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whoa yeah I am I just did
an instagram live I told
everybody I don't know who
won I think I know who got
their ticket I think we
know who's going on I have
no idea nothing is official
no leaderboard has finalized
Who knows?
It could still be like
auctioning off the spot now
at this point.
Who knows?
I don't know.
Let's do another floater wad.
How about that?
I don't know what the hell I just saw.
Right.
Usually we do a catch up.
We're not doing that.
I actually just got word from the park.
They are just now doing the
award ceremony.
Okay.
Okay.
So hopefully we'll have
something in the next couple of minutes.
Usually we do a catch up.
We're not going to catch up tonight.
It's going to be right into the stuff.
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so I see a lot of people
saying they're proud of
carolyn I have been a
nervous wreck the entire
weekend I know two people
in the women's division are
may have been major parts
of this channel in the last
eighteen months I did a
show with hattie kenyo for
about nine months live from bali
Then Carolyn joined the
channel and became a
permanent co-host on this show.
And it came down to the two
of them and the living legend,
Kristen Holta.
Right.
What in the bloody hell?
I know it's, it was hard because like,
we clearly want,
want Carolyn to punch her ticket,
but you like,
you can't root against Hattie.
Like, right.
And you know, it's a good, the thing is,
you know, it's a good workout for Hattie.
Right.
But I also knew she had a labrum tear.
Yeah.
And I didn't know what that
meant for her rope climbs.
And I didn't know what that
meant for the clean.
Because, like, you've had a labrum tear.
Amanda Barnhart's had a labrum tear.
And it's affected you guys differently.
Yeah.
I'm very curious how that is
affecting Hattie.
Because, like,
she looked amazing at Isabel.
And, like,
I would say snatching is one of
the things, like, I'm cautious about.
And I would not, out of everyone I watched,
you, she,
you could have told me that it
was a regular barbell and I
would have believed you.
Everyone else, when I watched them,
I was like, oh, that's a shorty bar.
It looks funky.
Like you could tell.
I didn't even,
like she moved that thing so well,
I wasn't even sure that she
had a shorty bar.
So, before we kind of get into everything,
and the men's side was even more insane,
Carolyn is a part of this show.
We are going to talk about
the women's final first.
And that is, it appears,
and Hattie was in the lead
for the entire heat.
Right.
So,
it appears that she got the tiebreaker.
She gets the second place finish.
Right.
And it will be Alex Kazan
and Hattie Cano going on to
the CrossFit Games.
Hopefully we have something
official in the next couple minutes.
But that's what it appears
to be at this point.
I believe Carolyn would be
in third and Kristen Holta
would be in fourth.
Right.
I do want to say, you know,
watching every one of
Carolyn's competitions
since we have had her on this show,
it is the best I've seen
her in two years.
I totally agree.
I was very nervous for her
going into this with that, that, you know,
not being able to train and
like grip and stuff.
I was like, there's kind of,
it's kind of grippy,
like going up and doing ring muscle-ups,
doing those bar muscle-up pullovers.
Like I was nervous for her
not having to be able to
train that volume over the
last few weeks.
And I don't know if that like deload,
I totally agree.
She looked better than I've
ever seen her look.
Yeah.
She looked awesome.
And she was competing in
gymnastics events with the Krieger girls.
I guess it's now.
And that was awesome.
And then Hattie coming out,
I thought the snatch was
going to be her worst thing.
She killed that off the bat.
Yeah.
And...
And all of that was awesome.
I do know from text directly from Carolyn,
there was some mix up in
the run row row run.
Yes.
And that she was actually
sent to the wrong rower and
then couldn't get on.
So there had to be an adjustment for that.
Um,
and that took a while to get adjusted
on the leaderboard and
that's actually tightened
up the score even more.
Um,
Let's go to the, and then,
so that's what we believe
the leaderboard to be.
Right.
We should find out during
this show about that.
So on the men's side,
William Leahy was far and
away in the lead.
Yeah.
So then it was up to Nate
Ackerman and Jorge
Fernandez realistically for
that last spot.
It appears that it came down
to one place where,
on the leaderboard for who got it.
And it appears to be Jorge Fernandez.
Right.
But there was some drama
about the wrong weights on
a bar who told him they
were the wrong weights,
whether it be the judge or a media member,
mainly Taylor self.
And he had to then change the weights and,
But Nate did pull on his first attempt,
hit the final weight.
It was one of the ugliest
cleans I've ever seen.
So ugly.
But he got it.
And then it was a chip timer
decision between Jorge and
Nate at the end.
Right?
Or no, that was between Bill and him.
Correct.
Bill and Jorge would have.
And if Jorge beat Bill there.
That could be that place that Nate needed,
but it was with bill needed
to be Jorge for Nate to get that spot.
Correct.
Yeah.
So, uh, Ken says I haven't seen his clean.
Fair.
Yeah.
Spencer did get in there,
but I think it needed to be
four or five people needed to middle.
I think six because of Ilya
from the first heat.
I think that's the biggest problem.
Yeah.
The question is,
could Nate have beat Spencer?
You know, and that's, that's the problem.
Yeah.
I don't know.
Who even knows if that would
have been enough though.
We can't see the leaderboard.
We don't know.
We're not there.
I, um,
I was really rooting for Spencer a lot.
You know, I am a pan check, um, guy and,
um,
Patrick Clark says that's
the biggest problem.
Of course not.
There was so many problems
at the end of that event.
So let's hit the elephant in
the room first.
If Taylor Self,
which it appears from the
footage and the admission afterwards,
told Nate Ackerman he had
the wrong weights on the bar.
That is a huge,
huge no-no as a media member.
There is no way you should
do anything that affects
the outcome of the event,
even telling a competitor
what they're doing right or
wrong during the event.
I mean,
I feel like the problem is that Nate,
asked him as he walked by and should,
should Taylor just kept walking?
Probably.
I mean, but that's going to be hard,
but I don't know why.
I mean, Nate, if Nate has a question,
he needs to just turn to his judge.
Like that someone on camera
should not be your first
person to look at for an answer.
Like, just be like,
he should have looked at his judgment,
like the five, correct.
And kept moving.
I mean, they clearly like,
Yeah,
because you can see something happened.
He changes to whatever
Taylor says and then runs
over to the other side to fix that side.
And then the head judge comes up.
Then he's got to, like, yeah,
what a disaster.
I can't even imagine being
in Taylor's shoes, though.
Like, you want to help, right?
I mean, if somebody asks you a question,
you want to be helpful.
Andrew Sten has it dead on.
If you are inside the ropes...
If you are inside the ropes,
the only people on that
floor who should talk to
the athletes are judges.
Yeah.
Andrew saw it at syndicate
media on the floor cheering for athletes.
Yeah.
You cannot be inside the ropes cheering.
If you're in the pit, fine.
You're not on the floor.
You can cheer all you want.
Because there are, like,
the Mayhem crew are there filming Mayhem.
They're going to want their
athletes to do well.
But they are not inside the
ropes working for media.
If you are inside the ropes,
there is no reason for you
to talk to the athlete.
Right.
So Matt says right here,
and I did see this on Instagram too.
Matt Welty said the real
issue was they changed the
weights ten minutes before the workout.
So I didn't see that about the men,
but I did see the women's got changed.
Because we knew that the
men's got changed from
three thirty five to three
twenty five because the
weights wouldn't fit on the bar.
We knew that.
So if it was changed beyond that,
I haven't heard that.
But I do know I heard that
the women's got knocked down from three
one eighty five to fifteen
to thirty five to one
eighty five to oh five to twenty five.
And it was just kind of a yeah,
like threw it out there ten
minutes before and they're like,
this is it.
Why is there so many plates on the floor?
