The couch thread

T-L · Post by **T-L** » Fri Jul 09, 2010 8:28 pm

I got to watch an Oly lifter go against an @fitter doing one of the named workouts. The Oly lifter's time was significantly better.

Shafpocalypse Now · Post by **Shafpocalypse Now** » Fri Jul 09, 2010 8:41 pm

Spells thinks about his Coexist bumper sticker. It works better than baseball stats for a gay 69.

Gin Master · Post by **Gin Master** » Fri Jul 09, 2010 9:15 pm

She's not Andro, and this isn't training, but when Kelly Brook poses as Princess Leia, shit's getting posted:

Mountebank · Post by **Mountebank** » Fri Jul 09, 2010 9:16 pm

WildGorillaMan wrote:
Quack Attack wrote:A birdie told me that an objective of the attempt at scoring the OL/@F comp is to weight the OL total approximately the same as the Triplet. This competition was designed and is desired to be scored so that insect OLers can't win. The Triplet was tested by @Fers beforehand to figure out how to score it and weigh allotted points properly. Typical @F stacking the deck behavior.
you all know what's going to happen, right? Some O lifter that no one has ever heard of will crush the triplet, fuck the Crossfitter's until they love him, eat their lunch, and steal their chain wallets.

Embarrased that even when they stack the deck they still get clobbered, this will all quietly dissapear. Anybody remember the arm-wrestling cert? Me neither.

HQ might as well start challenging sports' governing bodies to stake a wager on a balloon race around the world.

You are probably right...assuming an OLer is willing to put in the time to learn how to do double-unders and SLAPtear pullups.

EDIT: Also, I fail to see how @Fers learning crappy OL form and buying bumpers does anything to advance the sport of OL in this country. OLers who are done with the sport and migrate to @F doesn't advance anything, and there is no evidence that I know of that involves an @Fer becoming a high-level OLer.

This is like saying the proliferation of really fat people now taking up (walking) marathons and buying running shoes advances the sport of long-distance running in this country. False.

Fat Cat · Post by **Fat Cat** » Fri Jul 09, 2010 9:19 pm

tzg · Post by **tzg** » Fri Jul 09, 2010 9:31 pm

I think the idea behind @Fit somehow benefiting USAW is this:
1. @Fitters buy USAW memberships and lift in meets. $$$ for USAW to support real athletes. (this might work)
2. Teen @Fitters take up lifting, have potential to become decent lifters. (faulty: there are no teen @Fitters)
3. @Fit popularity means more people know what snatches are. Teens don't go into sports they've never heard of or seen performed. (faulty: no teen @Fitters)

I bet Burgener would zombie-stomp the competition if he can be bothered to show up. I'm not sure he counts for either side, though.

Jag Panzer · Post by **Jag Panzer** » Fri Jul 09, 2010 9:38 pm

One Pat Mendes has done more for OL popularity in the last 6 months than any hundred @fitters. Because he totals more than any hundred of them put together.

Mountebank · Post by **Mountebank** » Fri Jul 09, 2010 10:31 pm

tzg wrote:I think the idea behind @Fit somehow benefiting USAW is this:
1. @Fitters buy USAW memberships and lift in meets. $$$ for USAW to support real athletes. (this might work)
...
I bet Burgener would zombie-stomp the competition if he can be bothered to show up. I'm not sure he counts for either side, though.

Easy way of knowing if #1 works. There is now a USAW club under "Team @F" and Mike Burgener, it's been active for nearly a year and a half. Count the number of team members.

tzg · Post by **tzg** » Fri Jul 09, 2010 11:30 pm

Besides that, there are 7 other USAW clubs with "@F" in their names. In all fairness to @F, I would venture to guess that's a good proportion of the clubs formed in the last 5 years (I don't think Team @F should count, since Mike's Gym has been a regional training center forever) and @F members may account for a good proportion of the new USAW members in the last 5 years.

Sassenach · Post by **Sassenach** » Fri Jul 09, 2010 11:52 pm

WildGorillaMan wrote:
Jezebel Jones wrote:
kreator wrote: Any species that die out during these times, were unprepared for adaptation. If our planet NEVER remains stagnant, why should you? This is why I am different! This is why I am CrossFit. This is what differentiates most of us from them!
Every time I think I'm ready to take a live and let live approach to @fit, some faggot ass posts something like this on the boards. Between this and that self obsessed cunt Tamara, what a bunch of bloated egos.

You'd still totally hit that after three shots of Cuervo.

I find her personality repulsive, so it'd be more like a bottle of Cuervo, and then only if I could gag her so she didn't talk.

friedquads · Post by **friedquads** » Fri Jul 09, 2010 11:59 pm

Jezebel Jones wrote:
WildGorillaMan wrote:
Jezebel Jones wrote:
kreator wrote: Any species that die out during these times, were unprepared for adaptation. If our planet NEVER remains stagnant, why should you? This is why I am different! This is why I am CrossFit. This is what differentiates most of us from them!
Every time I think I'm ready to take a live and let live approach to @fit, some faggot ass posts something like this on the boards. Between this and that self obsessed cunt Tamara, what a bunch of bloated egos.

You'd still totally hit that after three shots of Cuervo.
I find her personality repulsive, so it'd be more like a bottle of Cuervo, and then only if I could gag her so she didn't talk.

You forgot about the blindfold.

syaigh · Post by **syaigh** » Sat Jul 10, 2010 1:24 am

Quack Attack wrote:
tzg wrote:I think the idea behind @Fit somehow benefiting USAW is this:
1. @Fitters buy USAW memberships and lift in meets. $$$ for USAW to support real athletes. (this might work)
...
I bet Burgener would zombie-stomp the competition if he can be bothered to show up. I'm not sure he counts for either side, though.
Easy way of knowing if #1 works. There is now a USAW club under "Team @F" and Mike Burgener, it's been active for nearly a year and a half. Count the number of team members.

