Guys, check this out: http://robbwolf.com/?p=976
I'd like to hear Dave C's side of the story. What a wacky story. Robb Wolf fired by coach through a third party too?
Also, I got one of these for my birthday and it ROCKS. http://store.crossfit.com/collections/sweatshirts/products/mens-cocoa-sherpa-zip-hoodie
I know it's a $60 sweatshirt, but that sherpa lining is just dope. It's like wearing a sheep. Super comfortable, thick, and warm. Great for cold weather. Plus you look cool and tough cos' it says CF on it.
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Crossfit alone is not the answer. A combined, multifaceted approach that acknowledges the inheirent strengths and weaknesses of an athlete will produce the greatest results in relation to athletic performance. General physical preparedness will generally prepare you more, but not in relation to your own athletic weaknesses. Specificity is needed with all individuals to a degree then, hence the multitude of crossfit trainers and their various backgrounds. Rip, Wolf, Tate, Burgener, Mackenzie and so on. No one has the answer alone for everyone. And more importantly there hasn’t been a home grown crossfit athlete that has won the games. You'd be kidding yourself to think Kahlipa wasn’t 210lbs of muscle before he started crossfit. As with most crossfiters Khalipa was an athlete that came from a very secular background of physical training that provided him with an amazing foundation and countless strength’s that lend themselves incredibly well to crossfit. The only way the Dave Castro’s of the crossfit community will have any real sounding board is to have an athlete that has only been classically trained on the WOD platform win the games, until then we'll just have to see. I honestly think OPT is the closest thing to that archetype, but even he has his own specific training regime, so you can’t call him a WOD guy either. There has to be something more, and anyone who say’s the WOD is the answer has yet to be proven right.
ReplyDeleteJust goes to show you that even crossfit is fallible, and that Dave Castro is delusional when it comes to this.
Always interesting though.
Jacob,
ReplyDeleteFirst, I think it is wrong to assume that the WOD is designed to win the games. The WOD is a GPP program designed to be applicable to a wide range of people and disciplines. Any athelete training for games would have to analyze their own strenghts and weakness relative to the possible events and adjust their programing accordingly. The WOD is GPP. Also, Spealler follows the WOD and if there was any allowance for bodyweight he would have won the games every year. Last, the WOD produces injury free results for almost everyone, from 40 year olds to 25 year old firebreathers.
Next, Dave Castro is a real life Navy SEAL. This means you could throw him out of a boat 8 miles off shore in forty degree water and he could swim back to shore, dive 40 feet in pitch black water to retrieve a gun from an underwater lock box, wait another 45 minutes neck deep in the freezing water, then pop up and shoot ten terrorist with headshots at 40 yards, then swim back out to the pickup boat 5 miles off shore. Yeah the games are impressive, but the fucking SEALs are the real deal. Even in his own words Khallipa said he couldn't swim. Dave is not delusionsal, he is programing for a huge group of people, not an individual training for the games, and as an active member of the U.S. Navy Seals he deserves our utmost respect.
I hope that hq, Castro and Wolf all work it out
and these growing pains go away. Crossfit is wonderful, but all growing companies experiences growing pains and ego issues. Let's just hope it doesn't screw up a good thing.
Don’t get me wrong I appreciate the abilities of all Navy Seals, Dave Castro included, but Justin do you think that because Castro is a Seal that means he has the right to the authority that he so often tries to throw around within the realm of fitness. It’s crossfit, not shoot you in the face with my pistol fit. Castro has no other basis for his dominance over the fitness world that he so rudely scorns every chance he gets other then the fact that yes he is a Navy Seal. Impressive, yes, respected, absolutely, but a superior authority on fitness within the realm of the thruster, weighted pull-up, 400m sprint, snatch and deadlift, absolutely not. I know for a fact that there are other Navy Seals fitter then Castro, and there not muckraking within the fitness community and bashing everything “uncrossfit”. Castro betrays one of the very core principles of crossfit by his often overbearing arrogance and crass behavior, and that’s community through fitness, not by submission.
ReplyDeleteCastro has and will always swear by HQ programming because it’s his self obsessed mantra and money maker. There’s no room within dogma for conjecture and Castro shows it yet again. If there’s descent, then there’s doubt, and crossfit can’t be doubted or second guessed in his mind. There’s no room for the counter argument with that reasoning, and this is the antithesis of community but more in line with a forced commune. Castro doesn’t have the credentials to the authority on fitness he often throws around, crossfit, maybe, a Navy Seal, definitley, but fitness as a whole to the point where he can dismiss all others, absolutely not. Until he starts personally training champion crossfiters, or starts showing the world his youtube world record setting PR’s on benchmark WOD’s he’s respectably a Navy Seal with a bad attitude.
I hear you though, but he's got to work on his approach.
I think regardless of any of this, Castro's behavior, if it went down the way Wolf described it, was way out of line and immature. Even if he has good points, there are much better ways than this to communicate. He sounds like a freak to me with emotional and social problems!
ReplyDeleteGo to the crossfit games website and watch Mikko's explanation of programing. He says what I meant to say better than me. As far as I can tell the WOD is the best foundation for me. That said, I am still 10#'s overweight, can't do any levers or other cool gymnastic shit, and feel I am seriously strenght deficient in the olypic lifts, so I look to supplement. I want to do a bodyweight snatch someday, and that will never happen just following the wod.
ReplyDeleteThe group actually had this talk a long time ago, when we were still just emailers, and the general consensus of the group was that the WOD was a phenominal foundation, but it was meant to be built upon. Myles pointed out that the WOD has no training in lateral movement, which is key to his sport. Also, the benefits of actually playing sports is huge. Even a game of half serious pick up basketball has benefits that could never be achieved in a gym.
So, Jacob I agree with your statement that the WOD, by itself, is not going to win the games, but I disagree with the idea that the purpose of the WOD is to win the games. I also disagree with the idea of judging the WOD by the standard of requiring it to produce a games champion.