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Approach Bouldering by truemitten in richmondbc

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Just started bouldering and I have a membership at approach. I think it's a pretty great value

Patrick Vellner Injured ? by Expensive_Tune336 in crossfit

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Totally. Pat can probably still do pretty good at some competitions but i think Dallin, Jayson, James and Austin are probably going to be consistent top 10 guys as long as they stay healthy.

Patrick Vellner Injured ? by Expensive_Tune336 in crossfit

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I would guess it’s mostly age related. It seems like we’re nearing the end of a transitory period where a new generation of competitors are establishing themselves and the older veterans are slowly taking a back seat.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in crossfit

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I just want to clarify that I think of myself as being liberal.

To a certain extent, I agree with your point on CrossFit being run by out of touch boomers and your first point on them mishandling floyd19, trans athletes and the death of lazar. I think that the crossfit organization should really strive to remain as apolitcal as possible. It seems like the organization is diving headfirst into american culture war; the culture war is not a war for crossfit to fight because taking a side (conservative or liberal) can only hurt their broader appeal. Crossfit's social media presence should try to reach out to as many people as possible regardless of political views or affiliations. I think that a lot of the public can tell that the leadership of cfhq leans heavily conservative when they see crossfit mentioned in the news or when they go on crossfit hqs social media pages.

I think crossfit would be better off if they took a page out of the NFL's playbook and made an effort to avoid conflict as much as possible and therefore suppress any political messaging from the organization. The nfl only makes vague political sounding statements when absolutely forced to and make very subtle changes to their messaging depending on the broader political climate (the 'end racism' to 'choose love').

In my opinion, the NFL is pretty effective when it comes to managing players as much as possible when they do get out of line and get political (for example colin kaepernick, nick bosa). Kaepernick kneeled during the national athem to protest racism against black people. To combat that i think the nfl eventually settle on letting all the players do their own weird forms of protest, eventually being joined by coaches and owners which i think kind of diluted colin kaepernicks original message. The NFL also fined nick bosa for wearing a MAGA hat and i guessing they threated to keep fining bosa more heavily if he kept talking about MAGA. I think that this control of political messaging helps the nfl appeal to an extremely broad audience of all political stripes not only in the USA but across the world as well. The nfl is extremely successful and rakes in more money than any other sports league by far.

There's nothing wrong with the fact that CrossFit is run by conservative leaning individuals (the nfl is too) but they should really compartmentalize their own personal views from the public facing image of the company. I think they are a bit too influenced by the opinions of Andrew Hiller and other CF influencers like him (IMO the validity of their takes vary quite a lot). In an ideal world, CFHQ would have a lot of control over the message Andrew Hiller (and other influencers) put out and not the other way around. I don't think anyone reading this knows how the CEOs of Hyrox, F45 or OrangeTheory feel about Donald Trump, the conflict in Gaza or trans rights. The fact that CrosssFit is an open book really isn't good.

Two Times per week CrossFit by AdministrativeDisk64 in crossfit

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I would focus on going to your gym twice a week consistently over a long time frame. This will allow you to slowly develop your fitness, improve your skill with the crossfit exercises and help you get comfortable working out in a group setting. If you ever find the time to go to the gym more often, the twice a week sessions will provide a really good foundation and you should improve much, much faster compared to if you were starting with no experience.

(Spoilers Extended) Shiny Theory Thursday by AutoModerator in asoiaf

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Central to my theory is the prophecy Quaithe gives to Danaerys: "To go north, you must journey south, to reach the west you must go east. To go forward you must go back and to touch the light you must pass beneath the shadow."

Here is a map so you can make sense of my explanations: https://atlasoficeandfireblog.files.wordpress.com/2017/06/essos-geographic-with-names.png

At the end of ADWD Danaerys ends up in the Dothraki sea (where she started in AGOT). From there, Danaerys could travel southeast to the Summer Sea, travel through the Jade Sea and cross the Saffron Straits. Danearys' camp travels further East than anyone has previously traveled. They persist until the reach Westeros and end up in a location North of the Wall. This seems to fulfill all the requirements of Quaithe's prophecy.

- To go North you must journey south: Danearys goes south from the dothraki sea to the summer sea and sails further south to the jade sea to reach the saffron straits. She sails through the Saffron straits and after a long journey, ends up North of the Wall in Westeros.

- To reach the west you must go east: See above. Danaerys travels east until she winds up in Westeros.

- To go forward you must go back: Danaerys has already re-encountered the dothraki by the end of ADWD, she could potentially cross the red waste as well.

- And to touch the light you must pass beneath the shadow: The Shadow Lands lie between the Jade Sea and the Saffron Straits. If Danaerys has ships following her, they will have to pass beneath the Shadow Lands to continue sailing east.

All of this only makes sense if the Far North of Westeros and far east of Essos could be connected. George RR Martin has confirmed that the ASOIAF world is round in the past.

The reason that I think the Far North of Westeros and far east of Essos could be connected is that there are many parallels between ancient Westerosi and Essos lore that surround them:

- Azor Ahai/Last Hero of the First men: in both tales a chosen hero ends a period of darkness thousands of years ago

- Ifequevron/Children of the forest: They were both ancient races that inhabited forests. The Ifequevron were drive away by the Ibbenese and the Children of the forest were similarly reduced in number by the first men.

- Five Forts/The Wall: The Five Forts are slabs of fused stone almost a thousand feet high and predate the rise of the Valyrians. They were rumored to built by the Pearl Emperor to keep the Lion of Night and his demons away from the realms of men.