How many?

Well, I have to say that the USAW officials and coaches I've spoken to seemed to be very excited about @fit's influence in getting more people involved in the sport. USAW is cash poor right now (stock market was NOT kind) and lacks a lot of athletes.

However, I coach with a few coaches were have been involved with CF at some level or another and they all have expressed disappointment in how badly @F wrecks their lifter's strength, causes injuries, etc. We had some national level competitors who didn't even rank well state-wide after doing @f for a year.

And, I really don't see this as anything other than @F's attempt to look "badass" to the rest of the world. ("Badass" is scientific term thrown around at cert. It means "it might kill you, but it looks COOL!) But, just like couch's accusations towards Everett and others, it is an example of @f riding the coattails of a great organization for personal glory.

USAW just wants to promote their sport, but they are in bed with a bottle of gin.

Whatever happened to the C2 certs/workshops? Did anyone ever figure out that it takes five minutes to figure out a C2 and a three hour cert is just plain stupid? Maybe there are multiple levels to the fishing game that I don't know about . . .

Fat Cat · Post by **Fat Cat** » Sat Jul 10, 2010 1:31 am

Anon · Post by **Anon** » Sat Jul 10, 2010 2:30 am

Jezebel Jones wrote:
WildGorillaMan wrote:
Jezebel Jones wrote:
kreator wrote: Any species that die out during these times, were unprepared for adaptation. If our planet NEVER remains stagnant, why should you? This is why I am different! This is why I am CrossFit. This is what differentiates most of us from them!
Every time I think I'm ready to take a live and let live approach to @fit, some faggot ass posts something like this on the boards. Between this and that self obsessed cunt Tamara, what a bunch of bloated egos.

You'd still totally hit that after three shots of Cuervo.
I find her personality repulsive, so it'd be more like a bottle of Cuervo, and then only if I could gag her so she didn't talk.

Just give her something to keep her mouth full.

Edit: Did I get that right, I am assuming if you are the aggressor, she does the eating? Clearly I need more (a) lesbian friend.

dead man walking · Post by **dead man walking** » Sat Jul 10, 2010 3:53 am

syaigh wrote: Well, I have to say that the USAW officials and coaches I've spoken to seemed to be very excited about @fit's influence in getting more people involved in the sport.

x-fit is marketing, not fitness or strength.

more party

Danny John · Post by **Danny John** » Sat Jul 10, 2010 4:25 am

There was a time when O lifting was popular. They got there when they emphasized putting really heavy weights overhead and not the angle of the metaplex over the zyphoid process on the downward stroke. I grew up with some real heroes on the platform, guys who were normal enough to actually want to be like. I had a great conversation with a former American great not long ago and now a big time strength coach and he and his buddies (the 1980s crew) said they "saw" the great transition from a strength sport to a fitness club (Average Joe's?).

In my opinion, O lifting has to go back to just a few weight classes and let people know who is in what place at a meet. Everyone gets a Gold Medal...I don't want to get started, but the demise of O lifting is when a first timer could show up and win. Hell, my first meets I was lifting more weight than a LOT of people and struggling to get fourth or fifth. I had to get in the mid 300s in the Clean and Jerk before they stopped making me load at meets.

Fish · Post by **Fish** » Sat Jul 10, 2010 8:01 am

Fat Cat wrote:

powerlifter54 · Post by **powerlifter54** » Sat Jul 10, 2010 2:32 pm

syaigh wrote:USAW just wants to promote their sport, but they are in bed with a bottle of gin.

=D> =D> =D> =D>

WildGorillaMan · Post by **WildGorillaMan** » Sat Jul 10, 2010 2:35 pm

Fish wrote:
Fat Cat wrote:

That picture is outstanding, isn't it.

CFB · Post by **CFB** » Sun Jul 11, 2010 1:13 am

powerlifter54 wrote:
syaigh wrote:WESTSIDE just wants to promote their sport, but they are in bed with a bottle of gin.

=D> =D> =D> =D>

tzg · Post by **tzg** » Sun Jul 11, 2010 1:31 am

CFB wrote:
powerlifter54 wrote:
syaigh wrote:WESTSIDE just wants to promote their sport, but they are in bed with a bottle of gin.

=D> =D> =D> =D>

WESTSIDE did not put on competitions with CrossFit. They just had some @Fitters over for dinner and sold them monolifts. Their website does not mention @Fit. Same type of thing with Dave Tate. Whenever anybody drops by or lets them drop by, they leverage the opportunity very hard.

WildGorillaMan · Post by **WildGorillaMan** » Sun Jul 11, 2010 2:47 am

You know what, fuck it. WildGorillaMedia is going to sponsor a combined Olympic Lifting Meet/Poetry Slam.

Points will be equally awarded based on Total, Composition, Presentation, and Beret Angle. Knee socks during all three events will be a 3x points modifier.

tzg · Post by **tzg** » Sun Jul 11, 2010 3:10 am

So I was at an @Fit thing today and, man, you guys weren't exaggerating about 1. andro broads 2. constant photography of andro broads.

WildGorillaMan · Post by **WildGorillaMan** » Sun Jul 11, 2010 3:16 am

tzg wrote:So I was at an @Fit thing today and, man, you guys weren't exaggerating about 1. andro broads 2. constant photography of andro broads.

Isn't it great?

Fat Cat · Post by **Fat Cat** » Sun Jul 11, 2010 6:37 am

WildGorillaMan wrote:
Fish wrote:
Fat Cat wrote:

That picture is outstanding, isn't it.

The Frost Giant's Daughter

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