Comments on: Videos

By: Sam

Sam — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 05:18:37 +0000

Thank you Selma. You summarized what I often think when I hear discussion about the “elite” athletes of crossfit.

By: Selma

Selma — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 18:00:01 +0000

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.

By: J

Tue, 16 Feb 2010 03:08:42 +0000

@Chad

And Jason Khalipa can run that or what. Broaden your views dude

By: Chad

Chad — Sun, 14 Feb 2010 23:11:49 +0000

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.

By: dan

dan — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 19:44:50 +0000

nvm, found it
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xEv13kNSHZk

By: dan

dan — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 19:37:28 +0000

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?

By: Erik

Erik — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 03:23:43 +0000

Without a doubt they could become elite crossfitters. Look at the body size and composition of them, along with truly ELITE strength to weight ratios.

As far as not having the “desire, determination, and passion” they already train for more hours per day than most of us work so I think they could transition that into 1-2 hours a day at a crossfit gym.

By: Miguel Garza

Miguel Garza — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 20:25:42 +0000

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?

By: Edward Stedman

Edward Stedman — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 18:07:51 +0000

That guy from China, around the 2:40 mark and at the end of the video, is fast…even in slow motion.

And yes, I think most of these guys have coaches and I think most would condition into elite CrossFitters very quickly.

By: mdoane

mdoane — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 17:59:36 +0000

Dutch-

If your interested in capturing yourself and others in slow-mo this camera is a pretty cheap solution…

http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/672496-REG/Casio_EX_FC150BK_EX_FC150_Digital_Camera_Black_.html

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