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everybody welcome to lunch
with the Clydesdale it's
lunchtime time to take a
break from your work day
hang out sit around chat a
little bit about what's
going on in sports
entertainment and the CrossFit space
Hope everybody's having a great Friday.
Heading into the weekend.
What's going on, Craig?
Good to see you here.
It's start time.
It's going into the weekend.
I need to get a bullseye.
Going into the weekend.
I need one.
Here we go.
I knew it when I left my hand.
Dang.
A little low.
Low and to the right.
There we go.
um what's up Lito what's
going on Jody Lynn Lito our
European correspondent how
is the French throwdown
going well we got the
leaderboards up I have them
right here let's talk about
the French throwdown um bam
here we go I made my picks last night
and I actually picked um
bronislaw elinquits uh to
to get a spot and george's
caravans to get a spot um
those are my two picks
braun's doing awesome he is
currently leading the
french throwdown um
followed by nika masarazzi
uh maritz fee big who
already has a ticket is in third
Eric Zuckold is in fourth,
and Fabian Hermans is in fifth.
My pick of Georges Kerevis
is down in twelfth.
He's going to have to make a
big comeback in order to... Oh, man.
Lito, correct me.
Kerevis didn't finish in the
top one percent, though,
so can't qualify for the games.
All right, there we go.
So I'm going to be wrong on that pick.
Um...
But hopefully Braun gets a
ticket to the games,
and then I'll get that one.
But I also noticed that Zanoni,
Enrico Zanoni,
who finished in the top
eleven of the online.
Whoops, sorry.
I don't know what happened here.
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Anyway, Zanoni finished in the top eleven.
He did not participate in
the French throwdown.
So he is at the bottom of
the leaderboard with a zero
score as he is not there.
So we don't have to worry about that.
It looks like he thought he
did enough in the online in
affiliate semifinals to make it.
So he's just going to go with that.
So there we go.
Lito says,
did Braun do master semis as well?
Would be amazing if he qualified for both.
He did do master semis.
And he did qualify for sure.
So he could be one of the
athletes that's done both.
Last year was the first time
that opportunity even was a
possibility because of the split.
And we did have one athlete
do both last year.
So we'll see how many end up
doing both this year.
um so anyway that's on the
men's side um we saw that
so braun is leading um yeah
and then it's it's up for
grabs for that second
ticket for sure if we go to
the women's side um we have
and my picks were mirvan
roar and lucy mcgonigal to
get their tickets
Uh, and so right now we have Leah store in,
in first, are these all,
are all the scores in
before I get too far ahead of myself?
Let me make sure not all the
scores are in.
So this is going to be,
this is going to be, um, tainted a bit.
No.
Yes.
That's event five.
Okay.
Sorry.
I blew it up.
I am here fumbling away.
okay so we do have all the
scores and I don't know if
they're calculated in yet
but it looks like they were um so anyway
had mirvan roar and lucy
mcgonigal qualifying out of
the french and right now we
have leah storen in first
uh joanna skindage in
second lucy mcgonigal in
third elisa fuliano who we
know cannot qualify for the
games in fourth and mirvan
roar in fifth with claudia
gluck in sixth another
strong contender for one of
those tickets taylor howe in seventh
Connie Eastby in eighth,
Emma Fouchereau in ninth,
and Morgaine Thiessen in tenth.
So that's, and yeah, Lito, last year,
Andrea Pinheiro did both.
So she was the first athlete
to be able to do both the
Masters and the Elite
individual in the same year.
so uh that's what we have
right now in the top ten um
I I don't think I tried to
find up uh event one online
and I could not find it um
I did see event two and
event three um but they are
available out on youtube if
you want to go check those
out um but yeah so that is
well underway uh day one is
in the books and we'll see
what happens uh throughout the weekend
And who gets their tickets?
So there's that.
There's so much going on.
Leto confirms event one was
outside and was not broadcast.
I tried to find something
and I couldn't find anything.
So I assumed it was one of those deals.
So while all that is going on,
We have the WFP going on as we speak.
The challengers just
completed their two heats
each of the challenger division,
and now the pros are about
to take the floor.
They have not yet...
But just to give you a quick
peek in at what's going on with the WFP,
and this is only available
on their website.
This is the floor that is part turf,
part rubber mat.
The finish line is down here.
The rig is right here.
The first event actually
takes you outside.
So they actually come
through the rig here.
around this the behind this
uh the stands and out this
open door here and to a six
hundred meter run and then
they come back in another
door over here come down
this side into the rig and
do um and then do their
ring muscle ups and their snatches
The first four rounds are
done in these four boxes.