That like,
I understand they have like a
ton of heats and they're
probably trying to keep equipment nearby,
but like that,
I feel like that stuff
needs to be moved into the
finish lane somewhere off.
Like there shouldn't even be a question.
This is what you're putting
on at this spot.
Yep.
Yep.
It,
I think we're going to get into that in
a second.
Cause then there are
comments here about it
being a qualifying event
for the CrossFit games.
And I definitely have some
opinions about that.
Um,
but I think we'll get to that in a
second.
I think Patrick said it well, um,
media is there to document,
not influence outcomes.
Yeah.
If you're inside the ropes,
that is a very big
distinction inside the ropes.
You are there to document
and not influence outcomes.
You shouldn't influence
outcomes from outside the ropes,
but you can cheer and you
can show an allegiance.
Supposedly they briefed it
wrong and then ran with it.
At least that's what I saw on IG.
That's what I'm seeing.
Again,
it's a lot of this hearsay stuff of
maybe this is what I heard.
This is a rumor.
This is that.
This is this.
That can't happen at an
event that's qualifying
someone to the CrossFit Games.
Right, right.
just can't yeah I mean I
like ultimately with
everything with every stage
of the season it is the
athlete's responsibility
and so in that vein I say
that this is nate's issue
however this entire weekend
was something new to deal
like I can't imagine like
having a plan knowing what
you're supposed to do and
being told nope not and then
I can see,
and then you've got people like
Ilya who have, you know,
language barrier.
Like I can see mishaps
happening like that.
And that's more reason to
make sure the floor is set
the way it needs to be set.
So there isn't any
possibility of a discrepancy.
Reading comments here.
Quick name an event at
NorCal that didn't have a change.
Seems like every other event
had a last minute change.
I saw some athlete briefing
behind the scenes, even for WOD one.
And let me just say athletes
hats off to you.
Cause I didn't understand the flow at all.
And Lynn works a lot of
these events as a volunteer.
Like she knows the inside jargon.
I mean,
they say Blair had the wrong
weights on Ilya's bar and
he was running it.
Yes.
So I feel like that is the issue.
And that's what Taylor saw.
So Taylor just videoed Ilya
finishing and saw the tens,
the white tens on the outside.
And it was no issue for Ilya, right?
Like strong enough, didn't matter,
threw the tens on, hit it.
And then the problem is
that's what Taylor saw and
thought that's what should
be on the bars moving forward.
But yeah, huge problem.
Granted,
one of the changes actually
benefited Carolyn,
no heavy double-unders.
I'll tell you this.
She has been getting extra
coaching and working on those a lot.
And in anything lower than fifty,
I would say she would have
been fine with those double-unders.
Yeah.
It sucks because I wanted to see them.
I wanted to see the hard work pay off.
Because, yeah, it wasn't a huge volume.
I just, yeah, I wanted to see them.
And she's getting to where
like a hundred is comfortable for her.
Yep.
So, like,
she's really worked hard on that.
But we did give her a hard
time that how did she sneak
in and heat up the jump
rope handles before the event.
T-Bird, I don't want to compare.
If any of this happened at WFP,
all of what happened would
be unacceptable and shit all over.
If this happened anywhere,
it would be shit all over.
And we're the first show to
come on since this happened.
It is unacceptable.
It should not be allowed.
And so let's get into...
There's so much to talk about.
I'm having a hard time
focusing on where we should go next.
Yeah.
Oh, I've got my list of the workouts.
To me...
like they met with rich
right they they even like
had like I feel like floor
layout and I feel like some
of this stuff seems like
stuff that like rich would
have had some input on set up and
Just making sure, like, I mean,
I know that he's not, like, the PFA, but,
like,
somebody needs to review some of
these and make sure, like,
there's room for error is
mitigated as much as possible.
I've got to think that Rich
has got to be disappointed
with the way this came out.
Yeah, I agree.
Because he was a consultant for this.
Right.
There's a video that Hiller
put out showing that Mayhem
was a consultant for this.
But I think it's one thing
to develop the workout and
look at it in Mayhem,
and another thing to put it
out in the middle of the
sun in a park with uneven grass,
uneven dirt, pavement, whatever it was,
and watch it play out there.
Right, right.
the the weather and the
outdoor nature of it had a
huge effect on what
happened this weekend yep
um it's it is hard to think
I know a lot of people talk
about this like the longest
running it's you know it's a
It's a great out-of-the-box competition.
Should it be a qualifier comp?
I don't know.
When you have eight scores and six,
arguably six events,
had a pretty meaningful issue with them,
that's a problem.
It's one thing to overcome
issues as an athlete,
like be able to roll with the punches,
learn on the fly.
Sure, there is something to that, but...
When six of eight events
have serious questions,
there's a problem.
So I see a lot of people
talking about should it be
a qualifier or not.
I do not think it should be.
I think it pays homage to the past.
It pays homage to the
ranch-style games and the
origins of CrossFit the sport.
And I think that's what was
cool about it when it was
an off-season comp.
And I'm going to say
something extremely sarcastic.
You would never see the NFL say, hey,
let's play one playoff game
in leather helmets on a
baseball field with
goalposts in the middle of
the end zone just to pay
respects to the past.
You just wouldn't.
You wouldn't change things
up like that in the middle
of a competitive season.
You just wouldn't.
And so, and I see NASCAR here.
You wouldn't do a dirt track
on NASCAR to pay homage to the past.
Right?
Well, they said they do one a year.
It just doesn't count.
Well, it doesn't count.
Right.
Yeah.
So it's an exhibition.
Yes.
Right.
I'm all for NorCal going on
and being this really cool
comp that it's a throwback
to what it used to be.
Right?
Like,
It's a high-paying comp.
I think it's cool.
I think people should go to
it and experience something different.
There's a lot on the line, though,
when you're talking about two game spots.
Right.
I don't know.
I don't know that I say that
it shouldn't be.
Again,
there's something to be said to
learning on the fly.
There's something to be said for the heat.
There's something to...
the certain athletes will
sign up for that and do better at it.
And that's not necessarily a bad thing.
I just don't like when I
don't like when judges call the race.
I don't like when equipment calls the race,
you know, it,
There's so many comments coming through.
I can't even read them all.
What I will say is I thought,
I thought the events were cool.
I really did.
I really liked them,
but the execution of them was not good.
Right.
And if you can't execute
them at the level it needs to be,
then just go back to being your,
your homage to the past off
season competition.
And that's okay.
Yeah.
yeah I mean that's aaron and
I watching some of the
stuff like the ring shuttle
I mean you're watching you
can clearly see the cones
angled and it's like like
nobody could get some
wheels and wheel it and
make sure like maybe they
couldn't what my thought
was they should have
painted a line because I
heard them say the cones
get getting kicked and
naturally they kind of get
set off every time they get re-stud up
But like there should have
been a paint line the night
it was set up with those
lines and they should have been squared.
I mean,
it shouldn't be a question that the
distance should be the same.
You could clearly see the left was right.
I mean, everyone would get back quicker.
The the handstand pirouettes
were judged inconsistently.
Yeah, and super uneven ground, right?
Like, you could see that.
I heard that.
But, like, honestly,
these events were fun to watch.
Like, I loved watching it.
That's the... I think that's
the tear at people, right?
Yeah.
The tear is...
I want to go out and push a
gator tomorrow.
I want to throw D balls into
a back of a gator and I
want to push it a hundred feet.
Yeah.
My buddies and I used to do
that with cars at our gym
just to break up the
monotony of workouts.
That is fun to me.
That is a throwback and should,
there should be respect to that,
but the execution just has to be higher.
If you're going to qualify
people to the next level of the sport.
Absolutely agree.
Great.
I see the NHL outdoor games.
The execution of those
outdoor games is at a very high level.
The ice rink is the same
size as every other ice rink.
