Coach Profile: Blake Schaub, Part 1

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All right, so very, very excited for this.

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This is.

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I was originally referring to Blake as Coach Zero, because that made no sense.

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He was like he was our first coach other than my wife and I.

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So I just thought Coach Zero sounded cool, but it really made like no numerical sense whatsoever, you know.

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But, um, now, at this moment, at this moment, we've got the CrossFit kids class.

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One of them, just one of them, just took a, took a dive on the turf.

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That's all right, though.

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Quick feet, quick feet.

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We've got CrossFit kids going on downstairs, so you might hear little tiny feet of fury running across the floor and getting after it, but no matter, but um, so when we, we opened up our first location, our first uh brick and mortar because, as I remember, jen and I were talking about this, like I say, we affiliated in, like 2004, out of our garage and didn't really, you know, we, we just trained.

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You know we're like hey man, we were going to do this, so we did.

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Then we opened up in, um, an old, uh automotive garage in Verona, right on Jones street, I think it was.

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Yeah, that was.

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But what was so funny, though, was like and I think I touched on this when Alexandra and I were playing around with the first, like, hey, this is our origins.

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And you know when we did that, she and I, I think it was close to an hour and we were up here before 5.30 pm.

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Class.

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There's like nobody in the building.

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She and I are up here and I was like, hey, let's just, let's just play around with this.

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You know, boom, and we started talking about it.

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I mean, she was just four, you know four years old, emily was two, michael was one, and I remember when we first got it I mean it was an old automotive garage and you know, for lease signed in the building I pulled over, I was going to visit my parents.

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I pulled over, made a phone call, had no idea that the owner was in the building next door.

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He owned a Riverview carpet, right.

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So I called the number on the sign from the sidewalk and I was like, well, when can I see it?

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He's like, hey, well, what works for you?

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And I just happened to say, well, as a matter of fact, I'm out front right now.

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He opens the door, sticks his head out with his phone.

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Oh so we walked in and he had just taken over the building like it was for sale and he bought it.

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So we walked in and he's like that's a little rough.

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There was like a hole in the floor, there's like puddles of water, I mean a hole in the ceiling, puddles of water on the floor.

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There's a big old hydraulic lift in the floor, you know, and, um, like the, the, what became like the sitting area for the kids was like the waiting room for the automotive, you know, patrons, right.

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And then the little office had that sliding window, um, which turned out to be great because the office was set to itself.

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There was a clean bathroom.

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We set up like a living room, playroomroom for the kids that had, if I'm not mistaken, that part of the building had like a drop ceiling with HVAC, so yeah, so they could like sit watch TV.

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You know VCRs, I think.

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Back then you know video collections.

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So that was actually pretty damn funny.

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But, man, good times, good times.

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But I think you joined like really soon it was, uh, the first time I walked into that building, it was february of of 08, so I had started, um, drew, you know drew's in our army already and, uh, he told me, you know.

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He said, man, I know you work out every day, you got to try this.

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And I tried it, you know, and like I was looking, you know it was.

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I mean, as we know, crossfitcom was all you could do, right.

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Right, right, so you find CrossFitcom and you're looking at it and you're like and we've had this conversation before about your first deadlift experience, right, you're looking at it, you're like and we've had this conversation before about your first deadlift experience, right, oh yeah, you're like I don't even know what to do.

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I don't know if that's enough.

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So, like, I just kind of incorporated like some of the principles of it into what I was already doing.

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This is fun.

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And then I went to visit him around christmas of 07 and we did at that point it was the workout that Jim Jones had created for the 300- movie.

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And I can remember doing it and I was like, oh shit, like I was pretty sure my heart was going to come out of my chest.

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Right.

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And I was like that was awesome.

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And then for the entirety of the five or so days that I was there, we trained every day Just different random things, you know whatever.

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And you know like I was hooked I mean I was hooked before that, but I was definitely hooked after, right and then one of the guys I work with, dave Boyles- you know, played for the Harlequins.

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He's too old for that now, Not me.

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Well, you know, maybe he just knows I'm in my yeah he does, he's just smarter.

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Yeah, he's younger than me, I know.

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Yeah, the thought hurts me right now.

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We came out and I came out with him as like, because the Harlequins were coming out Right and you know, jackie and Jen were running the class.

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You were overseas, I think.

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Yeah, sure was, we did fight combat.

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So my first official workout in that building was fight combat.

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Oh my gosh.

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And I can remember having a conversation with Jackie afterwards.

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Like you know, I'm a little bit like Rain man when it comes to this sometimes, but like I got 254 reps, I think.

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If I remember correctly, I got 254 reps, I think.

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If I remember it correctly, I got 254 reps and and I said to jackie afterwards I was like so you know like how well you because jen, you know, I mean jackie's a great athlete but jen pumped her up like this is our best athlete, you know.

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And I was like so what are you?

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You know what's the best you've done?

