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What's up, everyone?
Welcome to Saturday, Saturday,
Saturday Night CrossFit Talk,
only WFP style.
We are done with day two.
It was a very different day than day
one, I want to say.
Yeah, kind of.
I mean... But what I found...
So it got up to, for me,
it got up.
Anytime you have a long run,
it's going to be a slow start.
It's hard to watch and I don't really
care about running.
Right.
But you actually did the ten K. Yeah.
The exact track that the athletes did.
Yep.
Right after the, literally right after,
I think Dana was the last woman in.
She crossed the finish line,
and they were like, all right, and go.
And they, like,
pulled us up to the start line and
we went.
And what was the course like?
It was fairly flat.
There was, like,
a couple little incline declines,
but it was fairly flat.
Kind of like a big loop out,
and then you hit a turnaround and came
back.
Not the same way you went out,
so you, like, cut in.
And so then there was a five.
You could stop at the five K.
I don't know if the teams were going
five K distance.
Yeah.
I don't know either.
I didn't run.
Yeah.
So you could have five K or you
stayed to the left and did another loop.
So it was,
and it was six point two one.
So actually it actually long by point Oh
one.
I mean, it was basically perfect.
Probably could have cut the tangents maybe
a little more here and there and made
it six point two.
Exactly.
So, yeah, you didn't have a,
They wheeled it off correctly.
The complex that this is at is a
major sports complex.
This is the indoor area with the main
floor is where the Indianapolis Colts
practice.
Okay.
They also have the Pacers headquarters and
training facility on the grounds.
And there's tons of softball, soccer,
tennis.
Yeah.
Soccer was going on while we were running
by.
Like you could hear like someone like got
a goal or something and there was some
cheering going on.
And I was like,
that's definitely not for us.
Cause it was just like four random
spectators running.
Yeah.
Yeah.
there's a ton of fields i know my
nephew like comes out here for baseball
there are so many baseball fields it's
crazy yeah so the track or the route
was all all through that yeah yep so
um we're going to talk about the injuries
in a second right now we're just kind
of recapping the day so then we went
from the run then we went into the
bench press
And my opinion of this isn't what I
thought it would be.
I thought I'd be really excited to watch
bench press.
There was so much interference on the
field of play that it was really hard
to see any of the lifts.
Because each bench had two spotters,
a judge...
And then there was medical and extra
spotters around everywhere.
That doesn't even include the eighteen
media all trying to get a picture of
the exact same person.
At eighteen different angles, apparently.
It was a busy floor during the bench.
That is exactly right, KDL.
Yeah, it was.
I stopped taking pictures.
There was no way to get anything.
Yeah, we went and sat down.
Okay, we're just going to watch this one.
Ishmael said he almost gave up just
because you just couldn't get anything.
And so it made it hard to watch
in the arena for that because the floor
was so busy.
Most of the time I found myself watching
the broadcast on the Jumbotron.
But there were some really cool lifts.
It was cool to see Pat Felner back
out to finish his career,
at least active on the floor.
That was cool.
But then we moved into what I thought
was a pretty exciting event.
I don't think people thought it was going
to do the damage that it did.
I did.
When I saw this workout, I was like,
this is nasty.
But chest-to-bar paired with squats,
especially a sandbag, is just, I mean,
that's awful.
That's an awful pairing.
And that sled was not easy to push.
I thought it was going to be a
sandbag squat workout.
And it was not.
It was at all sled.
If you could figure out the sled,
if you had the right shoe attire on,
you were going to do well.
Yep.
Shoes mattered for sure.
And how low you were willing to get
on the sled.
People were so gassed.
they just could not continue on.
They would just stand there and look at
the sled.
Yeah.
Yeah.
We'll get into that in a second as
we kind of look at the results and
everything,
but that's kind of the overview of the
day.
Again, it's a great feel there.
Like I,
I feel like it's much more enjoyable and
it's different than the games.
Like
It still feels like a big event that
I'm really excited and people are fighting
for points.
And once you understand that the points
are for the season,
they're not for this weekend.
Like it's really about stacking good
events.
If you have a bad event,
so be it.
You just need to hit the next one
to get some points on that overall
leaderboard to get you to the finals.
And so you have a shot at the
finals.
Right.
Because only thirty athletes go to the
finals.
And really there,
if you take all twenty signed pros,
there's only ten spots available.
Right.
And I think that's one of the reasons
you see the injuries.
I do too.
People are fighting to get a paid
contract.
And just a payment.
I think they pay the pay in like
forty deep.
Aren't they even here?
Yeah.
So like, yeah, like places matter.
There's money on the line here.
I feel like at the games after like,
after like tenth,
you basically get no money.
So if you're not top ten,
it kind of is what it is.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Honestly,
this pays way further down in the games.
Yeah.
Like way further down.
So even the people in the,
in the back heats are really putting forth
effort and they are messing up the
leaderboard a lot.
I'm reading the comments.
So there's a lot going on here.
I want to say a lot of heats.
Yes.
There's a lot of heat.
I don't find that when I'm,
when I'm here watching it,
it doesn't feel like it.
Because like I said,
even the bottom heats are working their
ass off to move up the leaderboard.
And if they can put,
if you get a top three finish,
you jet up the season leaderboard.
Right.
Like it is crazy.
Katie says the day went by quick.
I felt it did.
Three events and it went by really quick.
He also says a lot of non-Americans in
the challengers this year.
I've noticed that a little bit.
But it is called the World Fitness
Project.
And I think it's okay to be an
international event and competition.
Two of the three events are overseas.
I think that's a big part of it.
Once, once you had London,
what it was supposed to be Mexico.
Right.
And then they moved to London,
but like you already knew it was gonna
be international.
And so I feel like some Americans kind
of were like, I'm,
I'm not messing with that.
It's too much travel.
And so the Europeans jump right in.
But it's not like these,
these people are not good.
Oh, they're incredible.
Yeah.
