Mat Fraser and Josh Bridges talk about Rich Froning in the top 5 of the open and 21.4 

1st - Jeff Adler - 12:41 2ns - Matt Fraser - 14:22

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What's a mayhem athlete ?

@@jimbob7370 training program that Mayhem has. Love it.

I mean in fairness for the men's side... Rich and Mat have won the open 7 times... so that's a 70% open- games winning percentage. Noah, Vellner, Bailey won the others and finished fairly well..Noah was 15th. It's a pretty good hit rate but not a guarantee.

its expected lol. thats like saying when lebron retires or any athlete great in there sport who retires..... just shuts off the TV and never watches any games or knows whats going on. Now that would be weird.

For sure. I had some sponsorships back in the day that had incentive base payments based off of placings.

Ok

The point of CrossFit is to be the best all rounder possible, not the best specialist possible. So of course they won't be the strongest or fastest in the world. And anyone who specializes wouldn't do well at the CrossFit games because they might win an event, maybe, but the do horrible at everything else.

@@crazyfella777 No question. A specialist will always defeat the CF generalist. A 40 year old weekend warrior runner will crush Fraser in a 10K and will arrive several minutes before him. And this runner will probably not be able to do more than 10 pull ups and has zero chance to get a weight of the ground, that Fraser does 12nds of reps with. You can't beat specific adaption. That is the official CF goal. And it is exactly my point that I don't think that CF is honest or consistent there . Since if you really look at the data, the vast majority of the events are above 2 minutes and below 40minutes and hence are specialist events in an actual very narrow metabolic area. That's a very very arbitrary definition of fitness. And I think the definition was t was reverse engineered : first there were Metcons (relatively short, hard and fun)....then came the definition of fitness. You can have a look at the video of Glasssmann "Prupose of CF" (where he throws around terms like "ordinal or cardinal" or "precision vs accuracy" to intimidate his audience) where he just cuts of the graph at a certain time. Arbitrary. I get it, the next argument will be "Bro, you know nothing about CF. CF is more than Metcons." Probably true. But MetCons are that what is tested. You win the regionals/games if you are good at the WOD type of workouts. Period. And it almost doesn't matter if you suck at running a 5K (which the CF elite official does, compared to a decathlete) or suck at a 100m race or can't jump (which CF athletes are also below a national level decathlete). CF selects for specific athletes. And no, they are not "at least good" in all areas. Not at all.

I didn't catch that vibe at all

You don’t know what you’re talking about

Only Matt competed against rich and lost. Then rich has a fam and moves to teams and still wins championships. Had Matt beaten rich when both were individuals I'd agree with you. But it never happened. Look it up. Matt still an animal though.

@@brandonphilbrick3180 Mat broke more records, and Rich didn’t have the Director of CrossFit trying to sabotage him. Mat probably could have won 2-3 more, but I would have quit too after Castro’s comments - he should be fired. Mat “slipping” after winning 4 and then a 5th? Never heard the Director of CrossFit bash Rich. Rich was probably licking Castro’s a$$ or helping him with his cornrow braids...😂😂😂 Who cares about team events. I’ve never heard people be like “oh boy, let’s talk about the CrossFit team stats!” 🙄😂

@@NVSTGTE AHAHAHAHA you make me laugh. Still avoiding my comment of Matt competed against Rich and never won. Period. Record's will always be broken. Richs will get broken, Matt's will, and will go on and on with the next of them. Lol get a brain without bias.

@@brandonphilbrick3180 I’m not ignoring what you’re saying I just see it a different way. Mat was a rookie who lost against Rich having not even trained that seriously. Then Mat got serious and won 5 in a row beating Rich and setting new records. But to make you happy I’ll say this...CONGRATULATIONS RICH ON BEING SECOND BEST NEXT TO MAT FRASER!

Or let me put it another way... CONGRATULATIONS RICH FOR WINNING BY ONLY 50 POINTS AGAINST A ROOKIE WHO BARELY PREPARED AND ONLY GOT INTO CROSSFIT AS A WAY TO MAKE SOME EXTRA COLLEGE CASH. FRASER = ULTIMATE BEAST!!

No it wouldn’t.