Hi, everybody and welcome to another edition of Fitness with Friends. I'm Sean Woodland. Tommy

Marquez will be here in just a second. And today we are talking with the 2008 CrossFit Games

champion Jason Kalipa. Jason is also the owner of NC Fit, headquartered in San Jose, and he is reaffiliating

his gym with CrossFit. We talked to him about that decision and why

now was the right time to make it, why he decided to end his affiliation in the first place,

what he thinks CrossFit needs to do to continue to help their affiliates succeed,

and if we can expect to see him back on the competition floor anytime soon. Let's bring in the owner of NC Fit. He's an eight-time CrossFit Games athlete. He's the 2008 fittest man on earth, and he's our good friend, Jason Kalipa. Jason, how you doing, man? Hey, thanks for having me. I appreciate it. It's always good to talk to you both. You know, love it. I was going to say you left

something out where you purple belt, brown belt these days. You know, Tommy, that's a sore subject for me.

No, it's not sore subject. I'll tell you what happened. I am, I'm still purple belt. Our school has just had

belts ceremony. I did not get the nod for the brown

even i think i'm going to get a stripe today which would be so i have a four stripes basically like

the only way to go anywhere else is brown but i uh i think that the instructor he sets into me that really

resonated he goes jason um he goes you you

roll at a at a brown belt level but if we took away your strength and conditioning you'd be at a

purple belt level and it was like it was one of those things it's like you're an anomaly over here

so you're rolling at a high level but but I want you to be able to roll

at that level because of your technique and your proficiency, not just because you're so

dynamic. And I appreciated that because it, I want to earn the belt. And I'd rather go into the gym

and be the best at a, I'd rather be the best at a specific belt than be the,

be the guy who's like, oh, that guy's a brown belt, but he should be a blue belt, you know,

so. Yeah, no, no doubt. So this is interesting. Now I want to ask you this, like, how does your

experience working out in the gym and trying to perfect your craft as a crossfitter, translate to you trying

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