Like those Kriber girls are kicking ass.
Yep.
All of them.
And, uh,
they're just all killing it on dress over
getting the do she deserves.
She's one of the fittest women that's been
around and her,
her game just doesn't play in the game
season because she has a whole here.
She's in third place for the weekend.
She's in the top five for the season.
And when you have this many events for
the season total,
you are getting a more complete test than
you are during the game season.
I agree.
Every time I watch Soul Bear take the
floor, I'm in awe of her.
She's so fit.
I enjoy watching her.
And she usually has, she always, I mean,
she has those home runs.
We know she's incredible on her hands,
but...
The sandbag workout crushed it.
She crushed it.
And if you're looking at international
people that are underrated,
Emma Tall is a savage.
There were workouts that before they even
started,
you knew Emma Tall was going to go.
Like that was her event.
I don't know if I think Emma Tall
is underrated.
I think the problem is she's been injured
for two or three years.
Her shoulder's been,
she's had issues that rolled the last two
years.
I don't think she's underrated.
I just think she's been injured.
Just because Bruce says it doesn't make it
through.
Thanks for agreeing.
I do think she's underrated.
She didn't say she's underrated.
She said that she's had injuries.
You guys didn't think that we were
fighting enough last night.
Today has been awful.
Thank you, Vicki.
Yeah.
Scott's been in a mood.
He didn't get enough food today.
Jamie will not,
will not relent on any argument.
So let's point out, in the last event,
Jamie swore lane five was a sticky lane.
It was sticky.
It was not.
The women proved it wasn't.
Well, the women, they dropped the weight.
So it was less of a sled workout.
Oh, my Lord.
See,
this is what I deal with all the
time.
No, you are not invited into this podcast,
Miss Veronica.
No.
This is what, listen,
I am tired of people making excuses as
to why they didn't do well.
It wasn't a sticky lane.
People in that lane had completely poor
mechanics.
There was plenty of poor mechanics out
there.
I just think it took a little bit
more out of the people in that lane.
They all were holding the posts up high.
None of them were putting their shoulders
into it and pushing down on the sled
like everybody.
And it wasn't just lane five.
People were destroyed in all the lanes at
different times.
Oh, good Lord.
Let's make more excuses.
Lanes will always be a problem.
Hold on.
I do think this was probably the most
similar.
This was probably the best sled ever.
situation we've had this is the practice
field for an nfl franchise you think
they're going to have inconsistencies on
their turf the turf they practice on the
turf that their million dollar players
could get injured on you think they're
going to allow it to be inconsistent okay
i don't even know how they have if
that's their turf or how they set up
this these rubber mats to turf
But I agree that technique of sled was
incredibly important because the men,
a lot of the men were just driving
it top down and sticking it right into
the floor.
I, I just,
I'm in all my years of doing this
and covering this sport.
I'm just sick of everybody having an
excuse and everybody coming up with a
conspiracy theory.
The test is in front of you go
out and just complete the test.
Other people in lane five,
which one of them was Carolyn, I believe.
Yeah.
Carolyn was just,
who had a great success in that lane.
Laura Horvat was in that lane.
He wasn't that way.
Yeah, but he always dies.
He always implodes.
So there it is.
I said that it has been this way
all day.
We saw Jared Rabiel at the restaurant.
I did not.
So wrong.
Oh, my God.
See, this is what I'm talking about.
I did not.
We argued for ten minutes before we
realized she wasn't looking at the same
person I was.
I saw him.
Holy shit.
Anyway, yes, I did give a side eye.
I've been giving several side eyes today.
Carolyn had no issues in lane five.
I know the men's seat,
that lane looks so slow,
but mine felt fine.
There you go.
They did lower the weight for the women.
They lowered the weight.
So that it would be less of a
sled workout.
It was definitely a sled workout for the
men.
It was a sled workout for the women.
Same sled, KDL, same sled,
different weight.
Yeah, they just, like,
they took a plate off from what was
supposed to be on there.
They decided to lower that.
Vicky says she thinks we're an old,
bitter, married couple from a past life.
Ronica has the same problem,
and she's here with us.
Just saying.
If it's the Colts turf,
do they care about the sled push
consistency on their turf?
I'm sure the offensive lineman do.
We all know who wears the pants in
that dynamic, Vicky.
I don't need this kind of abuse.
Um, so the run happened today.
It started off with Roman cramping after
gaining a huge lead.
And was it necessary to go that hard?
Be that far out front.
And then he.
Withdrew from the competition saying that
it was,
he cramped and it was a sign that
his body needed rest because he cramped
yesterday on the other side,
correct today on this side.
And he said that, uh, that was it.
His body was telling him he needs rest.
Yeah.
So he decided to call it a weekend.
We then went in then on the women's
side, um, Amanda jobs.
Crushed it.
Crushed the run.
Finished sub-forty,
which was faster than most of the men.
And an incredible time.
Who took second in that?
I don't remember.
I feel like Lydia was third and Ella
was fourth.
Who was second?
And then Amy was fifth?
Yeah.
I don't know.
Oh, well.
CrossFit says, eat bananas,
monkey never cramp.
Remember that statement?
Yes.
Yeah.
Who's the other good runner?
I don't know.
Yeah, who's that one?
I'll pull it up here.
So the run...
Was this one four, right?
No, three.
Oh, was it Sydney?
It was Sydney.
Yeah, that's right.
Inga Lofts took third.
Then Lydia Fish, then Ella, then Amy.
And then on the men's side,
Sprague passed Roman,
but he didn't even win.
It was a yellow hosta.
Chris Ibarra took second,
which catapulted him way up in all
standings.
Luka Djokic took third,
Colin Bosshard fourth,
and then James Sprague fifth.
Noah Wilson's having a pretty doggone good
weekend.
I think that sled one got him a
little bit.
But, yeah, he's doing great.
Lydia is awesome, top ten.
Yeah,
I saw her dad on the way out
of the venue tonight.
