I got this email earlier this week. If you can get involved please do!!

Dutch,

My name is Shane Gibson, a fellow Aggie from Houston. I am friends with Webster and Lindsey Smith, so they may have mentioned this to you already as Web has been helping me spread the word. I met you briefly at the SW regional quals at GSX, and you also met my buddy Ben (mentioned below) there as well as when he attended one of your seminars in California several months ago (he was the guy with the Dixie Chicken shirt on). I am trying to “organize” a SMA Awareness WOD for December 29th. All the info is below, please let me know if you would be interested in participating or in anyway and I will add you to the list on the site. www.curesmawod.blogspot.com Thanks! More info below, thanks very much for taking the time to read this.

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My best friend Ben lost two children to SMA type I and I decided to try to organize a WOD for Dec 29th. We are not looking for donations, just trying to spread the word as SMA awareness is scary low in comparison to it’s impact. I am just a garage CrossFitter in Houston, but I am trying to use the CrossFit community to get the word out. Most of my contacts in the community are local here to Houston and I am hoping that it will spread from there as far as possible.

We are still about 4 weeks away from Dec 29th, but I wanted to go ahead and start spreading the word. I intend to make a much harder push once we get into December. I am hoping and praying that this will take a life of it’s own. I want to spread the word to every single CrossFitter and every single CrossFit box that we can, worldwide. All I am asking is to try to get as many people as we can to do this WOD (or a scaled version) on or around Dec 29th and then come back to the SMA WOD site and post about it so we can see how many people we reached. I hope to grow this next year and possibly turn it into a fundraiser, my dream is to one day make it big, but you have to start somewhere.

Please send this link to every Crossfitter you know and ask them to follow the site and do the WOD. If you can host this WOD at your box on or around that day and direct your members to the site and even post it on your site, that would be amazing. If you can spread the word to any other box owners and trainers to get them to do the same that too would be amazing.

Thanks so much for anything you are willing to do and please do not hesitate to contact me with any questions, comments or ideas.
Here is the site:
www.curesmawod.blogspot.com

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Thanks,

Shane Gibson
www.gibsongaragegym.blogspot.com
sgibson2001@gmail.com