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You ever have one of those Tuesdays that
feel like a Friday?
That's what we got going on today.
Yeah.
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you part of the fam.
it's lunch time what's going on everybody
welcome to lunch with the Clydesdale uh
Tuesdays feel like a never-ending Monday I
go with that analogy too that's what's
happening today I've had a very busy
morning so I'm not even sure what day
it is hour time whatever like it's fine
I was telling Corey before we got on
the air, I do system testing,
and today we launched a new system test,
and they decided to put it on a
brand-new platform for the first time,
and it's the biggest system test we've
done this year, and, of course,
none of it is working.
So I'm just writing tickets left and
right.
I'm like a traffic cop on Ventura
Boulevard.
a ticket and you get a ticket and
you get a ticket uh hexi lover it's
louisiana hot in jersey ninety five
degrees it's actually hotter there than it
is here only it's about eighty seven
outside right now but the humidity is
about two hundred percent so yeah i uh
sweating this morning from my workout
jesus lord and your big ass fan broke
down
just found out yeah apparently it was
working when i left this morning uh but
the noon coach was like hey the big
ass fan just quit working which everybody
in here if you've been to a box
you should know what a big ass fan
is unless you got one of those fancy
boxes that got air conditioning and we
don't play that around here uh when i
was a polaris we had two big ass
fans and no air conditioning yeah they're
the best
uh taco tuesdays are the best that is
actually what i am having for lunch today
taco tuesday poblano chicken tacos damn
you got fancy taco tuesday i like that
yeah my wife is home uh she has
a dentist appointment this afternoon so
she's working from home so i i get
a fancy lunch
Uh, just Ramirez says, uh,
it's moist out here in DC as well.
It's Andrea moistness in DC.
It is.
Yeah.
I work from home all the time and
I don't ever get a fancy lunch whenever
I go there.
Just throwing that out there.
We do the home chef meal kit.
I ain't gonna lie.
And that's one of the kits that came
in this week.
I am the home chef meal kit.
we listen it's just the two of us
now and when you get down to just
two of you and nobody else in the
house easier the better don't even care
about taste some nights oh no that's that
don't that don't fly at miles mostly
because i do all the cooking i'm about
to say my wife is home and i'm
getting turkey sandwiches
Hey,
I wouldn't be mad at a turkey sandwich.
I like a good turkey sandwich.
It needs to be done right,
but I'd get down on a turkey sandwich.
Dude,
I truly believe I could eat sandwiches the
rest of my life,
and I'd be okay with it.
I love a good sandwich,
especially either flat-pressed or
panini-pressed or...
You make me a hot sandwich and I'll
do pretty much whatever you need me to
do after that.
Yeah.
I,
to me that it might be my favorite
meal ever, but you know,
you gotta have like good,
good meats and cheese.
Yeah, absolutely.
Absolutely.
I want to get up to, uh,
up to the glintons area and hit up
their deli because i want to get uh
garrett to make me a sandwich from the
deli because a good deli sandwich will
change your life amanda does blue apron
once a week yeah we do home chef
we just switched to it really happy with
it really happy with it we tried some
of the other ones that seems to be
the one we've we've liked the most uh
jungle heat here in south florida
uh meg i work from home and i'm
i myself don't make me fancy lunches like
yesterday i worked the second half of the
day from home so i got home and
weighed out my chicken weighed out my rice
weighed out you know cut up my zucchini
whatnot and i threw everything in a pan
and like kind of stir fried it to
heat it up and that is top notch
but that's when i got time to do
that like nine ninety nine percent of the
time is throw it in the microwave and
hope for the best
Yeah, I was going to say,
I weighed out the microwave as it's
finishing up.
Oh, speaking of.
