I'm a swimmer but hit the gym weekly and I gotta say I have all the respect for every competitor in this event.. I mean 10 rounds of 50m swim + 3x muscle ups is a pretty tough workout. This event is definitely not preferred for those who don't swim regularly and just completing it is an achievement. Good job to all who pushed thru and congrats to Troyan.
Yeah my time on a paced 500 free like this is like 5:30, I don't know how long it would take me with the muscle ups but I think this would be slight work for someone who swims a lot
Haha spot on... there is always a guy on youtube thinking he s gonna make the whole thing right by saying “im a runner” or “im a swimmer” and “that was great”. Then you look at their profile and well... you know what i mean.
You have an odd sense of humor if you think swimming has comedic value. Swimming is nothing more than avoiding drowning, and they did that fine. I find comedic value in someone calling swimming "the funniest shit"
Let me get this straight.... someone correct me if I’m wrong. But the guy who won who did it in 10:15... did 500m swim and 30 muscle ups in that amount of time?.... that’s insane.
He was taking his time in the water too. He could've probably done this faster. Generally speaking, competitive swimmers do 50m under 25 seconds so that would be little over 4 min for 500m. He was going about 30-40 seconds per lap.
Big crossfit guy here... this event is is hell and major props to everyone who did this (it would wreck me), but I will say the chicken wing muscle-ups should’ve been no-reps.
They are tested. They can be tested any time of year and after completion. If they test positive there is a clause that they have to pay back any money won
If you say anything about their swim stroke people will hate on you but fr with so much money on the line you would really think some of them would strighten up their form
+JustSomeone For those saying that 'elite' athletes should be better at swimming, possibly, but for 1 out of 12 events, when it's not their sport, they handled it pretty well. Of course most of these guys aren't good swimmers; they have to be able to perform a whole bunch of different events over the next four days. Sure, someone with a swimming background would probably win this event (assuming they could do the muscle-ups), but would they be able to do the rest of this stuff packed into a few days, to the intensity these guys do? Not likely. This tends to happen on every CrossFit Games video involving a highly specialized sport/skill...invariably, someone who specializes in the particular sport/skill being tested in that one event comments on how pathetic the performances are in (Skill X) for supposedly elite athletes. The amount of different skills these guys have to take on is astounding - of course they're not going to master them all. Fine, a competitive swimmer could probably own this event...and then would probably be eliminated from the games a couple days later on the clean-and-jerk ladder (relevant: event 8 of the 2013 games was a clean-and-jerk ladder with the lightest allowable starting weight of 225 pounds, and if you could not complete the first weight, you were out of the games). Of course, if it's so easy, you're free to enter the games. $250K prize. You should clean up, right?
Crazy cool, badass sport! They could need some custom-fitted goggles to feel even more comfortable in the water and have full focus on the race and win l! :) (Christina, THEMAGI5)
+AceandScotch2 So they're meant to be all-around athletes, they practice form in all the other exercises, but then obviously totally neglect swimming? Sorry, but I think he understood the point of CrossFit just fine.
+Michael DiLullo Reposting from above... For those saying that 'elite' athletes should be better at swimming, possibly, but for 1 out of 12 events, when it's not their sport, they handled it pretty well. Of course most of these guys aren't good swimmers; they have to be able to perform a whole bunch of different events over the next four days. Sure, someone with a swimming background would probably win this event (assuming they could do the muscle-ups), but would they be able to do the rest of this stuff packed into a few days, to the intensity these guys do? Not likely. This tends to happen on every CrossFit Games video involving a highly specialized sport/skill...invariably, someone who specializes in the particular sport/skill being tested in that one event comments on how pathetic the performances are in (Skill X) for supposedly elite athletes. The amount of different skills these guys have to take on is astounding - of course they're not going to master them all. Fine, a competitive swimmer could probably own this event...and then would probably be eliminated from the games a couple days later on the clean-and-jerk ladder (relevant: event 8 of the 2013 games was a clean-and-jerk ladder with the lightest allowable starting weight of 225 pounds, and if you could not complete the first weight, you were out of the games). Of course, if it's so easy, you're free to enter the games. $250K prize. You should clean up, right?
I love the reckless abandon of how Jordan dives in the water. Everyone else lines up all nice first, and he just spins like, "Screw it, I'll sort it out in the air". Like a dolphin eager to get back underwater.
Watch the likes of dressel. American record holder goes almost 15m underwater on both the start and turn. Underwater swimming is way faster than surface swimming (if done well).
I think it's hilarious how everyone commenting on their swimming. Of course they're gonna swim like shit, they're not professional swimmers. Go do a full workout of weights, calisthenics, and then swim. I guarantee 99.9% of you couldn't even lift your gawdamn arms to stroke.
Ezrael Comicho I kinda want you to do what swimmers do everyday for hours, I'm willing to bet that by cool down we feel the same way these guys do after they work out. For most we can still at least keep good form even if the strength has leached out.
Lol I love this comment because we run 1.5 miles then we lift for an hour and then we swim for 2 hours 4 days a week. So I know exactly how this feels especially when we max out
icampbellsoup and do how many muscle ups exactly, or how many snatches, or handstand push-ups?. After doing CrossFit for over 3 years, I can tell you that swimming is not a huge part of it. Only at really big comps you would normally have swimming.
@@denilsson31 i said “lmao” because you’re saying how they swim is funny.. And if you’re saying they swim in a funny way, can u even swim competitively??? 😂
@@elmos4urusR3X , Why ? Tout are one of them ? 😆 I swim 4 km x 2 per week. I swim all : crawl, butterfly ... And I swim above 5 km/h. Ok ? What a swimmer can say is that they lake dramatically technics. Lost of them swim like dog.
denilsson31 im also a swimmer and obviously cuz they are non-swimmers.. but still u cant say that they swim in a funny way cuz they're just doing what they have to.. lol
ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-zbh0qhGmJ9U.html John Romano explains this pretty nicely. I agree some of them may be clean, or may be clean when they complete. But only some. Also CrossFit drug testing protocol is so lax.
I love how the one guy talks about underwater training and how it's really only metal for him and I'm just sitting here like: well maybe if you actually trained for the swimming instead of breath holding you wouldn't be as ass as you are at swimming!