The blue lines and the red
line are in the same place.
The goals are in the same
place and the referees call
the game the same.
It's okay to have a
different home field
advantage or whatever,
but the execution just has to be higher.
And maybe because you have
fifteen hundred athletes there,
it's tough to give
attention to the elite
athletes to make sure that
everything is executed at that level.
Yeah.
The amount of judges you need for that.
Right.
Yeah, I think that is.
And I get it,
I think the cops need to go
that direction and it like
you need to be a community
event and have all these
divisions and heats to make
it worthwhile and make money.
I don't know that that's the
place for games qualifying events,
though.
That's what made Mayhem Classic so great,
right?
It was small, intimate.
Well, that was it.
That's what's going on,
and it's being done right.
I said to you in a text
right before we came on the air,
if I'm an athlete, a high level athlete,
and I want to put my games
chances in one basket,
I would be a fool to do it here.
There are way too many
variables that I cannot
control to allow my one
shot to be at this event.
Right.
Yeah.
Tristan before this.
And he said like,
they didn't have an option.
Hattie was hurt.
Right.
She had to wait to the last
event and give it a shot.
And I said, well, I understand that.
But looking at this, if she is healthy,
there's no way you put this as her shot.
And he was like, absolutely not.
Yeah.
I mean,
it seemingly worked out for Alex
and Hattie.
I do think these were really
good events for both of them.
Um,
But could something have
gone not in their favor?
Probably.
I mean, I, I, as it was, I,
I think the reason it was
even closer is because
Hattie had a pretty uneven
lane for the handstand pirouettes and,
and failed a few that she
probably normally wouldn't
in another location.
Yeah.
I know that like everybody
wants to say regionals with
this ownership group that
is never coming back.
Yeah.
So like, we've got to get over that.
I loved regionals too.
I love the fact that like
all my local gyms would go
to that event and you got
to hang out with a bunch of
your friends at regionals.
It was awesome.
Right.
It's not, it's not coming back.
No, it's sad.
I wish it were too.
I mean,
I think that's the way I understand
it costs too much money.
I mean, like I said,
I understand why Norkill
runs this the way they run
it and it's this big, but yeah,
something gets lost in the fold.
Yeah.
I mean,
I would argue that you could do it
cheaper than they would.
They were doing it.
Yeah.
Right.
Like,
I think that it doesn't have
to be an all or nothing but
maybe a new ownership will
look into that format a
little bit more but this
ownership will not like
with this until it sells we
have no shot yeah so so
let's kind of look at this
event overall let's go
through the events okay
What was cool about it?
What was bad about it?
If we take the first event,
which it's going to be a
little messy because the
women went one direction,
the men went another.
So Ring Shuttle.
Yep.
I like that event.
other than the cone the cone
fiasco cone fiasco I also
heard um I I don't know if
you caught lauren stall
would say she had one thin
ring and one thick ring
that's ridiculous um I
think I'm trying to go back
and remember what rich said
but I feel like
I feel like maybe some of
his suggestions were not listened to.
I swear he said the buy-in
needed to be long enough.
There shouldn't have been
anyone finishing in one round,
in my opinion.
It either should have been a
two-minute or longer
shuttles or double shuttles
or the men needed to do
forty compared to the women's thirty.
It should not have been a one-rounder,
in my opinion.
But yeah, the shuttles needed to be...
equal length.
I just think,
I think it should have had a
longer buy-in or a two
minute clock or a different
number of muscle ups to make it.
Yep.
Okay.
Yep.
Um, then we go to heavy Isabel,
which I'm sorry, Justin was,
I love Alex to death, not her best event.
Yeah.
So, I mean,
like if you told me Alex had a
tour in labrum,
I would totally believe you.
Like she was clearly doing
something there to, uh,
She was not in I heard saw
someone earlier posted that
she said mentioned that the
shorty bar just she just
couldn't move it the same.
I would think she has a
shorty bar in the gym and
practices on it.
This shouldn't be this
shouldn't be something brand new to her.
It would appear she was muscle snatching.
Yeah, a little bit.
I mean, I saw her get under a few,
but early, I think lately, very muscle.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Jeremy actually went with
your like your suggestion.
Forty thirty on the muscle ups.
Yeah, I'd have been good with that.
Last time I checked,
leaderboard was not updated yet.
Yeah,
that that's still from before the
Legos kind of event.
That's what it was going into.
It was Alex.
Still no scores for the final event.
Right.
I mean,
Heavy Isabel, I would say,
was arguably the only event
with no issues, right?
I mean, it went pretty smoothly.
I heard some complaints about questioning.
You know one of my biggest
pet peeves is wide legs.
We've talked about that.
I can't stand when people
don't bring their legs back
under their hips.
Um, to me, that's a split jerk,
just not out front back.
It's wide.
And I feel like the legs
need to be brought back together.
Um, so I saw a little bit of that.
That'd be my only complaint,
but the event went smooth.
So props on that one.
You know,
it got done at every event and I
did like the.
Fifteen, twelve or whatever they did.
Twelve nine.
I liked that.
That was cool.
Yeah.
I liked the way they went down the floor.
So the next event was stow
and go major fiasco.
One lane was faster than the other.
They had to cut it to a
fifty point event and you
only went against the
people that competed in your lane.
And it was the D ball into
the back of the gator,
pushed the gator a hundred feet.
Love that event.
Love that event.
But can we stop putting a
push-pull event on the
floor in these qualifying events?
They never, ever go well.
Right.
Yeah,
that's frustrating because I feel
like as much as you say you tested it,
you run it, like...
there's always when you do
any type of push sled
anything something happens
like they are not identical
gravel floor something and
I get that even heat to
heat like gravel could move
and could be different heat
to heat but like it seems
to me that they should have
had some foresight that it
wasn't going to be
identical and done men and women
from the get-go so that it
because I actually think
that you still would have
been next to somebody you
would still have been like
yes you maybe not be racing
your gender but they're
they're never going to be
identical so all the women
and all the men just run
one lane each I know that's
hindsight's but the first
year you did the semi-final
circuit with me was pulling the
the paper napkin full of
weights on the floor.
And it was a fiasco.
Like it's always a fiasco.
We cannot figure out friction.
Right.
Um,
but I love the concept and it's great
for an off season comp,
not great for qualifying.
Right.
Agree.
I like that.
I like the change that they made.
Doing the fifty points.
It still is really uneven
because you have a handful of people.
You may have fifty people in
one lane and twenty in the other.
So the furthest you can fall
in the one lane is twentieth.
Yes.
Right.
Like that's where it gets.
Yeah, it wasn't.
It wasn't.
It wasn't split in half.
Yeah.
David Johnson.
Yes, we are.
We talked about a lot right
off the top waiting for any
kind of clarity that may come through.
Yep.
um then we have pump house
yeah we lost the ropes we
lost the jump rope I think
I mean I think the change
was good there was you know
some questionable calls
with the bar muscle pull
over I like sydney's last
pullover did she didn't
even finish she just jumped
off and moved on what the heck
Ken says strong men do that
type of event all the time.
Wonder if they have issues.
If you watch strong man,
they have one apparatus.
Generally, they all use the same one.
If back in the day when they
pulled the semi,
it was the same semi for
all the athletes.
Right.
But there's usually only ten
strong men in a competition.
So it's very easy to get
through those ten.
Um, I liked, I liked pump house.
I liked how it affected the legs.
Very acid, bad fit, acid,
bad finish for a lot of people.
Um,
Andrea still bear doing the standup
finish was ball or move.
Um,
thought that that was so
cool um but I really did
enjoy it I but the bike was
kind of irrelevant if you
got there first generally
you finished first yeah
it's gonna be hard to make
up but it happened right I
mean bill passed me the
reverse lunge wall ball I
think was pretty cool
turned out no and I and I
like it's easier as a standard
knee touches touch.
