Affiliation

Craig Patterson runs CrossFit Vancouver, now a thriving business. But it wasn’t always that way. Craig, by his own admission, did many things wrong. At one point, he was on the verge of bankruptcy with total monthly revenue of about $800. After many changes, in the month before the Affiliate Gathering, which took place Feb 2-3, 2008, they had $54,000 of revenue. What changed?

This video is Patty’s colorful story. Drug references… Continue Reading

This is the 15th episode of CrossFit Radio, which aired at 8am PST on December 28th, 2008.

0:00 Intro and Justin’s Year in Review poem
11:15 Pat Barber from CrossFit Santa Cruz
35:45 “What the food industry doesn’t want you to know”
41:00 Lisbeth Darsh from CrossFit Watertown and the Affiliate Blog
1:09:30 Comments of the week (including an Operation Phoenix update)
1:15:00 Justin and Neil’s top three CrossFit moments of the year

1hr 23min… Continue Reading

The first ever CrossFit Affiliate Gathering took place on Feb 2-3, 2008 at the Sunset Station Hotel in Henderson, NV. Approximately 150 people attended.

This video is Coach Glassman’s brief introduction to the event and to Craig Patterson’s presentation (highlights of which will be published here soon). His main theme is that the love of training brings success to an affiliate, not any particular business model or even business… Continue Reading

Russell Berger is an affiliate owner (CrossFit Huntsville) in Alabama. He has some strong ideas about the perception that increased numbers of CrossFit affiliates are dangerous to the long-term health of CrossFit:

CrossFit is thriving. Ask an owner from one of nearly a thousand CrossFit affiliates worldwide what they thought they would be doing for a living five years ago, and running a CrossFit gym probably didn’t make their short-lists. Some… Continue Reading

This is the 13th episode of CrossFit Radio, which aired at 8am PST on December 14th, 2008.

0:00 Intro and Justin's wrestlers
7:00 Neil relapsed into a bodybuilding workout
9:00 Eric Vandermeersch from CrossFit Mississauga and the "extortion" letter
27:30 CrossFit Dental and the Fran record
32:45 No news in the news
36:00 Marcus Dedina from Sites as Rx'd
55:00 The politics surrounding Operation Phoenix

58min 28sec

This is the 12th episode of CrossFit Radio, which aired at 8am PST on December 7th, 2008.

0:00 Intro and CrossFit Christmas list with Reno_Ty
27:00 Damon Stewart from Wasatch CrossFit on purchasing equipment
47:00 “Extortion” letter to CrossFit Mississauga
55:00 Andy Petranek from CrossFit Los Angeles

1hr 19min 48sec

Juan Hernandez describes his experience of CrossFitting at his college, the University of North Carolina.

I heard about CrossFit over the summer from a buddy doing it at a YMCA back home, and started the workouts here at UNC during orientation week. At first it was only me, reveling solo in the pain like a monk in a monastery. After about a month, I ran into David Blumberg, and Eugenio “Junior” Valdez… Continue Reading

This is the 10th episode of CrossFit Radio, which aired at 8am PST on November 23rd, 2008.

0:00 Show Intro, JJ's wrestlers, Neil's PRs
5:30 Tanya Wagner of CrossFit Apex
24:00 Freddy Camacho of CrossFit One World
49:30 Story from Trevor
52:00 Coach Mark Rippetoe of CrossFit Wichita Falls