Winning the CrossFit Games seems to be in large part a matter of luck. Yes, Mikko Salo is a strong guy (stronger than me - for now), but with any different workouts, he easily could have placed elsewhere in the pack.
GoDogGo! wrote:WTF is a "Paco?"
Some guy who posted on the SF Weekly article simply to lob a poorly-done insult at me. I hadn't even posted there in the comments, so I really found it inappropriate of him to go and do that. I already told SF Weekly about it, and they were very nice about removing it.
CrossFitters are a surprisingly cowardly group for all the macho bull they put up. In the past, when I've posted on the affiliate blog comments and been harassed by a gaggle of CrossFitters, I've often taken the time to send personal responses to each of them via email, and very few of them ever bother to respond. Hecklers only shout when they're standing amongst a crowd. In fact, in that last thread I posted on the CrossFit boards, I openly invited Jamie Skibicki and Michael Houghton to contact me if they really wanted to know why I had grown to dislike CrossFit, since I didn't think it was right to go posting that publicly there. Neither of them ever bothered. Tom Brose, too, in a different thread. I met him in person several times before too (long before I was banned), and I know he's a nice guy. He just didn't want to hear anything that could potentially damage his high opinion of CrossFit.
I'm still not seeing the purpose of that "s=ad0924ja924ha924243tadf" string in the CF board URL's. It's weird.