You don't have to look at depth.
I agree.
And some people did kind of
catch the ball came off, not straight.
And then their balance went.
Yep.
So you pay for like a mistoss.
Yep.
I personally loved it.
I think I would prefer that at a comp.
Yes.
It takes the squat depth out
of the equation,
which someone always gets
away with shallow depth at every comp and
Then we went to Farmnastics.
Yep.
Love that our little Carolyn
Prevost in her dead run on
the last farmer's carry.
She was hauling.
She was.
But again, we talked about the pirouettes.
Yeah.
And being like,
some people had to enter on
the one side and out the
other and others didn't have to do that.
Yeah.
The fingers count,
but don't fingers don't count,
but hand does.
That seemed really sketchy at times.
Yep.
Some people got their whole
hand out and brought back
in and that was fine,
which I think for the men, I like,
that was a pretty small mat
for some of those men with long arms.
Like, I think that was,
I think you need to allow them.
Yeah,
I think you needed to allow the hand
to come out.
But you definitely needed to
bring them back in, get in line,
and then walk out of the mat.
Yeah, it was an interesting event.
It was.
And you saw people pick the
mat up and move it.
Yep.
Trying to get a more even
area of grass or something.
Yeah.
I feel like...
if I was still out there and
like there was I saw a few
people like clearly
frustrated with their spot
I would have just moved to
a different lane if at that
point like I was people
were done in a different
lane I'm like I'm gonna go
over here and hit some
pirouettes uh back to back
for soberg uh she's doing
her best pan check
impression she was yeah we
didn't even talk about
spencer winning a fifth in
a row I know fourth in a
row I mean fourth in a row
He cruised on those.
He looked good.
Jody is asking, I think Jody, gosh,
everything's flying by.
Yeah.
It did Prevo make the games.
We don't think so,
but we do not know
officially yet because the
leaderboard is still not updated.
But we do know the award
ceremony is going on.
Tristan Patrick has told me that,
and Justin just confirmed
that in the chat.
We believe it's Hattie Cano
and Alex Kazan.
Alex is definite.
Hattie Cano, we believe.
Will, definite.
Jorge, we believe.
Correct.
We believe.
But after that ending, who the hell knows?
All right.
Then we go to the,
the two K row and then the two K row run.
Yeah.
And I say it that way
because I think that was a
bogus way of scoring that.
Yeah.
What I mean, either,
either scored as the two K
row and then the run with
just no rest in between.
Right.
or score it as both together,
but not score the row twice?
I see what you're saying,
but I feel like... I don't
know that it would have
changed much of anything.
It might have over... I don't know.
I don't know if I agree with that.
You're just making the row count twice,
and it just...
yeah yeah the I don't know
sort of the run mattered
and you could see a
significant difference like
there were people who who
only rode like put a
hundred percent effort into
the row and then got thirty
second because they were
not a good runner right
they got like they could
have done the same thing
and the same thing would
have happened if they you
score them as separate events
They couldn't have done the
same thing if you do it as
one event only.
Yeah, I don't know.
I mean,
I probably would have preferred
just a run score and just a row score,
what you're saying, personally.
And give no rest in between the two.
Right.
Like, I don't think that I would have...
I did this today.
I sent you that.
I posted it on the story.
Um,
and I don't know that I would have rode
a whole lot faster.
Like that would have never been my play.
Cause I would have, I would have ran hard.
Like I just would have
pushed on the run and I wouldn't, I,
I don't know.
Um,
now everybody's complimenting your
physique.
Um,
Anyway, I'm fine with the event.
I think it was a good event
and needed to be tested.
I just didn't like the scoring of it.
Why were they not seated on
the rower to start?
For what reason?
And they weren't even allowed.
They had to run with their
scorecard and then hand it
to their judge as part of the race.
That doesn't even make sense.
Damn.
Nobody asked us me to flex.
I had to make people pay for
that in the future.
Nope.
Not getting a front double buy.
Um,
I'm either,
if you're not going to have them seated,
don't make them carry a
judge's card and add the
judge in as another factor
to them getting onto the rower.
Right.
Yeah.
What if a judge is like slow
at taking it from them?
But like, like Carolyn had said,
they couldn't even really.
And then Carolyn's judge
pointed to the wrong rower.
Right.
And the foot,
you don't even know who was
on before you.
So like,
what if you came in and after a
dude who had like,
their foot pedals on the
five and like your foot, you, you know,
you wouldn't, a woman needs it smaller.
Like that would have frustrated me.
Cause they would have spent
time fixing that too.
Them handing the scorecards
was the most ridiculous
thing I've ever seen.
There's a lot of ridiculous
this weekend train to live.
I just,
I'm not even sure that makes my top five.
Yeah,
they just needed to start on their rower.
That's just crazy to me.
Just fix your damper, fix your foot pedals,
fix your straps to what you want it.
A CrossFit says, Jesus,
change that handle to IFBB Jamie,
not XFit Jamie.
No, I'm terrible at it.
I would be terrible at that.
Absolutely horrible.
A Lynn says, I wouldn't have strapped in.
Yeah, you would have.
I hardly ever strap in.
You would have.
guess I do if I'm really
trying to like go fast I
like my transitions better
though with like a loose
yeah um and and then this
gosh they're moving so fast
uh why did they make people
pay for being in the end
lanes for running clear
across the floor just to
get to their rower right now
they'll tell you that when
they're done with the row,
they were right on the run course.
And then the other people had to run.
I don't know.
So I don't know.
Yeah.
I noticed that with a few
events that I'm like, I mean,
I think even in farm, in farmastics,
I felt the same way.
If you had the far lane for pirouettes,
you had to like,
you had to go further to get to your,
to your,
Well,
I guess over at squat didn't matter
so much,
but then you went to get to your
kettlebells twice.
You had to go further.
Right.
Yep.
That didn't make sense to me.
Yeah.
There was a lot of weird,
like staggers that I'm not
sure people got there.
Right.
Their space back.
Right.
And that one in particular
was laid out so poorly for those people.
And like, what was it like lane four,
right in the middle of lane fourteenth.
Cause the end of the,
the stage or whatever,
the setup for the rig was
like their lane.
And then they're like
running into the person pirouetting,
trying to get by.
That was crazy.
Did you notice on the farmer's carry,
if you were going around
the cone at the same time as someone,
right.
People were clanging cone
kettlebells together.
Yep.
Didn't factor that into the grip strength.
Nope.
Did you have to go around the cone?
Yeah.
Yeah.
Okay.
Yeah.
At the, at the,
if you're looking at the rig,
they came to you and there
was a cone on every lane
that you had to go around.
Okay.
Like a big cone, like four foot tall cone.
Yup.
Um,
And that just blew my mind.
So, and then we finished up with hero ball,
which I love the workout.
I love the fact that like
the legless wasn't,
was like a gymnastics advantage.
Right.
The clean was a strong
advantage and one was going
to affect the other in some way,
but the time cap was awful on that.
And you and I talked about
that before we got on the air.
I want to see more people
try the heavy bar.
I mean, well, yeah,
like the fact that that's,
that's what we came down to
for Hattie and,
and Carolyn and neither of them really,
I mean, Hattie got an attempt.
I mean,
even you saw Carolyn kind of try at
the end, but like,
I don't even think it was a real attempt.
It,
if that needed to be a minute longer or
have preset barbells out there,
like changing your weight,
shouldn't be part of it.
they didn't really even get a shot.
And if that's what you want
to see is who can make that last clean.
And we lost the most
exciting part of that race.
The only person that flew
through that and is the
person that's strong and
has upper body pulling like nobody else.
And that's Alex.