The lap final and fifth
round is done down at the
end of the floor to finish.
And it looks like here they
are actually starting the
pro qualifier heat.
The graphics have been really good.
You can see here that the
people are introducing
themselves as they take the floor.
They actually had a graphic
that showed the workout in detail,
moving like a chess piece
along the workout area so
you could see what it
looked like and how the
layout would be for the workout.
So the graphics have been amazing.
Um, they are, it does,
they're making it more look
like a professional event.
Uh,
Sarah Cooper says a little triangle guy
doing the movements is funny.
Um, yeah, I would agree.
I,
It seemed a bit gimmicky to me,
but the people I'm talking
to really liked it.
I liked that they explained
the workout using a graphic of some sort.
It just looked like a lot of
business presentations that I've seen
at my job using those types of things.
So I like when they explain the workout.
I think Lito said the floor
looks like rogue and it does.
The lighting looks like rogue.
It's very dark around the
stands and very and bright
on the floor once they get going.
Um,
so it's very much like rogue in that way.
What it does is it kind of
highlights the individuals and it,
you cannot see the crowd as much.
So it's really hard to tell
if the crowd is full,
how full the stands are
because of the way the lighting is.
You can't really see that.
And I don't know if that's a
strategic decision or they
just like the look from rogue.
So they went with it.
Um,
I don't know.
And this is the first time
they've highlighted the
athletes behind the rig before the start.
In the challenger division,
all the lights were on.
So this is very odd and very
new as they're doing the pro thing.
Whoa.
So apparently they're
lighting up the floors in
different colors as they start.
That was new and different.
And there they are on their
six hundred meter run.
I think the coverage has been very good.
Some things I really liked about it,
they follow them out.
There's people outside filming the run.
You can see it all outside.
In addition to that,
there are many more wide shots
of the floor as opposed to
close-ups which I really
really appreciate when they
get closer to the athlete
they actually keep a couple
other athletes in frame so
even when they do what's uh
what we would consider a
close-up um they're keeping
other athletes in frame so
you can see more than one
athlete at a time uh lido
says hides the lack of spectators i
I I don't so one of the
things I'd realized that
when you have it on your
own website and not on
youtube there's no uh
viewer count so we don't
know how many people are
watching um from the public
now I'm sure they can get
that behind the scenes and
then when you darken the
spectator area we can't
really see how many
spectators are in the stands
So those are two things that
make it really hard for us
to comment on unless you
have someone there.
I do have a photographer
videographer there at the event right now,
um,
taking shots and it's my guy that's
been doing everything for
me over the last several months.
Um,
He's eCaptures on Instagram.
So if you see any of his pictures,
make sure to follow him and
give him a like and all of that stuff.
But he's going to give me
some details as to how many
people are in the stands.
What's it look like?
What are the differences he
noticed from this and other
events in person?
So we'll see.
uh sarah says in no way for
a random person to stumble
upon the feed like they may
on youtube that has been
echoed a lot um I think
hillary showed a video on
savan last night where uh
mr beast was talking about
why he never leaves youtube
even though he's so popular
and has such a
large following he could do
everything on his own
website and and get his own
advertising dollars and
make more money and he
explained that he's still
growing when he's on
youtube and he would lose
that opportunity if he
wasn't because youtube is
pre-loaded on phones people
already have it they don't
have to make any new steps to do that so
I thought when the most
popular guy in the world on
YouTube is saying he would
never leave because it
offers free advertising and
free growth to his company and business,
why would you leave there?
And I think it makes an
excellent point as to why
doing it on your own
website may be a mistake.
Now, the coverage has been great.
I will give them kudos on
how good it looks.
but we'll, we'll see,
hopefully we can see the crowds later.
And then, um, I will get,
I'll get some info from a guy, uh,
later this weekend.
And we'll talk about that
for sure on Sunday night,
what he's seeing in person
there at the event.
Um, but yeah.
And I don't want to leave this up forever.
I don't want to get in
trouble with anybody.
But yeah,
that's the first heat of the pro
division.
Those are the challengers
that did the online
qualifier and made it in.
And so they are,
they're trying to get their
points and earn the pro card.
I do like this concept.
I do have to tell you,
I love the idea that you
have these people that have
something and you have the,
this other group of people
that want it and that they
have to earn points to
compete against these people to get it.
I like that concept.
It's simple.
These guys have the thing.
These guys want the thing.
