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Dude, just because we were so plugged in in the cross-it community for so long and then obviously unplugged from the cross-set community, a lot of these games preps, kind of situations like you guys

in like a training think tank, you know, really just popped up as like the games became

something more than just a novelty. And as I was going through, I didn't realize like how many of these

is pop. What would just make sense. I mean, you have high level performers and, you know, they want to

build teams. And it's, you know, akin to like a professional sport where, you know, so-and-so now builds a team

and, and, you know, they want people to come in and train under their philosophy. And it's been

pretty interesting that all these different, you know, cross-a-games athletes now have their own

philosophy on how to necessarily gamify this thing or train for it. So it's pretty interesting, kind of unplugging and then trying to go back and like, oh, shit, like this thing is so much more grown up than just like, you know, I get emails from some guy that was randomly training by himself in the garage who's like, in two years, I'm going to win the CrossFit games, where now it's become, you know, big business. You have teams. I mean, competitors. I mean,

sending guys out for, you know, smaller regional events as training and tests and this. And it's,

it's really grown into this thing. And I was going to ask you a little bit more about, like,

what is training think tank? And more importantly, like the evolution to where you a little bit more about like what is training think tank and more

importantly like the evolution to where you guys are today and kind of how this whole thing

started. Yeah, well, defining what training think tank is is a little bit of a challenge because

you know, we've, I feel like we've been a lot of things over the last 11 or 12 years. But

primarily we are an organization that works with high

level crossfaders. That's just kind of like how we, it was the first thing that we did. You know,

we had some success with athletes at the CrossFit games. That's like what built our sort of notoriety.

But once, you know, once we did that, the next step for us was building education.

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