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We cover the sport of CrossFit from all angles. We talk with athletes, coaches and celebrities that compete and surround in the sport of CrossFit at all levels. We also bring you Breaking News, Human Interest Stories and report on the Methodology of CrossFit. We also use the methodology to make ourselves the fittest we can be.
My question is, if you ruptured your ACL,
would you go seventy miles an hour on
two sticks?
Let's talk about that.
I love the chase and the hunt,
and I set the pace when I'm running.
I always take what I'm wanting,
I always give it one hundred.
Don't need a bank, no I'm funded.
Play the game like it's nothing.
I'm always thankful for something.
Don't take for granted, stay humble.
Now wake up!
It's time to look at the enemy.
Look in the mirror if he is no
friend to me.
It's not working out,
maybe it's the chemistry.
It's time to break up so I can
make a better me.
D-E-M-M-W!
It's lunch time.
What is going on, everybody?
Welcome to Lunch with the Clydesdale.
Man,
I haven't seen some of these people in
a little, in some time, man.
We've got Ken Walters doing some ribeyes.
We've got Mike DeVito in the chat.
We've got Jason Bourne.
Hey, you never know where that man is.
He could be on a mission at any
given time.
Dear God, that's Jason Bourne.
It's one of my favorite,
it's one of my favorite things of all
time.
And as Trent Olive always says.
What's going on?
We've got Terry.
We've got Frida.
We've got Jenny.
Man.
All the people.
Love it.
Jesus Christ, that's Jason Bourne.
Jesus Christ, that's Jason Bourne.
It's one of my favorite GIFs.
Every time I see somebody doing something
absolutely ridiculous,
that's usually my go-to.
Jesus Christ, that's Jason Bourne.
We're going to get into some stuff today
before we get into too much.
Um,
spectator tickets for syndicate crown go
on sale this Friday at noon Eastern time.
Uh, so back in Knoxville again, love,
love Wilson Park, man.
If you,
he puts on a great event and he
does everything he can to make it the
best experience for everybody.
They usually have stuff like outside the
arena,
inside the arena stuff to do for the
whole family.
Um,
I have said over and over again that
semifinals are my favorite time of the
year to go see an event.
It's more intimate.
You get to see more people.
You get to sit and have conversations.
The athletes are more accessible.
It's the best time to go watch an
event.
So those tickets are available this Friday
at noon Eastern time.
Get them while they're hot.
Um,
so you broke some news to me in
your personal life,
your personal competitive life.
All right.
Moving on the air.
You are actually heading on the road.
Yeah.
Next Friday I'll be flying to, uh,
South Carolina to attend or not just
attend to compete at fitness of the coast,
um, on a team because,
so we always talk about how awesome the
masters community is, right?
We're probably the biggest proponents of
them outside the actual Masters podcast
that happened.
I met a dude my first year at
Legends.
His name's Dwayne.
He was in my age group.
Awesome dude.
We hit it off, hung out,
bullshitted all weekend.
and been trying to get together and do
a competition together basically since
then and just haven't been able to link
up.
Well, he hit me up Monday morning,
noonish, whatever it was,
because he apparently tore his bicep at
TFX over the weekend,
which I do not recommend.
TFX, yes.
Tearing your bicep, not so much.
And wanted to see if I could take
his place on a team at Fitness to
the Coast.
And this is how good of a dude
this dude is.
He's like, just get there.
He said,
my wife still wants to go because their
son and stepdaughter like live in the
area.
So I'm going to go visit them.
He said, take my ticket,
go on my team, you know, partner up.
It's co-ed.
So I'm going in.
Master's, thirty-five, thirty-nine.
Yay.
FYI,
I'll be forty-nine in a month and a
half, two months, whatever it is.
But you look...
I feel seventeen if you really want to
know the truth about it.
So my wife would say I act twelve
if you really want to get down to
brass tacks.
But anyway,
they have already got an Airbnb.
He says it's three bedroom.
Come on.
He said, just get here.
He said, you'll be doing me a favor.
And I was like,
this is a golden opportunity.
I've wanted to do fitness at the coast.
I missed that.
Thanks, Mike.
Mike says,
don't look a day over forty eight.
I've been wanting to do fitness to the
coast and just have it, you know,
sign up for the qualifiers for whatever
reason.
They're usually they happen usually right
when I'm training for legends and whatever
else.
So I haven't had an opportunity to and
this kind of fell in my lap.
So, yeah,
I'm going over there competing with
Anastasia Alexander as my teammate.
And we're going to be on the floor
Saturday and Sunday.
cool hopefully they stream it again this
year we can get uh some peeks at
you ortega is going to be there i'll
see you there take them uh larry mentally
i'm twenty but i move like i'm ninety
this dude again larry stop talking about
my friends like that it's not me
Uh, Sten says physical age, not mental.
