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Open registration starts tomorrow.
Why do you do the open?
I love the chase and the hunt and
I set the pace when I'm running.
I always take what I want and I
always give it one hundred.
Don't need a bank, no I'm funded.
Play the game like it's nothing.
I'm always thankful for something.
Don't take for granted, stay humble.
Now wake up!
It's time to look at the enemy.
Look in the mirror if he is no
friend to me.
It's not working out,
maybe it's the chemistry.
It's time to break up so I can
make a better me.
It's lunch time!
what is going on everybody yeah on this
channel we yabba dabba do we don't yabba
dabba don't that is correct just saying um
what is going on we got the cowboy
in the house today giddy up giddy up
what's up y'all um joseph ramirez yelling
out lunchtime uh i have to say
I caught Joseph in a behind-the-scenes
video.
Oh.
Episode three.
Now that I've met Joseph and I know
who he is.
It helps.
I'm hanging out at the arena talking to
some people down on the floor.
And he was captured in the
behind-the-scenes video.
By captured, we mean on video.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
We're not talking about ice or anything
like that on this show.
No, no, no.
Joseph got some camera time.
Good deal.
He was wearing a Dave Castro shirt.
The person he was with was wearing a
CEO shirt.
I think Dave was more saying one of
them has good taste,
one of them not so much.
Uh-oh.
Joseph says,
I wasn't doing anything illegal, I hope.
I also hope you weren't doing anything
illegal.
He also says, before I start,
I want to say the Steelers suck and
Tomlin needs to go now.
Why you got to start me off on
a riff?
Like, I am not a Steeler fan.
My wife is, my family are,
like everybody around me are Steeler fans.
They're the most spoiled group of fans
I've ever seen in my life.
They have not had a losing season since
like twenty two thousand two,
something like that.
They've won six Super Bowls.
They are in the playoffs all the time.
You and I root for teams that don't
see that kind of success ever.
Right.
And they're so spoiled that like,
let's fire the coach that actually gets
more out of our players than than they
should be putting out there.
but it's not good enough for us,
the Pittsburghers, the Yinzers,
all of that.
Let's fire them.
Try being a Saints fan.
Try being a Saints fan for most of
your life.
Tell me how that, like,
and then report back later on.
Like, through the paper bag years,
whenever people show up to games wearing a
paper bag on their head because they
didn't want to be seen actually being
there trying to support the team.
Try that out.
Let me know how that works out.
Yeah,
Bears and Saints fans each have a Super
Bowl each.
One.
Uno.
We've had some really shitty seasons
around all that.
Bengals fans, too,
but they don't even have one,
so we can't lump Andrew in with us
because they have a big goose egg.
They've been to three.
They just lost them all.
But yeah, Steelers fans are spoiled.
They spoiled with all the success they've
had.
Crazy.
Larry Young says, how about them Texans?
That defense is legit.
They put on a show last night.
Never should have went to Tennessee.
They should still be the Houston Oilers.
So not having a losing season doesn't mean
you're doing anything mediocre at best for
a while now.
Yeah, but if you look at the analytics,
Mike Tomlin's wins over expectation are in
the positive every single year.
Every single year.
Dude, we would have taken Mike Tomlin.
Right.
It's not Mike Tomlin.
It's the people getting the talent.
They haven't had a quarterback yet.
You can't keep putting Duck Hodges out
there and Mason Rudolph and a
forty-two-year-old Aaron Rodgers and think
you're going to win games in the playoffs.
You're just not.
I'll put it like this.
I don't even know who those other two
guys you said are.
I know who Aaron Rodgers is.
Exactly.
If you would have got Aaron Rodgers in
twenty seventeen, you'd have a shot.
Yeah.
But when he has his walker out and
you have to avoid that from the center
so he can get back into position.
Like,
I feel like you made the first two
names up because I was like,
Duck Dodgers in the twenty fifth and a
half century from Looney Tunes back in the
day is the first thing I remember you
said that.
So what Duck Hodges is most famous for
now is he is married to Laney Wilson.
Oh, yeah.
Louisiana girl.
Good for him.
Yeah.
So they, he, yeah, he got,
he got a little bit of playing time
one year in the NFL and I think
he makes duck calls.
So that's the name.
Duck Hodges.
