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WildGorillaMan wrote:

fatbastard wrote:

Just one question - When registering a male competitor (for a friend), I was asked if I would be bringing a guest, and asked to enter the guest's name.

When registering as a female competitor (for myself), I was not given the option to check the "bringing a guest?" box.

Fluke in the registration process? Several other girls from my box who have registered as competitors were not given the "bring a guest" option either.

Couch, you greedy bastard. Trying to hog all of the trim, as usual.

Can you blame him? Who wants the Gaymes to be a total sausage party?

Gary John wrote:Question to our legal staff, affiliate wondering if taking x-fit to small claims for the RRG is worth the effort.

I did it dozens of times with customers not paying. Always got paid just before the court date.

Another question, same person, to whom or where do you serve the papers?

I said I would ask, cuz you guys seemed to be dialed in to almost anything.

The Unflushable DEATHTURD wrote:
Male @fitters, that's who.

195. Ginny the Clown wrote...
Oh My God! Oh My God! Oh My God! Oh My God! Oh My God! Oh My God! Oh My God! Oh My God! Oh My God! Oh My God! Oh My God! Oh My God! Oh My God! Oh My God! Oh My God! Oh My God! Oh My God! Oh My God! Oh My God! Oh My God! Oh My God!

I'm gonna pee my pants I'm so excited!

WildGorillaMan wrote:

lee-tree wrote:This just in...... The @fit 2010 Games registration has just been opened and guess what? No one can register. Apparently the masters of webdom are having web problems. Interesting though that they freeze after taking the credit card information. Another ploy to raise funds for the couch?

http://games2010.crossfit.com/qualifier ... l#comments

ok, almost got through and now there is a sServer Maintenance Error.

Seriously...???

Some Fucktard Who Never Learns wrote:I am having the same issue as many of you. I made it all the way through and submitted my payment and then got an error. I checked my online statement and there is a $100 charge pending. I recieved no confirmation email.

Nathan Silver
SouthEast (Stone Mountain)

190. AlanThick wrote...

December 23, 2009 2:36 PM

You sheep need to take a deep breath and RELAX!

Gary John wrote:Heard they lost $300k at the last Gaymes, so that's why the soak everybody routine.

Anybody know what is going on with the whole RRG? Get the money, then what?

I'm just curious how all this works across state lines.

Fucking Lemming wrote:
218. Trac wrote...

December 23, 2009 3:30 PM

Darn, did get double charged. For anyone getting kicked out, I would wait 30min to an hour and check your account before trying to go through the registration again.

Now, to get this squared away...

coop wrote:http://games2010.crossfit.com/qualifier ... omment-736

probably be gone in a minute, but...
edit: mod

Ummm, hope you weren't born in 1983, because that option does not exist in the athlete profile info. Do i pick 82 or 84?

Went through and got error messages multiple times, the last two after submitting payment! Then i check the online bank account, and yep charged twice. Oh well, hopefully they will refund the second charge, or if they can use it for my brother in law (Nik Hecht). Just in case that is possible. Wow though never thought I spend 2 hrs trying to register!

Trying to rgister for the Georgia Sectional in the Southeast and also getting sent to the South Central region.

JamesonBushmill wrote:

Quack Attack wrote:@F has now shown that they are trying to weed out the non-elite by making the Gaymes $100 to enter JUST THE REGIONALS, with a $50 per day spectator fee!

One of the educated sheep calling bullshit, a guy who actually organizes REAL bigtime sporting events.

I believe this is @F's deranged attempts at natural selection--they are making it such that only the most hardcore Kool-Aid drinkers (the ones who believe @FHQ can never do wrong) with the most money ($50 t-shirts, $50 day passes to the Gaymes) will stick around.

Saving Face
The power of belief is illustrated by the participant-observer research carried out by Festinger, Riecken and Schachter into a doomsday cult known as the Guardians, and documented in their 1956 book When Prophecy Fails. After their prediction that a flood would inundate the world and they would be carried away by spaceships did not transpire, cult members exhibited increased fervor in their beliefs. So invested were they in their beliefs that they could not risk giving them up: "The group members had gone too far, given up too much for their beliefs to see them destroyed; the shame, the economic cost, the mockery would be too great to bear" (127). In Freudian terms, their defensive behavior protected them from recognizing an unbearable truth. Cialdini explains that the moment the physical proof contradicted their beliefs, the cult members turned to the only other proof that would save them: social proof--they turned from "secretive conspirators to zealous missionaries" in an attempt to gain other converts, even though their beliefs had been shown to be baseless. "The greater the number of people who find any idea correct, the more the idea will be correct" (128). Without saying so directly, Cialdini's example of religious social proof could be considered an allegory for all the examples of millennial belief down through the ages of human civilization.

- Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion Chapter 4: Social Proof.



Couch Lackofclassman:

"I will not charge more than 500 for affiliate fees" Fees are now 2000, and will probably be raised again.