Um, and Lito, I feel at seventeen too,
but my joints say otherwise.
See, I would,
when I met Lito last year at the
Masters Games,
I would not have said she was a
Masters athlete.
If I would have just walked up to
her on the street,
no way would I have said she's a
Masters athlete.
No, I can believe that.
Just from seeing her videos and the
content that she posts and whatnot,
the shock of red hair, first of all,
is probably your first indication that
there's no possible way this chick's a
Masters athlete.
But then in everything I've seen,
she does not come across as being,
and don't take this the wrong way, Alito,
as being as old as she is.
The other thing it shows is like CrossFit
is the age-defying drug.
It's amazing how it works.
Isn't it?
Like you get healthy and you do all
the things you're supposed to do and you
look younger than you are.
look it feel it move like it i
tell people all the time i told my
class this morning um as we were warming
up i was we had a brand new
girl who is three weeks in and like
we do air squats if you're in my
warm-up you're doing air squats at some
point and i said if you want to
get a solid flex on somebody at the
grocery store and you got to get something
off the bottom shelf drop into a squat
And just sit there for a second because
people will look at you like you are
an exotic animal that they have never seen
before.
They don't understand how you can do it.
Only babies can do that.
No, it's not how it works.
CrossFit is the fountain of youth.
And Vicky says, Lito,
you are one of my goals, girl.
Lito's fit, man.
Really fit.
Come on, Shannon.
Shannon does not look her age.
I was told I look like someone's grandma
on the floor by a photographer.
Yeah.
And then you did things that no,
but none of them could actually do.
Correct.
Correct.
Says former CrossFit Games champion
Shannon Bones.
Mike DeVito,
I show grocery store dominance by going
into the fifteen items or less,
like with thirty items.
No, just walk in there like this.
What are you going to do about it?
What are you going to do?
I'm ringing all these up.
All of us are probably younger than a
twenty-year-old just sitting on the couch.
That's a fact, Fredo.
At the grocery store,
I have to step on the bottom shelf
to reach the top shelf.
That'll get you looks, too.
Hey, Meredith.
Same.
But you can do it.
Yeah.
But you can do it.
Yeah.
You got enough balance and strength and
coordination to be able to actually stand
on that thing and reach up and grab
whatever you need and then come back down
off of it.
A hundred percent.
Chad and Newfie,
I always say I'm still seventeen.
My whoop says twenty-eight.
Actual age is thirty-eight.
See?
Fountain of youth.
Fountain of youth.
My fitness age on my Garmin refuses to
get below forty five and a half because
it still reads BMI instead of actual like
body fat percentage.
And so like my BMI is like thirty
because I weigh one hundred eighty five
pounds and I'm five foot six.
So it's like you could get down to
like thirty something.
But apparently my watch thinks I'm fat,
which is fucking hilarious.
This is what someone told me when I
first started CrossFit.
When Arnold Schwarzenegger won Mr.
Universe,
the ultimate physique competition in the
world, at the time he won Mr. Universe,
his BMI said he was obese.
Yeah, a hundred percent.
such a thing why it's taken us all
this long to flip the food pyramid maybe
we can flip the freaking bmi calculation
as well just give i'm in the news
it's it's useless a dude literally made it
up like i forget it was the seventies
or the eighties or something like that but
like he just kind of made up some
calculations and then we everybody just
rolled with it all righty uh larry says
if his bmi gets down to thirty he
might not wear a shirt anymore
If mine gets down to thirty,
I am never wearing a shirt.
I will go into the twenty items or
less with thirty going.
All right.
So yesterday I caught up on the Rich
Froning podcast.
Okay.
And I'm going to preface this with Rich
is my friend.
favorite male athlete of all time.
Absolutely.
I've said that a million times on the
show.
I think he is the greatest athlete to
ever come through CrossFit.
And regardless of the dominance of Matt
Frazier,
I think Rich would have done whatever it
took to compete against Matt in the time
that they were together.
Right?
Absolutely.
But this whole be, and I know,
I know I'm going to,
I know some of this is clickbait to
get people to click on their stuff, but,
However, in the middle of the podcast,
they talked about why people aren't
signing up for the Mayhem Classic.
Why would you not?
Why would you not?
And then Scott Vandersloot is saying,
if I am an elite athlete who is
a top ten games athlete,
I would want to go up against the
best in the world.
And I would want to come to...
And then they talked about the good old
days of the Central East where Rich had
to go up against the Marcus Hendrens and
the Dan Bailey's and the Scott Pan chicks
and all of those people all in the
same regional.
Right.
Apples to oranges, buddy.
Back then you had no choice.
Wherever you lived, you had to compete.
Now you have a choice.
It's the way the season is structured.
Two,
I'm glad that you love your event so
much that you think it is the only
option for people.
