@dom77 What "early days"? What's the early days to you? I need some context to help make up my mind if your perspective is valid or not.
You seem rather dumb, going onto on open forum on the internet to run your mind in a negative way about another man behind his back. That's some dirty, cowardly, you-wouldn't-do-it-on-the-street type shit.
Didn't your grandmother ever tell you not to say bad things about people?
IQ is a myth. I scored a higher IQ than Einstein or Stephen Hawking: 165. Does that make me better than anybody? NO. Does that make me more important or successful or capable or lucky than those guys? No. Watching someone talking about someone else's IQ is a good way to actually see them lose intelligence points right in front of your eyes.
A sport is a sport. CrossFit as skill or as a martial art is Dave Werner's thing, it's not Dave Castro's thing. Dave Castro set up a system that was about points and maximizing advantage, efficiency, pure work-capacity performance. "Cheating" in the Open is how the game is played. Some people cheat with PUDs, or faking submissions. I saw plenty of people cheat in the Open at all sorts of CrossFit affiliates, but they weren't winning. A top athlete actually gaming the system slightly might make the difference between a top-20 and a top-100 or top-500 finish. Every little advantage counts. You don't make accusations like that against the Olympic sports or professional team sports, like the NFL, do you? "Their guys always cheat in the Super Bowl."
Who invented the CrossFit burpee? Who first did the box jump-overs without straightening their legs at the top? Who decided to use American swings over Russian swings? Who first advocated swing-kip pull-ups? Gaming the system IS the system.
"Set CrossFit back" doesn't even make sense as a statement. Set it back from where? The general fitness community scoffs at CrossFit for whatever they want to. Some of it is justified and some of it isn't. Just go workout bro and quit hating on people online. That ain't fitness.
