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In this video, Tony Blauer explains a drill to defend against a two-handed choke. The video was filmed at CrossFit Virginia Beach.

Street fights are almost always emotionally driven. Blauer refers to them as “Rage Attacks.” During this type of emotional, explosive surprise attack, the body’s natural response is a startle-flinch. Blauer contends that any stances, strategies, tactics or drills designed to protect yourself should be consistent with this.

In the… Continue Reading

US Army Major James Maxwell began CrossFitting to lose weight.

"Are you kidding me?" I couldn't believe it. I weighed over 200 pounds again. How is this possible? I had been in the army for over 16 years, doing daily PT, lifting weights…and was over 200 pounds. Diets, starving, taking caffeine pills…over 200 pounds. Thirty-five years old and five-foot ten inches tall…over 200 pounds.

It worked. He lost about 15lbs… Continue Reading

This is the ninth episode of CrossFit Radio, which aired at 8am PST on November 16th, 2008.

0:00 Show intro and CrossFit Journal Challenge
2:00 Bill Henniger of Rogue Fitness
15:00 Nick and Rebecca Ballstaedt on CrossFit marriage counseling
26:30 Some science of the stability ball
28:20 Jimi Letchford of Operation Phoenix
41:00 No news in the news
43:00 Comment of the week from Amie
48:00 Andy Stumpf from CrossFit… Continue Reading

Steve Yu is a Yosemite National Park Ranger.

As rangers and special agents for the National Park Service, we protect those who visit the park from themselves, others, and the park itself. Of course, we also protect the park from those who visit. Most are just ignorant visitors in need of education, but a few would wantonly despoil our shared national heritage.

On any given day, we can be carrying an injured hiker out from… Continue Reading

This is the seventh episode of CrossFit Radio, which was recorded at 8am PST on November 2nd, 2008.

0:00 Show intro
6:50 Joe Marsh of CrossFit Las Vegas
15:00 The CrossFit “Celebrity”
18:30 Jolie Gentry
38:20 Main site comments
40:30 Jimi Letchford on Operation Phoenix

57min 28sec

In this special episode of CrossFit Radio, Coach Glassman, Mark Rippetoe, Lon Kilgore, Robb Wolf, and Andy Stumpf come to the table with facts and science to combat the attack waged against CrossFit, its participants and its co-creator Greg Glassman by the NSCA’s Mike Boyle and Gray Cook in their podcast.

Here are a few of the topics discussed:

• Why bother?
• Uncle Rhabdo and the so-called “cavalier attitude” of CrossFit toward injury
• The “cult-like” allegiance to Coach Glassman
• The accusation… Continue Reading

This is the third episode of CrossFit Radio that aired 9AM PDT on October 5th, 2008.

03:47 Kyle Maynard interview - Introduction and conclusion only. Unfortunately, there was a temporary failing with both the studio recording equipment and the back up recording, and most of this interview was lost.
07:35 Marine Corps Scout-sniper instructor "Matt" discusses the efficacy of CrossFit
17:30 Wii Fit "Review"
21:58 Special surprise guest appearance by Greg… Continue Reading

On March 19, 2008, a small group of Marines led by LtCol Dan Wilson loaded the entire contents of the original CrossFit Santa Cruz into a tractor-trailer. The next day, a larger group of Marines unloaded the tractor-trailer at the Warehouse, and CrossFit Camp Pendleton was born.

Operation Phoenix: The transformation of the original CFHQ, which had already spun off three affiliates in Santa Cruz, into a training ground for… Continue Reading