This is the point where normal people see the great white father is full of shit and a yard wide. They start running in the opposite direction as fast as they can. They don't need to see 50 dollar spectator fees to wake the fuck up.

At some point, people have invested so much money and time in the stupidity, that to detach would mean they would have to acknowledge their stupidity. People are generally too weak to look in the mirror and be honest about what they see.

This is a population that wants the bennies of being associated with LEO, mil, and "elite" without the real dangers of standing a fucking post, or being exposed to real danger or injury. Their badassedness is built around fucking callous tears, and anal leakage, not actual death or bullets.

This is a population that wants the bennies of being associated with LEO, mil, and "elite" without the real dangers of standing a fucking post, or being exposed to real danger or injury. Their badassedness is built around fucking callous tears, and anal leakage, not actual death or bullets.

dakat wrote:

This is a population that wants the bennies of being associated with LEO, mil, and "elite" without the real dangers of standing a fucking post, or being exposed to real danger or injury. Their badassedness is built around fucking callous tears, and anal leakage, not actual death or bullets.

This. Wannabe pussies who would shit they pants in a (fill in the blank)-fight.

A changing of the guard for Crossfit
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For those of my readers who are invested in the training world, and not just steroids, I thought I’d take a little time (very little) and talk about the recent changing of the guard over at the CrossFit camp. Crossfit is a workout “brand” (huh?). It’s a “barnd” of workout in the same way that other workouts are branded… I’m talking about Heavy Duty (HIT), or whatever else you can think of (FST, DC, whatever…). Because many of the CrossFit workouts require doing stuff that wouldn’t be acceptable in a commercial gym, most people join a CrossFit gym, if they’re serious about following the programs. These gyms are called affiliates, and are owned and operated by CrossFit certified trainers. Ok, now that everyone’s with me, I’m going to talk about the changing of the guard that recently happened over at the CrossFit camp. For those of you who work in the training industry, this will be pretty interesting….


First of all, Mark Rippetoe left the company. He’s the author of Starting Strength and Practical Programming, two books that have been around and in print since the Mesozoic Era. No lie, it’s been that long – and they’re still considered essential books in the strength training world. Mark is a no bullsh*t guy, and he left the company, without getting into the sundry details, because he felt it was overloaded with bullsh*t.

Along with him, he took his protégé, John Sheaffer. Each of them own gyms, and each of them had affiliated their gyms with the CrossFit brand. The two of them were also responsible for teaching the CrossFit Barbell Certification Course. CrossFit offers a slew of certification courses for their trainers to expand their knowledge base…but I’m left questioning how someone can be a (Crossfit) certified trainer without knowing their way around a barbell…

Both Mark and John resigned their affiliate status, meaning their gyms would no longer be associated with the brand… and you can read John’s explanation here.

Next, Robb Wolf, the man who taught their Nutrition Certification Courses, found himself parting ways with CrossFit. He’s got some interesting things to say about the company….

That same day, Greg Everett was also removed – Gregg was the guy responsible for teaching their Olympic Lifting Certification Courses.


Now, without getting too into detail on my feelings here…consider the fact that all of these men are telling similar stories about their leaving the company…in other words, a lot of similar themes are being spoken about, independently.

I’m not sure who is filling all of these gaps. What I’ve seen is Dave Tate and Louie Simmons come on board and begin working with the company. Both are tremendous assets to any company, a statement so self-evident that it hardly warrants mentioning. But what I haven’t seen is either Dave or Louie talk about it on their own sites. In fact, I did a search on their sites and neither are bragging about working with CrossFit – unless I missed something, neither even mentioned it.



On the other hand, the other day whilst I was perusing Dave’s site, I saw Starting Strength on the front page, for sale. In fact, you can still buy this book on Dave’s site, and you can read about what a swell guy Mark is too. It’s decidedly odd that you can read that on a site, about a CrossFit instructor who left the company, but you can’t actually read about the company itself (who is now working with the guy who owns the site).

I’m not slamming CrossFit here…I’m stating a fact. Neither of these guys is exactly running down the street bragging about their new revenue stream. In contrast, all of these former employees/affiliates flew the CrossFit banner proudly. I don’t know what to make of this. It’s interesting to say the least.

UpI’m not attacking CrossFit, or necessarily defending their ousted instructors. I’m on the outside looking in, and stating the facts as I know them. CrossFit is a marketing monster, and probably an incredible revenue stream for their instructors, but I’m admittedly fascinated at the implosion that I see going on, and the implications that it has for the brand as a whole.

(Note: The CrossFit sites are a great place to look at chicks. All of the photos in this post were taken from CrossFit.)

Shafpocalypse Now wrote:No, SS and PP have been around for about 5 fucking years.

Shafpocalypse Now wrote:No, SS and PP have been around for about 5 fucking years.