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What's going on, everybody?
Man, I've got to switch that.
Usually it dies off a little bit.
Yeah.
And this one just ends
abruptly and I'm not ready.
But here we are.
I was pulling up some stuff.
So, hey.
Hey.
It's a round table.
But why is Corey saying my
new internet's on the fritz?
We're all live.
Everything's working, right?
I think so.
can hear us all yeah yeah I
love my new internet it's
so fast so fast so fast um
oh because you're late no
you're always like 20
minutes early corey oh yeah
you are early it was
against amy's philosophy
that my family, um, motto is, uh,
don't be a dick.
So when we're out in public, um,
if when the kids are younger,
we would just say to bad.
And I mean, don't be a dick.
So that's our family rule.
And Corey's breaking it.
Yes.
Yeah.
There it is.
Right there.
Uh,
that's true wad zombie yeah
um wad zombie says cory is
a dick who comes early yeah
20 minutes early yeah every
time so uh don't say d-bag
though right it's the bad
not d-bag right right so
yeah wow we're off to a
roaring start already um
Lots to talk about, though, today.
Let's dig in.
Lots to talk about.
So the Open is done.
You have finished.
I have.
I did not compete this year.
I just got to watch.
And I actually downloaded
your consistency list.
Okay.
And then I moved it over to our drive,
and I accidentally deleted it,
trying to clear off space on our drive.
So...
So basically what it showed
is that Amy has been right
around the 90th percentile
since she's done the Open in 2014.
And so she is 91st percentile this year,
meaning even if they didn't
change the rules,
you'd be going on to quarterfinals.
Yeah, I guess that's true.
That would still be happening.
And I think if you saw my worst open,
which was my first, right?
So that's to be expected.
I was 65th percentile.
And then I was 87th the following year.
And then 90s and above.
for, for after that.
So, yeah, I'm, I'm pretty happy that,
you know,
most of my PRS have stayed about
the same as far as like strength stuff,
but, um,
my technique has gotten way better.
Um, and you know,
just maintaining fitness at my age.
I'm great with that efficiencies.
So you don't gas out as early.
Um,
you don't spin around the world doing
double unders anymore.
I don't have the same cardio
that I used to.
And that's, I mean,
that's when I was really
training a lot of cardiovascular, like,
you know, marathon training.
So I have, you know, less of that,
but I am able to do more, you know,
Metcons and things like
that at a stable pace.
So.
So before we get into the elite athletes,
um,
what is your overall impression from
the three workouts put
together as an open this year?
Were you happy or sad?
So I loved the last workout.
Like I needed that workout.
Um,
because I like those skills
of gymnastics and just
because I've been doing
CrossFit for a long time,
I'm able to do them after, you know,
like a lot of practice and hard work.
So I needed that one.
I wonder,
like I hated the first workout
and I wonder if it was
really the workout that I
hated or it just that it
was the first one.
And I'm just somewhat of an
anxious person when the
open comes around that like,
just the anticipation of it.
And then like, I hated it during it.
And I think it was more of a
mental than it is, was the physical task.
And so I would be curious to hit that up,
you know, and I don't know, a month or so,
and just see what it feels
like coming at it with,
with less nerves overall.
And just so people know,
like I've been around Amy
for 10 years now.
And she, and it's funny, like her, her,
her son,
I think this son this year talked
you down from an anxious moment.
But you put so much pressure
on yourself during the open.
I do.
And,
and you still perform at a very high
level, which is really cool.
Yeah.
And I do better when I don't think.
And so that first workout, to me,
it sucks because you know
that there's no technique
area where you can make it up.
It is all grunt, all grit.
Can you push yourself beyond
your limits and just keep going?
Yeah.
Cause there's nothing fun about that.
There's no,
like I accomplished this technique.
Um,
but I do think it's something like if
people came in off the street,
they could do that workout.
Yeah.
A couple months into CrossFit.
I agree.
And I,
I liked the scaled version of both
of those first two workouts.
Um, I actually think for this,
this last one,
I think jumping chest of
our pull-ups are terrible.
Like I think they're really challenging.