But I love Wilson Park and Syndicate Crown
has been a very well-run event for several
years.
Why do you think everybody thinks yours is
the premier event and everything else is
like step down?
And I guess when you're creating it,
you need to think about that.
You need to think that that is the
case.
But the fact of the matter is Wilson's
been doing this a long time.
And he's really damn good at it.
Right?
The other thing,
people don't live all on the East Coast.
Some people live in Europe.
Some people live on the West Coast.
And there are options much closer and much
more easy to get to than Cookville,
Tennessee.
Right?
And have the nostalgia factor that are
people throwing in just by being at
Delmore, regardless of who's running it.
People want to go because that's where
it's at.
Right.
There are so many factors to this,
and I am putting most of this on
Scott Vandersloot.
He was the one saying and kind of
calling people out that if you are an
elite athlete,
you should not be afraid of anybody.
I don't think half the field that said
no is afraid of anybody.
I think they just had better options in
the overall scheme of the season.
And then you take someone like James
Sprague who was set on Savan yesterday.
I'm only doing one semifinal so that I
can collect the biggest contract I earned
at WFP.
So I'm only doing one semifinal and I'm
confident if I can get my spot in
that one and I'm making it close at
NorCal.
They're spoiled for choice.
You got Mayhem, Syndicate, Legends,
NorCal.
That's just here.
That is just here in America.
Not counting French Throwdown, Far East.
I'm sure I'm forgetting four of them.
You're spoiled for choice.
So to say that people are scared to
go is, you know who's scared to go?
People who don't sign up for any of
them.
People who don't do any of the qualifiers
for any of them.
That's who's scared to go.
Or somebody's scared to go.
To do a ten K row and go
to the Far East in the qualifier so
the competition's low over there.
I may or may not know somebody who
signed up and did the ten K row
and the one rep max that left.
I mean, cannot confirm nor deny,
but I may or may not know somebody
who did that and was just as bad
as anticipated.
Who's watching those videos, by the way?
I have no idea.
And what are they watching for?
I do look at mayhem as a premier
event,
but people have to look at their chances
and what's financially beneficial for each
of their personal situations.
And it's even more than that, Larry.
And I look at it as a premier
event too.
Like I went to the first ever mayhem
classic.
It was a great experience.
I, I loved every single minute of it,
but it doesn't mean that syndicate crown
is not a premier event either.
Correct.
Right.
You're not the only show in town that,
And flying into Knoxville, still tough,
is still easier than flying into
Cookville.
Because you can't.
Because you can't.
Yeah.
Unless you're hopping a crop duster into a
field, you're not flying into Cookville.
You're renting a helicopter to drop you
off at Cookville High or whatever
community college they got laying around
over there.
That's about the extent of it.
Oh, that's hilarious, dude.
Free to three to five hour travel versus
a twenty hour plus one.
Most would choose the one closer to you.
Yes.
Yes.
One hundred percent.
Why would you not?
It doesn't matter where you go.
If you qualify high enough,
you finish high enough at whatever
competition you go to,
you are still going to make the games.
So why would you not take the one
you either think you have, A,
the best shot at, B,
is the closest slash most convenient to
your house, to where you live,
to where you stay, to where you train,
to where you're going to be at that
time of the year,
whatever that looks like.
Why would you not?
The outcome is going to be the same.
The field might be a little bit different.
They're going to be different at all of
them.
Wilson's is going to be the most,
I would say,
the most exclusive because if you didn't
sign up for the Open,
if you're not actually in it or if
you're already qualified,
you don't get to go.
which is the only one,
as far as I know,
the only person that's doing that,
and that's the only one that's making any
sense out of it.
Anna Shoup says, I love the Sneaker Crown.
This will be my third year going.
Sneaker Crown is awesome,
and they do such a good job running
the event.
Vicky says,
I didn't get that same vibe as you
did.
Maybe I'm reading too little into it.
Well, see, Vicky,
this is where we're just a little bit
different.
And again, much love, Vicki.
We talked yesterday.
Love that she has these comments, right?
I'm doing a talk show every single day
where I need to come up with topics.
So when I'm listening,
I'm listening for these small things for
us to be able to discuss.
And I really did feel like Scott
Vandersloot specifically was very,
very adamant about people ducking
competition in the current format of the
CrossFit season.
I don't think Rory or Rich,
although sometimes they agreed with things
he said,
I don't think that they were as adamant
as Scott was about competition.
that specific piece but when he came in
saying well listen you had to go up
against the tough and you and you didn't
complain and you didn't do this and
nobody's complaining right now also that
was years ago right and you had to
go where you lived there was no he
had no choice you had to go up
against who you had to go up against
if i'm jason hopper i can literally go
wherever i want to go
Whichever one I want to sign up for,
it doesn't matter.
Or any one of those guys.
Uh,
Kenneth DeLapp been a member of the show
for twenty months.
