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So, it has been a crazy weekend.
I was just telling the ladies that it's
been wild with my mom in the air
on her way to Columbus.
She was delayed in Montana because of
snow.
And...
Is trying to get here.
We finally found out about ten minutes ago
that she got on her flight to Columbus.
So she is on her way.
And that's that.
But it was hot here today.
So stinking hot.
It did get,
I think it got like eighty,
I don't know, eighty-two.
But we're just not used to it yet.
So it felt so hot.
I mean, I'm not complaining.
Bring on the heat.
But to hear you say that there was
snow in Montana is crazy.
Because like,
it was like forty-two on Monday.
Tuesday or Wednesday.
It was awful.
I golfed.
I was freezing.
Um, yeah,
I was pleasantly surprised that it was so
hot today,
but how the frick did they have snow?
That's crazy.
They,
my daughter actually took my mom up to
glacier national park and the roads are
still closed because of the weather.
Wow.
Yeah.
That's wild.
It is.
I mean, in the caps of the mountains.
So yeah.
We're approaching June.
It's crazy.
It's crazy that it's taken that long to
warm up here, honestly.
And Julie and I were planting flowers
today.
What was that, Carolyn?
We've had a lot of rain here in
Toronto this year.
We had a bad winter,
a lot of snow this year in the
wintertime.
And in the spring,
it's like one nice day,
a few rainy days,
one nice day sprinkled in there,
and then back to being bad.
Today was nice.
We've had a ton of rain,
and then the last five days or so
have been all sunny.
I don't even know what to do.
I don't think we've ever had that many
sunny days in a row.
So anyway,
this weekend we had the Ronda Rousey,
Gina Caron fight.
If you stayed up,
was it really worth it?
It fit in an Instagram reel.
I know you watched it, Carolyn.
You are a Taekwondo person that I don't
know what they're called.
What were your thoughts on the fight?
I mean, Ronda's done this very, like,
many times where she takes down the
person, like, very,
very early in the fight and then can
put them into a submission pretty fast.
I mean, that's what we saw.
If she's forced to stand up against
stand-up fighters, she struggles.
I mean, Holly Holm got her.
She's, like, a kickboxer.
Amanda Nunes, I just think,
is the best female boxer or just female
MMA fighter.
um but yeah like i don't think her
stand-up game is phenomenal but her her
judo background and her ground game is so
good and so elite that yeah she just
took her down and i'm i was happy
for her to finish on a on a
win because she had a rough rough few
last fights in her career so yeah i
only thought i saw her weigh in and
i was like oh god she looks rough
like she was like limping
Well, weigh-ins are tough.
Like, you lose so much weight,
and then you have to, like,
put it on that night.
She looked like she was missing, like,
half of her muscle on her right leg
to me.
I mean, sometimes it'd be like that.
I used to be, like,
spitting in a cup with, like,
garbage bag on me in a sauna and,
like, chewing gum just to, like,
get more out of... I saw... Go ahead,
Carolyn.
Sorry.
Fighting so much about styles, like...
you know,
a certain style that you go up against,
you know,
you can beat someone and then because your
style works against that person,
but not against the next person.
And like Ronda was just at the top
for so long.
And when you're at the top for,
for a long time,
like in any sport,
like it's hard to stay at the top.
And I just feel like people over the
years studied her so much and then kind
of exploited some of her weaknesses in the
standup game.
But yeah, it's,
it's all about matchups and it's like,
you can be the best fighter in the
world,
but like sometimes like if you fight
against people that you don't know,
like they have a better shot of beating
you,
even though that might not be as good.
Cause just cause you haven't,
you don't know their tendencies.
Yeah.
Yeah,
that happened with Rocky Balboa and Apollo
Creed.
Fighting a left-hander is just awkward.
It's just awkward.
I saw someone say,
all the fights ended quick.
All but one of the fights last night
ended in the first round.
Jeez.
But they were fun to watch because there
was no, like,
slowdowns in any of the fights.
It was pure action from the opening bell
till the TKO or knockout that occurred,
except for the Nate Diaz fight.
And Nate got pummeled so bad,
bleeding from the back of the head,
from the front of the head.
And they finally had to stop it because
he just was bleeding too much.
But, yeah.
Gina said she wished she fought a striker.
That's not Ronda.
No.
Not at all.
And I saw CrossFit say it felt like
a work.
I kind of felt that too.
But that's just how Rousey has fought her
whole career.
It's either done in under a minute or
she has trouble.
She's always very aggressive off the
get-go to try to bring that person down.
Many times she's kind of rushed her
opponent pretty early on to try to get
them.
A couple times she got clocked and then
after that I had to...
She was so square and no head movement
for if she gets clocked early on.
It was almost sad at the end of
her career to watch her because I was
a huge Ronda fan.
Yeah, it reminds me of, like,
I was the biggest Mike Tyson fan prior
to the criminal stuff and all that, right?
And then he just,
he looked like a shell of himself after
that.
And, yeah, crazy.
So the other thing that happened this
weekend is the Dutton Ranch premiered.
Oh.
And it is the spinoff from Yellowstone
with Beth and Rip.
Holy smokes.
Just one episode?
Two.
They released the first two.
And it is...
I think it's better than the ending
episodes of Yellowstone so far.
Okay.
And it's weird with Beth being likable,
but I'm kind of digging it.
And it's...
It's really good.
I don't want to spoil it for anybody
because there's a lot of stuff that
happens in the first two episodes.
But with any Taylor Sheridan,
it's jam-packed full of stuff.
So it's like post-Yellowstone.
It is literally at the end of Yellowstone,
Rip and Beth decide they're going to go
up north in Montana and start a ranch.
It literally picks up right from there.
All right.
Because Julie and I have been watching
Marshalls, which is the other spinoff,
and I've been disappointed with the
writing.
I just think it's lazy.
I have not enjoyed it at all.
This one,
I cannot wait for the next episode.
I'm not going to spoil.
I'm not even going to tell you anything
that happens.
If anything,
I would say would ruin a piece of
it.
But it does star,
it also stars not only Beth and Rip,
but Annette Bening, Ed Harris.
So there's some big names in this one.
And it's really good.
Annette Bening is really good.
I like her.
The American President is one of my
favorite movies.
It's a great movie.
Written by Aaron Sorkin,
who's my favorite writer of all time.
then finally i have a question for carolyn
are you nervous at all about tomorrow
night uh game seven game seven it's been
weird games like they're like blowout
games like it's like montreal went a few
couple blowout games and then this last
one was a blowout um
Yeah, I am a little nervous.
I hope that they win.
I hope Montreal wins.
They have the best fans in the NHL.
Is that because you're one of them?
No, it's because it's like a fact.
Best arena as well.
Crossfats poking the bear.
Probably going to be Avs, Canes anyway,
right?
Nah.
think we can beat the Canes even though
they haven't lost it's that French
confidence there you go well sports have
been awesome the last couple weeks it's
you know the fights last night were great
the hockey's been great until the Penguins
lost it's just been it's been a fun
fun year for sports so far
But including that as the CrossFit Games
season,
and so we're going to jump into the
French Throwdown,
which was the next competition in the
semifinal series to get you to the
CrossFit Games.
