IGX

21% slop

not even once

You know it's fucked up when we are not making fun of it.

Goddamn! How did he do it?

DARTH wrote:You know it's fucked up when we are not making fun of it.

Goddamn! How did he do it?

Reportedly on the 8th of 11 events. Entire programming is listed below. He was doing the 3RM touch and go snatches and somehow dropped the bar on his back.

Events;

Swim 25mts
10 Burpees
Swim 25mts
9 Burpees
Swim 25mts
8 Burpees
Swim 25mts
7 Burpees
Swim 25mts
6 Burpees
Swim 25mts
5 Burpees
Swim 25mts
4 Burpees
Swim 25mts
3 Burpees
Swim 25mts
2 Burpees
Swim 25mts
1 Burpees

2.
Total points from:
Forty Yard Dash
Bench Press

3.
Total points from:
Vertical Jump
Broad Jump
3 Cone Drill
Twenty Yard Shuttle

4.
12-9-6

Squat Clean 210/130
Handstand Push-Ups

5.
5 Min Clock x 3

Fran 95/65

Score: Slowest Fran
missing reps: 5 sec penalty

5 Minutes Per Round, no rest, other than your time faster than 5 min. Next Fran starts every 5 min.

6.
3 mile run

mile 1 with two 1.5 pood/1 pood dumb-bell carry
mile 2 with one 1.5 pood/1pood dumb-bell carry
mile 3 with no carry

7.
separate score for event 7 – mile time without carry

8.
Total points from:

3 round strength
Elimination series

a. touch and go 3 rep max snatch
b. touch and go three rep max hang clean
c. two rep max back squat

9.
Triplet 1
50 Half Body Weight OHS
50 Calorie Assault Bike
20 weighted 20/14 Muscle Up

10.
Triplet 2

50 back squat Half BW
50 DUBs heavy rope
50 Wallballs 30/20

11.
Triplet 3

20 165/110 PowerSnatch
20 315/225 DeadLift
1 Cargo Net Ascent

22 ft Hand Over hand Traverse
9, 10 11 triplets performed consecutively with no rest in between

There you go, touch and go Oly lifts. Fucking stupid CrossFit half assing other disciplines.

Is this an igx person?
Bad deal. If they are using "severed" correctly this is irreversible

Holy fuck they've gotten crazy with the programming at these competitions.

SAR wrote:Is this an igx person?
Bad deal. If they are using "severed" correctly this is irreversible

It's also reported that there were no emergency medical personnel on site. They had to call 911 and wait for the ambulance. It is also reported that the ambulance had a difficult time finding the accident site. I've been told that there is a "magic window" regarding spinal injuries where damage can be minimized fi treated promptly and properly. I don't know if that is the case if the cord is severed or not. But if it's true that there weren't trained EMTs on site for an event of this magnitude, then someone was asleep at the switch.

In RL, I'm a risk management consultant and spend my days with contractors and manufacturers looking for ways to minimize the potential for workplace injuries. What is needed here is complete transparency so that all of these event organizers can review their practices and procedures. My guess would be that legal teams are already circling the wagons.

My heart breaks for the injured young man.

Just sad...

This por man might end up doing what we've been trying to do for years, knock Glasshole's cult down to size. He's the Barrack Obama of fitness.

Cave Canem wrote:

SAR wrote:Is this an igx person?
Bad deal. If they are using "severed" correctly this is irreversible

It's also reported that there were no emergency medical personnel on site. ...

My heart breaks for the injured young man.

This, especially since it seems he does not have health insurance. This is truly tragic.

Good Christ that's terrible, and my heart goes out to that guy.

So sad. I hate to hear things like this.

Lots of OLs do 3 rep snatches...in a touch and go styles, so....it wasn't Crossfit, it was just a freak accident that happened to this poor guy

Shafpocalypse Now wrote:Lots of OLs do 3 rep snatches...in a touch and go styles, so....it wasn't Crossfit, it was just a freak accident that happened to this poor guy

Am I missing the sarcasm in your post?

Shafpocalypse Now wrote:Lots of OLs do 3 rep snatches...in a touch and go styles, so....it wasn't Crossfit, it was just a freak accident that happened to this poor guy

Yes and no. Doing 3 rep maxes in a technical lift after all that other nonsense in events 1-7 is still fucking stupid.

Edit

No sure if you're srs

The fatigue is part of the game.

You better be hardened up to it.

The snatch is easier to miss than the clean, but even I have seen experienced lifters drop a bar on their back.

It's a terrible event, and rather than just being cuntish and screaming all sorts of bull shot about XF, it's more about an individual lifter missing a lift with catastrophic consequences

Shafpocalypse Now wrote:The fatigue is part of the game.

You better be hardened up to it.

The snatch is easier to miss than the clean, but even I have seen experienced lifters drop a bar on their back.