That's almost two years.
Two straight years.
The original lunch show.
You got it, man.
And Kenneth's been with us for a long,
long time.
He is the man.
Absolutely.
Jenny says it still should be that way.
I hope they bring back regionals for that
reason.
I want them to bring back regionals,
but I don't.
It's not because of the competition.
It's because that it brings the
competition close to the affiliates where
the people are from.
And then the affiliate support is much
bigger than what we have currently with
semifinals.
That's my main reason for wanting
regionals back again.
I would say that plus standardized
programming.
God, I hate standardized programming.
But anyway, I get it.
I get it.
That's a show for another day,
maybe later this week.
Tristan,
the people they want to go are ducking
because they have so many options and the
people who would go aren't invited or
won't qualify for half the semis this
season.
Coach T speaking facts.
And what the cowboy said.
Cowboy.
This is something we talked about
yesterday about Pat Vellner having an
ablation done yesterday,
and it was on his story.
He actually came out on Instagram and
explained what the process was.
He had an atrial flutter, not full AFib.
It's a different rhythm than an AFib,
but it was happening during competitions.
and putting him out of breath.
And so him and his wife had agreed
once the twenty five season was done,
they would look to get the ablation to
get that fixed so that the twenty six
season is OK.
He also stated in that Instagram video
that it's about a two week recovery time
before he can start ramping up the
workouts again.
uh so right now he's just resting um
and that was i saw that maybe an
hour ago on instagram um but atrial
flutter not atrial fib fibrillation
fibrillation easy for you to say yeah um
so um uh regionals were the best in
my opinion i i think they brought a
lot it
They're the best for the fans for sure.
Yeah.
It's figuring out the monetary piece of
it.
And I'm sure there are some brains that
can figure out some ways to save on
the monetary piece.
Because if you're getting more affiliates
to show up and support the athletes,
you're getting more gate receipts.
So there's got to be a way.
I'm in the Central or Central East or
whatever it was,
whichever version we were doing.
Nashville was sold out every time we went.
Oh, I bet.
Central East was sold out in Cincinnati or
Columbus every time we went.
So the gate receipts would be higher.
The problem we had at that time is
some of the regionals weren't as strong
and they did not get the attendance like
California and Central got during those
times.
Southeast region.
You can say it.
It's fine.
Shanna says just say AFib.
Yeah.
Sometimes I like to challenge,
and then I realize halfway into it,
I'm like, it wasn't worth it.
Maybe I should not.
Ortega says, no one is ducking.
It's strategic.
What's the best route to qualify for the
games?
Yeah.
Vicky's going to make Corey a combo hat,
half baseball, half cowboy hat.
I'd rather her go with the original thing
she read, half and then a third.
I'd like to see how she's going to
make that work.
Math is hard.
Math is hard.
Cowboy in the back or front?
Make it reversible so he can go either
way.
Yeah,
just going to put one side and then
one side.
Go down the middle.
Yeah, absolutely.
Split it right down.
Okay.
So anyway,
that was my line of the why is
Mayhem getting butthurt over this whole
thing.
It was really Scott Vandersloot who was
really kind of attacking the athletes for
it.
They have a great lineup at Mayhem,
regardless of everything.
They put together a really good lineup.
It's going to be fun to watch.
I'm sure they're going to put together a
great show.
So yeah, there's all that.
um yesterday we were going to talk about
and we ran out of time and that
is should crossfit have an all-star or pro
bowl type game at the end of the
season and i and i say this because
uh the nfl is getting attacked right now
the pro bowl flag football game happened
last night
Really atrocious to watch,
really hard to watch.
I liked it better when they did like
skills competitions instead of an actual
game of any kind of type where like
quarterback had to hit moving targets.
And they even had a center thing where
you had to like snap the ball through
holes, right?
And you got points and they did a
tug of war.
Like that stuff was more fun to me
than like actually playing the game.
i saw a highlight this morning of joe
burrow and them like out there and then
uh oh who was it anyway he caught
an interception and ran it back and like
i didn't realize what i was looking at
until just now when you said that they
played a flag football game that that's
what it actually was and i'm like it
looked like they were goofing around and
like playing a pickup game
That's what it looked like from the
highlight that I saw.
I would never have known that's what that
actually was.
That's wild.
Vicky said,
typing without glasses on is hard.
Yeah.
After sinus surgery,
I couldn't wear glasses for a couple of
days.
Texting was nearly impossible.
As far as CrossFit having one, dude,
what John George says right there is one
hundred percent.
I want to see CrossFit athlete doing a
workout for fun.
Isn't that the theme of was that
California has gone for?
Yeah.
Even even regular water pollution.
Like not even SoCal dude,
like they're out there and they're
competing,
but it's for them to compete and have
fun and maybe win, you know,
a little bit of prize money or whatever
the case may be.
