2012 Open, Regional and Games thread

[David Alexander]

"3. Proper attire may include official uniforms or apparel, depending on the stage
of competition."

From the rule book, but it is pretty vague. I remember last year one of the male athletes had tape over the logo of his "chuck taylor's". That didn't seem to apply to all brands though, like I saw pendaly's and inov-8s not being taped over.

[Greg Light]

I did half of workout 2 yesterday (at a slightly reduced weight) and it really puts it into perspective how beastly some of the top times truly are.

I did:
1000m row
25 pistols (alternating legs each rep)
15 205lb Hang Power Cleans

in 8:17.

So most people there are doing twice that and with more weight at a much faster pace.... crazy. I would consider this workout to really play to my strengths too.

[Joey Shishineh]

Originally Posted by Greg Light

I did half of workout 2 yesterday (at a slightly reduced weight) and it really puts it into perspective how beastly some of the top times truly are.

I did:
1000m row
25 pistols (alternating legs each rep)
15 205lb Hang Power Cleans

in 8:17.

So most people there are doing twice that and with more weight at a much faster pace.... crazy. I would consider this workout to really play to my strengths too.

wow, yeah, we did team WOD 4 at our box and it took us 42mins Regional workouts mean biz.

[Phil Griffin]

Originally Posted by Joey Shishineh

wow, yeah, we did team WOD 4 at our box and it took us 42mins Regional workouts mean biz.

Ha, I did the women's weight version of WOD 4 and reduced all the 50 and 40 rep sets down to 30, it still took me 18:06.

[Russell Greene]

Originally Posted by Andrew Bell

Russell,

Any chance you can answer my question about rather or not the Reebok shoes are considered part of the mandatory uniform, or is it the same as last year where in the Games athletes can wear any brand they wish?

I read through the rule book and could not come up with an answer on that.

Andrew,

Athletes can wear whatever shoes they'd like in competition.

[Paul Victor French]

Does anyone know the status on Mikko Salo, he was a past champion, but I don't even see his name on the Europe regionals list. I would think he at least should do the workouts.....that and I'm very curious as to how he does on them.

[Christopher G. Woods]

Originally Posted by Paul Victor French

Does anyone know the status on Mikko Salo, he was a past champion, but I don't even see his name on the Europe regionals list. I would think he at least should do the workouts.....that and I'm very curious as to how he does on them.

I think this was brought up earlier in the thread. He's injured; knee, if I remember correctly.

[Sean Dunston]

Good luck to all team and individual competitors at the Regional events this weekend!

[Sean Dunston]

Originally Posted by Christopher G. Woods

I think this was brought up earlier in the thread. He's injured; knee, if I remember correctly.

Short video on Rogue's site about his recovery- wfs

http://athletes.roguefitness.com/201...kkos-recovery/

[Jan Schuermans]

Maybe it is already mentioned before (in that case ignore this) but I don't like the used scoring system at all.

Example work-out A:
Competitor 1: 9 reps
Competitor 2: 9 reps
Competitor 3: 9 reps
Competitor 4: 9 reps
Competitor 5: 8 reps
=> Competitor 5 is punished too hard now.

Example work-out B:
Competitor 1: 15 reps
Competitor 2: 9 reps
Competitor 3: 9 reps
Competitor 4: 9 reps
Competitor 5: 9 reps
=> Competitor 1 is not rewarded enough.

Why is not a better scoring system in use? For instance the winner gets 1 point and the others a fraction of 1 point (based on how they did compared to the winner). Or give a certain work-out a par score, everybodies score gets compared to the par score. Or a system similar to the one used in decathlon.