Well, I must admit that I got pretty involved and excited about this years CrossFit Games Event. It started with a preview event to show off the Home Depot Center and make predictions on who might come out on top. From that point forward I was lost in the weekend and glued to either my TV, computer, or where we were projecting the event at the box, and I tell you what…..I would do it all over again. What a great weekend! I have never watched so much TV in 4 days as I did these past 4 days (unless sick of course), but it was all worth it. To see the excitement, the energy, and the sheer work being done by each of these athletes was purely amazing!
This years affiliate cup tested some of the best groups of athletes from a variety of affiliates around the world. This year’s winner of the Affiliate Cup was CrossFit Fort Vancouver! They dominated the field this year and were able to take the first place finish back to their box! What an awesome experience. It is our goal to send an Affiliate Team to the 2011 CrossFit Games to represent the great things that happen at Oakland County CrossFit! We have about 364 days to step up our game, get in awesome training, and create some well rounded individuals. With that will come a necessary selection process to create the best team possible. There will be more information on the website soon to outline what skills will be necessary and how we will determine the final team. This is an exciting time and step in our Affiliates development and I am VERY excited to see it happen! Below is a photo of the top Affiliate Teams and then a short article written by Lisbeth Darsh, HQ Staff. I hope you enjoy it!
“These CrossFit Tribes”
by Lisbeth Darsh
They look like tribes — these CrossFit affiliate teams. Wild tribes, raised on iron and steel and Olympic lifts. Races of people bred in dark gyms who had to run and kettlebell swing for their freedom and have now emerged on these golden sun-filled fields in Carson, CA. They have come to do battle — there is no mistaking the warrior physiques, the thousand yard stares, the true and fast hearts that beat beneath their CrossFit affiliate shirts. They have come to win — but only one team will emerge victorious.
It is the shirts you notice first. 10 people walking across a field together, clad in the red or black or grey or whatever color of their CrossFit affiliate. And you look up to the stands and see twenty more groups — thirty more groups, forty more — sitting in the stands, cheering on other teams and competitors, when their own battle is finished. Or grouped together in Tent City, huddled, discussing strategy during their break. Everywhere you look — even in the local coffee shops and bars — people are clad in the shirts of their CrossFit tribe.
Some tribes are only full of competitors, some have brought spectators and support members, and some have traveled many miles simply to watch. Without a competing team, you would think they have no dog in the hunt, but that doesn’t seem to matter to them. They are CrossFitters — every dog in the hunt is one of the worldwide CrossFit tribe.
Because that is the overriding feeling at the CrossFit Games — from the field of competition to Tent City to the crowds gathered in front of the Jumbotrons — the CrossFit tribes are here to throw down yet they are together. Even in battle, there is respect. Each team will rise and fall on its own merits, buoyed by its own strengths and doomed by its own weaknesses. One will emerge the victor over all others. One affiliate team will dominate. The tribes will have a king. The king will be hailed. At least for a year. But there will be 364 days until the next proving ground — and the tribes will be working . . .
Today’s WOD:
7 Rounds for Time of:
3 Cleans (205 / 135)
4 HSPU (on rings for men)
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