They're not doing the wild,
crazy shit that they would normally do to
try to win workouts.
Right.
They're not Matt Fraser diving over the,
like hitting his chest piece and falling
three feet off the concrete and
to get second place in the uh what
was it former's nightmare whatever
whatever it was called right yeah oh
strongman's fear excuse me strongman's
fear he didn't even win that workout but
he was trying to get those points so
bad and beat um wachowski wachowski
wachowski so bad mike wazowski's a whole
different person has two eyes mike one
mike one yeah um
you don't get that if they're just out
there doing it front.
I mean, Ken Walter says no,
because it's an individual sport.
So CrossFit pro bowl game wouldn't be any
different than any other competition.
However,
seventies ABC wide world of sports
superstars would be great.
Yes.
I think that'd be cool.
Or what the lab said right there and
a celebrity all-star game,
make them play softball.
Yeah.
Kalipa would be last pick.
hundred percent hundred percent put them
make them play softball make them do
something that's actually athletic and see
who can and who can't host some
personalities or other sports athletes at
the ranch the problem with that is you
have to get the participation of the other
athletes right do like uh remember mtv
used to do rock and jock
But here we get out there, right?
Something along those lines,
but you got CrossFit athletes and an
actual athletes, right?
So you got Tyson Beijing is on a
team with with Justin Medeiros.
And they have to do something athletic.
Right?
Yeah,
I know that Justin can actually throw a
baseball,
ten feet and hit and hit somebody in
the glove.
We know Tyson can.
Here's my dilemma with that.
CrossFit seems to get stuck in a rut
when they have an athlete in another sport
that loves CrossFit.
And I love Tyson Bajan.
I am the biggest Chicago Bears fan you
will ever meet.
I watch everything that dude is on.
I want more than...
I want more than just Tyson involved,
right?
I want other.
That's what I'm saying.
Like you'd have to,
you'd have to go form it out and
figure out who's doing CrossFit and who
isn't, you know,
in the wide world of sports.
Cause I'm sure there's a ton of people
that are still doing it,
but be able to get them together and
get them in the same place and do
something along those lines.
That would be fun to watch.
Then you get to see them doing stuff
that they don't normally do.
There's that event over in the UK.
I don't think they did it this year,
but they did it the past two years.
And one of the things was there was
like an American Ninja Warrior course.
Watching the CrossFitters attempt the
Ninja course was fun for me to watch.
If you added pieces like that to something
where you brought them together,
that would be really cool to me.
The more I was thinking about it last
night, I thought maybe we already have...
Yeah, Patrick Clark said Fit Fest.
That's what it was.
Maybe we already have our all-star game.
And initially you think, well,
Waterpalooza, SoCal, right?
You're bringing people North America
versus the world.
It's kind of this big thing.
And that could be it, kind of.
But I think Rogue is it too.
Rogue essentially is taking the best
athletes from that season and
I know their new formula goes back a
few years.
Right.
If they went back to the old way
of basically taking the top fifteen from
the games and moved in and had the
Invitational,
that essentially becomes your all-star
game.
It's the best of the best with all
of their expenses covered,
coming to have fun,
but there's serious money on the line.
Like,
you're not getting half-assed effort at
Rogue.
No.
But you're also getting the best of the
best, getting their expenses covered.
It's like a reward for them for making
it there.
And because their rogue programming is so
specialized,
you're not seeing people do stuff like
they would normally do.
That handle with the weight on it,
they had to move up the stairs this
year.
Like that's not a games event type thing
that most love log is not a game,
not necessarily.
They have had it at the games,
but generally speaking,
that's a rogue thing, right?
Alito says, I mean, I might be biased,
but if you want to test athleticism,
it shouldn't be something that only
Americans can do.
American Ninja Warrior is just the
American version of it.
It is actually not an American thing.
It is a an Asian Japanese thing.
I believe it came out of Japan and
it is spread around the world.
It's an obstacle course race that is
worldwide.
There just is an American version that's
televised called American Ninja Warrior.
Yeah.
Um,
but that it would actually was born out
of Japan and has spread around the world.
Uh,
she was referring to the football thing.
Yeah.
I don't,
the football is not an example to use
in this.
It was terrible.
Um, but no, I would, I,
especially like an obstacle course, right?
Like that,
where it's not just how fit you are,
where you have to have all the, um,
guess it is kind of how fit you
are because it's balanced coordination
speed strength agility like it's all of it
put together at once and to see if
you can catch these things and then swing
from one thing to another one and you
know uh the salmon ladder and just all
those why that stuff is wild to watch
dude absolutely and then some of the
bigger bodies
right the jason hoppers and whatnot i
would love to see hopper and roll through
the american ninja course and just just to
see he might be fantastic at it i
have absolutely no idea but it would be
fun to watch well what was fun is
um so when fit fest did that last
year or last year i think it was
I think Patrick was actually the one
filming it.
