,
80% of people are affiliate members,
but 90% went into an
affiliate and did it.
The stat actually says that
they are members of an affiliate.
Yeah.
They're not going to know
that I signed up under grand trunk.
Do you understand what I'm saying?
I am not an affiliate,
so I signed up under Grand Trunk.
And so to them,
it looks like I'm a member
of an affiliate, even though I'm not.
That's what's happening is
Garage Gym and
non-affiliate members are
signing up under an
affiliate so they don't
have to do the bullshit process.
And I think that's a
detriment to their whole system.
And then you get stats like
this that are completely false.
Okay, I see what you're saying now.
And Jay Birch agrees.
He did too in an affiliate
but not a member.
When you signed up, Jay Birch,
did you actually assign
yourself an affiliate?
Yeah.
That's what you did, though,
because you wanted to be on the team.
Correct.
Correct.
But some people drop into
gyms that are affiliates,
and then they get judged by
someone that's there,
and then they don't have to
submit their videos.
We get drop-ins to our gym
during the Open from
non-affiliated people.
I think that stats can say
whatever they want them to say.
Yep.
They're going to pick
however they get the numbers.
They're going to call it
whatever it is to put them
in the best light in this case.
So I want to put it out there.
This is their press release
of what they did well.
I want to talk about what
did they do good this year
during the open and what did they do bad.
Oh, you're asking now.
Okay.
I think... Well, I think that... Like,
I think weeks one and two
were pretty spot on.
I think week three could
have been a little more
inclusive to start.
Maybe toe-to-bar, then chest-to-bar,
then bar muscle-up.
And then I think it would
have been an absolutely perfect,
well-rounded,
open... I would add a few
less complaints in my gym, I know.
But...
I think they kind of crushed
week one and two.
It gave some of my members false hope.
The people were really
disheartened with the
announcement of point three.
And I hate to see that.
Because they were so excited
with one and two.
And they were like, oh man.
It just was this false sense of hope.
So they started hot.
Ended less hot.
I don't know.
Yeah,
they could have done like three rounds of
thruster and pull-ups first.
Then three rounds,
thrusters and heavier
thrusters and chest-to-bars.
Then three rounds with bar muscle-ups.
I think that would have been great.
Just a more... You get to
play around for three rounds at least.
Versus seven thrusters.
Or having to scale right away.
Right.
What did they do?
What did I like?
Hmm...
I think the golden barbell
idea of this online portal,
like people submitting
people to represent their community.
And stories and stuff.
That's good.
Yeah,
I think that was a... I think they're
going in the right
direction with things like that.
That's going to give some more buy-in.
The fail was the week one barbell.
Yeah.
That one was a fail.
But in terms of the other one,
like the community ones, I like those.
um the announcements I
thought two of the
announcements were fine
dave's and um rollins yeah
and then I thought the
jocko one the virtual I
would have liked to have
seen them there there or
someone else do it that
could be there um for the
announcements the matchups
I like the matchups I
thought they were fun I
just would like more
leading up to the week,
like more stories about the
athletes that are going to
be doing the head to heads.
Like,
I don't recall really many stories on
the four athletes from week one or,
you know,
a lot of stuff on Justin and
Colton for week two,
or same with the four.
I know it was the four
athletes and the last week
was kind of last minute,
but just some sort of
pregame show type post or
something would be nice on
the Instagram just to,
for the community to know
the athletes would be cool.
Um,
Yeah,
I totally think Dave should have done
the week three announcement.
And I think they missed the
boat big time with not
having Seth add an affiliate week one,
trying to draw in a whole
new crowd of signups.
Like, yeah,
they need to reach like broaden
the market.
And he was the perfect person to do that.
But week two is too late.
Nobody's signing up at that point.
I think overall it was a success.
I agree.
I think the problem with
every step forward is there
was a step back.
Love Seth Rollins, hated the timing.
Loved the golden barbell,
hated the athletes doing extra workouts.
Loved everything about what
they were doing this year
and then they leak a workout.
Like,
it's – they can't get out of their
own way.
And I – the one thing that I
have – I think the shows were short.
Yeah, I wanted to see the after, like,
interviews or the other
people doing workouts.
Like,
we didn't get to see Rollins do the
workout with –
Miranda's husband, Julian.
I would have liked to have seen that.
I would have liked to have
seen a sit down interview
with the athletes,
asking them how they feel.
Are they going to redo it?
Well, would you, you know,
you always got those,
those type of interviews after,
and it was just kind of like,
you see the workouts and okay,
everyone logs off basically.
It's done.
Like there was no closing.
I would have liked to have
seen like you do announce
the workouts and then the
broadcasters talk about it.
They can,
you know,
they have all these discussions
on who they predict will do
well on the workouts and
that would be cool.
So, and I, and I,
the only person that ever
got interviewed was the winner.