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And I remember her saying like 317 or 318 or something like that.

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I was like oh shit.

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Yeah, like that would be great and you know, when the school year came out at the end or in June, I came in and I never left.

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Right, you know for four years or five years, whatever it was.

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Yeah.

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I was, I was there and I was hooked and you know I remember like it's just so much fun.

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Oh yeah, you know so different, you know like.

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Totally, totally.

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And I think the craziest part, and for me it's fascinating talking to well, you know, obviously, other CrossFitters, but CrossFitters you know who have a history with us.

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Because, like you said, you know we've talked about this before and since and everything like that.

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But it never, ever ceases to amaze me, right, like the fight gone bad.

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I don't remember that specifically what my numbers were, but I remember like I wanted to break 300 so badly on fight gone bad.

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I'm like, come on, man, it's a goal, it's a goal.

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And you know, that's also like a like kind of a fatal mistake, because what I found myself doing is I'm looking at the score sheet and whatever my let's say, it was like two in the two seventies or something it was, it was, it was close enough that in my mind I was like all right, wait a second, if I would have done one rep here, rep here one.

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And then all of a sudden you do all this pencil and paper right, and then you go.

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Well, here's the big thing.

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If I could have, I would have, but I didn't, because I remember at that moment I was going.

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There was no way that your body was physically going to let you do it Right right.

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There's just one more right here.

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Well, what's crazy though and I remember, like you referenced Dave, the picture of Dave up there on the wall.

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That was his last workout with us before he was.

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I want to say he was the assistant to the head groundskeeper at Oakmont Country Club, right, and the head groundskeeper at the time was also a very a young man and dave, you know, went to school, for that turf management is part of it.

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I mean, it's like a, it's an actual, it's a big deal, it's a science, right.

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So he was offered and I remember this like it was yesterday when he told us he was leaving.

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It was a very prestigious golf club on long island that had like fallen into like kind of disrepair, like it just lost whatever.

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Maybe board members had come and gone.

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It was like an older, older place, and they reached out to him, they, they made him an offer and he's like, hey, he's like that's going to be my launching point, like I'm going to bring this thing back.

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Well, he did, obviously he did, to the point that when the groundskeeping manager left, oakmont moved on to another opportunity.

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Oakmont reached out to Dave hey, would you like to come back?

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So, boom, you know back, he goes.

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But I remember before all that.

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So that's all that to reference the picture of him.

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But I remember we were at the original gym we're doing Fight, gone Bad, and it was the usual suspects you, me, uh, dave, and you know I don't remember scotty, um, pape.

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Remember scott?

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Yeah, the shorter blonde hair, and we're all getting geared up because the way we always did it was we'd partner up.

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Yeah, then your partner would score for you, right, right, which makes perfect sense, because I have yet to.

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I, I do believe this.

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I think if you're pushing yourself properly, uh, pushing yourself hard through that workout, I don't think you're going to have the wherewithal to keep your own score, I really don't.

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And not to mention call you.

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You know no reps, I mean, you know, um, but anyway, I remember that vividly.

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And dave's my partner and he's like all right, tonight, tonight's the night you break 300 and somehow or other, he's just like all right, here's what you're gonna do.

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Like he lays out a strategy and he's like because I think we had done it like months prior and uh, because we all trained at the same time, as I remember, usually at the same time, and he laid out usually at the same time, and he laid out something like you know he goes, you're wasting time on the rower you are, you're killing yourself on the road Like you're not a rower, like don't, don't let that be where you make up the numbers and I'm like all right.

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So again, the strategy was sound.

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You know make money where you can the best, so you know take it um wall balls.

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You know what have you and sure enough it was like the very, very low 300s.

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But I'm like, right, exactly, but you did it right.

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Yeah, that's awesome, yeah, love it.

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But those were the days and I I just told this story to someone about a week ago and, ref, we got the um, we're here now RPM jump ropes.

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Oh yeah, yeah.

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And that was one of the best moves we ever made was to get like the gym kit.

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Oh right, so it's like multiple lengths and they're clearly marked and you know, like the rack that you put them in is marked and the ropes themselves are marked and with like two sets on opposite sides of them.

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And I made a joke.

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This young lady is a member of ours and she it's not funny, but anybody in the crossfit universe that has used cable jump ropes has hit themselves.

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Oh yeah, and she's tall and she's got fair complected and I'm I'm coaching and every time she'd hit herself with the rope, like she'd wince and I'm like, oh, like you know, that's gonna leave a mark, right.

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So, sure enough, after the workout, very sweet young lady, and she's like, wow, you know, like on her backs of her legs, on her arms, right, and I I said you know this might cheer you up, I don't know, but I said the first ever cable ropes we had at crossfit pittsburgh were part of a bumper plate.

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Remember, with those bumper plates on washington boulevard, yeah, and we get the notification that evening.

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It's like, hey, you know they're coming and they have one driver.

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Do you have anybody that can help?