They gave me a Lydia fish kazoo.
So now I have the towel, the kazoo,
and the clapper.
Jealous.
And I yelled, go Lydia and go bears.
And they were very appreciative of that.
Is the Amy versus Laura battle overhyped?
I think it's going to play out,
I think, when they get to the finals.
Yeah.
But I think Amital is going to be
in that mix pretty strongly.
Yeah.
And Andrea Stolberg has a shot.
She's right there with Laura.
She's actually ahead of Laura.
She is ahead of Laura for the weekend
so far.
Is Andrea a good swimmer?
I don't find out in the morning.
Yeah.
I don't, yeah.
I don't know.
I mean, Laura will,
she'll get her on the snake squad.
Snatching Laurel will win that battle of
the weekend come tomorrow.
Uh, then we had the bench press.
Colton is just a straight up strong,
savage dude.
And someone asked earlier if anybody beat
Colton's opening weight.
And I,
if what was called the opening weight,
three, six, three, six, five.
Yeah.
Somebody got three, six, seven,
I think right around there.
I think somebody hit,
cuz I remember thinking it was like four,
thirty or forty pounds.
That was four.
It was four.
Yeah.
Uh, three, seven, three, seven, six,
and then three, six, five, four Miko,
little York, little York.
So yeah, three people,
including Colton himself matched, uh,
his opening weight.
Um, so yeah,
he Colton came out and killed it and
he needed to,
and he needed to kill the last one.
Mm-hmm
And he did.
So back to back,
back to back wins for him.
On the women's side, it was Dana Peran,
which the floor announcer kept saying Dana
Peran.
Akira Milligan.
But she took first,
Amanda Fisher took second, I believe.
Kolstad may have stuck in there for a
second.
I can't remember.
I'm sure you're right because you always
are.
Kolstad did.
Amanda Fisher at .
Hannah Black at two-thirty.
And then Emma Tall tied with Kirstensen at
two-twenty-seven and a half.
And Ariel with two-twenty-five.
She tried heavier and missed.
Yeah,
she tried two-twenty-seven and then went
down to the two-twenty-five.
Which the two-twenty-seven wouldn't matter
because it's two-twenty-seven point five
on that other one.
Unless that's what those are out there.
I don't know.
Uh, Bruce says, uh,
the broadcast commentators are horrible.
You know how you fix that Bruce?
You show up at the event and support
the event.
Although we can hear the names and yeah,
that gets you're like, dude, get it right.
Yeah.
It, uh, it's great at the venue.
Do the floor,
the floor announcers flawless.
No.
But you get to be your own camera
shot.
You get to be your own angle.
You get to figure out where you want
to look at all times.
And they do a great job highlighting the
floor.
Last year,
I heard bitches about the lighting.
It is awesome in person.
Yeah, I like the lighting.
I don't think that it could be done
any better.
It appears that Rogue is very similar.
where they bring in their own lighting
rig.
But by bringing in your own lighting rig,
you're bringing the lights closer to the
floor and it's not like washed out and
drab.
It's actually like vibrant on the floor in
person.
It was definitely busier today.
Um,
With that Heart of America competition
going on, that brings in people,
letting the spectators run that run.
I mean,
the parking lot was way more packed.
I felt like the stands had far more
people in them.
And just more people in general in that
center, the second floor area.
I think it was much more attended today.
It's not as much as it needs to
be because this is a great event.
It really is a very enjoyable,
awesome event to be at.
I've been to so many different ones.
I would rank it above water Palooza.
I would rank it.
Honestly,
this has been more enjoyable than the
games for me this year.
I enjoyed the game and that, and that's,
I'm not trying to dog on the games.
I enjoyed the games.
This has been just really enjoyable.
Yeah, other than the seats at the games,
because those are a little more comfy to
sit in.
Ah, yes.
I will give you that.
Yeah, these are bleachers.
We need to bring, like,
bleacher seats so that you have a little
comfort.
Or just stand up and stand a long
thing.
But I hate when the railings get packed
with standing,
so I would prefer to sit down and
get out of the way.
But, yeah,
the seats can be more comfortable.
Other than that.
Yeah.
But you know,
what a Palooza's benches too.
Yeah.
And the last year I was at water
Palooza,
half the fans didn't even get in to
see the elite events because you couldn't
fit there just was, um, with that comment,
Scott won't get.
whatever for next year's games.
I think credentials, creds.
Oh, creds, yeah.
That's totally what she, yeah.
No, we're not bashing the games.
I said that out loud.
I'm not bashing the games.
As a media member.
Yes.
For sure.
Way less hoops to jump through.
Nice accommodations to keep your stuff
away from every... Like, so it's safe.
Like,
we had that stolen camera equipment at
semifinals out in Carson the one year.
Like, you don't have to worry about that.
We're away from everybody where that
can...
And there's security not letting people up
the stairs.
Yep.
So...
It's really a nice event, nice facility,
and they treat the athletes super well.
We have snacks, free PT and massage too.
Lots of space for warm-up, et cetera.
They really are treating the athletes well
from what I can see over there.
I'm going to spend some time in the
athlete lounge tomorrow just talking to
people.
We haven't done that as much because the
actual floor has been so fun to watch.
So then we finished up with
the magical lane five and ten or nine
or whatever it was that screwed everybody
over.
Fifty toes to bar,
the twenty-five sandbag snatches.
Squats.
Squats, sorry.
Into the sled push.
What I found amazing was people doing
sandbag squats in cleats.
Yes.
And I think it was BKG that said
when he watched the first couple of heats,
he realized for the men,
this became a sled push workout instead of
a sandbag squat.
And so the cleats were to help him
with the sled and just get through the
other two.
So it was wild seeing people squat in
cleats.
It was very strange.
But then you have like Laura and runners
and it was wild watching somebody
squatting sandbags, squatting runners.
When you saw people slipping,
when they were pushing the amount of
energy that they lost with that slip.