Got it.
Got it.
Just, if you always derail the show, man,
I just need someone to blame.
Actually, every time Corey's on,
we derail and that's kind of the plan.
So I just need someone in chat to
blame.
Not a big deal.
Sorry.
Okay.
We got a little bit of talk things
to talk about today.
Let's talk about Hiller's video on
Achilles injuries.
And the reason I want to bring this
up is it came out as members only
late Sunday night right before we went on
the air.
And I speculated why we have all the
Achilles tears.
And I said it was performance enhancing
drugs.
All right.
I've actually thought that for more than a
decade that we are by using the
performance enhancing drugs,
we're growing the muscles bigger than the
tendons and ligaments can support.
Got it.
They just want to do that.
Right.
Right.
Solid theory.
Hiller's video had nothing to do with PEDs
for a change.
It was not a natty or not.
It was none of that stuff.
It was more about the overcompensation and
imbalances that people have in their body.
and how if not corrected,
it puts you in a position where you're
using the muscles and the tendons and the
ligaments in ways that they weren't meant
to be used.
And then because of that,
the ligaments and tendons give out.
For the people out there listening,
if you have not watched it yet,
I highly recommend taking the time and go
and sit down and watch it because first
of all,
it's a really well put together video,
shout out to Hiller.
And secondly, like,
Holy smokes.
You pick up a whole lot of information
that you did not have before regarding
injuries in general,
not necessarily just Achilles,
but just the stuff that dude was saying,
like you said,
about overcompensating from one spot to
another and being able to look at somebody
and look at their calves and look how
they're moving.
Whenever Bill was in the pool and he
was watching, he's like, good, bad, good,
bad, good, bad, every single time,
on every single stroke.
And it's because...
People are probably naturally unbalanced,
but you have to take work to be
able to get everything moving like it
should.
And then once it's there, you're good.
You're going to move a whole lot faster.
You're going to be able to pick stuff
up, put it down a whole lot faster,
probably lift heavier,
like all the good stuff.
But most people just...
ignore it.
Yeah.
I think that's my whole life coaches from
like my swimming days, my football days,
my lifting days to even more recently
CrossFit days,
every coach that I've had has been,
you know, if, if,
If you're doing something on the left,
make sure you do it equal amounts on
the right so that you are balanced, right?
And that's the simplest way to look at
things.
But what kind of blew me away in
this video was that Bill was
overcompensating before the injury.
Right.
Like,
he went back and looked at film and
footage of Bill doing workouts and then
noticed he had been overcompensating for
years before the Achilles tear.
And then he strongly believes that's
what's caused the Achilles tear.
And now they've got to correct those
movement patterns to prevent it from
happening again.
Which is not an easy thing to do.
No.
No, no, no.
Especially after years of doing it one
way, trying to teach yourself.
So that actually gives me a better
understanding of why Bill may not have
performed as well at the games this year.
Because not only is he coming back from
an Achilles tear,
but he's relearning all these movements.
And just like anything,
if you watch a football game,
when you're new to an offense,
you have to think too much and you're
slower.
Yep.
Right.
What am I supposed to do?
Where the thought process leaves and you
just do,
but he can't do that until he corrects
these movements.
Yeah.
Um, knowing Bill, he's in,
he works incredibly hard and he is really
actually pretty darn smart in and of
itself.
So, um,
he's probably taking it to heart like a
whole lot more because I'm sure he does
not want that to happen again.
And we're really focused in,
really super laser focused in on like,
we're not going to let this happen again.
Trust in this dude.
He's going to get me straight to where
when I go back,
I can be not just at the games,
be competitive at the games and try to
get himself up into that position he wants
to be in.
The sign on his wall is still there.
CrossFit Games champion.
Like that's his ultimate goal.
Always has been.
oh if you didn't watch the video the
one example the the the doctor of
chiropractic used he he's more than that i
hate calling a chiropractor because he's
not just cracking bills back he's actually
like doing analysis and like body movement
and loosening up and like he does a
lot of body work um but he said
that like when he squats his one foot
would drop
Yeah.
Every time he scored,
he would get to the bottom of a
squat and it would create an imbalance and
they had to get that corrected.
