another yes early out there right 7 a.m. yeah 7 a.m. I love mornings everyone's the sun's not out.

Yeah no one's bothering you yet no it's Dave yeah I have one I got one yeah so I always feel like if they get up before me I realize this early on you're done you done. You're all, you're lost. Yeah, I want to be the first one up in my house every day, no matter what. Do you go by David or Dave? You can call me David, but I'm cool at both. So whatever comes off your tongue better. And I'm Sievertson. Syvertson. Syverson. Yeah. Yeah, Cyverson. Savertson. Thyvertson. Yeah.

Yeah.

Cyverton.

Uh, owner of CrossFit Bison.

Yep.

Uh, New Jersey.

New Jersey. Midland Park, New Jersey.

Yep. We, uh, somewhat on the CrossFit landscape back in 23, we hosted 23.2. So if that sounds, if that sounds familiar, that was the year with the shuttle runs and burpee pull-ups, Max Thruster at the end with Roman and Patrick Velner. So that was at our gym. Oh, wow. How was that? How was that having to open come there? I mean, by far the coolest experience I personally have ever had. And if you ask anyone from our staff and from our gym that's been there a long time, that always comes up when you ask, like, what are the memories that come up that really burned deep? And that was once in a lifetime experience. And it was the whole week, too. It wasn't just the day. Shut our gym down. Got to meet a lot of people.

Rich and his crew was up there. Rich Froning, because he was coaching Roman at the time. He announced the workout at that point. And Austin Maliello, Don Fall, all those guys were there. And it's just really cool to have them in your walls. And they remodeled the entire place. They took our rig out of the ground. We put it outside. It was wild. Did you have, what's the word I'm

looking for? Concerns, like when it goes down and they ask you, are you like, I want to, but man,

this is going to wreak havoc? Yeah. I mean, until it was over, I was afraid that like some fire official was going to come in.

Oh, it was going to come in during. I just had this vision of a guy walking in down and be like, shut it down, everyone, shut it down.

But we, we made it through and we really didn't break any rules. But it was our entire parking lot was not be, couldn't be used. Uh, because that operation, that production that it took to

pull off in an open announcement, I had no idea what it was like. You had trailers,

armed security. Um, and so we were on the radar for five, six days. Like, you would

drive by there and be like, what's going on there? And we just wanted to stay off the radar as much as we could. But CrossFit Waldwick, which is a town over from us, helped us out a lot in that we couldn't run classes at our gym for essentially four days. And they opened their walls, their doors to our members and our coaches to go there and do our thing. And they came up huge for us. So we got them tickets to the live announcement and still have a good relationship

with them to this day.

Hey, that's a cool story.

I've never heard that one.

Yeah.

That's a really cool story.

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