And some of them were slipping so much.
Yeah.
I mean,
tennis shoes were not meant to be dug
in on turf.
Right.
They just weren't, um,
But BKG started a trend,
and then you saw cleats everywhere.
Now,
the big question is that Jamie and I
argued about, again, something else,
is are turf shoes cleats?
She says no.
I say yes.
I mean,
actual cleats with the actual nubs on them
that people are standing on,
those are cleats.
Turf shoes are just turf shoes.
Thanks, guys.
Listen, if they're not nanos,
they're cleats.
See what I have to deal with?
It just argues weird stuff.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Whatever.
They just want you to flex.
If you are wearing turf shoes,
then they have nubs on the bottom and
they are not what you would normally work
out in.
Jay Burch, thank you.
Thanks, Carolyn.
I'm not saying they're identical.
I'm saying it's the same thing in this
environment.
I could squat in turf shoes far easier
than in pleats.
Nobody had metal nubs.
They were plastic nubs.
Both the cleats and the turf were plastic
nubs.
I don't think they let metal cleats on
this artificial turf.
Yeah, I don't think so either.
Nobody had golf shoes.
They looked like soccer cleats for the
most part.
Yes.
If they were going cleats.
And a lot of them were Adidas athletes.
that went to them initially.
Yeah.
And they,
and Adidas is big in the soccer world,
so.
Yeah,
that's what Sidney Wells was wearing,
the Adidas cleats.
And some of them looked really sharp.
Yeah.
Like the colorways on them were awesome.
Uh-huh.
Yeah.
Nobody's arguing the grip Jay Birch.
We all agree that either turf shoes or
cleats.
Oh yeah.
Oh yeah.
On that turf.
Um, it,
we just Jamie and I have to fight
about something every event.
And so we fought about lane five and
lane nine,
and we fought about turf shoes versus
cleats.
Um, so with that, the winner was Colton.
on the men's side and,
and then it got wild.
It was so fun to watch because the
one thing WFP does very,
very well is they put the time to
beat up on the jumbotron.
And then you have the,
the F one leaderboard down and the running
clock.
So you can like,
are they going to beat the time?
Are they not going to beat the time?
And so many of the times to beat
were from the early heats.
Right.
So you had this fun aspect of,
on every heat like are they going to
pull it off and yeah and the other
events you're always like waiting for the
announcer to say it because you're like
shoot what was that time you're you're
trying to remember but you're usually off
by a few seconds so seeing it up
there while the event's going on is great
so on the women's side emmental crushed
We didn't think anybody was going to be
like Andrea's time.
I know.
And then Emma Tall just smoked it by
a good ten seconds.
Ota Lund, I can never say her name.
Yeah, and then Olivia Kerstetter,
Laura Horvath, Var Thurman-Mo,
and Amy Kringle.
On the men's side,
I hate that it resets back to everything.
Put her head up.
Colton won.
Close.
We thought he was going to win handily,
but James only two seconds off.
Wow.
Yonikoski was third.
I'll tell you a funny story about that
in a second.
Yelahosta with a fourth after his win in
the morning.
He really needed that after day one.
Enola Kai took sixth, fifth, fifth,
and Chandler Smith with a bad hamstring.
Well, and Yonikoski.
And Yona.
Yeah.
Which they didn't like, they,
they ran together in the run Chandler,
Sam Cornway and Yona just sort of jogged
the run together.
So I don't know,
maybe they had fresher legs than some of
the other athletes.
That it was a devastating workout.
Like the carnage on the floor after this
event was epic.
And there was a point where I'd looked
at Jamie and I said,
if you ask the athletes that did the
games and have done this weekend so far,
which was harder,
I am betting you that they say this
weekend was harder.
Yeah.
I think,
I think they're going to be sore and
yeah, just more beat up from this weekend.
Personally.
I don't think that's a bad thing.
I know there's been a ton to talk
about the injuries.
I think a lot,
I think they knew what they were up
for.
The workouts were released early,
especially the combine very early.
Like people knew what to be training for.
Um,
and to be fair and like everyone's saying
like these games, athletes are shit.
Like it's too close to the games.
Half of these ones that are hurt are
not games athletes.
Yeah.
I mean, yes.
Roman pulled out, Pat got hurt.
But you have plenty that were not at
the games.
KDL, Colton wasn't in the bad lane.
No, yeah.
Colton was in six, I think.
Will released the combine ten weeks before
the event.
He released all the workouts a month
before the event,
which is their normal mode of operation.
Mm-hmm.
Because he wants to give the athletes time
to prepare.
And this is what I'll say.
It's sports.
Injuries happen in every sport you watch.
You watch a tennis match, people withdraw.
You watch baseball on a weekend,
you're going to have two, three,
four injuries.
You watch an NFL weekend and the injury
lists are through the roof.
It's sports.
These athletes make the choice to go out
there, put themselves on the line,
four points to get to these finals.
If they thought they were too banged up
from the games to do it,
they had the choice not to.
I mean,
you have the choice to hop off that
box or not.
You guys, as fans,
it's all the same people who bitch about
Dave programming the step down.
Why don't they just let them choose what
they want to do?
If they want to jump down,
they should be able to jump down.
And they were given the choice to jump
down yesterday.
Uh, Vicki says, uh,
Colton would have won by a minute if
he didn't slip so much up with the
sled that takes so much out of you,
but Colton wasn't the only one that
slipped.
You can't just,
you can't take him out of it in
solitude and say only if he didn't slip,
there were so many people slipping.
Shannon says there seems to be a lot
more than normal and severe ones.
There's a hundred athletes here.
A hundred.
That's more than you see at the games.
It is the densest group of athletes in
a competition.
It is brutal.
I'm not going to lie.
It's brutal,
but all the athletes have the choice.
Yep.
There's more money available here.
Like I just think more people are willing
to risk it.
This is what I'll say.
Everybody bitched about the masters and
the age group athletes not getting
something that felt games like.