He filmed them trying it.
And you could see them adapting as they
were going through it.
The first time through,
they weren't doing well.
Second time through, all of a sudden, oh,
they made it a little bit further.
Third time through, oh,
now we're starting to get it.
And it was really fun watching those with
high athleticism figure it out faster as
they're going through it repeatedly.
Yeah.
And so that would be fun.
And it would be a competition that would
favor the smaller athlete that their grip
strength would hold up more because
they're not supporting two hundred and
thirty pounds on a bar.
Dangling from one arm trying to swing to
the next one.
Yeah.
Yeah,
so I think there could be things that
would make that a lot of fun.
I think you could add something like that
to like Guadalupalooza SoCal,
which is like an adaptable athletic type
thing as one of the events that would
make it fun.
I just think that like SoCal has to
like get it refined down a little bit
more.
They've only done it two years.
Maybe give them a little bit more time
to get it refined and maybe we will
have something there.
I think the only thing that is my
biggest drawback with SoCal is in the past
two years that it's been around,
it's been so sponsor dependent.
Yeah.
And maybe,
and I don't think their tier is sponsoring
it this year.
So maybe it won't be a sponsor dependent
moving into the future.
Love it.
Oh yeah.
Amanda Fillers,
we found a place with an obstacle course
in twenty seventeen and got to go practice
there beforehand.
Yeah, I see.
I worked as a as a volunteer to
twenty seventeen games in the O course and
it helped with that whole thing.
That was so much fun to watch.
So I'll watch the documentary just to
watch that part of it,
just to watch watch Matt fall off,
Pat fall off like right.
That was the eighteen was when they fell
off.
Yeah.
Eighteen was the where they had.
Oh, yeah.
Randy at the end.
One where it was freezing cold outside.
Yeah.
It was snowing.
Yeah.
Snowing in August.
Yeah.
That one was fun to watch, too,
with the caving ladder and and all of
that good stuff.
But yeah, no,
both of those were fantastic.
I think a test of common things that
CrossFit can be beneficial,
but just at extreme levels.
That's why I love events like Strongman
Sphere from the games.
That's another twenty seventeen event.
One of my favorite events ever.
You know, I've told the story on here.
My job was to run down,
grab the yoke and bring it back to
reset in between every event.
And that was one of the highlights of
my CrossFit life, getting to do that.
And it was we were in the pit.
Because it was a raised floor back then.
And watching that when Matt and Brent went
over the edge, it was freaking awesome.
And just falling over the side.
And not even for first place.
That's what got me.
That's what that dude was willing to do
and didn't even get first place.
That's amazing.
It's fun to watch.
And the choose-your-own-adventure style,
right?
Because...
which you got to pick whatever you wanted
to take first and then they added the
handstand walk piece for a gymnastics
aspect to it and that made a huge
difference like fukowski failed two two
handstand steps from the fit the one line
and where he would have won that by
a landslide and there would have been no
going over the edge no uh climbing snail
was a fun one to watch
And Frida, that's a great point.
And I think we're all missing that outdoor
aspect of CrossFit competition.
We've been inside for a couple years now.
We've lost all of the strongman's fear,
obstacle course, snail,
those types of things.
It would be awesome to get back to
a point where we could break those things
out again.
The, uh,
and maybe during an all-star competition
or at the end of the season.
Chaos.
That's a,
that was another one where you just go
into your judge tells you to stop.
I didn't know.
Yeah.
All, all good stuff.
I, the more we're inside,
the more it's predictable.
The more it's predictable and the less
excited, like it comes to,
it ends up coming down to the race
and it's less spectacle than it used to
be.
And not that the spectacle is more
important than the race,
but you have to have a good balance
of both.
I think you have to have something that
is fun to watch and has a good
race at the same time.
When you can't tell where anybody's at,
or you have to rely on the,
you know,
the screen or the announcer or something,
you know, chase or bill,
whoever to tell you, Hey,
this person is right here or whatnot.
You can follow it,
but it's not as exciting as, holy shit,
Katrin just made it to the sled,
the pulling thing, whatever,
I forget what it's called,
and she is smoking everybody.
It's not even close.
Watching them move across the floor or
whatnot.
That kind of stuff was way more fun
for me.
The killer cage.
The fact that that has never came back,
all those pieces and parts are sitting in
a warehouse somewhere.
like that was fun to watch yeah that's
why rogue owns five buildings in columbus
hundred percent hundred percent like like
like pc said they're all sitting around
somewhere in a warehouse and the fact that
they've never been used again you know put
them in a different configuration put
different stuff in in between and whatnot
make folks do that uh shanna says you
should hold the games in the pacific
northwest and summer mild temps for
outdoor events
she's not wrong.