The building that we're in, the gym.
we've had fixed repaired several different
times it's the it's on the landlords not
on us right and every once in a
while we had a monsoon uh i had
a pretty bad one last week couple days
whatnot and it'll knock like if they've
left roofing screws or whatnot up there
it'll knock them over find them in the
parking lot
well i was leaving out the gym one
day last week and i found another one
so i sent it to our little group
chat and i was like hey y'all be
careful you know we don't anybody get a
flat tire it's a giant screw out there
the next day uh sarah one of the
owners sends a text message there's a
microwave on the ground in front of the
roll-up door with an unpopped bag of
popcorn in it
And she couldn't figure out which button
to hit.
So they just ripped it out of the
wall and brought it to our gym.
It wasn't our mark, our, our microwave.
We have a microwave inside.
It works just fine.
But she said, cause I,
I found one and then Jeff found one
to roof and screws.
And she said,
I will see your roof and screws and
raise you a microwave.
And it was just sitting out there in
front of the roll up doors.
I told Cecil, I was like,
I don't know how it fit down to
downspout or what it was doing on the
roof to begin with.
Yeah.
Sean says,
sometimes we just straight up eat out of
the pots and dishes we use to make
the meal.
I'm all for that.
My wife would never, ever go for that.
Dude, when I lived by myself, I would,
and I still do this most of the
time during the week,
like I'll take out a bowl on Monday.
I will make my food.
I will warm it up in the bowl.
I will eat.
I will wash the bowl,
and I will use that bowl all week
long.
Yeah.
Lito could live on pizza.
I used to be able to.
I just couldn't anymore.
Oh, I probably, if it,
we gotta be specific about the pizza
though.
There's a place down here called, uh, Oh,
good Lord diversion pizza.
Uh, and I could live off their pizza.
It's handmade and like,
it's not dominoes and bullshit and
whatnot.
Like I could live off of that.
Uh, Megan, I used to be friends.
She said sandwiches shouldn't be hot.
She's out of her mind.
I'm going to text her later and be
like, you're out of your mind.
You go to the French Quarter and you
get a po' boy.
And that baby's pressed on that flat iron.
Like there is nothing better in the world
than that.
Dude, a hot roast beef.
With gravy?
Andouille sausage with a little bit of red
sauce?
Mothers has a thing called a debris po'
boy where you get the gravy and you
get,
it's literally the debris so all the
chunks of meat that was soaking in just
goes all up on there.
Sometimes you can get the debris gravy on
a fried shrimp po' boy and that will
change your entire life.
Tell you that right now.
Yes, G needs to make us all soon.
She described a sandwich one day,
and I almost drove to Long Island that
minute.
I'm heading over right now.
I was going to camp out until the
store opened the next morning.
Well, luckily, we know Garrett.
And I'm going to be like, hey, man,
I need you to take care of that
for me.
Whatever that was you were talking about,
I need to get some of that.
Yeah.
Try Red Apron, you get a live chicken.
Corey be eating those muffaladas.
Gosh, I love a muffalada too.
I can't eat a whole muffalada.
I can eat,
and I cannot eat an entire muffalada.
I can eat a half a muffalada,
but I ain't doing much else the rest
of the day if I do.
I was so excited.
We went to a restaurant here a couple
years ago,
and they had muffalada on the menu.
I was like, oh.
yes that thing came it was the farthest
thing from a real muffalada no you got
to get one from central grocery in new
orleans it should have just been picked up
off the plate and thrown in the trash
that's all it was good for show you
what this is gonna be all right for
uh chicken and fried eggs for lunch here
that sounds good too are you mad at
that
John George wants to know if someone's
just going to show up with a big
ass fan at your gym.
I mean,
they dropped off a microwave with an
unpopped bag of popcorn in the microwave.
It's the weirdest thing, dude.
Like who's riding around with that?
It's like, fuck this.
I'm going to drop this off right here
in front of this gym.
Surely these people could use that.
The best part about it is if you
go around the corner, there's a dumpster.
And when I say around the corner,
I mean, like,
to the end of the building,
which is not far.
It's, like, it's twenty-five meters.
There's a dumpster right back there.
Like,
you could have just dropped it in a
dumpster.
Instead,
they just put it in front of the
roll-up doors.