These guys have to fight to get the thing.
I like that.
I like that as a concept.
It's much simpler than this
CrossFit season we're
trying to explain every other day.
He seems to get changes and...
I don't know.
I don't want to go off on
tangents and stuff,
but the fact that NorCal is now saying,
hey, guys, if you missed your opportunity,
come talk to us.
We have spots available.
Oh, my gosh.
And we're going to talk
about this on Sunday night,
but athletes plan their
season differently.
based on what they thought, what they,
what they, what was scheduled.
And now everything's changing.
And the ones that planned
are getting screwed by the
people that missed their opportunity.
And now we're going to have
to try to get another way in.
I think that has got to get
buttoned up for next year.
This like fly by the seat of
your pants season crap has got to change.
And I think that's where
something like the WFP is
doing better than the
CrossFit game season.
Now,
I wish they would be more transparent
as to what they're doing
and they would brag about
the things that they are
offering that CrossFit isn't right now.
And they're not doing that,
and it's making it really
hard to follow them and to
give them a ton of support
when things pop up all the time.
But their season's simple.
You have this stop,
you have the next stop in Mesa,
and you have a
championships in Copenhagen.
And those are your
opportunities to earn points.
Top twenty in points, get a pro card.
There you go.
Easy peasy, lemon squeezy.
this CrossFit season's
getting more and more
convoluted as we move forward.
And to be in a week where
you have Dave Castro saying, well,
we didn't even check any of
the videos for the teams.
What?
And I just hope the cluster
doesn't continue on into
the elite part of the season.
They've got to check videos.
And I want to get into that.
A lot of people have been
hammering that home,
and I agree with almost
everything that they're saying.
You cannot let those bad
standard of movements move forward,
or it's never going to get better.
Never going to get better.
And that is one thing the WFP did better.
They actually penalized
people who had bad standards of movement,
and they got the people
that needed to be there to
this point in the season.
So you got to give kudos to them.
The only other thing I will
say about the WFP broadcast
that I don't like so far is... Let me go.
I'm going to put it back up
here for a second.
So the one thing,
and I have it blown up so
you can't really see.
So here we go.
You cannot stop.
You cannot pause.
You cannot rewind the broadcast.
And so with that,
if you don't catch this live,
you have to wait for them
to move it to YouTube and
then watch the replay.
I think that is a misstep too.
Just like Sarah brought up
that you're not going to
get the accidental person
coming over and watching it from YouTube.
Now you can't even like,
if I have a meeting or I
have to go somewhere in my
day and I have to leave the live feed,
I can't go back and rewind
to watch the event.
And Sarah brings up another point,
no live chat.
I don't know what the
reasoning behind a lot of this is,
but if it's to hide from being critiqued,
if it's to hide to being critiqued,
like no count on views, no live chat,
darken the stand so you
can't see how many people are there.
I hope it's not because of that.
I hope they're not hiding from criticism.
It is because...
When people are talking
about what you're doing,
that's what makes you more popular,
more successful,
gets eyes on your product.
doing a lot of cool things
but there's a lot of things
that are missing um and yes
lito you're joking you
can't rewind I'm not joking
as you can see on my screen
I have it pulled up here I
don't know if you can see
my cursor but this bottom
part of the screen no
matter where I float this I
can't get anything to rewind or to stop
um I'm gonna miss everything
I know and that means that
that means that everybody
in europe's gonna miss
everything right the timing
is just off so everybody
that's not in your time
zone is going to miss the
live broadcast of this and
there's no way for them to
come back and rewind it's
that's really really problematic
Um, Sarah says,
if that's the reason it's effing pathetic,
I don't disagree with you.
That's what I'm saying.
I'm hoping,
I am hoping that's not the reason why.
Uh,
Corey says no live chat is a bold
strategy cotton.
Let's see how it plays out for them.
Uh, Dave,
Dave Johnson says that they said
it gives them more control
and options by doing it on
their own site.
I get that,
but they didn't really spell
out other than the AI voice, uh,
what that was.
And so I hope it's not all
this other stuff that now
we can't do a live chat.
We can't do, we can't rewind it.
We can't see the live view count.
I hope it's not that.
Corey said, dude, Saxon literally said,
judge us at the end of our season.
If that ain't hiding from criticism,
I don't know what is.
You're going to get,
we've talked about this all week.
You're in a professional sport.
You want to be professional.
You're paying athletes so
that you can be professional.
You're going to get judged
just like every other
professional athlete in the world,
in any sport.