Uh,
one reason why rogue is a better viewing
experience right now,
especially if they can find a place where
they go back outside.
Yeah.
Um, you know, in, I,
I was not a fan of the baseball
seating and structure hill.
The hill was fun to watch,
especially in the rain with Chandler doing
the,
the butt slide down the arm photo slide.
Those are the things that then live in
infamy, right?
Me and my wife were watching it, right?
And he goes sliding down the thing and
she sat up in her seat because she
was only half paying attention.
She goes, is he sliding down?
Yes, he is.
It's the fastest way down.
If you've never walked that hill,
it is steep.
It is a serious, no joke, steep hill.
But yeah.
What else do we got?
I don't know where we're at with time.
Okay.
So I talked about it in the open.
Lindsey Vonn tore her ACL,
ruptured her ACL.
She announced that she is going to try
to compete at the Olympics next week.
Downhill skiing with a ruptured ACL.
How old is she?
This will be her last Olympics.
Well,
it's going to be her last one way
or another.
She already has a robotic knee on the
right side.
This was her left.
Do you think that...
So we had like a text thing with
Jamie and Carolyn and Lex.
Do you think that it's even safe for
her to do that?
No.
No.
How could it be?
They reach speeds of seventy to eighty
miles an hour.
Yeah.
That's what Mark Phillips says right
there.
Yeah.
I mean, that's insane.
Mark Phillips.
I can't imagine how she's going to do
this.
So I get so when Bill blew his
at a killing finals.
Right.
And he finished the workout.
How he did that, I don't know.
How he did that, I don't know.
But adrenaline, he was in the process,
blah, blah, blah, moving still.
Probably more bouncing on one foot than
the other one at that point because he
already had an imbalance,
according to the dude that he's.
But this is already done.
So, like,
is she going to crutch her way up
to the – because Bill was on crutches
for six, eight months, like after surgery,
whatever it was.
I saw him a whole lot.
So if it's blown,
how are you even going to get on
skis?
So apparently I watched a doctor today
kind of explain it.
And he thinks that she can do it
practicing because she's not going to
reach.
She's not going to go to that extreme.
Like you just talked about with Frazier
and Fikowski finishing the sphere and the
effort they put at the end.
When you're practicing,
you're not putting that much effort in.
So the turns aren't as tight.
The speed isn't as great.
So it's going to feel okay to,
for a minute like all braced up but
the problem is you're going to get into
a trouble spot and you're going to try
to engage the stuff that you've been
trained to engage and it's not going to
be there yeah and then you fall down
the mountain instead of slide down it dude
i don't um where shauna shanna a lot
lots of splinting of the knee for support
i guess
How much limiting,
what limiting factor is that going to be?
So watching this video,
the ACL is what keeps your tibia,
the bottom bone, from the top bone,
from going out in front of it.
The tibia from going out.
And so when it tears,
it goes out in front and then snaps
back.
but then the, the, the ligament is gone.
Yeah.
Right.
So now she doesn't have that kind of
go preventing it from going out forward.
And it's also at an angle.
So it'll actually spiral without the
support is the way the,
this doctor explained it.
And when,
if that knee becomes the outside knee that
she has to push on to turn and
And she has to engage that and it's
not there.
It's going to be,
it could be dangerous at seventy miles an
hour.
It could be dangerous at seven miles an
hour.
Much less seventy miles an hour sliding
down the side of a mountain.
That just sounds like a terrible idea.
And I get it.
Like I see what Terry says.
Oh, you know,
she's not ready to accept that her Olympic
career is over.
She's already accomplished all of these
things.
Right?
I would still be looking to want to...
At forty-one, dude,
I'm going to tell you from experience,
and you know as well, she's still young.
So, like, do you want to...
You still want to walk?
You still want to be able to run?
You still want to stay fit,
active the rest of your life?
to to to risk it just for to
say well i made the i made the
olympics and i'm going do my event that
everybody knows me for just so i can
slide down the side of a mountain and
maybe make it all the way to the
bottom without tearing without making it
worse because you already need surgery
it's already gone yeah well i know but
that part's going but then what else is
going to happen whenever like you said
whenever she has to
She just goes into what she normally would
do to that.
I,
my only fear is does she end up
in a wheelchair at forty five because she
has nothing left in either knee.
As that said,
do CrossFitters appear soft to people like
that with all of our safety conversations?
don't know i that's all relative like what
people think about things um i watched the
thing on get up this morning where uh
they were counting down the five guttiest
performances of all time like people that
fought through injury and and they
couldn't even agree on the set and it
was comical like what somebody thought was
they brought up michael jordan's flu game
and one of the athletes was like so
he fought through the sniffles to play a
game
You know,
she's going down a mountain with no ACL.
There's a tiny bit of... Yeah.
Slight difference.
I think Terry's got it.