And it kicked off this weekend.
It was weird because of the time
difference for me.
Yeah.
Like the event started at two in the
morning.
But I said this on the Friday show,
like I got up to pee at four
o'clock in the morning on Friday and I
came back and Lito was on the screen.
And so I stayed up long enough to
watch Lito go.
And then I went back to bed and
then rewound some to kind of catch up
on everything.
But I thought it was an awesome event.
My favorite so far.
Yeah, I think they,
it was great to see the broadcast on
like all the different heats too.
Pedro and company did an amazing job.
Pedro specifically did awesome on the,
on the mic and had some funny bits
and was honest on some of the no
reps too.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah, I thought that he did a really,
really good job all weekend and just kept
the energy,
even though I'm sure it must have been
so long for him to do all those
heats.
I'm not even sure if he got many
breaks at all.
I know.
We're talking beginners, intermediates,
RX, and elites.
All the teams.
Yeah, he was on the whole time,
like seven hours free.
I couldn't believe it.
He did awesome, though.
He really did.
I don't think I could do that.
There's no way he didn't even like,
it wasn't even like repetitive.
No,
he had stuff to say about the athletes.
He had stuff to say about the different
divisions, the workout.
Yeah, it was great.
incredible he was so good and and i
agree with tessa or yeah tessa's bkg was
really good when he was on but he
was only on after his team was done
so we only got a short little stint
of him but he like he knew all
the people and what camp they were in
what they've been doing like he knew he
was really really good and you know he
wasn't preparing for it yeah
it is really nice when whoever's on has
knowledge of the athlete.
Quite honestly,
I feel like Peter had extensive knowledge
of more than you would think he would
know.
I mean, he knew where,
like what gym and maybe he had that
in front of him, but he was like,
Oh, they're with this gym.
And he said that all about a lot
of people.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I think, I think what helped the,
the overall thing was, um,
in the other divisions not the elite they
did men on one side women on the
other so it helped the day flow better
and faster and i think that really was
an asset to the overall broadcast yeah i'm
not generally a fan of twenty lanes agree
it worked really well here it did
It may not have worked.
Don't get me wrong.
I say it every time we watch one.
I'm yelling at the screen.
the cameramen don't always do a great job.
And Peter even, like, sometimes, like,
well, you know, so-and-so's doing it.
The thing is,
he did such a great job of commentating
that I didn't even care that the camera
wasn't on that person.
But I was wishing that that cameraman had
earpiece to hear Pedro be like,
if they would show you so-and-so in lane
eight,
because that's who he's talking about.
But he did such a good job that
I didn't even care.
And, yes,
twenty lanes is hard to fit it all
in.
But, you know,
they tried with the split screen.
They did a good job.
The broad...
The ticker at the top, amazing.
Had the lane number in their name.
The way they did that with like,
it was blue.
So you knew where they were at in
the workout.
It was so good.
And the speed to which they were showing
the overall leaderboard was so fast.
We didn't have to wait for competition
corner.
I think there's one time where I don't
think they were accurate.
But for the most part,
it was like the workout was done or
the event was done.
Here's the results of that event.
Here's the results of the overall right
now.
Even when the competition got done,
how many times are we waiting hours for
the whole podium, drug testing,
all of that to be done?
And we're still waiting,
even though most of us have done the
math to see who goes on.
But it was like right away, this person,
this person, overall leaderboard.
So I want to highlight a couple of
things from the broadcast.
One, I love that, Carolyn.
They just put a little tag saying
unofficial pending leaderboard.
That's all you have to do.
Just cover yourself with that and get the
numbers up.
You know what the scoring system is.
And they did not disappoint.
It was up quick.
The graphics on the top,
not only the rep counters,
but the workout written across the top,
highlighting as the leaders hit those
spots.
Freaking awesome.
Then when they would highlight an athlete,
their name would pop up and what rep
they were on while they were highlighting
them.
Like that was above and beyond anything I
expected.
And I did like that as people finished,
they just kind of ran them down the
side of the screen.
So I thought all those things were a
huge improvement.
But my favorite thing...
I barely saw a media member on the
floor.
The only time I saw them was during
the handstand walk and the front squat.
Which makes more sense.
That's the only event that visually they
needed to put something for how many
lengths they had done.
And Pedro mentioned that too.
He was like,
I can't even see who's in the lead
right now because it's confusing.
He's like,
maybe something to work on for the
following year.
Um, but he would admit it.
And I mean, yeah,
like that's where the visual comes in and
just having a little flip card that says
what, like what number you're on.
Just, you could, yeah, just see better,
but yeah.
Yeah.
I would say the,
the handstand walk was the only chaotic
event of the weekend where I had no
idea where anybody was and I didn't really
trust the rep counters because
And even Pedro was like,
I think they're on this lap.
I thought we would see a hand up
by now.
It was absolutely crazy.
And the fans.
Look how packed it looked.
The sides had a little bit of space
like Friday,
but where the finish line was,
it looked awesome.
So Europeans showed up there.
And they did a blackout curtain behind the
rig, which makes it look better.
Just optically,
you're not seeing empty seats.
You just see a big black curtain.
And I think that was a huge add
to just give the optics of a successful
event.
And sports do that all the time.
Football teams black out seats in the
upper deck with logos and stuff when they
know they can't sell them.
Yep.
Yeah,
I was one of the ones that I
watched pretty much almost everything.
I may have fast forwarded through some of
the team like that.
There was a lot of teams,
maybe more than necessary,
but kind of makes sense.
I'd say from a revenue point.
if that's where you're going to add a
few heats, I mean,
that's four people per lane.
You like,
you just add a few of those and
you've made up what other events we're
adding, we're adding, we're adding,
we're adding, we're adding, we're adding,
we're adding, we're adding, we're adding,
we're adding, we're adding,
Because it was one heat of masters in
each group.
Right.
Because they had men and women on the
floor at the same time.
And three combined for those seventy,
sixty, five, sixty.
Like they were all combined one,
which probably legends put it on that to
combine.
Like, but yeah, I mean,
you really only had four.
I still think it's crazy to give three
spots to nine people competing.
That's nuts to me.
They said that's how it was going to
be, a factor of three.
I think that's the proper way.
You make sure you have somebody from the
top thirty.
You don't need to go down to two,
three hundred.
It's not affecting anything.
From what I went through,
pretty much every Masters group had
Like, especially in the thirty five,
thirty nine, thirty to thirty nine, forty,
forty four, forty five.
There are people were all people in their
top fifteen or ten.
Like the right people are moving on and
clearing the way.
Yeah, the right people are moving on.
I'm just saying just crazy to think three
spots for nine for nine.
I would rather have the ten best go
for three spots.
Yes, because it's it's achievable.
Mm hmm.
then you put up one spot and only
like two of the best show up and
then you get two hundred,
two fifty and three hundred.
Right.
So I think it's a.
I get what you're saying, Carolyn,
but I don't want to lose how exciting
it was at the expense of that.