And I heard people after the games say,
yeah, there were twenty events,
but my body didn't really feel like there
were twenty events.
Well, I'm betting you after today,
people are saying it feels like a games
weekend.
And isn't that what we all want?
Isn't this the thing we've been asking for
the intensity, the, and it's fun to watch.
It makes it so fun to watch.
Yeah.
You guys heard me say after the games,
I just wanted more carnage.
So I'm getting what I wanted.
Like I am loving this.
I it's not just a three minute,
like who can go execute perfectly and not
have a slip up.
Like it's who's,
who truly is willing to hurt the most
and who's fitter to get through these
longer workouts.
Like you had twenty minutes yesterday and
thirteen of them today.
And most people used up every second of
it.
Shana says,
I hope they're getting good medical
support at the venue.
Medical team is on the floor.
Bam.
Yeah.
Um,
the only thing I saw and that medical
couldn't have been there any faster was
Quinn's torn pack.
When his pector,
the judge on the one side was not
capable of lifting her side of the way.
Yeah.
Because he like completely just laid
there.
Like he couldn't.
So like she needed, and you're not,
you're not thinking that that's going to
happen.
You're thinking they're going to fail and
you need to help assist it up.
But even in that case,
there was a backup spotter there within
five seconds.
Yes.
Within five seconds.
And that's the only thing where I saw
maybe a slight delay in medical attention.
Yes, I agree, CrossFit.
We used to see carnage at regionals,
not just injury, but people in heaps.
This has this.
I completely agree.
That's what I feel like this is bringing
back.
How many people have torn Paxil in the
ring?
Exactly.
At regionals.
And I don't know if people are just
bitching because it's WFP and they want to
bitch about it.
Or if I, that's what I,
that's what I can't figure out.
I don't want to see people get hurt.
Don't get me wrong.
Like I'm, I'm gutted for Pat.
I'm gutted for Quinn.
I've been rooting for him.
Um,
But athletes make choices on those.
Six inch box jumps.
How many people rebounded?
Exactly.
They made that choice.
You don't have to do that.
Yup.
When you people been asking for that,
you are competing for the points.
You want people to not compete for the
points?
Like it just is.
Yeah.
Um, but like, honestly.
Pat went down,
there were five medical people on him.
I know.
And they had to sled off of him
within five to ten seconds.
Yeah.
I mean,
Julie Fouché tore a Achilles tendon at
regionals.
Rogue had two people,
or in the last two years,
three people tear an Achilles.
It's...
I think people just look at WFP and
they're looking for something to complain
about.
Yes.
I mean, and it's anything.
It's not just WFP, but yes,
we're seeing it because that's what we're
talking about right now.
So we're just seeing more bitching.
But yes, on stream, on the internet,
really anywhere, people,
it's always the complainers that are the
loudest.
Uh, I'm so old school.
I was at the original where Talena
Fortunato finished the hundreds workout
first.
I'm back there with you, buddy.
Um,
don't tell me how to compete Bill
Grundler.
Yeah.
Yeah, everybody's going to,
they're going to find something to bitch
about.
And I'll say this.
Last year was,
did I bitch about the WFP?
Yeah, we did.
Yes, we did.
But they have taken a lot of constructive
criticism and made changes for the good.
Yep.
Because I complained about the point
system.
I didn't like that the challengers weren't
doing the same workout.
I didn't like that it was like,
I feel like they've listened to a lot
of the critiquing.
Yeah,
you just like it because they went with
the point system you suggested.
And you're right, you're right.
Bill Leahy was making me nervous with his
bouncy rebound he went right back to the
thing that I know and Jamie's rooting for
Bill because he didn't do tour stop one
and he is right on the cut line
to go to the finals like right on
the cut line I mean he's doing pretty
much everything he needs to do here
Yeah.
We'll see how he swims.
I don't know how he is as a
swimmer either.
I don't know.
Uh,
Forty-eight minutes in and Scott finally
got one right.
What?
They definitely listened to feedback.
I agree, Mickey.
They did.
I am telling you, if you want,
if you want to go to a quality
event that is very entertaining and
Does the most for the spectators that are
there, this is your event?
Oh, yeah.
That's what I was telling Scott.
It's hard for me to go to the
games or something and be gone for three,
five days, whatever it is,
and get thrown off my routine.
And here, there's a –
Like the pro,
the way the day is set up,
there's time for you to go do one
of these activations, spectator workouts,
which I think most people that are diehard
fans that come to these type of events
want to still get a workout in.
And it's like this event is just made
for you as a spectator.
So yesterday you and Ronica did one of
the workouts.
Yep.
HWPO or no?
We did the Mayhem one.
The Mayhem one.
Bailey and Tyler Crispo.
So yeah,
they they're bringing in former CrossFit
athletes to lead these, uh,
Bailey rail and Chris Bailey, Christopher,
uh, and Tyler Taylor, Tyler, Christopher.
Yeah.
It's late guys.
Um, you guys did that yesterday,
today you ran the ten K yep.
And then tomorrow you are signed up for
an event,
but tomorrow they have one with FISA
coffee.
They have one with, um, supposedly page,
but she's competing.
So it's probably just going to be Bailey.
I think it's broken fee.
Brooke Wells, I think is doing it.
Not like,
I think they took page off there.
I think it's broken, broken.
And then the other one is Bailey again,
the born, born to,
or call to be is what she calls
her brand.
Okay.
Yeah.
So like,
you're going to get a workout in every
day while you're here.
And in the, in the main area, they,
like we said yesterday,
they have cornhole,
they have football tosses with nets to
throw into.
They have, um,
The lawn pong, like a big beer pong.
Yes.
Um, so giant rental cup, trash,
bad basket looking type things, but yeah.
Yeah.
Take my third seat.
That's what I need to do.
Here's the problem.
Don't be like me.
I forgot to pack.
I brought, don't worry.
I got you.
I brought it.
Okay.