Um,
And I think it's very
discouraging to a lot of
athletes because like a lot
of athletes can jump high enough on there,
but maybe just can't get
their chest to it because
it's not a move that's trained a lot.
You know, I don't think, I mean,
and that's gym dependent.
I'm not throwing that out to,
I'll take responsibility for that.
But it is a different movement.
Like people who have done
that part of the workout,
their calves are gonna be killing,
you know,
from all the jumping chest to bar.
Well,
and here's my beef with a jumping
chest to bar.
I don't think it helps you
get a chest to bar.
Yeah.
Right.
And it's, it's,
it's not something that if
you do better at that,
you'll learn the technique
and you're pulling for
someone who's never like
gotten up to the bar like
that before you're pulling your face.
Yeah.
It's bar.
And it's just,
so you almost change your
body angle to make it so
you can just bang the chest.
Yeah.
from someone who's done it
scaled before and done the
jumping chest to bar, it's awful.
And it took me,
it took me a lot of
practice just to be able to get them.
And then to do them,
I have to do it in like a
weird body contortion.
It's like an undulation, you know?
Yeah.
Yeah.
I don't think it helps you
at all at getting to a chest of bar.
Yeah.
Yeah.
personally, but, but that's it.
I didn't do it this year,
so I don't have any room to complain.
But what I did love is, you know,
my favorite parts of the
open are when you see somebody, you know,
get,
do something that they've never done
before.
And it was great that I was
able to help support a
couple of athletes with
getting their first
pull-ups with just chin
over bar pull-ups.
And they were just so ecstatic.
And that's,
those are the parts I like the most.
Um,
and bar muscle ups are a good exercise
for that too.
Um, every time they put those in the open,
you get a ton of videos of
people getting their first bar muscle up.
Yeah.
Um, pushing themselves to that moment.
So I liked that that was in
this year's open.
Um, but yeah.
Yeah.
Cool.
Um, so I'm glad that you did that.
Can't wait for quarterfinals.
Um,
you get a couple extra days this year
to get it, get it all in.
Yeah.
So here's my, so here's,
what's an interesting fact.
Let's talk about this.
Cause maybe I just haven't
read the rules to understand.
So where my standings are right now,
I hit quarterfinals for both age group.
Correct.
So are they going to be,
is it the same workouts?
Yep.
Okay.
Same weekend, same workouts.
Okay.
Okay.
So you will actually compete
in both during that.
Okay.
Got it.
Because I was just like,
I don't want to do that one.
I want to do this one.
Right.
Yeah.
So you'll just be entered in both.
Okay.
I don't know what the mush craze is.
I know what it is.
Vindicate was talking about,
why is everybody talking about mush?
It's crap ingredients.
And I like the taste of mush.
And it is a nice price at Costco.
So that I'll say.
Yeah.
We're not sponsored by them,
so I'm not talking about it.
Yeah.
Okay.
I'm just giving information
about what it is.
And I appreciate that Pat
Vellner shops at Costco
because that is a fiscally
responsible thing to do.
Well, speaking of fiscal,
we get to the top five in
the open win money.
We talked about it last week
on the Thursday night show.
Mm-hmm.
$15,000 to the winner,
more than if you win a semifinal,
which boggles my mind to this very day.
But $15,000, $10,000 for second.
And then some iteration to
get down to $5,000, I think, what is it?
$7,000, $6,000, $5,000?
Mm-hmm.
I'm like that.
So top five win money.
And we're going to start with the men.
But on the women's side,
three of our friends of the
show all won money.
And we're super excited about that.
So on the men's side,
Yona Koski with the open win.
How about that?
I mean, talk about Mr. Consistency.
Also,
dude's been in the game for a long time.
I know.
We got to see him celebrate
after the 2022 games.
That's what I'm saying.
And he was briefly on the
podcast for a minute in that tweet.
Yep.
And that was super fun to experience.
But what blew me away is his
performance on 24.2, the rowing workout.
He's not your big, tall athlete.
And to be able to compete at that level,
super awesome.
Our buddy Saxon Pancheck takes second,
former winner of the Open.
Nice little 10 grand.
When you got twins, man,
every 10 grand counts.