And that, I mean,
squat is like the most foundational
movement
in crossfit and if that's off everything
else is everything else is off so that
was hilarious to me because uh it's
hillary demist so he was squatting four
ninety on one leg and he was like
yeah essentially which is terrifying if
you think about it like he's strong enough
that that one side is is basically holding
him up enough right i mean both sides
are working but one side's working way
harder
to squat damn near five hundred pounds on
one side.
It's wild.
Chad Anufi says the forty-niners should
hire that guy.
If you don't follow football,
the forty-niners have had a ton of
injuries this year.
Just a ton.
And a lot of them are soft tissue
or ligament or... Right.
So... Now in football,
you are forced by another large human
being to be in positions that you can't
control.
violently yes uh shannon amazing how the
body can compensate it is it's one of
the things he was saying like if you
teach it long enough that this is what
we're doing and the body just goes oh
okay cool that is what we're doing it
doesn't matter if it's awkward or if it's
whatever the case may be like a habit
is a habit it just becomes what's normal
at that point
Right,
but if you put a smaller tire on
one of your four wheels of your car,
it'll still run and it'll still steer,
but eventually it's going to jack things
up.
Yeah,
sooner or later you're going to have a
crash.
Yeah.
Or the wheel will fall off.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Great, great video.
And it really thought provoking.
I love when people make me think.
And it's bad because when I was swimming
competitively a lot, you know,
and I swam distance,
we were trained to breathe on the opposite
side, like every third stroke.
So, you know, breathe left, three strokes,
breathe right.
And that actually keeps your body more
balanced, right?
If you breathe to one side too much,
you start to limp in the water is
what we would call it.
And because of that, it gets hairy.
That's the case.
I limp every single time I swim because
I only breathe to one side for most
of all intents and purposes.
CJ, I know cars can't compensate.
I was just trying to have a fun
analogy to the process.
Yeah.
So yeah, so that's that.
Before I get too far into this,
you know what makes me feel like this?
Where is my super suit?
Third Z. Third Z, baby.
When I take my third Z,
I wake up feeling like Frozone.
My super suit is on.
I can attack the day.
I can do the stuff.
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backslash Jazzy or go to thirdsy.com and
type in the promo code Jazzy.
Get fifteen percent off at at checkout.
I did find out that they are now
out of the salted caramel and it was
a limited release for
Oh, no.
They are out of the salted caramel.
Well, that's news.
Yeah.
So right now it's just hungry lemonade.
We'll have to see if they come out
with some new flavors.
I know they do that periodically.
I'm in.
I probably got twenty servings left of my
second bag of salted caramel.
Well, damn, that's sad news.
So, so yeah, it works, man.
And to me,
I can do a shot of flavor of
anything if it's going to help me sleep.
So I'm cool with that.
If I pay attention,
like last night is a perfect example.
Drank it.
We put James in the bed.
We sat on the couch for a couple
minutes watching TV or whatnot.
And as soon as I find myself like
doing that on the couch,
just kind of drooping off or whatnot,
get up and go to bed.
Dude, I had incredible sleep last night.
Andrew Sten says,
Thirdsy gives me wild dreams.
Your REM sleep gets better,
and then you're sleeping deeper,
so you get like those wild dreams.
It's actually kind of cool.
It's very vivid.
Like I wake up remembering, remembering.
Yeah, I've had some bananas one.
Oh, yeah, I know, CJ.
Bad on TV.
Vicky says it's a sad day for Corey.
I really do like that salted caramel.
I do too.
I love like heating it up a little
bit of milk.
Yeah.
It's super good.
So, but make sure you check that out.
Thirdsy.com backslash, backslash Jazzy.
So with that, the open,
the open registration is tomorrow.
Let's go.
When was your first open?
My first open was in two thousand and
nineteen.
The year we had to do it.
Honestly,
because everybody else at the gym was
doing it.
And once I found out what it was,
I wanted to participate because I wanted
to test myself against everybody else that
was doing it and see where I stacked
up.
Probably was wildly overconfident at the
time, if I had to guess.
Like, oh yeah,
this is going to be fantastic.