Yeah.
Savant says, like and subscribe.
I like that.
Big fan.
He also will eat any sandwich made for
him.
Same, dude.
You make me a sandwich?
That's love.
Um...
I stayed at Disney's Port Orleans Hotel,
couldn't get enough of the beignets.
I think I'm good for life.
I'm not a huge beignet fan,
and I know I'm just not a big
donut guy.
Any kind of like fried dough,
that's never been my jam.
But man, muffalettas, po'boys, all that,
some gumbo, I'm all in.
All right.
Let's talk a little bit.
Oh, God.
Gator sausage.
That's good, too.
I hate to admit it, but damn,
that's good.
I could send you some gator sausage
tomorrow if you want.
I'm sure you can.
I really can.
There's several places down here that sell
it.
I could ship you some tomorrow.
I wanted to take a minute because we
just had...
the French showdown,
one person in our chat was there live.
She, uh,
she got her ticket to the games in
the thirty five to thirty nine year old
division.
If you didn't see her,
you weren't looking because the bright red
hair, it's impossible.
The zebra striped pants.
You couldn't miss her.
And, um,
What I'll say is she sent me a
recap of her experience at the French
Throwdown.
Awesome.
And I want to read a couple things
from that.
And it's Lito Calagiani.
Calagiani.
She said the attention to detail was
insane.
They had people constantly cleaning the
lanes.
As an athlete,
you couldn't leave your stuff anywhere.
Anywhere you wanted so it wouldn't look
untidy.
If you...
How you do anything is how you do
everything.
Correct.
Right.
If you're worried about how tidy the place
looks,
then you're paying attention to all the
detail.
Correct.
I like that a lot.
there were volunteers whose job it was to
wipe the barbells from chalk so athletes
wouldn't have to.
The crowd, electric.
Spectators showed up and they were loud,
even for Masters.
I've never competed in such a full arena
before.
Even the secondary arena was half full
during Masters events.
I didn't even know there was a secondary
arena.
I was today years old when I found
that out.
Part of the reason why is probably because
spectator tickets were quite cheap.
Anyway,
anywhere from eighty to one hundred twenty
five euros,
that would equate to ninety to one hundred
and forty five bucks for a three day
pass.
OK,
that's what they charge for one day at
Legends and the Masters games last year.
um even for us athletes the entry fee
was only uh two hundred fifty euros for
three days two hundred ninety bucks um it
was not that for magic city uh the
vendor village was very well positioned so
you had to walk through it on the
way in and out of the venue
Regarding Carolyn's comment,
so Sunday Night Carolyn made a comment
that three spots for ten people seemed
excessive.
Uh,
Lito says, it is true,
it is kind of wild,
but also that field was vetted a lot.
Half of us came from their online
qualifier with strict video review among
dozens of people from all over the world
as anyone could sign up.
Then the other five were invited from
quarters, top five in Europe,
where they ended up backfilling a couple
of spots down,
but was pretty much some of the top
in Europe.
And the last thing is I made a
comment about a lot of false starts that
I saw.
She said there was a difference between
the countdown clock and the beep.
Oh.
So some people were looking up at the
countdown clock,
some people listening to the beep,
and that gave that illusion of a false
start.
Okay.
You had to be listening for the beep,
I saw.
Mm-hmm.
Yeah.
It's funny.
They didn't say that, you know, like,
you know what I mean?
Like, Hey, go by the beat,
not by the wall.
That's just for the fans or whatever.
But overall,
like everything from a viewer's
perspective, this weekend was awesome.
And it's good to hear the athletes had
the same, um,
The same experience.
And that there were big crowds there.
And I didn't even know there were two
arenas.
Holy shit.
Yeah, that's a lot.
So that means they were spread out among
the two.
It's a good thing.
Yeah.
It's a good thing.
