CrossFit open thread

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My first open, and I'm nervous about what's to come.. a common theory seems to be a modified 16.2, based on the picture of a statue.

Then again, it seems like you can never rely on Castro's "hints" to actually mean anything.

I'm usually all about it, but this year I haven't signed up... My gym has made some stupid changes in regards to the open, so I'm just not participating.

I'm also 4 weeks into a 10 week bulk and have only done a few metcons in the past 6 weeks... Strength numbers are through the roof though!

I'll do the workouts and log them into wodify, but no open for me.

ETA - 18.1 is 7 minutes of burpees with new standard.

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My gym has made some stupid changes in regards to the open, so I'm just not participating.

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What did they do?


I’d be ok with 7 minutes of burpees.

The coaches aren't judging anymore. Get your own judge during any class during the day. There will be so much bro-reps, missed standards, and crap like that. It takes a lot of the validity out of the "competition" of it. No one at my gym is going to regionals, but most people wont no rep their friends. It was always a running joke with my gym friends that every wod during the year, I am about number 10, but every year in the open, I'm top 5 in the gym. People don't realize their shitty reps and not everyone counts the same...

This also eliminates the "Friday Night Lights" event that we would have for the open. It was fun to sign up for heats, warm up, watch other people during their heat while waiting for yours.

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The coaches aren't judging anymore. Get your own judge during any class during the day.

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Who’s certifying the scores? You’re supposed to have someone certify that completed the judges course. I agree that is dumb. Every gym has dudes that don’t no rep themselves or “forget” what rep they’re on. It only hurts them in the open and it is exposes them.

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The coaches aren't judging anymore. Get your own judge during any class during the day. There will be so much bro-reps, missed standards, and crap like that. It takes a lot of the validity out of the "competition" of it. No one at my gym is going to regionals, but most people wont no rep their friends. It was always a running joke with my gym friends that every wod during the year, I am about number 10, but every year in the open, I'm top 5 in the gym. People don't realize their shitty reps and not everyone counts the same...

This also eliminates the "Friday Night Lights" event that we would have for the open. It was fun to sign up for heats, warm up, watch other people during their heat while waiting for yours.

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See, i wasn't sure if this is how it's been for previous years or not. At Geaux, the coaches have asked everyone who signs up for the open to also take the Judges course to help judge. I did it, but I immediately realized how bad of an idea that is. Sure, I can answer all of the written questions and get them mostly right, but when it came time to watch videos of people actually performing the exercises and judge them on reps/no reps, I did horribly. I had to retake that portion many times over to pass.

That's not a valid system, imo. You need people with experience coaching and judging to do that properly.

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And frankly, I don't want to judge because I know I'm going to frick it up and unfairly hurt or help someone's score.

I’m thinking the wod is gonna be a version of Fran, something like 21-18-15-12-9-6-3.

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And frankly, I don't want to judge because I know I'm going to frick it up and unfairly hurt or help someone's score.

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And because of this you will not no rep them, and people will get away with more than a coach judging them.

I am not being ugly about it, but the previous poster is correct, there is almost no reason to do it and see how you stack up if the performance standards will not be met by some of the participants.

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I’m thinking the wod is gonna be a version of Fran, something like 21-18-15-12-9-6-3.

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the only reason I'm going to do it is so I can compare my scores to myself later on

isn't that the purpose for people like "us"?