And this semifinal in person for Masters
is very new.
We don't know how it was going to
travel, who was going to show up.
And I think this was a year of
experimentation.
Yeah.
The right athletes were here.
I'm very,
do we even have a leaderboard for Torian?
Like, do we know who's going?
Not elite, but like.
I haven't even got dove into Torian yet.
Yeah.
I will be curious who,
because that's a different,
that's completely different traveling.
And I don't know,
like other than those Australians,
like are other people going to travel
there?
Not as many.
Cousin,
I'm not saying that I know what the
exact top ten is,
but you know when you have the best
at least like ten of the fifteen best
athletes.
Right.
I mean,
you got to do it from quarterfinals and
it needs to be a pretty strict invitation
process.
Right.
I think what he's saying is quarterfinals
aren't even checked.
How would you know?
But there's so many things to fix in
the Masters thing.
That's a show by itself.
And we'll talk about that after the
season's over and things we can do to
change.
But right now,
we just got to get through this season.
So on the team side,
Oslo Krager made it pretty easily.
Yeah.
Oh, yeah.
That was locked up.
Butcher's Lab was one of the teams.
And it's not even...
Did they take three teams?
It's not two?
I don't know.
Because the competition corner doesn't put
a line on everything.
Butcher's Lab was third.
CrossFit, Sora, Waturn...
Yep.
Okay.
So they must take three.
Oslo-Kriger was first.
Yep.
I think they take three then because I'm
pretty sure Pedro said in Butcher's Lab is
made their way back.
So, yeah.
So that was the team.
And then on the elite side,
on the men's side,
I was actually shocked Jason Opera was in
third going into the last event.
He wasn't.
He had already won.
That was a mistake.
That's the only time that they got the
leaderboard wrong with the two scored
event.
In going into the final event,
Jason didn't even need to do it.
He was one hundred and seven points ahead
of fourth place at that time.
OK, so he had already locked it,
but he decided to see them.
We should get away with doing the
leaderboards right away.
I dove in on it.
That was the only time that it was
off.
I remembered that he had three hundred
eighty eight points going into that event.
So when they brought that up,
I was like, well, that's not right.
So I I didn't care.
I was like,
I know we got enough to still be
in first.
So Hopper wins.
Yeah, he won pretty handedly,
almost by one hundred more.
It's fee big going back to the games.
And then Nika Masarazi.
Takes third.
I guess we should address the elephant in
the room since stuff is already out there.
Pedro had Adrian Mundweiler on his show
six months ago.
Adrian tells a story of an athlete from
the program who went to Mallorca,
borrowed a person's house.
When they left,
the person came home and found human
growth hormone in the fridge.
Adrian Mundweiler said that it was Nika
Maserati whose it was.
Hiller has since done a video reminding us
of that conversation this afternoon.
I hate that the podium is being tainted
by cheating.
Allegedly.
But it was his friends.
Oh, yeah.
He said it was his friends.
Yeah.
Yeah.
He told John Singleton it was his friends.
And Adrian was pretty hard on John
Singleton.
Yeah, he was.
In that interview, if you go back.
Because he had a guy who tested positive.
The guy came back.
He believed that he was not positive
anymore.
And he tested positive a second time.
So.
Anyway,
that is tainting this podium and probably
will for the next few weeks if he's
there for the games.
But as Hiller pointed out,
you'll never ever catch this guy because
the half-life of HGH is so short.
And it's honestly in every sport.
And I've just given up on thinking that
people aren't using in any sport.
So...
You'd think if he's willing to do that,
he's maybe dabbled in other things,
though.
I mean, maybe he'll get caught.
I don't know.
Maybe he's smart enough.
Who knows?
If you're dabbling in other things and
you're taking a bigger risk because the
half-life is longer.
Yeah.
And it doesn't leave your system.
Half-life for HGH is two to four hours.
Yeah.
So in, like,
thirty-two to forty-eight hours,
it's all gone.
So...
That's got to be frustrating for the other
competitors there.
I see Patrick say guilty till proven
innocent.
I've watched sports for too long to see
too many people cheat and too many people
use excuses that turn out to be lies
when they admit it later.
I've given up that sports are clean.
um then on the women's side i guess
i could share this leaderboard on the
women's side i'll go there in a second
we have mir von rohr amy kringle and
elisa fuliano
And it was a battle for that last
spot.
Leah Storen coming off winning team last
year almost made it as an individual.
Was she team or teen, you said?
Team with an M.
She was on Oslo-Krager last year.
The winning team?
Was she on?
No, she wasn't.
Not the winning team.
Oh, I,
that's what they said on the broadcast.
I just believed him.
I don't think so.
Wasn't it Oda?
Yeah.
So they're saying no, they're saying no.
Yeah.
I think it was Oda and, and, uh,
Kristen Hulta.
Okay.
Oda's also really, really good.
My bad.
Uh, but it was a great race.
Yeah.
She had, yeah.
Uh, Storen had a great weekend.
Great weekend.
Same with Claudia Glock too.
Um,
That top five was really,
really close the entire weekend.
That crowd there for Claudia just makes
you want to cheer for her.
Lucy just had that rough first event,
really.
After that, it was fine.
You're not going to come back from a
twenty seventh place.
It was cool to see some some young
people,
new names in the top ten for both
men and women.
Wayne says her handstand walks were next
level.
Well,
I don't know if you guys have seen
this.
Jamie shared it right before we went on
the air.
So I'm going to share it.
It is an overhead shot of the handstand
walk race.
And I don't know if you can see
it.
but it is a look at how fast
Storen was to the rest of the competition.
She was doing that pivot,
and I was like,
this is not a good idea.
You're wasting it.
No, she is so good on her hands.
She is the fastest.
Her and Andrea are even faster, I think,
than Danielle, which is crazy.
She knows exactly what she's doing.
I was secretly hoping that she was going
to qualify there so that she wouldn't be
going to NorCal.
So now I get to see her at
NorCal and we always have a handstand walk
event.
So she's just going to destroy it there
too.
Yeah.
That pivot was crazy.
Their names were in the lane.
It was perfect.
Everything about this is, I love it.
Yeah.
Compared to like the side view of the
handstand walk and how chaotic it was.
Wow.
You can see the story right here.
Now,
I can see the limitation from doing this
the whole floor is the scoreboard right
here to the right would get in the
way of doing a full floor view of
that.
But that is really cool.
There's a few good handstand walkers.
Reese was giving Storen a good run for
her money for a while in that workout,
too.
Um,
which I didn't think anyone would even be
close to storing, but yeah,
race did well on that one.
Yeah.
Reese is excellent on her hands.
She won that at syndicate,
the handstand walk one last year.
She's good.
She is good.
Yeah.
It'll be interesting who goes where now
from, you know,
there's a few on the bubble here that
are tremendous games level athletes and
previous games athletes.
Do they wait for the online?
Do they ask for spots?
Do they have already plans to go
elsewhere?
It'll be interesting to see these next
couple weeks and what people's plans will
be.