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We're like, uh, so you and I fly over there and that building was such a shit show, like the loading dock was at the far end but the room was in such disrepair I think the ceiling was a problem and all that.

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Oh my gosh.

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Yeah, that was that building was crazy.

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Probably should have been condemned.

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Well, maybe that's the reason why I refused to eat it or drink it either of the breweries that opened up in there.

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You know, not for nothing.

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I knew the story of that building.

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I don't know.

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Not for nothing, but you could make anything edible or drinkable in that place.

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When we would go in on a Saturday after the workout and deep clean with like bleach and cleaning solutions and lift up the rubber mats against the wall and disinfect it and walk in like Monday and it smelled like we hadn't been in there, I'm like this isn't right.

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It's like the gateway to hell or something like that you see, like this in the movies, you know.

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But um, we had the truck driver, as I recall, back right up to the steps, drop his tailgate and we loaded it right off basically was the front porch and we're stacking all the bumper plates and doing this, and I don't remember which one of us saw the jump ropes first, but they were like still wrapped, so we set them aside, finished the unloading and I do recall we're in like jeans and Innovates Remember first generation Innovates.

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Oh yeah, they didn't have like a toe cap, they just ran right into the sole.

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Comfortable, low profile, high speed, low drag.

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We break out the jump ropes and we're going and I know I did it.

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I don't know if you did it too that night, but I hit myself right on the front of my big toe, like right under the, under the toenail, but right on like the meaty part of the big toe, whack.

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The only thing I can compare that to is when you're a kid helping your dad work on the house or something and you, hey, dad, can I hammer that?

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Yeah, sure whack, but instead of like a hammer, it was like just this fast-moving, it was like sinister.

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You know, ah, that was, but you know what?

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learn.

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Those are the things that you, that you learn to deal with for sure I just had a conversation with somebody the other day that, um, because I was, I was at school when I was doing double unders oh man, but that hurts.

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I said well, luckily I don't really hit myself much like for some reason.

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The way that it works for me is, if I ever hit, if I ever miss, I either hit the bottom of my soul and it just stops, or every once in a while hit me across the fingers which?

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Or the knuckles which, I don't know how that's even possible.

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Right but it does and I I told him a story that one time I remember Jess was doing doing double unders and she, you know she had short, so score bra and whatever, and it hit her and there was a welt from her, from the top of her left hip to her right shoulder, and it the only place that it missed or that it didn't leave a welt is where her sports bra was yeah.

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So like there was a welt, it stopped.

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And then there was another welt and it like wrapped up around her shoulder.

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It was like I'm really glad that I never had to honest to God, experience those types and like, like you said, so I'd imagine getting hit on any part of the back, right, I mean the ropes in the wrong position, it as it comes up, um.

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But I remember I hit myself.

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I wasn't wearing a shirt and I hit myself in the center of the chest but it almost left like an infinity sign.

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Figured that out, that out.

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I'm like that's some kind of like hocus pocus right there.

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I'm like whack, you know, and it hurts and it's always like when you're a kid and you're outside on a first like really cold day and you're playing like touch football at recess, everything hurts.

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You know your hands hurt more when they're cold and the ball stings or whatever.

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That's like the exact opposite.

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But you know you got a fast moving cable rope and you're sweaty and you're hot and thwack and you're like this is, this is not cool and it's definitely.

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It's definitely one of those things that some people get it worse than others.

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Yeah, and I don't know again, I don't know if it's like their technique or whatever, but like, I'm glad that I'm not one of those people.

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Yeah, you are one of the chosen few.

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Yeah, I guess.

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But you know, like I said, I randomly hit myself across the mouth with this, but like it never leaves a weld, it just hurts, yeah.

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And then I just look like a pansy.

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I'm like what, what's wrong with your hand?

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I'm like, oh, you can't see?

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me?

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No, it's fine.

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The sectionals in 2010, the one and only year of sectionals, right, and for those like not like new to CrossFit, the year before the Open they did the CrossFit sectionals and it was our section was Pennsylvania, Delaware and Maryland right, and they did sections all over the country, right?

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I don't know that it was international at that time, I think it might have just been, or maybe Canada.

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I think they did because that was because I remember what was that.

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That was 10, right.

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Right.

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Because Annie was in the games in 9.

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I remember she got her first muscle.

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Okay, yeah, yeah, so it was but it was probably the same thing.

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There was probably like one European section, Exactly so it was, but it was probably the same thing Like there was probably like one.

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European section Exactly, exactly.

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It doesn't matter wherever you live in Europe.

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You're in.

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Okay, that's your section.

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Everybody's going to travel to Germany or wherever.

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Right.

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The most number of CrossFit gyms were, that's where you had to go and that was so and, and as I recall you registered, a couple of our other athletes Rick, I recall you registered a couple of our other athletes Rick RJ, rj did it, keith did it.

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Rick RJ, keith and you and, as I remember, I was supposed to go.

