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And for the second time today,
the music didn't work.
So we will just jump in live.
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Welcome to Sunday Night
CrossFit Talk on Clydesdale Media.
My name is Scott Switzer.
As you know, her name is Jamie Latimer.
And we're so excited to have
with us Sam and Kelly Krivit.
Yep.
They are the organizers of
Fight for the Fittest in Brentwood,
New York.
How are you guys doing?
Good.
How are you?
Good.
I'm great.
Great.
Am I correct in that this is
on Long Island?
Yep, on Long Island,
and you said it right.
Some people say in Long Island,
but it's definitely on Long Island.
So my college roommate was
from Long Island, and it's more a hard G,
right?
Long Island?
Yeah, yeah.
So my college roommate was
from Long Island,
and I used to go up there
on weekends to hang out.
Love it up there.
Yeah, it's a beautiful place.
So you guys have secured an arena.
You're doing teams of four,
a traditional CrossFit game style,
two men, two women.
Correct.
And this is the second year
you're doing this in a row?
So this is the second year
we're doing the team.
We've done individuals.
We've done partners,
probably seven or eight competitions.
But this is the first time
that we're taking it out of
the gym space and into an arena,
really looking to expand it
to a legitimate competition now.
Nassau County Coliseum or?
Suffolk.
I mean, Nassau Coliseum would be great.
So yeah, we tried.
But yeah,
Suffolk Federal Credit Union Arena.
So that's Suffolk Community
College out there in Brentwood.
Okay.
So have you gotten
spectators in the past that
you expect this to be like
a really big event?
Yeah,
so with the team event that we did
last May, you know,
we had about 50 teams and
we had tons of spectators,
but the event was outside and in.
So that allowed for people
to be camping out.
There was a big parking lot
at Mufasa Tevi Gym and that
had tons of spectators.
This facility has no limit.
So, I mean, it's full bleachers.
The size of the facility is
the size of a regulation track.
And that's what they do.
They do track and field inside.
So it's a massive complex
with locker rooms, lots of bathrooms,
pools, concessions.
So it has the potential to
have that big stage.
So you mentioned move fast, lift heavy.
There seems to be a connection there.
Do you guys CrossFit yourselves?
Yeah, we do.
Um, you know,
we ran our competitions out of our,
our friends gym in, uh,
Rocky point called RX fit.
And we met with move fast, heavy,
and we moved, uh,
the competitions there for
the past two years.
And we became close with them as well.
Uh,
their team there with Christian Harris
and Deb graph,
who helps us run the event.
Um, that's been a good, a good, uh,
partnership for us.
We've slowly over the years
kind of just been
outgrowing facilities one
after the other.
So the next natural step at this point was,
you know, moving it outside the gym,
like Sam said,
into an arena because we
want to continue to grow.
And the only way to do that
is to allow more teams and more space.
So Christian Harris is very
famous from that group.
And you have him doing your programming?
Yeah, so he does our programming,
which is really helpful
because team programming is
actually really difficult.
The individuals, the partners,
that was very doable,
but the team concept is difficult.
And since he did it for so
many years at such a high level,
that's been a big upgrade.
Yeah,
and to be one of the best to ever do it.
Yeah, I mean,
last year they finished fourth,
just shy outside the podium.
And to bring that now to a
competition on a regional standpoint,
he's really excited about it.
We love having him.
Yeah,
so I think you told me that the
workouts will be announced soon.
This week, we're hoping, you know,
we just finished shooting demos.
We've been testing these like crazy.
We want to get them out as
soon as possible for people.
So that way, really,
people can make a decision
where they stand.
But I'm looking at this week
to get our first one out,
which will probably be our pool workout.
And then every day I'll get
another one out.
So there's five and then
there'll be a final.
So it has swimming.
So it's a legit comp.
I appreciate that.
Yeah, that's what we hope.
This year,
what we did for the first year
is this year,
the RX and the elite teams will swim.
The scale teams will have a
version of matching stimulus.
And then we're hoping in
years to come that we can
add in different aspects
that the grounds has the
ability to do a trail run.
They have a turf field.
So there's a lot of stuff
that we can do with this
facility if we have the
backing that I think we
will from the community.
That is so cool.
Big questions.
Are there still spots
available for people to
sign up and register?
Yeah, absolutely.
So we we had an early bird
registration and we're
about at 50 percent capacity.
So for September being five months away,
I'm very happy with that.
The most people are still
waiting for to find out if
they should be doing our
extra scaled early.
So they can sign up.
They can go to conquest
events or they can go
through our Web site,
which is FFTF competitions dot com.
Yeah,
so they could still sign up for that.
But we do expect it to sell out.
The elites will fill in
later as we see what
happens over the next couple weeks.
But we have sold out every
event we've done so far,
and we're hoping to have
500 athletes there that weekend.
Wow, that's really awesome.
How do you prevent Christian
Harris and Christine Best
teaming up and doing a scaled team?
I personally bet every
athlete that signs up.
For the scale this year,
you're actually allowed to
participate because that is
more of a community division.
There's no cash prizes in that.
RX is regulated very carefully.
We have elite level restrictions,
so how many elite athletes,
and we have a definition of
what we consider elite over
the past several years.
I bet the teams.
I go through each person and
I look them up on CrossFit
Games and look at their social media and
I tell them no or yes,
and we don't have to do it that often,
but we've done it before.
Yeah,
our registration page has the
information as to, you know,
guide people if you've
competed at the games or at semifinals or,
you know, or at a higher level athlete,
which division you are
allowed to participate in
and at what capacity.
You know,
we do it because with cash prizes,
we want it to be fair for
the average CrossFitter to
come in and be able to have a chance.
You know,
it's not fun for everyone to have
someone come in and just
sweep the competition
because they signed up
lower than they really
should be competing.
So if Jamie would sign up in
the RX division,
she would have to get a
bunch of schleps like me to
compete with her to stay RX, right?
Well, you know,
we'll have to look at
everybody's scores and we'll see.
But we did,
we did take that restriction
off the scale division
because people like,
like best to have their,
she has a community, she has a gym.
And,
and if she had members that wanted to
do it, that were scaled,
we did want to encourage
people to do that, um,
as keep it competitive,
but there's no cash prizes in that.
So we,
we were a little bit looser with
that and we want to try to
encourage that.
Yeah.
I think that that's like a
subtle thing that the
average CrossFitter wants to know.
You know,
they don't want to go and just
get smoked at a competition.
They want to make sure that it's for them,
cash prize or not.
And I'd like that you guys do that.
Yeah.
You know, and I've been in,
it's been nice.
I've been in the situation where, you know,
in my stalking or vetting
or whatever you want to call it,
I have reached out to
athletes and be like, listen,
you don't belong in this division.
And,
and they've almost been in self doubt.
Like I belong better.
And I've talked people up, you know,
and I've talked some people down and,
and it usually works out to
their benefit as well.
You know, it's, it's interesting,
but you know, only once or twice,
maybe along the way we've
had someone try to sandbag it, you know?
So how well are you guys
doing on volunteers?
So that's a good topic to bring up.
So volunteers is always
tough because we don't own a gym.
So we don't have our
community of members to pull from.
I know a lot of people I speak to,
like Tim from Metcon Rush,
they have these communities and people
you know, get involved real quick.
We've built a community.
We're doing okay.
We always need more,
always tons and tons more.
And then we've also
partnered with the AFJ and
they're going to come and
send a crew to help us with
our elite level teams at
our RX level team.
So to help kind of offset
some of that judging,
they're going to provide
for us a little bit as well.
And it also creates an
opportunity because we're
not filling every judging
position from the AFJ.
So we still want to have
those community level
volunteer judges who have experience,
but want to learn more.
And they're going to be
working alongside the AFJ
judges and kind of getting some, you know,
on the ground training and
some assistance there, which is nice.
And, but volunteers,
especially at a facility
this size with the athletes
that we're hoping to have, you know,
competing,
we always need bodies for the
whole weekend.
So yeah.
And it's anything.