And it's a gut check whenever you actually
see it.
and go oh okay thankfully i had uh
bernard wags back there um to kind of
say hey you're a masters athlete these are
the people you need to actually be
comparing yourself to not the rest of
these people out here and kind of get
me steered uh back on track to you
know realize that yeah i'm competitive and
i should absolutely is that a polite way
to say you're you're just old corey
and uh i mean you can call it
what you want i'll say this dude but
this and i he it's another piece of
wisdom from uh from mr wags back there
was me and we had a partner workout
on our thursday night i'll never forget
this and i had two young kids and
my young kids i mean like nineteen twenty
years old super fit right um and they
beat us by like
know five reps at the end of it
between me and uh my other friend aaron
and uh but i said yeah but he
said if they beat y'all they beat two
old guys and if they lost to y'all
then they lost to two old guys like
you really can't lose when it comes to
like that kind of stuff in a masters
uh being a masters athlete because yeah um
my first one was twenty thirteen
I've only missed one open since.
And I did it because I had two
friends that we hung out all the time,
still do today.
And they said, hey, let's try it.
And they are,
they were fitter than I was,
I was stronger than them,
but they were fitter than me.
And,
and I just came off like a two
hundred pound weight loss.
And my confidence was not over like yours.
Mine was way under.
I didn't think I was going to cause
back then there was no scaled.
There was no foundations.
There was no out.
It was RX or nothing.
Right.
And, uh,
and it was one of the greatest experiences
of my life.
Um, we didn't,
we were in the process of affiliation,
but it hadn't gone through yet.
So we had to videotape everything.
The gym members would come in and they
would,
they would set up the videos for us.
They would do all the work for us.
Um,
and then they would cheer us on
afterwards.
And then back in those days, you know,
they would roll in a cooler,
a beer for afterwards and everybody would
hang out.
And, and that was the five week open,
uh,
No scaled, no foundations, all RX.
It was just a different world.
And there are still videos out there of
me attempting some of the movements that I
didn't have in my tool belt at the
time for lengthy periods of time,
attempting and attempting.
But that's what's cool.
That was what was cool about it.
I didn't have those movements,
but that forced me to try.
It forced me out of my comfort zone
to get up on that pull-up bar and
try a chest-to-bar or try a toes-to-bar.
Those are two things I didn't have in
that first Open.
And then God help you if you got
one,
because I don't know about at your gym,
but we had some people get one not
the last year, but the year before last.
My buddy Ethan got his first chest-to-bar
during the Open,
and you would have thought somebody just
won the lottery.
Oh, I know.
screaming, yelling, you know, and then,
okay, he's still got time.
Like, let's go.
Let's get another one.
Three and four.
Let's go.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Like we'll celebrate for, for, for, for,
for, for, for, for, for, for, for, for,
for, for, I've seen first muscle ups.
I've seen first ring muscle ups.
I've seen first double unders.
I've seen all that kind of stuff.
It is so awesome.
One of the funniest stories is,
so we had the rig with the top
and the bottom bar.
And I did a toes to the second
bar.
But I didn't get the one I was
holding on to.
And I lost my shit in the moment.
And then the judge was like, sorry,
no rep.
Yeah.
You can't just pick any bar on the
rig to hit your toes to.
It has to be the one you're actually
holding on to.
Although, if Dave's listening...
wouldn't be the worst idea i've ever heard
of it'd be interesting to say at least
toes to the second bar toes to the
second bar hundred percent that's actually
some grid league let's not let's not even
let's not actually do that let's move on
oh it's magic
It's the open magic, right?
I got my first bar muscle up the
day before we had,
it was the snatches and burpees and in
three minutes rest and in snatches and bar
muscle ups or burpees and bar muscle ups.
And my first bar muscle up the day
before that,
you probably heard me scream from wherever
you were because I had yelled like I,
And then did the workout on Friday,
did not get a single bar muscle up,
redid it on Monday and got either six
or nine, something like that.
Like it's ridiculous, dude.
Yeah.
Again,
everything you just get forced outside
your comfort zone and that you need to
do things that are uncomfortable
sometimes.
That's what makes you better in life.
You don't avoid the uncomfortable,
you embrace it and you attack it.
And that's what the open gives us every
single year.
Lean in.
You can complain about the simplicity of
it or that it's not what it used
to be.
It's still that thing that makes your
heart race every night,
every Thursday night or Thursday afternoon
when they released the announcement.
It's still that thing that you can't sleep
the night before.