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My father had just passed away in 2009.

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I was off, I was home, on leave extended a little bit longer due to his his passing, and, you know, taking care of my mom, and we were training together.

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But I remember I was like, okay, we'd come in before class, jen, and I would come in early train with you before we'd coach, or you would coach or what have you.

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And, um, I don't know what.

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I don't remember all the factors that led to it, but I do remember I called operations and I was like, hey, look, I'm like you know my mom's not doing well, now's not a good time.

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I need, I need to extend.

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If I have to take a leave of absence, I need to extend some time at home here.

00:18:26.713 --> 00:18:28.116
They're like no problem.

00:18:28.436 --> 00:18:37.000
And that evening I registered for the section and the next day I came in the train and you were like, hey, man, I, I saw, I saw you registered.

00:18:37.000 --> 00:18:38.403
I was like, yeah, we're doing it.

00:18:38.403 --> 00:18:45.084
And, uh, so it was five of us, as I remember, and we traveled to, um, uh, crossfit, king of prussia.

00:18:45.084 --> 00:19:08.017
We stayed at a hotel nearby and so so funny, because I think we had no, I know we did we had more people, more members of ours, travel with us to to cheer us on and to to be spectators than we did competitors, oh for sure right, uh, dustin and his wife, um matt and amy.

00:19:08.278 --> 00:19:08.759
Uh, christina becca.

00:19:08.759 --> 00:19:13.289
Matt and Amy, christina Becca.

00:19:16.180 --> 00:19:24.556
And then all the CrossFit Panther, crossfit were there because a few of them were competing, or maybe they were all competing, I don't even know.

00:19:24.556 --> 00:19:31.979
They were all there, that was such a crazy experience because I don't know if KOP is in that same location or not.

00:19:31.979 --> 00:19:36.098
Man, that was such a crazy experience because, you know, I don't know if KOP is in that same location or not?

00:19:36.179 --> 00:19:40.882
Yeah, but with the river right next to it, and the river is dangerously close to cresting.

00:19:40.882 --> 00:19:44.018
I never saw rain like that.

00:19:44.069 --> 00:19:53.123
There's that one workout, that's outside that luckily, you know, we're overhead single arm, overhead dumbbell squatting or kettlebell squatting.

00:19:53.242 --> 00:19:53.423
Right.

00:19:53.490 --> 00:19:57.528
Luckily there was an overpass there, so we're not getting soaked on that, unless you had to run.

00:19:57.528 --> 00:20:00.259
Right and it was like the whole thing.

00:20:00.259 --> 00:20:07.022
I mean I still, I still laugh anytime I see pictures from that because like especially the 20 minute AMRAP.

00:20:07.144 --> 00:20:07.263
Yeah.

00:20:08.049 --> 00:20:16.740
Because, like, I look at those pictures and Jen was judging, but when I went I was like that was the last event for me, I think.

00:20:17.221 --> 00:20:17.402
Right.

00:20:17.529 --> 00:20:27.758
She wasn't judging that particular one, so she was standing there and she was coaching me as I did it and I remember you know it was chin over the bar and it was 35 pound weighted vest.

00:20:27.817 --> 00:20:27.999
Right.

00:20:28.118 --> 00:20:28.339
Right.

00:20:28.339 --> 00:20:44.040
So I'm pretty sure it was five reps of chin over the bar, pull-ups, and it's like 30 seconds left in the workout, right, and I do my last one and at that point I would already been butterfly, like I already knew how to butterfly.

00:20:44.040 --> 00:20:45.829
But I, you couldn't right.

00:20:45.829 --> 00:20:51.384
Well, I wasn't thinking straight and I got my chin over the bar and I just let go.

00:20:51.384 --> 00:20:55.317
Well, you know, I'm like six inches over the bar, I let go.

00:20:55.317 --> 00:20:58.573
I just smashed my chin right off the bar, I fall down, hit the ground.

00:20:58.573 --> 00:21:01.423
You know, I'm like dazed.

00:21:01.423 --> 00:21:04.353
All I know is I see Jen and she's screaming at me.

00:21:04.353 --> 00:21:08.949
She's like you better get your ass up now and just you know.

00:21:08.949 --> 00:21:11.295
And I like stumble up, pick up my jump rope.

00:21:11.295 --> 00:21:16.278
You speaking of double unders and do my however many double unders I get through and whatever.

00:21:16.278 --> 00:21:21.099
And uh, I that just came up not too long ago on like Facebook memory.

00:21:21.441 --> 00:21:22.042
Yeah, for sure.

00:21:22.130 --> 00:21:28.073
There's all the pictures of me at the end, like laying on the ground, wanting to be, wanting to just to be over.

00:21:28.153 --> 00:21:29.294
Right, right.

00:21:29.334 --> 00:21:29.795
You know it's.

00:21:29.795 --> 00:21:33.679
Those kind of things are just so much fun to think oh it's, it's wild.