If you have no experience,
it's like the perfect opportunity.
We have this, you know, anything available,
whether it's scoring or, you know.
Ticket sales and things like that.
Pit crew, anything like that, yeah.
i love about that is um I
came up through the
volunteer ranks in crossfit
before I did this and I
always wanted to be a judge
but I didn't know what I
needed to do to get there
so if you want to be a
judge and you go just do
the community event but
you're working with the afj
you get to kind of see what
you need to do right to get
to that next level and
there's a ton of people out
there that want to move up
through those volunteer ranks
And that's exactly what we
have planned with the AFJ.
So when the scale division is going,
we want to use those new
judges that are learning
and the AFJ is going to be
there to support those people.
So it's going to be kind of
a good opportunity for them
to learn and to connect
with them because they're a
growing association as well
and they need more bodies to support.
my first job was handing out
t-shirts to volunteers and
then by the end I judged uh
regionals before they went
away and so you just got to
figure it out and work your
way up and it's awesome the
best the best way to learn
to do something is to do it
and we've had volunteers
who've been with us from
our first competition and
done almost every
competition with us and
that's exactly what it is
you know they come in and they're
handing out, you know,
the swag bags and they're
checking athletes in.
And then by the last event or two,
they're on the floor judging and,
you know,
some of our best judges because
they've been around,
they know what we expect
and we've worked with them.
They've worked with other people.
It's just a great community experience.
So they can sign up for that
through the same website as
registration and spectators.
And if anyone has questions,
they could DM and I'll
answer personally if
they're not sure if they
should be doing it or they're afraid,
I'll talk them into it.
You say prizes.
You're actually giving
prizes for both Elite and RX,
which is very unique.
Can you talk about that a little bit?
So one of the big things
when we started Fight for the Fittest,
you know,
the first year was that we felt
like the average
CrossFitter who puts in so
much time and effort to
train for these local
competitions weren't getting, you know,
that feeling of being what
the elite get with all the
prizes and the swag.
So from our very first competition,
we actually went out of
pocket before the first
event and bought tons of prizes, barbells,
weight vests.
We just wanted to spoil them.
And that's kind of just been our...
The way we do things ever since.
And when we decided to add elite,
this is the first time
we're actually opening an elite division.
We did not want to take away
from our RX division.
We wanted to, and even our scaled,
we want to give them that
same experience of working
and being rewarded and
feeling like a high level athlete.
So for the elite and RX,
we do have cash prizes.
We definitely were toying
with the idea of cash for scales,
but again, just for, you know,
people obviously not wanting people to go,
you know, to compete down, we ended up,
we're going to be doing a ton of stuff.
It's going to be like
difficult to walk away in one trip with,
with all this stuff that our sponsors,
we have fantastic sponsors and they,
they hook us up with tons
of prizes as well,
but the elites will have, um,
cash, $4,000, $3,000, and $2,000.
And then the RX first place is $1,500,
and then the cash prizes go
down as well from there.
So we do want to really grow
this elite level
competition for teams that
maybe just missed out on the games,
that missed out on semis.
There's not a ton
of team competitions
especially in the northeast
uh I know that because it's
hard to do you know
logistically equipment wise
spacing timing it's hard to
do um so we're hoping that
we can kind of become a
staple for for teams going
forward awesome
Well, guys,
it's been awesome having you on here.
I'm really interested in
doing some media coverage
on some more local
competitions this year.
So I'd love to reach out to
you and maybe come up to the show.
We would love to have you.
Do a behind-the-scenes.
I would love to have that.
We have Lauren coming out
and we have a great media
team with Be Relentless.
I'm great friends with Be Relentless.
They're awesome.
He's a good dude and we're
so excited to have him.
So that's our first time working with him.
So yeah,
let's talk more and we'd love to
have you.
Awesome.
Well,
what I'll do is I'll cut this as a
separate clip later so you
can use it to promote and
share it wherever you need to.
That'll be within the next day or two.
I want to thank you so much for being on.
You guys have been awesome.
Thank you so much.
I'm glad you're feeling well.
Yeah, thank you.
And good luck with the competition.
Thank you so much for having us.
All right.
Thank you.
Bye, guys.
Bye.
All right.
That was Sam and Kelly
Kivett from fight for the fittest.
I want to thank them so much
for being here.
Um,
it was awesome getting to know them and,
uh, yeah,
that sounds like a great competition.
Yeah, that sounds awesome.
It is.
There are not very many team opportunities,
so that that's really cool.
They've added that.
Yeah.
And you know,
there's some bigger
competitions that don't
give out the cash prizes
they're giving out.
Yeah.
So support local.
Good evening, guys.
Good evening.
How's it going?
Not too bad.
You?
Good.
Good.
Third show today.
Just log in at it.
So how has you were going to
do a mock this week, right?
I did do a mock.
I'm sore.
My legs are sore.
Jamie did the real thing.
We'll get into that in a minute.
But I had to ask Jamie, you know,
Welcome to Wrexham came back.
Have you been keeping up?
No, we haven't started it.
Is it amazing?
Oh, it's just as good as always.
Just as good as always.
You'd love it, Carolyn.
Have you seen it?
No, you've got to watch it.
So it's it's Rexham is the
soccer team that Ryan Reynolds bought.
And they were like out of
the Champions League in
England and trying to get back in,
try to get promoted.
And that's what it's all been about.
But what you'll appreciate with it,
along with that,
when they bought the team,
they bought the women's team as well.
And in season two,
they really started to
feature them along with the
men's team in the season.
And they were trying to get
promoted as well.
And I don't want to spoil
anything for anybody on the
first two seasons.
It's on Netflix?
It's Hulu.
It's actually on FX is what it airs on.
But Hulu has the streaming rates.
See,
Andrew hasn't even watched the new
season.
It's not just me.
Yeah, I'm three episodes in.
Guys, come on.
Let's go.
I've been busy.
So...
Yeah,
it is like watching a season of a sport,
this show,
because they climb and fall in
the standings,
and then they show game
clips and your heart's
falling when another team scores,
and it's just crazy.
But it's as good as watching sports.
Kenneth is making a snide remark.
They have Hulu in Canada?
Yeah.
I'm not sure.
I think so.
I think I get it.
I probably don't have it.
That's why I don't.
But I don't really watch
even much Netflix at all.
Lex does more Netflix or shows.
So, like, for me, there's a Disney bundle,
which is ESPN, Hulu, and Disney.
And we got that a long time
ago when my daughter lived here.
And it's because I like ESPN.
My wife liked that weird something tale,
The Handmaid's Tale.
Oh, yeah.
I was on Hulu.
So she got Hulu, Corey got Disney,
and I got ESPN.
And it was a nice bundle.
Less than Netflix charges now.
No, Andrew,
you can wait till after the show,
then go watch Wrexham.
But yeah,
I just had to bring that up
because I got Jamie hooked
on Wrexham last year, last season,
and now it's back and I
wanted to see if she was catching up.
Lana Marcin,
it's on Disney Plus in Canada.
Jamie, happy Mother's Day.
Thank you.
What'd you do?
Workout four.
Ordered in our Marley spoon box.
I had ordered like the
Mother's Day brunch kit and
it was waffles.
It was like this really
in-depth recipe of waffles, though,
like had yeast and you had
to make it the night before.
So the boys,
they did that last night for
me and then cooked them this morning.
I was so full and I was like,
got to the gym and I was like, oh, my God,
I need like an hour before
I can even like think about it.
So, yeah, I had that for breakfast.
Then we just went out to dinner.
I was rushing back here just to make this.
The restaurant was so packed tonight.
I mean, we knew it would be,
but it was just insane.
Our food was so slow.
My wife boycotted Mother's Day.
Yeah.
I honestly thought we were not doing it.
Like, last weekend we had said, you know,
like,
kind of out this weekend with
semifinals and...
And then, I don't know,
yesterday we were getting
texts trying to figure out
what we were doing.
I was like,
I don't even know what I'm
going to be done working out.
But we made it work.
Yeah, Corey's going through some stuff.