That's just what happens.
Alito said it's in the
middle of everyone's working day.
How are you supposed to
watch it in the middle of
the afternoon in the U S two?
Well, thank goodness.
My work computer has
multiple screens and I just
have it off on one while
I'm doing other things.
That's what I do.
And that's what I've done for years,
even in the CrossFit stuff.
So, uh, yeah, I'm lucky that way that,
and usually Fridays are
pretty slow for us.
So, um,
So that I'm just lucky in that way.
And I know a lot of my
friends do it that way as well.
So I do, I do like the graphics.
I do like that.
They have a running list of
what place everybody's in.
Um,
I did like when they introduced them
out onto the floor,
the graphics they used.
Um, I think all of that is really cool.
but you're missing on some
major components that bring
people to the table to watch your event.
I think you might be overreacting, Corey.
Not being able to see the
crowd plus the lighting
effect makes it look like
some Hunger Games-ish.
I think that's everything.
Go to a basketball game and
the crowd is darkened and
the floor is lit up and
there's a spotlight on the floor.
It's like that at a hockey game.
You want the attention to be
on the players on the field
or on the ice or on the whatever.
Whatever they're playing on.
The grass.
And the focus not to be into the crowd.
I get all that.
That I was cool with.
And it's just what Rogue did.
Rogue did the exact same
thing and everybody
applauded Rogue for that.
Giving that spotlight onto
the field of play.
So, but anyway,
I'm going to stop sharing
again because I don't want
to get in trouble with all that.
My picks for the WFP this weekend.
I've made these last night.
So on the men's side,
my third place pick for the
podium is Colton.
I think having already
locked up his ticket and
being able to train and not
really be overexerted in
the last couple weeks at competing,
I think that's going to
give him an advantage.
Number two, I have Jeff Adler.
Adler hasn't competed much
in the last year,
and I think he looked
amazing in the online semis.
and I think he's out to prove something.
He's just really, really, uh,
fit right now.
And then number one,
I have Roman and I have
Roman just because I want
it to be that way.
There was all this stuff
about Jeff should have lost
to Roman at the games two years ago.
And I just think the
storyline that would happen
if Roman beat Adler at this
and what that means going
forward would be very
interesting for both seasons.
Um,
And Roman did not have to do online semis,
so he got a week off that
others didn't get.
So I'm going to pick Roman
to win WFP Tour Event One.
On the women's side, I'm going...
with fee to finish third again,
locked up her ticket real early.
I think that gives her a
pretty good advantage going into this.
I have area low and in second, um,
as she just was dominant in
the online semi and my
winner on the women's side, no surprises,
Laura Horvat.
Uh,
she's not had to compete at all in the
last few months.
And this is her super bowl.
She's going to come out here
and I think she's going to
wreak havoc on the field.
so uh corey says yes the
court is lit up more but
you can at least see the
crowd this looks like
they're in an empty arena
to me it is identical to
rogue go back and watch
rogue the lighting is
almost exactly the same uh
james w the wfp hate is
unreal considering we are
still in the midst of their
first competition if
there's one thing about the
crossfit community it's
that there's always going
to be something to complain about
I agree.
I do think they're getting
more hate than they deserve.
I want the competition.
I have been bitching about
how the CrossFit season has
gone for years.
And we keep waiting for them
to get better.
They're not going to get
better unless someone pushes them.
Now we have someone that's
willing to throw their hat
in the ring and push them
and either CrossFit answers
the push and comes back
with something better or WFP takes over.
And either way,
we have a better product at
the end of the day.
CrossFit,
the methodology has saved my life.
Without it,
I would probably be dead right now.
I have been doing CrossFit
since two thousand eleven.
I started over five hundred pounds.
I am way less than that now.
And I am active and able to
move around where I
couldn't do that a long time ago.
I love CrossFit.
I want it to succeed.
But the sport has been stubborn,
pigheaded and not willing
to change to make things better.
And finally,
someone has stepped into the ring to say,
hey, let's see if we can do it better.
We are former athletes who
have ideas of how to make things better.
And so we're throwing our
hat in the ring and we're
doing this thing and we're
going to try to push
CrossFit into a direction.
CrossFit has a choice now.
Do we ignore them and just
go about our business?
Or do we look at what
they're doing and say, hey,
how can we do it better?
How can we get better to
compete with them and all and,
and drive a stake into our
territory and keep it for the long haul.
And I'm hoping,
hoping that they decide to do that.
And feasting off, you just won heat one.