Instead of just having one floor,
you can have multiple things going on at
the same time.
did you um did you watch any of
the action at all this weekend i watched
very little of it friday saturday uh
jameson's softball tournament got
rescheduled to saturday so i was at uh
coach saturday morning and i was at the
baseball park from nine thirty in the
morning to about five thirty six o'clock
in the afternoon so no i didn't get
to watch i watched softball all day i
watched eight-year-olds play softball all
day sounds exciting
oh it was super exciting she loves it
dude like that's that's all i give a
damn about and she's she's getting good
and she wants to be better uh carolyn
said i talked more about false starts in
the online semi i talked about the false
starts at french that was me that was
on me carolyn uh pedro had issues with
the schedule for the secondary arena sadly
I have no idea.
I know that the parts I did get
to listen to him doing the broadcast,
he was fantastic.
He was really, really doing a good job.
He's natural, dude.
Just doesn't really get too excited,
but he's just talking about what he sees,
and he's pretty good at talking.
it was so laid back it was i
heard um the wad prep people last night
talking about claire was talking about
it's not your like straight laced
professional broadcast and she loved that
yeah she loved that it wasn't and and
i kind of get it it was
it was just different sometimes you just
get fatigued from the same voice over and
over again you could see oh you could
tell that he could see the chat
He would answer questions every once in a
while or just bring up something that
somebody said.
He was shamelessly plugging his own coffee
pods and wads, which is good for him.
He promoted us too.
He also sent people to us Friday.
It sounded like he was enjoying himself.
It wasn't just like,
even though I'm sure it was a long
ass day,
but it just sounded like he was
You know,
he was putting as much of himself into
it as he, as he could.
I'm sure he probably took a couple of
days to just mentally unwind after that.
Cause that's gotta be a lot, dude.
I cannot imagine calling like that for an
entire day.
Yeah.
Beginners, intermediates, RX, elites,
teams, teens, masters.
Yeah.
and and vicky's right it did not seem
forced at all no and what was the
fact that he took time out to promote
all the other media people in the space
like he didn't have to do that he's
on this stage where he's the only show
in town well last year they had him
in a closet so he's got him he's
he's upgraded
And then pulling in like BKG and pulling
in Nick Johnston and pulling in Harry
Lightfoot's coach and all of that
throughout the broadcast.
Like only because of the relationships
he's formed in the space can he do
that.
Yeah.
I would agree.
And it was crazy, crazy good.
So there's that.
I don't know if you took time to
do this.
I'm probably one of the few who did.
Watched John Young's prediction of what
current athletes would win the twenty
fourteen CrossFit Games.
No,
I did not have time to do that
yet.
I really want to check it out because
John Young is insane in the very best
way.
I love that, dude.
But I need to check it out.
I I do want to say.
anybody who just in their spare time goes
through that much research and does a
hypothetical about something that
happened.
Two, ten years ago, twelve years ago,
twelve years ago,
has way too much time on his hands
and needs to go on at least seven
more podcasts a week because that's just
too much.
John Young is everywhere.
It's fantastic.
Um,
John Young or John George has J Y
fatigue.
I, I get that.
I, you know, I,
I keep getting clipped for saying I have
boys interrupted fatigue that it was just,
if you listen to the whole thing,
like I have,
I don't have fatigue over the boys
themselves.
The group keep getting pulled into
everything.
Anyway,
I don't need to defend that anymore.
No.
Mark says he tried,
but it was just too much to get
through.
But what was crazy is I think it
proved two things.
One,
because of I do respect the amount of
research he did because it did.
I couldn't argue with the placings too
much in each event because
I mean,
I could quibble over a place here or
there, but at the end of the day,
it's not going to make a huge difference.
Right.
And the people rise to the top.
The same fit people rise to the top.
The other thing it shows is everything
that people are complaining about Dave
about is
They say that twenty fourteen was the best
CrossFit games ever.
And it still did things that people bitch
about today.
Yeah.
Right.
The programming still did the same stuff.
Then we thought it was the greatest ever.
Now we're bitching about it.
People are not happy unless they have
something to complain about.