And she was like,
I just don't want any
pressure on her to feel
like she needs to be here.
So she goes,
I'm just boycotting it so she
doesn't feel the pressure to come home.
Fair enough.
And so we had a nice weekend,
just her and I. Did some
errands yesterday and took
her out to lunch.
But last thing before we get
to the CrossFit,
Lucas had prom and he was
sporting the pink tux as
well as anybody could.
You should pull that up.
We should have had that
ready to bring up on.
I thought he looked so good.
Like, he really went all out.
His friends wore black, but I was like,
come on, guys.
It's Barbie theme.
I know.
And I kept telling him, like,
because I had ended up ordering, like,
six of these suits for him to try on.
And I was like,
ask your friends if they
want to try one of these on, like,
before I send them all back.
I don't know.
I don't think he asked.
There he is.
Aww.
He looks so good.
So good.
So jealous.
Yeah.
He was, he was a stud.
He said he got lots of compliments.
So.
Well, and this is going to sound bad,
but like, I love the print in it too.
Like it's just not.
Right.
Yeah.
Like the first one we had
ordered had like flowers in
it and it was like real sparkly.
It was like a bit much.
And then the one that he
said he liked was a
straight up plain pink suit.
And it was just not as like, I don't know.
It just wasn't as unique as this one.
And then when this one came in,
this is what, this is what he said.
Yeah.
I was really happy with it.
Yeah.
And he had a good time?
Yeah.
I don't know how much he dances.
I feel like those boys just stand there.
But he said he had fun,
and he said he did dance a little bit.
It was at MSU's stadium,
up in the press box area.
I've never been up there,
so it sounds like it was really cool.
Yeah.
That's really cool.
Anything like that.
Yeah,
I had a conference one time at the
Kansas City Soccer Stadium
in their press box.
And we had a work conference
overlooking the field.
It was awesome.
Yeah.
Well, you had a busy weekend.
It was age group semifinal weekend.
We did a little show with
some guys this afternoon.
All the ladies I'd reached
out to were like,
I'm doing a workout right at that time.
Yeah, when you said the time, I was like,
that's when I said I'm going to the gym.
But I did get Ryan Redkey, Corey Leonard,
and Dex Hopkins to jump on.
And whenever you have Dex and Corey on,
they're the Chatty Cathy
doll that just pulled their own string.
It was so good.
It was a cooking show too, Scott.
It was.
Dex was meal prepping for his workout.
I loved it.
But I had a blast.
They were so, so much fun.
Wasn't sure Ryan knew what was going on,
but he seemed to be playing along.
He did great.
It was off the rails.
So, so they,
we talked about a lot of
things and I want,
I want to get your
impression of some of those.
And that is, first of all,
where you sit right now is
a little tenuous.
Yeah.
Yeah.
You're currently in 43rd,
but your weakest workout is
that it was out of the way.
Right.
You,
you've said on here before that the
torn labrum,
it hurts most or your
shoulders most unstable in a snatch.
Yeah.
And that could be mental too.
Like I just, yeah, I don't know.
We talked about that off air
and that can stay private or whatever,
but, um,
But yeah,
but you got it out of the way and
you didn't fall clear to the bottom.
You're still middle, middle of the pack.
Yeah.
I mean, there was like 50,
50 people who also didn't
snatch that final bar.
And I think I was sixth out
of those 52 people who
didn't snatch that bar.
So I made tie break was pretty good.
Yeah.
It became a tie break
workout for a lot of people.
I had,
we had two people at my gym in the
semifinals.
One's a 14 and 14 year old boy.
And then the other one is a 65 plus.
So really both end of the spectrum.
But then I started looking
at their leaderboards and
sure enough like there's
like just a chunk of people
at you know whatever
weights where people don't
lift at that weight and it
just becomes a tiebreaker
there's like 20 people that
were tied and for your
division there was what 50
you said I think it was
yeah I think it was 50
people maybe 46 40 I don't
know um at that final bar crazy yeah
So if people know you're sitting in 43rd,
they pick 40.
But you have two pretty good
workouts for you coming up.
I hope so.
So I have confidence that
you will be well above that
40 spot after the weekend is over.
After seeing Rudy do his and
seeing your times,
I'm confident you will be
in really good shape.
Did you redo any this weekend?
I have not.
I may redo number three
tomorrow just for... That's
the ring muscle-up one?
Yeah,
but it would probably just kind of be
for training purposes more
than anything else.
Or position-wise on day one?
I don't know what they're...
what they're uh how they're
setting that up I doesn't
that doesn't really bother
me honestly so it's a long
it's again and we talked
about this with carolyn and
the in quarterfinals and
you in quarterfinals it's a
really long weekend for
four workouts it's so long
I and I don't like that
because I don't like the
testing two, three times.
And, um, I don't know.
It's just not, not my thing.
I think while I think one, one, three,
and four are totally redoable.
I think two is too much volume to redo.
Um, so I, if anyone redid that, holy cow,
props to them.
There was no way I was
redoing that workout.
Um, well, but minus the three,
the three minute setup and, um,
10 seconds of jumping rope.
Uh, I see McCannons says, uh,
I think chase said that too,
and it would have been nice
for a flashy fifth workout.
There totally needs to be another workout.
I'm shocked.
We only have four workouts to be honest.
It's always been five, right?
Yeah.
Crazy.
Yeah.
I was surprised quarters was four.
Like with that much time,
it easily could be, it could be five.
But, um,
so then there was the leak that it
came out.
I didn't even know about this.
Right.
Neither did the guys on the show today.
Like they're like,
we're two days in when we
learned about it.
Yeah.
Some people had the
movements in the order they
were weeks before this happened.
That's insane.
I got a bone to pick with Tristan.
He needs to be in that crowd
so we know these things.
Yeah, I just saw that.
See,
I had just heard that Taylor Self had
it just because I saw it on
Taylor's video that he was
doing about it.
But I didn't know that.
I mean, I'm assuming if it goes to him,
there's a community of
people that would have it.
But I didn't know how many
people would have access to that.
It's crazy.
Like Taylor said,
people hate his guts and he had it.
And he said that on Club and Scribble.
That's where Hiller took that.
But who else have we heard
that actually had it other than Taylor?
So Masters Chatter talked about it,
and there were other people who had it.
Okay.
So what kind of disadvantage
does that put athletes in
that don't have it?
Or do you just not care and
you're just going to move on?
Um.
It's really tough to... It's
really tough to, like,
just knowing the movements is one thing.
It's really tough to
anticipate what the time
frame would be and... Like,
you don't have the weights.
Like,
just because you knew you were rowing
and snatching,
how do you know exactly
what you're doing?
And you don't know that it's
a 20-minute AMRAP.
Like,
I suppose you could have practiced
some combinations of things
and maybe had a leg up, but...
you don't know what the long workout is.
So you don't know which one
is the one you probably
want to test so that you
don't have to have a redo later.
I don't know.
So this is the podcast I saw
talking about it.
Jason Grubb had a podcast
and Bob and Joe ripped into
Taylor without naming him
saying he had a lack of integrity.
Who has the lack of the person reporting?
It has a lack of integrity
or the person who leaked it.
I feel like he at least was
honest in saying, hey,
I got these workouts.
Right.
Reporting is one thing.
That makes no sense.
But, like, what was he – I mean,
I guess he could have reported it earlier,
but then you also don't
know if that's the real
thing until it comes out.
And it's like, oh, I guess these were it,
the text message or whatever he had.
Yeah.
maybe they felt that if once he had it,
he should have put it out
versus after the workouts were released.
I don't know.
Is that what they meant?
Cause I didn't see that podcast.
I only saw clips from it to
know that the leak was
bigger than just Taylor.
Here's my, here's my thing.
I really disagree with you, Andrew,
and I'm trying to get upset.
Um,
Here's the deal.
Being at Legends back in the athlete area,
talking to athletes,
it was obvious to me that
some of the athletes had
more information than other
athletes about that competition.
And I'm not naming names or
accusing anybody of anything.