Yeah.
Jay Crouch,
the up-and-comer out of Australia,
who is making a statement
from last year's games on.
Dude is just crushing it.
He really is.
Luka Vunjak.
Not even sure who that is,
to be honest with you.
But congratulations, Luka.
And then we finished with Noah Olsen.
72-year-old Noah Olsen.
Retired.
Retired.
Retired and going team still.
Maybe he'll pull in Aaron Rodgers.
Wins five grand.
Pretty awesome.
Corey's asking me to go to number nine.
Brandon Luckett.
Oh, one of the Southland group.
Yeah.
Whatever.
Why can't I remember the name of it?
Southland competitors.
Yeah.
Yeah.
that kind of runs that group
that Corey's in, Rudy Berger's in,
Shelby Neal.
Yeah, that's his coach, he says.
So congratulations to those five.
And then if we go to the women,
I was actually shocked at
number three because it
came out of nowhere.
So Grace Walton wins $15,000,
consistent throughout the Open.
Had a great Wadapalooza showing.
Mirjam Von Roer,
a first in the first workout,
second in the last.
So pretty good there.
And Annika Greer with a
third-place finish.
Congratulations to our friend Annika.
And then our friend Ariel
Owen takes fourth place.
And look at Carolyn.
Carolyn Prevo.
Yeah, girl.
Lace finish.
So a little behind the scenes.
Carolyn texts me yesterday, like at noon.
She goes,
I got a shot to finish in the top five.
So I'm not posting my score
because I don't want anybody redoing.
Yeah.
To beat me.
Yeah.
And I said, well,
that's pretty smart because
five grand is five grand.
And she said, it's not just five grand.
It converts to Canadian
money as 65 grand or not grand 6,500.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I gotcha.
And, uh, and she goes, I got a shot,
but I just need people not to redo.
And so she was waiting for
those eight hours.
as scores are posting to see,
is she going to finish in
the top five or not?
And, uh,
and I was waiting with bated
breath to see if she got it.
And then like eight, 10,
I flipped over and saw she did it.
She finished fifth, got 5,000 us dollars,
6,500 Canadian dollars.
That's so awesome.
And so pumped for her.
But it's, I mean, are the,
the leaderboards finalized?
Well, still video review.
Okay.
Okay.
Okay.
um but yeah no more scores
can be submitted right yeah
the only thing that would
happen would be if her
video wasn't accepted for
some reason sure sure but I
just mean overall like I
wasn't saying wasn't
worried necessarily about
her her spot just saying
there could still be some
shifts here and there right
yeah most likely the the
only in my opinion
carolyn's such a good mover
the mo the only thing
that's going to happen is her move up
yeah I'm I'm thinking of it
like I was looking at some
of our maybe athletes who
were like at 70 right at
that 25 you know 75
percentile is it possible
that you know that they
won't so yeah because I
don't they're not going to
video review down that far right yeah
I don't even think they're
video reviewing past five.
They are in the open.
They're just letting it
stand the way it is.
So I'm super stoked about this.
I'm super stoked for Annika.
What a good win for her.
And with all she's been
through in her career,
she just needs a win.
She does.
Just needs a win or two to
show that she can do it.
Lex little inside in baseball.
They asked for all three
videos for the top people.
Good.
I'm glad that they do.
So, yeah.
So we'll wait.
Hopefully if they're only
doing the top five,
they'll get a resolution
pretty quick and we'll know
that it's that her videos
have been verified in the
next day or two.
That'd be pretty awesome.
So great.
So let's talk about the surprises.
Actually, I know top five,
but would assume at least
top 10 since it's a lot of money.
You know what happens when we assume?
Just saying.
So surprises.
Anybody surprise you this year?
With what we were talking about yesterday.
Yeah.
Okay.
So you were going to the negative.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Okay.
Not, not, not meaning negative.
I'm just saying about those first.
Yeah.
So yesterday Lex helped me out.
She gave me a heads up and
saw that Tia had posted a
score of seven rounds.