Yeah, because you get
it's a quick turnaround to go to syndicate
or NorCal.
If you're an American athlete,
if you're a European athlete,
Madrid's what?
Two weeks away too.
Yeah.
That same weekend.
But people have been doing back to back
all season.
Yeah.
Yeah.
That's crazy.
What I find interesting,
and this isn't in our notes,
but
You know, last year,
everybody complained about competing too
much and their bodies were breaking down.
And then you get to this season and
everybody's competing every week to try to
get their ticket to the games.
So which is it?
I think you got some people who are
like James Sprague, who love it,
love the competition,
just love being out there on the floor.
And there's some people who have to have
to peak and
come down and I noticed in the Masters
there was a few of them that qualified
that didn't do the online.
They did quarterfinals but did not do
online.
Probably because they didn't want to be
sore at all or traveling or whatever.
Only a few.
It was probably two or three people but
there were I think the Natalia Kazmarska
in my age bracket did not and she
qualified.
and amanda cummins who did the online
who's like sitting second in the online
was fourth so i mean that's crazy but
that's one of the reasons you did not
do magic city because it was too close
to the online wasn't it in case that
you needed that to that fallback yeah
congratulations by the way wow pending
yeah pending one we'll talk about that in
a second um
So, with all that,
I'm trying to see what else we have
here.
What do you think of the events?
Jason looked great this weekend.
I just want to say that.
He did.
I was curious if, like,
the front squat or the lunging, like,
if I would see anything there.
And he looked great.
Like, I didn't see anything where he...
I was a lot more invested at like
the woman's field to me was deeper,
was more exciting to watch.
Yeah.
The men's field was not as,
especially like hair,
light foot pulled out.
We'd still don't know why.
If it was just,
I heard that it's due to sickness,
not injury.
yeah like it like you just felt off
like you wanted to get checked like it
maybe has like an infection or yeah that's
what i had heard yeah i just think
it's crazy the amount of athletes that get
sick on weekends like i'm never sick to
be honest like i am never sick and
there's like everyone is sick all of a
sudden when they compete it's crazy
I'm not sick very often either.
Like, knock on wood, I've been, although,
like I said, last weekend, I felt sick,
but I feel like it's from traveling.
When I do get sick,
it's usually after flying or like my sleep
is way off or something.
So I can,
these people traveling all over and being
in these, touching all kinds of equipment,
you're, when you're flying,
you're touching all kinds of stuff.
Like if you've
I don't know.
I can see it happening more.
You're just run down.
That used to happen to me when I
was running.
I would train hard, taper,
and that's when I would get sick.
I feel like when my body's running hot
all the time, I could kill everything.
If I stopped, I would just breed sickness.
Maybe that three-day taper before events
doesn't help them.
Carol is a teacher.
She has super immunity.
I am around.
not with kindergartners guys uh the women
have stole the semi-finals every week well
my hot take and i and i was
debating whether saying this or not is
where have the the european men gone i
mean there was a point where you had
the bkgs and the the koskies and
Happa line ends and all of those.
And it just didn't seem like that,
that they're feeding the system anymore.
Like it's not what it was.
And,
but you look on the women's side and
it was like a dog fight all the
way to like nine, ten.
Well, and you notice very like way.
I feel like what it was Reese and.
I mean,
there's only a handful of American women
that went over there to try.
Right.
I don't know.
Was it just Reese?
It might have been just Reese.
Was it just Reese?
I think it was just Reese.
So, like,
that's kind of crazy if you think about
it.
The European women are good.
They are.
I wouldn't want any of that either.
You can think they go elsewhere,
but it's like Europe is there.
Like, they're...
it runs deep on the woman's side.
Like it's not any easier going to try
to fight,
like try to fight a spot in Europe.
No.
So my question to you is,
is Jason that good or is the European
men feel that bad?
I do think Jason is that good.
I think that, yeah,
I think a little of both there to
be honest.
Uh,
Wayne says Hoffer did come to the U
S and stole a spot.
That was all over the comments.
It was hilarious.
And I love that Peter.
I that's the other thing.
I liked that Peter was occasionally in the
comments.
He would no dumb, dumb, like he's like,
you know,
took one of our spots and he wasn't
busy enough with the commentating.
He had to be in the comments to
looking and pulling things off.
Like he was all over.
uh jason is is that good that's what
tessa says and patrick says mad women's
field is just as stacked i believe it
do we have any american women trying to
go to madrid i know i know sydney
mclishan told me that that was the one
that she was going to do okay um
i haven't heard of other north americans
going there
Patrick does make a good point.
A lot of the European men have aged
out and Lazar was supposed to take the
mantle.
And so you are missing a big cog
to the European wheel.
And then Victor would have been there.
I mean, Victor would have been there too.
But you could add five more names and
you're not as deep as the women's field.
yeah agreed yellow didn't leave he had
surgery nine weeks ago he's like rehabbing
right now so and so i don't know
it just seems it it seems flat because
like we're we're gonna go to syndicate the
american the american men's field is deep
the european women's field is deep it's
yeah and maybe that's just where we are
maybe that's just the cycle of the sport
uh fergie question of the week would jamie
rather go back to regionals format or ping
pong all over the world trying to qualify
for the games hundred percent regionals
i'm of the i'm of the mind i
know it can't work but i'm of the
mind that
We get the, like, seven, eight regionals,
however many you want,
and they're all on the same weekend.
It's whatever.
I realize that time-wise some might start
twelve hours earlier,
but it's one set of programming.
I know the floors will be different.
I know everything's not perfect,
but I would just rather see everyone go
similar times, same workout,
and you take the top forty scores.
Unpopular opinion.
Europe is not Victor and Harry.
There are plenty of others,
including Roman.
True, Romans.
But isn't Roman Asian?
Even if he was in his own country?
He would have been in, yeah.
Yeah.
But, okay.
Do or die, it's coming.
I hope.
That's been my dream.
All right, so... Actually,
Vicky had a great question.
They on the front squat,
a lot of athletes chose not to do
the second rep.
Do you think that should have been
allowed?
I think that that should have been a
combined.
I don't know.
Cause then you're really like favoring the
really strong athletes.
I don't know.
I thought that was weird.
Should have just been one window if they
wanted it to matter like that.
It didn't bother me in the moment.
Or did you like the fifty-fifty?
I liked the fifty-fifty.
So we can do a full endurance test
for a hundred,
but then the weight and the gymnastics
would be fifty-fifty?
I would agree with you if that would
have been a five-day run.
I would say yes,
that should have been fifty.
But because it was rowing and weighted and
the sandbag in there,
I feel like
that made it multi-layer i mean wasn't
even the best like it wasn't that you
didn't necessarily get your best runner
winning that event what was what was
miriam on that event i wouldn't call
miriam the best runner i think amy's a
better runner well yes of course and i
mean amy took it but like you would
think miriam would be closer to her i
don't even think was she even
What, seventh, tenth?
I have no idea.
It was seventh.
Seventh.
If it would have been a straight five
K run, I would totally agree with you.
Yes.
I thought the double workout was weird.