00:21:33.819 --> 00:21:48.896
I mean, and as I remember, you and I were none of the same heats, but the closest we were there was a short like, was it three minute ground to overhead at 155 barbell ground to overhead?

00:21:48.896 --> 00:22:04.094
Yeah, I want to say that was my first workout where I think you did the longer one first I did yeah because we were opposites on that.

00:22:04.153 --> 00:22:13.451
I was the longer one first yeah middle and that one, the short, one second, and then, I think, the outside, one last or something I thought the other way, the outside one.

00:22:13.511 --> 00:22:16.337
We did not at the same heat, but close together in the middle.

00:22:16.337 --> 00:22:21.035
Okay, because I remember you did it first, like your heat was before mine.

00:22:21.035 --> 00:22:31.200
You guys came in soaked, I mean soaked from head to toe, and not as it, not as a slight to anybody, it's not about about that at all.

00:22:31.200 --> 00:22:41.214
But I think you and I had the same philosophy Like well, it's pouring, so and it's cold, so we're going to get wet, and that's just how it is.

00:22:41.214 --> 00:22:46.895
And you had to walk to get under the overpass to the protected area and then you had to run to start the workout.

00:22:46.915 --> 00:22:47.076
Right.

00:22:47.230 --> 00:22:48.214
So you were already wet.

00:22:48.750 --> 00:22:57.396
So I remember, for um, forged clothing had come out with a line of like um, wad shorts, like like MMA shorts, wad shorts, you know.

00:22:57.396 --> 00:23:03.736
So I brought I think we all did brought a couple of changes of clothes, cause you don't know how's the day going to go and you don't want to sit in wet clothes all day.

00:23:03.736 --> 00:23:13.096
So I'm like, all right, I had, uh, uh, a pair of black forged shorts, like with a gray trident, I remember that.

00:23:13.096 --> 00:23:39.071
A black t-shirt and I'm rooting through my bag and I'm like, and I put on like a ski cap, like just a lightweight, you know, like might have been like one of those like Lululemon, real thin, but I put that on and I'm thinking, well, this is really because I'm looking around the there's like that, that changing area, kind of big community room, and guys are like putting on like sweatpants and sweatshirts and hey, well, what do you think?

00:23:39.071 --> 00:23:40.038
Well, I don't know, what do you think?

00:23:40.038 --> 00:23:49.050
I'm like I think you should all put on as many layers as you can, because that's going to be better for me, you know, load it up all cotton, even better, you know.

00:23:49.050 --> 00:23:50.777
But I'm like, what?

00:23:50.777 --> 00:23:51.380
Why?

00:23:51.380 --> 00:23:52.282
I mean like.

00:23:52.384 --> 00:24:01.441
And then by the time I got out there, the rain was coming down so hard it was coming down sideways, right, you know, and one of the judges I think the head judge of that evolution, god bless him.

00:24:01.441 --> 00:24:01.622
He.

00:24:01.622 --> 00:24:11.156
And it's weird what goes through your head, because I say this, I'll tell you this flat out when my heat was walking out as we're getting to the door, it did cross my mind.

00:24:11.156 --> 00:24:15.799
I was like now you know what man like, if I don't do this, like it's not gonna matter, you know what I mean?

00:24:15.799 --> 00:24:21.810
Like I don't, I don't need to, but, and but I mean I've always tried, I tried to get this across to my kids, my son, you know I'm like man.

00:24:21.830 --> 00:24:29.453
If you don't think for a minute that everybody has has thought of quitting, at least once you're, you're wrong.

00:24:29.453 --> 00:24:32.286
I mean that's not, it's, it's what you do about it.

00:24:32.286 --> 00:24:33.593
Right, you can think it.

00:24:33.593 --> 00:24:35.502
You might even say it to your buddy.

00:24:35.502 --> 00:24:36.749
I mean this is bullshit.

00:24:36.749 --> 00:24:39.526
Like I'm, this is it, I'm not, I'm done, I'm not coming back tomorrow.

00:24:39.526 --> 00:24:41.292
Yes, you are, come on, you got this, you know.

00:24:42.415 --> 00:24:49.679
But in that, probably the presence of little people should have clued you.

00:24:49.679 --> 00:24:57.569
But oh well, we have a monitor here for downstairs and sometimes it's kind of fun to just watch what what people will do if left to their own devices.

00:24:57.569 --> 00:25:00.756
Am I late?

00:25:00.756 --> 00:25:01.978
Yeah, you're late anyway.

00:25:01.978 --> 00:25:04.481
Um, yeah, I really did, I honest to god.

00:25:04.481 --> 00:25:08.356
But I think the funny part was I'm telling myself, man, it's not worth it.

00:25:08.356 --> 00:25:09.279
Like why, what are you doing?

00:25:09.279 --> 00:25:09.740
Where are you going?