So whoever won the workout
got interviewed.
The other person was just
left to walk off and
which I thought was weird.
And I didn't like the tips
and tricks before the workout.
I like when it ran after.
You see the elites do it.
Now for you in your gym,
these are the tips you should go with.
The Chuck Carswell, the Nicole Carroll,
whoever's doing it.
I like it after.
And Jody makes a great point.
Taylor versus world was so
well done and the
competition was so tight.
It,
it showed what is possible for an
exciting match with just
two or three cameras,
letting two people go head to head,
letting them smack talk,
letting them do all that stuff.
And you get,
we got a post event interview
with both athletes.
So it showed what was possible.
Yeah.
So there's that.
I don't want to shed on too
much because I think it was
a very successful Open.
There's a lot of people.
I think there's a lot of positives.
And even if things were,
there's some stuff, it's like, okay,
you know what?
In the grand scheme of things,
it's not going to affect
that much of the competition.
People are moving on.
A lot of people, like 25%.
it's like if there was like
even like a no rep thing or
the Emily Claus situation
at the end of the day, it's like, okay,
let's move on.
Like it's.
And most importantly with
the Taylor versus the world,
it showed that like any of
us can do that.
Yeah.
Any of us can get two
athletes head to head in a gym.
And because the one thing I will,
will say about Taylor
versus the world is we
didn't have any female representation,
right?
We had very,
very little in the open announcements.
They were like a secondary
to the men at the first and
third and didn't even have
representation at the second.
And Taylor versus the world was all men.
Well,
I thought it was interesting that
Dave on one of his weekend
reviews was like, oh,
there's going to be more
than two athletes, less than seven.
And then you saw that for number one,
but then I thought that he
meant for every week.
And then it was just going
to be a duel and then another duel.
But it was going to be the
original thing was two
males in week two and then
two females in week three.
So you had two and two in week one.
So it would have been even.
It's just the plans changed.
But I thought there was
going to be more each week.
I thought I was waiting for
another person to get
announced or something.
Yeah.
Yeah.
So yeah.
So I'd love to do something
like that next year with some women.
I just,
I think though that women are a
little more guarded with their scores.
They totally are.
Holy cow.
Aaron,
Aaron watches the leaderboard and
he's like, you know,
you get like Noah's in there.
Like, I mean,
there's so many men that like
post right away and like
almost no women do that.
And they'll wait till Sunday or Monday.
And it's like,
holy cows ridiculous it's so
true I hope I play my cards
close I said on our round
table that you texted me on
monday and you said you had
a shot and you said you're
not posting because you
don't want someone to redo
because of it it's true
I was, and then I was like,
then once everyone had posted,
I was looking at time zones.
I was like, okay,
there's only one person
left that was close to
around me and it's in Europe.
And I was like,
it would be 11 o'clock at
night right now.
I think I'm good now.
I can post.
Like I was like,
I was doing that in my head.
Cause I'm like, well,
if you put that early on in
the day and you're in sixth
place and you've only done it once,
you know what?
I'm doing it again.
I've done that before myself
when I was doing like an
online comp and I thought I
i had it in the bag and
it's like oh someone posted
there's get my butt to the
gym yeah it and it's it is
the second highest payday
of the season and you had
to do what you had to do to
make sure that you yeah I
can barely walk guys my quads
Quads are sore.
Lex,
mute yourself right now or ear muffs
or eye muffs or whatever
you want to call it.
Don't look or hear what I'm saying.
Don't send me a violin.
My quads are hurting.
All right.
So I want to finish up the
service opening result.
I know teachers,
did they have or did they only do,
did they do teachers this year?
Yeah, they've done, they've done,
they call it educators for
the last few years.
They've always put that one.
What's that?
I see you finished second.
No, first.
Oh, you finished first.
Okay, good.
It did.
It made no sense to me.
No.
What the heck?
Um,
So I don't know how to pull
those leaderboards up.
It's like hashtag, right?
Yeah, you have to hashtag it.
I was curious throughout the
open because I always check
the educator one every year.
And I learn a lot about
athletes that have fake
careers right now.
Yeah.
That they put hashtags that
they're this and that, and I'm like,
you're a full-time athlete.
Nice.
Yeah, I've known a couple.
If you're not actively, I think,
doing that career,
I think you shouldn't have that hashtag.
Like it should be – the only
one that's – if you're not,
there's a military veteran.
That's the only one that's like –
Post but everything else I
feel like it's like if
you're a college student
your college student if
you're a firefighter your
firefighter right now if
you're if you're like a 10
year retired firefighter like.
It to me it's more about
like I don't know that's
how I look at it it's like
juggling who's the
firefighter right now that's.
the fittest who's the police
officer right now that's
the fittest the ems all
like do you guys think
about it like that or
should it be yeah whether
you like it to me it should
be if you're active service
member minus the veteran
one but that's right like
I'm not putting college
student because I went to
college 10 years ago yeah
or you're taking one course
right or if you have like
an education degree
but you're not a teacher.