It was obvious to me in the
questions I asked and the
answers I got that some
people knew more than
others and knew more about
what was coming with the
age group CrossFit games than others.
Yeah.
So there is someone leaking
information to some of the athletes.
If you want to be a legit
sport moving forward, that has to stop.
Or you need to make your
announcements way earlier for everybody.
CrossFit almost needs to
hire like a few athletes
that are good that could basically like,
you know,
semifinal games level athletes
and be like, Hey,
we're going to pay you a contract.
And like, it's a paid job.
You're on the team to test
and you're not part of any
training camp or anything like that.
Your job is to, you know,
test the workouts and
you're part of that little tiny circle.
It's almost like you need
someone that's not actively active.
within the community, even,
even like people that are programming,
like they're still friends
with people that are
competing and stuff like that.
Like, it's just hard.
We live like, it's,
it's just an unprofessional
sport in terms, like in general,
these leagues happen every competition,
almost like almost every competition.
There's people that know the workouts, um,
or movements or something like that.
Like, I don't know.
I don't even know if that
would even work to, they don't,
they wouldn't have the money to do that,
but.
I don't even know what the solution is.
Cause you still need some
sort of high level athletes
to test the workouts,
but almost everyone is
connected to someone.
So it's like,
even if you were to hire them
to test workouts or it's just hard.
I think there's just a lot
of people that lack
integrity in general and
I just, I don't know.
It's just frustrating.
It's really frustrating.
I'm,
I'm to the point in my belief system
that the late announcement
of things is just,
we just have to go away from it.
You just have to, you know, the workout,
you have it finalized,
you announce it to the
world and then you do the
password stuff if it's,
if it's online or.
you or it's live and
everybody has the same
advantage you should always
do the password online
because if you had access
to it prior you can't film
it prior you need to
release that password so
that you're still executing
whatever workout it was on
that day or that weekend
like the password thing was
a great idea when they when they had that
But yeah,
I think that they just almost
have to release the
workouts early because
there's just too much
information out there.
Once the workouts are finalized,
it's almost like, okay, release it.
Yep.
Seema, you're making excellent points,
but I don't want to name names.
So I'm not pulling up your comment,
not because of I don't
believe you or respect you.
You are making excellent points.
What Andrew says here,
society in general has a
problem with integrity.
I agree.
But like you're saying,
just because Taylor heard it,
he shouldn't share it.
I actually think that is the
issue and it in line with
what you're saying.
Like,
I kind of think he has that he has
more integrity to try to
put it out there and let everyone,
everyone else be in it.
Like it's,
it's unfair.
And so he's trying to level
that playing field by
getting that out there.
Like he shouldn't be one of
the few that has it or for people,
if he like is aware of where,
where it came around.
It's just tough.
Right.
Cause like he'll like,
he coaches age group
athletes or if he got the
information for himself for
the semifinals, right?
Like it is an advantage for
him to know that as an athlete,
like when he got released
the movements of the
individual semifinals, um,
except for like two or
something that weren't in there.
Like that's an advantage for him to know.
And it's like,
it's a tough situation that he's in.
He didn't ask to be put in
that position to know that information.
So it's, I mean,
good on him for being
honest with what would you say?
Shut up and scribble.
So the Jr.
Yep.
But yeah, it's just a, it's tough.
But why should he have it?
Andrew?
You can't just yell at the screen, Jamie.
Come on.
Here we go.
So Andrew said,
but he doesn't know who has it.
I don't think he's, and then he says this,
I don't think he's assuming
everybody has it.
I think he,
if you heard Brent Fikowski on Savan,
he said if he had it,
he would be the rat that
told everybody because it
needs to be a level playing field.
And he goes,
everybody would call me a rat.
And that's what I would do.
And that's why nobody shares
anything with me because
they know I'm going to rat it all out.
And the one year at the games,
like there's a, I think it was like 2022,
I think.
Like,
I feel like so many athletes knew so
many of the workouts.
Like I was on the bus and I
had a male athlete tell me, oh yeah,
the next one I heard
there's cleans and yokes
and heavy deadlifts.
And I was like, okay, yeah.
I mean,
we're going to find out soon at the
briefing.
And like, I didn't, and then sure enough,
they're like doing the briefing and then
The clean, the deadlifts.
And I'm like, are you kidding me?
I'm like, how long have people known this?
And I was like, this is ridiculous.
I was happy with the workout
because I like those movements.
But I was like, people know this?
This is not a fair game.
This is not a fair game.
I completely agree.
So my last age group question,
now that we've hammered that quite a bit,
is I'm confident you're
going to qualify after this weekend.
I've seen your scores.
You're going to be fine.
You're going to make it to the games,
and then you have a really
long time before the games
because your semis are before elite,
and elite to elite games is
a shorter window,
and then you have another
month after that.
So how do you, like,
do you just stop training
hard and get your body
recovered and then start
building back up as you get closer?
Or how are you going to
handle that long window?
Because I asked Rudy Berger
the same question.
I don't want to hear your answer.
I don't know.
That's a tough one for me.
Like, I'm not somebody who likes...
resting or even like down,
down regulating in my training.
Like that's been really hard
for me over like the last four years.
Like I would honestly say I
could show up to any
competition any week of the
year and would perform
exactly as I do any time.
And,
and I know that's not even close to ideal,
ideal, but I, I don't,
I don't know.
I just train the same year
round pretty much.
So nothing will really change.
Probably.
You have a shoulder injury.
Well, yeah, I,
right now I should probably
try to like figure the
thing is there's really nothing I can do.
Like, like you said,
I have to have surgery.
So I don't know, like,
and maybe this isn't a topic for here,
but another CrossFit
athlete reached out to you
and said they tried something different.
Do you have time to try that
different thing,
or do you think that wouldn't work?
Like the court zone shot?
Yeah.
Well,
it was Carleen Matthews reached out
to you because she had the same injury.
Yeah,
I think she just did a court zone
shot too.
Yeah, I thought she did PRP.
Oh, yeah,
I don't know if I want to do that.
don't know if because of the
extended period of time
would you have the time to
try something and recover
maybe maybe I don't know I
don't know enough about any
of that stuff like I don't
you have to like not work
out for a while after prp
like isn't it kind of like
a stem cell type issue like
and you're supposed to not
work out so like that it
can heal I think it's your
own red blood cells it's
your own platelets
I don't know.
I'll just keep working out on it.
It's whatever.
I'm just going to rip it off
and then we'll get it fixed afterwards.
Like I, it is what it is.
Would you get surgery after the games?
Yeah, that's kind of on the plan.
And that's why I just like train up.
Like it is what it is.
I'll work on it until it
pops out of pops out of the
socket completely.
And, and it's useless.
And then we'll get it healed.
I don't know.
I'm not smart.
I just work my body until it
doesn't go anymore.
Okay.
Right.
I'll rub some dirt on it, Ken.
You're spot on.
I'm just here to ask the question.
We'll see what Tristan has to say.
Okay.
And you're working with a doctor.
You could talk to them as well.
I guess I haven't seen him since.
Okay.
February.
So I haven't seen him since
before the open.
Cause you don't want to hear
what he has to say at this point.
I, yeah.
I mean,
he told me I can work out on it and
I will probably try to get
the quarter zone shot.
That's like,
that's going to be what I do
and see if I can, I don't know.
Okay.
All right, cool.
Well, good luck the rest of the way.
Um, if you redo good luck with that.
Um, and I,
I'm confident you'll be in there.
So, um,
we're a week out from the elite
semifinals already.
It seems like the season is so compressed.
Is it just me?
We're like, bam, quarterfinals.
Bam, age group semis.
Bam, we're into the elite semis.
It's just nonstop.
I don't know.
I felt like it was like this last year.
I had a lot more time to do
semifinal interviews last
year than I do this year.
Because the quarterfinal got pushed back.
That's the issue for you.
Because the quarterfinals
almost two or three weeks
after what it was last year.
Like there was a lot of time.
There was still somewhat a
lot of time between the
quarters and the semis.