And I pictured a podium and
I love that that just happened.
Um,
Lito says,
I don't even think the lack of
spectators is their fault.
US-based events always
struggle for spectators.
Rogue was empty at Dell Diamond, too.
I bet their Copenhagen event
in December will be packed.
Corey, I don't feel like I'm bitching.
I'm making an observation.
Seeing the crowd react like
they did at Mayhem is part of it for me.
Them not going to on YouTube
is bananas crazy.
I think everyone can agree there.
I...
I'm not saying we can't be critical,
and I'm not saying you're
part of the hate.
I'm saying that there is a
lot of hate out there,
and we talked about that yesterday.
There are people that aren't
even willing to mention
their name in the space and
act like they don't exist.
That is a really bad way to
deal with this issue.
If you think you are that
much better than them and
that you are doing this
that much better that you
can just ignore the
situation and not talk about them,
you're going to be in for a
rude awakening.
Because I'm watching this,
the broadcast is better.
The broadcast of the event
is better than what I've
seen at CrossFit events.
I am over the close-up crotch shots.
I'm over only getting to see
one athlete on the floor at a time.
They have made improvements
to that in this broadcast.
Already,
I am liking that way more than
what we've had in the past.
But there has to be a response to this.
It can't be just ignore it
and act like they don't exist.
them saying they expected
five thousand people to buy
tickets is also insane it
may be insane but it's it's
it's a goal they got to
have goals and they got to
learn from this process as
well so I don't know that's my two cents
I'm okay with saying that
this needs to get better or
that needs to get better with them.
And like I've said,
the fact that it's not on YouTube,
the fact you can't rewind,
the fact you can't pause is
a major problem with this broadcast.
But they're also doing some
things really well.
That's all.
That's all I'm saying.
Um, I like the graphics.
Um, but yeah, I don't like that.
It's not on YouTube.
I don't like that.
It's not, um,
it's not possible and not rewindable.
I think that is a major, major mistake.
But, but CrossFit, if it wasn't for, um,
Brian Friend and Savan and those people,
we wouldn't even see a
broadcast of half of the
shit that's going on.
And we're not as critical of
them for that as we are about this.
Before WFP existed,
we said all the same stuff
about CrossFit because they
weren't doing it well enough,
but there was no
competition to push them.
That's all I'm saying.
There's enough criticism to
go around to every entity
in this space right now.
And I love this sport and I
don't want it to go away
and I want someone to do it
right or I want someone to
push someone to do it right
so that we have something
to talk about going forward.
I didn't mean for this to be
a big rant day, but man.
And it appears that Anika
Greer's running has not
gotten any better.
But she did not finish last.
So the last thing I wanted
to talk about real quick is
I did watch WFP put out
another behind-the-scenes two today.
It was longer than the first one.
T-Bird and I went back and
forth a little bit yesterday,
and she said maybe they'll
come out with a new one and
they'll make changes.
They did.
This one was a little bit longer.
This one actually went into
some of their affiliate websites
where they went into gyms
and had athletes there
working out with the people,
coaching the people,
and they actually filmed
that with them mic'd up,
getting some of the back
and forth between the
athletes and the people in the gym.
There was a scene of them
celebrating one of the girls' birthdays.
There was just a lot of cool
stuff involved with all that.
And I'm really glad that
they've added that to their
behind the scenes.
Another key piece that was
added to this one is their
head of medical, Josh Hicks.
was training all of the
leads for all of the
different areas of volunteers in CPR.
So it's not just the medical
team that would be certified in CPR.
It was going to be all of
the leads in every area.
area of the of the
competition and that they
were encouraged if they saw
something where where
medical attention was
needed to go um regardless
of what else you have going
on or where you're at to go
to that person and give
them the attention they
need and give them cpr if needed
And so I thought that was a
really cool thing to
highlight that they're doing, um,
that has not been done at
other events in the past.
So really cool to see that
attention to the safety part there.
Um, and it's in this one,
I would give a much higher
grade than the first one.
This one, I really, really enjoyed.
Uh,
there was a lot more athlete check-in
stuff.
Um,
the locker rooms are really
awesome that they're giving the,
the athletes,
the touch points for them are amazing.
Um, and I,
and I think they are doing a
good job with any of that.
Uh, and then finally, um,
they are actually sponsored by, um,
I don't know how to pronounce it anymore.
My whole life.
It was Adidas.
Um, now I guess it's Adidas, Adidas,
maybe I don't,
I don't know.
But they are sponsoring this.