I know she posted a video
today supposedly about why
I have not had a chance to see it yet.
um I'm excited I'm excited
to go look at it um and
then I know then we noticed
later in the day that
brooke wells posted a score
not doing any bar
muscle-ups so I know I have
it from a very good um lex
says her name is actually
scott sleuth yeah she's good at it too
Um,
I have it from a very good source that
Brooke Wells suffered a shoulder injury.
Don't know the severity of it.
Don't know.
I know there's 30 days
between now and quarters
for her to recover and feel better.
I mean,
the natural reaction was the elbow
that she located at the
games a couple of years ago.
Um, but, uh,
But she actually,
I do have from a source
that she had a shoulder injury,
was just resting it,
trying to get better for quarters.
What was her tie break time?
I don't know.
Okay.
I know Clea's was three minutes.
Yes.
Because that's what I find.
That's the one that I'm
finding so interesting.
Here's a couple of things
I'm going to add about it.
Her tie break time was three minutes.
She has a wrist injury.
Even with a wrist injury that I get it.
Some people are saying, well,
maybe it was just the
turnover of the muscle ups
that that's why she did that.
Or strategy wise,
make sure maybe didn't need
to do that much more.
I get that.
But it's after still a
hundred reps using your wrists.
That's still a lot of reps to,
to be able to,
to have an injured wrist
and do that in three minutes.
So, okay.
Keep going.
Yeah.
She's injured her wrist by
carrying the baby carrier around.
Okay.
The thing I just find
suspicious about that is
she's the six time fittest
CrossFit athlete.
There's a lot of moms out
there who walk around, who aren't fit,
who carry around a baby
carrier and stroller and
haven't had that kind of risk problems.
So I'm just feeling
suspicious that it's not
really related to that.
I think it's related to something else.
That's all.
So I'm not disputing that.
I've had a lot of people
text me or DM me that the
injury is not from the baby
carrier or whatever,
that it's more than that.
Right.
But I have no confirmation on that.
That is people speculating.
What I do know is I got a DM
from Carleen Matthews,
who former games athlete,
Masters podium winner,
has a wrist injury very
similar to what Tia has,
according to her.
And she said that workout
killed her wrist.
It was when the weight went
up from 65 to 95,
made all the difference in the world.
She said her goal was only
to do one round of the second part,
but she was at Friday Night Lights,
and the crowd pushed her to do more.
Okay.
And so she said that's
really an advantage for someone like Tia,
who isn't in that
atmosphere doing the workout.
But she said that front rack
with 95 is about all she could stand.
Okay.
Okay.
And that's just from someone
who had a very, she says the same,
the same injury.
But, okay.
But what is the injury though?
She did not say.
Okay.
Yeah.
When you're talking to athletes,
you get as much as they're
willing to give without
getting in trouble.
Yeah.
They don't want to call out anybody else.
She just said she's going
through something very similar.
Yeah, and I could be totally wrong.
Maybe it totally is from that.
It just surprises me.
That's all.
I get it.
My babies are 21 and 18,
so it's been a while since.
I had this discussion with Lex yesterday.
She can lift hundreds of pounds.
CrossFit is so
wrist-extensive with barbell
and gymnastics.
Mm-hmm.
makes you, you know, the emoji.
Yeah.
That's what I'm saying.
To do that in three minutes
with a wrist injury is still wicked fast.
Yeah.
But maybe with 65 pounds,
she doesn't have to rack it.
She can just hold it.
She can use the Charlie method.
I mean, but you still have grip.
I don't know.
I mean,
this is still your major joint that
you're, I mean, like to do that,
to do pull-ups on.
Okay.
Holly had the issue.
Sounds like from baby related stuff.
Um, and it was awful for a while,
but obviously I'm not on Tia's level.
Uh, what zombie?
My wife had it,
had to wear a wrist brace
for a few months.
so yeah and but tia did do
two rounds of bar muscle
ups and two rounds of the
heavy thruster yeah brooke
only did one round of the
thruster and did not do um
did not do any bar muscle
ups now jamie has a
shoulder injury too and she
told me by the last round
it felt like her shoulder
was coming out of the socket
on the bar muscle ups.
Yeah.
And she's nuts and she redid
it and did it twice.
So I'll tell you what I have never,
I couldn't tell you the
last time I was that sore.