This time around,
it was like quarters got
done and less than a month away.
Boom,
you already have the first semifinal.
So that's why it's probably
like more jam packed.
It feels like a quicker
turnaround for sure from
the quarters to semis.
I prefer like last year's
version where it went open
one weekend off and then we
had the quarterfinals and
then a little bit more time
to build for the semifinals.
I prefer that over the
schedule of this year, I guess.
But it is what it is.
So, so they're here anyway.
We're here.
They come last week on barbell spin.
Um,
they had a dream Bosman on who did
clarify some, some things.
First is the running on the workout.
One is not going to be on a machine.
How excited are you for that?
Or are you not?
I don't know.
Like I like the machines.
I get the direct feedback of
like if I'm slowing down,
if I'm picking it up versus
like on the floor.
But in terms of the race,
like you just know where
you are in the race.
Like it's hard to you can
like a lot of times you
could see just the lanes
beside you last year on the
flip cards that they were putting.
But you couldn't see all the
way down the floor unless
the commentary or the.
person talking was announcing.
And most of the time they're
like behind on what they're saying.
Uh,
so in terms of like knowing where you
are in the race, it's much better.
Um, you, again,
we kind of are like last
year where you can't
compare between regions at all.
Um,
kind of like the magic carpet from last
year where one, you know,
North America had
the floors that were like super friction.
And then you had other places that,
you know, it was sliding much better.
So like you,
I always like after the end of
the semifinals,
just to see where I would be worldwide.
And I think that that takes
that out now because you cannot compare.
routes that different people
will be running.
And it just leaves a lot of
room for interpretation.
Is it going to be like 200 meter loops?
Is it going to be one long 800 meter loop?
Is it outside?
Is it inside?
So I'm looking forward to
seeing a little bit more of
those details.
But I mean,
I think running on the ground
will just favor the better runners.
I think the machines help
um certain athletes because
every machine is better if
you are a little bit taller
weigh a little bit more so
yeah I what I think is if
they would broadcast it
which they have chosen not
to it would make it a
better spectator event
because you could actually
see who's winning
There's nothing more boring
than watching Air Runner
and a little tick thing
going up than that.
Vi asks a question.
And she typed a long time,
so we want to give her her due.
Jamie,
there are some games athletes who
are saying they're
considering doing the
individual games if they
qualify and the Masters games.
Do you have thoughts on this?
Is it good for the age groups?
Yeah,
I think it's great for the age groups.
I think keeping some of
these age group names
relevant is only going to
draw bigger crowds to the age groups,
to the Masters.
So, yeah,
if you can have someone go to the
games and do well and then –
what,
and what if that person shows up at
their 35, 39 and doesn't win?
Like that just shows you a,
it probably shows you a
little bias in the programming possibly,
but like,
there's just the qualifying
process is just,
it's just difficult and
everybody's different at
different stages.
So, um,
I think it'd be cool to see
something like that happen.
And probably added
motivation for the age
group athletes trying to
beat that games qualifier.
Absolutely.
For sure.
Yeah.
And exposure is exposure, right?
The more you get, the better.
And the age groups need as
much as they can get.
And I think you'll probably
see them even more in team athletes.
Like you'll have some team
athletes who then come and
do the master's.
Right.
And Kenneth, that's what I was saying.
If it was streamed,
it'd be a better spectator sport,
but it's not being streamed,
which is a travesty.
It is a travesty.
yeah even like see even if
they don't get the run
because it's like outside
and they come back in and
they don't want to have
like a drone or something
like that but just seeing
the athletes enter every
round do their 10 clean and
jerks run out see the you
know who's coming in and
out where people are going
touch and go singles are
they making up any ground
just any type of broadcast would be good
So I was in the Coliseum for
the 400s with the cleans,
the clean ladder,
one of the most exciting
events I ever watched.
And I couldn't even see the run.
Well, regardless,
I run that I could not see.
And then the clean,
when they were entering and exiting,
it was so much fun.
Yeah.
And this is a longer run.
Like there's going to be some change.
Yeah.
Yeah,
I'm so upset that they're not doing that.
So the other clarification
is that the lunges are farmer's carry.
Thank God.
And then he was very coy
about the handstand walk.
Hmm.
Because he was asked straight out,
is it a straight down and
back handstand walk?
And he said,
I'm going to save that for now.
Yeah,
that one I'm just really having
trouble visualizing.
I don't get the 96, 120, and then 72.
And the 72 is the same
distance as the last event
with the lunges.
But, like, yes, they can go into –
like a 24 foot sections, uh,
spin was saying like, you know,
one round would be 48 down
and back then 60 down and back then a 72.
But I just don't see that
like where you'd have a 48, um,
foot line.
And then the next round you're going for,
like,
I think it would be so confusing to
have different colored lines.
It's like, no,
this time you're going to that line.
I don't know.
I think it's just 24-foot sections.
Maybe with like a pirouette
or something in the middle of a box.
Like we had at semifinals last year,
like a pirouette in the
middle of each 24-foot section.
And it's just like a 20-foot,
one pirouette.
And then you come down at the 20-foot,
24-foot.
Kick back up in the middle.
You do a 360.
Just because I don't see them bringing...
The ramp and like having
that at every semifinal.
Right.
I agree.
I just don't see them having that.
Could they do a zigzag?
They could.
I don't see that.
The easiest thing is the
pirouette that they had last year.
Totally agree.
Like, I just don't,
I don't even see them
having plates on the ground
where you go over and.
Nope.
Yeah,
I think it'll be the 24 foot sections
with one to three pirouettes.
Something like that.
I just don't think it's like a 48, 60.
Like, I don't know.
I can't.
I can't picture going
different distances every time.
You would just keep adding a length.
But yeah, I don't know.
So it was also announced
that they were changing the
formula for strength of region,
and they were only
including those individuals
who are going to semifinals
instead of the whole thing.
Which is what I thought it was, right?
That's what I was trying to say last week.
It was not that way before.
I know, but that's what they're doing.
It's like the 40 that signed up,
that makes the strength of field, right?
Yeah.
So we had to wait until 42nd cat got it,
whoever declined.
And that's what I thought was happening.
So it, it was not announced though,
until Wednesday and then
released on Friday.
Um, cause if you follow like Halpin,
like he changed it
repeatedly through the week
as more information became available.
Um, and like, at first when he said that,
I was like, okay, that's a,
that's actually a good change.
to represent, you know,
the actual athletes that
are competing and people
that are going team that
tried to do the
quarterfinals for their regions.
Like they shouldn't count
technically because they're
not in the field.
So I'm like, okay,
this is actually a good move.
And then when the numbers came out,
I was like, Oh no.
I was like, yeah, I don't think this is,
I mean,
clearly it's somewhat performance based,
but I was like, Ooh,
So here's my beef with this whole thing.
And then I'll let you guys,
I'll pull the string.
We'll let you guys go.
Jamie, when this was released,
Jamie said to me,
there's no way that the
third place person from
South America beats,
I can't remember what number she used,
like the 40th person from
North America East.
Correct.
Or Europe.
I think the first place
person would have a hard
time beating 30 of the
people in the North America East.
Correct.
I was just, yeah, being very extreme.
But yes.
I'm going further with it.
And yet they did a next,
like I see Oceana with the men.
The men are on the come.
And with Bailey and Jay Crouch and Ricky,
like that needed to be boosted up.
Yep.
And the women,
they have a bunch of young
women coming out of there too.
I'm not sure it should go to four,
but... Not this year.
In regular years, yes.
It's already like they got a
spot added because Tia's not there.
Now it's like they got two spots added.
When Tia's not in the field,
that's a spot for someone.
Like...
It really is.
Same thing.
I mean, I would say typically for when,
when Carl was competing,
like if she was not there,
like it's the same thing.
It's like earning those spots.
But so it was already like
they had that extra spot.
Cause Tia switched regions.
Agree.
So.
Your guy.
So only eight women in the West.
which we kind of talked about.
I think you guys are good
with that last week.