I have a bone to pick with a
movement that I've seen now twice at
Mayhem and here, the dumbbell bench press.
I don't know why people keep doing this
now with the bench and just tilting.
It's like doing dips.
And why that's counting.
That's not...
They did at Mayhem.
I see people training it all the time.
Is this a new thing now that people
just do this for their bench press?
Yeah.
It's like dips.
I'm telling you.
They just touch their shoulders like this.
It's bothering me.
It's bothering me.
I'm not a great bencher,
but I don't do the tilting.
And I'm just seeing a lot of my
competitors are doing it.
And I'm like,
do I need to start training this?
No.
Keep doing proper movement here, Ellen.
It's weird for me because...
Have you noticed it?
I want to bench like a bar.
So my dumbbells always like stay with one
dumbbell touching each side,
but not tilted.
Like,
but I do what I see what you're
saying.
Like, it's just this quick.
It's a skull crusher.
They just tilt it.
They literally like, yeah,
it's like nice and wide elbows.
And they just kind of lean the dumbbell
just so that the dumb,
the head just touches the shoulder.
I don't know.
Maybe.
Everybody's looking for... Jeremy,
I think, says it the best.
Crossfitters be crossfitting.
Yeah.
Always looking for the shortest range of
motion.
Yeah, I don't like it.
It's the same for me.
It's the same with dumbbell thrusters and
kettlebell thrusters.
I can't stand that shit.
That same style is happening with bench
press right now.
I've seen it in two competitions and I'm
seeing it in people's training videos.
I also hate resting the dumbbell on the
shoulder with barely a grip on the one
overhead walking lunge.
And Jason did it to perfection.
Or would you rather the vertical?
If the vertical is out in front and
not hanging off the back,
I'm okay with it more than just sitting
on my shoulder.
Yeah.
Did you like the programming this weekend?
I liked it.
Yeah.
I noticed, I mean, there,
it was slightly different programming from
elites to masters,
which was something Hiller talked about in
his video that programmers need to maybe
consider that.
Um, cause they didn't do that run workout.
They had a double under or like a
something else.
I remember.
Yep.
Yeah.
Cause I remember I was trying to compare
scores between the masters and I was like,
wait a second.
They didn't even do the same workout.
They did do the, I mean, they did,
what,
at least four of them the exact same.
I don't think they did that front squat
handstand walk.
So they did four of the same workouts.
They did something different for the run
and something different on that.
But I saw,
I was looking at Leto's rope climb,
the rope climb one.
She would have been like fifth overall in
the elite in that workout.
Yeah, she killed it.
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The master's version of that rope climb
one was slightly different.
Oh, it was?
I thought it was the exact same.
They have eight, six rope climbs,
thirty toes to bars.
Let me just see if that's the same.
I don't think it's quite the same.
For some reason,
I thought I said elite thirty five and
then like something changed when I was
looking at it.
But that would be.
Phil says not athletes,
not put movement standards on the judges.
If they can get away with it,
they will keep doing it.
Yep.
Yeah.
The elites had forty toes to bars, ten,
eight rope climbs.
OK.
And I think the thirty five had thirty
or thirty toes to bars on both ends
and eight, six rope climbs.
Nonetheless, she's she crushed it.
She's a very good gymnast.
I totally agree with that.
And that has been something that's been
preached by athletes.
They say it all the time.
Well, the judge,
let me get away with it.
And they I can't stand that mentality
like.
That's why this sport has gone in this
direction.
Because people won't.
I mean, it's going to happen.
Yes.
And at some point,
when you're moving like shit, they...
they just,
especially if you start that way,
like if you,
if you start really well and then you
get a no rep, it's easier to see.
But if you start moving shit by moving
shitty there, they're only going to,
I mean, Danny's got gotten away with that.
Like she's just going to keep squatting
that way.
Sure.
They might give her five, no reps,
but like she just, she barely fixes it.
But as a competitor,
it's hard because like,
if you don't do it,
you're falling behind in the race when
you're doing it in person.
It's like the GHD version that people are
doing right now.
I never used to train as high as
I do now on the GHD,
but like everyone's doing it and they're
allowing even that white line,
as long as you're just behind it,
you're still fine.
So I'm like, well,
I have to start working on this technique
to even up on the speed that people
are doing it with and how much easier
it is on the body.
Like,
it's annoying because,
but then it's when it's online,
like you don't risk it because then you
don't get that no rep in like online
chance or like in person,
you can get a no rep and adjust
and you can't get that online.
I think that's what's happening online
though,
is people are stuck in that movement
pattern.
And I'd say for the most part,
they get away with it.
Like there obviously was nothing through
the quarterfinals.
Like it didn't,
it totally didn't matter how people moved.
Um,
And there's people who, like,
I feel like this online review process is
kind of a crapshoot.
Like,
you very well may get away with it.
So I guess you might as well try
it.
And the thing with the online,
I don't know if we can go there
right now,
but the top people get reviewed so much
more than the bottom people.
And if they're just going off of the
public review,
some of the people towards the bottom that
may only had, you know,
three or four downs and two or three
ups, they didn't get enough downs,
let's say for them to get a further
review by CrossFit.
So their videos are good.
Because the top people just get
scrutinized to the max,
and then it just gets less and less
as the leaderboard goes down.
I do want to finish up the in-person
judging piece real quick.
Eric Mackey says, don't like it either,
but that's all sports test the gray areas.
When I played football, offensive line,
my coach said to me,
everything's legal till you get caught.
So like...
If you need to hold and you need
to trip and you need to do whatever
you need to do,
keep doing it until the ref calls it.
And I think that that is an attitude
in a lot of sports.
So it's not just CrossFit.
What makes CrossFit more noticeable is if
you're in the gym training for everyday
life, you want good movement.
You want good range of motion.
You want the perfect things.
But you're not racing every day in the
gym.
The minute you put it into an athletic
competition,
people are going to try to skirt the
line.
And that's... I think that's just sport.
Yeah, I don't know.
That's where I wish you could appeal other
people's scores.
But I do want to...
If you're right next to somebody and
you're videoing your lane and the person
next to you is getting away with murder.
I think you can in WFP.
You can appeal someone else's score.
That's probably the way it should be.
Tessa makes a good point.
You can show your video versus a lot
of times the CrossFit events,
they won't take
your video,
they'll take only their video and their
angles.
And I know that WFP will allow you
to facilitate the process of appeals by
giving the video or appealing someone
else's score.
Tessa says,
are the judges same caliber as they were
back in the day?
I think the top judges are the same,
but they are spread so thin now.
But I also think the athletes are better
and moving faster.
And some of the movements,
some of the like workouts,
because there was no reps back then, too.
But it's just like social media wasn't as.
Picking on it as what it is now,
but.
Yeah, no.
So what Vicki says is completely my issue.
She says my,
Vicki says my issues is the regular gym
goer watching that and then moving that
way in their own workouts at the gym.
That is a hundred percent my issue.
And I,
I watched a lot of the teens videos
and it's clear to me that they are
watching the elites and moving that way.
That's exactly what's happening.