She crushed that workout,
which everybody in the
world predicted she would
crush that workout.
Right.
But we didn't get to see
hardly anybody else attempt
the squat clean with any
reasonable amount of time
to actually make it.
Mm-hmm.
mean hattie was the second
person to it out of the
whole thing like lindsey
lane was the lindsey lane
like walked to the barbell
she didn't in the first
heat and that was the best
out of the first heat and
then hattie got there and
had an attempt like and
carolyn got there right
after and got a little bit
of an attempt yeah like she
had to throw those tens on fast
then you saw it spit her out
kind of on the side of the
screen but man why didn't
was there a separate did
the judge follow them from
the rope to the bar was it
the same judge or was there
a judge I didn't I didn't
look closely enough to I
was just I'm just thinking
like man I almost feel like
during that rope climb the
judge should have put their
weights on and then it
wouldn't have been an issue
I did see too that someone
asked in the comments that
what about the box jump overs?
I think they were important.
A lot of people were missing,
forgetting them.
Yeah.
Mentally,
you had to stay in the game to go
over them.
And it was just about
staying focused on the task at hand.
Right.
Larry Young sent me a message today going,
I think it would be the
funniest thing in the world
if Carolyn qualified on a strength event.
And it almost happened.
Well, Carolyn's not weak, so.
But she does like stick up
for having too much strength at an event.
Sometimes.
Yeah.
Yeah.
It looks like Jorge is official.
I'm hearing that it's the
leaderboard still not.
I just refreshed.
Yeah.
The leaderboard still is down.
I mean,
I know that it's a legless rope climb,
ultimately that workout, but once again,
we, other than Alex,
like we hear all the time,
people say it's,
it's not heavy enough for the girls.
Like Alex is the only person
who hit that clean and
so many men hit their cleans.
Uh,
she always wants heavier deadlift bars.
Yeah.
Well,
and like you heard the commentator say,
I think it was,
it might've been John
saying that she didn't even
get a full pool on that one
attempt on the clean.
Right.
And you know that Carolyn
can pull from the floor as
well as anybody.
Right.
Um,
I think that a lot of people
could have hit that weight
they just didn't have the
time to get there set up
and make an attempt I don't
know man I think a lot of
people would have gotten
buried by that bar a lot of
the girls I think the world
will never know I know it
sucks that we won't know
how many licks does it take
to get the center of a
tootsie roll tootsie pop
Yeah.
Cause like five legless in a
row is not going to be fast.
Right.
Unless you're Alex Kazan.
So did you notice that
Kristen Holta changed half
her weights on the one went
back to her ropes and then
just did the other half?
Yeah.
I do that a lot.
I saw that and I was like,
that's probably how I would
have done this workout too.
I thought that was
interesting because you get
a little bit of rest before
they're legless.
You get a little rest before the clean.
Nate's legless were crazy.
He was fast on those legless.
But he's a tall kid, man.
He's in that hopper size.
His reach was stressing me out.
I was like, he's going to miss.
He's going to miss by his fingertips and
I don't know those big
reaches always stress me
out uh who tested them I
know luke tested for tfx
but who tested for norcal I
have no idea who to test it
for norcal if you look at
the when blair and ben came to mayhem
rich and angelo and scott
vandersloot were there
trying some of the stuff
and it looked like rich
fully tested a lot of the
stuff but I don't know if
it was officially testing
right so there's that um
So then we've kind of talked about this,
the vibe of the competition.
I love, I love the vibe of the competition,
the throwback to what it
used to be that you can do
CrossFit anywhere in the
middle of a park or whatever.
I love that,
but I don't think it should be
a CrossFit games qualifying event.
Yeah.
I mean, it looks, it looks like a, I mean,
it's just all outdoor.
Like there's so many vendors it's,
It looks cool.
It looks like a fun time.
I mean,
kind of reminds me of like Wadapalooza,
like people go and spend
the day outside and enjoy the weather,
enjoy the heat, I guess.
It's always hot.
Everyone says it's fun.
Well,
I think this is a different feel
altogether than Wadapalooza,
but Wadapalooza can be a shit show too.
yes I just think that's the
nature of the game when you
have a thousand people at
an event in this many heats
it like things can't
they're think there's
inevitably going to be
hiccups when you have that
big of an event raf what's
up brother if they had a
lot of attention to detail
it would be fine the ranch in
Well, yeah,
I think anyone controlling a
five person event can make it sweet.
I think it's just the
planning and knowing how to
plan an event outdoors.
And the other thing about
the ranch in twenty twenty
is you didn't have fifteen
hundred athletes in
community events going on
at the same time.
Literally five.
That was it.
Yeah.
Hi, Raph.
Welcome.
Raph, I actually want to reach out to you.
I want to have a team's
discussion on the show in
the next week or two.
I like the interviews that
they got with Allie.
Yeah, Allie's the best.
I love that she just knows who she is.
Yep, agreed.
They didn't.
They didn't have a wheel to
measure the cone distance
from the muscle up rings.
How?
Like, how do you not, someone will get a,
like, I don't know.
That's just crazy to me.
Uh, they just,
they did count steps and I bought it.
Uh, yeah.
Just like my dad used to do the,
the strides in the,
in the backyard for a pitching distance.
We were dead on.
All right, so the vibe I thought was cool.
Yeah.
But again,
I don't think it lends itself to
CrossFit Games qualification.
We had a couple withdraw.
We had Colton withdraw.
Yeah.
Mariana Meza withdrew
because she already got her
ticket last week.
Emily admitted she had an
injury and still needs like
four weeks to heal during
one of the interviews.
Yeah.
Yeah, I guess.
I don't mean she just said she's deal.
I don't even know if she said an injury.
I feel like she's just dealing.
She said injury.
She did.
I wasn't sure.
She just said I'm dealing
with a little bit of an
issue or something.
Yeah.
There she is.
Carolyn, we are so,
so damn proud of you this weekend.
I was a nervous wreck all day today.
She said they needed to keep
the weights the same and
also increase time caps for females.
There wouldn't have been as
many tiebreakers and fixes to the event.
They need more time regardless of weights.
Yeah, they definitely needed more time.
That was very clear.
I want to talk about the broadcast.
Okay.
I thought...
with all the difficulties
they had and not being able to go live,
I thought it was much
improved from last week.
I thought there was full
effort to try to get more
wide angle shots and see
more athletes at a time.
I know they had glitching cameras.
I know they're out in the
middle of a park.
I can give grace on all of that stuff.
And they really busted their
butt to get back and get it
uploaded as quickly as possible.
I really did like the wider angles.
And you could tell they were
really trying.
And even on the split screen,
you could see them moving
the center line left or
right to get more people on
one side or the other.
I thought they did awesome.
Yeah, I, I do.
I live drone shots were great.
You could tell that it was a
Taylor and Bryson mostly on the floor,
backing up,
trying to get the whole floor in.
Um, there's still things that like, I mean,
I feel like I can't even speak on it.
Cause apparently I'm like
the worst person in the
space and shouldn't have an
opinion on broadcasts.
And so I don't even know if
I should be putting my
opinion out there because it's useless.
Like nobody wants to hear it.
It's whatever.
Carolyn says,
I was proud of myself for the weekend,
but I'm also sad.
It's just starting to hit me.
The last event wasn't how I
wanted to finish, of course.
I know if you just would
have had thirty more
seconds where we would have
known which one of you
could have lifted that bar.
Right.
That's it.
I feel cheated.
And so I can only imagine
she feels the same.
Like I feel cheated that I
didn't get to see one of
the two of them earn it by
lifting that bar.
Yeah.
Man, I'm actually starting to tear up.
I know.
I was in tears when I saw
Carolyn and Hattie hug
after the event too.
