refocus some energy and some limelight and some passion towards affiliates,

community, training, methodology, and all the offshoots from that.

Now, I'm, I had a show yesterday where I was just talking to myself for half an hour,

which is a really odd thing to do

online. It's fine when you're doing it on your own, but yeah. And I want to recognize,

I recognize yesterday that the sport is essential to our community. It's part of it. It's

essential that the competitive spirit needs to remain in the method,

within the methodology and CrossFit as a whole. But I think the balancing act for a lot of

gyms and affiliates is understanding that the threshold for competition has got so extreme and so high that everything

dialed back in from that elite level seems appears to be or has been misconstrued as watered down

as not as justified as being celebratory or you know or you know we need to get back to every single step of

competition being just as important as one another and as the elite I don't want to

eradicate that from what we have because it's a beautiful element of what we do have but

at the same time what I don't want to do is just focus on the tip of the spear.

And I believe, I just told you, I've been not as long as a lot of people, including yourself,

I only started CrossFit in 2012, have done ever since.

I've seen, ever since I joined, the elite have got a hell of a lot of the media attention.

Quite rightly, they deserve it.

They do a good job.

However, along the way, I think we lost a little bit of the passion for the community

element of it.

And, you know, whatever reasons you want to put that down to, I just feel like I spoke to, I spoke to Sivon about this a little while ago and have been talking about this for a little while.

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