You're not like, you're still, you're just,
you're training full to like, to me,
it's like interesting.
And there she is.
Number one, keep going down.
And Christine best.
I know she's still a teacher.
She's a teacher.
Same.
I think the Stein one,
I did not know free over was a teacher.
Did not.
No, I, I shoot travels all over the world.
So for her competitions, I'm,
Surprised at that one.
But if you go like to like
firefighter college like
any like there's just a lot
of athletes that are.
Having these hashtags I feel like.
Uh.
She's forever.
Firefighter.
She was.
But that's what I'm saying
is everyone has these hashtags.
I know Yaji has a firefighter.
Like to me,
I want to see the active members.
Like I think there's something to be,
especially if they're going
to do an online comp or online,
an in-person comp or something for this.
I want it to be active members.
Is this what Froning's doing?
Is it Mayhem?
No,
they did Everyday Heroes or something
last year.
They might still be doing something.
They are.
They just announced it this
week on their podcast that
they're doing Everyday Heroes.
Five categories.
Firefighters, law enforcement, military,
education, and healthcare.
So they'll take that
leaderboard and invite those people.
Nope.
All new competition.
And it's going to be all
programmed because Angelo
does a everyday hero
training plan for mayhem.
So he's going to program it.
Then what will happen is
this is new this year.
They'll take the top two
from every division and
And if like one person can't make it,
they'll go next on the
leaderboard till they get
two people from each one.
They're going to bring them
to Cookville and compete against.
So firefighters versus law
enforcement versus military
versus teacher versus healthcare.
Like team.
Yep.
Team in a team of two.
I think the two men and two girls,
two guys.
Yeah.
I think two guys, two girls.
Yeah.
So they won't even know each other too.
Right.
They're doing an online
qualifier for this?
Correct.
Okay.
For some reason,
I thought he said since
CrossFit dropped it,
they were going to pick it up and do it.
So I thought it was going to
be used from the Open's.
No,
they're programming a whole new
qualifier.
They did this because
CrossFit got rid of it last year.
Right, right.
And they're continuing it on.
But CrossFit is doing something for it,
right?
Or no?
I believe so.
I think CrossFit just needs the winner.
Maybe I was getting confused
with the Everyday Hero from
the Mayhem group.
That's the in-person one
that I was thinking of.
I don't think there's any
moving on from this from CrossFit.
You'll probably just get a
certificate or something
saying you're the fittest teacher.
Yeah, that's what I think they're doing.
Where Mayhem is taking it a step further,
which I actually love that idea.
Well, a few years ago,
we did have a secondary step,
and it was the same
workouts as the age group
quarterfinals or something like that.
So I don't know if they're
still doing that second part.
I don't believe so.
Then there's some people
getting some awards that
they're full-time athletes.
Yeah.
All right.
So two last items,
and then we'll get out of
here for the night.
We have...
Daniel Brandon Energy is
going to be released next week, 3-27.
They just released a new
trailer 12 minutes before
we went on the air.
Um,
and if you have not seen the interview
with Daniel Brandon and
Lauren Khalil on talking elite fitness,
you got to check it out.
Um,
Lauren really does a deep dive into
this documentary and asks
her if she had any input
into the people they pulled
in to interview for the documentary.
And she said that, um,
she did have input but at
the end of the day they
grabbed who they thought
was going to tell the best
story and lauren asks her
about justin kotler being
in the documentary and she
talks about it in this
interview and it's really
really good I can't wait to
see it I can't either um
I've never like Danielle has
always been kind to me and
I've always had a good
relationship with her directly.
Um, but I've always,
I have had some questions
with things that have
happened in her career,
but I think that
complicated people like
that are the most
interesting to learn about.
And so I think it's going to
be a pretty amazing documentary.
And it will be free on YouTube.
Do you know how long it is?
I don't.
I know it's being funded by Rad.
But yeah, it'll be free on YouTube.
I don't know if it's on her
channel or Rad's channel or what,
but I'm sure it'll pop up
in most of our algorithms come next week.
But super interesting.
I missed this one.
Probably don't even want to get into it.
Lots and lots of media drama
going on today, this week.
Go check all that out if you want to.
Pretty shocked at what kind
of came out yesterday from
two different podcasts.
And they're both long.
Kenneth DeLapp says,
you know who has a good doc
on YouTube is Tim Paulson.
I didn't see that came out.
I haven't,
it hasn't popped up in my
YouTube algorithm,
but I'll have to go look for that.
I'll have to watch that.
I like him.
And then finally,
our very own Carolyn Prevo
is venturing onto another
podcast next week.