I mean, I I'm talking,
I felt like I had never
done a thruster a day in my
life with as the painful as
my quads felt.
Yeah.
I told you guys,
I went into the gym and
that's the workout of the day.
Yeah.
And I did it with an empty
15 pound barbell and wanted to die,
but I am in a very
different spot right now.
Yeah.
And this,
this is kind of what I want to say.
Like I was a competitive athlete.
I'm very competitive.
A lot of things like I hate to lose.
It's really hard for me to
see a competitive athlete.
Take the strategy decision
to bag an event just to get
on to the next round.
And I understand from an
intelligence standpoint,
that's probably the way to go.
For Tia?
For Tia or Brooke if they're
nursing an injury and to
get better for quarters,
which means more.
But man,
I played recreational flag
football with it.
My calf taped up so hard and
you know,
like I would play and maybe
that's why I'm all banged
up and beat up today.
But well, how did Brooke Wells finish?
What percentile?
Uh, she would, she, she was fine.
Okay.
I mean, she fit like that workout.
She finished 25,000,
but that's even top 25
because there's over a
hundred thousand women, right?
She's still finished in the
95th percentile.
Okay.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Okay.
So, yeah, that's just what I, I,
I find it odd that people just don't,
but I,
I'd understand it from a strategic
standpoint, but man,
when you're as competitive as they are,
I find it hard that you just say, yeah,
no muss.
Yeah.
Yeah.
All right.
So anybody surprised you on the good side?
Um, no real big surprises.
I mean,
Well, I've been on two athletes big time.
Yeah.
Because of how they did in
workouts that they would
normally not do well in,
and that is Tudor Magda and
Freya Mooseburger.
Those are power output
athletes that lift a lot of weights,
and they crushed one in three.
which were not power output movements.
And I was really impressed
with both of them on that.
And then at the end of the day,
Saxon's comeback.
I mean, yeah.
Really happy to see that and
really pleasantly surprised.
I mean, car Saunders still in the top 10.
That's,
Because she has that, like Kenna said,
that dog in her, right?
Yeah.
Like, Kara is never going to not compete.
I mean, she's had another baby, so.
Right.
Which is awesome.
I mean,
I'm just saying it's still so impressive.
It is.
And the last person to
actually go toe-to-toe with
Tia and give her a run.
Mm-hmm.
Okay, Dallin Peppers, top 16.
Yeah, he did well in event one,
which really surprised me.
Did you see Charlie's Girl, Amy Kringle,
11th?
No.
No, look at that.
The other person I've been
high on is Elena Buds,
who had to sit out last
year with a knee injury.
She was a semifinal athlete before that.
She finished the Open in 14th.
Scott Tetlow, 39th.
One and three were so good
for the smaller lever athletes.
I was surprised Colton
didn't win the last event.
Yeah.
Yona beat him.
I mean, the owner is a big surprise.
Like, yeah, he's always around,
but like winning has never
been like his thing.
Like he's a top 10 games athlete.
He's like all these things, but man,
winning the open was a surprise to me.
Yeah.
And nice coming out party
for Grace Walton.
Totally.
Another Australian for you to follow.
I know, you know, I like those.
Yeah, I was thinking before the show,
last week you did this with Charlie.
Today you're doing it with me.
We're just going to call it
the Amy and a Dude show.
I mean, but Amy is a dude.
Next week with Con Porter.
I'm in.
Actually, I'm going on vacation.
Spring break?
Yeah.
Although, I mean,
we're taking a little trip.
Just like a three-day going to a cabin.
Going hiking.
Nowhere far, so.
Sometimes those are the best ones.
That's really, that's all I wanted to do.
Like just get a cabin and go
hiking and who knows what
the weather will be,
but that's all right.
I'll still do it.
So Jeffrey Birchfield says,
I wish we could have had a
five rep max complex to show strength.
See,
I think all that's going to come out
at quarterfinals.
But 75% of the community
doesn't get to do it.
I agree.
I I'm with you.
But when you have a three-week open,
it's tough because then
you're overloading the strength portion.
Yeah.