And since last year's games
and seeing them in person,
I've wanted a pair so, so bad.
So bad.
I just love the looks of them.
I've been a Reebok guy
pretty much the whole time
since I started CrossFit in
two thousand eleven.
I take the back.
I was actually crossfitting
in Nike free runs to start,
and then I went to Reebok later on.
But I just purchased a new pair of Adidas,
I guess is what it's called now.
The Drop Set III, and these are them.
So this is the pair that I got.
I love the look.
I wish they came out with
some cooler color waves.
I think on the women's side,
they did way better with
the color waves than on the men's side.
I think they're a little bit bland,
but I wanted to try them on
and hopefully they've got
the nice wide toe base.
I hope so.
And if they do, I will let you know.
I'm getting them sometime this week.
I'll try them out.
So Lito says she has the
bright pink ones and that she loves them.
I almost went with the
highlighter of these,
but they were out of my size.
So that's why I went with these.
so uh oh lito said that I go
half size up I did not they
told me that they were true
to true to size
And once you get up into my,
I wear a size thirteen.
And there is no thirteen and a half,
I don't think.
I think it goes thirteen, fourteen.
And fourteens have always
been way too big.
So yeah, see, thirteen,
and then it goes to fourteen.
But these shoes didn't even
come in a fourteen.
So there's no way to go up.
Now they have a fourteen and a half,
but they don't have a
thirteen and a half.
Uh,
Devesh says actually half size down
Adidas runs large.
Well, that's cool.
I don't mind if they're a
little bit bigger.
Um,
that would actually probably be better.
Yeah, I, um, I'm super stoked.
I just,
I love the look of them and I hope
that they, they fit well.
Um, but I've wanted to try them.
And, and the women's,
I saw the women's pink ones.
Bethany was wearing them at
the games and I just loved,
I love the look of them there.
And I think Haley,
Haley had the yellow ones on.
So yeah,
they were wearing them at the games.
And then I was like, man,
I got to get a pair of those.
And finally I pulled the
trigger this morning and
they'll be here next week
and I can try them out.
Can't wait.
But yeah.
So that's going to be my new workout shoe.
Maybe if I like them,
the only ones I've liked
other than Reeboks are the rad runners.
Um,
And so I've worked out in those.
They're pretty stable to work out in,
even though they're runners.
But they're a little bit
thin on my toe box.
And so if it's much more
than a forty five minute workout,
like my feet swell and then I'm hurting.
I got to get them off and
wear something else home.
So, yeah, stoked to get these.
They're on a twenty percent
off sale right now.
If you're looking for new shoes.
So there's all that, but they are,
they are sponsoring the
world fitness project and
heat two of the ladies has
just kicked off.
They're on their first lap.
And this heat includes Andrea Solberg,
Kerstetter, Flores, Maddie Sturt,
Danny Spiegel, Emma Lawson, Amy Kringle,
Brooke or Sydney Wells,
I don't know which one, Lucy Campbell,
and Ella Wilkinson.
Kenneth has never heard
anything bad about tear,
but they are pricey.
The problem with tear for me are the,
the backs of the shoes,
the heel go up too high and
rub into my Achilles.
And maybe it's just the design of my foot,
but I could not handle that at all.
Um, I wore tear,
I got a free pair volunteering once and,
um, I only wore them for a half a day and,
uh,
have never worn them again because
they were digging into my
Achilles so bad.
And that's what I didn't
like about the X-Tens.
I think they were called the
Reebok X-Tens that were a
little bit higher than
their traditional shoe.
Yeah, I don't want anything up on my foot.
I like a low top.
No three quarters, no high top.
I want a full low top.
D Reed says, tier lifters are fantastic.
I haven't even worn lifters
in probably six or seven years.
After I hurt my back,
I got rid of all of the extra stuff.
I stopped wearing lifters.
I only wear a belt when I get really heavy,
just to kind of cool my
motor a little bit so I
don't overdo certain things at my age.
Uh, Devesh says I've had one pair of tear.
The entire sole came off the glue, let go.
Maybe it's a defective pair,
but never had that happen
with any other training shoe.
Yeah.
That would pretty much
derail any thoughts of me buying again.
Uh, the X look like a three quarter top,
but I never bought them for that reason.
That's I got a free pair of those two, uh,
for judging it rogue.
And, um, and yeah, I,
they were actually pretty comfortable,
but they were heavy.
Like I would never ever work out in them.
They were super heavy and
they were super high.
And I didn't really like that.