You got to go into the gym and
somehow try to perform it.
And nothing else does that during the
year.
Everything else is just a workout.
And one time a year,
you need that thing that kicks you in
the ass and says,
you're going to be uncomfortable for three
weeks.
And if you're one of the twenty five
percent that are the best in the world,
we're going to be uncomfortable another
weekend of four events or five events.
And that there's a beauty to that.
And no going in and going against your
friend where nobody's really watching and
you don't have to post a score.
Nothing else does that.
It's during the open where all that
happens.
Your average Thursday night,
five thirty class is one thing,
but the open score is forever.
It is.
Period.
End of story.
And that's why you should sign up.
Yeah.
because everybody needs to be
uncomfortable periodically.
Everybody needs to be uncomfortable
periodically.
Everybody needs to participate on more
than just a,
I showed up for class level at their
box, right?
Ninety percent of the times people roll
in, it's Tuesday, did the workout,
talked to some people, whatever,
went on back to their house.
If your gym is putting on some sort
of Friday night lights, show up.
Be a part of it.
It's fun.
You're going to get to watch everybody
else go.
You're going to get to go.
Maybe you'll be in the first heat.
Maybe you'll be in the last heat,
but you're still going to be people there
screaming at you to go pick up the
bar, jump on the rig.
Come on, let's move.
Get up the entire time.
That's how it is at my gym.
Like we are,
I can't talk generally for all three
weekends after Friday night lights,
like Saturday and Sunday,
my voice is shot to shit because I'm
screaming at everybody.
And you never know what's going to happen.
One day I walked into CrossFit Polaris.
I went to do the open workout that
was deadlifts and burpees.
What was that?
Twenty three, twenty, twenty three,
twenty four, twenty.
Oh, God, Lord.
Twenty three point two.
Maybe I go I go in a mind
of my own business.
I'm doing my deadlifts.
I'm doing my burpees.
I get up to do the next set
up.
And it was like what?
Like one, two, three, four, five or.
And then it went back down.
Yeah, to ten and back down.
And I go to get,
I'm up in like that ten range.
And I'm,
my hands on my knees trying to catch
my breath so I can do the deadlift.
And Sam Briggs starts yelling at me.
And I didn't even know she was there.
She's yelling in my face.
Why is this English chick yelling at me?
And if Sam Briggs yells in your face
that you need to do something,
you freaking pick up the bar.
You absolutely pick up the bar.
I love that story.
And what was awesome is when it's all
over and she's done yelling at me and
I'm dead on the floor,
she comes over and goes,
I'd like to apologize.
No, you're not apologizing.
You knew what you were doing the whole
damn time.
It was my favorite thing to ever.
I same favorite the first year I did
the open and it was the first workout
was burpees to six inches and and snatches
increasing weight.
the fun that me and my buddies had
that first open workout trying to snatch
weight.
We've never tried before.
Um, the night before trying to,
it was the worst English accent ever.
You're right.
I should be ashamed of myself.
Um, it was like half Indian, half Asian.
I don't even know what I was doing.
Um,
but the fun that me and my buddies
had that first ever workout,
even Sam Briggs yelling at me,
can't top that.
Yeah.
I clearly remember nineteen point one to
rowing in ball balls.
Nineteen calories in a row or nineteen
more balls just on and on and on
and on.
After I don't remember how many rounds it
was,
but at some point I got tunnel vision
and like your body's just in just movement
mode.
Right.
So I couldn't see I could hear the
music.
I could hear Sarah counting because she
was judging me.
And I could hear one person yelling at
me, my buddy,
Oh, good Lord.
Anyway,
one person yelled at me out of all
the other voices that were there,
like his was the only one I could
hear.
And like,
I couldn't see anything else when he and
Cecil yelled time,
I fell off the roller with like one
foot still strapped into the,
to it and whatnot.
And he was like, stop being dramatic.
And I was like,
I'm not being dramatic dog.
I'm about to die.
This is not good.
John George, that was a brutal one.
I was catching one-thirty-five snatches on
my knees.
They counted.
Back in those days,
catching on the knee counted.
If you could stand it up.
Yeah.
Calls in CrossFit.
Not anymore,
but it did for a brief time until
like the twenty-fourteen games,
twenty-fifteen games.