It's a terrible event, and rather than just being cuntish and screaming all sorts of bull shot about XF, it's more about an individual lifter missing a lift with catastrophic consequences

How much time is given between events?

Touch-and-Go Oly stuff does happen with some lifters in some gyms, but not after the 7 events he already did. Plus it was up to a 3RM.

That's just ridiculous.

Shafpocalypse Now wrote:The fatigue is part of the game.

You better be hardened up to it.

The snatch is easier to miss than the clean, but even I have seen experienced lifters drop a bar on their back.

It's a terrible event, and rather than just being cuntish and screaming all sorts of bull shot about XF, it's more about an individual lifter missing a lift with catastrophic consequences

Having been responsible for training men in more serious and rigorous environments; I call bull shit. He wasn't just lifting. The seven events before the eighth event played a big part in him getting fucked up.

@fits methodology sucks and so does their competitions. One is not exclusive of the other.

The asshat got fucked up for life. For what? A free t-shirt and a chance to log attention whore facebook posts. And Glasshole limps off laughing all the way to the bank.

If the cord is severed there is no magic window.

Shafpocalypse Now wrote:The fatigue is part of the game.

You better be hardened up to it.

The snatch is easier to miss than the clean, but even I have seen experienced lifters drop a bar on their back.

It's a terrible event, and rather than just being cuntish and screaming all sorts of bull shot about XF, it's more about an individual lifter missing a lift with catastrophic consequences

I can't even believe you are buying what your selling. That's nonsense. Yeah lifts are missed, yeah experienced lifters fuck up, shit does happen. The point of the matter is no one should be working up to a 3 rep max in anything after completing those events. That's bullshit and I don't care what anyone says.

Batboy2/75 wrote:

Shafpocalypse Now wrote:The fatigue is part of the game.

You better be hardened up to it.

The snatch is easier to miss than the clean, but even I have seen experienced lifters drop a bar on their back.

It's a terrible event, and rather than just being cuntish and screaming all sorts of bull shot about XF, it's more about an individual lifter missing a lift with catastrophic consequences

Having been responsible for training men in more serious and rigorous environments; I call bull shit. He wasn't just lifting. The seven events before the eighth event played a big part in him getting fucked up.

@fits methodology sucks and so does their competitions. One is not exclusive of the other.

The asshat got fucked up for life. For what? A free t-shirt and a chance to log attention whore facebook posts. And Glasshole limps off laughing all the way to the bank.

This x1000

I wouldn't have the mental or physical perspicacity to unload the dishwasher after events 1 and 2 alone, much less do ballistic barbell lifts.

But arguing over the specifics is pointless. This guy was just like folks who go to PL meets, OLY meets, or track meets; he wanted to go out there and do his chosen "sport" -whether it's a legit "sport" notwithstanding- work hard and do well and he got really badly fucked up, and it's a shame it happened.

The competition is retarded, it's flat out shit programming and it's significantly more dangerous than anyone would assume on its face but ...c'mon...if you accept for a moment that CF is a sport (I do not) this little sequence doesn't even remotely compare to the level of danger in sports I and many of you have competed in as a child.

I'm with Shaf on this, it's as freak as freak accidents come. This isn't a downhill MTB race or hitting a triple jump on an MX bike or any other host of highly technical activities performed at a level of fatigue that would make each and every CF athlete weep.

I'm not arguing that crossfit is as dangerous or more dangerous as anything else. My only point was that the events were fucking stupid and that no one should be lifting heavy anything after completing 7 "conditioning circuits" (for lack of a better term).

There are freak accidents and then there are freak accidents facilitated by shitty programming. If you beat your athletes into the ground with a bunch of shitty metcons and then tell them to do a highly CNS-dependent movement for max weight with multiple reps you are asking for trouble.

Here was the situation:
- Give your athletes a technical movement after a bunch of metcons and making them run with kettlebells
- Allow pressouts and shitty lifts, thus encouraging the athletes to try to save lifts they should bail out of
- Set up the plates close behind the athlete

You set up your athlete to be burned out and not as ready to react to a failed lift. Then you encourage them to save lifts with press-outs. Then you clutter up their lifting area with plates and shit to make that shitty bail-out even worse. Ogar caught his snatch with bent elbows, attempted to save it by pressing out while standing up, and fell back into the plates behind him and the bar bounced off his back.

That's not "part of the game". That's asinine programming and negligent behavior all around. Anyone who has watched Crossfit has seen something like this coming.

They could have done the max strength even first of the day, instead of preceding it with running and running with kettlebells. They could have created a properly cleared lifting area. They could've not had touch-and-go snatches (what the hell?). The organizers chose not to. The kid probably won't do anything legal because dollars-to-donuts he's completely cult-brained and will just blame himself, but he could likely have a nice case if he went that route.

EDIT: Oh, and of course don't have any medical personnel on site. That's another massive fuck-up.