Uh,
but I'll tell you what the bed in
this Airbnb is better than my bed at
home.
Yeah, they have coffee beds.
It's... To get to the media area,
you have to walk the whole way around
the venue.
But that's fine.
I don't mind the exercise.
But it does...
I'm getting in a lot of steps.
Oh, yeah.
Because I...
I got a couple cups of coffee this
morning.
Because Jamie made shitty coffee this
morning.
But she says it is shitty.
I should have just dumped it.
And then we get back tonight and she
goes,
you didn't have any of the coffee this
morning.
Well, you told me it's shitty.
Why would I drink the shitty coffee?
Um, but yeah, we're, uh, it's, it's great.
It's just, it's so easy to park.
It's so easy to get in.
Um,
this complex has parking right outside the
venue.
We said yesterday it's twenty five bucks
for the weekend to park.
It's ninety nine dollars for a ticket to
get in for the whole weekend.
Way cheaper than the games.
Hell, that's cheaper than some semifinals.
Yep.
There's actually a coffee place here that
listens to the show.
Yeah, it's excellent.
It's called Uplift Coffee.
If you're if you see them,
it's really good coffee.
When you're right, you're right.
As rare as it is, Scott.
I hate you all.
It is cheaper than a day of the
games.
You are correct, KDL.
It is.
And honestly, I'm having a blast.
And actually,
the athletes are more accessible.
For sure.
Like, way more accessible.
In fact,
they WFP had trading cards made and they
had special ones made like refractors.
And if you didn't trade cards as a
kid,
that's what are like the holographic kind
of thing.
They hid them throughout the venue.
And if you found one, it was autographed.
Jamie found one.
I saw it.
I pointed it out to her.
I pointed it.
You didn't even know what it was.
Like, what is this?
And I didn't realize that they had hidden
cards.
Because I didn't want to touch it.
Like, I didn't know what was going on.
Yeah.
They put on Instagram that they had hid
them throughout the venue.
Yeah.
Then you told me.
So she got a signed Sidney McAlishan card.
Yep.
And Sidney's looking good.
She is looking good.
She crushed that sled.
Yeah.
She made that sled her bitch.
She was...
The only one who, I mean,
she was like able to run with it
and she did like, yeah,
she moved that sled so well.
Arrow ran with it for a brief amount
of time and then three seconds and two
to run with it for two steps and
then stopped.
And I'm thinking, dude,
it's harder to start over again than to
just push through and keep.
Yeah.
Uh, like old was, uh,
before it became huge,
you could approach all the athletes and
actually get into the venues.
It's all that.
Yeah.
When I left today,
Amy Kringle was right in front of me.
She got swarmed by little girls and it
was the cutest thing ever.
And she was so nice to them and.
Talked to them, gave them high fives,
the whole bit.
It's just a really cool venue,
really cool atmosphere, great vibes.
I know I sound like I'm being paid
by them to say this stuff.
But I told Patrick and I told Will
that if I see something I don't like,
I'm going to say something.
So here are the couple of things that
I don't like.
Okay.
The media pit they're allowing spectators
in.
Yeah.
The people they're trying to get content
that makes it extremely difficult.
Yes.
There are still way too many media members
on the floor.
Yes.
Do we really need eight crotch shots of
every bench press?
Yes.
When people are bench pressing,
don't hold the camera low and get the
upshot.
It is so weird to me that I
feel like you were.
I know.
I feel like I have to look away
until they get it up,
get the camera settled on the right spot.
I'm like, what are we watching?
And I like if you looked at all
the videos I took,
there's at least one or two media members
walking through the shot.
Yes.
Everyone.
Yes.
Yeah, I agree.
That is frustrating.
And I do have an understanding that
they're trying to put out content
themselves and their people should have
prime real estate for that.
But camera technology is so good now and
the lighting is so good in that place
that if you have a good lens and
a good camera,
you are going to get good content.
And you don't have to be
he's crotch.
I agree.
That would be my complaint too.
They need to have corded off media area,
pit area or like a second barricade wall
that we're in.
I don't know.
If they want spectators along the
barricade wall,
I don't know how they need to do
that.
Katie Elson,
wasn't the guy who was spotting Colton
like the CEO of WFP?
I don't know if he's CEO.
He's president of WFP.
But it was him, probably.
He was the backup spotter and would give
liftoffs so people could stand in
And he's a pretty strong dude.
Um, here's a quick, a funny question.
It just pops in my head.
I hate when getting a lift off from
a benching.
I don't usually like liftoffs either.
I want to control where I put it
into my path and not have somebody else
guiding me.
Yeah.
And I couldn't believe how many of the
athletes got a lift off.
Um,
I wasn't sure if possibly that was
because,
because I don't think they were allowed to
touch the J cups,
the straps or the J cups.
So I don't know if like it was
maybe set low to accommodate, like,
you know, I mean,
you gotta have it set the same as
it would be for Cole and ask for
James Craig.
So I can see why,
if that's the case,
James might want to lift off.
Like if it's way down here for James,
cause it's set one height.
I can see why some people might want
to lift off.
I did see them change the straps a
couple of times.
I did.
I did see some complaints about the
straight straps and some movement,
but I never saw the Jacobs get moved.
I, and then I did see,
and this is the other bad thing,
but I think it's a more,
a sign that we are tapped out on
judges.
Yeah.
We are just running out of good judges
with this much of a season.
And you can say that about the NFL
and everybody bitches about the referees.
Everybody bitches about the umpires in
baseball.
Everybody bitches about the chair ump in
tennis.
Like it just,
we're running out of good judges.
There were some inconsistencies on the
bench.
In my world,
you have to extend the bench completely to
the top, then rack it.
A good rep isn't throwing it into the
Jacob.
I like to throw it into the Jacob.
Really?
I don't know.
Now you're arguing with me on that
standard.
No, I agree.
It needs to be locked out before you
put it backwards.
Larry Young is a big fat liar.