And I will tell you,
go watch a little league baseball game and
they're doing the same bat flip and
they're doing the same bat swing as
everybody in the major leagues.
Go to a high school football game and
everybody's wearing the same sweat bands
and the same weird socks or whatever and
doing the same dances when they get an
interception or a sack.
That is,
that is just the way life is with
sports around.
You are going to look at the people
who do it best and you're going to
try to emulate them.
Okay.
But if somebody were to call that out,
like killer does,
if more people called that out and I
was like, that's not right.
And we correct some of that stuff.
How's that work for little league?
How's that work for high school football?
It's totally different.
How?
Well, Michael,
I think this is a valid comment.
I don't love the,
that's just sport excuse.
CrossFit has made virtuosity a pillar of
its message since the beginning.
I think that means something even in the
sport setting.
I agree.
And I,
that would be my argument against Scott.
Like we chose to make moving well,
a basis of our sport before it was
a sport.
Now you've developed a sport from it.
You are not going to be able to
contain it.
People are going to skirt the line.
It's just the way it is.
We have volunteer judges.
I get that.
CrossFit disagree, SGA fouls,
foul baits all day and the NBA is
not changing shiz.
Right.
It happens in all sports.
If you want to go with virtuosity,
I hate to agree with PC,
but then you would have to get rid
of the sport and keep the virtuosity to
the gym.
Oh, that is not true.
There is a way to move very well
on the floor.
There are athletes who do it.
I mean, I rarely,
we rarely saw Rich skirt the line.
And Barry Sanders handed the ball to the
ref when he scored a touchdown.
You have people that did it well in
the NFL.
But Deion Sanders didn't do it like Barry
Sanders.
And they even have the same last name.
Those sports aren't judging movements,
just the results of the movements.
Gymnastics judges movements.
they still celebrate they still do things
um my my sister was a diver she
emulated greg luganus when she was a kid
like you it just is what it is
people doing a sport are going to look
up to the people that do it better
than them and they're going to emulate
them so
we pick, you got to fix it.
You got to put the white tape on
the GHD.
You got to take,
do something to correct the dumbbell.
Like Michael saying,
do something to correct the standard now
before it gets out of control.
I, I agree with you.
I agree that you should make the rules
easy to judge and eliminate as much of
it as you can,
but you're not going to ever get rid
of all of it.
Um,
Maybe I'm naive,
but I don't remember anyone saying shit
about Matt Ortiz's quality of movement.
So it is possible to be the best
and not shortcut.
I think if you went back and watched,
people would still complain about both of
them in different times.
But they do have pretty good movement.
But I will tell you, as a judge,
we were warned about certain high-end
athletes and their movement standards and
how crappy they were.
And they were podium athletes.
Look for this movement.
Look for that movement because they skirt
the system.
But now you've spread that judging
community so, so thin.
You have, and they're not all equal.
Some judges hold a higher standard,
and then that's not fair on the field
when you get two lanes that are outrageous
and a couple allowing anything.
Yeah.
I am speaking the truth.
And the crazy thing is the judges that
told me that like the head judges were
people like Chuck Carswell or people like
Adrian Bosman that are still there
fighting the good fight.
It's just, it's too,
it's probably will forever be too big of
an issue.
I don't know.
I mean, I just feel like,
Like the,
the people lunging today and not finishing
their lunch.
Yeah.
Like,
I guess pull up the video and take
off.
Fifteen, twenty seconds.
Like, I don't know, there's,
there needs to somehow be a correction for
that stuff.
It needs to get called out.
Yeah.
Some of those are bad.
Yeah.
So Patrick was in the same briefing I
was in,
in Nashville when those conversations
happened.
So let's move on to online,
and we can now rain about the online
judging process.
Jamie did online semis,
and just so everybody's clear,
and I know it's been out there now,
and that is that the French Throwdown
results and the Torian results will come
before the online semis for Masters
athletes.
So if an athlete qualifies at the French
Throwdown,
they are removed from the leaderboard.
Well,
they're probably not going to be removed,
but they won't factor into the numbers
that go to the games from there.
See, like, are their scores... Okay.
Do their scores still count and affect the
leaderboard, or are they just...
Now you're above my pay grade.
But that's interesting, right?
Right.
I don't think they'll pull them.
I literally just think, like,
if they're...
Because that would be interesting if
Hawley does...
Um,
a leaderboard that a one and erases those
people's scores that could affect certain
people in some workouts at the end of
the whole season.
Once, uh, once it's done,
because you're still affecting the scores,
but not participating in the on,
like in the online now,
because you've qualified.
Uh, cross fat says, oh good.
The old backfill trickle down days,
you know,
what would have prevented this putting the
online semi at the end.
Yeah.
Or at the start,
it's at the end of the start,
but it makes the most sense at the
end.
Come on.
Um,
Jamie is in the process for people that
don't know Jamie finished fourth.
in her age group which is a qualifying
spot jamie where are you at right now
with video review four out of five have
been approved which one are you missing
two the burpee one the burpee back jump
over shuttle run that should be fine yeah
i i feel like that's not the one
that most people have any issues with yeah
um
Call the fire department.
Carolyn now has Holly's keyboard smoking.
That is the truth.
And shout out to Holly again.
She was phenomenal again this weekend with
overall leaderboard schedules with both
Eastern time zone and Paris time.
So you could actually try to figure out
where you were.
uh crossfit wants to know you didn't run
half as far right like only do half
the that's sure you could have done that
too i think we're all i think people
understand it now right it's been i hope
man it's been five years so we're still
waiting on all that but but it is
obvious that they are getting through
videos yeah and jamie has four of the
five approved and the ones with the more
down votes are already approved
So did you,
have you had one that you got,
you've had one that was reviewed by the
CrossFit team?
Correct.
How many down views did you have in
order to get that?
I don't know.
I haven't looked at that,
but I want to say my number two
had, I don't know,
three or four down views on it too,
which.
Well,
your deadlift one had more down views,
which I still cannot figure out why.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Cause you were great with your elbows.
I.
I know that that's a big emphasis that
you had.
You had no muted hip at all.
No.
Cleans are one of my biggest peeves in
the sport.
The videos that I watched,
I couldn't even review those because I
would have no-rapped fifty percent of
everyone's cleans.
I was just livid.
How many people complaining about judging
standards are stepping up and taking the
time now to actually review videos?
Just saying,
I've judged over a hundred and fifty.
I've judged a ton.
Or I did.
I guess we only had until Thursday last
week, but yes, I did.
I did a ton.
I've judged a lot,
but I don't have the equity.
Do you need your advanced judges course to
judge or just your L-I?
Because I'm able to judge as well,
but I'm just wondering what people needed
for that to enter the public one.
That's a good question.
I have the advanced.
Because I have the advanced one as well,
which is why I didn't know if it
was just the people that have the advanced
ones that can judge.
Yeah.
A lot of people bent down early for
the last deadlift in the last minute.
They were literally hands on the bar
basically at night.
I'm like, you have to start tall.
Yeah,
I thought it was you couldn't touch the
bar before.