Like I was...
it's hard because you're
you're so happy for one and
heartbroken for the other
and it's just it's a sucky
way to finish the event in
the weekend and the points
but we are very very proud
of you you looked great all
weekend yeah I just I feel
we were all cheated because
we didn't get to see one of
them hit that lift there
just was not enough time yeah um
Larry Young said, CP,
if you would have hit that last clean,
it would have made my weekend.
He said that.
A train to live.
You did great, Carolyn.
You should be very proud.
So back on the broadcast thing,
I want to give you the
opportunity to address this.
Because last week you said
something that got really misinterpreted.
I tried to clear it up on my lunch show.
Yeah, you did great.
I think I nailed it.
You did.
I want to give you the
opportunity to say the same.
Yeah, I mean, like, I get it.
Like,
I probably shouldn't even have
brought Brian's name up
because all comprehension stops after.
And it was really in no way trying to,
like, compare the two.
And I definitely did not.
If I said,
I went back and watched and I
don't feel like I said that
Brian's was better,
but I guess I also didn't
blatantly say that their
broadcast was better.
And so what was me for that?
Um, I.
it's crazy because my only gripe last week,
I thought it was an
excellent broadcast last weekend.
I like, like I loved the broadcasting,
the commentary, the,
my only gripe was the wide
angle shots and just a
little bit more of the floor.
That was the only thing I wanted.
That was all I was trying to be clear on.
Um,
Other than that,
I thought it was incredible.
Yes,
I think they had a completely losing
battle this week.
And so you can't even give good criticism.
We know they didn't have the
cell tower there.
They had less people on the floor.
With what they had,
I thought they did great this week.
I loved the drone footage.
They tried to step back and
get more shots.
I really wish they could have...
wish they could have done a
better job of being
prepared for starting the
coverage or even syncing it
up with the floor announcer
and getting the person in
footage when they were
announcing names I that was
frustrating to me like not
being like you couldn't see
lane numbers half the time
you're getting names thrown
out there half of them are
wrong half the time or com like
And I get it.
Bill's just reading a sheet
and doesn't always know everyone's names,
but you're like, that's not the name.
That's not the name.
That's not the person that
they're talking about.
So that kind of stuff gets
frustrating and frustrating.
But I don't know what they
had this weekend to even coordinate that,
if they were on the same
page with when they were
announcing names.
That would be my only gripe this weekend.
And if you watch Hiller's thing,
the event organizers were
sending people to open
lanes because they were
late for something.
Yeah.
You can't call a good event
if you're not given the
right information.
Yeah.
And I think, honestly, like...
going into it,
they told us we don't have
internet in there.
We don't have the,
so your expectation is here
instead of here.
Right.
And they,
I thought they exceeded my expectation.
So that's the thing.
I had very low.
Once I heard they couldn't broadcast live,
knowing that there's twenty
five heats because that was my thing.
That was my issue last week.
Right.
The fact that syndicate was
such a small floor,
it was half the length of last year.
It was only ten lanes.
Like,
I just felt like more of the floor
could have been shown.
I I don't have any critique this week.
Like twenty five lanes is a losing battle.
I hate floors that are that big.
I don't even like twenty lane floors.
I definitely don't like
twenty five lane floors.
Um, so yeah, I have,
I had zero expectation for this week.
Just being able to hear from John and Bill,
like who was out there
doing what was good enough.
Right.
And I think that Taylor and
Bryson hustled to the lane,
to the grouping of lanes we
needed to see at the time
that we needed to see it.
So, yep.
Yep.
there we go it took me a
long time to figure out
that there were lane
numbers um but yeah they
were in like chalk at the
end of at the end of the
lane like where they
finished right and then
they were on a mat
underneath the rig but you
couldn't see that very much
because they weren't there
they still do not have this
leaderboard updated gosh
it's so ridiculous
anyway um carolyn was in
here saying that last
chance qualifier this week
it is actually june twelfth
to the sixteenth is the
last chance qualifier oh
really so it starts
thursday it starts thursday
and goes to monday
yes or tuesday yeah monday
goes through monday but
this is the one that has
two separate submission
windows correct I believe
so like a saturday
submission window and then
um we have a list of people
who still need to do this
Yeah.
Our very own Carolyn is going to do it.
Um, I'm guessing Sydney Wells.
Yeah.
Um, I've, you know,
I talked to Reese Littlewood last Friday,
which if you're not,
if you've not seen that video and that,
that show, she is something else for, for,
for, for, for, for, for, for, for, for,
for, for, for, for, for, for, for, for,
for, for, for, for, for, for, for, for,
for, for, for, for, for, for, for, for,
for, for, for, for, for, for, for, for,
for, for, for, for, for, for, for, for,
for, for, for, for, for,
Yeah,
and I haven't even had a beer in
eighteen months, so there you go.
I enjoyed that part.
Will Emily do it?
Emily Rolfe?
Yeah.
I mean, she's got to give it a shot,
right?
I mean, she has to, but like she even said,
I need like four weeks.
I'm like, oh,
we don't really have that long.
Rebecca Fusile?
Yep.
Apparently Nate Ackerman?
Well, yeah.
Hey, will Luke Parker do it?
I don't think so.
don't think I think he's
done he announced his
retirement did the whole
thing yeah but I feel like
this is still this season
like he might as well take
give it a shot I think that
he looks at online is just
not his best yeah now to be
fair I think carolyn's
pretty good online she is
and she's geared up now so
yeah and the people that oh
do you think kristen holta does it online
Probably she's good online too.
Rawford that Rebecca may
have gotten hurt on the
final event on the clean.
Who's covering the last chance qualifier.
Nobody.
Personal media, I guess everybody.
Um,
Yeah.
So I,
I'm assuming coming down on a rope climb,
hopefully ankle and not Achilles.
Yeah.
Oh, that'll suck.
Who else do we got?
Anyone else?
Anyone else out of like,
who would normally make it
out of like syndicate Northeast?
I mean,
I feel like syndicate didn't have
it's normal.
Spencer, I'm assuming,
is going through weeks in a row.
Kyra.
Yep.
It's going to be stacked.
Spencer for sure, yeah.
Sarah Sigmundsdottir.
I mean,
we said if she didn't make it out
of Rebel, she wasn't.
She looked good, though.
She looked good except for that run.
That run looked awful.
That run looked awful.
And yeah, there won't be run on.
I can't imagine there will be run online.
Maybe they'll try it with this group.
Maybe this will be their.
Maybe they'll do it.
Maybe they'll make people go to a track.
The Caitlin Sanders.
Caitlin Sanders.
Yeah.
She looked pretty good on a few events.
soul bear still out then yep
she'll do it yep she's good
online too yep um yeah I
thought do you really think
kristen would sign up and
go like she didn't do
anything this year other than this event
Why did she come to this event?
Just to come with the other girls?
The rule is that a bunch of
the Krieger athletes signed up.
She said, let's go as a group.
And she joined them.
Trista Smith.
Elizabeth Wishart.
Nina.
Yeah.
It's going to be jacked for one spot.
leaderboard still not
updated for on my end still
showing yeah it's not
updating on my end either
yeah last chance is going
to be very interesting and
we have at the same time we
have the community cup yeah
which nobody knows about
because they hit it in a release.
We're running it as an
in-house comp on Saturday.
So I got to get all my ducks
in a row this week.
Uh,
Roth says word on the street is Kristen
would have declined if she qualified,
but you never know until it happens.
Interesting.
uh denise uh do we know the
date dave gave tia to
respond you're jumping
ahead here denise yeah you
looking at our sheet yeah
um but we do not know we
just know that he did he's
confirmed it twice now can
I interview miley wade I will attempt to
I have a very big rule about
if the athlete is under
eighteen that I talk to the parents.
Yeah.
I go that direction.
Yeah.