I thought it was going to be
somewhere like around seven or eight.
So that's basically where I
thought it was.
Yeah.
Were you shocked Europe only got 10?
Very.
In my opinion,
Europe should have like 14
or 15 for the women.
I think I would have them have like 14,
the East 14, the West like 18.
Seven or eight.
Asia.
Sahar... What's her name?
Sahar?
She's good.
And Chung Young Choi is back.
And Choi is good.
It's like max two there.
I don't understand the South
America one where they got
the extra spot.
Me either.
And the Asia one, really, too.
Maybe I just haven't been following it,
but...
I get the Asia one with Sean
Young Choi and Zahir Kaya.
It's because it's because
Choi wasn't in the field last year.
So she's getting back her
points from the year prior
and someone else from the
year prior that had qualified.
So like,
that's like one of the ways that
you could get more like spots,
but I don't know.
I just don't understand the extras.
Like I, like, like you're three.
No,
south america but lynn says
it best in the comments
linda jiri europe was the
biggest surprise of only
getting 10 yeah at least 12
like at least 12 to 13 for
me like for the east and
europe and like the west I
think is fine at eight
that's fine but it's like
some of the other regions
that got more I was like oh
I tried talking to Lex about it,
and she's like, hey, these are the spots.
You can't do anything.
And I was like, I know, but let me vent.
And she's like, nope.
She's like, top 11.
It's all set.
She's like,
you don't have to worry about
any other region.
And I was like, I know, but still.
To me, Europe got ripped off.
I completely agree.
Yeah.
We ready to do our exercise?
Yes.
I'm going to try my best.
I need to pull up my list.
So we are picking the people
we think are going to make the games.
And I have a frog.
Okay.
So let's start with Asia
because it was the hardest.
Who do you guys have for the men in Asia?
It's two spots.
Ant.
Haynes.
I mean, I, I feel like that set of got,
wasn't he, wasn't he qualified last year?
And he ended,
he was the one who backed out.
Which one?
The one that's in second?
Yes.
He's a set of got.
I feel like he was qualified
last year and something
happened and Ant took his spot.
I'll take the Ivan guy.
Yeah, I would take.
Ivan dominated quarters.
Yeah, he did.
So I've been Kirkus of.
I have him going and Shung Young Kim.
OK,
with Aunt Haynes being the dark horse
to get a spot.
I just don't know enough about that.
The man on that side.
I still think I think said I
got it's going to get one
of the spots personally,
and I think it would be the sleeper.
I think Ant will get in as
one of the two spots.
I'll pick Ivan.
I'll do Ortiz as a third place.
On the women's side,
I think we all probably
have the first two.
Yeah.
Sahir Kaya and Chung Young
Choi will get two of the three spots.
Who do you have on the third spot?
Evie Hollis.
That's what I picked too.
That's just because I...
That's like the one name
that I would recognize.
That's who I have.
And I couldn't come up with a dark horse.
I'll be honest.
I did not know any of the
other John Young.
Do I want John?
Yeah.
So, yeah, I don't,
I don't know enough about
the other athletes to come
up with a dark horse there.
Me either.
Yeah.
All right.
So then we go to Europe
where it's going to be a lot easier.
Okay.
So we'll do this systematically.
Jamie, who are your men for Europe?
Koski.
Yeah.
Like, like all of them.
Yeah.
Just hit,
hit the 10 and then your dark horse.
Koski, BKG, Feibig, Hoffer.
Benito.
Bronislaw.
Lazar.
What am I at?
Seven.
I wasn't counting.
Yellow hosta.
And I'm going to say my dark horse is...
I wrote that down somewhere.
Is this the one that has the, yeah,
my dark horse versus boss hard.
Colin.
Yeah.
Caroline, are you going to go with her?
Do I need to count as you go?
No, I have my 10.
I'll pick the dark horse after.
Koski.
Lazar.
BKG.
Hoffer.
i think the brother
qualifies especially with
that running event I think
the brother qualifies
especially with that
running event I think the
brother qualifies
especially with that
running event he'll do well
in that first one he'll do
well in that first one
he'll do well in that first
one hosta hosta hosta hosta
hello hello hello uh henrik
kapalinan uh henrik
kapalinan uh henrik
kapalinan and my tenth is
luca vunyak okay okay okay
this and I actually put
them in the this and I
actually put them in the
this and I actually put
them in the order I think
they'll finish order I
think they'll finish order
I think they'll finish okay
Yonikoski, BKG, Moritz Fiebig, Yella Hosta,
Lazar Jukic, Enrico Zanoni, Victor Hoffa,
Enoil Akai, Heinrich Heipelainen,
and Fabian Benito.
And I actually have Luca as my dark horse.
My dark horse is the Nika.
Maserazzi?
Maserazzi?
Okay.
Okay.
Go with the women.
We'll go Carolyn first this time.
Women.
Laura, Gabby, Manon, Emma Tall,
Emma McQuaid, Freyova, Dahlstrom.
I'm going to go with Gluck, Fuliano,
Kringle.
What am I at right now?
One, two, three.
You told me I didn't need to count.
I guess Kringle will be my last one.
I have Laura Horvat, Gabby Magawa,
Emma Tall, Karen Freyova, Emma McQuaid,
Mano Anganese, Elisa Fuliano,
Elena Caratal-Sanahua, Andrea Sober,
and Moram Yvonne Rohrer.
Dark Horse, Lucy McGonigal.
Decent.
I have Gabby, Laura,
not necessarily in that order,
but possibly.
Gabby likes to beat Laura at semifinals.
Emma, Tal, Karen Freova, Turi, Manon,
McQuaid, Van Roer, and Wittesen.
And my dark horse is Solberg.
Yeah, just outside for me,
I have Turi and Solberg.
So Lynn asks me, wait, Scott,
you don't have Bronislaw?
This is classic CrossFit this year.
Last year was heavy, pulling a sled,
heavy snatches.
Bronislaw doesn't have that this year.
And so that's why he's not in my 10.
He just has to survive the
first two events, damage control.
And then I think he can make
up some stuff.
But like number three is what,
rope climbs?
He's not very tall, right?
Some of the taller Europeans
might have an easier time
on a 30-inch box jump, legless rope climb,
and the echo bike.
Really, if you're tall on that one,
someone like Brent should
do very well on that event
when it's his turn.
Bronislaw's not short, but he's not tall.
I think it's mostly that
first event for sure.
Then after that,
he can win the snatch one.
And the reason I have Andrea
Solberry there is if she's
going to ever make it to the games,
this is the programming she needed.
Yeah, I agree.
And she's been on the verge for so long.
She's good.
And like anything handstand walk,
she's going to crush.
i think she's gonna crush
that event I think she'll
win that one so yeah that's
where and I find in europe
like you have like gabby
and laura and I might be
like maybe one or two other
ones and then there's like
so many that can just fight
for the rest of those spots
it's gonna be very exciting
and it's just like
depending on execution
really and how they're
gonna be feeling that
weekend it's gonna be close
So Lynn says,
I have it on record that
Bronislaw has been running every day.
Nice.
But it doesn't matter if you run every day,
if you run really slow every day.
Yeah.
It's just tough.
Cause like Europe are so
known to have aerobic capacity and,
you know,
most of the workouts that
they've excelled in
throughout the open and quarter finals,
like they've done so well
in any type of aerobic work.
So yeah,
I'm sure there's going to be
some freaks on that first
one with the run.
That's just going to be hard
for him to get those points,
but he can even up by winning the snatch.
Yeah, exactly.
And like when you have a
home run in these type of semifinals,
it's huge.
If you can get those top five points,
like because it like the
points kind of like
decrease at a certain amount.
It's like in the East last year,
Most of the time,
those top four or five
girls were just getting top four or five.
So the moment like Sydney
Wells got a first place on
that run and got a lot of points,
it helped for her last
place because it just,
it brought her way back
into the mix versus like,
if you're just getting
middle ground the whole
time and it's just kind of
fighting between those bubble players,
like the moment you can
have that home run, it's,
it's huge in that kind of weekend.