And so I found that that was an
interesting revelation because if you
don't remember in they did the
back-to-back sprint sled races.
Yep.
Those were both a hundred points.
There was the exact same event twice.
We're just going to do it twice.
Now what it did test is fatigue.
Yeah.
Recovering.
so right anybody can do an event at
the best of their ability the first time
through it's who can then turn around a
minute later and do it again one of
my favorite things to tell everybody all
right rest five minutes turn around do it
again backwards
see what it looks like yeah brandon
actually programmed stuff like i mean it's
it's it's almost interval work at that
point you just did it cool we're gonna
run everybody through it and we're gonna
run everybody through it again see who can
repeat their first effort the one thing
that fourteen didn't have was machines
yeah good yeah that part i loved uh
jody says twenty fourteen with a heart
um just rumors twenty eighteen was the
best year i i would say seventeen was
better than eighteen i don't know dude uh
eighteen's got matt and uh pat falling off
the cargo net yeah seventeen had the o
course but it was a sprint o course
Mm-hmm.
It had Strongman Sphere, Seventeen.
It had Kara and Tia right to the
end of the competition.
Yeah.
Trading blows the entire time.
Eighteen also had the,
when they did the total,
Sarah Sigma's daughter.
PRs are deadlift with a cracked rib.
Like,
I would, I would,
I don't want to say argue,
but I would say that.
Seventeen and eighteen is like a,
for me anyway, because that's more my,
like I watched the eighteen games as
first,
my first one I ever watched live on
TV,
that it's a one and a one day
when you go back and look at them
just from the amount of fun,
exciting things that took place.
Vicky created a new event,
Strong and Fear,
is one of her favorite events to watch.
And then she did correct it to Strongman.
So I'm probably biased because I was a
volunteer at the twenty seventeen games.
Sure.
I worked Strongman's Fear.
Like, we were in that.
If you remember, the floor was elevated.
There was a pit around it.
Yeah,
that's Matt Fraser diving across the line.
And falling off the side.
And falling off the end and still didn't
get the win.
And we were in that pit resetting that
equipment after every round.
And it just was one of the most
fun things I ever did in my life.
I bet.
And to get that close and personal to
the event, and if people don't remember,
yeah, it came down to Cara and Tia.
Sarah Sigmundsdottir at the Strongman
Sphere event had the leader's jersey on.
Yes, she did.
So it was,
the women's side of the event was a
crazy, crazy competition.
That was good stuff, Dean.
Like Dan said,
the year of the national champ,
he said fights,
but was entertaining for the first event.
The thing that sticks out with me the
most,
that's the year Ben Smith got the
invitation, right?
Because he didn't qualify.
So the extended invitations, Ben, Ben,
ten.
So twenty nineteen.
First event starts,
he's in the first heat.
And my buddy Aaron described it perfectly.
He said he just,
you watch Ben Smith just wade through this
mass of humanity.
People are failing snatches,
people are failing rope climbs,
and Ben's just kicking on through like it
ain't no big deal and just rutting on
through.
That was fun to watch.
That was absolutely fun to watch.
And then finding out later that Pat
Vellner basically threatened to kick the
shit out of Sean Sweeney if he didn't
quit acting the ass for the crowd and
the camera.
I never would have seen that coming.
Some of us are here to do a
thing, man.
Keep that shit to yourself.
To me, the downfall of the games...
And its popularity has to do with all
of a sudden this notion that we need
to shrink it down to make it fit
overseas.
Yeah, I didn't like that.
The best events were out on that North
Park course or at the soccer stadium.
The snail, the pigs, the berm run,
all that stuff.
Like that was...
Those are the memorable events.
Noah Olsen loading up his wheelbarrow.
Noah Olsen loading up his wheelbarrow with
every sandbag, picking it up,
and it falls over.
Like he doesn't get two steps.
Yeah.
Oh my God.
Like that's the kind of sub you did.
That just happened.
Cause you know how much work it took
for him to get them all the way
down there to his wheelbarrow.