So the only time I wore them,
I would wear them untied
and just kind of like go
get the mail and different stuff.
So, uh, and Kenneth says, Oh,
that's the worst.
I had Nikes that did that.
I bled every time.
Uh, it was awful.
uh corey's about to buy
another another pair of
savage ones yeah I I I
don't like the looks of the
savage ones I they may be
comfortable as hell um but
man I want look and comfort
um so that's why I'm trying
these adidas uh for that
because I love the look and
if it feels good I'll do both
Uh, Lito would like to get savages,
but VAT and shipping to the UK is insane.
I'm about halfway through
Hiller's video with hip and
steel and it's super good.
Yeah.
I can't wait to watch that.
I know,
I know David hip and steel pretty well.
Um,
and I know that he was seriously upset
with, um, um,
with Hiller for a long time.
So the fact that they
actually got together,
I'm really anxious to see how that goes.
I know the Savage Ones are
like the Nano Twos.
I just,
I don't like the looks of the Nano Twos.
I was a bigger fan of Nano Three,
Nano Four, Six, Nine, not Six.
Five, nine, five, nine.
I don't know.
Somewhere in there.
Uh, so Ken,
you're talking about the Adidas.
I can't wait.
I really, I love the look of them.
Uh, Jay Birch,
when did the pronunciation change?
Yeah.
I,
I said when I was introducing that I
bought the pair that in my
whole life they were Adidas
and now apparently they're Adidas.
I, uh,
So much has changed in my
fifty five years on this planet.
That's just another one.
Hip and steel is like
killer's fun uncle now.
And Ken is like,
that actually is the
correct way to pronounce Adidas Birch.
Yeah,
maybe we just pronounced it wrong for way,
way too long.
Lito,
I've got two pairs of Nano IIs and
love them.
So what's funny is I never had a Nano II.
I've heard they're super comfortable,
but my first ever pair of
CrossFit shoes were a Nano III.
Um, and I love them.
I love that rubber cage, um,
for the threes and the fours.
And I was really into that.
My buddies like that just
started a little bit before
me and CrossFit got the
nano twos and they love
them and they didn't want
anything else after that.
Um, so man,
shoes are like Chinese restaurants.
Everybody has a favorite and
you're really loyal to your favorite.
Uh, Jeff Birchfield,
I'm really liking the rad V two.
Uh, Andrew Sten,
while nano twos were the best,
I just missed it.
Like literally I was,
I was crossfitting in Nike
free runs forever.
Um, and I, I never actually got,
by the time I got to where
I needed a pair of real CrossFit shoes,
the threes were out.
Oh, so Ken is correcting me.
It's the Savage Ones that are beautiful.
I just don't find them beautiful.
Sorry.
You also said Nike, not Nike.
Or Nike, not Nike.
Yeah, that's changed multiple times.
If you've ever watched the movie Air,
like the whole logo thing
with Nike and everything,
Like he, oh my gosh,
it's at the very end of the movie.
If you've never seen it,
Ben Affleck's character is Phil Knight.
And he talks about how he
came up with the logo and
how much he spent for it.
And the person who did it
for the money that he got,
I think it was like three hundred bucks.
And now it's like one of the
most recognizable logos in the world.
and phil knight hated the
the name nike he wanted
something else which was
really convoluted um but he
was talked into it because
it's the god of god of war
I don't my mythology is not great uh
Wow, so many, we Americanized it.
Kenneth, I love my free runs.
I actually ran in free runs
until probably three years ago.
And then Reebok came out
with a really good running
shoe that I really like.
That's it.
Thanks clock.
Nike is a trans translation
of the Greek word for victory.
There we go.
Aries is the God of war.
There we go.
Looks like we have Adidas
gate on our hands today.
Yep.
Transliteration.
Is that different than translation?
You guys are edumacating me today.
All new stuff.
We got the second heat of
the women pro division going down at WFP.
And Amy Kringle is currently
leading that heat.
No surprise with the six
hundred meter runs.
Lucy Campbell is right behind her.
But yeah.
There we go.
Uh, beard is awesome by the way.
Yeah, it's really,
this is about as fluffy as
I've ever let it get.
I'm trying to decide if I
just want to keep the fluff
going for a little while
and just see how it kind of
gets out there or if I'm
going to trim it up at all.
No, Kenneth, you did not miss Colton.
The men have not gone yet.
The women are going currently.
The challengers went this morning,
and now the pro division
are going in the women,
and the pro division men
will go after this.
But as we talked about,
the one thing with this
live stream is you cannot, one,
there's no chat available.