Larry said Spin posted
something that we're talking about.
Hiller's got to be over the
moon about Bill.
Yeah.
I don't see anything on
Instagram or am I on the wrong?
Nope.
Oh, well.
Thank you for all the love
on the interview with Reese.
I did spell her name wrong
on the reel I cut.
I know.
Um, and I did apologize to her.
She said it happens all the time.
Um, but I'm,
I'm going to cut another piece
of it here and I will spell
her name correctly.
Um, yeah,
so lots of people need to do last chance.
It's starting at this
weekend and Holy cow.
Um, it's a lot,
a lot of people need to do it.
The other thing that I was looking at,
there are three athletes
who have qualified for the
CrossFit Games who have not registered.
We all know Tia,
and we all know that Tia
was given a drop-dead
deadline to register,
and the person behind her
was told to stay prepared.
Yeah.
Yeah.
And I'm wondering if there's
been something said to Dave
that he would say stay prepared.
Is there a part of this
equation where Tia says no?
It is a little weird that
Dave has said this.
I still feel like no,
there's no part of it.
I feel like Tia's going and winning.
I don't really think there's any question.
I just don't know that she's like,
maybe she has said like,
she will put her focus on
CrossFit once the, what is it?
Chicago is done.
So like, maybe she just isn't, I mean,
I feel like, you know,
But, and I mean, it's not a money issue.
Like you can, but I don't know.
She wants to probably be
sure before she takes the
spot that she's going to do
it and not take someone's spot,
even though you can pay for the spot,
but why like you only have there,
you don't want to end up with there.
So what's been posted on
Twitter apparently is Bill, Jorge, Nate,
and Alex, Hattie, Carolyn.
But what I'm anxious to see is the points.
I'm very anxious to see the
points between Jorge and Nate.
So there's that.
There are two other people
that have not registered for the games.
Jack Rosema, who just qualified a week ago,
so that's not too startling yet.
But then Danielle Brandon.
That's weird.
And that has been since the
in-affiliate semifinal.
Now,
I could also see her just not getting
on it yet, or I don't know.
So of the twenty-seven
athletes going into today,
twenty-five women are registered.
Two are not,
and it's Danielle Brandon and
Tia Claire Toomey.
On the men's side,
twenty-six of the
twenty-seven have registered.
The only one who has not is Jack Rosema.
I don't disagree, Craig,
but it's just weird.
It is weird.
Like, you train all year for this.
Like, if it were me,
I'd be signed up the next morning.
Right.
Um, so, but I am not Danielle Brandon.
So anyway, but I just,
I found that interesting.
So I wanted to play a little
game of fact and fiction.
We've done this fact or fiction.
Uh, we did this a couple of weeks ago.
It was pretty interesting.
So I'm going to hit you with
some questions.
You tell me fact or fiction and why.
Okay.
Fact or fiction,
this year's field is one of
the strongest ones compared
to the past few years.
So,
you'd almost think fact with being thirty,
like you're going to get the best thirty,
but I, the way the season has been set up,
I'm going to say fiction
because you still have
these regional only limited
and from places that
wouldn't be competitive.
So I'm going to say fiction
because I almost feel like
when you get Forty in and
you get some of those other,
it can make some of those
bottom heat races at the
games matter more than I
think they will here.
Like,
I almost feel like the four randoms
that are in there are
really going to be like,
really the bottom.
And while that's evident in years past,
like,
I think it's gonna be really evident
this year.
Denise s can lift heavyweights.
No, that's too literal.
We mean strongest depth of field.
Oh, yeah.
Yeah.
And so I'm going to share
those registered for the CrossFit Games.
I will blow this up.
You look at these names.
And you tell me this is
anywhere near one of the
strongest fields we've had.
Mariana Meza, Lexi Neely, Brooke Wells,
Christina Litveticus,
Emily DeRoy, Lucy McGonigal, Luisa Marquez,
Maria Camila Quintero, Sydney McElishan,
Annika Greer, Sierra Maya,
Xiong-Yung Choi, Alexis Raptus,
Haley Adams, Olivia Kerstetter,
Miriam Von Roer, Fee Sagafi, Amy Kringle,
Claudia Gluck, Grace Walton, Ariel Lowen,
Maddie Sturt, Abby Domet, Jennifer Muir,
and Lucy Campbell.
Until you see Tia's name,
it's for sure not.
So there you go.
Right.
And if we go over to the men, Isaac Newman,
Morteza Sagat, Ty Jenkins, Peter Ellis,
Toby Buckland, Jason Hopper,
Harry Lightfoot, Chris Ibarra,
Justin Medeiros, Kalen Souza,
Austin Hatfield, Ricky Garrard,
Roman Krennikoff, Dallin Pepper,
Moritz Fiebig,
Callum Clements, Bronislaw Linkowitz,
Tudor Magda, Colton Mertens, Jay Crouch,
Henrique Moriera, Colin Bossard,
Enrico Zanoni, James Sprague,
Nick Matthew, Jeff Adler.
Yeah,
I'd say the men is definitely
approaching.
The women's, yeah.
It's a mess.
I just, I feel like...
didn't even get the best out
of brazil or out of south
america we and that was a
regionally based one we
didn't get the best out of
I don't think we got the
best out of africa I think
eddie hollis was way better
uh than christina ludovic I
don't know she got screwed
on that last event she got
screwed on last one I so
for me I feel like
christina's a little bit
better at gymnastics
and I'm biased that way.
That's the,
that's the athlete I'd rather
see make it like Evie's clearly stronger,
but they were, they were pretty similar.
We're going to skip the next one.
Cause we've already touched on it.
Yeah.
I gave you my opinion.
And then the last one is factor fiction.
Colton's back injury is an
area of concern as we enter
CrossFit games training.
Yeah, I'm going to say fact.
Like,
when anyone gets a little back niggle,
like,
that is not something you want to
mess around with.
And I worry.
I worry that he comes back too soon.
I mean,
he was willing to come do this comp,
right?
Like, there's no quitting that guy.
And I...
I just hope he makes sure
it's a hundred percent
before he starts going a
hundred percent into games training.
Like he's got time.
So I, like,
I hope he and the coaches can
make sure it's a hundred
percent before he starts
hitting it hard again.
Cause like,
you're just going to every two
weeks do something funky
again and deal with that
again for another ten days.
And that's not going to,
that's not how you can
train for the games.
There's a lot of facts in the chat.
Denise said he heard a pop, so yeah.
He said he felt like lava
down his back after.
I'm a guy who's had twelve
back procedures since twenty sixteen.
It's not easy to come back
from this stuff right now.
I know he is his wellness.
what fitness well or
whatever it is sickness
wellness fitness continuum
is all the way over at
fitness right and so he
would be able to come back
faster than I could and
hopefully it's not anything
serious but if it's a
bulging disc or something
that just needs rest it's
tough for him to have that rest
One, with his job.
Two,
with the training he needs to do to be
prepped for the games.
It's crazy.
And yes, they are illegal, Lynn.
So is this Biomax an
offshoot of California Peptides?
I think it's a new name.
It's still California Peptides?
Same company, new name.
Oh, Jesus.
Why didn't they just say that?
Because they said Sarah Cox owns it.
They did.
I never heard that.
I was, like,
super confused the whole weekend.
Like, what is going on?
Like, they rebranded.
Okay.
Ross says teams had to drop
off of known individual
games athletes as well.
No Noah, no Chandler, no Cara Saunders,
no Royce Dunn, no Rich Froning.
Yeah.
We'll talk teams.
I'm going to have rough on,
we're going to talk it about it, um,
in a couple of weeks and
what we can do to improve that.
Um, so a CrossFit says that, uh,
biomec bio mix bio.
I know.
I forget what it was.
Biomax is a rebrand.
Okay.