And now he can't lie.
We got to start all over loading them
back.
Like the burden run watching, uh, uh,
goodness, Sam Briggs lap people.
Yeah.
on the berm run.
And look,
coming by and just tapping Camille on the
shoulder like, hey, you're doing great,
sweetie.
I'm going to go ahead and goodbye you.
What's funny is the first year they did
the wheelbarrow and the wheelbarrows fell
apart because they went to like Home Depot
and assembled them.
And then the second year they did that,
Rogue made a wheelbarrow.
They used to have that in their showroom.
One of those.
Oh, I bet.
I think you could run a dump truck
over it and it wouldn't bend.
If it's made by Rogue, dude, like,
no problem believing that whatsoever.
And that wasn't even in the soccer
stadium.
That was in the tennis stadium,
the smaller venue.
But it was all outdoors.
It all had, like, different element.
I just,
I think we're missing out with being,
not being outdoors anymore.
Yeah, I don't,
I'm not a fan of that either.
Um, dude, they fly everybody to the ranch.
Yeah.
We're going to run a seven K and
then we're going to do a deadlift ladder.
Then we're going to do the hill sprint
again.
Hope you guys are ready.
Um, just for me,
Betsy can bend it with his dump truck.
I'd never doubt you, Joseph.
Never.
So it was an interesting thing.
It is a long podcast.
I mean,
I think it was two hours going through
event by event and the leaderboard changes
throughout.
But interesting,
I would say interesting watch.
Oh, I'm sure.
But it does get a little repetitive
towards the end because you kind of know
Tia's going to win them all or at
least finish in the top five and
everything.
might not win every single one but she's
going to do enough to separate herself
from everybody yeah wait till you see the
barack obama boulevard takeover this year
yeah someone in the comments made a good
point that because you know dave put out
that thing that big bob could use
It's wildfire season.
We can't have sparks flying up off of
Barack Obama Boulevard.
Noted.
Right.
The last thing I wanted to talk about,
and this is about being a coach.
Everything we... So,
Jamie and I got into a fight on
Sunday night.
I know that's a shocker.
I am.
Yeah, I'm flabbergasted.
That...
athletes are gonna athlete they're going
to they are going to try to cut
corners and they're going to try to ride
a line and that it needs to stop
because it's leaking into the gym that's
that her argument and i'm like you're
never going to get it stopping leaking
from the gym because little leaguers are
emulating baseball players every day
You know,
football players emulate football players.
It just is what it is.
But my question to you is,
what about the reverse?
Do you think coaches are emulating judges
in the classroom?
Oh, I do.
So when you go up to an athlete
and you're like, no rep.
I won't yell no rep at somebody during
class.
I'm not doing that.
and I did it Saturday,
I will come up to you and be
like, hey, stand all the way up.
Extend your hips.
Like we had synchro kettlebell goblet
squats Saturday, and I,
one hundred percent,
told two of the girls, I was like,
hey, stand all the way up.
You have to stand all the way up.
You have to squat a little parallel.
So I think that's fine.
If you're a coach and you're worried about
movement quality,
I think that's the terminology because I
was listening to Hobart and Savan and
Sousa talk yesterday,
and they kept saying movement quality,
movement standards.
In competition,
even in the judge's course you're taught,
it doesn't matter about the quality as
long as they reach the points of
performance, right?
Doesn't matter how ugly it looks as long
as they're below parallel.
But movement quality matters more in the
gym, right?
And according to Dave Castro,
James Hobart is the best mover he's seen.
But I think that – stop kissing up.
He's happy to be in a chat.
So my point is,
are the coaches focused on movement
quality or
or movement standards because that's what
they watch on the weekend.
And I've seen both.
I've seen both in my time at gyms.
That's an excellent question.
I don't think there needs to be a
line of delineation because what they were
talking about this morning,
Rich moves extremely well,
and he also moves extremely fast.
