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🗓️ 14 May 2021
⏱️ 98 minutes
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Dusty is the co-owner and head gymnastics coach of DogTown CrossFit in Culver City, California. By the age of seven, he had started an active athletic regimen that has continued throughout his life. At thirteen, Dusty gave up a host of other sports to focus on Artistic Gymnastics. He was a very successful gymnast, and after his father’s job promotion and relocation to Northern California, he began to train at Stanford University under two-time world champion Tong Fei.
By sixteen, Dusty competed at the Junior Olympic National Championships and trained with the U.S. Olympic Team. In college, he competed in NCAA Division I men’s gymnastics and scored a NCAA record perfect 10 on the still rings. After one more year of competition, he retired due to injury. He then traveled the world starring in a Cirque du Soleil-type live show before settling in Los Angeles and doing some stunt work in films.
Dusty trains anyone and everyone, from your everyday Joe to elite CrossFitters, athletes, and teams. In the last few years he has worked with Lindsey Valenzuela, Kenneth Leverich, Noah Ohlsen, Ruth Anderson Horrell, Tommy Hackenbruck and the UTE CrossFit Team. This past season Dusty was as hired as the Head Coach of the Los Angeles Reign, a Professional Sports Team that plays GRID in the NPGL on NBC.
His focus remains safety, health, and longevity in fitness. Dusty continues to travel and present the CrossFit Gymnastics Trainer Course and has co-written “Breaking Parallel” with CrossFit Gymnastics Subject Matter Expert Jeff Tucker, due out in the Spring.
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| 0:00.0 | Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the Wadcast podcast. I am your host Eddie Ift. And I am |
| 0:08.4 | here in sunny Southern California, where I can still see ashes going through the air from |
| 0:15.6 | our last fires. They were lit by an arsonist. How crazy is that? Anyways, here we are. We're |
| 0:26.4 | coming down the line. If you don't know about this show, we are a, we're more than health |
| 0:32.2 | and fitness. We're, what are we? We're health fitness, strength, conditioning, crossfit, |
| 0:38.2 | a lot of crossfit. But just because we believe that that is a good, uh, strength and conditioning |
| 0:46.5 | component to getting yourself an overall fitness shape. I have a great conversation today |
| 0:54.6 | with Dusty Highland all about that. Dusty, who is an amazing, amazing, uh, coach, gymnastics, |
| 1:02.5 | former gymnastics competitor and, uh, one of the top masters competitors in the past, you |
| 1:07.4 | know, as long as crossfit has been around. Um, and also a good friend, uh, Dusty's great |
| 1:12.5 | and, uh, we have a great conversation. I wish we could have talked longer. Dusty is so |
| 1:16.8 | busy that I couldn't get him for longer than an hour. I know you how you guys love these |
| 1:21.4 | long, long, long ones. I've got some really good ones coming up. Um, I have a big announcement |
| 1:26.4 | thanks to one, one of our friends of the show, John, we're badgering, uh, Eric Rosa. We |
| 1:33.3 | are going to have the CEO of crossfit on the Wadcast podcast. And I know that goes against |
| 1:39.9 | everything we believe in. But we are not anti headquarters. We actually embrace them, |
| 1:44.6 | uh, things have changed over the years, much, much, much. And, um, uh, I am really, really |
| 1:51.1 | looking forward to talking to this guy, just finding out about him, uh, more about like |
| 1:56.5 | what his plans are and, uh, uh, just, I find them an incredibly interesting man. Guys, |
| 2:02.0 | a, a great businessman, a great crossfitter and, uh, loves everything about it. So it should |
| 2:06.6 | be really interesting. Um, also I have a scheduling date right now with one of our favorite, |
| 2:12.6 | uh, guest sever Ryan Flaherty, who is the head of Nike performance training. And you |
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