00:25:09.740 --> 00:25:11.753
I'm like, well, because this is my heat and this is it.

00:25:11.753 --> 00:25:24.186
So I'm telling myself, no, while I'm going out to the starting point, the head judge out there is dressed head to toe in rain gear, like the, the gorton's fisherman, you know, like the high yellow bib, with like the raincoat over it and the hat.

00:25:24.247 --> 00:25:32.329
And there was ever a day, right, that was it that was it and I want to say it was right after that workout that they made the announcement.

00:25:32.329 --> 00:25:43.156
And Amy and I she comes here every once in a while for like an L1 or an L2, you know, when we host the courses and we were talking about that on her last visit I was like, oh my God, what a great history.

00:25:43.156 --> 00:25:44.520
You know what a great history.

00:25:44.520 --> 00:25:46.881
And I said, remember that 2010?

00:25:46.881 --> 00:25:48.592
And she was like, oh my God.

00:25:48.592 --> 00:25:55.583
Yeah, when they had to make the announcement, ladies and gentlemen, anyone parked in the parking lot next to whatever was like a Dairy Queen or something.

00:25:55.583 --> 00:25:56.825
Your car might be underwater.

00:25:56.825 --> 00:26:00.881
Yeah, the Shoal Kill River is rising faster than anticipated.

00:26:00.881 --> 00:26:05.761
Please move your vehicles to the whatever west east side, whatever.

00:26:05.761 --> 00:26:10.997
So off we go, run down, move the truck, but oh my God.

00:26:11.559 --> 00:26:21.542
I mean's, it's so funny that you know you bring that up, because then the evolution of it right so 09, when it was there was nothing but regionals, like you, just signed up, you went to regionals, right so?

00:26:21.563 --> 00:26:29.521
so I signed up and danny signed up and mike right she signed up and we went down and that that picture is right down there.

00:26:29.541 --> 00:26:35.040
Yeah, it sure is and we went down and did it and I can remember that last work.

00:26:35.040 --> 00:26:39.114
I mean the workouts were great, but I remember the last workout on the last day.

00:26:39.114 --> 00:26:45.240
It was in certain apps and whatever it's now become known as Snakebite.

00:26:45.240 --> 00:26:50.638
It's 21-59 squat, snatches and chest-to-bar pull-ups.

00:26:50.638 --> 00:27:05.414
And I remember the last heat right, which I was not in, but the last heat um ben smith was in right right, it was the first year that he had competed and he's 18 years old, right.

00:27:05.535 --> 00:27:06.537
Nobody knows who the hell he is.

00:27:06.537 --> 00:27:12.558
He's like the way that gym was set up was there's all these stations, right?

00:27:12.558 --> 00:27:18.579
I think there were like 10, 10 here, 10 people in each heat, and his lane was like around the corner.

00:27:18.579 --> 00:27:27.692
He was like in 10th place and they're they're doing the workout and like five minutes in like okay, and ben smith is, has just finished the workout.

00:27:27.692 --> 00:27:29.678
Everybody's like who the hell is ben smith?

00:27:29.698 --> 00:27:35.633
right holy shit, that's fast right you know and like, and then he goes on and that you know.

00:27:35.633 --> 00:27:38.782
Then he won and he goes on to do all the things he did.

00:27:38.782 --> 00:27:47.592
But then in 2010, right, they add sectionals and if you were the top, I don't even remember what it was from that 60.

00:27:47.592 --> 00:27:50.359
Oh, yeah, so because there were three different sections.

00:27:50.359 --> 00:27:51.903
That went to the regional.

00:27:51.903 --> 00:27:54.617
Exactly so the top 20 from our section and whatever.

00:27:54.617 --> 00:28:01.301
So RJ and I were lucky enough to compete in regionals that year and it's in a field.

00:28:01.963 --> 00:28:04.638
Yeah, logan, ohio, in a farm, yeah, right.

00:28:04.769 --> 00:28:09.882
And you think about, like holy shit, where they compete now, you know, compared to 2010.

00:28:09.882 --> 00:28:14.071
We were in a field, rogue sets up a rig.

00:28:14.071 --> 00:28:17.964
Yeah, um, you know, in some, in some stall mats, and they're like, here you go.

00:28:17.964 --> 00:28:22.777
Yeah, you know, pull, pull a heavy deadlift, do do a bunch of random shit.

00:28:22.777 --> 00:28:34.589
Do, um, I don't even know if it was a 5k or if it was shorter than that, but like, run, run this, run this trail run, and then, when you get to this big ass hill, pick up this, pick up the sandbag, this sandbag, run it up the and then, when you get to this big-ass hill, pick up this sandbag and run it up the hill and do that.

00:28:35.932 --> 00:28:37.035
I mean, all those things are.

00:28:37.035 --> 00:28:37.355
You know?

00:28:37.355 --> 00:28:44.940
It's funny, because some days I can't remember what I ate for breakfast, but you remember that I can remember all aspects of those kind of things.