I don't bench heavy enough to lift off.
I couldn't even lift off, Larry, your bar.
If you asked for one,
I'd have to say, sorry,
you're on your own, dude.
Jacob, I'm a B cup.
Yeah, so that standard was weird.
The sled standard at the turnaround seemed
to be inconsistent.
Some people were forced to push the sled
completely over the line before turning.
Others were allowed to turn it and let
the turn be what got it over the
line.
Correct.
Only a few, but yes.
It seemed to be more to the second
for the women and allowed.
On the men, it was really inconsistent.
Yes.
Um, and squat depth.
Yeah.
On those sandbag squads.
But I'll tell you this,
Kristen Holta must force squat depth at
CrossFit Oslo because all the Kriger girls
were well below parallel.
The Kriger girls move well in pretty much
everything that I see them do.
And that makes it like when they win
events or when they do great in events,
you're like, well,
that's even more impressive because you
know, they are meeting all the standards.
Um, what is your CrossFit total, Larry?
It's over nine thousand.
He just picks up a Jeep,
does all three moves.
Um,
What else do we want to say?
I don't know.
I'm excited to see some swimming tomorrow.
That workout's going to be gnarly.
And I think legs are going to be
smoked.
So I'm worried about,
we talked about this,
kicking in the water.
But you're biking too, so you're like,
ugh, gross.
That workout's going to be devastating.
And then standing up those heavy snatches
later.
Ooh.
Ooh.
Yeah, this is going to be...
This is a painful weekend.
It is painful.
I'm excited to ask how people's lives are
tomorrow.
But I think it's odd.
That's what makes it fun to watch.
So, any Xenon talk at WFP?
It is too busy.
We are too busy.
That's my other complaint.
It is very loud.
The music is...
too loud it needs to come down at
certain points and like when there's it's
like a i get it during the event
yeah but in between the yes they could
just turn it down a little bit yeah
so you so people can like turn and
talk to each other about what they just
saw yes the it's like a who wants
to be a millionaire ddd like that intro
that like they're playing
That's when, like,
that needs to come down just a tad
in volume.
It's too loud.
I agree, Jabers.
That's all comps.
The DJ needs to be better about bringing
it.
Like,
that's why I probably will never go to
Waterpalooza again is my head can't take
that many days of nonstop techno.
Yeah,
I just want to be able to talk
about the event to people.
And, like,
you can't ever hear what I'm saying.
And it's like...
I just need, like,
thirty seconds of just slightly down.
I don't mind the dramatic music during the
walkout.
That, you know,
old person Jamie here can't handle it,
but I think that's okay.
Because I'm not really talking about the
walkout.
No, it's not the walkout,
because that's actually fine,
because they're saying their names and
stuff.
It's the last thirty seconds before the
timer goes off.
There's, like, this little, like,
I don't know.
Derek Summers.
Did I miss it, Scott?
Earlier you said you had a funny story
revealing.
It's Yonikoski.
So the floor announcers are from all over
the world as well.
They are representative of the entire
world.
And when Yonikoski was on the floor,
whenever they wanted you to get hype,
they would yell, let's get loud,
Grant Park.
Right.
Yeah.
Or come on,
Grant Park or something like that.
I swore to God they called Yonikoski
Grandpa.
I thought they were saying, come on,
Grandpa.
And I was like, that is so rude.
I cannot believe they're calling Yonikoski
Grandpa.
He's not even the oldest person out here.
And then I found out that it was
just his accent and he was saying Grant
Park.
So, yeah.
So if you see Yonikowski,
call him Grandpa.
That's going to be his new nickname.
And that's probably another reason we're
not getting the correct pronunciations of
all the athletes.
But if that's my job,
if I'm Claire Bays for a day,
What a glorious day that would be first
and foremost.
And second,
I'm sure that I would do my research
and find the phonetic spellings of these
people.
So I knew how to pronounce it because
I would be mortified if I was
mispronouncing.
Because I do it all the time on
here.
I know.
And you know,
Mispronounce a name.
Jamie, buy Scott a red curly wig.
You're going to be Claire Bays for a
day.
Because I'd have to run a mile.
Yeah.
Katie Elf,
if I was Claire Bays for a day,
my mental health would skyrocket.
There you go.
Keep singing,
maybe they will throw some fruit for
dessert.
American tale.
Oh, that's going on in school.
I do not know what that is.
They are all recorded, aren't they?
The intros are not recorded, Claire.
No, it's not.
So, yeah, last year, that's how it was.
Or maybe even in London.
I think they let the athletes like say
their name and they're in the United
States or Miami or whatever.
They got to say they're like city or
country.
That's not how they're doing it this year.
The there's a floor announcer saying their
name as they walk out.
The floor north floor announcer is
bringing them all out one by one.
Yep.
And I,
and Vicki texted me today and said that
she,
she's done with the smoke and the intro
because it takes too long.
I think it's one of the coolest things
when you're here.
Yeah.
Um, uh, KDL start the mile.
Yeah,
Five-O was one of the rats who fled
communism.
Okay.
Yeah, those were a different time.
The Iron Curtain still existed.
And we needed cartoon therapy.
All right.
Oh, yeah.
I knew they weren't when announced.
I just tonight the athlete said their name
into a mic somewhere that the media had
access to.
I don't know if they did that.
If they did, if they did that,
which I've heard that is how they normally
do it.
Yeah.
The four announcers here have not
listened.
Yeah,
I know that I've seen them do that
at camps.
Like I've seen them do that at the
games,
have them say their name so that they
can listen to the pronunciation.
No clue if they did that here.
That seems like the smart play.
That's how you should do things so that
you can hear it.
Live, it might be cool.
On the stream, it's just slow.
Each one feels like sixty seconds.
I know it's not,
but it feels that way every single event.
We have to remember how many hamstring
injuries there are and some of the people
it takes a while to get from that
side of the floor to the other side
of the floor.
I was worried about
I don't know who it was.
