The Sevan Podcast - CrossFit Games - Dave Castro Update #7

Episode Date: July 31, 2021

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I feel good. Who are you talking to? Good work. Good work. Thanks for doing this. Not 705. Nice. Guys, you guys are superstars. You guys are killing it.

People are loving it. Oh, that was aggressive. That was aggressive. He's a nice guy. Don't take it. Hold on. We'll debrief in a second. You've got to debrief with these guys.

How'd it feel? Like it? Appropriate? Okay. Two questions and then I go. Saturday morning, 7.06 on the West Coast. 9.06 where Dave is. It looks like Dave's in the stadium.

Dave, you're demoing stuff with the demo team this morning? Yes. And how many times have they done this workout? This one a handful. This one their first time. Other teams have done it a few times. Aren't you concerned someone might see you guys demoing it? No, it's pretty

empty. How's it going with Noble this year? I know it's a big undertaking. It was always – every year it was a huge undertaking even for Reebok to get in step with CrossFit. How is it with Noble? It seems – They're doing great.

Yeah, the outfits seem great. Everything's good? Yeah, everything's great. The double flip-off – sorry, guys, if it sounds like I'm rushing. I am because I know Dave's going to run from me. The double flip-off camera that Danielle Brandon did. Honestly, I really liked it. I love it too.

Do people not like it? No, actually, I haven't seen anyone say anything bad about it. I just think it's so funny when we get these characters in the games who do stuff like that. Do you know what it was in reference to? Was it like celebratory? First of all, I had no idea she even did it. I didn't notice it on the floor. But I don't know.

So I didn't know until I got home. And someone was like, hey, check out your post. Danielle flipped off the crowd. I'm like, that's awesome. Not that she flipped off the crowd. But it's just awesome that she did that. Yeah, it was a celebratory. Like, fuck yeah more than a fuck you, right? At least that's the way I do it. Yeah, I don't think it had anything to do off the crowd. Not that she – but it's just awesome that she did that. Yeah, it was a celebratory like, fuck yeah more than a fuck you, right?

At least that's the way I do it. Yeah, yeah. I don't think it had anything to do with the crowd. She's not flipping off the crowd. The King, and I have no problem calling him this because it's his weekend, Rich Froning. I heard he was getting no rep like crazy yesterday, and there was a lot of debate on whether they were legit no reps. Have you heard about that or had a chance to look at that video? I know it's really minutia for the big picture shit you're doing.

I think he got no rep for, I heard, for not hitting the bottom, he said. But I thought his, if anything, he should be getting no rep for the top. His arms look fucking soft and not locked out from my perspective. Yeah, very uncharacteristic. I'd have to look at it even before I believe someone as authoritative as you. Are people saying, what part are they saying he got no rep for or should get no uh the what i was hearing and i haven't looked into it too much but is is that his bar wasn't touching the ground at the bottom and in snatches and he i guess he was cycling snatches but it's really hard to believe that about rich that it was and uh people are just attacking the ref which which is kind of

fucked up but it is well i think the saw the time i saw this i saw him at the top and i thought his top was a little lacking for what i expected from rich um the husafel bag uh 200 pounds your athletes were doing that like it was fucking nothing does that mean in the future we'll see even heavier bags? At Air Miles, we help you collect more moments. So instead of scrolling through photos of friends on social media, you can spend more time dinnering with them. How's that spicy enchilada? Very flavorful.

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I've been talking about this all week with my team. That was not supposed to be heavy. Okay. It was supposed to be just a workout where you go go go go and uh that was what i wanted just pick it up and move and you just it's like you know going heavy isn't always the answer right sometimes you keep it light and just keep continual movement i'll be right there two minutes i'll meet you guys over there okay so that was right there i um i and i and i have no opinion on it i can cycle 100 pound d ball like it's my job but i tried to pick up the 200 d ball once at the ranch and i can't even pick it up once so seems heavy to me but it is fun um when they pick up heavy stuff

um what do you think about hayley Adams not getting even one clean? I mean, that's her Achilles heel, right? Just clean or strength, one rep max strength. So we've seen it before. Sorry, you broke up there. Did you say she's injured? Her Achilles is bothering her? No, no, no.

Like Achilles. Oh, gotcha. Okay. Like the legend Achilles and the whole analogy. He got shot. That's the only place that there was no armor on. And that's how they killed him. The great warrior Achilles from the Trojan.

Troy is a better movie than Gladiator. You know that, right? Yeah, for sure. Um, what, uh, would Matt be winning the games right now if he was there? Yeah, maybe. I think so. Damn Davey. Damn. You're a good dude. Um, I don't speak like I'm not speaking towards, uh, it's just facts. Like, yeah, probably. Gotcha. Um, what will the weights look like in five years?

That clean ladder was insane. You made it heavy as shit. Will it even be heavier in five years? Fractionally, yes. Like the big jumps happened four to five years ago where guys just really ramped up in strength. The women are going to come up more. And it'll go small. They'll be bigger.

They'll be jumps, but smaller. We'll start seeing 10 pounds heavier, five pounds heavier in the 10 years, five years loading, not 30 pounds heavier. You know what I mean? Yeah, absolutely. The Olympics, when you guys made the schedule for the games this year, did you guys take the Olympics into consideration? Well, we work closely with the ioc on setting up

the events and working um with the scheduling of them oh fuck of course not i don't give a shit about that event i know someone asked me what what i thought and i said well in 2008 when i asked him about the olympics uh he said fuck the olympics um the ratings for the olympics are extremely low it looks like the crossFit ratings are skyrocketing. Do you have any feedback on the broadcast? I'm not saying we have ratings like the Olympics, but our numbers compared to other year numbers are better and climbing and doing great. Don't take that as I'm saying our viewership is more than the Olympics.

That's not what I'm saying. I'm not comparing I'm not comparing ourselves at all you brought this up yeah and I respect that event and I really like the Olympics okay from what I can see just from the few numbers I can see I obviously don't have insight into HQ and what's going on but the the YouTube numbers for us are exploding and it looks like there's a home office home office brother it looks like CFHQ is doing an amazing job with the broadcast, and it looks like there's a shitload of people tuned in to watch CrossFit HQ's broadcast of the games. All right, one last question, then I've got to go.

We're really breaking up pretty bad here. I've lost your image. Two questions, please. One, how are your stress levels this year? Have you had to discipline anybody? Have you yelled at anyone? Have you felt bad? Are you nasty this year?

Are you good? Hey, I got to go see something. I'll talk to you later. Okay, one more question. Who would win in a fight between you and Chuck Carswell? I would never fight that man. All right. Thanks.

Bye, Dave.