00:28:45.170 --> 00:28:46.415
I say that all the time.

00:28:46.415 --> 00:29:00.958
Matter of fact, byron and I he was on last week and we were talking about that and I said you, you know, that's one of the things, too, that I think is incredible about being around this long.

00:29:00.958 --> 00:29:12.233
Um, ben Smith, when he was first introduced to us, uh, jeff, tincture, jeff and Maggie, and it was, I thought, I thought it was at Logan, but that would have been 2010, so that would have been after he already competed, so it had to be before that.

00:29:12.233 --> 00:29:21.127
But you, we were at an event and everybody had their little camp set up and as we walked by, jeff and Maggie were like hey guys, how are you?

00:29:21.127 --> 00:29:22.490
You know we're like, hey, how are you doing this?

00:29:22.490 --> 00:29:24.893
And this Jeff says, hey, I want you to meet this young man.

00:29:24.893 --> 00:29:26.015
He's been training with us.

00:29:26.015 --> 00:29:28.017
This is Ben Smith.

00:29:28.017 --> 00:29:29.397
You know, watch for him.

00:29:29.397 --> 00:29:31.961
Yeah, and I'm like, hey, nice to meet you, ben, how are you?

00:29:31.961 --> 00:29:34.443
And he's like, hey, good, you know, like I'm good.

00:29:34.443 --> 00:29:35.365
Thanks, nice to meet you.

00:29:35.365 --> 00:29:36.246
I'm like nice to meet you.

00:29:37.247 --> 00:29:39.334
Next thing, you know, boom, fittest man in the world.

00:29:39.334 --> 00:29:45.353
You know, now, at at logan, ohio, on the farm, doug chapman.

00:29:45.353 --> 00:29:46.473
Remember d chap?

00:29:46.473 --> 00:29:47.776
Right, he's the head judge.

00:29:47.776 --> 00:29:55.332
Jennifer was at one of the judges and I don't remember what the judging faux pas was, I do not.

00:29:55.332 --> 00:30:00.661
But I do remember doug is a, is a vocal.

00:30:00.661 --> 00:30:06.317
I mean, he's a good guy, a dear friend, but you know, doug wants your attention, you'll get it.

00:30:06.317 --> 00:30:12.194
And he's like I didn't hear what he said to whatever the infraction was, but he's like he's looking, he's looking, he's looking.

00:30:12.194 --> 00:30:14.217
He's like I didn't hear what he said to whatever the infraction was, but he's like he's looking, he's looking, he's looking.

00:30:14.217 --> 00:30:20.499
He's like Jen, like come here, jen comes over, and he's like buzzing in her ear like pep, pep, pep, pep, pep.

00:30:21.230 --> 00:30:26.352
So the next day, and I'm like I'm way over it Because I didn't really have any, I was just kind of helping out, you know.

00:30:26.352 --> 00:30:30.836
But later, like Jen and I, our orbits kind of bring us back together, I go, hey, what's going on?

00:30:30.836 --> 00:30:39.102
She's like, hmm, she's like, well, you know, doug made it really clear, like okay, I'm reassigning some of these judges.

00:30:39.102 --> 00:30:48.391
They are no longer judging, like they'll run the scorecards, but I guess you know again, the best of intentions, right, and he's the head judge.

00:30:48.391 --> 00:30:58.272
He's like, hey, hey, man, best of intentions don't get it done and and I hate to say this, but like on a saturday workout, on a backyard workout, you're still in enforced the movement standards, even on ourselves, right?

00:30:58.272 --> 00:31:01.079
If you don't, there ought to be a good reason.

00:31:01.079 --> 00:31:02.451
There needs to be a good reason.

00:31:02.750 --> 00:31:03.192
I, I don't.

00:31:03.192 --> 00:31:08.583
I don't substitute ring rows instead of pull-ups because I feel like it.

00:31:08.583 --> 00:31:19.042
I substitute because, hey, at this moment, you know it's a mobility issue and you know I could do this, but I, I can't maybe do that, not because it'll give me a faster time.

00:31:19.042 --> 00:31:22.760
Yeah, right, and I think sometimes we still see it every once in a while in the open.

00:31:22.760 --> 00:31:27.441
You know you'll, you'll have a coach who what do they call it back in the old days?

00:31:27.441 --> 00:31:28.083
Bro reps?

00:31:28.083 --> 00:31:36.096
Oh yeah, I don't necessarily think it's that, but I do think it's well, you know, I mean, he's trying yeah, that borderline of like.

00:31:36.175 --> 00:31:42.013
Okay, I'm trying to go fast right and you know like how fast can I go and still meet that standard?

00:31:42.013 --> 00:31:44.881
Right right and it's you know, and I I can almost.

00:31:44.881 --> 00:31:52.320
No, I wasn't, you know, I was kind of in my own, in my own zone when we were in lo, it's funny, I don't you know, logan.