Yeah.
It'll be interesting to see.
I just... It's never been
easy for Braun to make it to the games.
Every year is a struggle.
He's not going to go in as a podium.
It's going to be... He's
going to be in that 7 to 13 range.
So... Any other comments
about what's coming up?
The...
And we'll get the coverage
of Saturday and Sunday this
weekend for both of those,
probably in the early morning hours,
right?
I just think it's
unfortunate for the week
one to not have all the details.
And like, we had the same thing last.
I mean, I I've never,
I've never not been in week one.
I think every time I've been week one,
but like,
it would be nice for them to
know like what kind of
handstand walk it is like just the,
the layout, the flow.
at least know that you know
the week of um I just
because the rest of the
weeks we're going to know
how what the floor layouts
are and everything else so
I don't think that it's
fair for the week one to
have the adaptability also
be a factor like for us we
have you know we have more
time I guess that like that
like that's one thing but
like week one has the least
amount of time and they
also have to adapt because
they're finding out
floor layout like why not
just release like what they
used to do a few years ago
those videos of someone at
hq going through the flow
of what the workout looks
like I think it saves a lot
of stupid questions at the
briefing and I think it
makes it fair for the week
one I i like that idea so
kenneth asks who does andre
who day coach he coaches a
lot of people now
Uh, hyperline and the medicine, right?
I'm not sure.
And I know Mano for sure.
Um, but yeah, he's growing in Europe as a,
as an elite coach.
So there's a lot,
he has a lot of athletes.
Um,
talked about north america
versus the world earlier in
the week um carolyn you
brought that this up in the
notes they announced that
they're going to have
several formats at water
palooza california socal
water palooza socal my
first question to you is
north america versus the
world do you think this is
the out of box thinking
that crossfit offseason needs
Yeah, I think it's, I mean, it's cool.
It's,
this is what we talked about before
the format was out that
they should do something like this,
where the athletes after the games,
the volume can be a little bit lower.
Um, you know,
you have the one-on-ones or two,
you pick your two athletes
for this workout so that
they're not getting crushed by the bond.
Cause they're coming off the games.
Um,
So I think something like this is cool.
You saw a unique format in,
what was it called?
The fittest?
fit fest fit fest that like
that worked well um people
will say that this is kind
of like the grid league
type of format too I'm not
familiar enough with how
that runs to I don't think
that it's kind of like the
grid league but I think
it's a great idea um
something unique and I
think it's going to draw a
lot of people to come there
plus it's california so
So I think calling it grid league is lazy.
Grid league movements are
very different than CrossFit movements.
What they allow and what
they don't allow in grid is
what makes grid grid.
Just because you start
different people and
specialists doesn't make a grid.
So here are the formats.
First is individual,
all for one and one for all,
all eight versus each other.
Second one is all hands.
Um, because we go, we go further together,
all eight as one United
front spotlight showcase,
the team's expertise,
one male and female on
behalf of the team.
Um, Miami team, uh,
with love for the teams of three,
same gender.
So three women, three men.
And then we have a CrossFit Games team.
Two men, two women repping your squad.
And then captains.
True test of leadership.
Teams captains go toe to toe.
I love it.
I do too.
That's awesome.
And the captains will be
voted on by the fans.
That's cool.
Should the teams be voted on by the fans?
Or just becomes a popularity thing?
I call it heavy hitter.
I like that.
The heavy hitter format.
I think it hits all the
spots it needs to hit.
It's reduced volume, like you said.
You're just coming off the games.
You cheer on your teammates.
You can pick who's good at what.
And you can split it up so
not anybody's doing too
much in the weekend.
And just...
And again, I said it last week.
We used to do like a
barbecue the day of the invitational.
And it was just an all-day watch party.
And we would have a blast.
I cannot wait for this.
And that's not going to rain
like in Florida.
This is California here.
And the television coverage
should be better because
you don't have a 30-wide lane here.
field to try to cover this
is just two teams I'm
excited for it uh Lynn's
asking is SoCal happening
before after Rogue it is
happening before it is at
the very end of September
and Rogue got pushed back I
think to November next year
or this year right because
normally it's in October
this time yeah SoCal is
definitely the end of September
Um, so yeah, so I'm excited.
Something fun to watch.
Um,
we'll go ahead and finish up with a
couple other little details.
Um,
I wanted to talk a little bit about
CrossFit media.
Um,
and this may be my riff for the week or
whatever,
but I found out that we had
approved media credentials
for Clydesdale media on Monday.
Two weeks from an event in California.
Try to get plane tickets and
accommodations in two freaking weeks.
And that was verbal.
I didn't even get the
written approval until Thursday.
We've got to do better.
If you're not going to have
your own media department
and you're relying on third-party media,
they need to know if
they're approved or not
well before the event so
they can make the
accommodation plans just
like an athlete does.
What did you find?
The first hour it was available.
Which was when?
A couple months ago.
Yeah.
It took this long.
Wow.
Yeah.
It was during the open, I think.
I'd have to go back and look at my email,
but literally the first...
And I reached out to both
Syndicate and West Coast
Classic on Monday.
They both gave me a verbal,
but... And basically,
it was like with an attitude, like,
why didn't you reach out sooner?
I've applied.
That was me reaching out.
So...
Oh, Trish.
Trish says,
they have to watch all of your
videos to make sure you
don't have the wrong tone.
Here's my thing.
I've been respectful.
I show up at every press
conference at the events.
I do all the things I'm supposed to do.
I'm a rule follower by fault.
Once I've proven that,
I should have a blanket
approval and not have to go
through an application
process every single year.
Now the size of my team may
differ this or what I can
bring as in photographer, videographer,
whatever may change year to
year based on the venue and the space.
I get that,
but the organization as a whole
should have an approval
once you've proven yourself.
waiting till this last
minute has made me pivot
completely on what I'm
doing this season because I
just cannot afford as a
small company to pull this off.
Here's the other part.
I'm going to say the fact
that they deny Andrew
Hiller as a media person is
you can love him or hate him.
He brings eyes to the sport
that I love and,
When you start restricting
people who have the ability
to bring people to the table,
you're going to lose the
sport altogether.
And then I'm going to have
nothing to talk about.
Is he my competition?
Sure.
But he deserves to be there
to report on what's going on.
He has proven that he has
the journalistic chops to do that.
with his visits to Mayhem,
with his 48 hours with Haley,
the visits to Affiliates.
Hate is no rep videos.
Hate is attack videos on HQ.
Whatever you want to do, fine.
But he deserves to be there.
I'm so sick of this.
I'm sick of them because
with personal vendettas
doing certain things and it
goes back to the days of
the vendetta against Matt
Frazier and not letting him
go to the invitational.
They do it to athletes.
They do it to media.
Whenever there is someone
who speaks out against them,
they blackball them in ways that
that is not fair to the
sport and you're going to
screw over the sport.
And then I'm not going to
have anything to talk about
in the venue that I love.
And it's got to stop.
I just think, and riff,
I just think more media, the better, like,
especially if they're not
going to be investing that
much in their media.
I don't understand why they
restrict the lenses,
like the lens length.
I don't,
I don't know anything about
cameras and stuff, but like,
why not allow people to, you know,
show like showcase their media side and,
and promote the sport
through their channels.
Like,
I think that that would only help
grow the sport.
I don't understand that part.
Yeah.
I do understand certain aspects, right?
You can only have so many
photographers in the pit.
Yes.
Right.
And the frog is back.
But you mean like anyone.
If I bought a Spectre Pass,
why can't I bring in a
camera lens and shoot from the stands?
I agree with you.
Why not?
Who cares?
People are still going to
watch the broadcast.
People are still going to
listen to the broadcast.
Are they that scared that
people aren't going to
watch the broadcast?
People are going to watch the broadcast.
Right.
There are lenses though that
are and I can't even show
it on the screen because it's too small.
Right, right.
You do have to limit the
lens in the spectator area
or people are going to get
hit in the head.
Okay, true.
