The couch thread
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Either it's a glitch or CrossfitSex has packed it in and locked down their blog.
Incredibly weak performance. I question their commitment.
Incredibly weak performance. I question their commitment.
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couch and Barky claiming IP (Internal Penetration) theft is my guess...WildGorillaMan wrote:Either it's a glitch or CrossfitSex has packed it in and locked down their blog.
Incredibly weak performance. I question their commitment.
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If you're going to troll lawyer-happy assholes like Couch and co, you have to learn to host your blogging anonymously. Blogger will take you down in a heartbeat.
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L1s can train people, they just can't use the term @fit in marketing.Yes I Have Balls wrote:Sort of interesting, what with the new requirements, testing, affiliation bullshit, etc. CFHQ realized that the cat was out of the bag for the absolutely USELESS L1 cert, and when they tried to tighten it up people noticed some things. Mainly, that just having an L1 cert no longer enables you to train people.
So funny, that the Dales and Boneys, etc. just wont ever fess up and admit that they fucked up the last 5 or so years in a blatant cash grab.
http://board.crossfit.com/showthread.php?t=58516
This is incoherent. If it means what it seems to say, they've greatly lessened any reason to affiliate. What's the difference between a business card and a marketing flyer? Why pay into the couch gin fund to use the name @fit if you can scrawl L1 @fit trainer all over your web page? Is there any real difference between "come and be trained by a @fit trainer" and "come to my @fit box"?Affiliates are the only ones who can use the name for advertising and marketing, as per the terms of the Affiliate License Agreement - they are specifically paying an annual fee to do so. Level I's get the knowledge of the CF methodology for their one time seminar fee and the limited ability to say they are a Level I on a business card and/or bio/resume.
They also run the danger of @fit being used with such frequency that they lose control. See the Pilates case discussed a few hundred pages back.
These people may actually be as stupid as they seem to be.
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It's interesting to see how this Level One and Level Two cert stuff will ever apply to high school and college training with their (outside of USC) institutional controls. Showing up with a cert from a weekend is a far cry from a Masters degree (I think anyway...I'm a snob).
I offered crossfit an opportunity to really test itself across a very large and measurable population. I found we were getting weaker and the injuries were simply too many to continue the test. So, if you do a background check on the certs for an institution, wouldn't you want someone like me to at least have had a chance to fix things a bit? Obviously, some of the newer emphasis on strength has helped, but you better not field a football team with such little volume with real lifts. I know it can work on a small scale with a few kids, but take on a team (90+) AND keep the administration happy...now, that's something I want to see.
So, waving your L1 around on your business card gets me back to why I don't have a business card.
I offered crossfit an opportunity to really test itself across a very large and measurable population. I found we were getting weaker and the injuries were simply too many to continue the test. So, if you do a background check on the certs for an institution, wouldn't you want someone like me to at least have had a chance to fix things a bit? Obviously, some of the newer emphasis on strength has helped, but you better not field a football team with such little volume with real lifts. I know it can work on a small scale with a few kids, but take on a team (90+) AND keep the administration happy...now, that's something I want to see.
So, waving your L1 around on your business card gets me back to why I don't have a business card.
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This may just be the biggest Androgen Friday ever. The Gorilla has learned that the only group that loves Andro Friday more than igx is the @fitters themselves.
http://wildgorillaman.blogspot.com/2010 ... phony.html
Here's a preview of this week's andro goodness:



http://wildgorillaman.blogspot.com/2010 ... phony.html
Here's a preview of this week's andro goodness:



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With your head up @F's collective ass, it's hard not to look like a used diaper.
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Danny John wrote:At so many levels, I find this dip in Christian Theology by our Crossfit brothers and sisters to be, at best, interesting. One may recall that someone was called out for their "so called" values years ago...of course, I have forgotten all about it.
http://www.crossfitlorton.com/archive.php?month=2009-08CrossFit Stigmata
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This picture makes me happy.
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WildGorillaMan wrote:This may just be the biggest Androgen Friday ever. The Gorilla has learned that the only group that loves Andro Friday more than igx is the @fitters themselves.
http://wildgorillaman.blogspot.com/2010 ... phony.html

Lasalle like this very much. Gorilla, how do we get the guy holding the camera to send in those photos?
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I'm glad he's shooting blue, and not pink.
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This shit kills me.



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the romo with the camera is clearly shooting the dude in the red shirt at the lower left.
have you ever been as far as even considered go want to do look more like?


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[quote="Hank Scorpio"]This shit kills me.
Wha? The fact that she is box squating with diddly, the swing set chains on the bar, or the spindly legged dumbass "coaching" her?
Wha? The fact that she is box squating with diddly, the swing set chains on the bar, or the spindly legged dumbass "coaching" her?
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It's the perfect storm. An ultimate refutation of sorts.

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Check the the bar racked over to the right in the shot. Observe how they have the bands set up.Hank Scorpio wrote:This shit kills me.
Band pegs be damned.
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Somewhere, the Rev. Gary John smiles.beefheart wrote:
This picture makes me happy.
Edit: That's fucking Huntington Beach. They're in my backyard.
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Or the fact that she's using high bar to box squat.Holeyfraggaroley wrote:Hank Scorpio wrote:This shit kills me.
Wha? The fact that she is box squating with diddly, the swing set chains on the bar, or the spindly legged dumbass "coaching" her?

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The new @F trifecta. Thank you Westside.Holeyfraggaroley wrote: Wha? The fact that she is box squating with diddly, the swing set chains on the bar, or the spindly legged dumbass "coaching" her?
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You can sure tell who amongst the usual suspects doesn't have a sense of humor based on who doesn't accept The Gorilla's Facebook friend requests.
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Clearly you have the yellow fever.beefheart wrote:
This picture makes me happy.
Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from a religious conviction.
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No photographers around? Why let that stop you?
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$100 says those are 10 lb bumpers.Hank Scorpio wrote:This shit kills me.
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I would like to draw the court's attention to the masturbatory trifecta of lotion, tissues and paper towels just over her shoulder.lasalle wrote:
No photographers around? Why let that stop you?
feel free to debate whether it is for B boi's use when Barky is on the rag, or for Barky's use in the ultimate expression of attention whoredom, flicking the bean to her own reflection ala Narcissus , or in her case Barkilissus.
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