I thought I couldn't touch the bar too.
Hands couldn't be on the bar before the
But the movement starts normally standing
tall, like in general.
I read the standards for that because I
was confounded,
but I couldn't tell you yay or nay
on that now because it's been a week
and a half.
That you don't know the answer to that
question, Carolyn,
is an issue with the system.
probably probably good but i have all of
those credentials so i don't know if like
i wouldn't know for other people i think
what he's saying is the fact that we
don't know the standard for a deadlift and
what is the starting position and the is
an indictment on the system position at
any minute in a workout even like you
can't start a burpee at the bottom almost
to the ground like you start at the
top and then it's like three two one
go and you go
Well,
I saw like five hundred false starts this
weekend.
I thought about that when if that was
going to be the case.
So I feel like if they wanted you
standing tall,
they needed to have this one where your
back was to the bar.
On every top of the minute and you
turned and deadlifted.
Well,
it's the first time it's been an email.
I'm in an online qualifier, right?
Like, I don't know.
I put my hands on the bar.
I don't know if I was bent over.
I don't know.
I saw tons of people take their last
clean after the time was up.
I did see that.
And I stopped.
And count it.
And count it.
And count it.
I stopped.
Like in the middle of a power clean,
the judge gives it, but like,
it's okay if the judge gives it and
it's like,
just review your video or whatever.
Like once you review your video and you're
like, there's the ten minute right here.
You don't get the rep even if it's
ten during the ten.
It's like, no,
at the ten where you are,
that's the movement stops.
that's sad kelly jackson who's on crossfit
seminar staff didn't finish the online
qualifier because she couldn't find two
judges with the proper credentials also
speaking of that i did see like the
emails of you couldn't some people like if
they registered late that has to be a
new rule this year because last year
during the semi-final i literally paid for
a few people to do their like advanced
judges course that weekend to help me out
like additional people because i already
had two judges and i paid for like
two additional judges that weekend to help
me out so like that must have been
a new rule from this year the like
too late to do your advanced judges course
yeah i feel like they could have
highlighted that somewhere yeah maybe in
the in the um
like invite email like hey you've
qualified just a reminder you need your
two they need to already have taken the
prior to the start of the event yes
Boom.
Like I used my same two from last
year.
So,
and the advanced judge course is good for
three years.
So like I,
that wasn't even anything that crossed my
mind, although I had, I gone.
So I, after I saw this happening,
like I told you guys that I had
considered going to Seth's gym over in
Grand Rapids.
And that was going,
that was kind of going to be the
issue because I, Leah was like, well,
we can,
we both have our all at once.
We can take the advanced judges course.
Well,
I wouldn't have probably gone over there
till like Saturday.
So I probably would have told them Friday
and it would have been done before
Thursday.
So I think I would have been and
I would have been so pissed.
Like if I had done that and then
it would have been all for not.
I still think that secondary judge.
Is so useless.
So useless.
It's just a hassle for people.
And it doesn't even matter.
Their videos are public anyways,
which are going to get judged.
Take away that second judge.
Be like a suggested second judge or
someone to look at your video to make
sure that the judges is in frame,
that your measurements are good.
Like it could be a suggestion because like
most people doing these online qualifiers
are by themselves or maybe with one more
person.
Maybe.
Very few people are like the proven group
that have like ten people going at once.
That would need maybe a secondary head
judge or floor judge.
No, sorry.
Head judge, floor judge, head judge.
Like going over everything.
It's just work for nothing.
So let's move on to Dave's behind the
scenes of
walking with the wheel the measuring wheel
we know that's so accurate i think that's
just user error every time uh so anyway
he's at the sap center yards he is
what he is measuring in feet and
converting to yards maybe that's the
problem yeah just keep it meters
So anyway, he's at the SAP center.
He's walking around.
So it does appear that there is going
to be an outdoor run of some sort
going out of the venue and back in
at a minimum.
Happy about that?
Yeah.
It doesn't matter for us.
Well, maybe Carolyn.
I think that should happen.
Do you use the outside?
Yeah.
But as a fan of the sport,
are you happy?
Yeah.
Mm-hmm.
then he he looked at both directions and
asked about permitting both directions and
then he went up barack obama way or
barack obama street or what i don't know
what it is and asked if it would
be okay to shove a big big object
down the street and they said like what
and he goes we have this thing called
the big bob
Could you imagine the sight of just a
bunch of sleds down the street?
The sound,
the screech of that metal on the asphalt.
I think it would make everybody run away.
Yeah, no, thank you.
He has to be joking, right?
Yes.
He just put that in there as like
a... I don't know.
But I don't think that many big bobs
could fit on the street.
Like,
how many teams would you have in a
heat?
Like, two?
Three at most?
Yeah, I don't know.
That would make no sense.
Now, if he's trying to deviate or, like,
defer, and maybe it's, like, sleds,
I don't know.
Who knows?
Can drag a big bob down Barack Obama
Boulevard.
Si se puede?
No.
I don't know.
What's the translation there?
I don't know.
I don't know.
I kind of agree with Vicky.
I think he was trolling.
Yeah, I do too.
Because I do agree with Carolyn.
There's no way you're getting ten big
bobs.
on Brock Obama Boulevard.
No, because how do you pass a team?
It's not like a field where you have
all these lanes.
It makes no sense.
Or they could put wheels on it and
a turning signal and then you have to
switch lanes to get around.
No, it's not happening.
Yeah,
I can just see all kinds of issues
with that.
There's no way.
That's not a
level playing field yeah but it was a
funny troll because you know barbell spin
had their post with a picture of the
old bob and he posted a picture today
of one on facebook marketplace in case you
need one i did like the stairs up
and down though i think that's cool yeah
i think they'll use that
I do think half of the video is
trolling, though.
I don't.
I think it's Dave going back in time,
reminiscing about the twenty years and all
the trolling he did in the past,
and he's bringing it all back for twenty.
Those stairs are wider,
but are they wide enough?
There's separation on runs.
do you think if dave came out and
said walk down in the single like single
thing of stairs during the berm and stuff
like the berm runs and then like that
was just you just don't pass at that
point you pass on the on the on
the flat like that's do you think if
dave came out and said they were doing
multiple outdoor events that it would help
sell tickets no no if they were in
madison yes
Here, no,
because Thursday is off-site and not open
to the public.
So that doesn't help sell anything.
And as Carolyn has said a million times,
what would sell more tickets is cheaper
prices.
We are not big enough to sell tickets
at that price.
And it's already expensive enough when
people go for the full weekend for
flights, hotels, food.
If you make the tickets cheaper,
more people come and then more people will
want to spend at the vendors as well.
Right now,
people don't want to spend at the vendors
because they've already paid so much money
on their tickets and hotel and everything.
It's just crazy.
The reason...
The location in Madison was packed all the
time is you could buy a ninety nine
dollar festival pass.
For the weekend.
And you could go and you saw a
couple outdoor events at Orange Park each
day.
And then you got to hang out with
people and watch the rest on a big
screen TV or go enjoy downtown Madison or
whatever.
But that's why the seat sold.