I think she just is not ready to
accept that her Olympic career is over.
When we all get to that point where
we're walking away, it's tough,
no matter what that sport is or what
level we reach.
Walking away says...
And look,
I understand that's what she's doing.
Like she wants to end it on her
terms, not anybody else's.
I get that mindset.
I just don't know if it's all the
way torn,
like how much worse are you going to
make your leg, your hip,
your knee specifically,
like anything that's all attached to that
shit by going compete at the Olympics and
doing what you do,
which is ski down a mountain at a
million miles an hour.
So, Ken,
she actually tore it last week after she
won the World Cup.
She just had a press conference yesterday
saying she was still going to compete.
She was actually airlifted off the
mountain less than a week ago.
And that's where they found out she tore,
she ruptured the ACL.
Larry Young,
I know a guy after several ACL surgeries,
last time he just didn't fix it and
wore the ACL brace,
played softball for years at a high level.
Yeah,
I think softball and skiing down a
mountain at seventy miles an hour are a
little bit different.
Slightly.
She also said she's doing this to honor
her mother who died of ALS to bring
more awareness to the disease.
That's admirable.
I just don't want her to, I like,
I just hope she isn't like compromised for
the rest of her life because of it.
Um, so, uh,
if you can't run on it,
you should not ski on it,
especially not high impact.
All right.
One last thing before we go.
WFP released their rule book for the
season.
It's out there for everybody to view.
The only thing I'm going to say about
this, and it's going to be super short.
Last year,
I was very supportive of the WFP in
the decision they made with Alex Kazan and
that they said that they had changed the
rule and that cannibalism
Yeah.
Cannabinoids are,
were not actually illegal anymore.
They had changed that.
However,
they released the rule book again.
They are still in there.
Get your paperwork done, please.
Like I tried to support you in that
saying that you can make the decision and
maybe the paperwork didn't keep up with
it.
Don't a year later,
put it back out with the same damn
thing.
Come on.
I tried to support you on that front.
I tried,
but you can't keep doing stuff like this.
Get a better editor.
Street drugs.
I'll miss that.
Correction coming.
The Gazan rule.
Especially after all the flack they got
over it.
Yeah, again,
I don't think it should be illegal.
I think that marijuana is legal in most
states now.
It should be fine.
It's fine in most pro sports.
Just get the paperwork right.
It's not exactly a performance-enhancing
drug.
Yeah.
I mean, come on.
I mean,
there are beliefs that it helps with
recovery.
Fine.
So does magnesium.
Let them have something to recover.
Yeah.
So does magnesium.
So does proper hydration and nutrition.
And so like,
so do a lot of things.
The money you could make at the concession
selling Doritos and Cheetos.
Dude, screw that.
Like it all of a sudden now, um,
what is it?
HDR CBD shows up and like,
they're just selling gummies at their,
at their booth.
Good Lord.
Yeah.
make a million dollars add the games oh
yeah no we ran out it'd run out
in three hours uh last thing before we
go i saw that you got you tried
the strawberry lemonade third c uh i did
yeah i did it's good stuff it's good
stuff it's a little i will say this
and third take note it's a little chalkier
than i expected like it stays in the
glass but that's that's
Like I'm sitting there with my, my,
my thing, mixing it wrong.
And as I get a little bit leftover
in the bottom of the glass,
but all that does is makes me put
some more water in it, shake it up.
And then I drink the rest of that
too, as well.
Cause I'm not letting any of that stuff
go to waste.
I will say this too,
and this is going to sound ridiculous
because I'm sure it's the exact same
formula,
but I feel like I've been sleeping better
with the strawberry lemonade than I did
with the salted caramel chocolate.
They tell you not to heat it up.
And I put it in warm milk,
the other one I did.
And this, I just make myself a glass,
like it's a regular glass of strawberry
lemonade.
And dude, within an hour,
I am picking my head up.
Like, okay, I'm going to bed.
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With that, guys,
Mike DeVito said if we ban marijuana,
we need to ban water, melatonin,
knee braces, et cetera.
Yeah, melatonin's bad.
Thirdsy doesn't have that.
Thirdsy is a much better recovery
solution.
It doesn't have that awful melatonin feel.
There we go.
Kenneth DeLapp, who's winning,
twenty six point one.
I saw Patrick say it was.
Yeah, Patfield versus Mertens.
I never bet against Colton in an open
workout.
Nope.
Especially an early one that's probably
going to have burpees.
Yeah, I'm not betting against Colton.
Not for the Open.
Not happening.
Deuces from the stable.
Awesome.
With that, guys,
have a great rest of your day.
We'll be back tomorrow on Lunch with the
Clydesdale,
and we've got more to talk about.
And we'll probably revisit a little bit of
this.
With that,
we'll see everybody next time on Lunch
with the Clydesdale.
Bye, guys.