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What a duck says wrote:My HQ sources tell me there will be an event(s) at Camp Pendleton, with the favored athletes getting a heads-up on the details of the event, maybe even some practice time.

Moral of the story: If you're just learning of this now, you're not their favorite.

I'd be surprised if that was true because if that ever really got out shit would hit the fan.

Jay wrote:

What a duck says wrote:My HQ sources tell me there will be an event(s) at Camp Pendleton, with the favored athletes getting a heads-up on the details of the event, maybe even some practice time.

Moral of the story: If you're just learning of this now, you're not their favorite.

I'd be surprised if that was true because if that ever really got out shit would hit the fan.

@FHQ has shown exemplary concern for what their followers think in the past, haven't they?

This is what happens when a corporation runs a sport, they load the hands of their favorites. Been going on since the second Gaymes at least (the whole reason they got rid of the "hopper" from the first Gaymes was that they couldn't rig it as well for their favored athletes).

Jay wrote:

What a duck says wrote:My HQ sources tell me there will be an event(s) at Camp Pendleton, with the favored athletes getting a heads-up on the details of the event, maybe even some practice time.

Moral of the story: If you're just learning of this now, you're not their favorite.

I'd be surprised if that was true because if that ever really got out shit would hit the fan.

AHAHAHAHAHAHA.

You would think that about a lot of things about @Fit in its history. Yet, here we are now on page 1226 waiting for the Reebok Games.

Let the gaymes begin;

http://games.crossfit.com/article/indiv ... s-released

CrossFit just announced the schedule and majority of the Individual Events for the 2012 Reebok CrossFit Games.

This is the earliest release of events in CrossFit Games history. In previous years, competitors learned of most events just a couple days in advance, and sometimes just an hour—or even seconds—before (like in the 2010 finals).

In 2012, we will see several new movements, including: split snatches with alternating legs required, bar muscle-ups, football sled drives, and a medicine ball throw from a GHD.

That last one is an AMRAP. Over/under on Rhabdo anyone?

If they are announcing the events, so much for that reliable source.

So now the fittest man and woman on earth have to own glute-ham raises?

I thought anyone could do this stuff in their garage with things lying around like water jugs and mooseknuckles.

I didn't tally them up, but only about half the events were announced. Patience, young Padawan.

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Turdacious wrote:Not looking for Project AgerBomb. Looking more and more like mommy and daddy will have to pony up for eight or nine 10k dinners.

Hard to believe that 22 people ponied up for a $100 t-shirt. And 41 pitched in $25 for one of those cheesy carnival key chains.

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It was only a matter of time.

In Halifax, NS...met a bunch of folks who did Crossfit there....3 affiliated gyms, and 2-3 other places you can do it.

On Prince Edward Island...the fucker doing the ceilidh I was at mentioned that he started doing Crossfit recently too.

Hasn't strongman always had weight classes so everyone has a shot at being competitive? At least on the amaetur level? I am not in tune with the whole strongman culture just as I am not in tune with O lifting culture but I really don't see how this is so bad.

What is it with @F rediscovering, and then watering down, all the strength sports? First with weightlifting, then powerlifting, now strongman. What's next, @F Highland Games, with a broomstick toss, softball put, and claw hammer throw?

I just don't get it. Do weighlifting if you wanna do weightlifting. Do powerlifting if you wanna do powerlifting. Do Strongman if you want, but doing handicapped versions of the above-mentioned sports plus "metcons" is not a fitness program. It's a half-assed strength sport for cardio bunnies. Fuck that.

The man in black wrote:Hasn't strongman always had weight classes so everyone has a shot at being competitive? At least on the amaetur level? I am not in tune with the whole strongman culture just as I am not in tune with O lifting culture but I really don't see how this is so bad.

I'm too small for a lightweight and I walk around between 225-235, good guys are cutting from 250.

The average weight for a stone series in LW strongman ends at 365# and the DL for reps is around 450-550# with a lot of guys able to hit 5-10.
Scale this to work for a Crossfitter and it's 205 stone over bar and 315 DL for reps. That's not strongman, that's strong for a girl man.

Blaidd Drwg wrote:

The man in black wrote:Hasn't strongman always had weight classes so everyone has a shot at being competitive? At least on the amaetur level? I am not in tune with the whole strongman culture just as I am not in tune with O lifting culture but I really don't see how this is so bad.