So you will be on Peters
around the whiteboard.
Are you prepared?
I don't know the questions yet.
So I'll find out the
question the day before the night before,
I think.
So I'll have to think about
it and give some,
some good answers to hopefully get a win.
Yeah.
Um,
I'm not sure you can predict how he
scores, but if you can, good luck to you.
I can't predict, but I got to condense.
My talking is what Lex says.
The one minute is going to go by too fast.
It'll go by real fast.
Yeah.
I like to set up my story.
That would be tough.
60 seconds would be tough, but yeah.
Um,
I think Rory had it written down in
front of him on his laptop.
That's not a bad idea.
Smart.
But that doesn't allow you
to play off the other answers.
Yeah.
So yeah.
Uh,
teaching experience make you
get you ready for that?
Are you nervous?
No,
I feel like I've done so much talking
in any type of sport or thing.
I am very opinionated on stuff sometimes.
Good.
Should be fine.
Do you think it's more
comfortable because you're
with two other athletes?
I'm assuming the questions
will at least be things
that we can relate to,
because sometimes let's say
they're talking about
I don't know something about
affiliate owners.
If you have like an athlete,
people that have just
different perspective,
it could be maybe tough on
some of the questions that
they might ask CrossFit related.
If you don't have that same
experience as someone else,
just assuming that it's three athletes.
I mean,
normally it's the topics that are
hot at that moment.
So with the quarterfinals coming up,
maybe a question on what
we'll see or not see and,
I don't know.
So as an athlete,
I know it's got to be tough
for you to be on these shows.
Cause you don't want to say
anything bad about your competitors.
Do you think that the
questions will be safe for you?
So that's not a position you're in.
Yeah.
Okay.
I don't think I would talk
like badly about anyone anyways.
Like I can critique someone,
but not necessarily like,
I won't say anything.
Bad.
I don't think, I hope not.
Yeah.
That that's my only worry with,
especially when it's a mixed bag,
like if it's an athlete and
a media person,
the media person kind of
has the ability to go like
cut deeper because they're
not really going to compete
against that person or
anything like that.
But with all athletes,
I think you're safer that way.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Although I do think Colton
started the smack talking already.
Has he?
No.
I'll see if I can pull it up really fast.
On us?
Yes.
Of course.
He's really bought into that
kind of persona.
Yeah, he has.
He's really coming into
himself this last year doing this stuff.
The Iron Hog.
Yeah.
He needs to have a t-shirt for that.
I think Travis is probably making one.
All right.
Let me see.
For some reason,
Instagram's not let me load
stories today.
It's a story.
Oh, Colton.
Let's see what you got.
Yeah, it won't.
It tries, and then it just fails.
I don't see anything on his story.
Yeah,
he basically says that he accepts the
challenge, but it won't be a challenge.
He's there to dominate,
and he goes on with a bunch
of adjectives.
Oh, no.
Did you see that this?
Oh, gosh.
I'm just now seeing this
post that the community
golden barbell is just a gift card.
They didn't actually get a. Yeah,
I heard that midway through.
Well,
we heard the barbell wasn't that cool
anyway,
so I guess if they get a gift card,
they can get what they want.
Kenna says Colton said he
isn't coming to debate.
He's coming to dominate.
It's not a workout, Colton.
We got a chance here.
We got a chance.
Andrew Sten asks,
what's the recent YouTube drama?
I don't really want to get into it.
It's all out there.
Too much dirty laundry being aired.
Too many private
conversations I don't want to see.
To me, it's between people.
yeah I haven't wrapped my
head around it all fully
yet I only just finished
Hiller's video and like I
didn't see Jason CF Media's
interview like I don't know
how I feel about it all but
yeah it's just I hope that
some people can like just
do things personally
hash it out together.
Like not there's some,
there's certain things that
I feel like the public
doesn't need to get in the middle of.
Yeah.
I just feel like people then
start taking sides and I
think that it's uncomfortable.
It really separates people.
And I don't think that
that's what our community is about.
We should be excited that
people have different
content and are helping out, you know,
grow our sport.
And then I just see people now, like,
you know,
bullying or writing stuff to
certain people because they're on team,
this person and not that
now it means they're against that person.
So I don't like that.
Yeah, it does it to me for a while.
It's sort of felt like the
high school cool kids club.
And that has sort of, um, yeah,
that's just rubbed me wrong a little bit.
Andrew, um,
I mean,
basically with Brian Friend and
Hiller's video is the least
friendliest man in CrossFit.
So you can go watch that and
make your own opinions on
what you think of it.
Yeah.
I think it does bring to
light that the media behind
the scenes is not always
kumbaya and holding hands.
But I don't want to be a part of it.
Yeah.
With that, we will end on that.
And we will see everybody
next time on Thursday Night
CrossFit Talk.
Bye, everybody.