Sure.
But it can be more reasonable.
Yeah.
All right.
But anyway,
we need as much media coverage
as we can get.
Absolutely.
I mean, we don't even have day one.
The teams get half of their competition.
Sure.
Right.
Cause the teams only compete
two days and you just cut
one of their days off.
Yep.
Yep.
I mean, and things like this happen, like,
like Dave saying after the fact last year,
when nobody was covering masters,
except for an iPhone from
the rafters and it's still
frame out where nobody
could see anything set on
as we can review.
to people that said, oh,
I would have covered it,
which I would have been one of them, said,
well, you should have.
But your media agreement
makes it so we can't.
Like, left hand talk to right hand.
But anyway.
It's what nobody,
there's no official stream
to compete with when they don't do one.
Like you would think if you
would think that on day one,
they'd be like, do you know,
we're not going to stream.
However, feel free to stream it, you know,
on your own platforms.
Well, and you know, everybody's brother,
sister, partner,
whatever is IG living it
from the stands anyway.
Like who did it last year?
Was it chase?
Was it,
was it get with the program or was it, uh,
the cross CrossFit podcast?
Like, well, what, what platform was it on?
think is the crofts fit
podcast yeah it was chase
and um adrian conway but I
think it was chase that
kind of started the the
movement are they like they
should be at least allowing
that and allowing them to
do something well chase is
doing the recap show so now
he doesn't want to cut into
his own other ratings and
then bring back jason
kalipa just getting so
excited off of everyone yeah
Yeah,
and so they're having Adrian and
Chase do the recap show.
So they'll be busy setting up for that,
and they can't do their own stream.
But if they're going to be
doing recaps and already
have some footage of the event,
why not have, I mean,
I'm going to say the standstill camera,
but then I'm thinking about
the game's age group
standstill camera and how bad that was.
And it was like, okay,
don't even show it because
it was so far away.
Yeah.
I don't know.
Something is better than nothing, I think.
I still think something's
better than nothing,
but the age group one at
the games was pretty competitive.
I think so many people said
something's better than nothing.
They tried to prove us all wrong.
Yeah, they literally were so far away.
Literally, though,
if you parked an iPhone in
each corner and used just
this stream yard and
bounced between the angles,
you could do a better job
than a lot of things.
Anyway.
Riff's over.
I just had to say that.
So we need to go to east and
stream is what you're saying.
I don't know.
Maybe.
Well, I talked about a pivot,
so I did want to make this announcement.
So what I've been doing is
reaching out to really cool
local comps that are bigger
than just a local comp.
Yeah.
Yeah.
to offer my services to come
in and do like a behind the
scenes of their competition.
And one of the first ones I
did that with was Fresh Coast,
which is on Lake Michigan,
up in Michigan.
And I knew of it because
they came on the show last
year and Jamie has competed
there for the last several years.
And it got kind of famous
because now Rich Froney
goes and competes there with a team.
reached out to them.
They have given me approval
to go in and do a behind
the scenes of that event in July.
And so I am super,
super excited that we're
going to be able to do and
highlight local competitions,
local athletes that bring
in some more because Jack
Rosema competed there.
Rich Froning competed there.
There's semifinal athletes
and other athletes that do that.
And we can kind of
feature them and give them
the highlight they deserve.
So we're going to do that this summer.
And I just offered my
services up to fight for the fittest.
So we'll see what we can do there.
And maybe go up to New York.
Haven't been to Long Island
in about 30 years.
So go check that out and see
what's going up there.
Maybe we can go stop in at Jethro's gym.
Yeah.
could do that so I'm looking
for stuff like that like I
think the norcal classic is
a cool one that'd be fun to
go do um things like that
you should do the norcal
classic that was fun yeah
so um lex is asking no
semis for you scott will
you go to the games this year
I actually booked hotel
rooms the minute Fort Worth
was announced.
So I actually have those hotels booked.
So I have a better shot at the games.
Knoxville,
I would have to like stay quite
a bit out of Knoxville to go,
but it is drivable.
So that one is possible.
But California is just out
of the question with this late notice.
at this point.
And I am committed to the Masters Games.
So I think that's a good place for you,
because I think that
there's a lack of coverage
of people with the age group.
And you've done by far, you know,
the most job covering the
age group athletes for the
last few years that you've become that,
that person,
right for the age group athletes.
So I think it's great that
you're going to be there.
Yeah.
And if I get the access I had at Legends,
I could probably get some
really cool content.
By the time I figured out
kind of the flow of it,
at the end of the weekend,
I was getting really good stuff,
like Jen Ryan laying on a
therapy table talking to me,
like really good behind-the-scenes stuff.
So that's what I'm hoping to
get at this one as well.
So that should be fun.
So if you know of a local comp that,
what I'm calling them now
is those mid-majors, like Metcon Rush,
Crash Crescendo,
those ones that are really
highlighting semifinal to elite athletes,
I want to come cover some of those.
So shoot me any ideas you might have.
And then finishing up,
I'm back to around the
whiteboard this week.
Semifinals.
I'm going up against Will Branstetter,
and it's a level one guy.
I didn't know the name.
A red shirt.
I'm sorry.
So he's a level one trainer.
Jimmy Jones?
I don't know.
Something like that.
But yeah, that's this Wednesday, 3 p.m.
Eastern time.
Back in the ring.
Take another swing.
You came in heavy the other time,
so the bar is set now.
Yeah.
That's the only way you
score points on that show.
You have to come in hot with
everything you have.
In one minute.
Yeah.
Yeah.
the thing is I practiced it
at one minute and then when
I was on the show I talked
so fast I did it in 45
seconds so I gotta I gotta
factor that in this time so
excited about that you guys
got to go anything going on
this week no now it's just
back to regular training
it's just feels like it's
going to be so long being
the third week for semifinals.
Like I'm just looking
forward to seeing week one
and then getting a visual of, you know,
the layouts of stuff and
then playing around with
different pieces of, of the workouts.
I got a taste of them this weekend,
lots of room for improvement.
We'll look at some of the
next couple of weeks and
then hopefully my best
execution is on game day.
Like you don't want your
best execution to be right now, but,
If you're going to be making mistakes,
you need that right now.
Yeah.
It's so much different than the games,
right?
Because the games,
you don't really know the
workouts as much.
No.
Unless you're in that right.
I was just about to say, I was like, well,
sometimes you do.
But Carolyn never knows.
Yeah, we're not there.
I'm just not a part of any
training camp or any, like,
I just train literally on my own.
I program, like, I'm not a part of that.
There are people that know.
I'm just not one of them.
Yeah, I'm just not one of them.
Yeah.
All right.
Jamie,
good luck tomorrow if you redo
number three.
Thank you.
And we will be looking on the leaderboard,
fingers crossed,
that everything is all good.
And then hopefully you get
at least a week off or a
couple days off this week.
Start recovering that shoulder.
Yeah.
And hopefully get ready for that game.
I predict a top three for
workout four for her.
No way.
Yeah, way.
No chance.
You're like Patrick Midgley.
We were,
I was messaging with him and he was like,
guarantee your number one
with your score for workout two.
And I was like, no way.
I was like, maybe top 10 and we bet.
And I went, I won that bet of course.
Cause I was right.
I know, but it's,
and that's going to be my best workout.
So number two or four, two.
Are you going to have a celebration?
Do you already have
something in your mind in
case you qualify for your first games?
Are you treating yourself to a meal?
Are you... What is your... I
guess we can talk about it
when it happens.
Yeah.
I don't know.
I mean,
I guess... All the changes just
take all the...
like joy and earning it out of it for me,
honestly.
I don't know as bad as that sounds.
I just.
Well, on that note,
I'm going to leave you with these wise,
wise words from Kenneth to lap.
Sometimes, you know,
to bring a beat a jump rope.
Sometimes you don't.
Well,
we just hope to know we're trying to
get in that in crowd information.
Yeah.
Thank you to everybody for
being here tonight.
It's been a blast.
We'll see everybody next
time on Sunday night.
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