Lauren Brooks famously caught the snatch
on her knee and stood it up,
and then after that, they outlawed it.
Yeah, they wanted to do another one.
Is it toe-to-bar or toes-to-bar?
If you're Dave Castro, it's toe-to-bar.
I'm going to default to Dave.
But I have ten of them,
so I'm going to say it's – and
you can't just hit one toe to the
bar because you have to hit with both
feet simultaneously.
So you have to at least hit with
two.
So then it's toes-to-bar.
I generally hit with two.
My two big toes is what normally makes
contact with the board.
I don't think I've ever hit my pinky
toe on the bar while doing toe-to-bar.
I'm one of those people where the second
toe is bigger than my big toe.
Yeah, I don't have that problem.
Toes or laces?
What are we talking about?
So when you hit the bar,
do you actually hit with your toes or
the laces of your shoe?
It depends on my level of fatigue.
Okay.
True that.
I'm going to be completely honest with
you.
It really depends on my level of fatigue.
Straight up.
Yeah.
So I have a meeting at one o'clock,
so I'm going to have to pick up
the pace a little bit here.
Scott,
did you know about that overhead squat
standard that Seth Jumpship posted about?
I was convinced you could do them with
bent elbows.
I didn't see Seth's video.
He put up a picture of somebody doing
overhead squats and was like,
do these count?
It's just like five of them or something
like that.
And the dude's arms were like this the
whole time.
So like I voted, it's like,
none of them count because you need to
be here, not there.
And Andrew Stenek can correct me if I'm
wrong.
My,
what I've always been taught in judging
standard is as long as the bar does
not touch the top of the head or
fall below the top of the head,
it is a good rep.
But again,
it's going to depend on the standard of
that competition and the standard that
your gym holds you to.
Right.
So like,
Right.
There's Andrew.
He depends on the standard given by the
competition.
Yeah.
A lot of standards did not even address
the elbows.
It is the barb remaining above the head
through the squat.
But if you're squatting heavy weight
overhead and you have bent elbows,
your chances of success are very low.
Slim to none, I would say.
Yeah.
um yeah andrewston i agree with scott if
it's above the head it counts it's just
harder if your arms are bent yeah i
can't imagine trying to overhead squat
like this like this would this is not
a
It's crazy.
All right, a couple quick hit notes.
Sahir Khaya decided to retire.
Saw that.
She's competing competitively.
Great athlete actually brought attention
to the Asian women where she actually
could compete with the Games athletes and
gave her and Shung Young Choi gave Asia
actually credibility as a region for that.
In addition to that, Belites,
I think is how it's pronounced,
is coming back as the apparel sponsor of
the CrossFit Games.
And it looks like grips and apparel.
Okay.
I've never used their grips.
I mean,
I know some people that have their apparel
from the games actually seem to be pretty
nice.
Like we were talking about before we went
online,
the only thing I would request is more
color.
Mr. Velites, man,
if you are watching this today,
give us some bright colors.
Give us some bright colors.
Bring back two thousand and twelve.
It is a real sponsor to the real
keeps running on my other screen.
It is rope as well.
So it looks like it's apparel, grips,
and ropes.
I actually have one of their ropes.
I have a heavy rope from them that
I bought from Monster Games.
It spins pretty well,
but all I have is the heavy rope
for it and the heavy handles,
so I don't use it that often.
But it seems like it works pretty well.
Ask Colton Mertens what he thinks of their
ropes.
Oh, thank you.
I'm not trying to fight the hog.
Hopefully he says improve their bras.
So do I, Lito.
Honestly,
the one I got is not super supportive
at all.
Yeah.
I was telling...
Corey, before we came on the air,
that at least Belites does have some
color.
Last year, they had some blues,
they had some maroons,
and it actually allowed me,
I'm still editing the Hattie documentary.
I was just doing some this weekend.
And because of the different colors and
the switches up,
I've been able to tell what video was
from what event that she participated in.
so more colors more better for film
editing just to say and i am trying
to get that out just as a big
announcement uh before the open uh i want
to release it like right before the open
um and it's almost done i'm just putting
some finishing touches on it right now
roger that oh
I got some Belites ropes and they're very
lightweight and spin well,
but they do break frequently.