I'm too small for a lightweight and I walk around between 225-235, good guys are cutting from 250.

The average weight for a stone series in LW strongman ends at 365# and the DL for reps is around 450-550# with a lot of guys able to hit 5-10.
Scale this to work for a Crossfitter and it's 205 stone over bar and 315 DL for reps. That's not strongman, that's strong for a girl man.

And sadly my first contest isn't much heavier than the weights you listed.

You say hurtful things.

I'm Sorry.

Is what it is. NAS contests are brutally heavy. I fully admit I cannot hang in the overhead stuff and that's ok. The dumbing down just cheapens the whole fucking thing. It is the exact same thing that happened in MTB racing and Cyclocross where the courses got stupid easy and nontechnical so the hipsters could play. It's why I went to the track. Fine if you want it to be all about the speed, let's see how fast you can really go. Feel the same way about SM. it's frustrating to get zero in a heavy contest but let's not be ludicrous about the sport and make it a medal for playing deal.

I'm gonna go hide form this shit in multiply powerlifting and Highland Games, both are too stupid and insular for the TryFitnessDickinYo'mouf crowd,

What a glorious fucktardation! We can't actually get strong so we are just gonna lighten the weights until we can actually "compete". If you can't cut it just water it down. ELITE!

Blaidd Drwg wrote:I'm Sorry.

Is what it is. NAS contests are brutally heavy. I fully admit I cannot hang in the overhead stuff and that's ok. The dumbing down just cheapens the whole fucking thing. It is the exact same thing that happened in MTB racing and Cyclocross where the courses got stupid easy and nontechnical so the hipsters could play. It's why I went to the track. Fine if you want it to be all about the speed, let's see how fast you can really go. Feel the same way about SM. it's frustrating to get zero in a heavy contest but let's not be ludicrous about the sport and make it a medal for playing deal.

I'm gonna go hide form this shit in multiply powerlifting and Highland Games, both are too stupid and insular for the TryFitnessDickinYo'mouf crowd,

When I first got into strongman, in 2007, the comps were a lot lighter. The sport has definitely changed over the past 5 years, getting heavier and heavier. But the competitors can move the heavier weights, and move them well - so it's all good. In a sense I was disappointed, as a master I wanted to compete in open HW and go for a pro card, and at the weights used in 2007, I could've done it with just another couple years of training. But by the time I got that couple years under my belt, the weights for open class were through the roof. Such is life.

On the one hand, I hope that Dione and Willie Wessels finally catch a break and make some coin - they're genuinely good people, and they've worked long and hard at NAS / ASC, and it would be nice to see them "make it". On the other hand, I hate to see the sport diluted, and I hope they can keep their attention focused on that, and keep the structure in place for true strongman to succeed.

Because moving objects that ordinary humans being can't move is what strongman is all about.

Y'all are getting way too butthurt about this. We've already got baseball leagues for grownups who suck at baseball, hockey leagues for grownups who suck at hockey, bowling leagues, and so on. What's one more league of their own?

What I don't understand is the psychological requirement some people have to ratchet up their accomplishments via redrawing the lines instead of achieving more. I know what "World Class" lifting is, and I also know that I'm not it. I'm almost exactly half the gorilla that Konstantinovs is. So what?

The idea of having a "Strongman Lite" is akin to the argument (an argument that has its advocates on the NASGA forum, I might add) that the C-class Highland Games throwers should have their own World Championships.

C-class Worlds, let that roll around in your mind; in essence, the Best of the Worst. With their own trophies and everything.

Whatever. Why can't people just train with odd objects on their driveway and be happy?

One word for you: TRIATHLON
It has multiple classes and everyone gets a trophy
All are happy and the numbers keep growing.

Let's not label everything Crossfit simply because CFers do it... Local (and lighter) strongman contests have been around for a long time. Not heavy enough for you? Fine, enter the bigger comps with your bad self and be done with it.

and agreed - Dione and Willie Wessels have been at SM promotion for a long time. It'd be nice to see them make some $$ off of it.

Whatever. Why can't people just train with odd objects on their driveway and be happy?

That right there.

tough old man wrote:

Whatever. Why can't people just train with odd objects on their driveway and be happy?

That right there.

Because there are far too many yuppie fucks that have never achieved anything of note so they have to lower the bar to get a trophy.