Two,
there is no way to rewind it or pause it.
So if you miss it live, you miss it.
clock no nike was not a
goddess the word means
simply victory nike athena
was a common description of
athena in her warrior mode
wow I am learning so much
lito says it's not a
translation as nike nikki
nike is the original greek
word translation would be
if they called it victory
uh and birch I I noticed
that you've got a bougie
gym going on now I like the
og um war tent mash tent in
the backyard man kenneth
says I should do an old
testament beard like rory
and rich had that one year
I don't know if I can go that long man
Yeah, we talked about it.
It is a huge miss streaming on YouTube.
They are doing some really
cool stuff with this stream.
I will say that.
So I want to give credit
where credit is due.
The shots are better than
what I've seen in CrossFit competitions.
The close-ups are not so
close you can't see anybody else.
You can actually see some
other people on the floor
when they get close up.
There are more wide shots so
you can see the whole field
and where everybody is.
The graphics have been really,
really good.
But, however,
not having a chat and not
being able to rewind is a big miss.
Big, big miss.
But it looks really good.
I'm just not sure anybody
will see it or as many
people will see it.
But we'll never know because
there are no view counts on this either.
That's one thing that they
get to keep to themselves
because in YouTube,
they put the view count with the video.
They don't do this on their website.
So we can't see how many
people are actually watching.
And Jason Bourne, you came in late, buddy.
We talked about the hip and
steel thing about ten minutes ago,
but I have not seen it yet.
Corey's about halfway through,
and I'm going to jump on it
here in a little bit.
So I don't know if the good
outweighs the fact that
they're not on YouTube.
I don't think it does.
Cause my guess is they could
still do the same graphics
and they could do the same shots.
Um,
the only thing they would lose at this
that I can figure out is
the privacy of how many
people are viewing and the
AI translation of the voices.
Yeah, always go YouTube.
Yeah,
if you saw the Mr. Beast clip that
Hiller shared on Savan yesterday,
it is the most popular man
in the world saying why you
should never leave YouTube.
And who's going to disagree
with the guy who does it
better than anybody else?
So...
Anyway, uh, Lido says, uh,
AI translation was so unnecessary.
I just have the same stream
in the original language
also stream on YouTube.
Yeah.
Yeah.
You could put up multiple
channels streaming the same
feed with different voices.
WFP disagrees.
And Lito says it's your first event.
Put it on freaking YouTube for F's sake.
Yeah.
And we talked about it.
I hope and pray that they're
not doing this to hide their numbers.
I hope they are not doing
this to hide their numbers.
But it is appearing that
that may be what is happening.
you can't see the view
counts uh the the lighting
in the arena you can't see
the crowd um but I have I
have a photographer there
this weekend and
videographer and I'm going
to get details as to like
how full were the crowds
I'll have that information
on sunday night crossfit
talk when we get into this
a little bit deeper with
carolyn and jamie so
Yeah, we're going to talk about all this.
We'll talk about the French throwdown.
French throwdown's done for the day.
We went over their
leaderboard earlier in the show.
And Jay Birch is promising
us some mash tent workouts this weekend,
maybe.
Devesh,
fake the numbers to get more investment.
It's possible.
It's possible.
They're afraid of Sivan's
chat crew warping the
attitudes of viewers.
I am hoping that's not the reason,
but I bet you that is part of it.
It's amazing WFP put all
this together so quickly
unless they were in the
works prior to last year's games.
I assume the idea started
after the tragedy.
It depends on who you ask
and when you ask them.
I've asked Will this in person.
He said that this idea was
going prior to that and
it's just morphed into
different things along the way.
um and then I've heard other
people uh like event
coordinators say it they
didn't even know about it
until well after the
tragedy so can't don't know
uh pedro and johnny were
fun as hell covering the
french throwdown um yeah
can't live scared can't live life scared
Kenneth,
that's what WWE does with WrestleMania.
Attendance always finds a
way to be a new record.
Yeah, why not?
So, with that,
I'm already late to come back from lunch,
so...
Time for you knuckleheads to
get back to work.
I will see you guys Sunday
night on Sunday Night CrossFit Talk.
We will recap all of WFP
this weekend and all the
things that we see and didn't see.
We will also break down the
French throwdown and who
got their tickets,
plus whatever else comes up,
like can people do a burpee correctly?
Can people do a GHD correctly?
All of that stuff.
With that, guys,
we will see everyone on
Sunday Night CrossFit Talk this week.
Later.