That's an outlier.
there are athletes that move really well
but there are successful athletes that did
not move well yeah chandler smith right so
god bless him he's fit as all get
out but his front rack is horrible it's
almost non-existent right but but those
athletes
movement quality and i i see the comments
right movement quality is not the top
priority it's getting done faster yeah but
what carolyn's saying is one hundred
percent correct better movement quality
will lead to more efficient movements and
therefore you lose use less energy and
therefore you can move better again it
builds on itself
But I know people that have like a
really deep squat that is not advantageous
for them to do that in a competition.
No,
but that's something that you need to...
It's below parallel.
Right.
You don't need to ask the grass every
single time if you're in a competition.
You need to make sure you hit whatever
standard that they have.
Because if not, you're just... Yeah,
you can get to a point where you're
wasting energy.
Yeah, absolutely.
but we should chase trying to become the
outlier.
That is the fundamental premise of our
CrossFit level one technique lecture.
You need to do both.
Well,
I agree in the gym and with the
level one,
how many athletes don't even have their L
one?
Yeah.
I'm going at my L two this fall.
So,
so like an athlete hasn't even seen that
lecture.
That's only now.
Coaches can train that in the gym.
Yeah.
The staggering number of...
elite athletes who have not attended an
l-one who have absolutely no idea i just
they know the sport they've been coached
whatever and their coach is coaching them
i think that's what you're getting at to
do it as quickly as possible while hitting
the standard not necessarily as efficient
as efficiently as possible right not
necessarily going like i'm not going to go
i'm going to go here instead of here
right
That's a whole other issue.
I think I would... But in the gym,
you wouldn't deter the athlete that goes
four inches below parallel and has an
increased range of motion.
That's healthy.
Correct.
I would also, uh, in the gym,
in a gym setting, in a class setting,
then that person is moving that well,
then I'm, I'm not correcting that.
I might adjust some other things if they
need me, but that's, that's,
that's a delineation, a separation,
separating the sport from the methodology
at that point.
I don't like watching bad movers move
fast.
I just don't.
Because a lot of the times it looks
like bad quality movement because they're
moving that fast and it might not be
right.
But I think that makes it that, that,
and I'm sure Birch Birch probably has a
whole litany of stuff to talk about as
far as that's concerned.
Um,
but judging that has gotta be not fun
watching somebody who's doing awkward
looking stuff, but it's still moving fast.
Cause it happens.
If I train with shitty movement,
for long enough to where i get really
efficient at doing something really
terrible then that's just going to be my
movement pattern it's going to be hard to
break out of that and once you do
break starting to break out starting to
fix something like that is it's going to
feel weird for the athlete for quite some
time i've had to do that with a
couple different people at the gym like
you've been moving like this for so long
this is the only way you know how
to move my analogy for this is
If you watched Pete Rose bat,
you would never teach a young baseball
player to hit like that.
No.
Trying to explain to my daughter why some
of the girls bat the way they do
that she sees like on YouTube or whatnot.
We watch softball highlights and explain
to her that that's probably not a good
idea for you to do because that's just
how they've been doing it for so long.
Yeah.
Yeah.
but Pete Rose went on to hit,
have more hits than anybody in the history
of baseball,
but it would never be the way you
would teach somebody to do it.
And I think we've got to get out
of the room just because this guy at
the CrossFit games or a semifinal did it
that way.
We shouldn't be doing that in the gym.
Yeah.
Um,
James is saying,
range of motion is a point of performance
for any movement.
Sport has just made range of motion the
most important one.
Coaches have the hard job of improving all
points of performance for athletes.
Sean says,
as long as there's a whiteboard,
people will sacrifice movement quality for
higher scores.
I agree there are a group that do
that.
It is an unfortunate fact.
The other thing I want to say is,
when I first started judging sports,
I was coaching every day of the week
going and then judging and trying to turn
off the coach and just viewing standards
to judge was very hard, very hard to,
to turn that off,
to be a good judge.
It's not the same thing.
It's not.
It's not.
And, and it's, yeah, it,
It would be frustrating.