It was cheap.
You got to hang out with other
CrossFitters.
The arena was only for the evening events.
The arena being all day sucks.
And if we're in an arena,
there's no way you can do that again.
Because there is no outdoor venue,
festival area to do that in.
I think this idea of expanding and moving
to overseas or whatever and getting
smaller so they can do that is just
a bad move.
Go back to Madison.
people showed up in madison you had
multiple options there or find someplace
similar yep and then once it becomes
popular again and back on the right
trajectory then worry about other things
but not now also one piece of good
news
And I saw it mentioned way early on
in the chat.
Tia Toomey gave birth.
They are now a team of four.
Introducing Coda Toomey Orr.
Very cute.
And Willow giving the kiss.
Yeah, that's cute.
I saw Jamie Simmons also like twenty weeks
pregnant as well.
I saw that today too.
I thought it was funny as Lex after
that was posted said,
so is it time to give Tia a
special invite to the game?
Yeah.
She could be ready by then.
How many months is that?
I think we only got like six weeks
or something.
She's done it before.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I bet you she'd finish top ten like
easy.
It's so crazy.
There may be something like incredibly
heavy that she couldn't really do,
but post-workout she would still freaking
crush.
I don't think she would finish last on
any workout.
That's so crazy.
It's so crazy.
And it's true.
It's so crazy.
CrossFit.
If CrossFit just hammered Big Ten and ACC
campuses, it would work.
And I saw Patrick said,
then rent out the dorms for cheap to
the volunteers.
Oh, that's cool.
I'd stay in a dorm.
You could rent that out to the athletes
for cheap.
You could rent it out to spectators for
cheap.
Yeah.
Dude.
It would be like a little mini Olympic
village.
It would be freaking crazy.
Get the door,
get the cafeteria up and running.
So there's a lot of talk about someone
asked Dave about the Capitol being the
greatest event ever.
And Dave kind of brushed it off that
it was, it wasn't the greatest.
It was just that moment at the end.
And people were saying he would never
admit that somebody else's programming was
better than his.
Because that was a Boz event.
I was in Madison.
That was a freaking great event.
The run was gorgeous.
The run to the Capitol was gorgeous.
That's my favorite event I've ever done.
And all of those different apparatus that
you had to get up the,
get to the steps and up the steps.
I thought it was chef's kiss.
Great event.
It was hard to.
The farmer carries,
then you could hold a certain for a
certain distance.
You could have the bag like this.
And then once you got to the stairs,
you had to do this.
That's cool.
Dave,
who cares about the Capitol and Gwen?
Well,
I think it's funny that he dogged Gwen
and then people were pointing out the
muscle-up biathlon and all the events that
he did where there was a stop and
you had to...
And the penalty on that muscle-up
biathlon...
When you no-repped on the last rep and
had to run the two hundred meters,
that was significant too.
Massively significant.
The volunteers use the dorms in Madison
and it's a possibility in San Jose.
They just don't have the campus to put
everything.
And the one year,
I guess it was Boz's program,
it had double-unders that were unbroken
and then Tia missed on the single-unders
that had to be unbroken and then had
to start over and then didn't even make
the cut on that event.
And the Rebel Renegade Games,
whatever it's called,
next weekend have an event where
double-unders, it's max unbroken.
What if you just trip on the first
one?
How many people trip on the first one?
A lot.
yeah yeah there's like a three part i
don't know how they're scoring it but
that's crazy when tia didn't make the cut
it was like when ivan drago got cut
and started bleeding crazy and then it
healed up and she demolished everybody
anyway just just giving her a little
challenge
Dave has just lost his creative juices.
Time to move on.
I don't think he has.
I think that I don't think he has
the right palette.
I think arenas are not meant for this.
I would much rather see it on a
football field or the Capitol was great
because it wasn't in the arena.
Right.
The capital is because you got to run
by the lake and you got to run
into downtown Madison.
And then you go up those steps,
which were hard to begin with.
And you put this big weight on you.
You have to have the right palette to
be able to paint the picture.
If you truly think that Dave has the
choice of where they go,
I think he has input,
but he doesn't make the choice.
That is the board of directors,
one hundred percent.
I don't know.
I think he probably had quite a lot
of influence on this one.
And he got it exactly where he wanted
it.
And we'll see what happens now that he
does have, he can't go outside.
He can't go to the ranch.
What does the weekend look like?
I have a couple other things.
I just have a quick question for you,
but I do have to go to the
airport and pick up my mom tonight.
So we have to end on time.
NorCal is with their schedule has
announced kind of that there's seven
events.
Do you think it's going to be seven,
one hundred point events or do you think
it's going to be like we saw at
French with seven events, two being fifty?
I think it's going to be seven,
one hundred point events.
Do you think that's better?
Anytime it's more events, it's better.
Yeah.
I don't know if it's seven on the
floor or are they having a, like they,
they always, yeah, like a floater one.
That's what I was wondering.
One of them's a floater.
It just is, you know,
when it's in barbell spin this week, uh,
what they released the schedule of events,
uh,
They're not going to release events prior.
Every other event will release theirs one
to two weeks in advance.
NorCal has never released their events
until the Thursday of registration,
and then they brief it that night.
Phil B. says they're seven at Torian.
CrossFit, seven events,
but the last two years,
there's been linked events and one event
that sort of didn't count.
Yeah, the row run was combined.
And, of course,
the gator and the bucket hold that didn't
end up being a part of the final
score.
Yeah.
So anyway, there's that.
Syndicate's coming up.
We're going to dive into that next week.
We'll recap Torian next Sunday.
We'll preview NorCal, Madrid,
and Syndicate all next week.
Damn, that's going to be a busy show.
I think there's Rebel next week as well
with Torian, I think, right?
Yeah.
I'll be honest.
There'll probably be a faster recap of
Rebel than it will be for Torian.
Well,
it's only one person we got to highlight.
We'll get the spot for the female there.
Already calling it.
Isn't that where Annika's going?
No, Annika already has her spot.
Oh, yeah.
Annika already went.
Who else is going out there?
I feel like there's another American.
I think Hannah Black, maybe.
I don't know.
Let me go see.
Hannah Black and Var Thurman Moe.
Also very good.
Yeah.
Hannah Black's looked really good this
year, too.
Those are the type of weekends that are
hard because if it's only like three
really,
really solid competitors and the rest are
like good,
you can't mess up an event changing and
you have one bad event and you're done.
Can't mess up.
Cannot mess up.
That's where I don't think it's a good
event for Hannah black.
She has gotten so much better,
but she could still slip up on event.
I would say has a greater chance of
slipping up on an event than Matilda's.
We will see.
Guy learned that lesson in South America.
Is Guy doing any of them?
No, he's only doing online.
Oh, wow.
And WFP.
WFP basket.
Yeah,
I don't think he envisioned making it.
I think he just did the stuff because
he was doing it online.
Didn't think he was going to get this
far.
And he's, I don't know.
Welcome to my world.
Except for you fibbed.
You knew all along.
No,
I just said I was going to go
along as the season progressed.
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