Like I just was thinking about like,
I mean,
it's only a three week test of fitness.
Right.
But there's like, there's no ball balls.
There's I mean, just like,
I don't know what, no toes to bar.
I mean,
just other stuff that you're kind
of used to seeing in there that we didn't,
we didn't get no handstand pushups.
Yeah.
So.
Well,
I know that we have to
shorten up the show today
because you have to head out,
but I got to finish with this question.
Okay.
Will Amy Radowski get her
first ring muscle up in quarterfinals?
When is quarterfinals?
30 days.
Oh, okay.
Let's make that my goal.
it would be so cool to
announce on this show.
It would, wouldn't it?
That Amy Rudowsky got her first.
You guys like the video that
I'm going to make when this happens,
it's going to be, I mean,
I'm going to need three
days of three hours of
reels just to make with all
the footage I have, but I,
I like that goal.
Okay.
We'll put a GoPro on your head.
Yep.
April 17th, they release.
Is that when the workouts are?
Yeah.
Okay, good.
Because I got to perform a
wedding on the 27th.
Well,
you'll get to do it on a high because
you'll have gotten your
first bar muscle up or ring muscle up.
Or I'll be like in a sling because I did.
That's also Corey's birthday.
Okay.
Okay.
Jeffrey Birchfield says dubs
and pull-ups are my focus
for the next year.
Let's do it, Jeff.
You and me both, buddy.
And Holly is encouraging you.
Thank you.
I can't wait.
I'm going to text my coach
and tell him we got 30 days.
Yeah.
So last year, like...
so they've said that
quarterfinals are going to
be more approachable this
year where at least you'll
be able to start them all.
Yeah.
Give you more confidence
going into this year.
Cause I know last year,
like it's some of the
events started off tough
and people just had to post a zero.
I was able to post something
for every score,
but the like wall facing
handstand pushups were just
a different thing.
Um,
Yeah.
But I always feel less
stress for the
quarterfinals because my goal typically,
you know,
I know we talked this year that
my focus this year was different.
But if I did make it, then, you know,
I will, I'll continue.
But I don't even remember
what I was saying.
Yeah.
Because your goal has
already been achieved.
Oh yeah.
Yeah.
So I'm less nervous.
Yeah.
Because I'm, yeah,
that's all I was going for.
So in Masters, top 200 go.
You don't think you can get top 200?
I don't.
Okay.
We'll see.
Maybe if I can get ring muscle-ups.
Corey says, Amy,
if my uncoordinated ass can
get ring muscle-ups, you surely can.
I guess I'm going to stop
thinking about it because
then I'll do better.
So, Corey,
and this is my editorial comment.
Amy can get a ring muscle-up.
She can.
She has every ability to do it.
Just has not happened yet.
She just has the confidence,
has to get the confidence
in her own ability to trust
herself to throw her body
forward at the top.
I need to undulate my hips forward.
That's it.
Yeah.
She has all the aspects of it.
She has a good pool.
She has a good dip.
She has all that stuff.
She just needs the
confidence to throw her
head through at the top so
that she can get in that position.
I'm working on it, guys.
I'm working on it.
Thanks, everybody.
Seriously.
The body will follow.
And Lana Marcin, let's go, Amy.
You can do it.
Okay.
There will be a whole
episode focused on this.
I'll go through all of my
10-year steps of how to get one.
Yeah.
The 10-year journey for One
Ring Must Love.
One woman's journey.
a one-woman show now and
then I'll retire from
crossfit remember how I was
like if I can get under if
I can get under a four-hour
marathon I will retire from
running marathons and I
haven't run one since so
let's see there you go I'm
just kidding I won't retire
from crossfit I know I need
to go see another red shirt
I'll call up help from justin kotler
I know.
I feel like if you were to
see me in the flesh,
coach me in the flesh,
I think it would be done by now.
The Pancheck Brothers?
That was a very long time ago.
Well, it's been a 10-year journey.
I'll pay tribute to all of them.
All right.
I'm going to have to log out of here.
Yeah, well, with that,
we'll let everybody out of here.
We'll catch everybody next
week on the Clydesdale Media Roundtable.
Bye, guys.