Sammy.
I don't know who I was worried about
him even making it to the star man.
I'm like, I don't think he's making it.
Yeah.
Yeah.
It's bad,
which it didn't matter because he didn't
do it.
But I'm telling you, Vicki, it's only.
Ten seconds between each name called.
Yeah.
It's fairly quick.
So Vicki was going to tell you to
put my skivvies in the freezer.
Well,
as cold as this house is right now,
this is the weirdest thing in this Airbnb.
During the day, it is cold in here.
Freezing.
Then at night when you want it to
be cold,
all of a sudden the heat goes on.
I don't know if the heat came on,
but it definitely felt.
It was definitely.
I mean,
we all woke up and we're like,
I got hot last night, which was weird.
And then we're sitting here this morning
having our morning beverage,
not the shitty coffee.
And I look out the back door and
there's a wolf.
There was a real live wolf out the
back door.
It was, I was shocked.
And he looked hungry.
He did look hungry.
He was scavenging back there.
Yeah,
I sleep at a unreasonably cold
temperature.
level.
Ed,
it was sixty-eight when we went to bed.
It was seventy when we woke up.
We don't know what happened.
No, not a woof.
A, like, woof.
W-O-L-V-E.
Oh, wolves?
There was multiple?
I didn't put an S at the end.
Yeah, but it's O-L-F.
If it's a wolf.
Okay.
Well, I guess now...
I said a wolf.
Yeah.
Love that y'all are there having fun.
It's been so cool to watch Carolyn smash
it.
She's crushing it.
Oh my gosh.
We were yelling so loud for her to
finish that last workout.
And she did it with one second to
go.
Need you on my back too, Vicky.
Vicky.
I realize now that I did not spell
it correctly.
It is a wolf.
And if there are multiple, it is wolves.
I get it.
I'm not dumb.
I'm just tired.
I'm tired of fighting.
This is Tessa.
But it's the last thing I would say
is I've run into so many listeners here.
It has been so cool to get to
chat with people.
I'm still surprised by it when people
recognize who I am,
but it makes me feel warm inside every
time someone does.
And so if you ever see me out,
please, please,
please run over and say hi,
because it really does make my day.
Then just don't fight Jamie.
She's always right.
In her mind, she definitely is.
Maybe putting WFP on my list of comps
to Xena.
It is...
This is what it's like all the parts.
It's not perfect.
I'm not going to say it's perfect.
They have a desk show that you can
go watch.
They have like beanbags and chairs where
you can sit and watch the show.
They have bleachers that make sense.
They have the lighting to is right on
the floor.
There's no distractions there.
It feels like a big comp.
They make you feel special when the app
that smoke stuff at the beginning makes
every athlete feel like they are special.
And when you feel like you're special,
you're going to go out there and fight
like hell.
And maybe that's why we're seeing the
injuries because they feel awesome and
they want to go out and do the,
do their best.
Ariel's interview today was hilarious.
When she talked about she went to the
basketball game last night and she made
the best.
She said because she did the combine
yesterday, she felt like an athlete.
So that's why she made the shot.
Like none of her other accomplishments
have made her feel like an athlete over
the years.
Just doing the combine.
Now she's an athlete.
Yeah.
She said she was an athlete.
Now she knows how to walk in.
Yeah.
It was so good.
I think Katrin is awesome as a
commentator.
I think she should be in the booth
as much as possible.
And I'll leave it at that.
It sucks to get injured when you don't
feel as awesome as an athlete.
And I know two people that that happened
to at the CrossFit Games who didn't feel
special when they got hurt.
Yeah.
And they're both Masters athletes and one
sitting beside me.
Yep.
When are they coming to the Pacific
Northwest?
I'll ask.
Hopefully never.
I love it here.
Me too.
It was an easy drive.
Yeah.
But I would travel to one of these.
Just not California.
Yeah.
Or Miami.
Those two are expensive.
Yep.
Other comps have those covered,
so let's stay out of there.
Seth and Annie Bicker.
I think Seth is great to bring out
that stuff.
Uh-huh.
Um, I really like Seth a lot.
Jamie is too stubborn to get hurt until
you run into a street sign.
That's why I get hurt.
Eugene here.
Dolly loved us.
Seth is very good.
Seth is so knowledgeable and he's been
around since the beginning of all this
craziness.
And so he brings a really,
a wealth of, of.
knowledge and experience.
That's what the board I was looking for.
So, all right, guys,
we're going to hit the hay.
I got to get up for a swimming
event tomorrow morning.
Yes.
I love to watch swimming and we'll see
who,
who doesn't cramp kicking in that water.
Wait, they're bananas tomorrow.
That's what we're going to see.
Yeah.
It didn't help Roman.
So I don't know.
Yeah.
All I had tonight was fish.
I had all the fish.
All the fish.
I had fish too.
Two nights in a row.
Unlike me, I usually get steak or burgers.
All right.
And last thing, we still have shirts.
Vicki's not here to show you the thing.
We're probably not going to be on the
air again until Tuesday.
We'll do a wrap-up show on all this
with Carolyn, hopefully.
She'll be back home,
and we can do that and all that.
And, yeah, don't forget your thirdsy.
Thirdsy.com backslash jazzy.
And get fifteen percent off your order.
Helps you sleep every night.
We will tell Carolyn that.
Carolyn is having a good comp.
Tomorrow is just going to be the icing
on the cake because we all know she's
a great swimmer with floaties.
And I do believe there'll be a Monday
lunch show.
As long as I'm not too tired.
I do have to go back to work
Monday, so I'll be up.
I mean,
might as well take a break for an
hour and talk to people.
And if you didn't see it,
Tyson Bajan threw a ninety seven yard
touchdown pass tonight for the Chicago
Bears.
Hopefully they don't trade him now
tomorrow because people want to.
With that, everybody have a great night.
We will see you Tuesday night for this
show and Monday afternoon for the lunch
show.
With that, bye guys.