Crossfit Games 2011

cmyk

So who'll be watching? Love it or loathe it, I watched it last year and it was far more exciting than a dull World Cup. I'll say one thing about CF, they do marketing and hype better than anyone else.

Transform

Big time and lots of stuff I have to go away and work on for next year

cmyk

Transform wrote: »

Big time and lots of stuff I have to go away and work on for next year

Including baseball and carrying water jugs! I've just seen that now, I kind of take it all back, that's just ridiculous, what are your thoughts on that?

Edwardius

Might as well have an egg and spoon race :P. The swimming thing is interesting as is the 2mins to do a max snatch. Dunno about the weighted chest to bar pullup. Kipping with 70kg+ attached seems like bad voodoo!

The softball+handstand walk+L-seat combo doesn't make a lot of sense if people are talking about work/work capacity. I reckon they left budding in charge of that one.

cmyk

Dead Ed wrote: »

Might as well have an egg and spoon race :P. The swimming thing is interesting as is the 2mins to do a max snatch. Dunno about the weighted chest to bar pullup. Kipping with 70kg+ attached seems like bad voodoo!

They've to wear uniforms this year, so the swimming allows them to go topless. :rolleyes: Seems the rest of the programming is designed solely to pop some shoulders!

Molly

First event is good, two and five are ridiculous.

token

Ya I'll be watching. Looks like a lot of stupid **** in it this year but I'm sure it will be entertaining to watch regardless. I wonder how good Mikko's pitching arm is :pac:

Red Cortina

Maybe they are having the egg and spoon race on Sunday:rolleyes:

Just had to go back and re-watch that performance by Annie T for Event 4 in the European Qualifiers:eek: Unbelievable!

SanoVitae

cmyk wrote: »

Carrying water jugs!

Functional training for waiters.

Expect to see both a DVD and 1-day certification workshop advertised very soon.

Edwardius

I reckon Oktoberfest Fräuleins would clean up in the jug carrying!

Edwardius

Also, somebody on the message boards just (hopefully ironically) compared the softball throw to throwing a grenade

SanoVitae

Dead Ed wrote: »

Also, somebody on the message boards just (hopefully ironically) compared the softball throw to throwing a grenade

It wasn't Bruno Mars by any chance, was it?

cmyk

And it's off...

Edwardius

Missed a bit of it. Are they runnin everyone in teh same heat?

Satanta

Where do you watch it? Just live streaming on the net?

cmyk

Dead Ed wrote: »

Missed a bit of it. Are they runnin everyone in teh same heat?

Seems like it.

Satanta wrote: »

Where do you watch it? Just live streaming on the net?

http://games.crossfit.com/finals/live/satellite

Edwardius

http://games.crossfit.com/finals/live/satellite
Edit, beaten to it.

Looks like full metal jacket at the moment. "1-2-3-4. we love the marine corps"!

cmyk

That looked gruelling.

Mellor

Can some body link to or post the various WODs

cc87

http://games.crossfit.com/finals/workouts

Red Cortina

Those max snatch attempts make for great watching!

Edwardius

Some heavy snatchin' there alright. I think Hendel was north of 120 or so with pretty much zero warmup. He threw a mean softball too :P

Transform

absolutely amazing to watch - stunning performances all round