00:31:52.320 --> 00:31:54.664
Yeah right Small world right.

00:31:55.509 --> 00:31:57.257
Named after the regionals.

00:31:57.329 --> 00:31:59.190
Really he's named after Wolverine, but that's a whole different story.

00:31:59.190 --> 00:32:03.686
But that's where we, Jess, would not agree to Wolverine until we picked Logan.

00:32:04.390 --> 00:32:06.916
Well, probably helped him out in elementary.

00:32:06.916 --> 00:32:07.519
You know what, though?

00:32:07.519 --> 00:32:08.401
I don't know.

00:32:08.401 --> 00:32:22.096
That would have been a pretty badass grade school name, right, and?

00:32:22.096 --> 00:32:22.798
And your name I'm.

00:32:22.798 --> 00:32:26.945
I'm wolverine shob, yeah, right, yes, you are right, but you know like I can remember, uh, power surge.

00:32:26.986 --> 00:32:27.586
Yeah, I can, that was weird.

00:32:27.586 --> 00:32:27.847
I know that.

00:32:27.847 --> 00:32:30.334
That workout, right, the I think the one that was probably the question, it was a.

00:32:30.334 --> 00:32:38.910
There was a bear complex, right, and the thing about the bear complex is you combine, you combine some of the movements but you can't combine them all right right.

00:32:38.910 --> 00:32:45.136
So you can squat clean and then push press, or you can power clean and thruster right.

00:32:45.136 --> 00:32:51.035
There were a lot of people that were squatting dust ring and then right into a back, squat, push, push press.

00:32:51.134 --> 00:32:51.355
Right.

00:32:51.496 --> 00:32:59.057
Right, which was probably because in that, like, other than that, those workouts, that was like the one thing.

00:32:59.057 --> 00:33:00.300
That was a question.

00:33:00.300 --> 00:33:04.136
But yeah, it's funny because you're like well, I'm going to go fast.

00:33:04.136 --> 00:33:05.299
Well, yeah, you have to go fast, Right.

00:33:05.299 --> 00:33:15.930
You know, like if you go fast in a competition sense, like if you're doing it in your garage or whatever and you're just trying to be healthy, it doesn't really matter, because you're going to slow it down anyway, right?

00:33:15.970 --> 00:33:17.134
Right, it's like self-correcting.

00:33:17.134 --> 00:33:17.876
Exactly yeah.

00:33:18.250 --> 00:33:21.016
My heart doesn't let me move faster, my lungs don't let me move faster.

00:33:21.016 --> 00:33:26.479
But you know, in those competitions you're trying to get that little bit of an edge.

00:33:26.479 --> 00:33:34.203
But you know, if everybody, you know the whole point is, you know, kind of slow everything down or stop everything at a certain point.

00:33:34.203 --> 00:33:38.561
So everybody is working at the same like restrictions.

00:33:39.009 --> 00:33:48.258
Yeah, exactly, and I think too, it's like the two sides of the same coin, right, we've been around long enough to see that evolve.

00:33:48.258 --> 00:33:55.743
You know the adherence to the movement standard, first of all, to have the movement standard clear, cut, cut, and I think that was a part of it.

00:33:55.743 --> 00:34:02.686
And similarly, like just in this past open, you know you'll have a judge who trains or coaches it's you know, the coaches is.

00:34:02.686 --> 00:34:06.317
A lot of our coaches and members volunteer to be judges during the open here.

00:34:06.317 --> 00:34:09.652
And then you'll have like, um, you're counting reps.

00:34:09.652 --> 00:34:11.336
Clearly everybody in the room is watching this individual like you're counting reps.

00:34:11.336 --> 00:34:15.909
Clearly everybody in the room is watching this individual like, but you're missing the standard.

00:34:15.909 --> 00:34:22.471
Yeah, four, five, no, not yet, stop, yeah, fix it, you know.

00:34:22.471 --> 00:34:28.164
And again, I guess, and it's not right, it's still not.

00:34:28.164 --> 00:34:34.670
But at the same time, I think you could go well, okay, where's this guy going?

00:34:34.670 --> 00:34:35.333
I mean, it's a scaled.

00:34:35.333 --> 00:34:37.057
But at the same time, I think you could go well, okay, where's this guy going?

00:34:37.057 --> 00:34:38.202
I mean, it's a scaled, it's a scaled workout right now.

00:34:38.202 --> 00:34:43.036
So even even if he breaks every record set in the scale division, there's no chance that he's advancing.

00:34:43.538 --> 00:34:55.344
But I I think the hard part of it is for the, the integrity of, of the open and uh, optics, let's say, right, somebody else is relatively new to it.

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Like we had this with this individual stop in unannounced, and I'm.

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You know our doors are always open.

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You know that we've always been like that and I've always been proud of everybody we've asked to coach.

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You all do it the same way that we would like.

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Coach Profile: Blake Schaub, Part 1

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