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It doesn’t record at broadcast quality, but it can capture up to 1000 frames per second. Not bad for the money.

Hmm….i definitely think these guys have coaches, but I’m not sure they’d be elite crossfitters. It seems like a pretty difficult question to answer. I definitely think they have the athletic potential to be elite crossfitters, but I’m not sure they have the desire, determination, and passion to CrossFit. Does that make sense?

liao hui has beautiful technique – makes it look so easy
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RXwIJ6rZfUY
(snatch 163, C&J 195)

is there a video of the clean and jerk portion of the 69kg-ers?

coaches, elite performance, years of training, check.

but how does those years of training translate to overall work capacity?
Just because they weigh 150 pounds does not mean they can run a sub 18 5k.

but decent? anyone with that much time in the game could probably become decent in crossfit in a year or less.

Chad, ever worked out with an elite weightlifter? These guys would smoke any crossfit competition with some months training (three months will be more than enough) to get better at the endurance stuff (endurance improves easily enough) and learn some of the movements. But why on earth should they bother to do that? Why should they get injured by doing random workouts some of them rather silly in nature? They are already elite athletes at a real sport. They don’t exercise, they train. They are already worldclass.
(The crossfit guys trying to improve at weightlifiting at our club usually leave when they discover that they will need at least a year to be decent weightlifters. Most of them couldn’t stand the frustration an already strong adult beginner faces when she tries to improve at the snatch and the jerk (not so much at the rather easy clean). They are rather good at pushing through pain. They are usually rather bad at focused, short time efforts that require lots of concentration, speed, strength and skill at the same time while under the pressure of performing on stage at a weightlifting competition. And they seem not to be able to stand the frustration that comes with limited technical proficiency. Excuses range from “boring” to “I want to do metcon stuff” to “I don’t want to get fat” (while looking at the junior European champion in the 85kg class). Yeah, right.