It's why I don't like judging.
Like you are hard,
you hard pressed to get me to actually
judge you unless it's like one person.
There's a couple of people at my gym.
I will judge if they asked me to,
but it's really hard for me to turn
most of my coach brain off and just
sit there and go yes or no,
that rep counted or that rep didn't
because I want to fix it.
Like, and it drives me bananas.
Barry Bonds,
greatest home run hitter of all time.
One of the worst batting stances too.
Yeah, but he smashed that thing though.
Some people just have that innate ability
to be able to perform athletically in a
way that doesn't make sense.
Thus,
it's painful watching women do heavy
squats,
knees in and ass rising before the
shoulders.
It's so hard.
So hard.
Tia Claire Toomey.
Her knees cave on almost every heavy squat
I've ever seen her do.
Her knees either almost touch sometimes
before she gets all the way up.
She's the best to ever do it.
Best.
By far.
Best.
Carolyn says too many people early on in
their career sacrificed mechanics and
consistency for intensity.
And I think that goes back to most
athletes don't have a level one.
Most athletes today, I won't say most,
a lot of athletes today are training in
their garages or their own facilities.
So they're not being coached mechanics or,
they're not trained the mci of it all
yeah and we're not talking about the phone
plan not the phone plan it's the same
thing i think every time i put it
together mci and i got to stop myself
and see if they're going to ask me
if it's a phone plan or not
I try to,
especially with the newer people,
more people that have been there for a
while or actively trying to get better,
not just trying to have a good hour
of their day.
I'm like, look,
I want you to move well before anything.
So that's mechanics, how you move.
I have that conversation at least once a
week with somebody that I'm coaching.
Mechanics,
then we're going to do it consistently.
Then we'll worry about added intensity.
The speed will come.
The speed will come.
The more you do this,
as long as you're moving well,
eventually you will get faster,
whether you want to or not.
If you do it long enough and you
start, you know, just come to class,
really all you need to do,
let us handle the rest,
but you got to listen.
Um, Carolyn says,
I think a lot of athletes are actually
in affiliates now,
but my argument to that would be,
they may be in the affiliate,
but they're not doing class.
They're not being,
it's not a coach driven Jason Hopper
program that they're doing.
Right.
Jason Hopper's not in my five thirty
class.
I. Yeah,
I think really good athletes are skipping
the step of going and doing classes at
a CrossFit gym and learning the MCI of
it all.
Not just learning, but living it.
You can't just go, oh yeah,
I need to move well.
And then just kind of go through the
motions.
Like you need to actually believe in it
and implement it.
It's going to make you a better athlete.
It will.
But when I got my own one and
started coaching and whatnot,
it made me a better athlete.
Yeah.
Corey, at my age,
I don't need to go faster,
just last longer.
It's all about priorities, Joseph.
David Reed,
that's why many of the old school CrossFit
athletes move better.
Hobart and Rich are two examples,
arguably the best movers ever.
Taylor Self is a modern athlete who moves
unbelievably well.
Unbelievably well.
There's a lot of athletes that move well.
It's just easy to pick out the ones
that don't.
Well,
it's because the ones that don't stand
out.
Yeah.
In a sea of people doing the exact
same thing, when one person is,
everybody else is doing this,
and that one person is doing this,
you're going to see that.
You can't not see it.
But I do agree with the efficiency of
it all.
The more efficient you are,
the longer you're going to be able to
sustain the intensity.
It's why Rich never looked like he was
in a hurry when he was on the
floor.
He put it in gear.
and first couple rounds people were way
out in front of him and he just
walked him on in and beat everybody beat
the brakes off everybody it's because he
moved as well as he did yeah or
take his throwing out some people who move
out like dallin and colton they do there's
a lot of good movers and there's a
lot of people that skirt the line
It just is the way sports are.
Ken Griffey Jr.
had a beautiful swing.
And he was great.
Barry Bonds, not so much.
Still great.
Still great.
And the same thing happens in CrossFit.
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