Yeah.
Ask Colton Mertens.
And I'm with Andrew and Mark Phillips.
I love the Reebok colors.
I miss the Reebok colors.
When I see the old footage,
it was so easy to tell who your
favorite CrossFitters were because they
would pick like a color combination and
you just knew what to look for on
the floor.
I miss it.
Not just from like a style standpoint,
but from an ease of telling who is
who.
yeah it gave her and the options that
those guys had back then allowed them to
like customize what they looked like every
day and nobody looked the same it wasn't
four people in maroon shirts doing one
workout um i thought corey might not want
the bras fixed to be honest i want
my bra fixed just saying later
All right.
So last thing I wanted to talk about,
and I only have about four minutes.
So partnerships, CrossFit,
this is probably a longer discussion.
We'll probably bring it back tomorrow.
They have announced a partnership with
Coaches Congress.
Saw that.
And this is now in addition to other
partnerships like Wadapalooza doing the
open announcement at Wadapalooza.
This is doing things like I'm having Pitt
and Legends and Wheelwad run aspects of
the CrossFit Games.
what I want to talk about tomorrow is,
is this a good direction that CrossFit is
going by increasing the partnerships
forever?
CrossFit was a one entity show.
They ran it all from media to how
the games ran at every level,
every aspect.
And now they're really embracing this
partnership thing.
Is this the way to go?
And again, we can expand on this tomorrow,
but just initial thought.
Initial thought was it right off the bat
is when Greg was running the show back
in the old days and he didn't know
something, he went and found an expert,
a subject matter expert to bring in and
teach it to people,
teach it to him and teach it to
other people and teach him how to teach
other people.
So this is what the kind of stuff
that they're doing, then good,
because I've never heard anything bad
about Coaches Congress.
Like people that went,
got nothing but good stuff off of it.
So if this is the kind of path
that they're taking, like, hey,
I'm going to partner up with these guys
because the resources that they have are
going to be beneficial for everybody who
is in an affiliate,
everybody who's running an affiliate,
everybody's coaching an affiliate,
then yes, outstanding.
Let's go ahead and do that.
Yeah,
we'll talk about this tomorrow for sure.
We got a couple hated the beige games.
Shanna hated the noble color same year
after year.
But then we have Catherine McGee as a
designer.
I'm in the minority in terms of liking
the more neutral color schemes.
Noble was definitely more modern in terms
of that aesthetic,
but I think Belites struck a good balance.
I hear you, Kate.
I actually, I didn't mind Belites.
I did not like Goruck,
and I did not like...
uh, noble, but I do like,
I did like the Belites.
I,
I thought the fits weren't as good as
some of the other apparel brands.
Like you could see people like tugging at
their clothes a lot more adjusting stuff.
Yeah.
So I think if they could fit and
maybe that's what Lito's talking about,
about the sports bra.
Um,
I don't know how long they've been in
the game with all this stuff.
Maybe if they can get a better fit,
um,
I don't know.
Yeah,
Joseph is still waiting on his Noble
jersey.
You and everybody else, Joseph.
I still don't understand the complexity of
that, how that is so hard.
It's the same template.
You're just changing the name.
At Monster Games,
they literally put our names on our shirts
at the venue.
Like, oh, you got a shirt?
Cool.
Here's your thing with your name on it.
Where do you want it?
Front or back?
Back.
Okay, cool.
Heat press.
Here's your shirt.
Going about your day.
Catherine McGee completely forgot about
GORUCK, a.k.a.
forgettable.
Yeah,
it was semi-noble with camo thrown in.
That's probably the most apt description
I've ever heard of the GORUCK uniform.
And the fonts weren't even as cool.
I mean,
a lot of Masters Games athletes are still
waiting on their Yeti bottles.
Oh, damn.
Don't get me started with Yeti.
All right, I got to go.
And when it comes to, like,
these people and whether they're going to
fulfill their promises.
Look, man,
I ain't falling for no banana in my
tailpipe.
Exactly.
Ain't going to fall for no banana in
the tailpipe.
No, I will not.
With that, I will be back tomorrow.
Cowboy, you here tomorrow?
I am.
All right.
We will see you all then.
Have a great rest of your day.
We'll see you tomorrow.
Bye, guys.