That's one skinny rope.

wow! austin doing king kong at bw #165 that quick is no joke

Austin Malleolo is a beast!

TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN:

I am benefitting greatly from the posted daily workouts. The addition of hard working successful athlete's on video, instruction, exposure to a wide variety of mentally stimulating commentary, articles, op-ed, prose, poetry, and music just adds to the crossfit Gestalt. I am enriched by your efforts.

A million thanks!

Nice work Austin, I want someone to try the workout Paul Smith posted a little while back, not sure if it had a specific name, but I think it was Kong Rendition 2. The workout was

10 Squat Clean - 135
8 Snatches - 225
6 Push Jerk - 315
4 Back Squats - 405
2 Deadlifts - 500

Between each exercise perform 2 muscle ups, it's one of those workouts only a select few could complete.

Helen I still feel MY back from your slip on the bar during FRAN...SO INSPIRATIONAL that you got up and finished that WOD!

You are a HERO!

Hey # 5 is that WOD for time or just for completion? swapping weights on bars is what would eat up my time but i feel i could beast my way through it.

#1 thats exactly what i said and was sure one of the first 7 comments was gonna say exactly that!

It is for time, I'd love to see another video of that it's a very inspirational WOD, check out May 16, 2010 to see the video of Paul Smith performing the workout. I believe his time was just under 9 minutes, it looked like the snatches took him the longest.

He had a few bars set up but had some friends changing the weight weight him when he went to the muscle ups.

That's one way heckuva to hang your bear rope!

Austin great job on that WOD! Seeing how you do cleans to how I do them, hopefully I can benefit greatly from that. Enjoy the rest day everyone, I'll take an easy swim I think.

Great video, Martha!

Thin rope weighted rope climbs? Beast!

Schools should be doing fewer of the "experiments" mentioned by Boroditsky, and should instead increase the amount of time they spend teaching second, third, and fourth languages to their students. For @#$% sakes!

Austin, you are ridiculous! 10 rounds is yours come October. I'd like to get half of that!

See you in October!

Wait - Noam Chomsky was likely wrong about language? Oh, I am sooo shocked.

By the way, fascinating article about language and cognition. I love how members of that tribe in Australia re-arranged temporal images based upon which direction they were facing. That is just amazing.

just started your workouts. i try to do a 20 minute cooldown in the pool after the wods. am i ruining the workout, is this ok to do and does anyone do a cooldown.

@ Nick Ciccotta

Good cool downs are essential, especially depending on the level of exertion. I use physioballs, foam rollers, the stick, stretching bands and tennis balls to ensure good stretching and mobility. I am also a big fan of my cold/hot plunge tanks. I work up to 5 minutes in the hot pool and 5 minutes in the cold plunge. The externally caused vascular dilation/constriction greatly helps increase blood flow after an extremely rough workout. I have found another affect to be the lessening of delayed onset muscle soreness. Recovery is essential to increased capacity. Sleep and diet being the top recovery tools.

-Jason

cool jay thanks for the info

@ Prolix- I completely agree. I have had a unique opportunity over the years post-HS to study a few languages to a level that I would say I am able to communicate fairly effectively and have certainly noticed my worldview and demeanor changing based upon the language in which I am communicating. I certainly wish I had learned more than Spanish from 5-18 and spent more time focusing on eastern languages.

Right now, I'm finishing up the last two months of a yearlong intensive Thai program in Bangkok before pursuing my Master's in IR (also in Thai) and have recently noticed that what I thought were subtle changes in my own communication and thinking are actually strikingly different than even ten months ago. My wife and I were commenting this morning- before reading this, ironically- at as we spend more time here the more we notice little things about our loved ones who come to visit us. Basic behavior and communication styles, for instance, differ greatly and we've noticed that we speak English a lot more quietly and intimately than we did before, while our friends seem to overwhelm us with volume and all-American stubbornness when dealing with Thais. It's not good or bad, just different.

I guess the Nelson Mandela quote sums it up much more eloquently and succinctly than I can: "If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart."

The interesting thought I've been mulling is how do I translate (not literally, but figuratively) CrossFit in a manner that will bring more Thais into the fold? As of right now, I've only been able to consistently train two or three Thais, all of whom studied their Bachelor's in America. I think CrossFit to be more effective than other exercise programs because it is much more of a community than anything else, but the jury's still out...

Excuse the long post.
Cheers from Bangkok!

Has Coach ever talked about the butterfly Kip?

I watch some of our top crossfitters doing it, and it seems like they all barely get over the bar, and its such a small range of motion.

I'm just raising this with my own questions, not speaking one way or another to the validity of it, since I don't really k ow enough about it.

Just from an outsiders perspective, and others outside who've watched the butterflies, seems to be very limited.

I get that the kip is the same amount of work as a dead hang, but it seems the work is muted slightly in the butterfly.

I know coach has talked extensive on the Kip, but I'd be interested to know his thought on the butterfly kip.

Thanks

Thanks for the article link. Austin Malleolo is a true beast. Hope to see him in the games next year

Is liquid fish oil a great substitute for the pill form? Not a fan of pills.

Thanks

couldn't sit still. ran 14 miles- 2h 48sec

crossfit underworld dallas, saturday class

warmup
ran 400m
20 situps
13pushups
10 pullups black band
5 dips black band
the stretchings
weighted remedial air squats

workout
row 1k m
10 power clean 95#
20 pushups [6ring, 9 reg, 5 knee]
run 400m
15 35# kb swing
10 burpees
10 pistols each leg [did 10 sitting pistols on a box, like a one-legged 90yr old man getting up from toilet]

workout time - 25:10

first week at an affiliate, should've joined years ago.

Phill #22, never heard coach talk about the butterfly kipping pullups but in my experience I hit fatigue with them before the regular kipping pullups. You want to make sure you're getting all the way to the bottom of the pullup. I just started trying chest to bar butterfly pullups and they are harder for me than regular kipping.

#26 - thanks for your response.

I haven't tried to learn to butterfly yet. They just seem to , well I dunno, not look like as much work is being accomplished..... Lots of very questionable chins very barely over the bar... the chest 2 bar makes it much better me thins

:-)

The thing about butterfly pullups is that it appears the persons chin isn't getting over the bar because of the angle we usually see them being performed. The person's chin comes over the bar at the top of the kip which isn't the closest point to the bar. The top position may be 8-12" from the bar. On the way back down, the person's chin may be lower than the bar when the chin is closest to the bar making it appear that it never made it over the bar. This must be a difficult thing to judge in competition. Hope this makes some sense.

Ran a 5k today in 18:20 before the race i did 4 miles and than after did 5miles.

Dale #16,

I didn't take from the piece that Chomsky was wrong about language. So far as I am aware, his theories still have general acceptance. The lack of universal specifics doesn't necessarily disprove the view there is a hardwired structure for learning, developing and using language, which is common to all at a more general level. I'm not sure he ever argued that everyone thinks the same regardless of language. I thought that his work pointed out structural similaries and uncovered a very basic genetic blueprint for language. Am open to correction on this.

It's quite sad that of the 6,000 or so languages on the planet, the vast majority are expected to not be in use within the next century. It's not just topsoil, water, sea life and oil we're wasting.

8 rounds as rx’d