I wish they would've just
said formerly care,
California peptides in
their commercial or something.
Colton had a crazy
autoimmune scare a couple years back,
lost his mom last year,
been through some roadblocks.
I've been through a lot of
roadblocks in my life.
Backs are way different.
Without your back, you can't do anything.
All right, so that's fact or fiction.
Last thing I have on my list is,
have you ever heard of the
Red Bull Rancher Strong games?
No.
It sounds like the thing
that Hunter did with, what's his face?
The wrestler guy.
Broken Skull Ranch.
That's what it sounds like to me.
So apparently it's done it like rodeos,
but it's a fitness
competition around like ranching.
So like you loop a bull,
a fake bull and you pull it
like a sled pool or you
have to escape out of a burning house.
It's not really burning.
okay like they have like
monkey bars coming down and
then all the like so you
have to use your fitness to
like get through everything
yeah um ariel and gee were
invited along with some ocr
people along with some
american ninja warriors and
ariel won on the female
side was hunter there he was not
Gee was there on the men's side,
and the OCR racer won on the men's side.
Noah Olsen did not compete, Lynn.
He may have been there,
but he did not compete,
or he wasn't in the top five.
Do you know which OCR racer won?
I didn't know the name offhand.
Something like Tom Goodman or Tom.
Okay.
I don't.
And then Grant, what's his,
the Island Ninja was second place.
Okay.
For the men.
But it looked interesting.
And Ariel won a belt buckle for the win.
And she goes,
something to hang on the wall.
And I texted her and I said, you know,
a few years ago it was,
I just want to sign for my garage.
Yep.
Could you have predicted the
waterfall of stuff you now
have for your garage and
now your big home gym that
you're building?
Yeah,
Grant is at times the extra buttery bro.
Yep.
I'm a huge American Ninja Warrior fan.
So I've known Grant, not known.
I've known of him for a very long time.
What I think American Ninja
Warrior does better than
anybody is tell a story.
Nobody cares about the
obstacle course until you
know what that person has
overcome in their personal life.
And they are awesome about
showing you in a little
vignette the personal
struggles that person has had.
And then they go through the
obstacle course.
And that's when you care.
And that's what I have been
begging from CrossFit
forever is tell those
stories so then I care who
wins the event.
Yep.
But there was a new road to
the games that came out,
Hopper and Pepper.
Ooh.
Sounds like a Laverne and
Shirley opening that already came out.
Yeah.
It came out probably on
Thursday or Friday.
It was in the middle of everything again.
So nobody saw it.
Nobody.
Cause they're just awesome at doing that.
Um, it was actually pretty good.
Okay.
I would think with those two,
it's going to be pretty good.
I think just their
personalities lend it to
being less of like the
workout and more of their
trash talking and their,
and like both of them, their wives are,
are very free to tell on them.
Oh yeah.
Right.
And so that's what a lot of it was.
A lot of it was about
Corinne does everything for Dallin.
Like,
Dallin doesn't even have to mow the
grass.
I know.
Corinne mows the grass and all this stuff.
And they actually show
Hopper mowing the grass.
And he's like, because I'm a real man.
I'm out here doing it.
I love it.
I love it.
So, like,
it actually was... It was really good.
But those two have self-made
themselves to this...
these personalities in the space, right?
Their interview with Dave was awesome.
So good.
I told you that I texted you.
I was like, you got to watch this.
So good.
But I, but I want cross.
Okay.
We, now we've seen them.
We know them.
We need to, um,
we need to now see the
other people and their personalities.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Right.
Because then the more you have,
the more interesting the
competitions become.
Did you notice Jason and
Dallin wearing gloves while
work around the house?
Well, it depends on what you're doing.
Like I wear gloves if I'm
grabbing up shrubs and
trimming trees and different things.
Because I don't need no
poison oak or poison ivy.
Yeah.
Yeah, I suppose some yard work.
But other than that,
I would personally not want
to wear gloves.
I feel like that would
almost make my hands softer.
While working around the house?
Yeah.
Why would I want gloves on?
Like out in the yard,
mowing and doing all that stuff.
Oh, yeah.
Yard work, I said.
Yes.
Yeah, that's what we're talking about.
If that's when they do it.
If they're wearing them...
around doesn't do anything I
know he's like everybody
thinks dallin's this tough
guy he doesn't do anything
corinne does everything for
him yeah I've been
following her on instagram
and it's it's interesting
uh with those arms jamie
rip shrubs out with her
bare hands I do not I have
a pricker bush out in my
garden right now that I'm
trying to get rid of and I
I can't I don't know I
don't know how people deal
with these things I hate I hate gardening
Yeah, Julie loves it.
And of course, with her knee surgery,
she couldn't do it.
So I'm out there like
picking weeds and I hate every bit of it.
The only thing I want to
garden is I have two little
boxes where I grow tomatoes.
Because I love tomatoes so much.
I just want to eat as many
as I can in the summer.
Tomatoes are about the only
thing I can grow.
I have strawberries,
but I have a fence around
them and they're still get
like the leaves get eaten every day.
I don't know what's happening.
I suck at it.
Well, and I'll have you know,
my chlamydia is in full bloom again.
Send a pic.
And for people new to the show,
that means my clematis vine
has opened wide with huge purple flowers.
But I mispronounced it as
chlamydia one time,
and now that's what they
are affectionately known to
me for the rest of my life.
That's so good.
but yeah the big purple
flowers are here up the
trellis looking awesome um
and then I have two huge
hibiscus in the backyard
now that are um pink and
purple and they're they're
amazing but those don't
take gardening those are
just big trees yeah um and
I love those I love I don't
mind planting like a tree
and then letting it grow big yeah
That doesn't take a lot of work.
I have butterfly bushes in the backyard.
I've got to trim down every fall.
We have tons of butterflies
because of that.
I have two cherry trees,
but I think I may have killed those too.
I don't know.
Jody Lynn, hibiscus are seasonal.
Do you bring them in during the winter?
My hibiscus are fifteen feet tall.
They are massive.
They are trees.
So, no,
I do not bring them in in the winter.
My butterfly bushes probably
get eight feet tall.
Purple sounds infected.
Good stuff.
Yeah.
All right, well.
We're at the ninety ninety minute mark.
Jody, when it blooms,
I will take a picture of both hibiscus.
I'll put them on Instagram.
I don't know.
They're just how are they
surviving an Ohio winter?
They are very hardy.
I don't.
Maybe it's a different it's
maybe it's not like your
typical Hawaiian hibiscus.
It's but.
They're massive.
In my backyard, it's somehow so fertile.
It grows everything.
Enough for the Lego picks.
I like the Lego picks.
I'm out of Legos right now.
That was my last set that I had.
It's going to go right there.
You'll be able to see my
Super Nintendo set.
right behind me I have
butterfly bushes too ken
and they're like eight feet
tall but I do cut them down
every year it is so fertile
that my chlamydia turned
purple it is yes any
scoreboard updates no
One last look.
Yep.
It's in there.
Sixty four point five to
sixty six for Hattie and Carolyn.
Point and a half.
Wow.
Point and a half between the ladies.
Boys.
I'm at boys.
It is for a tie.
That's ridiculous.
So Jorge had the higher finish.
I don't know.
Cause didn't,
didn't Nate win the last event?
No, I didn't win the last event.
Jorge won the stone go and
Nate doesn't have, Nate has a second.
So a fifty point event when
he got him more than a
hundred point second place win.
Yeah, that sucks.
I feel like I feel like he
would have had an extra
place in there if that we
mishap hadn't happened.
That sucks.
Gosh, that's heartbreaking.
All right.
I are dark.
Crowd dropped by half.
I'm assuming Seve went live.
Yeah,
we better go figure out what happened.
See what they have to say.
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